International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics

Special Issue on: "Intelligent Computational Technologies For COVID-19 Prediction"

Guest Editors:
Prof. Vishal Bhatnagar, Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research, India
Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Kavita Taneja, Panjab University, India
Prof. Raju Ranjan, Galgotia’s University, India

COVID-19 - the greatest global crisis since World War II and the largest global pandemic since the 1918–19
Spanish Flu is upon us today. Everybody is looking at the daily rise of the death toll and the
rapid, exponential spread of this novel strain of the virus. Besides the race to restrict the COVID-19 spread,
scientists are working as quickly as possible to uncover effective treatments. The Coronavirus pandemic has
spurred interest in AI and IoT based machine learning to track the spread of the fast-moving pathogen and to
plan disease prevention efforts. Companies and governments worldwide are tapping the location data of
millions of internet and mobile phone users for clues about how the virus spreads and whether social
distancing measures are working. Unlike surveillance measures that track the movements of particular
individuals, these efforts analyse large data sets to uncover patterns in people’s movements and behaviour
over the course of the pandemic.

The main focus of this special issue is to provide the latest advancements in the problem domain of COVID
19 and usage of computational techniques for prediction of its growth, life post-pandemic and changes in
terms of lifestyle. We encourage researchers to submit original works which will enlighten other researchers
and provide the world with new and improved methodologies using some of the topics as mentioned in the
following section. Original research works from the area of AI, IoT and machine learning predominately
reflect the widespread need and urgency at the time of global crisis. The aim of the special issue is providing
a quality publication with innovative ideas and implementation methodology to upcoming buddy researchers
and users in the modern-day era.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
• COVID – 19 Coronavirus prediction outcomes, forecasting, analysis & visualisation
• Nature-inspired algorithms and their computational design principles for COVID -19
• Bio-inspired and bio-medicine optimisation techniques for effective computational design and
frameworks
• Database principles for improvement in computational methodology for modelling, designing,
querying and managing large COVID 19 databases
• Impact of pandemic on GDP growth
• Impact of pandemic on travel and tourism
• Post Covid 19 challenges
• Pandemic lasting impact on environment
• Pandemic impact on the banking ecosystem
• Impact of the coronavirus on global higher education.
• Cognitive science inclusion in the scenario of Covid 19
• Impact on Industry 5 growth and development considering Covid 19 outbreak
• Security and privacy concern w.r.t virology databases and role of AI based databases inclusion
• Impact of covid 19 on human brain and considering role of artificial intelligence involvement using
deep learning
• Fake news databases and detection especially concerning social networking active during Covid 19

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication
elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if
appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

If you have any queries concerning this special issue, please email the Guest Editor, Prof. Vishal Bhatnagar at
vishalbhatnagar@yahoo.com.

Important Dates
Manuscripts due by: 30 November, 2020
Notification to authors: 31 January, 2021
Final versions due by: 31 March, 2021