AI in Industry 4.0
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The advance of AI in the context of Industry 4.0 brings new challenges for research. Edge computing is a key aspect for the execution of efficient models in the Industrial plant, considering the recent advances at LLM, Agentic AI and other new tendencies. The challenges of Edge AI involve the integration with 5G and 6G communications, new generations of GenAI, new proposals of federated learning and so on. In this Special Issue we seek to establish a new set of contributions that can achieve the state-of-the-art usage of AI in Industry 4.0.
Dr. Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- edge computing
- agentic AI
- edge AI
- 5G
- 6G
- Industry 4.0
- federated learning
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