Scientific Programming towards a Smart World

In the past several years, we have seen dramatic advancement in many application domains enabled by the integration of Internet of Things and cloud computing, computational intelligence algorithms, and soft computing methodologies. This development has resulted in many emerging highly multidisciplinary research areas typically termed as smart- technologies and systems, including smart-healthcare, smart-home, and smart-grid, as well as smart vehicles and intelligent transportation systems. These new technologies are transforming our society towards a smart world. This special issue attracted 32 high quality submissions from countries around the globe, including China, USA, UK, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Greece, and Algeria. After a rigorous review process, 18 papers were accepted in this issue. The research presented in these papers broadly covers the interesting scope of this special issue, including computer networking (3 papers), intelligent transportation and navigation (3 papers), computer vision (2 papers), knowledge discovery (2 papers), scientific computing (2 papers), cloud computing (2 papers), gesture recognition and authorization (2 papers), and Internet of Things and machine learning (1 each).