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Data-Driven Modeling, Control, Optimization, and Decision-Making in Intelligent Systems
edited by Chien-Yi Huang and Amirhossein Nafei
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open
Keywords: data-driven modeling; intelligent systems; control systems; optimization; decision-making; machine learning; artificial intelligence; big data analytics; predictive modeling; automation; cyber– physical systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
DevOps and Its Role in Software Engineering
edited by Saima Rafi
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open
Keywords: software engineering; software development; DevSecOps; MLOps; CI/CD
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Systems)
Magnetic Resonance Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction Techniques
edited by , , and Hongfu Sun
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); MR data acquisition; image reconstruction techniques; accelerated MRI; advanced reconstruction algorithms; artifact reduction; artificial intelligence in MRI; high-resolution imaging; quantitative imaging; multimodal imaging; functional imaging; clinical applicability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Information and Health)
Signal Processing in Radio Systems submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open
Keywords: signal processing; radio systems; communication systems; channel coding; MIMO technologies; beamforming; RF system design; spectrum management; interference mitigation; cognitive radio; software-defined radio (SDR); Internet of Things (IoT); machine-to-machine (M2M) communication; radar signal processing; navigation systems; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); compressive sensing; sparse signal recovery; secure communications; signal quality measurement; performance evaluation; standardization; RF calibration; dynamic spectrum access; target detection; positioning algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Emerging Topics in Industrial Control Systems and SCADA Cyber Security
edited by , Helge Janicke and Richard Smith
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 14 | Submission Open
Keywords: encryption; authentication; and availability assurance; resilient systems; application security; secure firmware; communication systems; timing vulnerabilities in rt-control systems; security implications of feature interactions; post-quantum cryptography; secure communication protocols; incident response; critical infrastructure protection; threat profiling
Emerging Research in Urban Computing and Intelligent Transport Systems submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 34968 | 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)
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 145 | 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)
Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 26973 | 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 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10622 | 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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9261 | 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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3940 | 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 | Viewed by 430 | 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)
Big Data Analytics, Decision-Making Models, and Their Applications
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 267 | 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)
Hardware Security and Trust, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: secure hardware; physical attacks; IC trust
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Security and Privacy)
Computational Modeling in Bioengineering
edited by Ge He, Lei Fan and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 145 | 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)
Application of Machine Learning in Human Activity Recognition
edited by Yang Gao and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 83 | 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)
Systems Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 65 | 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)
Data-Driven Decision-Making in Intelligent Systems submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 5 | 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)
Advances in Data and Network Sciences Applied to Computational Social Science submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16062 | 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 7413 | 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)
Cyber Security in IoT submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11571 | 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)
Disease Diagnosis Based on Medical Images and Signals
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 54 | 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
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: extended reality; virtual reality; augmented reality; mixed reality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
Blockchain and AI: Innovations and Applications in ICT
edited by Purnima Murali Mohan and Pai Chet Ng
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 184 | 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)
Human and Machine Translation: Recent Trends and Foundations
edited by and Yuri V. Balashov
submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open
Keywords: large language models; human-machine collaboration; machine translation; artificial intelligence; natural language processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
Carbon Emissions Analysis by AI Techniques
edited by and Sicheng Zhan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI-driven energy analysis; carbon emissions and energy forecasting; machine learning and big data analytics; energy efficiency and management; smart urban development with clean energy; energy modeling and optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Processes)
Standards Digitisation and Digital Standardisation
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open
Keywords: digitalisation; standardisation; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Applications)
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