<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Guest Editors</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Liang Zhao</b>, Shenyang Aerospace University, China, <a href="mailto:lzhao@sau.edu.cn">lzhao@sau.edu.cn</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Jia Hu</b>, University of Exeter, UK, <a href="mailto:j.hu@exeter.ac.uk">j.hu@exeter.ac.uk</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Ahmed Al-Dubai</b>, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, <a href="mailto:al-dubai@napier.ac.uk">al-dubai@napier.ac.uk</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Celimuge Wu</b>, University of Electro-Communications, Japan, <a href="mailto:celimuge@uec.ac.jp">celimuge@uec.ac.jp</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Qi Wang</b>, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, <a href="mailto:wangqi08@ict.ac.cn">wangqi08@ict.ac.cn</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Ammar Hawbani</b>, University of Science and Technology of China, China, <a href="mailto:anmande@ustc.edu.cn">anmande@ustc.edu.cn</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Overview</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Over the past decades, the technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation where these technologies have been promoting the quality of human life significantly. Learning the patterns and creating actions from the proper data could provide better and right decisions for many applications. By applying such techniques, the performance of networks could be refined to ensure scenarios including broad coverage, high capacity, high resource availability, extensive connectivity and key metrics including bandwidth, jitter, throughput, transmission delay and availability. This special issue is designed to foster the application and innovation of AI and ML technologies for mobile networking within 5G, MANETs, VANETs, wireless sensor networks and as well as other forms of networks. This is to explore a way of seamless and intelligence-driven communications for enabling evolution of the current networks and beyond, and thus, to support the sustainable smart cities.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Topics</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scopes:</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligent 5G networks</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Industrial wireless networks</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Smart network planning and optimisation</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Data-based analysis of users (user group/user behaviour/user track etc.)</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Data-based analysis of network quality & performance & telecom value area</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligence-driven mobile computing and wireless communications</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligent mobile network protocols</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Data-based network Trust, security, and privacy</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Software defined networks </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Machine learning for mobile networking </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Network-based models and optimisation algorithms</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Data-driven social network analysis </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Internet of Things (IoT) and big data </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligent vehicular networks </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligent wireless sensor networks </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Smart Cloud, Fog and Edge </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Next-generation Internet </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span>Intelligent load balancing and traffic control </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Tentative Schedule </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Manuscript submission deadline:              February 15, 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Notification of acceptance:                         June 15, 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Submission of final revised paper:             September 15, 2020</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Publication of special issue (tentative):    4th Quarter, 2021</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Major Guidelines</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">We invite the submission of original and high-quality manuscripts describing topics related to intelligence-driven mobile networks. Submissions of “extended versions” of already published works (e.g., conference/workshop papers) should be significantly extended with a relevant part of novel contribution (50%). A “Summary of Differences” between the submitted paper to this special issue and the former one must be included.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">All submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to Computing's instructions for authors which are available at <a href="https://www.springer.com/607">https://www.springer.com/607</a>. We will accept both LaTeX manuscripts (which must use Springer templates at <a href="https://www/springer.com/607">https://www/springer.com/607</a>) and word manuscripts (for which no templates are available).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Manuscript length</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">Please note that the page limit for Special Issue submissions differs from that of regular Computing submissions. Manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue should not exceed 20 pages. Submission that do not comply with this requirement are likely to be desk rejected without being reviewed.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Submission instruction</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Manuscripts should be submitted using the online submission system at (<a href="http://www.springer.com/607">http://www.springer.com/607</a>).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify">When submitting a manuscript for this special issue, authors should take care to select ‘Intelligence-driven Mobile Networks for Smart Cities’.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify"><b> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 3pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the Guest Editor at the following email address: <a href="mailto:lzhao@sau.edu.cn">lzhao@sau.edu.cn</a></b></p></div></div>