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Special Issue on SI - Exploring the Application of Quantum Technologies to Industrial and Real-World use cases
Submission Date: 2024-07-31

SCOPE

Quantum Computing is considered as the next frontier in computing, and it is attracting a lot of attention from the current scientific community. These technologies introduce new mechanisms, based on quantum mechanics, to solve a wide variety of problems more efficiently: from those traditionally solved by means of machine learning and optimization, to simulation. By leveraging quantum phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, the quantum information processing and the pure quantum or hybrid algorithms (both classical and quantum procedures interplaying) are expected to achieve a speed and/or precision advantage in modelling systems and in solving complex optimization problems. As a result of the growing interest in this field, quantum computing has already been successfully applied to a plenty of use cases, being industrial problems the main representative.

Last but not least, quantum technologies are shaking up the design, control and monitoring by new quantum sensors vastly improving the accuracy of the measurement. By collecting atom level data, the advanced versions of day-to-day technologies will incorporate, for example, more reliable geolocation and less vulnerable guidance systems which will be cornerstone for many industrial applications.

This special issue, to be published in The Journal of Supercomputing, aims at fostering discussions around the latest findings and research achievements, as well as the exchange of novel ideas in the application of quantum technologies to industry. We specially encourage researchers to submit their novel contributions on real-world oriented applications. With all this, interested colleagues are invited to submit contributions via the journal submission system, with an emphasis on (but not limited to) the below topics.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Hybrid classical-quantum methods for addressing optimization problems.
    Application of Quantum Annealers for solving realworld oriented problems.
    Development of quantum-gates based methods (QAOA, VQE…).
    Quantum Algorithms and Complexity.
    Quantum Machine Learning Approaches.
    Latest advances of quantum-inspired computation, especially for optimization, machine learning and deep learning.
    Quantum sensing applied to industrial settings.
    Quantum simulation for complex industrial problems

Applied to the following fields (not limited):

    Transportation and logistics: routing problems, efficient management of vehicle fleets, last-mile logistics, traffic flow optimization...
    Efficient management of warehouses: bin packing problems, collison-free robot path planning, optimization of empty container movements…
    Optimization of industrial processes: job-shop scheduling problem, multi-car paint shop problem… 
    Environmentally friendly industrial planning.
    Design of industrial facilities: quadratic assignment problem...

The Journal of Supercomputing is committed to publishing research that advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This special issue welcomes submissions related to SDG 11, which covers sustainable cities and transportation (https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal11).

GUEST EDITORS

    Dr. Eneko Osaba, TECNALIA Research and Innovation 
    Dr. Esther Villar-Rodriguez, TECNALIA Research and Innovation 
    Dr. Izaskun Oregi, TECNALIA Research and Innovation 
    Dr. Yue Ban, TECNALIA Research and Innovation 
    Sebastián V. Romero, TECNALIA Research and Innovation University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) 
    Dr. Cristina Mier González, TECNALIA Research and Innovation

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 July 2024

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Journal of Supercomputing website. Authors should submit through the online submission site here and select “Exploring the Application of Quantum Technologies to Industrial and Real-World use cases” when they reach the “Collection” step on the Details tab during the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. 

Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at ITSC 2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of ITSC 2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.