AI-Driven Data Analytics and Mining

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 639

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School of Social Sciences, Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550324 Sibiu, Romania
Interests: data analysis; databases; big data; data mining; data science; cybernetics; big data analytics; machine learning; deep learning; sentiment analysis; text mining

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Department of Finance, Information Systems and Business Modeling, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara, 300223 Timisoara, Romania
Interests: big data analytics; data science; data mining; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; reinforcement learning; NLP; sentiment analysis; cybersecurity

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Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 550324 Sibiu, Romania
Interests: cybernetics; big data analytics; machine learning; deep learning; sentiment analysis; text mining

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid growth of data volumes and complexity has made AI-driven analytics and mining indispensable for extracting actionable knowledge. By integrating cybernetic feedback principles with advanced machine learning and sentiment analysis techniques, researchers can develop adaptive, self-regulating systems that learn from dynamic environments and human inputs. This convergence addresses critical challenges in processing high-velocity, heterogeneous data streams while ensuring robust decision support and system autonomy.

This Special Issue of Electronics welcomes contributions that advance AI-driven data analytics and mining, with a focus on cybernetics, big data analytics, and sentiment analysis. We seek original research, reviews, and case studies highlighting novel algorithms, system architectures, and end-to-end pipelines—from data acquisition and integration through to explainable modeling and deployment. Submissions should align with the journal’s mission to foster innovative, open access dissemination of impactful AI solutions.

Application scenarios of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Cybernetic control architectures for adaptive mining.
  • Scalable big data preprocessing and feature-learning frameworks.
  • Sentiment-aware text and social media analytics.
  • IoT-enabled data mining applications.
  • Cybersecurity and privacy maintenance.
  • Industrial automation and cybernetic control in Industry 4.0.
  • Big data analytics in finance and accounting.
  • Sentiment analysis and social media intelligence.
  • Life sciences and healthcare monitoring.
  • Internet of Things (IoT) deployments.
  • Management and marketing optimization.
  • Environmental monitoring and sustainability.

I/We look forward to hearing from you.

Prof. Dr. Marian-Pompiliu Cristescu
Dr. Claudiu Brandas
Dr. Dumitru Alexandru Mara
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • AI-driven data analytics
  • data mining
  • cybernetics
  • big data analytics
  • stream mining
  • concept-drift adaptation
  • explainable AI

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Design and Performance Evaluation of LLM-Based RAG Pipelines for Chatbot Services in International Student Admissions
by Maksuda Khasanova Zafar kizi and Youngjung Suh
Electronics 2025, 14(15), 3095; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14153095 - 2 Aug 2025
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Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. This study focuses on the development and evaluation of a domain-specific AI chatbot designed to support international student admissions by leveraging LLM-based RAG pipelines. We implement [...] Read more.
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. This study focuses on the development and evaluation of a domain-specific AI chatbot designed to support international student admissions by leveraging LLM-based RAG pipelines. We implement and compare multiple pipeline configurations, combining retrieval methods (e.g., Dense, MMR, Hybrid), chunking strategies (e.g., Semantic, Recursive), and both open-source and commercial LLMs. Dual evaluation datasets of LLM-generated and human-tagged QA sets are used to measure answer relevancy, faithfulness, context precision, and recall, alongside heuristic NLP metrics. Furthermore, latency analysis across different RAG stages is conducted to assess deployment feasibility in real-world educational environments. Results show that well-optimized open-source RAG pipelines can offer comparable performance to GPT-4o while maintaining scalability and cost-efficiency. These findings suggest that the proposed chatbot system can provide a practical and technically sound solution for international student services in resource-constrained academic institutions. Full article
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