Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: deep learning; explainable artificial intelligence; computer vision; large language models; metaheuristics
Interests: optimization; energy; renewable energy; machine learning; deep learning
Interests: artificial intelligence; neural processing unit (NPU); Internet-of-Things; embedded systems
Interests: swarm robotics; swarm intelligence; computational intelligence; embedded systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming a wide range of domains through intelligent automation, adaptive systems, and data-driven solutions. In particular, fields such as evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and deep learning are opening new frontiers in the design, optimization, and deployment of complex systems. Each of these AI paradigms—rooted in nature-inspired computation and large-scale data processing—offers powerful tools for solving complex, nonlinear, and dynamic problems across various engineering domains. This Special Issue aims to showcase recent advances, emerging trends, and innovative applications specifically within, or at the convergence of, these research areas. We welcome contributions that explore new theoretical models, hybrid AI frameworks, software/hardware implementations, and real-world applications where AI techniques improve the performance, efficiency, or intelligence of various systems (e.g., renewable energy, microelectronics, precision agriculture, and drug discovery, among others). Particularly encouraged are submissions that demonstrate practical impacts in areas such as computer vision, large language models, explainable AI, embedded systems, smart sensors, edge AI, autonomous robotics, swarm robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Drones (IoD), and Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT). Studies integrating evolutionary optimization or swarm-based heuristics with deep learning architectures—such as convolutional, recurrent, or transformer-based neural networks—are especially welcome. We invite original research articles, comprehensive reviews, short communications, and case studies from academia and industry alike. The goal is to foster cross-disciplinary innovation and to demonstrate how AI is driving the advancement and transformation of applications across diverse domains.
We look forward to your valuable contributions to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Clemente Thom de Souza
Prof. Dr. Viviana Cocco Mariani
Prof. Dr. Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Aylon
Prof. Dr. Nadia Nedjah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- applications of artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- computer vision
- large language models
- explainable artificial intelligence
- optimization
- evolutionary computation
- swarm intelligence
- embedded systems
- internet of things (IoT)
- robotics
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