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New Generation of Intelligent Transit Systems: Theory and Applications
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submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 31818 | Submission Open
Keywords: Smart mobility; smart cities; Multimodal transport; Public transport; Maas (mobility as a service); Transit system simulation; Transit planning; Transit system management; Transit operations control; Intelligent transport system; Traveler advisor; Methodologies; practices; and policies for achieving behavioral change; Real time transit performance forecast
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Emerging Research in Urban Computing and Intelligent Transport Systems submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 54937 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban computing; intelligent transportation systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Applications and Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
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submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 27406 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural language processing in current applications; natural language understanding for future applications; question answering; sentiment analysis from social media; chatbots and smart assistants; email filters; text summarization; customer support and analytics for market intelligence; online search engine and autocomplete; recruitment and hiring; auto-correct and next-word prediction; spell and grammar checking; text extraction and classification; image and facial recognition for/from captions; nlp for multimedia self-learning language tools
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Security and Privacy Approaches Against Cyber Threats: Innovations, Challenges, and Practical Solutions submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1550 | Submission Open
Keywords: cybersecurity; privacy; cyber threat mitigation; defensive strategies; threat intelligence; data protection; incident response; real-world implementations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 52645 | Submission Open
Keywords: Machine translation systems and deployment; Analysis of machine translation models and approaches; Evaluation of machine translation quality; Machine translation quality estimation; Corpora and other resources for machine translation; Language technologies for machine translation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Real-World Applications of Machine Learning Techniques submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 23 articles | Viewed by 50487 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; medicine; education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Technoeconomics of the Internet of Things
edited by , Mara Nikolaidou and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 22372 | Submission Open
Keywords: Internet of Things; technoeconomics; technoeconomic assessment; business models; IoT costing; IoT pricing; risk analysis; economic efficiency; decision support; market mechanisms; data analytics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Biomedical Natural Language Processing and Text Mining submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14431 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomedical text classification; biomedical information retrieval; biomedical named entity recognition and normalization (linking); biomedical relation and event extractions; biomedical literature-based discovery; biomedical text summarization; biomedical question answering; pre-trained language models for biomedical NLP; biomedical machine translation; BioNLP applications; BioNLP resources and evaluation.
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
edited by , Samuel Silva and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8515 | Submission Open
Keywords: human– computer interaction; multimodal interaction; fusion of modalities; fission; multi-device application; assistants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
edited by Marco Guazzone, and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3272 | Submission Open
Keywords: decision support systems; artificial intelligence; data-driven AI; knowledge representation; explainable AI DSS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Hardware Security and Trust, 2nd Edition
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2691 | Submission Open
Keywords: secure hardware; physical attacks; IC trust
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
Application of Machine Learning in Human Activity Recognition
edited by Yang Gao and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2682 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning techniques and architectures for HAR; sensor fusion and data preprocessing methods for activity recognition; real-time activity recognition systems and their applications; transfer learning and domain adaptation in HAR; privacy-preserving ML methods in activity recognition; multimodal data integration for robust activity recognition; HAR in healthcare (elderly care; rehabilitation); sports analytics and performance monitoring; security; and smart environments; challenges and solutions in large-scale deployment of har systems; case studies and real-world implementations of ML-based HAR systems; large language models (LLMs) for interpreting and enhancing HAR data; integration of llms for real-time decision-making and activity prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Information Technology in Society
edited by Yen Kheng Tan and Yunhao Jiang
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1959 | Submission Open
Keywords: information technologies; artificial intelligence (AI); generative models; societal interaction; knowledge dissemination; misinformation; human-AI interaction; ethical implications; cyberspace; authority and decision-making; social media; digital INCLUSIVITY; sacred in digital contexts; AI governance; digital ecosystems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Big Data Analytics, Decision-Making Models, and Their Applications
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1039 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-criteria decision-making; optimization techniques and applications; big data and data mining; analytic hierarchy process and decision making; technology adoption and decision model; applications in digital engineering decision making; semantic-based technology trend analysis; forecast analysis of technology trend
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Data-Driven Decision-Making in Intelligent Systems submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 948 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent systems; data analytics; machine learning; decision-making; information systems for data-driven decision-making
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Systems)
Systems Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2nd Edition
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 925 | Submission Open
Keywords: systems engineering methodologies; systems engineer; knowledge engineering; knowledge management process; knowledge and expert systems; system life cycle; systems design and development; systems engineering and project management; validation and verification processes; requirement management; modeling and simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
AI and Data Analysis in Smart Cities
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; data analysis; smart cities; urban ryhthms; spatial analysis; sustainable cities and communities; spatial computing; urban analytics and GeoAI
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Computational Modeling in Bioengineering
edited by Ge He, Lei Fan and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 342 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational models for biological tissues; machine learning applications; medical device simulation; systems biology and network modeling; image-based modeling and analysis; tissue growth and remodeling; drug delivery modelling; mechanobiological processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Digital Systems in Higher Education
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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital systems education; emerging technologies in education; novel pedagogical methods; artificial intelligence in education; FPGA-based learning; digital signal processing; reconfigurable computing; project-based learning; simulation tools in education
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Processes)
Emerging Research in Optimization Algorithms in the Era of Big Data submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12927 | Submission Open
Keywords: optimization algorithms; big data analytics; machine learning algorithms; metaheuristic approaches; evolutionary algorithms; genetic programming; swarm intelligence; nature-inspired optimization techniques; parallel and distributed optimization algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence and Games Science in Education submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 24 articles | Viewed by 184140 | Submission Open
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence in Education; AIED applications and tools; adaptive learning; AIED digital pedagogies; AIED assessment and feedback; AIED ethics and culture; AIED competencies and skills
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Blockchain, Technology and Its Application
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submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 30114 | Submission Open
Keywords: blockchain; IIoT (industrial IoT); privacy and security; data management; latency and scalability; sustainability; resilience; big data; artificial intelligence; bitcoin
(This special issue belongs to the Section Internet of Things (IoT))
Advances in Data and Network Sciences Applied to Computational Social Science submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 29051 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational social science; data science; network science; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Systems)
Next-Generation Programming Education: Integrating Generative AI and Collaborative Tools for Cutting-Edge Learning Experiences submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 24210 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptive learning systems; coding assessment techniques; computer programming; collaborative tools; gamification; generative AI; learning analytics; personalized learning in programming
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Systems)
Machine Learning Approaches for Imbalanced Domains: Emerging Trends and Applications
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submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 20423 | Submission Open
Keywords: data mining and knowledge discovery; machine learning; deep learning; imbalance learning; case studies and real-world applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Signal Processing and Machine Learning, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4960 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Second Edition of Advances in Wireless Communications Systems submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2556 | Submission Open
Keywords: network protocol and resources allocation; artificial intelligence; pervasive communications; security; RFs enabling 6G; optical wireless communications; smart city applications; healthcare applications; industrial applications; Internet of Things
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Emerging Research in Knowledge Management and Innovation
edited by Evangelos Markopoulos, Jussi Kantola and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1332 | Submission Open
Keywords: knowledge management; innovation management; knowledge management applications and case studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Machine Translation Quality Estimation: Advances and Emerging Challenges
edited by , Frédéric Blain and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 579 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine translation; quality estimation for MT; low-resource languages; explainability in AI; large language models; automatic post-editing; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Computer Architecture and User Interfaces submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open
Keywords: user experience (UX); usability engineering and human– computer inter-action (HCI); designing tools and methods to measure user experience and usability; standardization of UX metrics; multi-agent voice assistant systems; voice assistant design and personalization; privacy; security; and ethical design; cross-cultural usability and demographic studies; technological performance and application; systematic literature reviews
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Software Applications Programming and Data Security submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open
Keywords: agile software development; design patterns; programming languages; software engineering tools; software testing; application security and privacy; software security; data protection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Health Emerging Technologies
edited by Phillip Olla
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; digital health; personalized medicine; mobile health; clinical decision support; healthcare systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Applications of Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Image Processing
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 42596 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Applications of Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models
edited by Junwen Duan, Fangfang Li and Tudor Groza
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 37069 | Submission Open
Keywords: information extraction; knowledge graphs; large language model; natural language processing; healthcare applications; industry applications; data integration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Cyber Security in IoT submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 22018 | Submission Open
Keywords: IoT cybersecurity prevention and response strategies; emergent cybersecurity risks arising from IoT-enabled 5G and 6G; situation awareness of IoT environment; risk identification; assessment; and mitigation in IoT systems; security architecture and frameworks for IoT; IoT devices and protocols security; attack detection and prevention in IoT; privacy-preserving techniques in IoT; secure integration of IoT and cloud/edge computing; machine learning techniques for IoT security; secure data management approaches; security in cyber-physical systems; blockchain technologies for reliable and trustworthy IoT; threat and vulnerability analysis of IoT
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Complex Network Analysis in Security
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 13856 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex networks; communication networks; transportation networks; monitoring optimization; interception optimization; cybersecurity; knowledge graphs; ontology; threat intelligence; propagation analysis; malware analysis; static analysis; dynamic analysis; control flow graphs; data flow analysis; dependency graphs; attack graphs; forensic investigation; visualization; social networks; disinformation; fake profiles; social cascade; terrorist networks; deep learning on graphs; graph embedding; subgraph embedding; node embedding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Advanced Technologies in Intelligent Detection of Biological Information
edited by , Shanmei Liu, Fang Yang and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13255 | Submission Open
Keywords: biological information; intelligent; detection; sensor; measurement; information processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Optimization and Methodology in Software Engineering, 2nd Edition submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 13041 | Submission Open
Keywords: software engineering; software process; affect theory; continual improvement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
Machine Learning and Data Mining for User Classification submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11842 | Submission Open
Keywords: data mining; information retrieval; text analysis; data clustering; user authentication; user profiling; user classification by inherent and acquired characteristics; natural language processing; author classification; keystroke dynamics; typing pattern recognition; content classification; digital text forensics; typing behavior
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Processes)
Medical Data Visualization
edited by and Wen-Shan Jian
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4162 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced visualization techniques; large-scale data management; interactive data analysis tools; diagnostic visualization tools; visualization of treatment planning; visualization of multi-source data; visualization of electronic health records; integration of medical imaging data; visualization of genomic data; data privacy in healthcare; secure visualization of medical data; user-centered design in healthcare; accessibility in medical tools; virtual reality in medical training; augmented reality in surgical planning; real-world applications of visualization; clinical visualization tools; visualization tool scalability; high-performance visualization systems; visualization of long-term care; visualization tools for patient monitoring; resource allocation in healthcare; predictive analytics in medicine; forecasting in medical visualization; outcome prediction in healthcare
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: "Information Systems" submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1661 | Submission Open
Keywords: information systems; data management; information systems security and privacy; information management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Systems)
Disease Diagnosis Based on Medical Images and Signals
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1047 | Submission Open
Keywords: medical image analysis; medical signal processing; deep learning; transfer learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Extended Reality and Its Applications
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 682 | Submission Open
Keywords: extended reality; virtual reality; augmented reality; mixed reality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Advances in Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8119 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; explainability; transparency; accountability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
Learning and Knowledge: Theoretical Issues and Biological Applications
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submission deadline 12 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8825 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; large language models; biological knowledge representation; evolotionary systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Blockchain and AI: Innovations and Applications in ICT
edited by Purnima Murali Mohan and Pai Chet Ng
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6566 | Submission Open
Keywords: blockchain; artificial intelligence; IoT (Tnternet of Things); next-generation networks; smart homes; fintech; smart contracts; privacy and security; data management; federated learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
New Applications in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, 3rd Edition submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1657 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-criteria decision analysis; decision processes; e-learning; artificial intelligence; advanced fuzzy sets; Industry 4.0
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Exploring Traditional and AI-Driven Approaches on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Technologies submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 714 | Submission Open
Keywords: knowledge graphs; semantic web technologies; ontologies and reasoning; machine learning with ontologies and knowledge graphs; linked data and semantic data integration; natural language processing with knowledge graphs; large language models for semantic technologies; ontology and reasoning on knowledge graphs; automated construction and enrichment of knowledge graphs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Advances in Digital Learning Processes: Innovation, Ethics and Governance
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submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital learning; educational technology; innovation in education; extended reality in learning; digital learning governance; AI/XAI in learning; responsible technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Processes)
Knowledge Management, Digital Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Social Media, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15047 | Submission Open
Keywords: trust; intuition; knowledge management; corporate social responsibility
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
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