Applied Sciences

Novel Approaches for Water Resources Assessment

edited by

, Negisa Darajeh and

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6979 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources engineering; water management; water footprint; hydrology; hydroscience; hydroenergy; ecohydrology; computational methods in water resources; hydrological and hydrometeorological modeling; machine learning approaches; statistical modeling; probabilistic approach; extreme events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Inspection and Monitoring Techniques for Bridges and Civil Structures, 2nd Edition

edited by Steve C.S. Cai

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6831 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-contact inspection; artificial intelligence; digital techniques and equipment; structure inspection; damage detection; computer vision-based techniques; structural health monitoring; smart sensing technology; structure condition assessment; repair; retrofitting; and rehabilitation of structures; innovative materials and technology for structure repair

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Machine Learning for Object Detection and Scene Description in Images and Videos

edited by Marcin Iwanowski,

Sungho Kim

and

Zhaoqing Pan

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6429 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; scene description; object detection; image segmentation; semantic segmentation; image captioning; video summarizing; robot vision; action recognition

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

Application of Biomechanics in Sports Science

edited by

Fábio Juner Lanferdini

, Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga and

Cosme Franklim Buzzachera

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6150 | Submission Open

Keywords: sports; athletes; biomechanics; adaptation; performance; injury; kinematic; kinetic; dynamometry; electromyography; ultrasonography

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

Emerging Lithium‐Ion Batteries: Design, Characterization, and Applications

edited by

Davide Clerici

and

Francesco Mocera

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6118 | Submission Open

Keywords: lithium-ion cell design; computation modelling of lithium-ion batteries; experimental testing for lithium-ion batteries; mechanics of lithium-ion batteries; EIS; innovative applications for lithium-ion batteries; in situ testing; SOH estimation; remaining useful life estimation; AI modelling of lithium-ion batteries

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

Identification and Measurement of Displacements and Deformations of Engineering Structures: 2nd Edition

edited by

Boštjan Kovačić

,

Rinaldo Paar

and

Ján Erdélyi

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6101 | Submission Open

Keywords: displacement; deformation measurement; vibration monitoring; contactless vision-based monitoring; monitoring systems; geodetic monitoring: structural monitoring and geo-monitoring; modal natural frequencies; structural health monitoring (SHM); finite element method (FFT); fast Fourier transformation (FFT); geodetic instruments (TS; RTS; IATS; IASTS; GNSS; TLS; LIDAR); sensors (accelerometers; LVDT; clinometers; strain gauges; vibrometers; speedometers; tilt sensors); ground-based radar interferometry; low-cost sensors; techniques for online real-time system condition monitoring; spatial data analysis; experimental and in situ measurements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Recent Advances in Artificial and Natural Antioxidants for Food

edited by

Monica Gallo

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6009 | Submission Open

Keywords: oxidation; free radicals; beneficial effects; rancidity; browning; alteration of aroma; food waste; circular economy; nanotechnology; extraction techniques

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

Fiber-Reinforced Concrete: Recent Progress and Future Directions

edited by Rubén-Daniel López-Carreño and

Pablo Pujadas Álvarez

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5995 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC); fiber materials (synthetic; natural; recycled); crack control; toughness; and ductility of concrete; durability and resilience; ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC); sustainable construction materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Recent Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials and Structures

edited by

Fernando Ávila

, María Esther Puertas García and

Chiara Bedon

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5697 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction materials; sustainable structures; earth-based materials; green technologies; construction recycling; materials characterization; computational methods; sustainable structural design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Application of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain for Smart Systems

edited by

Joao C Ferreira

and

Bjørn Jæger

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5499 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); data science; smart systems; federated learning; blockchain; explainable AI (XAI); decision-making systems; AI security and privacy; AI-driven healthcare; smart energy management; AI for logistics and transportation

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

Spatial Data and Technology Applications

edited by

Dongmei Chen

,

Yongmei Lu

and Lu Wang

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5292 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial analysis; geographic information systems; decision-making; urban planning; healthcare; epidemiology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Titanium and Its Compounds: Properties and Innovative Applications

edited by

Aleksandra Radtke

and

Adrian Topolski

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5220 | Submission Open

Keywords: titanium; titanium alloys; titanium (IV) coordination compounds; composites; nanomaterials; properties; applications

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

Digitalization of Cultural Heritage with Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Deep Learning Solutions

edited by

Marcello La Guardia

,

Valentina Bonora

and

Andrea Masiero

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5170 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; TLS; photogrammetry; machine learning; deep learning

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

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Techniques

edited by Jie Yang

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5139 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; machine reading comprehension; information retrieval; text mining; language generation; machine translation; multilingual systems; chain of thought; retrieval-augmented generation; DL-based techniques and tools for NLP

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

Innovative Approaches and Tools for Healthcare and Medical Applications

edited by

Cristina Veres

and

Adrian Gligor

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5039 | Submission Open

Keywords: healthcare technology; medical applications; artificial intelligence; personalized medicine; telemedicine; diagnostic; imaging technology; sensor technologies; healthcare innovation

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

Multiscale Heat and Mass Transfer and Artificial Intelligence

edited by Guice Yao,

Chuang Wen

and

Jin Zhao

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5003 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; heat transfer; multiscale modelling; multidisciplinary energy conversion; temperature reconstruction; flow dynamics; physics-informed neural network

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)

IoT Technology and Information Security

edited by

Beibei Li

, Jianbing Ni, Yuling Liu and Ming Zhao

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4695 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things; information security; cyberthreats against the IoT; vulnerability

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

Advances in High-Performance Buildings: Comfort, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Opportunities

edited by

Franco Cotana

, Veronica Lucia Castaldo and

Ilaria Pigliautile

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4518 | Submission Open

Keywords: indoor and outdoor comfort; energy efficiency; environmental impact; renewable energies; PtX; LCA; CFD; dynamic simulation; microclimate mitigation; multiphysic analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

AI-Based Biomedical Signal Processing—2nd Edition

edited by

Agnese Sbrollini

and

Aurora Saibene

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4396 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; biomedical signal processing; filtering and denoising; machine and deep learning; clinical decision-support systems; cognitive computing; computer vision; interpretability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Affective Computing for Human–Computer Interactions

edited by Cristina Luna-Jiménez and

Manuel Gil-Martín

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4377 | Submission Open

Keywords: affective computing; emotion recognition; sign language recognition and translation; trustworthiness recognition; multimodal perceptual models; human– computer interaction; sensor and wearable devices; dialogue systems; generative models; natural language processing

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

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Medical Data Analytics

edited by Rui Fonseca-Pinto

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4365 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical data analysis; radiomics; predictive models; telemedicine

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

Application of Electromagnetic Prospecting in Civil and Environmental Engineering

edited by

Haiyan Yang

and Shuanggui Hu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4346 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric and electromagnetic measurement methods; applications in civil and environmental engineering; artificial intelligence; machine learning; and deep learning; data processing; simulation; inversion; and interpretation

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

Advances in Food Analysis and Processing

edited by

Joanna Maria Klepacka

and

Marta Czarnowska-Kujawska

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4280 | Submission Open

Keywords: food; processing; analysis; nutritional value; safety; consumers

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

New Materials and Procedures for the Preservation-Restoration of Ancient Artifacts

edited by

Ion Sandu

and

Rodica Mariana Ion

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4252 | Submission Open

Keywords: historical artefacts; archaeometry; archeology; architectural monuments; conservation state; degradation; deterioration; preservation; restauration; scientific investigation; compatibility; feasibility; authentication; patrimonial evaluation; valorization; museums; nanomaterials; cleaning; consolidation; coatings; protective layers/protective films; binders; pigments; alloys; ceramics; stone; glass; wood; composites materials; easel paintings; wall paintings; statues; mosaics; stained glass; textiles; skin; parchment; paper (cellulosic support); natural and synthetic polymers; concrete; mortar

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

State-of-the-Art Structural Health Monitoring Application

edited by

Mario De Oliveira

,

Donato Perfetto

and Jozue Vieira Filho

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3938 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); AI/machine learning; sensing technology; real-time SHM systems; embedded systems for SHM; digital twins; rotor systems; EOV/wind turbine; remaining useful life methods; IoT solutions for SHM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in Developing Urban Resilience Through Environmental and Earth Sciences

edited by

Tiantian Gu

and

Dezhi Li

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3583 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; environment resilience; smart city; community engagement; infrastructure resilience; urban policy; built environment; urban renewal

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Innovative Applications of Big Data and Cloud Computing, 2nd Edition

edited by

Chao-Tung Yang

and

Chen-Kun Tsung

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3450 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; cloud computing; innovation service design; practical platform implementation

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

Communication Technology for Smart Mobility Systems

edited by

Kyounghee Lee

and

Christos J. Bouras

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3402 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart mobility; mobility as a service (MaaS); autonomous vehicle; V2X communications; intelligent transport system (ITS); shared mobility; connected car; low-latency communications

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

Biosystems Engineering: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Mihaela Begea

,

Sorin-Ștefan Biris

and

Mariana Ferdes

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3328 | Submission Open

Keywords: biosystems engineering; agro-industrial production chains; sustainability; mechanics and mechatronics of biotechnical systems; applied informatics in environmental engineering; machines and mechanization systems; food chains; bioproduction processes

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

Characterization of Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidants in Natural Products, 2nd Edition

edited by

Zbigniew Kobus

and

Monika Krzywicka

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3133 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioactive compounds; antioxidant activity; polyphenols; anthocyanins; flavonoids; carotenoids; lignans; plant sterols; health properties of food; extraction techniques

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

Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition for Biomedical Signals

edited by

Claudia Ferraris

and

Marco Ghislieri

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3055 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; pattern recognition; deep learning; and explainable AI for digital healthcare; biosignal analysis; medical imaging; and human motion analysis; biosensors; wearable devices; and multimodal data (images; videos) for healthcare applications; early diagnosis; personalized medicine; disease prevention and progression; and decision support systems; telemedicine; remote patient monitoring; and digital health solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advanced Plant Biotechnology in Sustainable Agriculture—2nd Edition

edited by

Anzhen Qin

and

Dongfeng Ning

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3021 | Submission Open

Keywords: genetic engineering; cropping systems; smart fertigation; remote sensing; climate change

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

Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart Energy Systems

edited by

Xueqian Fu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2999 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart grids; control systems; smart energy systems; artificial intelligence; machine learning

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

The Advanced Trends in Natural Language Processing

edited by

Minoru Sasaki

and

Francisco García-Sánchez

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2971 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language processing; machine learning and deep learning; large-scale language models (LLMs); named-entity recognition; text classification

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

Advances and Technologies in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

edited by

Qiang Li

and

Quanqi Zhu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2920 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical behaviors of rocks; multi-field coupling; advanced monitoring technologies; modeling of rock engineering; applications of machine learning; solutions in deep rock engineerings

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Soil Organic Matter and Carbon Content Analysis Using Machine Learning and Classical Approaches

edited by

Yaping Xu

and

Rafael López Núñez

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2817 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil science; machine learning; remote sensing; soil mapping; organic analysis; drone technology; spectroscopic analysis; proximal soil-sensing techniques

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

EEG Signal Processing in Medical Diagnosis Applications

edited by Agnieszka Duraj and

Piotr S. Szczepaniak

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2693 | Submission Open

Keywords: electroencephalography; EEG data acquisition; EEG signal analysis; medical diagnosis; neurological diseases; signal filtering techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Automatic Control of Multi-Agent Systems

edited by

Huaqing Li

and

Qingguo Lü

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2684 | Submission Open

Keywords: control theory and application; multi-agent systems; complex networks; industrial automation; intelligent fault detection; modelling and simulation; wireless sensor networks; multiobjective optimization; soft computing techniques; artificial intelligence; big data analytics; information processing; human interaction; computing approaches; communication mechanisms; machine learning

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

Advances in Sports Science for Training Practice: Diagnostics, Monitoring, Performance and Recovery

edited by

Dawid Koźlenia

and

Jakub Jarosz

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2599 | Submission Open

Keywords: sports performance; training monitoring; diagnostics; wearable technology; velocity-based training; post-activation performance enhancement; injury prevention; fatigue management; recovery; movement analysis; artificial intelligence; digital technologies for sport

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

Research and Applications of Artificial Neural Network

edited by

Youness El Hamzaoui

and José Alfredo Hernández Pérez

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2475 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial neural networks; machine learning; predictive modeling; backpropagation algorithms; environmental engineering; process optimization; statistical validation; computational intelligence; pattern recognition; real-time monitoring

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

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Dental and Craniofacial Research

edited by

Kathrin Becker

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2442 | Submission Open

Keywords: anatomic landmark detection and/or analyses; automated treatment planning; prediction of treatment success; treatment failure; and/or treatment duration; prognosis of growth and development; evaluation of treatment outcomes; image segmentation; object detection; and object classification; detection of pathologies; big data; artificial neural networks; deep learning; machine learning; convolutional neural networks; fuzzy logic

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Antenna Technology for 5G Communication

edited by

Ming-An Chung

and

Meng-Shiuan Pan

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2437 | Submission Open

Keywords: antenna technology; 5G communication; millimeter-wave; MIMO; beamforming; IoT; smart antennas; wireless networks; antenna design; advanced materials

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

Vehicles Challenges

edited by

Domenico Mazzeo

and

Aleš Dittrich

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2412 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle challenges; automotive industry; autonomous driving; electrification; electric vehicles; intelligent transportation systems; safety; cybersecurity; sustainability; legislation; powertrains; internal combustion engines; alternative fuels; hydrogen; biofuels; synthetic fuels

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

edited by Jun Zhang and Weijie Yu

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2355 | Submission Open

Keywords: genetic algorithms; evolutionary computation; optimization; artificial intelligence; real-world applications

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

Building-Energy Simulation in Building Design

edited by

Jaewook Lee

and

Jong-Won Lee

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2355 | Submission Open

Keywords: building-energy simulation; building information modeling (BIM); energy-efficient building design; machine learning in energy modeling; sustainable building design; design automation for energy efficiency

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

Advances in Milk and Dairy Technology

edited by

Aneta Brodziak

and

Jolanta Król

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2347 | Submission Open

Keywords: milk production; milk quality; bioactive compounds; milk processing; dairy products; innovative dairy technology; traditional products; whey

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

Microelectronic Engineering: Devices, Materials, and Technologies

edited by

Hu He

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2203 | Submission Open

Keywords: microelectronic engineering; transistor technologies; lithography; optoelectronics; process technologies; advanced packaging; semiconductor equipment; microelectronic reliability; artificial intelligence for microelectronics

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

Application of Acoustics as a Structural Health Monitoring Technology

edited by

Gbanaibolou Jombo

and

Yu (Eve) Zhang

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2157 | Submission Open

Keywords: sound; acoustic emission; ultrasonics; acousto-ultrasonics; guided waves; machine learning; artificial intelligence; sensor technologies

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

Natural and Artificial Fibers in Geoengineering Applications

edited by

Małgorzata Jastrzębska

,

Gabriele Chiaro

, Krystyna Kazimierowicz-Frankowska and

Amin Soltani

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2062 | Submission Open

Keywords: soft soil improvement; plant fibers; animal fibers; mineral fibers; artificial fibers; natural waste materials; biodegradability; biocomposites; recycling; sustainability in geotechnics; environmental geotechnics; modeling of soil/non-traditional additive mixtures; laboratory procedures; experimental testing; mechanical and physical parameters of soil– fiber mixtures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Health-Related Physical Activity for People with Parkinson’s Disease

edited by

Jaroslaw Cholewa

and Joanna Cholewa

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2038 | Submission Open

Keywords: Parkinson’ s disease; health-related physical activity; therapeutic tourism; quality of life; well-being; physical activity interventions; accessible travel; case studies; best practices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

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