Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Computing Frontiers

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This special issue collects extended versions of the best papers of the 2016 edition of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers. Held for the first time in the northern part of Italy, in Como, the 13th edition of the conference continued the tradition of pushing the boundaries of computing research (the “Computing Frontiers”), of a wide range of topics, including novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory technologies, and smarter life applications. Among the 30 regular papers accepted at the conference (out of 96 total submissions) we have invited authors of the seven most representative, in terms of quality and topics, to submit extended versions for this special issue. From these seven papers, after a rigorous peer-review process according to the International Journal of Parallel Programming standards, we have selected five to appear in this Special Issue. …