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Novel Technologies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

edited by Ramon Sieira-Gil

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1059 | Submission Open

Keywords: personalized surgery; 3D virtual planning; CAD/CAM; preoperative surgical planning; tissue engineering; orthognathic surgery; maxillofacial reconstructive surgery; prelaminated flaps; facial plastic surgery; head and neck reconstructive surgery; facial palsy; minimally invasive surgery; surgical navigation

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

New Trends in Exoskeleton Robot

edited by Yali Liu, Xinyu Guan and

Subhas Mukhopadhyay

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 990 | Submission Open

Keywords: mechanical design of exoskeleton; human motion pattern recognition; gait phase recognition; human– robot coordinate control; effect evaluation of exoskeleton

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

Application of Acoustics as a Structural Health Monitoring Technology

edited by

Gbanaibolou Jombo

and

Yu (Eve) Zhang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 940 | 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)

New Horizons and Applications for Big Data Analysis and Smart Computing

edited by

Xiaobo Zhou

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 890 | Submission Open

Keywords: cloud/edge computing; mobile computing; Internet of Things

(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 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 818 | 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)

Advances in Developing Urban Resilience Through Environmental and Earth Sciences

edited by

Tiantian Gu

and

Dezhi Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 773 | 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)

Novel Insights into Optical Networks, Including Their Role in the 6G Era

edited by

Gerasimos Pagiatakis

and

Dimitris Uzunidis

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 761 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical communications; optical networks; 6G

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Antennas for Next-Generation Electromagnetic Applications

edited by

Giada M. Battaglia

Navid Ghavami

, Sabrina Zumbo, Eliana Canicattì and Eleonora Razzicchia

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 751 | Submission Open

Keywords: antenna synthesis; artificial intelligence-driven antenna design; adaptive and smart antenna arrays; antenna miniaturization and energy efficiency; biomedical antennas and wearables; deep learning-based optimization; metasurfaces and metamaterials; near-field wireless communications; integrated sensing and communications; 6G antenna systems

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

Ultra-Low-Temperature Magnetic Refrigeration Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Mechanism Research

edited by Wentao Jin and Hai-Feng Li

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 711 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-low-temperature refrigeration; magnetocaloric effect; hydrated paramagnetic salts; quantum magnets

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Techniques

edited by Jie Yang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 653 | 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)

Advanced Sensing and Processing Methods for Non-Invasive Assessment and Monitoring of Chronic Disorders

edited by

and

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 639 | Submission Open

Keywords: cardiovascular diseases; diabetes; neurological disorders; wearable sensors; camera-based systems; radar systems; radio-based sensing; smart sensing; signal processing; machine learning; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Sediment Transport and Infrastructure Scour

edited by

and

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 636 | Submission Open

Keywords: bed and bank erosion; bridge hydraulics; confluences; dam/embankment assessment; experimental investigation; field measurements; flow– vegetation– sediment interactions; fluvial hydraulics; geo-hazards; hydraulic structures; hydrodynamics; incipient motion; monitoring systems; morphodynamics; numerical modeling; reservoir sedimentation; remote sensing; scour; scour control structures; sediment transport; spur dikes; waterways

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart Energy Systems

edited by

Xueqian Fu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 636 | 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)

Atoms of Representation in Natural Language Processing

edited by

Yuval Pinter

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 611 | Submission Open

Keywords: language modeling; representation learning; word embeddings; tokenization; computational morphology; information theory; text analysis

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

Applications of Machine Learning in Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Esteban Díaz,

Tiago Filipe da Silva Miranda

and

Cheng-Yu Ku

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 610 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligence; geotechnical engineering; deep learning; underground engineering; foundation engineering; artificial neural networks; soil mechanics; rocks mechanics; geomechanics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Kinematics, Motion Planning and Control of Robotics

edited by

Mihai Crenganiş

Sever-Gabriel Racz

and

Radu-Eugen Breaz

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 602 | Submission Open

Keywords: kinematics; motion planning; robotics control; anthropomorphic robots; redundant robots; AI in robotics; fuzzy logic; neural networks; autonomous systems; multi-robot coordination; human– robot interaction; dynamic environments; real-time control; medical robotics; agricultural automation; service robotics; advanced algorithms; machine learning; collaborative robotics; innovative kinematic models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

RF/Millimeter-Wave/Sub-THz Antennas, Integrated Circuits and Systems for 5G and Beyond

edited by

Chul Woo Byeon

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 585 | Submission Open

Keywords: RF; millimeter-wave; 5G/6G; satellite; radar

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

Navigation and Positioning Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion Technology

edited by Apostolos Meliones and

Paraskevi Theodorou

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 559 | Submission Open

Keywords: smartphone sensors; assistive technology; navigation; sensor fusion algorithms; positioning accuracy; location-based services; outdoor navigation; indoor navigation; multi-modal solutions; GPS accuracy

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

Recent Developments in Endodontics and Dental Materials

edited by

Amjad Abu Hasna

and Luciane Dias De Oliveira

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 554 | Submission Open

Keywords: root canal instrumentation; biocompatibility; clinical endodontics; endodontic irrigants; intracanal medication; bioceramics; foramen transportation; foraminal morphology; obturating materials; biomaterials in endodontics; minimally invasive endodontics; regenerative endodontics; dental imaging

Recent Research on Intelligent Sensors

edited by

Marian Ion

Bogdan Firtat

and

Carmen Mihailescu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 514 | Submission Open

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

Food Polysaccharides: Chemistry, Technology and Applications

edited by Małgorzata Kapelko-Żeberska and Artur Gryszkin

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 477 | Submission Open

Keywords: food polysaccharides; food additives; food gums; dietary fiber; functional food; structure; properties; functions; application; bioactivity

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

Innovative Approaches and Tools for Healthcare and Medical Applications

edited by

Cristina Veres

and

Adrian Gligor

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 475 | 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)

Recent Advances in Embedded System Design

edited by Tomislav Matic, Zeljko Hocenski and

Ivan Aleksi

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 458 | Submission Open

Keywords: embedded system application; design optimization; microcontrollers; FPGA; power efficiency; IoT; edge computing; ML

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

Advances in Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena

edited by Mauro Luciano Baesso, Daniele Vella and

Carlos Serpa

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 427 | Submission Open

Keywords: photoacoustic and photothermal phenomena in biological and healthcare science; super-resolution imaging; ultrafast phenomena; thermophysical properties; novel methodologies; instrumentations and applications; data processing and inverse problems; extreme pulsed pressures; advances in thermoplasmonics; semiconductors; electronic and photonic bandgap materials

Cutting-Edge Technologies and Applications for Smart Grids and Microgrids

edited by

Georgios Fotis

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: AC and DC microgrid systems; digitization of the electrical grid; energy storage applications; electric vehicle integration; electrical transportation; energy efficiency and sustainability; grid management; renewable technologies; power quality; power market; smart grid cyber security

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

New Trends in Next-Generation Optical Networks

edited by Gerardo Antonio Castañón-Avila

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 394 | Submission Open

Keywords: photonic integrated circuits; CMOS photonics; coherent optics; quantum networking; photonic interconnects; bandwidth scalability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Advanced Technologies in Digital Healthcare for the Elderly

edited by

Yutaka Ishibashi

and

Konstantinos E. Psannis

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital healthcare; healthy and longevity society; digital technologies; artificial intelligence (AI); chatbots; Internet of Things (IoT); wearable devices; big data analysis; virtual reality (VR)

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

Affective Computing for Human–Computer Interactions

edited by Cristina Luna-Jiménez and

Manuel Gil-Martín

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 382 | 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)

Advances in Cable Driven Robotic Systems

edited by Riccardo Minto,

Cecilia Scoccia

and

Matteo Bottin

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open

Keywords: cable-driven robots; cable failure; end-effector recovery strategy; rehabilitation robots; motion planning; performance evaluation; cable model

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

Advanced Research in Foot and Ankle Kinematics

edited by Natalia Tovaruela-Carrión and Danilo Leonetti

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 359 | Submission Open

Keywords: foot; biomechanical phenomena; physical activity; gait analysis; instability; diagnosis; treatment; physical therapy; quality of life

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advanced Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Design and Applications

edited by

Rosaceleste Zumpano

Franco Mazzei

and

Giulia Simonetti

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 351 | Submission Open

Keywords: electrochemical sensors; wearable biosensors; nanotechnology; biofunctionalization; transduction methods; 3D printing; artificial intelligence (AI); environmental pollution; food quality control; medical diagnostics

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

Aerosol and Particle Technologies

edited by

Dong-Bin Kwak

and

Regina Duarte

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 347 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol; air quality monitoring; particle characterization; particulate matter; health impact; particle instrument development; particle separation; filtration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Applications of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics

edited by

Gianni Costa

and

Riccardo Ortale

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; data mining; bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; biomedical data; computational biology

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

Process Mining: Theory and Applications

edited by Kingsley Okoye and

Julius Nganji

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 337 | Submission Open

Keywords: process mining; event logs; process discovery; conformance checking; model enhancement; business process management; data science; predictive analytics; process optimization; artificial intelligence integration; scalability in process mining

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

Recent Advances in Exercise Physiology, Sports Nutrition, and Human Performance

edited by

Rónán Doherty

, Maria Faulkner and Lizzy Deery

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 330 | Submission Open

Keywords: exercise; sport; physical activity; exercise physiology; sports nutrition; sports performance; nutrition in exercise performance

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

Advances in Additive Manufacturing: Novel Technologies and Processes

edited by Harry Bikas,

Alessandro Salmi

, Eleonora Atzeni and

Panagiotis Stavropoulos

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open

Keywords: additive manufacturing; design for am; decision support systems; process optimization; process simulation; digital twin; process control; multi-material additive manufacturing; 4D printing; defect detection; quality control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Application Progress of Terahertz in Biology

edited by

Janez Trontelj

and Andrej Švigelj

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 317 | Submission Open

Keywords: THz waves; THz spectroscopy; X-rays; cancer diagnosis; THz images

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

Towards Industry 5.0: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Research Opportunities

edited by Loredana Cristaldi and

Flaviana Tagliaferri

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 314 | Submission Open

Keywords: Industry 5.0; digital technologies; automation; manufacturing systems

Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Functional Thin Films

edited by Hicham Bakkali

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open

Keywords: thin films; coatings; materials science; nanotechnology; optoelectronics; solar cells; sensors and biosensors; piezoelectricity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Surface Sciences and Technology)

Dynamics of Railway Vehicles

edited by

Suchao Xie

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 307 | Submission Open

Keywords: rail vehicle; railway; train

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

New Challenges in Nonlinear Vibration and Aeroelastic Analysis

edited by Wei Tian and

Zhichun Yang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear dynamic; aeroelasticity; vibration suppression; fluid– structure interaction; vibraition and sound

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

Advances in Polymeric Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications

edited by

Guadalupe G. Flores-Rojas

Felipe López-Saucedo

and

Emilio Carrillo

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 301 | Submission Open

Keywords: scaffolds; tissue engineering; medical applications; scaffold characterization; drug delivery; smart polymers; hydrogels

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

Advanced Polymer-Matrix Composite and 3D Printed Materials

edited by

Sergio Horta Muñoz

and

Evangelos Z. Kordatos

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: polymer matrix composites; additive manufacturing; mechanical response; finite element method; multi-scale analysis; multiaxial testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Design and Optimization of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machining Technology

edited by Vladimír Šimna,

Marcel Kuruc

and

Peter Pokorny

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: CNC machining; process optimization; advanced machining strategies; cutting parameters; dimensional accuracy; additive manufacturing; artificial intelligence in machining; progressive machining technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Future of Smart Greenhouses: Automation, IoT, and AI Applications

edited by Fanjia Meng and

José Miguel Molina Martínez

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart greenhouses; automation; internet of things; artificial intelligence; precision agriculture

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

Supercritical Fluid in Industrial Applications

edited by

Zhong Chen

and Kang Yang

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 292 | Submission Open

Keywords: supercritical CO2; supercritical water; fossil fuels; biomass; pollutant; materials; boiler; carbon neutral

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

Advanced Computer Vision Techniques: AI-Based Object Detection, Tracking, Surveillance and Security Applications

edited by

Deokwoo Lee

and

Yohan Park

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 269 | Submission Open

Keywords: detection; tracking; recognition; information security; computer networks; deep learning; lightweight model

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

Technical Advances in Biomass Conversion

edited by

Jens Ejbye Schmidt

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced thermochemical processes; biocatalysis; integrated biorefineries

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

Advanced Polymeric Coatings and Their Applications

edited by

Miha Steinbücher

and

Miroslav Huskić

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: polymeric coatings; paint application; sustainability; renewable raw materials; low energy use; increased productivity; functional coatings; corrosion; weathering

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

Innovations in Strategies for the Detection, Control and Elimination of Food Allergens

edited by