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Journal: Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing 
(IF: 3.848, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing)


Submission link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/pmc/default.aspx 


* Schedule:
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- Submission deadline (EXTENDED): July 21, 2022
- First review round completed: September, 15 2022
- Revised manuscripts due: December 01, 2022
- Completion of the review and revision process (final notification): January 
31, 2023


* Call for Papers
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The explosion of data volumes generated at the edge of the internet by an 
increasing number of devices combined with the growing attention and 
sensitivity to privacy preservation of such data, is moving the whole AI 
process from remote cloud facilities towards the edge of the network, i.e., 
data owners/holders are more and more unwilling to share their raw data freely 
to build AI applications and services. However, the data and computational 
landscape at the edge is so much different from the one in the cloud, that it 
has stimulated the development of new learning frameworks designed to cope with 
the several connected challenges at the edge. This is the case for Federated 
Learning, to mention one, that is a distributed learning framework specifically 
designed for being robust to context where devices holding some local data 
collaborate to train a globally shared AI model. The challenges to be addressed 
in learning at the edge are many since the learning algorithm has to consider 
several aspects like local data heterogeneity, device heterogeneity, 
technological shortcomings like intermittent connectivity, devices with limited 
computational resources, to mention a few.

Developing intelligent distributed and pervasive systems over federated 
datasets overcoming the limitations imposed by the edge scenario faces new 
exciting challenges in the design of new AI algorithms, federated and 
distributed optimization methods, privacy and security mechanisms, and system 
implementation. This special issue serves as a forum for researchers and 
practitioners to present their latest research findings and engineering 
experiences in the theoretical foundations, empirical studies, and novel 
applications of federated learning, distributed and embedded learning for 
next-generation pervasive systems. We welcome contributions proposing 
advancements in theory, algorithms, systems, and applications of federated 
learning, embedded learning in pervasive systems for various AI tasks to 
establish the latest efforts of the research in this area.

* Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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- Federated/Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms for Embedded/Mobile/Edge 
Systems
- Supervised/Semi-supervised/Unsupervised Federated/Distributed Learning
- Optimization Algorithms in Federated/Distributed Learning
- Incentive Mechanisms for Federated Learning
- Fairness in Federated Learning
- Communication-Efficient Distributed/Decentralised Machine Learning
- Efficient Privacy-Preserving & Secure Machine Learning
- Personalized Federated/Distributed Machine Learning
- Online/Continual Learning in Pervasive Systems
- Compression of machine learning models for real-time inference on 
Embedded/Mobile/Edge Systems
- Efficient on-device learning

- Applications of Federated/Distributed/Embedded Learning for:
- Activity recognition
- Anomaly detection
- Urban computing
- Healthcare
- Industry 4.0
- COVID-19
- Smart Cities
- Smart Agriculture
- Audio and Video signals processing
- Emotion recognition
- Environmental applications
- Resilient Communication in Contested Environments

* Guest Editors
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Dr. Lorenzo Valerio, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy (lorenzo.vale...@iit.cnr.it)
Dr. Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy 
(francomaria.nard...@isti.cnr.it)
Dr. Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA (n...@umbc.edu)
Dr. Raghuveer Rao, U.S. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA 
(raghuveer.m.rao....@army.mil)
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