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Applied Sciences publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Advances in Geosciences: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

edited by

Bogdan Grecu

and

Dragos Tataru

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7948 | Submission Open

Keywords: geoscience; natural hazards; seismology; applied geophysics; GNSS; GIS; societal challenges

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Research and Development in Orthopaedic Biomechanics

edited by

Leonidas Spyrou

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4414 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical devices; medical imaging; tissue mechanics and mechanobiology; mechanical testing; numerical simulation; implant; orthotic; prosthetic; musculoskeletal modelling; motion analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Recent Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Bioinformatics

edited by

Zhibin Lv

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3946 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; epigenomics; epitranscriptomics; functional genomics; genomics; machine learning; metabolomics; proteomics; transcriptomics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

New Insights into Green Chemistry

edited by

Rafael F.A. Gomes

and

Svilen P. Simeonov

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3726 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; green chemistry; catalysis; biomass; process intensification; green metrics; renewable energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Intelligent Detection and Identification System Based on Computer Vision Technology

edited by

Liqin Cao

, Xuan Zhang and

Lifei Wei

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3185 | Submission Open

Keywords: target detection and identification; computer vision; artificial intelligence; machine learning and deep learning; learning automata; detection dataset

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

New Insights into Food Analysis Methods

edited by

Sylwia Onacik-Gür

Katarzyna Marciniak-Lukasiak

and

Anna Zbikowska

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3107 | Submission Open

Keywords: food analysis; food quality; food safety; nutritional value; analytical techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Physics Applications

edited by

Donato Cascio

and

Vincenzo Taormina

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2871 | Submission Open

Keywords: signal processing; machine learning; applied physics; deep learning; big data analysis; pattern recognition; clustering; classification; physics-inspired ML algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Application of Municipal/Industrial Solid and Liquid Waste in Energy Area, 2nd Edition

edited by

Janusz Lasek

Chao-Wei Huang

and

Yueh-Heng Li

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2564 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste-to-energy; municipal solid waste (MSW); industrial solid and liquid waste (IW); waste thermal treatment (torrefaction/pyrolysis/gasification/combustion); MSW and IW in energy storage technologies; MSW and IW in hydrogen technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Electroencephalography (EEG) in Assessment of Engagement and Workload

edited by

Yelena Tonoyan

Giacinto Barresi

and

Honglin Hu

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1977 | Submission Open

Keywords: electroencephalography (EEG); mental workload; engagement; brain– computer interface (BCI)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Novel Thermal and Non-thermal Technologies towards Sustainability and Microbiological Food Safety and Quality

edited by

Sotirios Oikonomou

and Anastasia Kyriakoudi

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal technologies; non-thermal technologies; high hydrostatic pressure; cold plasma; food microbiology; food safety; food quality; shelf life; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Computing for Network Security

edited by

Khalid Mahmood

and

Saleh Mobayen

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1487 | Submission Open

Keywords: computing; artificial intelligence; network security; cybersecurity; cyberattack; cybercrime; cyberphysical system; cryptography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Environmental Pollutant: Analysis, Monitoring and Emerging Processes for Abatement

edited by

Iván Sciscenko

and

Ana María Amat

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1333 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced oxidation processes; catalysis; contaminant of emerging concern; chemometrics; environmental remediation; monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Geospatial Technology: Modern Applications and Their Impact

edited by

Laramie Potts

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1152 | Submission Open

Keywords: reality capture; AI; machine learning; visualization; multi-criteria decision analysis; geoAI; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Recent Applications of Big Data Management and Analytics

edited by

Talha Ali Khan

and

Steve Ling

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1012 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; data management; database; data engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Optical Imaging in Biomedical Engineering

edited by Yi Wang

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1004 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Food Microbiology Safety and Quality Control

edited by Ruiling Lv and Xinyu Liao

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 955 | Submission Open

Keywords: food safety; foodborne pathogens; food control; non-thermal processing; micro risk; sterilization; rapid detection; foodborne diseases; antimicrobial

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Industrial Agents: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

edited by

Oskar Casquero

and

Aintzane Armentia

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial agents; industrial cyber– physical systems; fourth industrial revolution; industry 4.0; IEEE 2660.1; VDI 2653; reference architectural model industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0); industrial internet reference architecture (IIRA)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Improving Medical Treatment and Healthcare Systems

edited by

Giacomo Cappon

and

Martina Vettoretti

submission deadline 10 May 2024 | Viewed by 290 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced healthcare methods; personalized medicine; explainable artificial intelligence and machine learning; decision support systems; advanced algorithms in medicine; diagnostic artificial intelligence and machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Production, Treatment, Utilization and Future Opportunities of Biogas

edited by

Carlos Rico de la Hera

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13366 | Submission Open

Keywords: biogas upgrading; biomethane; co-digestion; digester; liquefaction; manure; waste to energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Artificial Intelligence in Complex Networks (2nd Edition)

edited by

and

submission deadline 18 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2621 | Submission Open

Keywords: maximum likelihood; artificial intelligence methods in complex networks; artificial intelligence methods in criminal networks; community detection; network mining; methods for the analysis of network structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Manufacturing Sustainability in a Circular Economy

edited by

Andrew Yeh Ching Nee

and

Soh Khim Ong

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 31725 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)

Challenges in the Guidance, Navigation and Control of Autonomous and Transport Vehicles

edited by

Nadjim Horri

William Holderbaum

and

Fabrizio Giulietti

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 18 articles | Viewed by 31046 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous; aircraft; automotive; robot; guidance; navigation; control; optimal; robust; adaptive; system identification; constraints

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

Advances in Wireless Communication Technologies

edited by

Paulo M. Mendes

Jose Cabral

and

Hugo Daniel da Costa Dinis

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 22885 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless communications; IoT; wireless sensor networks; environmental monitoring; healthcare monitoring; underwater communication; space; aeronautics; smart cities; autonomous vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Damage Monitoring and Defect Identification Based on Deep/Machine Learning

edited by

Zengshun Chen

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 22360 | Submission Open

Keywords: structure safety; damage detection; artificial intelligence; health monitoring; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Text Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing

edited by

Ahmed Rafea

and

Julian Szymanski

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 21515 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification; clustering; document embedding; information extraction; knowledge extraction; summarization; sentiment analysis; opinion mining; topic modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Technologies for Emotion Recognition

edited by

Xavier Baró Solé

, Xiaoming Zhang and

Sergio Escalera

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 20473 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advances in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery

edited by

Keiji Shinozuka

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 19164 | Submission Open

Keywords: molecular target treatment; exosomal microRNA; dentofacial deformity; computational fluid dynamics; oral disease

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Intelligent Systems

edited by

Weiran Yao

Ligang Wu

and

Xiaojie Su

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 14 articles | Viewed by 18348 | Submission Open

Keywords: mobile robotic systems; intelligent systems; autonomous unmanned systems; task planning; motion planning and control; robust and secure control; intelligent control; perception and cognition; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Recent Advances in Image Processing

edited by

and

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 17904 | Submission Open

Keywords: image processing; image enhancement; deep learning; image understanding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Sports Medicine and Injury Prevention

edited by

Eileen M. Wanke

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 17628 | Submission Open

Keywords: performing arts medicine; prevention; psychomental demands; physical demands; rehabilitation; injuries; nutrition; COVID-19; occupational hazards

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Mechanics, Damage Properties and Impacts of Coal Mining

edited by

Hai Pu

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 16 articles | Viewed by 16829 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep mining; rock mechanics; multi-field and multi-phase coupling; damage mechanics; dynamic disaster

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Future Perspectives and Challenges

edited by

Sergio Montelpare

and

Camilla Lops

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15180 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovative materials for buildings; climate changes and buildings; building adaptive solutions; buildings skins; smart HVAC systems; renewable energies for buildings; LCA and LCC; new energy storage and distributions options; novel sustainability strategies; innovative building analyses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Dynamic Models of Biology and Medicine, Volume III

edited by

Yang Kuang

Kevin Flores

and

Erica Rutter

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14669 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamic system; mathematical biology; mathematical medicine; simulation; stability; bifurcation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Spectral Detection: Technologies and Applications

edited by

Xihui Bian

Jin Yu

and Qunbo Lv

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 14 articles | Viewed by 14597 | Submission Open

Keywords: chemometrics; multispectral detection; hyper-spectral detection; spectral analysis; spectral imaging; spectral sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Application, Optimization and Architecture of Deep Learning Neural Network

edited by

Haigang Gong

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 13773 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; artificial intelligence; reinforcement learning; image detection and segmentation; forecasting using deep networks; predications using deep networks; applications of deep learning neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Existing Bridges: From Inspection to Structural Rehabilitation

edited by

Pier Paolo Rossi

and

Nino Spinella

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13029 | Submission Open

Keywords: existing bridges; monitoring; management; numerical modelling; rehabilitation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

State-of-the-Art in Energy Harvesting for IoT and WSN

edited by

Alessandro Lo Schiavo

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11396 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

AI-Based Biomedical Signal Processing

edited by

Agnese Sbrollini

and

Aurora Saibene

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11173 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; biomedical signal processing; filtering and denoising; machine and deep learning; clinical decision support systems; cognitive computing; computer vision; interpretability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Advances in the IoT and Smart Cities

edited by

Christos Markides

Achilleas Achilleos

and

Georgia Kapitsaki

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11156 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); smart sustainable cities; IoT and smart city platforms; smart city services and applications; smart sustainable city enabling technologies; intelligent infrastructure; smart city governance; big data analytics; data security and privacy; sensors and actuators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Antimicrobial Substances in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production

edited by

Daniela Gwiazdowska

Katarzyna Marchwińska

and Krzysztof Juś

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10265 | Submission Open

Keywords: antimicrobial; food chain safety; plant protection; packaging; sustainable agriculture and food production; microbial hazard control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Advanced Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality: Immersive Applications and Innovative Techniques

edited by

Chaman Sabharwal

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10085 | Submission Open

Keywords: virtual reality; augmented reality; digital; immersion; AR and AI; 3D graphics; animation; emerging; interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Materials in 3D Printing

edited by

Carlos Miguel Santos Vicente

and

Marco Leite

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9160 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced materials; 3D printing; additive manufacturing; raw materials for 3D printing (powders; filaments; resins); process validation of new 3D printing materials; 3D printing with composite materials; additive manufacturing of metals and alloys; high performance polymers; materials from renewable sources and recycling; conductive and magnetic materials for 3D printing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Real-Time Systems and Industrial Internet of Things

edited by

Xi Jin

Changqing Xia

and

Chi Xu

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9061 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial IoT; real-time systems; knowledge graph; scheduling; computation offloading; tracking; automatic navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

Design, Optimization and Performance Analysis of Soft Robots

edited by

Kristin Payrebrune

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8732 | Submission Open

Keywords: soft robotics; robot design and fabrication; optimization; experimental and numerical characterization; simulation and learning techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)

Blockchain and Intelligent Networking for Smart Applications

edited by

Zheng Chang

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8484 | Submission Open

Keywords: blockchain; artificial intelligence; edge/cloud/fog computing; smart industry; smart city; smart applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Secure Integration of IoT & Digital Twins

edited by

Christos L. Stergiou

and

Konstantinos E. Psannis

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8405 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twins; security; integrated model; Internet of Things; big data; cloud computing; management; efficient

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Recent Advances and Applications in X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

edited by

Wolfram Helml

and Ryan Coffee

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8116 | Submission Open

Keywords: free-electron lasers; attosecond X-ray science; charge transport; nonlinear X-ray– matter interactions; photochemistry; ultrafast spin switching; coherent control; time-resolved X-ray imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Innovative Power Electronic Technologies

edited by

Mostafa I. Marei

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7942 | Submission Open

Keywords: converter topologies; control strategies; electric vehicles; electrical drives; microgrids; modeling of power converters; power electronics converters; power electronics devices; renewable energy systems; residential and industrial applications; storage energy systems; switching techniques

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)