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Current Topics in Optimization, Inequalities and Convex Function Theory
edited by Sorin Rǎdulescu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5323 | Submission Open
Keywords: convex functions; biconvex functions; generalized convexity; subharmonic functions; absolute monotone functions; majorization theory; Schur convex functions; Jensen inequality; Hermite– Hadamard inequality; weighted inequalities; control theory; mathematical programming; differential inequalities; variational inequalities; equilibrium problems
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Numerical Methods and Simulations for Turbulent Flow
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5020 | Submission Open
Keywords: turbulent flows; turbulent boundary layer; turbulent channel flow; computational fluid dynamics; fluid– structure interaction; numerical simulations; numerical methods; direct numerical simulations; large eddy simulation; hybrid RANS-LES; Navier– Stokes
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Advanced Research in Mathematical Physics Models with Painlevé Property and Affine Weyl Group Symmetry
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4932 | Submission Open
Keywords: mathematical Physics; integrable models; Painlevé equations; applications of symmetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
Mathematical Innovations and Contributions Within Communication and Information Processing
edited by Li Guo, , Jesus Requena-Carrión and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4817 | Submission Open
Keywords: block chain and cryptography; cloud computing and scheduling optimization; computational intelligence and grid computing; computer crime prevention and detection; computer security; data mining and big data analysis; data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks; distributed and parallel applications; evolutionary learning and optimization; fuzzy and neural network systems; image processing and signal processing; information and data management; information and network security; mobile and social network programming; multimedia computing; mathematical optimization and swarm intelligence; software engineering; ubiquitous computing; services and applications; web services modeling and web composition; wireless communications optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Mathematical Methods of Operational Research and Data Analytics in Operations Planning and Scheduling
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4631 | Submission Open
Keywords: planning; scheduling; models; frameworks; manufacturing; healthcare; transportation; logistics; supply chain; combinatorial optimization; computational complexity; design of algorithms; special cases; polynomial algorithms; exact methods; heuristic methods; metaheuristics; machine learning; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Advanced Methods and Applications in Medical Informatics
edited by Chengsheng Mao and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4559 | Submission Open
Keywords: medical informatics; electronic health records; medical data analysis; medical decision making
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Advanced Research in Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
edited by Zhen Chao and Xiang-Sheng Wang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4472 | Submission Open
Keywords: finite element method; boundary element method; finite difference method; parallel computing techniques; spectral method; inverse problem; numerical optimization; computational fluid dynamics; multiscale methods; fractional differential equations
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems and Applications
edited by Gaiyun Liu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4414 | Submission Open
Keywords: discrete event dynamic system; formal method; property verification; networked control system; cyber security; system control; optimization and scheduling; distributed system; system reconfiguration; stochastic process and uncertainty; timing aspects in DEDS and hybrid systems; cyber– physical system; artificial intelligence in discrete event dynamic system; applications of discrete event dynamic system
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Differential Games and Its Applications, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3318 | Submission Open
Keywords: differential games; pursuit– evasion games; dynamic games; Hamilton– Jacobi equations; numerical methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Fuzzy Group Decision Making and Intelligent Systems: Recent Trends and Methodologies submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2994 | Submission Open
Keywords: fuzzy systems; large-scale group decision making; computational intelligence; consensus-reaching process; feedback mechanism; social network; influence; trust; information fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
Computational and Analytical Methods for Inverse Problems
edited by Mohsen Tadi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2849 | Submission Open
Keywords: inverse problem; Cauchy problem; regularization; land/sea mine detection; impedance tomography; inverse wave scattering in elastic/electromagnetic domains
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Artificial Intelligence for Fault Detection in Manufacturing
edited by Jinwoo Song
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2726 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; fault detection; manufacturing; data imbalance; quality control; machine learning; statistical modeling; data augmentation; mathematical optimization; predictive maintenance
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Federated Learning Strategies for Machine Learning
edited by Lavinia Ferariu, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2722 | Submission Open
Keywords: federated learning algorithms; federated reinforcement learning; federated generative model; privacy and security in federated learning; communication efficiency for federated learning; federated learning frameworks; standardisation and interoperability; multi-task learning; evaluation metrics in transfer learning; advanced learning algorithms; distributed learning algorithms; scalability and performance in distributed learning; real-world machine learning applications with data privacy constraints
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Analytical Approaches to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2621 | Submission Open
Keywords: dynamical systems; nonlinear phenomena; analytical methods; nonlinear differential equations; approximate analytical solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
Soliton Theory and Integrable Systems in Mathematical Physics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2528 | Submission Open
Keywords: numerical simulation; solitons; quasi-integrability; nonlinear evolutions; symmetries; conserved charges
(This special issue belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
Advances in Modern Supply Chain Management and Information Technology
edited by Meichuan Cheng and Alexis P.I. Goh
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2475 | Submission Open
Keywords: inventory management; green supply chain and information technology integration; reverse logistics and sustainability; subscription economy; Internet of Things in supply chain management; sustainability assessment and resilience analysis of critical infrastructures; computer graphics and visualization; network theory and optimization; information retrieval and natural language processing; optimization algorithm; operations research and optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Analysis and Applications of Control Systems Theory
edited by Quan-Yong Fan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2455 | Submission Open
Keywords: robust control; optimal control; adaptive control; fault-tolerant control; fault detection; switching control; event-triggered control; adaptive dynamic programming; security control; cyber– physical systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
New Solutions for Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence Security
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2396 | Submission Open
Keywords: multimedia forensics and anti-forensics; adversarial attacks and defenses; deepfake and misinformation detection; steganography and steganalysis; multimedia watermarking and DNN watermarking; novel data embedding techniques in various covers; interpretability and theoretical analysis of forensic techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Bioinformatics and Mathematical Modelling
edited by Juntao Liu and Ting Yu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2278 | Submission Open
Keywords: protein; primary sequence; tertiary structure; binding sites; binding affinity; complex structure; peptide function
(This special issue belongs to the Section E3: Mathematical Biology)
Functional Analysis and Mathematical Optimization
edited by , Qiang Wu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2219 | Submission Open
Keywords: functional analysis; number theory; operator theory; theories of measure; integration; and probability in infinite dimensional spaces; applications of functional analysis; discrete optimization; continuous optimization; stochastic optimization; optimization algorithms; calculus of variations; optimization techniques and applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Research on Applied Partial Differential Equations
edited by Erwin Suazo and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2148 | Submission Open
Keywords: fractional calculus; ordinary differential equations; partial differential equations; stochastic differential equations; nonlinear wave propagation; applications of difference and differential equations in finance (or applications in finance); differential learning methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
Progress in Computational and Applied Mechanics
edited by Bingbing Xu and Jian Meng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2054 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational mechanics; numerical methods; finite elements; meshless methods; solid mechanics; dynamics; fluid mechanics; computer simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Statistical Research on Missing Data and Applications
edited by Soeun Kim
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2011 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
Advances in the Research of Complex Network Algorithms
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2005 | Submission Open
Keywords: models of complex networks; structural network properties and analysis; network statistical inference; machine learning with graphs; complex networks and information systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Mathematics Methods of Robotics and Intelligent Systems submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1971 | Submission Open
Keywords: nonlinear and hybrid robotic systems; distributed and multi-agent systems; multi-sensor fusion techniques and filtering; motion planning; optimal path design; swarm robotics; control theory; gaussian control; matrix control; H-infinity control; sliding mode control; multivariable control; neural control; nonlinear control; stochastic control; model predictive control; robust control; optimal control; adaptive control; time-varying control; fuzzy control; fractional-order control
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Mathematical Finance: Statistical Inference, Stochastic Modeling, and Advanced Algorithms submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1858 | Submission Open
Keywords: modeling of financial time series; derivatives pricing; term structure of interest rates; stochastic volatility and risk modeling; price duration analysis; high-frequency data analysis; sequential Monte Carlo and particle filtering; Markov chain Monte Carlo; laplace approximations; machine learning methods; other approximating techniques; including random forests; deep Learning; reinforcement learning; and non-parametric estimators
(This special issue belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
The Applications of Fractional Calculus in Control Engineering, Dynamical Systems and Signal Processing submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1857 | Submission Open
Keywords: fractional calculus; fractional-order control systems; fractional-order dynamics; signal processing; synchronization; memory trace
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Advanced Intelligent Algorithms for Decision Making under Uncertainty
edited by Stoyan Tranev and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1853 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; decision support systems; data analytics; intelligent algorithms; intuitionistic fuzzy logic; large-scale problems; machine learning; numerical methods; optimization; predictive analytics; probabilistic models; stochastic processes; uncertainty quantification
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
Stochastic Models with Applications, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1851 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex systems; dependence and copula models; reliability models; random evolution models; Markov and semi-Markov models; neural models; random walks; queueing models; stochastic models and Cybersecurity
(This special issue belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
Advances in Image-Based Decision Support Systems for Personalized Healthcare and Computational Biology submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1755 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomedical imaging; radiology and optical imaging; multimodal imaging; multi-omics data fusion; tomographic reconstruction; image analysis for personalised medicine; image analysis for computer aided diagnosis; image segmentation; image registration; image reconstruction and super-resolution; image retrieval; machine learning; foundation modelling; model uncertainty and interpretability
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
Intelligent Computing and Mathematical Physics: Robots, Security Games, Quantum Algorithms and Symbolic Computing
edited by Runfa Zhang and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1711 | Submission Open
Keywords: symbol calculation; neural network model; intelligent computing; partial differential equation; mathematical physics; robotics; dynamics; control; numercial simulation; artificial intelligence; transition of turbulence; security game; bi/tri-level programming; facility location; emergency management; meta-heuristic algorithm; quantum algorithm; quantum error correction; quantum machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Decision Making under Uncertainty in Soft Computing submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1614 | Submission Open
Keywords: fuzzy sets; soft sets; hesitant sets; etc.; and their extensions/generalizations; decision making; multiple criteria decision making; medical decision making; optimization; reasoning under uncertainty; aggregation operators; granular computing; fuzzy fractional integral aggregation; Hermite– Hadamard– Fejé r inequality; linguistic variables; artificial intelligence; soft computing; fuzzy set theory; deep learning; neural networks; machine learning; expert systems; soft computing applications in medical sciences and bioinformatics; applications of fuzziness in artificial intelligence; economics; medicine; engineering; etc.  
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
Mathematical Computation for Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1534 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; computer vision; feature extraction; feature matching; image processing; single-image 3d restoration; multiple view geometry; 3D point cloud; 3D object recognition; machine learning; neural network; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Extreme Value Theory: Theory, Methodology and Applications
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1313 | Submission Open
Keywords: spatial and/or temporal process; methodological statistics; nonparametric statistics machine learning; causal inference; regression models; applied probability; graphical models; optimization; data science; applied statistical modelling and simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
Approximation and Computation for Numerical Analysis: Latest Advances and Prospects
edited by Abdelouahed Kouibia and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1247 | Submission Open
Keywords: numerical analysis; approximation and computation; spline functions; radial functions; polynomial functions; partial differential equation
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Computational Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
edited by , , and Geoffrey McLachlan
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1186 | Submission Open
Keywords: efficient numerical/approximation methods; algorithmic and computational complexity; large-scale optimization; stochastic methods; computational statistics; machine learning algorithms; computational methods for deep learning; fluid computational dynamics; bioinformatics; molecular modeling; computer vision; natural language processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Advances in Algorithm Theory and Computer Networks submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1133 | Submission Open
Keywords: algorithm theory; computer networks; machine learning in computer networks; distributed combinatorial optimization; algorithmic foundations of next-generation network architectures
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Optimization
edited by Zne-Jung Lee and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1045 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; machine learning; optimization; biocomputing; intelligent control; intelligent computing; data mining; deep learning; intelligent technologies and applications in engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Mathematical Foundations in NLP: Applications and Challenges
edited by Jizheng Wan and Mubashir Ali
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1041 | Submission Open
Keywords: NLP; LLMs; machine learning; deep learning; text generation; speech recognition; sentiment analysis; conversational AI; ethical AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Recent Studies on Partial Differential Equations and Its Applications
edited by Quan Wang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 937 | Submission Open
Keywords: well-posedness; nonlinear stability and instability; steady-state and dynamic bifurcation; large time behavior; singularity formation
(This special issue belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
Research and Advances in Network Security
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 746 | Submission Open
Keywords: innovative security protocols; contemporary networking scenarios; secure networks; robust data protection; quantum-resistant algorithms; IDPSs; AI-driven approaches
(This special issue belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics
edited by Oke Davies Davies Adeyemo
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 694 | Submission Open
Keywords: lie group analysis and applications; Darboux and Bä cklund transform; Hirota bilinear technique; d-bar formalism; inverse scattering transforms; applied fluid problems; analytical methods; Riemann– Hilbert problems; Fokas approach; Hamiltonian theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
Numerical Modeling and Applications in Mechanical Engineering
edited by László Péter Kiss
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 580 | Submission Open
Keywords: finite element method; discrete element method; meshfree methods; optimization; mechanics of solids; computational fluid dynamics; fluid-structure interaction; heat transfer
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Trends in Evolutionary Computation with Applications submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 505 | Submission Open
Keywords: evolutionary computation; nature-inspired algorithms; swarm intelligence; bio-inspired computing; hybrid optimization; nature-inspired algorithms; parallel processing; cloud-based deployments; fuzzy logic; soft computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section D2: Operations Research and Fuzzy Decision Making)
Modeling Multivariate Financial Time Series and Computing submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 473 | Submission Open
Keywords: conditional covariance matrix; multivariate financial time series analysis; computational methods for multivariate time series analysis; spillovers; risk measures; tail risk measures
(This special issue belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)
Advances in Finite Element Methods and Boundary Value Problems
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 419 | Submission Open
Keywords: differential equations; integral equations; numerical analysis; finite element methods; computational mechanics; computational discretization; high-performance computing; multiphysics; nanotechnology; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Advanced Numerical Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Computational Mechanics
edited by Yousef Ghaffari Motlagh
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open
Keywords: isogeometric analysis; phase-field; material point method; physics-informed neural networks; machine learning; variational multi-scale method; finite cell method; virtual element method.
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
Advances in Computational Structural Dynamics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational structural dynamics; mathematical modelling; finite element modelling; dynamic behaviour; dynamic structural analysis; complex structural systems; structural health monitoring; vibration control; structural mechanics; multiphysics problems; multiscale modeling; smart materials and structures
(This special issue belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
Recent Advances in Fractal and Fractional Calculus
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open
Keywords: fractional calculus; fractional differential equations; fractional difference equations; multidimensional fractional calculus; fractal geometry
(This special issue belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
Mathematical Methods Applied in Power Systems, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open
Keywords: modeling and simulation; applied numerical methods; computational techniques; performance analysis and forecasting; optimization and operational research; data mining and soft computing; statistics; evolutionary computation; fuzzy logic; expert systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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