Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Metaheuristics Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

You are welcome to submit your manuscript to our Special Issue titled: “Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Metaheuristics Optimization”.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and metaheuristic optimization have emerged as two of the most transformative paradigms in computational science. While AI techniques—particularly machine learning and deep learning—enable data-driven learning and decision-making, metaheuristics provide powerful problem-solving mechanisms to optimize complex, high-dimensional, and nonlinear tasks. The fusion of these two domains is driving cutting-edge solutions across energy systems, healthcare, and cybersecurity, as well as transportation, industrial design, and sustainable development.

This Special Issue aims to gather original research contributions, novel applications, and comprehensive reviews on the integration of AI with metaheuristic optimization. We particularly welcome works that address theoretical foundations, hybrid frameworks, performance benchmarking, explainability, and real-world deployment. By fostering dialogue between AI and optimization communities, the issue seeks to highlight the latest advances and inspire new directions in research and practice.

Potential research areas include, but are not limited to the following:

• Novel Metaheuristic Algorithms: Design, theoretical analysis, and benchmarking of new swarm intelligence and evolutionary approaches.
• Hybrid AI–Metaheuristic Models: Integration of metaheuristics with machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and explainable AI.
• Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Selection: Advanced optimization strategies for neural networks, ensembles, and emerging AI architectures.
• Applications in Energy and Sustainability: Renewable energy forecasting, smart grids, battery health prediction, and green building optimization.
• Healthcare and Biomedical Systems: Disease diagnosis, medical imaging, personalized treatment, and bioinformatics.
• Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure: Intrusion detection, risk management, blockchain security, and anomaly detection.
• Big Data and Cloud/Edge Computing: Resource allocation, scheduling, federated learning, and distributed optimization.
• Trustworthy and Explainable AI: Robustness, interpretability, fairness, and ethical optimization frameworks.

Prof. Dr. Angel A. Juan
Dr. Nebojsa Bacanin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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