Applied Sciences | Invitation to Read the Updated Editor's Choice Articles Published in 2022–2023
The goal of the Editor’s Choice Articles project is to promote high-quality articles published in Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417). Please find below the list of articles carefully handpicked by the scientific editors of the journal, which we believe will be of interest to you. The full list of Editor's Choice Articles can be viewed at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/editors_choice.
1. “Scalability of Mach Number Effects on Noise Emitted by Side-by-Side Propellers”
by Caterina Poggi, Giovanni Bernardini, Massimo Gennaretti and Roberto Camussi
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(19), 9507; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199507
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9507
2. “Solar Sail Orbit Raising with Electro-Optically Controlled Diffractive Film”
by Alessandro A. Quarta and Giovanni Mengali
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(12), 7078; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13127078
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/12/7078
3. “A Review of Recent Progress of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) in China”
by Jia Yao, Hongdou Han, Yang Yang, Yiming Song and Guihe Li
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 1169; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13021169
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/1169
4. “Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models Applied to Photovoltaic Production Forecasting”
by Moisés Cordeiro-Costas, Daniel Villanueva, Pablo Eguía-Oller and Enrique Granada-Álvarez
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8769; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12178769
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/17/8769
5. “A Novel Hybrid Method for Short-Term Wind Speed Prediction Based on Wind Probability Distribution Function and Machine Learning Models”
by Rabin Dhakal, Ashish Sedai, Suhas Pol, Siva Parameswaran, Ali Nejat and Hanna Moussa
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(18), 9038; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12189038
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/18/9038
6. “Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Areas: A European Analysis”
by Sara Bona, Armando Silva-Afonso, Ricardo Gomes, Raquel Matos and Fernanda Rodrigues
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(1), 168; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13010168
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/168
7. “Revalorizing a Pyrolytic Char Residue from Post-Consumer Plastics into Activated Carbon for the Adsorption of Lead in Water”
by Rafael R. Solís, María Ángeles Martín-Lara, Ana Ligero, Josefa Balbís, Gabriel Blázquez and Mónica Calero
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(16), 8032; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12168032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/16/8032
8. “Review: Renewable Energy in an Increasingly Uncertain Future”
by Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(1), 388; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13010388
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/1/388
9. “Benchmarking 4G and 5G-Based Cellular-V2X for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication and Urban Scenarios in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems”
by Tibor Petrov, Peter Pocta and Tatiana Kovacikova
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(19), 9677; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199677
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9677
10. “Unsteady Aerodynamic Characteristics of a High-Speed Train Induced by the Sudden Change of Windbreak Wall Structure: A Case Study of the Xinjiang Railway”
by Zheng-Wei Chen, En-Ze Rui, Tang-Hong Liu, Yi-Qing Ni, Xiao-Shuai Huo, Yu-Tao Xia, Wen-Hui Li, Zi-Jian Guo and Lei Zhou
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(14), 7217; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147217
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/14/7217
11. “HDLNIDS: Hybrid Deep-Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection System”
by Emad Ul Haq Qazi, Muhammad Hamza Faheem and Tanveer Zia
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(8), 4921; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13084921
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/8/4921
12. “A Deep Learning Method for Lightweight and Cross-Device IoT Botnet Detection”
by Marta Catillo, Antonio Pecchia and Umberto Villano
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 837; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13020837
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/837
13. “Design of a Smart Factory Based on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things towards Industry 4.0”
by Mutaz Ryalat, Hisham ElMoaqet and Marwa AlFaouri
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(4), 2156; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13042156
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2156
14. “A Review of Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Smart Manufacturing in Industry 4.0 and 5.0 Framework”
by Alejandro del Real Torres, Doru Stefan Andreiana, Álvaro Ojeda Roldán, Alfonso Hernández Bustos and Luis Enrique Acevedo Galicia
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(23), 12377; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312377
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/23/12377
15. “An Improved Algorithm of Drift Compensation for Olfactory Sensors”
by Siyu Lu, Jialiang Guo, Shan Liu, Bo Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Lirong Yin and Wenfeng Zheng
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(19), 9529; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199529
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9529
16. “Improved YOLOv5: Efficient Object Detection Using Drone Images under Various Conditions”
by Hyun-Ki Jung and Gi-Sang Choi
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(14), 7255; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147255
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/14/7255
17. “2D/3D Multimode Medical Image Alignment Based on Spatial Histograms”
by Yuxi Ban, Yang Wang, Shan Liu, Bo Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Lirong Yin and Wenfeng Zheng
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(16), 8261; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12168261
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/16/8261
18. “Comparing Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: A Literature Review”
by José Maurício, Inês Domingues and Jorge Bernardino
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(9), 5521; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13095521
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/9/5521
19. “Using Chatbots as AI Conversational Partners in Language Learning”
by Jose Belda-Medina and José Ramón Calvo-Ferrer
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8427; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12178427
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/17/8427
20. “VR Games in Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Review of the Emerging Fields of Virtual Reality and Culture Games”
by Anastasios Theodoropoulos and Angeliki Antoniou
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8476; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12178476
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/17/8476
21. “Federated Learning for Edge Computing: A Survey”
by Alexander Brecko, Erik Kajati, Jiri Koziorek and Iveta Zolotova
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(18), 9124; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12189124
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/18/9124
22. “A Study of Network Intrusion Detection Systems Using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning”
by Patrick Vanin, Thomas Newe, Lubna Luxmi Dhirani, Eoin O’Connell, Donna O’Shea, Brian Lee and Muzaffar Rao
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(22), 11752; https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211752
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/22/11752
23. “Malware Detection Using Memory Analysis Data in Big Data Environment”
by Murat Dener, Gökçe Ok and Abdullah Orman
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8604; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12178604
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/17/8604
24. “Zero-Shot Emotion Detection for Semi-Supervised Sentiment Analysis Using Sentence Transformers and Ensemble Learning”
by Senait Gebremichael Tesfagergish, Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė and Robertas Damaševičius
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(17), 8662; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12178662
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/17/8662
25. “Knowing Knowledge: Epistemological Study of Knowledge in Transformers”
by Leonardo Ranaldi and Giulia Pucci
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(2), 677; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13020677
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/2/677
We would like to thank all of the research groups that authored these exceptional papers for their contribution. We sincerely hope you find these articles of Applied Sciences as useful and insightful as we have found them.