Guest Editorial: Special Section on New Trends in Parallel and Distributed Computing for Human Sensible Applications

The papers in this special section focus on collecting high-quality scientific contributions from the research community working in the fields of parallel and distributed computing, data analytics algorithms and big data frameworks, application specific processing. Specifically, the main focus is on emerging new computing trends that affect the concrete human life, the so-called "Human Sensible Applications". Problems in parallel computing related to implement precision medicine and novel therapeutical targets, real-time architectures for biomedical IoT, computational biology and chemical compounds simulations, realistic modelling of human body organs, bioimaging processing, but even emerging computing systems for Human Sustainability, including weather and climate changes monitoring/prediction, resources management, safety, disaster prediction and prevention, belong to this scenario.