A special issue of Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research (NIM) will be published for accepted papers submitted to ULITIMA 2018. The acceptance will be peer-reviewed following the same standard of a regular NIM paper. Contributed papers are limited to 6 pages. The plenary and invited papers are limited to 10 pages. The paper submission deadline is November 15, 2018. Only accepted and registered abstracts to ULITIMA 2018 will be considered for the special issue. The link to the full paper submission is forthcoming.