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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) is a scholarly, scientific and multi-disciplinary journal that publishes original research papers on foundational and innovative research, technologies and policies for the design, use, analysis, engineering, and governance of Internet, Internet scale computing systems, applications, and services. This journal is published on a quarterly basis.

Established in the summer of 2001, the journal has emerged as one of the premier venues in Internet technologies, encompassing computing, data processing, data analytics, data storage, public policy, security, privacy and trust of Internet scale systems, applications, and services.

TOIT brings together many disciplines contributing to Internet systems and technologies, including computer software engineering, computer programming languages, cyber-physical systems, distributed systems, middleware, management of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data, electronic commerce, Internet of audio, video, image and text data systems, performance, scalability, reliability, privacy, security, trust of Internet data systems and services. Social issues and public policy include major ways in which the use of Internet technology may impact the society and people. TOIT welcomes the innovative research outcomes from individual disciplines and from interactions among multiple disciplines.

A good source for journal scope is the journal papers themselves. Prospective authors are encouraged to review past issues for a perspective on topic relevance. For further reference, we provide a non-inclusive list of topics that are generally appropriate for the journal:

  • Compliance
  • Governance
  • Laws and regulations
  • Social norms
  • Internet crime
  • Internet Ethics
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  • Crowdsourcing
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Social networks and media
  • Social informatics
  • Social computing
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  • Cloud computing and edge computing
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Decentralized network computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Smart cities, smart planets
  • Health information systems
  • Blockchain fundamentals, systems and technologies
  • Mobile Internet
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  • Location-aware computing and services
  • E-learning
  • Online entertainment (music, movies, art, museums, etc.)
  • E-commerce and e-business
  • E-government
  • Business protocols
  • Service ecosystems
  • Online auctions and trading agents
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  • Security
  • Privacy
  • Trust
  • Fault tolerance
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  • Personalization
  • Search
  • Provenance
  • Linked data and knowledge graphs
  • Visualization
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  • Information models
  • Middleware and programming environments

TOIT may dedicate special issues to cover some emerging topics. Also, TOIT has a new column featuring research oriented technology review and survey of innovative Internet fundamentals, systems and applications. Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief before considering submission.