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Special Issue on Foundation and Large Language Models
Submission Date: 2026-06-30

Guest editors:

Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan (yaser.amd@gmail.com)
Sandra Sendra, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain (sansenco@upv.es)
Safa Otoum, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE (safa.otoum@zu.ac.ae )
Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea (yulan@sookmyung.ac.kr)
Special issue information:

Background and Scope:

With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure.

Recommended Topics:

Architectures and Systems
Transformers and Attention
Bidirectional Encoding
Autoregressive Models
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal LLMs
Fine-tuning
Challenges
Hallucination
Safety and Trustworthiness
Interpretability
Fairness
Social Impact
Future Directions
Generative AI
Explainability and EXplainable AI
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Federated Learning for FLLM
Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs
Data Augmentation
Applications
Natural Language Processing
Communication Systems
Security and Privacy
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Life Sciences
Financial Systems

https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/322199/foundation-and-large-language-models

Special Issue on Large Language Models (LLMs) for Tourism and Tourists
Submission Date: 2026-08-31

Special Note: This is a joint Article Collection of Annals of Tourism Research and Information Processing & Management. Both journals have an interest in how LLMs can be used in the tourism context, assisting tourists, tourism businesses, and tourism destinations. Articles will be published in one of the journals. The Article Collection (entire set) will be posted on the websites of both journals, increasing exposure of the research for the authors.

Guest editors:

Yang Yang, Associate Editor, Annals of Tourism Research
Sara Dolnicar, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Tourism Research
Jim Jansen, Editor-in-Chief, Information Processing & Management

Special issue information:

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI (GenAI) are changing how tourists are inspired to travel, how they search for tourism-related information, where they book travel-related services, and how they plan their itineraries. LLMs are changing how tourism businesses assess guest satisfaction, how they determine their brand image, and how they can save money by delegating routine operational tasks to LLMs. LLMs are also changing how tourism destinations monitor consumer sentiment and how they develop marketing campaigns. As LLMs inevitably become more powerful and refined, the number of applications in tourism will skyrocket.

Annals of Tourism Research and Information Processing & Management have already published several articles investigating the use of LLMs in tourism or leveraging the power of LLMs as a tool for tourism research, including.:

Mikulić, J. (2025). Large language models in tourism research: Support, substitution, or something else?. Annals of Tourism Research, 114, 104003.

Ali, F. (2025). Rethinking synthetic data in tourism research: Ethical risks, epistemic shifts, and the RSDU-T framework. Annals of Tourism Research, 114, 104009.

Ramrakhiyani, N., Varma, V., Palshikar, G. K., & Pawar, S. (2025). Gauging, enriching and applying geography knowledge in Pre-trained Language Models. Information Processing & Management, 62(1), 103892.

Shrestha, R. K., Whitford, M., & Zhang, J. (2025). Tourism and social representations of Sherpas from Nepal. Annals of Tourism Research, 113, 103981.

Hsu, C. H., Tan, G., & Stantic, B. (2024). A fine-tuned tourism-specific generative AI concept. Annals of Tourism Research, 104, 103723.

Fan, Z., & Chen, C. (2024). CuPe-KG: Cultural perspective–based knowledge graph construction of tourism resources via pretrained language models. Information Processing & Management, 61(3), 103646.

This joint article collection builds on this work and aims to identify areas where LLMs can be ethically deployed to assist tourists, tourism businesses, and tourist destinations. Additionally, the joint collection aims to develop purpose-built LLMs for specific challenges. The collection is also open to articles that discuss the implications of increased LLM adoption in the tourism sector.

The strength of this joint Article Collection is that expert reviewers from both information technology and tourism are available to assess contributions, thus speeding up focused knowledge development and ensuring that the bodies of literature in tourism and information technology do not develop in parallel, but rather benefit from cross-fertilisation.

Possible topics of submissions:

Generative AI for Smart Tourism Experiences: Exploring how LLMs can personalize itineraries, provide real-time guidance, and adapt recommendations to tourists’ preferences

Conversational Agents in Hospitality: The role of LLM-powered chatbots in hotels, airlines, and travel agencies for customer service and engagement

Multilingualism and Accessibility in Tourism: Leveraging LLMs for translation, cross-cultural communication, and inclusion of diverse traveler groups

LLMs and Destination Marketing: How generative AI can create compelling narratives, promotional content, and social media engagement for destinations

Ethics, Trust, and Transparency in AI-driven Tourism: Addressing concerns of bias, misinformation, and trustworthiness when deploying LLMs in travel contexts

Tourism Education and Training with LLMs: Using AI tutors and assistants to support tourism and hospitality management students and professionals

Data-Driven Insights from Tourist Interactions: Using LLMs to analyze feedback, reviews, and online conversations for destination management and policy making

Cultural Heritage and Storytelling through LLMs: Reimagining museum guides, historical tours, and immersive cultural experiences using generative AI

Sustainability and Responsible Tourism with LLMs: AI-enabled nudges and dialogue systems to promote eco-friendly travel behaviors and sustainable tourism development

Future of Work in Tourism with Generative AI: How LLMs reshape roles of travel agents, tour guides, and hospitality staff, balancing automation with human expertise

Manuscript submission information:

Important dates:

Submissions Open: 10 September 2025
Submissions Close: 31 August 2026

Submission Guidelines for Authors:

Select one of the journals to submit your article

For Information Processing & Management: Submit your manuscript by selecting the article type ‘VSI: LLMTourism’ through the online submission system of Information Processing & Management. All the submissions should follow the general author guidelines of Information Processing & Management.

For Annals of Tourism Research: Submit your manuscript by selecting the article type ‘VSI: LLMTourism’ through the online submission system of Annals of Tourism Research. All the submissions should follow the general author guidelines of Annals of Tourism Research.

Keywords:

LLM, Large Language Models, AI, ChatGPT

https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/326025/joint-special-issue-call-for-papers-large-language-models-llms-for-tourism-and-tourists

Special Issue on Explainable AI and Network Science for Social Systems and Collective Intelligence
Submission Date: 2027-03-31

Guest editors:

Tao Wen, Research Fellow, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Email: tao.wen@manchester.ac.uk

Xinyi Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Boise State University, Idaho, USA
Email: xinyizhou@boisestate.edu

Richard Allmendinger, Professor, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Email: richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk

Kang Hao Cheong, Associate Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Email: kanghao.cheong@ntu.edu.sg

Special issue information:

As humans increasingly communicate in real time on digital platforms, networked online social systems are reshaping how information spreads, opinions interact, communities form, and collective decisions emerge. Yet research on these processes in advanced network models, such as multilayer networks coupled across multiple social platforms and higher-order networks that capture group interactions and complex communication patterns, remains limited. At the same time, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have provided powerful tools for modelling and analyzing behavior on these platforms. However, many AI-based models still operate as “black boxes”, making it difficult to explain or justify their outputs. This lack of transparency is critical in areas such as public opinion management, understanding the emergence of collective behaviors, and analyzing social influence. With generative AI, recommender engines, and autonomous agents now being deployed at scale, it is urgent to understand how AI technologies interact with network structure and dynamics, and how their interactions influence collective intelligence (CI) and decision-making.

This special issue aims to bring together explainable AI and network science to advance the study of social networks, information cascades, and the emergence of CI. We invite research that integrates AI, machine learning, and data-driven methods with rigorous network modelling for networked social systems, including multilayer and higher-order networks. Topics of interest include the use of explainable AI (XAI), graph neural networks (GNNs), large language models (LLMs), causal inference, and optimization algorithms to study information propagation, influence maximization, key user identification, recommender systems, and information source localization. We also welcome studies that apply responsible AI principles to explain and model human collective decision-making and CI, including consensus formation, polarization, cooperation, coordination, and innovation diffusion. Methodologies may include opinion dynamics, game theory, graph learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and large-scale data mining.

This special issue offers a dedicated venue for interdisciplinary research on information flow, user behavior, and CI in social systems. By combining modern AI methods with strong foundations in network science, it seeks to advance both fundamental understanding and the development of trustworthy and practical solutions for real-world complex social systems.

Possible Topics of Submissions:

This special issue is interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:

Influence and leadership identification in dynamic networks: Identify task-specific influential users over time in dynamic and multiplex networks through explainable methods.
Higher-order interactions and collective behavior beyond pairwise edges: How hypergraphs and simplicial complexes affect contagion, cooperation, consensus, and collective decision-making.
Reputation assessment and trust formation in human-AI systems: How to assess AI agent reputation and build trust for informed human-AI decisions in noisy, biased, or adversarial settings.
AI-driven collective decision-making under information disorder: How groups can make informed decisions under misinformation, manipulation, and LLM-generated or synthetic content.
Human-AI collective intelligence in online communities: How collective performance is enhanced or reduced when LLMs participate as autonomous agents on platforms and communities.
Knowledge graphs for explainable collective intelligence: Use knowledge graphs to represent and explain collective intelligence by integrating agents, content, contexts, and causal pathways.
Graph learning for collective behavior prediction: Forecast diffusion, coordination, and group decision dynamics under noise and uncertainty by graph learning (e.g. temporal and higher-order GNNs).
LLM-based social simulation for behavior prediction: Study how LLM-driven agents interact in social systems to explain and predict diffusion, coordination, and collective behaviors.
Early-warning signals and risk forecasting in complex social systems: Detect early-warning signals and predict cascading risks in complex social networks using AI and network science.
Fairness, inequality, and polarization in AI-mediated social systems: How AI agents redistribute exposure, attention, and power, potentially amplifying inequality and polarization.
Collective intelligence mechanism for complex systems: Explore incentives, rules, and governance mechanisms that enable reliable collective intelligence under uncertainty and heterogeneity.
Causal inference for platform interventions and policy evaluation: Estimate the causal effects of platform and policy interventions in the presence of feedback loops and partial observability.
Manuscript submission information:

Submit your manuscript to the Special Issue category (VSI: AINet) through the online submission system of Information Processing & Management. All the submissions should follow the general author guidelines of Information Processing & Management.

Keywords:

Explainable AI, LLM social simulation, Network science, Complex systems, Decision-making, Collective intelligence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/332020/explainable-ai-and-network-science-for-social-systems-and-collective-intelligence