Collaborative Intelligent Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2027 | Viewed by 23
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Interests: computer vision; image processing and pattern recognition; theory and applications of computational intelligence
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Interests: big data analytics and mining; intelligent education technologies; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning; multimodal data analysis; image and video understanding; object detection, recognition, and tracking
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Interests: machine learning; evolutionary computation; computer vision; services computing; pervasive computing
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Interests: artificial intelligence (in particular, machine learning, multiagent systems and their applications); formal methods (in particular, machine-learning-based model checking)
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Interests: artificial intelligence applications; computational intelligence methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on "Collaborative Intelligent Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications" aims to explore the fundamental principles, methodologies, and applications of intelligent systems in which multiple agents, models, sensors, or computational components collaborate to solve complex tasks. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and large-scale data-driven modeling, collaborative intelligence has emerged as an important paradigm for building robust, adaptive, and scalable systems in real-world environments.
Collaborative intelligent systems focus on enabling effective interaction, information sharing, and joint optimization across heterogeneous entities, such as multi-agent systems, multi-modal learning models, distributed sensing networks, and human–AI collaborative frameworks. Such systems are particularly important in complex and uncertain scenarios where data may be incomplete, noisy, asynchronous, or distributed across different sources and platforms.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions that investigate theoretical foundations, learning algorithms, system frameworks, and real-world applications of collaborative intelligent systems. The scope of this Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Artificial intelligence;
- Multi-agent systems;
- Distributed and federated learning;
- Collaborative perception and sensor fusion;
- Edge–cloud collaborative computing and intelligence;
- Reinforcement learning and coordination mechanisms;
- Large language model agents and agentic collaboration;
- Optimization and control in distributed intelligent systems;
- Real-world applications in robotics, autonomous driving, industrial systems, and environmental monitoring.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original research papers, technical contributions, and comprehensive review articles that present novel ideas, methodologies, and practical insights. This Special Issue aims to foster interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange, and to promote the development of innovative collaborative intelligent systems for both theoretical advancement and real-world impact.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Electronics.
Prof. Dr. Yue Wu
Prof. Dr. Qiguang Miao
Prof. Dr. Kai Qin
Dr. Mingyang Zhang
Dr. Kaiyuan Feng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- multi-agent systems
- distributed and federated learning
- multimodal collaborative perception
- edge-cloud collaborative computing
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