Applied Sciences

City Resilience to Windstorm Hazard

edited by

Zhenru Shu

,

Yun-Cheng He

and

Xiao Li

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8911 | Submission Open

Keywords: hazard evaluation; hazard mitigation strategies; wind characteristics; urban aerodynamics; wind-excited structural dynamic responses; serviceability and occupant comfort; structural safety and reliability assessment; post-event damage analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advances in AC/DC Distribution Systems with High-Penetration of Renewable Energy

edited by

Qian Xiao

and Yu Jin

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8879 | Submission Open

Keywords: AC/DC distribution systems; renewable energy; operation flexibility

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

Advances and Applications of Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

edited by

Malik Yousef

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8552 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; bioinformatics; genomics; proteomics; computational biology; systems biology; deep learning; biological data analysis; healthcare informatics; predictive modeling

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

The Applications of Laser-Based Manufacturing for Material Science

edited by

Szymon Tofil

, Yong-Wei Zhang and

Mark J. Jackson

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8415 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser micromachining; laser welding; laser cleaning; laser patterning; laser cutting; laser forming; laser treatment; laser bending; laser shaping

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

Artificial Intelligence, Security and Safety in Information Systems and Networks

edited by

Sohag Kabir

and

Ibrahim Ghafir

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8275 | Submission Open

Keywords: security; privacy; safety; reliability; information systems; cyber security; Internet of Things; intrusion detection and prevention; artificial intelligence; machine learning; blockchain

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

Assessment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment: Occurrence, Detection, Removal and Toxicity

edited by

Anna Ofrydopoulou

and

Alexandros Tsoupras

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8214 | Submission Open

Keywords: contaminants of emerging concern; high-resolution mass spectrometry; toxicity assessment; removal; non-target screening; occurrence; sample pretreatment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology in Smart Energy Systems

edited by

Hao Yu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8135 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart energy system; energy forecasting; renewable energy

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

Earthquake Prevention and Resistance in Civil Engineering

edited by

José Ramón Gaxiola Camacho

, Leandro Fleck Fadel Miguel and

Dante Tolentino

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8051 | Submission Open

Keywords: earthquake engineering; structural safety; performance-based seismic design; reliability of structures; seismic risk; ground motion selection; structural health monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

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

edited by

Deokwoo Lee

and

Yohan Park

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7586 | 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)

Advances in Food Processing Technologies: Enhancing Quality, Safety, and Sustainability

edited by

Pascal Degraeve

and

Mariya Dushkova

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7537 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced food technologies; food processing; food quality; food safety; food sustainability

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

Advances in Performance Monitoring and Anomaly Detection Across Structures and Industrial Processes

edited by

Alessandro De Luca

,

Donato Perfetto

and

Raffaele Ciardiello

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7356 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-destructive evaluation (NDE); structural health monitoring (SHM); finite element analysis

Noise and Vibration Hazards from Transportation Systems

edited by

Tomasz Figlus

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7350 | Submission Open

Keywords: noise; vibration; transportation systems; transport; environment; human; hazards; signal processing

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

Advances in Digital Information System

edited by

Anabela Mesquita

, João Vidal Carvalho and António Abreu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7301 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital information systems; generative AI; technological advancements; industry applications; commerce innovation; educational technology; empirical research; systematic literature reviews

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

Information Security: Threats and Attacks

edited by

Yue Zhang

and

Bogdan Ghita

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6846 | Submission Open

Keywords: attack exploiting; threats evaluation; attack and defense; attack and detection; vulnerability and attacks

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

Deep Learning and Its Applications in Natural Language Processing

edited by Caren Han, Josiah Poon, Siwen Luo and Yihao Ding

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6653 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; natural language processing (NLP); large language models (LLMs); multimodal models; text generation; NLP applications; financial NLP; medical NLP

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

Data-Enhanced Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and Design

edited by

Debiao Meng

and

Wei Li

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6559 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced computational methods; uncertainty quantification; physics-informed machine learning; reliability-based design optimization (RBDO); data augmentation; structural integrity modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Optimization of Advanced Nuclear Technologies and Application in the Energy Industry

edited by Juntao Liu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6372 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced nuclear technology; uranium exploration; nuclear well-logging; comprehensive nuclear energy utilization; intelligent nuclear power plant; radiometric measurement; nuclear fuel cycle; modular reactor; nuclear industry digitalization; energy industry applications

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multiagent Systems

edited by

Rakib Abdur

and

Mehmet Aydin

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6358 | Submission Open

Keywords: cooperative and competitive machine learning in multiagent systems; cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning; competitive multiagent reinforcement learning; multiagent machine learning for policy fine-tune and optimization; multiagent communication and coordination; multiagent value function approximation; transfer learning and generalization of experience; decentralized control and decision-making in multiagent systems; exploration and exploitation strategies in multiagent environments; robustness and adaptability of DRL-MAS to dynamic environments; theoretical foundations and analysis of DRL-MAS algorithms

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

Geotechnical Structure Analysis and Risk Assessment in Tunnel Engineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jianxiu Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6081 | Submission Open

Keywords: case history analysis; multi-scale geotechnical structure analysis; risk assessment of tunneling; geotechnical risk mitigation; new emerging technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Computer-Vision-Based Biomedical Image Processing

edited by

Grigorios E. Kalliatakis

and

Christos Chrysoulas

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5959 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; artificial intelligence; biomedical image processing; medical image analysis; deep learning; representation learning; computer-aided detection; anomaly detection; biomarkers; digital healthcare

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

Advancements and Applications in Reinforcement Learning

edited by Chairi Kiourt and

Dimitris Kalles

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5923 | Submission Open

Keywords: reinforcement learning; adaptive control; collaborative learning; robotics and automation; multi-agent systems; simulation; decision making; non-stationary environment.

Advances in Food Processing Technology: Enhancing Quality, Safety, and Sustainability

edited by Ayerim Hernández-Almanza,

Cristóbal Noé Aguilar González

and

Lorenzo M. Pastrana

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5590 | Submission Open

Keywords: food safety; food quality; food processing; energy efficient equipment; waste reduction; ecofriendly packaging materials; monitoring; microbial inactivation

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

Recent Advances in Reflectarray and Transmitarray Antennas

edited by

Michele Beccaria

and

Paola Pirinoli

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5548 | Submission Open

Keywords: reflectarray; transmitarray; periodic structures; 5G; 6G; additive manufacturing; metasurfaces; optimization; reconfigurable antennas; lenses

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

Advances in Vehicle Dynamics and Road Safety: Technologies, Simulations and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Edgar Sokolovskij

and

Vidas Žuraulis

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5470 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle dynamics; road safety; accidents analysis; accidents reconstruction; active safety; passive safety; traffic flows; traffic organization; dangerous goods; autonomous vehicles; human factor

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

Visible Light Communications (VLC) Networks

edited by

Pablo Palacios-Játiva

and

César Augusto Azurdia Meza

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5445 | Submission Open

Keywords: visible light communications; underwater optical wireless communications; visible light channel modeling; industrial visible light communications; visible light communication applications; IA visible light communications; experimental VLC networks; 6G visible light communications; hybrid LiFi and WiFi network; optical wireless communications; advanced signal processing in VLC; transmitter and receiver technologies for VLC

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

Latest Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

edited by

Hadi Nourizadeh

and

Roohollah Shirani Faradonbeh

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5212 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock mechanic; rock engineering; geotechnical engineering; slope stability; underground excavation; ground contreol systems; soil mechanic; advanced computational methodology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Soundscapes in Architecture and Urban Planning

edited by

Konstantinos Vogiatzis

and

Nikolas Remy

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5125 | Submission Open

Keywords: soundscape; sound quality; design; city; built environment; natural spaces

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

Innovative Approaches and Materials for Water Treatment

edited by

Ioannis Ioannidis

,

Ioannis Pashalidis

,

Dimitrios Giannakoudakis

and

Vasiliki Kinigopoulou

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4988 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; secondary pollutants; microplastics; organic pollutants; heavy metals; adsorption; desorption

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Recent Advances in Space Instruments and Sensing Technology

edited by Jurgen Vanhamel and

Jian Guo

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4964 | Submission Open

Keywords: space instrumentation; earth observation; telecommunication from space; remote sensing; space-based sensors; space exploration; space-based imaging; space data collection

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

Emerging Non-Destructive Testing Technologies: Advances and Applications

edited by

Ester D’Accardi

,

Rosa De Finis

and

Umberto Galietti

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4947 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-destructive testing (NDT); thermographic NDT; additive manufacturing defects; quantitative data analysis; machine learning in NDT; material integrity assessment

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

Applied Biomechanics for Sport Performance and Injury Rehabilitation

edited by

Francisco García-Muro San José

and Ángel Luis Rodríguez-Fernández

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4926 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport physiotherapy; sport biomechanics; injury; performance; rehabilitation

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

Technological Innovations and Tools in Dental Practice

edited by

Hee-Eun Kim

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4894 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence in dentistry; big data in dentistry; dental imaging; diagnostic tools in dentistry; digital dentistry; nanodentistry; preventive dental techniques; robotics in dental practice; tissue engineering in dentistry; wearable dental devices

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

Recent Advances and Applications of Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing

edited by

Juan Ignacio Ahuir-Torres

,

Tahsin Öpöz

and Martin Sharp

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4816 | Submission Open

Keywords: powder bed fusion; selective laser sintering; selective laser melting; direct energy deposition; spatial light modulator; material jetting; stereolithography; super isotropic alloys; mechanical properties; biomaterial; corrosion

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

Digital Design and Manufacturing: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4743 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital design; generative design; digital manufacturing; additive manufacturing; digital life-cycle; generative AI in design; digital design workflows; automated design tools; computational design; generative design; generative AI; digital design and manufacturing practice; design for additive manufacturing; design for digital manufacturing; digitalization of conventional manufacturing; sustainability

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

Technology and Organization Applied to Civil Engineering

edited by

Marzena Lendo-Siwicka

,

Roman Trach

and

Grzegorz Wrzesinski

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4661 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering; technology in civil engineering; economics in civil engineering; management in civil engineering; construction works; construction projects; the operation of building facilities; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Research on Properties of Novel Building Materials

edited by

Yue Gu

, Lin Liu and Kai Lyu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4621 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction materials; durability; low carbon; CO2 uptake; energy storage; self-sensing; artificial intelligence; nano-modified

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Animal Nutrition: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by Polyana Pizzi Rotta and

Alex Lopes da Silva

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4529 | Submission Open

Keywords: animal nutrition; feed additives; nutrient metabolism; gut health; feed efficiency; precision feeding; sustainable livestock production; functional ingredients; climate-smart nutrition; microbiome; digital agriculture; ruminants; monogastrics; aquafeed; feed innovation

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

Applications of Thin Films and Their Physical Properties

edited by

Marilou Cadatal Raduban

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4509 | Submission Open

Keywords: thin film fabrication; thin film characterization; thin film modelling; thin film applications; surfaces and interfaces; nanocomposite thin films; nanoparticles; solar energy conversion; catalysis; magnetics and magneto-optics; electronics; optics; and opto-electronics

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

Remote Sensing Technology in Landslide and Land Subsidence—2nd Edition

edited by

Jiewei Zhan

,

Wu Zhu

and

Qing Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4477 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; landslide; land subsidence; hazard detection; risk scenarios

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

New Perspectives in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

edited by

Víctor Fernández

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4458 | Submission Open

Keywords: interoperabiity; transformers; pretrained models; multilingual NLP; bias and fairness; explainability; reasoning; generative models; few-shot learning; multimodal learning; smartcity; AI

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

Trends and Prospects in Software Security

edited by Zhanyong Tang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4397 | Submission Open

Keywords: system and software security; artificial intelligence; information security; privacy

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

Application of Nanomaterials in the Field of Photocatalysis

edited by

Alejandro Pérez-Larios

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4380 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; nanomaterials; semiconductor catalysts; environmental remediation; hydrogen generation; water splitting; CO₂ reduction; visible light photocatalysis; metal oxide nanoparticles; photocatalytic efficiency

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

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mechanics

edited by

Zhongwen Yue

and Hongze Zhao

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4363 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock mechanics; intelligent mining; lithologic identification; artificial intelligence; data-driven models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Engineering Groundwater and Groundwater Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by

Jianxiu Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4305 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; engineering construction; mechanism analysis; control technology; case history

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Technical Advances In and Applications of Low-Cost/Power Sensors

edited by

Hicham Klaina

and

Peio Lopez-Iturri

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3995 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-cost sensors; low-power sensors; wireless technologies; smart cities; 5G; artificial intelligence (AI); virtual reality (VR); augmented reality (AR); Internet of Things (IoT); sensor networks; energy-efficient systems

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

IoT and Edge Computing for Smart Infrastructure and Cybersecurity

edited by

Kai Peng

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3918 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); edge computing; smart infrastructure; cybersecurity; data privacy; intelligent transportation; industrial automation; real-time data processing; AI-driven analytics; blockchain security

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

New Developments in Smart Farming Applied in Sustainable Agriculture, 2nd Edition

edited by

Katarzyna Pentoś

,

Tomasz Wojciechowski

and

Gniewko Niedbała

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3911 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart farming; precision agriculture; precision livestock; precision horticulture; digital agriculture; remote sensing; internet of things; data analysis; sustainable agriculture; traceability; supply chain; artificial neural networks; machine learning

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

Mechanical Fault Diagnosis and Signal Processing

edited by

Juan Jose Saucedo-Dorantes

and

Miguel Delgado-Prieto

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3771 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent fault detection; high-resolution signal processing; noise elimination and feature extraction; non-linear operating conditions; electromechanical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Advanced GNSS Technologies: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications

edited by