JOURNAL OF KING SAUD UNIVERSITY - COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Impact Factor p.2 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 1319-1578 DESCRIPTION . Announcement: From November 2021 the Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences will become an author paid open access journal. Authors who publish in the Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences will be able to make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible. The Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences is a refereed, international journal that covers all aspects of both foundations of computer and its practical applications. The journal publishes original papers in the areas of, but not limited to Arabization Big Data Bioinformatics Biometrics Cloud Computing Computer Graphics Computer Vision Crowd Computing Data Mining Data Warehouse e-Business e-Learning Embedded Systems Fuzzy Systems Grid Computing High Performance Computing Image Processing Information Security Internet of Things Machine Learning Mobile Computing Natural Language Processing Net Centric Computing Network Protocols Network Security Pattern Recognition Pervasive Computing AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jksuci 1 Robotics Social Networks Software Engineering Speech Processing Wireless and Mobile Networks Wireless Sensor Networks Special emphasis is given to recent trends related to the cutting-edge research within the domain. The journal publishes also Special Issues within its scope resulting from specific and dedicated editorial efforts or covering a particular theme. All articles are subjected to extensive review by international reviewers. Visit the University journal homepage. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 13.473 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Current Contents - Engineering, Computing & Technology Essential Science Indicators Journal Citation Reports - Science Edition Science Citation Index Expanded MediaFinder CiteULike Research Bible Google Scholar Ulrichsweb EBSCOhost Scopus ACM Guide to Computing Literature Scirus SHERPA / RoMEO INSPEC J-Gate Directory of Research Journals Indexing Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Nasser-Eddine Rikli, King Saud University College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Associate Editors Noureddine Abbadeni, King Saud University Department of Computer Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Laith Abualigah, Amman Arab University Faculty of Computer Sciences and Informatics, Amman, Jordan Hend S. Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Department of Information Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mznah Abdullah Al-Rodhaan, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Abdulmalik S. Alsalman, King Saud University College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Najwa Altwaijry, King Saud University College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Batouche, University of Constantine, Department of Computer Science, Constantine, Algeria Ouiem Bchir, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Faiza Belala, Abdelhamid Mehri Constantine 2 University Faculty of New Technologies of Information and Communication, Constantine, Algeria Ahmed Bouridane, Northumbria University Department of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jksuci 2 Gianni D'Angelo, University of Salerno Department of Informatics, Fisciano, Italy Manar Ibrahim Fawzi Hosny, King Saud University Department of Computer Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Alaaeldin M. Hafez, King Saud University Department of Information Systems, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Md Saiful Islam, King Saud University Department of Computer Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ramdane Maamri, Faculty of New Information and Communication Technologies, El Khroub, Algeria Azzeddine Mazroui, Mohammed First University Oujda Faculty of Science, Oujda, Morocco Ghulam Muhammad, King Saud University College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Aytuğ Onan, Izmir Katip Celebi University, College of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Computer Engineering, İzmir, Turkey Abdeldjalil Ouahabi, Polytechnic University of Tours, Department of Electronics and Energy, Tours, France Vito Pirrelli, Antionio Zampolli Institute of computational linguistics National Research Council, Pisa, Italy Aduwati Sali, Putra Malaysia University Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Serdang, Malaysia Amir A. Touir, King Saud University Department of Information Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Peng-Yeng Yin, National Chi Nan University Information Management, Nantou, Taiwan Gregory Zacharewicz, Engineering College Ales, Ales, France Yu-Dong Zhang, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Advisory Board Mehmet Sabih Aksoy, King Saud University College of Computer and Information Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mansour Alsulaiman, King Saud University Department of Computer Engineering, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mohammed Atiquzzaman, The University of Oklahoma School of Computer Science, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America Mohammad Ilyas, Florida Atlantic University College of Engineering and Computer Science, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University Faculty of Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Takamatsu, Japan Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ostrava, Czechia Sid-Ahmed Selouani, University of Moncton, Department of Information Management, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada Jacek Stando, Lodz University of Technology Institute of Mathematics, Lodz, Poland Chin Yee Suen, Concordia University Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Canada AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/jksuci 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . 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