CELEBRATION OF 35 YEARS

Save the date: March 31, 2021

In recent weeks, planning has begun in earnest for the occasion that is 35 years of IOS Press. The company was established in March 1987 by Einar Fredriksson, PhD, director of IOS Press. In March 2022, we will be celebrating this landmark anniversary by highlighting recent developments and looking to the future. With foundations in traditional academic publishing, we have kept pace with developments over the years to become the technologically forward-looking organization that we are today, supporting continuous investment in innovation. We plan to share news, stories, and insights online. To keep updated about the the anniversary celebrations, be sure to keep checking our website. Stay Updated

LOGO ROLL OUT

In recent months, we have been proud to see our new branding making its way around the world. The logo has been uploaded to numerous external websites, from CLAIRE and Kudos to the RSC and PubMed Central, and many more!

The new brand logo truly reflects our company story and makes a connection. Branding is more than visual identity, as it not only shows the world who you are as a company; it also distinguishes you from the competition and is the link between your products and your users. Good branding brings a business to a new level and shapes both recognition and loyalty. View Press Release

Deadline: Apr 30, 2022
This journal is seeking submissions for a special issue entitled "Multi-Agent Systems Research in the United Kingdom," with guest editors Stefano V. Albrecht and Michael Wooldridge and organized as part of the work of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national center for artificial intelligence (AI) & data science. View Details

Deadline: Apr 30, 2022
This journal is seeking submissions for a special issue entitled "Digital Challenges to Empower Universities’ Implication in the Community," with guest editors Anca Draghici, Angela Repanovici, and Poh Kiat Ng. The topic is of great interest in the post-pandemic context of university digital transformation. View Details

Deadline: Jan 15, 2022
Submissions are welcomed for a special issue on "Current Trends and the Future of Internet of Things (IoT) in Industry and Enterprise," with guest editors Vicente Garcia Diaz, Jerry Chun-Wei Li, Juan Antonio Morente Molinera, and Ehsan Adeli. View Details

Deadline: Mar 10, 2022
The journal also seeks submissions for a thematic issue on “Intelligent IoT for Autonomous Control and AI," with guest editors Elena Verdu, Yuri Vanessa Nieto, Nasir Saleem, and Jun Luo. View Details

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

During Q4 2021, a number of articles were published in the IOS Press journal issues that cover the topic of SDGs and these are highlighted in a dedicated section on our website. Here, we share some extracts.

Food balance sheets provide information on food security, indicators of the prevalence of undernourishment and losses in the cases of Benin, Guinea and Mali (Research Article), Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Madior Fall: "The prevalence of undernourishment is an indicator of access to food and an indicator of the SDGs, with SDG 12 aiming to 'guarantee sustainable consumption and production methods.' To achieve this objective, it is necessary to be able to assess food losses before any intervention aimed at reducing them. The UN agencies responsible for the evaluation of food losses propose to split them into: a part concerning food losses measured by the Global Food Loss Index; and another part relating to food waste, the indicator of which is the Food Waste Index."

Statistics on difficult to measure population groups: Leaving no-one not-included (Editorial), Statistical Journal of the IAOS, Pieter Everaers: "The 2030 agenda makes a clear commitment to inclusiveness, and many of the SDG indicators aim to include data on the most vulnerable and marginalized groups. The role for the international organizations is, alongside their mandate as custodian of specific SDGs, to develop and maintain clear guidelines and standards for producing and disseminating harmonized data on these issues and guarantee the integrated approach of statistical information of these groups with all other groups and the total population."

Rent Soil Theory Versus Sustainable Development Goals in Indonesia: Environment Law Perspective (Research Article), Environmental Policy and Law, P.W.H. Hananto et al.: The paper covers Indonesia’s rent soil theory – a policy that aims to increase state revenue through the imposition of rent for forest land along with natural resources (wood, lumber, stable soil, etc.). "This practice is contrary to the principle under SDG 15, which promotes sustainable management of all types of forest. It exposes the land owned by indigenous people to the threat by the State under the guise of its social function."

Smart Intelligent Computing and Communication Technology
Editors: Ambeth Kumar, V.D., Malathi, S., Balas, V.E., Favorskaya, M., Perumal, T. | Series: APC, Vol.38 | The content focuses on the technological innovations and initiatives in medicine, industry, education and security that are optimizing business and technical processes, and enabling inclusive growth. View Book | OA Ebook

Advances in Parallel Computing Technologies and Applications
Editors: Hemanth, D.J., Elhosney, M., Nguyen, T.N., Lakshmanan, S. | Series: APC, Vol.40 | The book covers various aspects of parallel computing in communications systems and networking, including cloud and virtualization solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas. View Book | OA Ebook

Recent Trends in Intensive Computing
Editors: Rajesh, M., Vengatesan, K., Gnanasekar, M., Sitharthan R., Pawar, A.B., Kalvadekar, P.N., Saiprasad, P. | Series: APC, Vol.39 | The book includes topics such as advanced computing, networking, informatics, security and privacy, and other related fields. View Book | OA Ebook

Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining VII
Editor: Tallón-Ballesteros, A.J. | Series: FAIA, Vol.340 | The book covers: fuzzy theory, algorithms and systems; fuzzy applications, covering types of processing as well as hardware and architecture for big data and time series; the interdisciplinary field of fuzzy logic and data mining; and data mining itself. View Book | OA Ebook

Hydraulic and Civil Engineering Technology VI
Editors: Yang, M., Lanzinha, J.C.G., Bao, X. | Series: ATE, Vol.19 | The book covers hydraulics and water resource engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering and sciences, transportation engineering, coastal and ocean engineering, and transdisciplinary engineering and technology. View Book | OA Ebook

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Transforming Biomedical Informatics and Health Information Access: Don Lindberg and the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Editors: Humphreys, B.L., Logan, R.A., Miller, R.A., Siegel, E.R.
Series: HTI Vol. 288

Due out in January 2022 is a landmark new title that chronicles the accomplishments of Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD (1933–2019) – a former director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and founding president of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). For details go here and to order the print volume with a special discount, click the banner below.

Offer Deadline: March 31, 2022 | More Details

A New Approach to Scientific Publishing Using Semantic Web Technologies, by Cristina-Iulia Bucur

"We currently disseminate, share, and evaluate scientific findings following paradigms of publishing where the only difference from the methods of more than 300 years ago is the medium in which we publish – we have moved from printed articles to digital format, but still use almost the same natural language narrative with long coarse-grained text with complicated structures. These are optimized for human readers and not for automated means of organization and access. Additionally, peer reviewing is the main method of quality assessment, but these peer reviews are rarely published and have their own complicated structure, with no accessible links to the respective articles.

With the increasing number of articles being published, it is difficult for researchers to stay up to date in their specific fields, unless we find a way to involve machines as well in this whole process. So, how can we make use of the current technologies to change these old paradigms of publishing and make the process more transparent and machine-interpretable?"

This is an extract from the November Labs blog post | View Full Post

Argument & Computation
Open Access Journal

Since launching in 2010, Argument & Computation (AAC) has been providing a dedicated venue for the dissemination of high quality papers concerning state-of-the-art advancements in the field of computational argumentation, led by the Editors-in-Chief Pietro Baroni (University of Brescia, Italy) and Bart Verheij (University of Groningen, the Netherlands).

Special Issue on Argumentation Schemes in Artificial Intelligence
The new latest content published by AAC is a special issue, with guest editor Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal), that provides a twofold contribution to the complex arena of argumentation schemes in artificial intelligence. On the one hand, it addresses some fundamental challenges, both theoretical and applicative, by advancing new proposals. On the other hand, it maps the uses of argumentation schemes in artificial intelligence from the perspective of three broad fields of application, namely biology, international relations, and law.

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Open Access Books

A total of 20 books were published in Q4 2021 and 75% of these titles are available as open access ebooks. If you wish to find out more, there are two avenues for you to take via our websites to discover all about these publications:

Option A

iospress.com/books
Go to the IOS Press website, view the Catalog, and make a selection under the Access heading (in the left column).

Option B

ebooks.iospress.com
Go to the IOS Press Ebooks platform and click the Open Access tab.