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Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Emil Pricop

and

Khalil El-Khatib

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; cybersecurity; AI-based cybersecurity; AI-based threat detection; threat intelligence; AI-based malware detection; adversarial machine learning; adversarial artificial intelligence; robust and reliable AI-based cybersecurity

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

Aerotech, Aerospace and Security Applications in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Support for Industry 4.0 and Green Technology

edited by

Miroslav Kelemen

Peter Korba

and

Imre Felde

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18138 | Submission Open

Keywords: aeronautics and aerospace technologies; engines; avionics; sensors; energies; and fuels; IT; applied informatics and applied mathematics; stochastic and deterministic modeling; expert models; simulation; airport design; aircraft design; maintenance; services; and decarbonization; UAV/UAS; photogrammetry; aeronautics and aerospace education and training; human factors and performance; aeronautical meteorology; skydiving and testing; reliability; safety and security; risk-assessment in transport and critical infrastructure; information safety in transport and critical infrastructure; human-centric approach to artificial intelligence in aeronautics and aerospace

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

Computational Hydraulics: Theory, Methods and Applications

edited by

Di Zhang

Mingfu Guan

and Yakun Liu

submission deadline 26 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

Keywords: engineering hydraulics; urban hydraulics; river dynamics; environmental hydraulics; ecological hydraulics; computational hydraulics; fishway hydraulics; hydraulic structure; vegetation flow; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Feature Review Papers in Section Applied Industrial Technologies

edited by

Antonella Petrillo

and

Alexandre Carvalho

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: applied industrial technologies; manufacturing processes; automation and robotics; materials science; industrial IoT; smart manufacturing; industrial innovation; emerging technologies in industry; advanced production systems; Industry 4.0; ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC); massive machine-type communication (mMTC); cyber-physical production systems (CPPS); network slicing for distributed parallel processing

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

Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Technologies, Materials and Their Applications

edited by

Sangmo Kim

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1760 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar cell; energy conversion; photovoltaic (PV)-related technologies

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

Big-Data-Driven Advances in Smart Maintenance and Industry 4.0

edited by

Vicente González-Prida

and

Adolfo Crespo Márquez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; critical infrastructure; digital twins; digitalisation; facility management; Industry 4.0; information and data assets; life cycle management; maintenance; performance and condition of physical assets; risk and reliability analysis; servitization; smart factory; standards; sustainability

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

Advanced Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering

edited by

Wongi S. Na

and Seungseop Jin

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural health monitoring (SHM); sensing technology; data acquisition; machine learning; damage detection; infrastructure safety; real-time monitoring; non-destructive testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Green Technologies and Applications

edited by

Sergio Correia

and

João Pedro Matos-Carvalho

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy and green technology; green smart cities; green technologies and applications; green communication systems and networks; artificial intelligence for green IoT; applied mathematical modeling in renewable energy; ai application to sustainable technologies:; education and green energy; economics and green energy

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

Applications of Wearable Sensors and Image Processing in Assistive and Rehabilitative Technologies

edited by