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Symmetry/Asymmetry in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications
edited by Yonggang Zhang, Hangyu Li and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2004 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; healthcare; symmetry; brain tumour diagnosis; autism spectrum disorders; multimodal models for disease diagnosis; personalized medicine
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Advances in Design and Analysis of Asymmetric Structures
edited by Xiaohua Li and Yongtao Bai
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1899 | Submission Open
Keywords: asymmetric structures; seismic design; torsional effects; nonlinear behavior; advanced materials; computational modeling; seismic resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry in Nonlinear Dynamics
edited by Chaoran Liu, and Guobiao Hu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1886 | Submission Open
Keywords: Nonlinear Dynamics; Dynamical System; Symmetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry and Cosmology
edited by and Leila Lobato Graef
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1870 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; cosmology; early universe; large-scale structure; quantum gravity; effective field theory; cosmological phase transitions; cosmic microwave background; cosmological perturbations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Feature Papers in Section "Engineering and Materials" 2025 submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 1839 | Submission Open
Keywords: materials engineering; nanotechnology; power systems and thermal engineering; mechanical engineering; mechatronics; and robotics; automation and control engineering; electronic engineering; communication engineering; chemical and molecular engineering; optical engineering and technology; fiber optics technology; mathematical and formal aspects of superconductivity; mechanochemical aspects of aqueous solutions; green chemistry fabrication of materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry in Advancing Digital Signal and Image Processing
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1691 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital signal processing; image processing; feature extraction; machine learning; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Quantum Mechanics: Concepts, Symmetries, and Recent Developments: 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1574 | Submission Open
Keywords: supersymmetry; superintegrability; phase space formulation; entanglement; measurement theory; symmetry group invariance; representation theory; anyonsanions; deformation quantization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Asymmetry in Machine Learning
edited by Hui Zhang and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1563 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; prediction algorithms; accuracy; SVM; data set
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Fault Diagnosis and Electronic Engineering in Symmetry
edited by Yan Li
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1470 | Submission Open
Keywords: electronic degradation; fault diagnostics; fault location; lifespan prediction; status evaluation; symmetrical fault; system reliability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry and Asymmetry in Dynamics and Control of Biomimetic Robots submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1436 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomimetic robotics; bioinspired structure; flexible actuation; intelligent control; symmetry in robotics; asymmetry motion modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Advances in Plasma Physics with Symmetry/Asymmetry
edited by , and Jaroslav Krištof
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1275 | Submission Open
Keywords: plasma physics; plasma applications; nonthermal plasma; thermal plasma; fusion plasma; atmospheric plasma; low-pressure plasma; microplasma; plasma medicine; plasma actuators; plasma for surface treatment; dielectric barrier discharge
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Advances in Intelligent Power Electronics with Symmetry/Asymmetry
edited by and Valeri Petrov Gochev
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1228 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptive algorithms; asymmetry; energy efficiency; loss optimization; intelligent controllers; power circuit topology; power electronic devices and systems; predictive control; real-time diagnostics; symmetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Matter and Antimatter Asymmetry in Cosmology and Particle Physics
edited by Luiz Garcia De Andrade and Zhifu Gao
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1210 | Submission Open
Keywords: cosmology; particle physics; modified gravity; pulsar astronomy; matter and antimatter; loop quantum gravity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Mechanism Research and Artificial Intelligence for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Electrical Equipment in Smart Grids and Electrified Transportation
edited by Kui Chen, Yujun Guo and Kai Liu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1209 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart grids; new energy; energy storage; electrified transportation; electrical equipment; artificial intelligence; mechanism research; symmetry theory; insulation performance; state evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry/Asymmetry Studies in Data Mining & Machine Learning
edited by , , Liang Chen and Jia He
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1050 | Submission Open
Keywords: data mining; machine learning; pattern recognition; representation learning; transportation; management science; systems science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry in Gravitational Waves and Astrophysics
edited by Shaoqi Hou and Pengming Zhang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1028 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; gravitational waves; memory effects; soft theorems; infrared triangle; black holes; celestial holography; detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Symmetry in Computational Fluid Dynamics submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 959 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational fluid dynamics; numerical analysis; fluids properties; application of computational models; droplets; bubbles; streamlines and fluid flows; fluid flow applications (chemistry; physics; mathematics; industrial; metallurgical; aeronautical; civil; medical; biology and engineering); numerical approaching analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematics)
Selected Papers from "2025 11th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICCAI 2025)"
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 954 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent computing; genetic algorithm; simulated annealing algorithm; taboo search algorithm; evolutionary algorithm; heuristic algorithm; ant colony algorithm; artificial fish swarm algorithm; particle swarm algorithm; hybrid intelligent algorithm; immune algorithm; neural networks; machine learning; biocomputing; DNA computing; quantum computing; intelligent calculation and optimization; fuzzy logic; knowledge discovery; data mining; rough and fuzzy rough set; artificial intelligence and its applications; biometrics; pattern recognition; computer vision; machine vision; fingerprint recognition; face recognition; retina recognition; iris recognition; palmprint recognition; expert system; speech recognition; smart search; automatic programming; intelligent control; smart robot; language and image understanding; genetic programming; natural language processing; computer vision and robotics; adaptive systems; intelligent agent; intelligent control; neural net and support vector machine; fuzzy set theory; fuzzy control and system; knowledge management; intelligent and knowledge-based system; visual information processing; artificial intelligence tools and applications; AI applied to the IoT; health big data; intelligent manufacturing; smart clothing; computer and information technology; coding; cryptography; and information protection; compilers and operating systems; computer networks; mobile computing; and distributed systems; computer systems: architecture; parallel processing; and dependability; embedded systems; signal; image; and speech processing; software engineering; security and database systems; human– computer interaction; vision and graphics; programming languages; theory of computing; information systems; information technology; big data technologies and applications; mobile information systems; web intelligence applications and search; recent trends in information technology; computing in the internet of things; machine learning for the internet of everything; information retrieval
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Novel Symmetric/Asymmetric Structures in High-Performance Photonic and Optoelectronic Devices
edited by Chuang Li, Jiaqi Liu and Sadeq Abbasi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 910 | Submission Open
Keywords: carrier transport mechanism in the hetero/homojunction; semiconductor physics; charge carrier transport modulation; metasurface; photonic crystals; light field manipulation within nanoscale; photodetectors; solar cells; surface science; interface science; electronic structures; film fabrication technologies; passivation method; hydrophobic surfaces; organic and inorganic semiconductors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry Principles and Gravity: Bridging the Fundamental Forces of Nature
edited by Shohreh Abdolrahimi
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 893 | Submission Open
Keywords: gravity; black holes; quantum gravity; symmetries; covariance; spacetime symmetries; equivalence principle; global symmetries; local symmetries; conformal theories; gauge symmetry; Yang– Mills gauge theory; supersymmetry; Killing symmetry; symmetry breaking
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Applications of Symmetric and Asymmetric Studies in Biological Structure
edited by Xiaoxu Zhong and Ziyang Huang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 766 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; asymmetry; microfluidic device; fluid flow; mathematical modeling; reliability; medical imaging; biological structure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Life Sciences)
Machine Learning and Data Analysis III
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 636 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; data analysis; process modelling; time series prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Advances in Black Holes, Symmetry and Chaos
edited by Zhuo-Yu Xian
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 613 | Submission Open
Keywords: black holes; general relativity; symmetry; quantum chaos; holography; strongly correlated electrons; quantum entanglement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Symmetry-Based Properties in Two-Dimensional Materials submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 589 | Submission Open
Keywords: two-dimensional materials; time-reversal symmetry; inversion symmetry; mirror symmetry; topological states; optical properties; mechanical properties
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Studies of Symmetry/Asymmetry in Cybersecurity submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 552 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetric cryptography; asymmetric cryptography; cloud security; IoT security; artificial intelligence in cybersecurity; machine learning for cyber defense; supply chain security; ransomware mitigation; zero trust architecture; critical infrastructure protection; data privacy and protection; 5G network security; insider threat detection; chaos-based encryption
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry/Asymmetry in Sport Biomechanics submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 542 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; asymmetry; sports biomechanics; movement analysis; injury prevention; performance optimization; motion capture; wearable sensors; athletic training; biomechanical assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Life Sciences)
Symmetry/Asymmetry in Life Sciences: Feature Papers 2025 submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 536 | Submission Open
Keywords: medicine; molecular biology; cell biology; gene expression; proteins; evolutionary biology; biodiversity; fluctuating asymmetry; brain asymmetry; biradial symmetry; directional asymmetry; antisymmetry (e.g.; right-handed or left-handed; handedness; etc.); symmetries of scale; symmetrical enzymatic reactions; symmetrical geometry; symmetry and biological robustness; spherical symmetry; helical symmetry; broken symmetries; random asymmetries
(This special issue belongs to the Section Life Sciences)
Symmetry/Asymmetry Studies in Composite Materials and Structures
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 515 | Submission Open
Keywords: composite materials; symmetry constraints; fracture and fatigue; interface; damage tolerance; fiber metal laminates; extreme environment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry in Physics: From Conservation to Violation
edited by Adailton A. Araújo Filho and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 486 | Submission Open
Keywords: particle physics; Lorentz and CP violation; symmetry and broken symmetry; gravitation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Advances in Quantum Theory with Symmetry
edited by Diandong Tang, Chad E. Hoyer and Xuechen Zheng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 448 | Submission Open
Keywords: vibrational and/or electronic spectroscopy; molecular chirality and stereochemistry; symmetry-adapted machine learning for quantum chemistry; application of symmetry in quantum computing; topology in condensed matter physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
New Higgs-Like States
edited by and Kai-Feng Chen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 431 | Submission Open
Keywords: particles and fields; Higgs boson; electroweak interactions; spontaneous symmetrybreaking; quantum chromodynamics; quark and lepton masses and mixing; models beyond the standard model; experimental methods and instrumentation for elementary-particle and nuclear physics; data analysis; extensions of Higgs sector; Higgs-like states; phase transitions; Higgs mode; top quark; cosmology; superconductivity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Current Limiting Technologies for AC/DC Power Grids During Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Faults
edited by Feng Zheng, Baojin Liu and Xingxing Chen
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 380 | Submission Open
Keywords: solid-state fault current limiter; hybrid FCL; fault ride-through; superconducting FCL; DC fault current limiter; HVDC protection; MMC-based limiters; DC circuit breaker
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry/Asymmetry in Advanced Metamaterials and Their Applications
edited by Wangqiang Xiao and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced metamaterials; bound states in the continuum; parity-time symmetry; non-Hermitian system; optics/THz/microwave metasurfaces; zero stiffness; constant force mechanisms; optics control; acoustics control; vibration control; material design; innovative applications; symmetry; asymmetry
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Intelligent Control and Optimization in Transportation and Grid Systems: Symmetry-Guided Approaches
edited by Yanxia Wang, Xiandong Xu and Yong Lu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent control systems; optimization algorithms; pattern recognition; smart grids; intelligent transportation systems; energy management; computer vision; renewable energy integration; urban mobility; infrastructure monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry and Asymmetry in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs)
edited by and Jie Hu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 328 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; asymmetry; human-vehicle-environment; intelligent transportation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry/Asymmetry in Spin Physics
edited by Tianbo Liu and Jinlong Zhang
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open
Keywords: nucleon spin structure; form factor; parton distribution function; fragmentation function; global polarization; heavy-ion collision; deep inelastic scattering; spin correlation; electron– ion collider
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Asymmetry Implications in Recent Pharmacy and Medicine
edited by and Alina Cozma
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open
Keywords: structural symmetry/asymmetry; chirality; metal complexes of organic compounds; crystal lattices; drug design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
Symmetry and Integrable Systems: Theory, Methods, and Applications
edited by Jipeng Cheng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; integrable system; soliton; nonlinear wave; hirota bilinear method; tau function; darboux transformation; inverse scattering method; riemannian hilbert problem; random matrices; orthogonal polynomials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mathematics)
Symmetry and Asymmetry Operators in Computer Vision
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open
Keywords: computer vision; image processing; symmetry operators; network architecture; loss function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Asymmetry and Symmetry in Information Processing and Information Fusion
edited by Yanping Chen and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open
Keywords: data processing; image processing; language processing; artificial intelligence; robotics; fusion systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry/Asymmetry Advances in Visible and Thermal Imaging submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 282 | Submission Open
Keywords: image processing; computer vision; artificial vision; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; thermography; thermal imaging; thermogram
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry/Asymmetry Studies in Data Mining & Machine Learning
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry; asymmetry; data mining; machine learning; deep learning; geometric transformations; natural language processing; large language model; graph neural network
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Symmetry/Asymmetry in Data Mining, Optimization Algorithms, and System Control for Intelligent Transportation Systems submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 270 | Submission Open
Keywords: symmetry design; data mining; optimization algorithms; system control; traffic safety; traffic behavior; traffic signal control; urban geography; trajectory tracking control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
Asymmetric and Symmetric Studies in Biostatistics
edited by Nicolò Navarin, Pietro Bongini, and Edmondo Trentin
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 265 | Submission Open
Keywords: biostatistics; data distributions; AI-enhanced bioinformatics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Life Sciences)
Symmetry and Asymmetry in High-Performance Lithium-Ion, Post-Lithium-Ion Batteries, and Supercapacitors
edited by Manuel Otero, Sergio. Alexis Paz, Martín Zoloff Michoff and Guillermina Luque
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open
Keywords: lithium-ion batteries (LIBs); post-ion lithium batteries; supercapacitors; cycle life enhancement; electrode materials; electrolyte innovations; hybrid energy storage systems; sustainable energy storage materials; charge storage mechanisms; computational modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetries and Ultra Dense Matter of Compact Stars: Emergence of Duality in QCD
edited by and Chihiro Sasaki
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 221 | Submission Open
Keywords: superdense matter; topology changes; baryon parity-doublet symmetry; Cheshire cat mechanism; hadron-quark duality; emergent hidden symmetries; Weinberg’ s folk theorem; generalized Hohenberg-Kohn density functional; Landau– Migdal Fermi liquid; un-Fermi liquids; speed of sound; conformal symmetry; color superconductivity; neutron superfluidity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physics)
Symmetry in Finite Element Modeling and Its Applications in Underground Space
edited by , Hongliang Liu and Jie Hu
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open
Keywords: finite element modeling; underground space; symmetry and asymmetry; sustainability and resilience; numerical simulation; field case studies; structural optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry and Microelectronic/Optical Materials
edited by , Ye Wu and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 216 | Submission Open
Keywords: topological materials; ferroelectric materials; thermoelectric materials; optical materials; optoelectronic materials; microelectronic materials; photonic crystals; metal– organic frameworks; covalent organic frameworks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering and Materials)
Symmetry and Textured Ceramics submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open
Keywords: crystallographic texture; polycrystalline ceramics; columnar or tabular grains; noncubic optical ceramics; ionic conduction; microstructural anisotropy; electrical conductivity; dielectric properties
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
Computer Vision, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
edited by and Jian Cheng
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 202 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; computer vision; robotics; automation; image processing; pattern recognition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computer)
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