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Advances in Intelligent Processing, Data Mining and Microsystems
edited by , Tao Yang and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 88 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent processing; data mining; deep learning optimization; pattern recognition; smart algorithm; microsystems; chiplet integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
New Trends in Artificial Intelligence-Based Cybersecurity
edited by Juan Lopez Jr., Luke Koch and Sean Oesch
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); cybersecurity; threat detection; threat intelligence; predictive security; incident response; recovery; security for AI; AI-generated malware; emerging AI techniques; large language models (LLMs); reinforcement learning (RL); explainable AI (XAI); ethics; regulation; legal issues
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Image Processing for Intelligent Electronics in Multimedia Systems
edited by , Simying Ong and Bingwen Feng
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing; intelligent electronics; multimedia systems; multimedia security and privacy; computer vision; deep learning; edge computing; multimodal data fusion; AI-driven solutions; emerging applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Emerging Applications of Data Analytics in Intelligent Systems
edited by Xionghu Zhong and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: data analysis; artificial intelligence; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Next-Generation Machine Learning Models for Predictive Analytics in Condition Monitoring
edited by , Xiangfeng Zhang, Kun Zhang and Kai Zhang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: condition monitoring; industrial maintenance; predictive analytics; next-generation machine learning; uncertainty analysis; fault diagnosis; remaining useful life (RUL) prediction; real-time decision-making; dynamics; signal processing; digital twins
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Recent Applications of Object Recognition and Target Detection in Computer Vision
edited by , Deqiang Ouyang and Xiangpeng Li
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 84 | Submission Open
Keywords: object recognition; target detection; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Advances in AI-Augmented E-Learning for Smart Cities submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open
Keywords: E-learning; artificial Intelligence; smart city; smart education; immersive education; AR and VR in e-learning; virtual lab; digital twin; data mining; process mining; learning analytics; formal methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Advances in Modulation, Control and Applications of Grid-Connected Power Converters
edited by , Gaowen Liang, and Shunliang Wang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy integration; energy storage systems; flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS); high-voltage DC (HVDC) technologies; solid-state transformers; electric vehicle charging infrastructure; multilevel converters; grid-connected power converters; efficiency optimization; reliability enhancement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Machine Learning and Cybersecurity—Trends and Future Challenges, 2nd Edition
edited by Wajeb Gharibi
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; cybersecurity; anomaly detection; behavior analysis; adversarial machine learning; transparent models; digital security; threat detection; ethical compliance; regulatory compliance; cyber threats; resilient models; data security; intrusion detection; network security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Memristor Device and Memristive System
edited by and Max Talanov
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open
Keywords: memristive devices; memristive neural networks; theoretical models; neuromorphic computing; memristive neurons and synapses; spiking neural networks; memristive circuits; bio-inspired algorithms; nonlinear circuits; in-memory computing; complex networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microelectronics)
Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Smart Agriculture
edited by , , Xuan Chen, Yu Huang and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); Internet of Things (IoT); machine learning; smart agriculture; sensors networks; wireless communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Next-Generation IoT and Cloud Computing for Intelligent and Transformative Healthcare submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 72 | Submission Open
Keywords: internet of things (IoT); cloud computing; intelligent healthcare; edge and fog computing; wearable and sensing; AI and machine learning; data analytics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Data Mining and Recommender Systems
edited by , Lianxi Wang and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: multimodal learning; deep learning for recommendation; graph mining; privacy-preserving recommendation; fairness in recommendation; recommendation system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
AI-Driven Energy Optimization, Diagnosis, and Control for Next-Generation Electric Vehicles
edited by , and Xuan Zhao
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: electric vehicles; energy management strategies; battery management systems; fault diagnosis and prognosis; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Microgrids with Energy Storage: Advanced Control and Power Conversion Technologies
edited by Mehdi Baharizadeh, and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open
Keywords: microgrids; coordinated control; grid-forming converter; cybersecurity; converter topology; energy island; storage technologies; hardware-in-the-loop testing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Risk Assessment and Reliability-Centered Optimization for Asset Management and Maintenance Strategies in Renewable-Pentrated Power Systems
edited by , and Lijing Zhang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open
Keywords: risk assessment; reliability-centered maintenance; asset management; maintenance optimization; renewable-penetrated power systems; predictive maintenance; grid resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems for Big Data
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open
Keywords: cloud computing; distributed systems; big data; blockchain; distributed machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Next-Generation Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Complex Data, Vision, and Intelligent Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning (ML); deep learning (DL); computer vision; image segmentation; feature extraction; explainable AI (XAI)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Next-Generation Wireless Networks: Advances in 5G, 6G, and Broadband Communication
edited by Hao Wu and Miao Hu
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital twins; space– air– ground– sea integrated network; intelligent management toward B5G and 6G; semantic communications; terahertz and visible light communications; physical-layer security; intrinsic security; and zero-trust architectures; integrated communications; sensing; and computing; reconfigurable antennas; reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS); and flexible antennas; 5G/6G-enabled vertical industries; artificial intelligence in next-generation wireless communications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Practical Implementations in Cybersecurity
edited by , Jian Yang and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; large language model; cybersecurity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Advances in Radar Signal Processing Technology and Its Application
edited by Ye Yuan, , , and Peng Zhang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: radar signal processing; target detection and estimation; clutter and jamming suppression; distributed and MIMO radar; adaptive waveform design; machine learning in radar; low probability of intercept (LPI); sensor fusion; electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM); radar applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
The New Technologies and Applications on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent transportation systems (ITS); new technologies in ITS; deep learning; artificial intelligence in transport; ITS solutions; smart traffic and infrastructure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Advances and Challenges in Static and Dynamic Wireless Charging
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open
Keywords: wireless power transfer; wireless charging; inductive power transfer; electrical vehicles; capacitive power transfer
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Intelligent Control of Robots: Advances, Techniques, and Future Applications
edited by Zhiwei Cui, Yisen Huang, and Mingxue Cai
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 56 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent robotics control; autonomous systems; adaptive control; human-robot interaction; machine learning in robotics; robotic sensing; neural networks; fuzzy logic; multi-robot systems; industrial robots
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Advanced Research in Electromagnetic Compatibility Techniques for Electronic Systems
edited by , Da Li, Ling Zhang and Ran Zhao
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 56 | Submission Open
Keywords: EMC/EMI; SI/PI; shielding; electromagnetic absorbers; computational electromagnetics; machine learning; EMC measurement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Memristors—Building Blocks of Future Electronics: 6G, AI, and Beyond
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open
Keywords: memristor; neuromorphic computing; artificial synapse; nanoelectronic device; flexible memristor
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microelectronics)
Next-Generation Intelligent Image Processing
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 54 | Submission Open
Keywords: image segmentation; image denoising; object recognition; deep learning; large model; machine learning; emotion recognition; semantic generation; video generation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Network and Cybersecurity
edited by , and Qin Wang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: blockchain; artificial intelligence; next-generation networks; cybersecurity; privacy; 5G; 6G; vehicular networks; IoT; edge computing; trust management; adversarial robustness; privacy-preserving machine learning; secure data sharing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Optimization and Control of Renewable Power Systems
edited by , Ming Du and Jianguo Zhou
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: load frequency control; data-driven control; coordinated control; optimization strategy; renewable power systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Deep Learning Aided Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networks
edited by , , Weihua Jiang, and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open
Keywords: modulation techniques; communication theory and technology; wireless communication and networks; channel estimation and equalization; architectures; methods; and protocol stacks of communication networking; resource management; allocation; and scheduling; physics-informed deep learning; integrated sensing and communications; doubly selective channels
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Emerging Trends in IoT/Blockchain Security and Privacy
edited by and Peng Sun
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 52 | Submission Open
Keywords: IoT security; blockchain privacy; decentralized identity; secure smart contracts; lightweight cryptography; intrusion detection in IoT; privacy-preserving data sharing; secure edge and fog computing; cross-layer threat modeling; consensus protocol security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Broadband Mobile Communication System
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open
Keywords: wireless body area networks (WBANs); passive Internet of Things (pIoT); healthcare Internet of Things
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Grid-Forming Converters (GFCs) in Power Systems
edited by Zhou He, Jiayang Wu and Fei Deng
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open
Keywords: grid-forming converters; low-inertia systems; renewable integration; microgrids; power electronics; system stability; inverter control; islanded systems; frequency regulation; voltage support
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
Advances in Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing and Recognition
edited by Homayoon Beigi
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 50 | Submission Open
Keywords: speech recognition; speaker recognition; acoustic and event detection; signal recognition; acoustic processing; acoustic modeling; acoustic feature extraction; speaker diarization; music mode recognition; automatic music transcription
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Advances in Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Forecasting
edited by and Zhiwen Shao
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open
Keywords: graph neural networks; spatiotemporal forecasting; dynamic and heterogeneous graph learning; scalable training and inference on large graphs; explainability and information capacity; physics-informed GNN architectures; cyber-physical system applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence and Nonlinear Control in Autonomous Vehicles
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 48 | Submission Open
Keywords: autonomous vehicles; artificial intelligence; nonlinear control; intelligent transportation systems; robust and adaptive control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
Future Prospects of Wireless Transmission Based on Engineering Electrical Electronic and Telecommunications: 2nd Edition
edited by and Muhammad Ikram Ashraf
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open
Keywords: trends in 5G and beyond; wireless communication; massive MIMO; Internet of Things; URLLC
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Mobile and Internet of Things Security
edited by , Ola Karajeh and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open
Keywords: mobile security; IoT security; cybersecurity; network security; privacy preservation; artificial intelligence in security; blockchain security; edge computing security; malware detection; HPC security; secure communication protocols; authentication systems; quantum security; vulnerability assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Networks)
Automatic Optimization and Design of Integrated Circuits for High Performance and Low Power
edited by and Wei Liu
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open
Keywords: integrated circuit design; automatic optimization; high performance; low power; high reliability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Computer Vision Based on Generative AI Models
edited by , De-Yuan Huang and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open
Keywords: generative models for vision; diffusion models; vision-language models
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
Antenna Design and Performance Enhancement Techniques and Applications in Wireless Systems
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open
Keywords: antenna design; metamaterials and metasurfaces; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS); MIMO and beamforming; 5G/6G wireless systems; Internet of Things (IoT) antennas; performance enhancement; millimeter-wave and terahertz antennas; compact and wideband antennas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
Applications of RFID in Robotics
edited by , Linqing Gui, and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open
Keywords: RFID; robotics; localization and mapping; sensing; navigation; human– robot interaction; service robotics; smart manufacturing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Autonomous Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open
Keywords: autonomous navigation; path planning; motion planning; simultaneous localization and mapping; perception; decision-making
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles)
Renewable Energy Power Generation and Integrated Energy Networks
edited by Yang Li and
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy; multi-energy complementary systems; coordination of power grids and power plants; operation optimization; uncertainty analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
Computer Vision in Robotic Manipulation
edited by , Jie Chen and Hui Zhang
submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: computer vision for robotics; vision-based robotic manipulation; grasp detection and planning; deep learning for robotic perception; visual servoing and control; multimodal sensor fusion; real-time object recognition and tracking; human– robot collaboration; intelligent manufacturing automation; vision-guided autonomous systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Advances in Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open
Keywords: robust machine learning; federated learning; domain adaptation; temporal pattern analysis; model interpretability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Enhancing Cybersecurity: Advanced Attack Detection and Defense Techniques
edited by Zhida Li and Zakaria Alomari
submission deadline 16 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2638 | Submission Open
Keywords: cybersecurity; cyber attacks; advanced detection techniques; machine learning; intrusion detection systems; security analytics; IoT security; zero-trust security; blockchain security; communication networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Integrated Circuits for Implantable Electronics and Medical Applications
edited by and Massimo Barbaro
submission deadline 20 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 37 | Submission Open
Keywords: analog integrated circuits; CMOS; BiCMOS; implantable electronics; wearable electronics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
Point Cloud Data Processing and Applications submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17822 | Submission Open
Keywords: LiDAR; classification; 3D modeling; machine learning; feature extraction; monitoring; digital twin (DT); point cloud; mapping; digital terrain model (DTM); digital surface model (DSM); geographic information system (GIS); city information modeling (CIM); building information modeling (BIM); land information modeling (LIM); tree information modeling (TIM); rule-based; accuracy assessment; sensor; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
Advanced DC-DC Converter Topology Design, Control, Application
edited by Hongjian Lin, Heshou Wang, Dong Xie, Yuanxi Chen and Xiangyu Meng
submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10114 | Submission Open
Keywords: DC-DC converters; renewable energy; power systems; electric vehicles; converter topologies; system modulation; control; energy efficiency
(This special issue belongs to the Section Power Electronics)
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