Future Internet | Selected Editor’s Choice Articles Published in the Third Quarter of 2025

1. “AI-Driven Transformations in Manufacturing: Bridging Industry 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 in Sustainable Value Chains”
by Andrés Fernández-Miguel, Fernando Enrique García-Muiña, Susana Ortíz-Marcos, Mariano Jiménez-Calzado, Alfonso P. Fernández del Hoyo and Davide Settembre-Blundo
Future Internet 2025, 17(9), 430; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17090430
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/430

2. “Intelligent Edge Computing and Machine Learning: A Survey of Optimization and Applications”
by Sebastián A. Cajas Ordóñez, Jaydeep Samanta, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo and Ricardo Simón Carbajo
Future Internet 2025, 17(9), 417; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17090417
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/417

3. “The Rise of Agentic AI: A Review of Definitions, Frameworks, Architectures, Applications, Evaluation Metrics, and Challenges”
by Ajay Bandi, Bhavani Kongari, Roshini Naguru, Sahitya Pasnoor and Sri Vidya Vilipala
Future Internet 2025, 17(9), 404; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17090404
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/404

4. “A Comparative Study of PEGASUS, BART, and T5 for Text Summarization Across Diverse Datasets”
by Eman Daraghmi, Lour Atwe and Areej Jaber
Future Internet 2025, 17(9), 389; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17090389
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/389

5. “Technical Review: Architecting an AI-Driven Decision Support System for Enhanced Online Learning and Assessment”
by Saipunidzam Mahamad, Yi Han Chin, Nur Izzah Nasuha Zulmuksah, Md Mominul Haque, Muhammad Shaheen and Kanwal Nisar
Future Internet 2025, 17(9), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17090383
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/9/383

6. “Federated Learning for Anomaly Detection: A Systematic Review on Scalability, Adaptability, and Benchmarking Framework”
by Le-Hang Lim, Lee-Yeng Ong and Meng-Chew Leow
Future Internet 2025, 17(8), 375; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17080375
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/8/375

7. “The Future of Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Self-Directed Learning with AI”
by Carmen del Rosario Navas Bonilla, Luis Miguel Viñan Carrasco, Jhoanna Carolina Gaibor Pupiales and Daniel Eduardo Murillo Noriega
Future Internet 2025, 17(8), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17080366
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/8/366

8. “Beyond Prompt Chaining: The TB-CSPN Architecture for Agentic AI”
by Uwe M. Borghoff, Paolo Bottoni and Remo Pareschi
Future Internet 2025, 17(8), 363; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17080363
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/8/363

9. “Transforming Data Annotation with AI Agents: A Review of Architectures, Reasoning, Applications, and Impact”
by Md Monjurul Karim, Sangeen Khan, Dong Hoang Van, Xinyue Liu, Chunhui Wang and Qiang Qu
Future Internet 2025, 17(8), 353; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17080353
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/8/353

10. “Toward Secure Smart Grid Systems: Risks, Threats, Challenges, and Future Directions”
by Jean Paul A. Yaacoub, Hassan N. Noura, Ola Salman and Khaled Chahine
Future Internet 2025, 17(7), 318; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17070318
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/17/7/318