Applied Sciences

Recent Advancements in Biomarkers for Noncommunicable Diseases

edited by

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submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17984

Keywords: noncommunicable diseases; metabolic syndrome; obesity; cardiovascular diseases; dyslipidemia; cancer; autoimmune diseases; biomarkers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Advancements in Natural Compounds: Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Therapeutic Potentials

edited by

Małgorzata Wrzosek

and

Marta Klimek-Szczykutowicz

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 5689

Keywords: natural bioactive compounds; antimicrobial activity; antioxidant mechanisms; phytochemicals and secondary metabolites; functional foods and nutraceuticals; medicinal plants and ethnopharmacology; fungal and microbial metabolites; oxidative stress and chronic diseases; synergistic effects with conventional drugs; green extraction techniques; alternative medicine and natural therapies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advances in Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

edited by Lucival Malcher and Fábio Comes Castro

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1711

Keywords: characterization of materials; fatigue of materials; additive manufacturing; AI in solid mechanics; wear; numerical methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Unsaturated Soils: Testing and Modelling, 2nd Edition

edited by

Maria Mavroulidou

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1113

Keywords: fundamental theory and constitutive modelling; multiphysics and coupled phenomena modelling; hydromechanical properties and behaviour; advances in multiscale experimental evidence and techniques (laboratory and in situ); development and application of numerical modelling tools for engineering analysis and design; quantification of climatic effects and soil– vegetation– atmosphere models; shrinking-swelling soils; unsaturated soil mechanics for hazardous and nuclear waste repositories; waste geomaterial behaviour and applications in geoengineering; innovative ground improvement techniques; including biomediated and bioinspired processes; natural and human-made slope stability; energy geotechnics; multiscale subsurface water and contaminant transport modelling and monitoring; natural attenuation and remediation of contaminated sites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advances in Smart Grid Technologies and Methods

edited by

Mohammad Reza Salehizadeh

and Clodomiro U. Vila

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 384

Keywords: microgrids; active distribution networks; virtual power plants; aggregators; smart grids; energy management; renewable energy integration; distributed energy resources (DERs); demand response; flexibility; grid optimization; power system control; system stability; electricity markets; smart meters; microgrids; multi-energy systems; Energy storage systems; load forecasting; real-time monitoring; cyber-physical systems; communication in power systems; artificial intelligence in smart grids; Internet of Things (IoT); blockchain in energy; FACTS devices; control systems; smart city infrastructure; grid decentralization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Advances in Intelligent Perception and Control: From Pattern Recognition to Multi-Robot Systems

edited by Ting Zou

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 256

Keywords: control; machine learning; robot perception; pattern recognition; swarm robots

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Renewable Energy Sources: Wind, Tidal, and Wave Power

edited by

Eirini Katsidoniotaki

and Malin Göteman

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 232

Keywords: offshore renewable system control; offshore and marine energy system modeling; wind and wave resource characterization; design load cases; risks and uncertainty for offshore and marine energy systems; grid integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Wireless Communications for Smart Mobility Systems

edited by

Shahab Ehsanfar

, Abdulkarim Gizzini and

Luciano Leonel Mendes

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 187

Keywords: 6G; AI-assisted SMS; channel modeling; FRMCS; ISAC; NTN; THz communication; V2X; XAI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Wine Technology and Sensory Analysis

edited by

Ivana Ivic

and

Anita Pichler

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13479 | Submission Open

Keywords: wine technology; chemical composition; phenolic compounds; aroma compounds; vinification techniques; sensory analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Trends and Prospects in Advanced Automated Manufacturing Systems

edited by Fan Mo and Bo Yang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3124 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced automation; smart manufacturing; cyber– physical systems; Industry 4.0; robotics; AI integration; sustainable production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

Digital Technologies in Smart Agriculture

edited by

Jacek Przybył

and

Dawid Wojcieszak

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 672 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; smart agriculture; data storage and processing; Internet of Things (IoT); big data analytics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; cloud computing; satellite technologies; predictive models; remote control of processes and works; automation and autonomy; field management; reduction in fertilizer and pesticide use; reduction in energy inputs; increased crop production; increase in production efficiency; reduction in climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

edited by

Haitao Zhao

,

Meng Wang

and

Antonio Fernández-Caballero

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 26 articles | Viewed by 61465 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; machine learning; pattern recognition; machine learning; neural network; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Feature Review Papers in Energy Science and Technology

edited by

Demis Pandelidis

and

Katrzyna Wartalska

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 45457 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Extraction of Functional Ingredients and Their Application

edited by

Federica Turrini

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 29587 | Submission Open

Keywords: extraction; functional ingredients; food waste and by-products; nutraceutical; cosmetic; food packaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Recent Research on Tunneling and Underground Engineering

edited by

Hang Lin

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 28310 | Submission Open

Keywords: excavation unloading; hydraulic coupling; thermodynamic coupling; lining supports; rheological behavior; constitutive models; numerical techniques; reinforcement and monitoring techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security, Fourth Edition

edited by

George Drosatos

and

Konstantinos Rantos

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 21687 | Submission Open

Keywords: data protection; information security; cybersecurity; cyber threats; privacy; forensics; cryptography; blockchain; AI- and ML- driven security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Fuzzy Decision Making

edited by

Diana Kalibatiene

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 19714 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Techniques and Applications of Natural Language Processing

edited by Rajvardhan Patil and

Venkat N. Gudivada

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18763 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language understanding (NLU); natural language generation (NLG); large language models (LLMs); transfer learning; fine tuning; in-context learning; prompt engineering; knowledge graph; vector databases; retrieval augmented generation (RAG); task-oriented NLP applications (such as knowledge extraction; question answering; and sentiment analysis); NLP applications in specific domains (such as life sciences; health; and medicine)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Future Industry of Polysaccharides, Protein and Pectin in Food Processing

edited by

Mauricio Opazo-Navarrete

and

Guillermo Petzold

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 18127 | Submission Open

Keywords: proteins; polysaccharides; pectin; food processing; sustainable innovation; protein digestibility; food structuring; gelling properties; functional foods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Design and Application of Bionic Aircraft and Biofuels

edited by

Ziyu Liu

, Xiaoyi Yang and Xiangsheng Gao

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 17108 | Submission Open

Keywords: bionic aircraft; biofuels; aerospace vehicles; bionic robotics; sustainable aviation; combustion and emissions; aerospace engineering; renewable energy; environmental impact assessment; life cycle assessment; flight dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Advanced AI and Machine Learning Techniques for Time Series Analysis and Pattern Recognition

edited by

Antonio Pagliaro

, Pierluca Sangiorgi and Antonio Alessio Compagnino

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16865 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; time series analysis; pattern recognition; predictive modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Forecasting Techniques and Methods for Energy Systems

edited by

César Berna-Escriche

and

Paula Bastida-Molina

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16814 | Submission Open

Keywords: forecasting methods; optimization techniques; modelling; statistical analysis; artificial intelligence; machine learning; renewable resources; meteorological data analysis; demand-side management; electric vehicle

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Hygrothermal Behaviour of Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Second Edition

edited by

Hugo Entradas Silva

,

Luís G. Baltazar

and

Luísa Dias Pereira

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14807 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage preventive; conservation climate monitoring; hygrothermal behaviour risk; analysis simulation rehabilitation; energy efficiency sustainability; impact of climate changes on cultural heritage; indoor air quality thermal comfort

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

New Insights in Functional Cosmetic Materials and Industrial Manufacture

edited by

Spyros Papageorgiou

,

Panagoula Pavlou

and

Athanasia Varvaresou

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13269 | Submission Open

Keywords: raw materials; bioactives; development; manufacture; cosmetic industry; chemical analysis; biotechnology; nanomaterials; cosmeceuticals; medical devices; efficacy tests; safety models.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advanced Wearable Computing Techniques and Applications

edited by Zhan Zhang, Jie Zhang, Yunlong Zhao and

Wendong Xiao

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 12471 | Submission Open

Keywords: wearable computing; human– computer interaction; health monitoring; metaverse; digital twinning; digital healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Feature Review Papers in "Computing and Artificial Intelligence"

edited by

Paolino Di Felice

,

Luis Javier García Villalba

,

Aleksander Mendyk

and

Chilukuri K. Mohan

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 12025 | Submission Open

Keywords: database; information systems; and security; multiagent systems and pervasive computing; audio; speech; and music processing; computer vision; machine learning; and pattern recognition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Smart City and Informatization, 2nd Edition

edited by

António Pereira

,

Nuno Alexandre Ribeiro Costa

and

Antonio Fernández-Caballero

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11874 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart cities; social sensing; crowd sensing; digitalization; smart governance; smart services; smart products

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Cyber Security and Software Engineering

edited by Young Lee, Jeong Yang and

Luis Javier Garcia Villalba

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10391 | Submission Open

Keywords: cybersecurity; secure software development; mobile application security; cloud security; security vulnerabilities; privacy and data security; artificial intelligence and machine learning in cyber security; IoT security; algorithm for data encryption; data protection; network security; internet safety; encryption; authentication; cyber threats; intrusion detection; security architecture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Internet of Things Ecosystems: Architectures, Intelligence, and Communication Innovations

edited by

David Sarabia-Jácome

and

Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9259 | Submission Open

Keywords: next-generation IoT; edge computing; GenIA; network; architecture; IoT applications; future networks; ambient intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Civil Structural Health Monitoring: Techniques, Systems and Applications

edited by

Fei Kang

and Yonglong Li

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9247 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring; damage identification; numerical simulation; sensor experiments; underwater defect detection; machine learning; dams; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in Robot Path Planning, 3rd Edition

edited by

Jonghoek Kim

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9151 | Submission Open

Keywords: online and dynamic path planning; energy-efficient path planning; motion planning; SLAM; coverage problem; mobile robots; multiple robots; robot arms; underwater robots; UAVs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Technology for Beverage Production: Enhancing Processes and Improving Product Quality

edited by Alberto De Iseppi,

Lorenzo Guerrini

and

Alessandro Zanchin

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8836 | Submission Open

Keywords: beverage processing; novel technologies; food additives; sensorial quality; sustainability; cost-effectiveness; process innovations; process control; sensors; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

New Advances in Acoustic and Mechanical Metamaterials: Design and Applications

edited by

Muamer Kadic

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7798 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical metamaterials; acoustic metamaterials; phononic crystals; acoustic metasurface; sound absorption; functional metamaterials; sonic crystals; elastic metamaterials; nonlinear metamaterials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)

Novel Sources of Plant Biostimulants for Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Gregorio Peron

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7294 | Submission Open

Keywords: plant biostimulants; mechanisms of action; agri-food byproducts; sustainable agriculture; plant cultivation; horticulture; plant biochemistry; metabolomics; plant performance; abiotic stress

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Feature Review Papers in Environmental Sciences

edited by

Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Ortiz

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7024 | Submission Open

Keywords: water quality; water pollution; air quality; air pollution; soil; urban environment; ecological environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advanced Agricultural Technologies: Monitoring, Modeling, and Machine Learning Techniques

edited by

Soonho Hwang

and

Rabin Bhattarai

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 6958 | Submission Open

Keywords: irrigation; drainage; nutrient; water quality; agricultural modeling; hydrological modeling; machine learning; remote sensing; uncertainty assessment; sustainable agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Advanced Technologies in Landfills

edited by Shi Shu and Yuping Li

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6660 | Submission Open

Keywords: landfill; municipal solid waste; fly ash; composite liner; slope stability; closure cover; leachate treatment; gas collection; heat recovery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ecology Science and Engineering)

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM): The Newest Technologies and Applications

edited by

Ionel Cristian Vladu

,

Costin Badica

,

Ionuţ Daniel Geonea

, Nicu Bîzdoacă and

Cristina Pană

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5890 | Submission Open

Keywords: robotics; automation; mechatronics; artificial intelligence (AI); machine learning; autonomous systems; Industry 4.0; smart manufacturing; cyber-physical systems (CPS); robotic process automation (RPA); exoskeletons; humanoid robots; sensing and control systems; autonomous vehicles; intelligent systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Research of Sports Medicine and Health Care: Second Edition

edited by Daniel López-Plaza Palomo and Pedro Manonelles

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5889 | Submission Open

Keywords: health; injury rehabilitation; exercise prescription; doping prevention; injury prevention; healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Applications of Supply Chain Designs in Renewable Energy and Industrial Systems

edited by

Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico

,

Joel Antúnez-García

and

Wendy Flores-Fuentes

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5585 | Submission Open

Keywords: project management; manufacturing; production; energy efficiency; renewable energy sources; renewable energy processes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Advanced Drilling, Cementing, and Oil Recovery Technologies

edited by Adesina Fadairo

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5217 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced drilling technologies; cementing formulations; oil recovery methods; wellbore stability; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); drilling fluids; well cementing; formation evaluation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Human Performance and Health in Sport and Exercise—2nd Edition

edited by

Barbara Gilic

and

Andrea Fusco

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4900 | Submission Open

Keywords: sports performance; performance indicators; well-being; healthy lifestyle; health literacy; physical literacy; lifestyle medicine

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Image Processing: Technologies, Methods, Apparatus

edited by Benjamin Milgrom,

Andrei Doncescu

,

Cheonshik Kim

and

Ki-Hyun Jung

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4877 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; algorithms; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

AI-Supported Decision Making and Recommender Systems

edited by

Zhen Zhang

and Jian Wu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4684 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; decision making; recommender systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Development of Advanced Models in Information Systems

edited by Małgorzata B Pankowska and Dominik Spinczyk

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4561 | Submission Open

Keywords: conceptual models; pragmatism of modeling; practice of modeling; digital ecosystem; cyber– physical systems; enterprise architecture; model-driven engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

Intelligent Systems and Information Security

edited by Grzegorz J. Blinowski and

George Drosatos

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4560 | Submission Open

Keywords: information security; threat intelligence; cloud and network security; automated incident response; security operations; intelligent systems; artificial intelligence; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Applications of Digital Photogrammetry and 3D Laser Scanning in Geomatics

edited by

Miguel Angel Maté-González

and

Serafin López-Cuervo Medina

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4508 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital photogrammetry; 3D laser scanning; geomatics; mapping; surveying; earth's surface; spatial modeling; land use planning; environmental monitoring; remote sensing applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Security and Privacy in Complicated Computing Environments

edited by Yingwen Chen, Xiao Bin and Chunqiang Hu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4165 | Submission Open

Keywords: access control; encryption; threat detection; incident response; trust and reputation management; and so on; privacy issues not limited to data protection; privacy-preserving data mining and analytics; anonymization and de-identification; data minimization security and privacy in hardware or software heterogeneous systems; security and privacy in distributed computing environment; security and privacy in software stacks and microservices; security and privacy in frequent updated; scalable and elastic systems; security and privacy in system monitoring and troubleshooting; security and privacy in system resource management and optimization; security and privacy in system interoperability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advances in Smart Construction and Intelligent Buildings

edited by

Na Xu

and

Wei Chen

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4038 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; IoT-enabled infrastructure; sustainable urban resilience; generative AI in architecture; autonomous construction robotics; self-healing building materials; blockchain for lifecycle management; cognitive building automation; energy-positive structures; big data analytics in BIM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advanced Computer Security and Applied Cybersecurity

edited by

Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque

,

João José Costa Gondim

and

Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4016 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied cybersecurity; computer science; computer networks; cyber intelligence; computer and network security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)