Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications: Progress, Trends and Directions
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: 2D/3D scene retrieval; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; robotics; internet of things; cloud computing; high performance computing
Interests: visual computing; computer graphics; multimedia; computer vision; machine learning; 3D object retrieval; 3D modeling; 3D scene understanding; deep learning; 3D computer vision
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have rapidly evolved into transformative technologies with profound impacts across academia, industry, and society. From natural language processing and computer vision to autonomous systems, intelligent healthcare, and smart cities, the applications of AI and ML continue to expand at an unprecedented pace. Alongside these advances, new challenges emerge, including issues of scalability, interpretability, fairness, security, and ethical deployment.
This Special Issue of Future Internet, titled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications: Progress, Trends and Directions”, aims to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share their latest findings and perspectives. We welcome contributions that explore innovative algorithms, practical implementations, and emerging application domains of AI and ML. Submissions addressing cross-cutting topics—such as responsible AI, sustainable computing, human-centered design, and integration with the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge/cloud computing—are particularly welcome.
By gathering cutting-edge research and critical insights, this Special Issue seeks to highlight both the opportunities and challenges of AI/ML applications, while identifying promising future directions. Our goal is to foster dialog that bridges theory and practice, enabling AI and ML to shape a more intelligent, trustworthy, and inclusive digital future to support the evolution of the future internet ecosystem.
Topics of Interest
The Special Issue welcomes, but is not limited to, the following themes:
- Novel AI and ML algorithms, frameworks, and architectures;
- Deep learning, reinforcement learning, and hybrid approaches;
- Explainable, interpretable, and trustworthy AI methods;
- Fairness, accountability, and ethics in AI/ML applications;
- AI/ML for Internet of Things (IoT), edge, and cloud environments;
- Intelligent systems for smart cities, healthcare, transportation, and education;
- AI-driven cybersecurity, privacy protection, and threat detection;
- Natural language processing and human–computer interaction;
- Computer vision and multimodal learning applications;
- Scalable and energy-efficient machine learning techniques;
- Human-centered AI design and collaborative intelligence;
- Emerging trends: generative AI, foundation models, and automated ML;
- Cross-disciplinary applications of AI/ML in science, engineering, and social domains.
Dr. Juefei Yuan
Dr. Bo Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- ai applications
- emerging trends
- future directions
- intelligent systems
- data-driven applications
- responsible ai
- advanced computing
- smart systems
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