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  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,618 Views
37 Pages

24 August 2026

The pursuit of self-evolving AI raises a critical question: when is autonomous self-improvement sustainable rather than degenerative? Drawing an analogy to von Neumann’s complexity threshold for self-reproducing automata, we argue that sustaina...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity of AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,887 Views
14 Pages

A Self-Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Technique to Predict Oil Pressure Volume Temperature Properties

  • Salaheldin Elkatatny,
  • Tamer Moussa,
  • Abdulazeez Abdulraheem and
  • Mohamed Mahmoud

14 December 2018

Reservoir fluid properties such as bubble point pressure (Pb) and gas solubility (Rs) play a vital role in reservoir management and reservoir simulation. In addition, they affect the design of the production system. Pb and Rs can be obtained from lab...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
539 Views
15 Pages

Protein self-interaction to form homodimers and higher-order homo-oligomers is a ubiquitous phenomenon fundamental to living organisms. Recent structural, system-level, and computational insights reveal that self-interacting proteins dictate the spec...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,883 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2026

Iterative self-training of language models presents a promising avenue for realizing self-improving Artificial Intelligence systems; however, this process is often hindered by the fundamental challenge of “Model Collapse.” Existing resear...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
650 Views
27 Pages

3 July 2026

How can an LLM-based agent recognize the limits of its own self-knowledge and improve that self-knowledge over time? This paper proposes the metacognitive evolutionary system (MES), a functional framework for studying metacognitive evolution at the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,900 Views
24 Pages

24 July 2024

Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), the relative expansion of mutant clones, is derived from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with acquired somatic or cytogenetic alterations that improve cellular fitness. Individuals with CH have a higher risk for hematologic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blood Stem Cell and Hematological Malignancies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
977 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2025

Spatiotemporal correlations between meteo-inputs and wind–solar outputs in an optimal regional scale are crucial for developing robust models, reliable in mid-term prediction time horizons. Modelling border conditions is vital for early recogni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Atmospheric Sciences)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
75 Citations
15,551 Views
12 Pages

The Application of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: An Overview on Nutrition Assessment

  • Alessia Salinari,
  • Michele Machì,
  • Yasmany Armas Diaz,
  • Danila Cianciosi and ,
  • Zexiu Qi,
  • Bei Yang,
  • Maria Soledad Ferreiro Cotorruelo,
  • Santos Gracia Villar,
  • Luis Alonso Dzul Lopez and
  • Francesca Giampieri
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-mediated technologies have undergone rapid evolution in healthcare and medicine, from apps to computer software able to analyze medical images, robotic surgery and advanced data storage system....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Diseases: Featured Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
716 Views
32 Pages

14 August 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been rapidly integrated into higher education, yet current studies largely rely on quantitative frameworks that capture initial adoption, leaving university EFL teachers’ motivational evolution for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Use and Academic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,990 Views
9 Pages

Risk Factors, Lifestyle and Prevention among Adolescents with Idiopathic Juvenile Scoliosis: A Cross Sectional Study in Eleven First-Grade Secondary Schools of Palermo Province, Italy

  • Dalila Scaturro,
  • Claudio Costantino,
  • Pietro Terrana,
  • Fabio Vitagliani and ,
  • Vincenzo Falco,
  • Daniele Cuntrera,
  • Claudia Emilia Sannasardo,
  • Francesco Vitale and
  • Giulia Letizia Mauro
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) has an incidence of 2–3% in the general population and a multifactorial etiology. The present study aims to analyze modifiable risk factors and their interactions in the development of AIS in order to incre...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,487 Views
27 Pages

2 March 2026

This paper addresses the growing sustainability fatigue in advanced economies. By analyzing Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI) agent strategy as a model for “Rational Sustainability”, the study identifies a self-propagating growt...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,003 Views
19 Pages

Fractal Technology for Sustainable Growth in the AI Era: Fractal Principles for Industry 5.0

  • Young Chan Ko,
  • Soon Wan Kweon,
  • Byoung Geun Moon,
  • Jong-Moon Park and
  • Hyoung Jin Kim

This study presents fractal technology as a foundational approach to sustainable growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) era and Industry 5.0. We explore how the principles of fractal geometry, including self-similarity and recursive properties, i...

(This article belongs to the Section Geometry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,789 Views
27 Pages

From Trust in Automation to Trust in AI in Healthcare: A 30-Year Longitudinal Review and an Interdisciplinary Framework

  • Kelvin K. L. Wong,
  • Yong Han,
  • Yifeng Cai,
  • Wumin Ouyang and ,
  • Hemin Du and
  • Chao Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Human–machine trust has shifted over the past three decades from trust in automation to trust in AI, while research paradigms, disciplines, and problem spaces have expanded. Centered on AI in healthcare, this narrative review offers a longitudi...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,903 Views
15 Pages

Dis-Cover AI Minds to Preserve Human Knowledge

  • Leonardo Ranaldi,
  • Francesca Fallucchi and
  • Fabio Massimo Zanzotto

24 December 2021

Modern AI technologies make use of statistical learners that lead to self-empiricist logic, which, unlike human minds, use learned non-symbolic representations. Nevertheless, it seems that it is not the right way to progress in AI. The structure of s...

(This article belongs to the Section Techno-Social Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,364 Views
39 Pages

A Self-Adaptive Improved Slime Mold Algorithm for Multi-UAV Path Planning

  • Yuelin Ma,
  • Zeren Zhang,
  • Meng Yao and
  • Guoliang Fan

18 March 2025

Multi-UAV path planning presents a critical challenge in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, particularly in environments with various obstacles and restrictions. These conditions transform multi-UAV path planning into a complex optimization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Swarm Intelligence-Inspired Planning and Control for Drones)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,544 Views
31 Pages

24 December 2025

Digital Twins (DTs) integrated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) are emerging as transformative tools in smart manufacturing. By bridging the physical and virtual domains, DTs enable real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and autonomous decision...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
14 Pages

This study conducts a technical analysis of frontier generative AI algorithms—including Meta’s Self-Rewarding Language Models, DeepMind’s EVA (Evolving Alignment via Asymmetric Self-Play) framework, and DeepSeek’s pure reinfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phenomenological Philosophy of Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,555 Views
28 Pages

31 July 2025

This study explores the challenges and theoretical transformations that the widespread application of AI technology in social governance brings to the protection of citizens’ fundamental rights. By examining typical cases in judicial assistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,500 Views
18 Pages

AI-Native PHY-Layer in 6G Orchestrated Spectrum-Aware Networks

  • Partemie-Marian Mutescu,
  • Adrian-Ioan Petrariu,
  • Eugen Coca,
  • Cristian Patachia-Sultanoiu and ,
  • Razvan Marius Mihai and
  • Alexandru Lavric
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 November 2025

The evolution from fifth generation (5G) to sixth generation (6G) networks demands a paradigm shift from AI-assisted functionalities to AI-native orchestration, where intelligence is intrinsic to the radio access network (RAN). This work introduces t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Communications Section 2025–2026)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
17,615 Views
22 Pages

The Future of Education: A Systematic Literature Review of Self-Directed Learning with AI

  • Carmen del Rosario Navas Bonilla,
  • Luis Miguel Viñan Carrasco,
  • Jhoanna Carolina Gaibor Pupiales and
  • Daniel Eduardo Murillo Noriega

13 August 2025

As digital transformation continues to redefine education, understanding how emerging technologies can enhance self-directed learning (SDL) becomes essential for learners, educators, instructional designers, and policymakers, as this approach support...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,326 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2022

Historically, evolution of behaviors often took place in environments that changed little over millennia. By contrast, today, rapid changes to behaviors and environments come from the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and the infrastructur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,900 Views
30 Pages

Artificial Intelligence Enabling Intelligent Solar Energy Systems: Integration and Emerging Directions

  • Rogelio Ochoa-Barragán,
  • Luis David Saavedra-Sánchez,
  • Fabricio Nápoles-Rivera,
  • César Ramírez-Márquez and ,
  • Luis Fernando Lira-Barragán and
  • José María Ponce-Ortega
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 April 2026

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into solar energy systems has emerged as a transformative pathway to enhance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability in renewable energy. This review examines recent advances in AI-driven optimizati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Simulation and Control in Energy Systems—2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,595 Views
42 Pages

Continuous Monitoring with AI-Enhanced BioMEMS Sensors: A Focus on Sustainable Energy Harvesting and Predictive Analytics

  • Mingchen Cai,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Tianyue Yang,
  • Hongxin Hu and ,
  • Xubing Li and
  • Yuan Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 July 2025

Continuous monitoring of environmental and physiological parameters is essential for early diagnostics, real-time decision making, and intelligent system adaptation. Recent advancements in bio-microelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS) sensors have sig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing MEMS/MOEMS Sensors: AI-Driven Optimization and Emerging Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,805 Views
22 Pages

4 January 2025

This article explores the evolution of constructionism as an educational framework, tracing its relevance and transformation across three pivotal eras: the advent of personal computing, the networked society, and the current era of generative AI. Roo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,762 Views
35 Pages

In the healthcare and clinical domain, artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving from earlier models that primarily predicted outcomes or generated content toward agentic AI systems that demonstrate the capability to make decisions and complete tasks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensor and Internet of Medical Things for Smart Healthcare)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,076 Views
19 Pages

A Review of the Intraoperative Use of Artificial Intelligence in Urologic Surgery

  • Arjun Guduguntla,
  • Abdullah Al-Khanaty,
  • Catherine E. Davey,
  • Oneel Patel and ,
  • Anthony Ta and
  • Joseph Ischia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Introduction: Future evolutions of artificial intelligence (AI) will support autonomous surgery, conducted without the need for human decision making and implementation, but we have not yet achieved this level of technology. Presently, the predominan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,513 Views
42 Pages

AI-Driven Cooperative Control for Autonomous Tractors and Implements: A Comprehensive Review

  • Hongjie Jia,
  • Weipeng Chen,
  • Zhihao Su,
  • Yaozu Sun and ,
  • Zhengpeng Qian and
  • Longxia Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the evolution of autonomous agriculture towards multi-agent collaborative control, breaking through the limitations of traditional isolated automation. Although existing research has focused on hierarchical con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transforming Agriculture with Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
531 Views
24 Pages

1 October 2026

This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research on generative-AI/LLM-enabled e-assessment in higher education, drawing on 243 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2023 and 2026 and indexed in the Scopus database. Emp...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI Trends in Teacher and Student Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,197 Views
18 Pages

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Automated Diagnosis

  • Christos B. Zachariadis and
  • Helen C. Leligou

The evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare can shift the route of automated, supervised and computer-aided diagnostic radiology. An extensive literature review was conducted to consider the potential of designing a fully automate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-World Applications of Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Review
  • Open Access
135 Views
27 Pages

1 November 2026

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of civil engineering and materials science has catalyzed a change in basic assumptions in the characterization, design, and optimization of concrete. This comprehensive review paper synth...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,604 Views
20 Pages

A Practical Approach to Defining a Framework for Developing an Agentic AIOps System

  • Răzvan Daniel Zota,
  • Corneliu Bărbulescu and
  • Radu Constantinescu

The increasing complexity of IT operations necessitates advanced automation to ensure system availability, resilience, continuity, performance, security, and maintainability. Traditional IT management frameworks, such as the Information Technology In...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
104 Citations
15,114 Views
30 Pages

1 August 2022

The recent upsurge of smart cities’ applications and their building blocks in terms of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), federated and distributed learning, big data analytics, blockchain, and edge-cloud computing has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Methods for Smart Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,077 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2022

The architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry is evolving rapidly. In particular, technological advancements and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic are shaping the industry’s future. Various artificial intel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,912 Views
30 Pages

17 April 2025

The integration of Deep Learning with sensor technologies has significantly advanced the field of intelligent sensing and decision making by enhancing perceptual capabilities and delivering sophisticated data analysis and processing functionalities....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,947 Views
20 Pages

Anxiety among Medical Students Regarding Generative Artificial Intelligence Models: A Pilot Descriptive Study

  • Malik Sallam,
  • Kholoud Al-Mahzoum,
  • Yousef Meteb Almutairi,
  • Omar Alaqeel and ,
  • Anan Abu Salami,
  • Zaid Elhab Almutairi,
  • Alhur Najem Alsarraf and
  • Muna Barakat
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2024

Despite the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence (genAI), concerns about its psychological impact on medical students, especially about job displacement, are apparent. This pilot study, conducted in Jordan during July–August...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advancements in Medical Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,245 Views
17 Pages

A Survey on Population-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Weifan Long,
  • Taixian Hou,
  • Xiaoyi Wei,
  • Shichao Yan and ,
  • Peng Zhai and
  • Lihua Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 May 2023

Many real-world applications can be described as large-scale games of imperfect information, which require extensive prior domain knowledge, especially in competitive or human–AI cooperation settings. Population-based training methods have beco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Their Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,908 Views
28 Pages

20 February 2026

The rapid proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), including photovoltaics, wind power, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles, has transformed traditional power systems into highly decentralized and data-rich environments. Virtua...

(This article belongs to the Collection Review Papers in Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,143 Views
34 Pages

Driven by the rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, the computing power industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from traditional linear supply chains toward complex, interdependent innovation ecosystems. This study investigates t...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
56,090 Views
34 Pages

18 September 2024

This paper reviews the digital transformation of grocery shopping, focusing on the technological innovations that have redefined consumer experiences over the past decades. By analyzing both academic literature and up-to-date information from website...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Security and Sustainability)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
97 Citations
26,983 Views
20 Pages

LLM Fine-Tuning: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges

  • Xiao-Kun Wu,
  • Min Chen,
  • Wanyi Li,
  • Rui Wang and ,
  • Limeng Lu,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Kai Hwang,
  • Yixue Hao,
  • Yanru Pan and
  • Fei-Yue Wang
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

As a foundation of large language models, fine-tuning drives rapid progress, broad applicability, and profound impacts on human–AI collaboration, surpassing earlier technological advancements. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of lar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,540 Views
33 Pages

12 January 2026

The rapid evolution of wireless communication toward Fifth Generation (5G) networks has enabled unprecedented performance improvement in terms of data rate, latency, reliability, sustainability, and connectivity. Recent years have witnessed an excess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shaping the Future of Green Networking: Integrated Approaches of Joint Intelligence, Communication, Sensing, and Resilience for 6G)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
896 Views
29 Pages

9 September 2026

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical practice is a paradigmatic transformation that compels a reconsideration of the very conceptual structure of bioethics. We argue that this transformation is the local symptom of a wider mut...

(This article belongs to the Section The Social Nature of Health and Well-Being)
  • Review
  • Open Access
268 Citations
22,176 Views
42 Pages

Distributed Energy Resources and the Application of AI, IoT, and Blockchain in Smart Grids

  • Nallapaneni Manoj Kumar,
  • Aneesh A. Chand,
  • Maria Malvoni,
  • Kushal A. Prasad and ,
  • Kabir A. Mamun,
  • F.R. Islam and
  • Shauhrat S. Chopra
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 November 2020

Smart grid (SG), an evolving concept in the modern power infrastructure, enables the two-way flow of electricity and data between the peers within the electricity system networks (ESN) and its clusters. The self-healing capabilities of SG allow the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, IoT and Block Chain Assisted Intelligent Solutions to Energy Efficient and Sustainable Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,733 Views
20 Pages

Elevation Changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from Joint Envisat and CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry

  • Baojun Zhang,
  • Zemin Wang,
  • Quanming Yang,
  • Jingbin Liu and ,
  • Jiachun An,
  • Fei Li,
  • Tingting Liu and
  • Hong Geng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 November 2020

The elevation changes of ice sheets have been recognized as an essential climate variable. Long-term time series of these changes are an important parameter to understand climate change, and the longest time-series of ice sheet elevation changes can...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,413 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2025

Multi-target drug design represents a paradigm shift in tackling the complexity and heterogeneity of diseases such as cancer. Conventional single-target therapies frequently face limitations due to network redundancy, pathway compensation, and adapti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 25th Anniversary of IJMS: Updates and Advances in Molecular Pharmacology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
343 Citations
81,403 Views
45 Pages

27 November 2024

Deep learning (DL) has become a core component of modern artificial intelligence (AI), driving significant advancements across diverse fields by facilitating the analysis of complex systems, from protein folding in biology to molecular discovery in c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
264 Views
24 Pages

Self-Adaptive Learning Using Test Case Selection in Grammatical Evolution for the Automatic Design of Digital Circuits

  • Krishn Kumar Gupt,
  • Meghana Kshirsagar,
  • Rajkumar Sarma,
  • Douglas Mota Dias and ,
  • Joseph P. Sullivan and
  • Conor Ryan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 September 2026

In today’s digital age, the demand for increasingly complex digital circuits spans applications ranging from watches to spacecraft. To meet this demand, circuit design automation using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a key solution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Chips)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,137 Views
23 Pages

10 December 2025

A special class of complex adaptive systems—biological and social—thrive not by passively accumulating patterns, but by engineering coherence, i.e., the deliberate alignment of prior knowledge, real-time updates, and teleonomic purposes....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,897 Views
19 Pages

Design and Optimization of Stacked Wideband On-Body Antenna with Parasitic Elements and Defected Ground Structure for Biomedical Applications Using SB-SADEA Method

  • Mariana Amador,
  • Mobayode O. Akinsolu,
  • Qiang Hua,
  • João Cardoso and ,
  • Daniel Albuquerque and
  • Pedro Pinho
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The ability to measure vital signs using electromagnetic waves has been extensively investigated as a less intrusive method capable of assessing different biosignal sources while using a single device. On-body antennas, when directly coupled to the h...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,437 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2024

Cancers of unknown primary (CUP) exhibit significant cellular heterogeneity and malignancy, which poses significant challenges for diagnosis and treatment. Recent years have seen deeper insights into the imaging, pathology, and genetic characteristic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Perspective of Advanced Nanotechnology for Bio-Sensing, Imaging and Cancer Therapy)

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