Special Issues

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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Application of Chemometrics and Machine Learning in Cultural Heritage Analysis submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4657 | Submission Open
Keywords: chemometrics; machine learning; data science for cultural heritage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Application of Information Systems
edited by , and Henrique Mamede
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4603 | Submission Open
Keywords: information systems; digital transition; digital business ecosystems; digital business; information systems security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics
edited by Nan Ma, Taohong Zhang and Yang Yang
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4421 | Submission Open
Keywords: autonomous vehicle; intelligent interaction; self-driving environment perception; machine vision; visual understanding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Visual Processing
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4072 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; deep learning; visual processing; video technology; biomedical image processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Characterization of Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidants in Natural Products
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4027 | Submission Open
Keywords: bioactive compounds; antioxidant activity; polyphenols; anthocyanins; flavonoids; carotenoids; lignans; plant sterols; health properties of food; extraction techniques
(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
Novel Liquid Crystal Materials and Applications submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3808 | Submission Open
Keywords: liquid crystals; polymers; interfacial phenomena; dynamic interaction; functional materials; polarization optics; polarization holograms; displays; imaging; sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
Feature Review Papers in "Robotics and Automation" Section submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3675 | Submission Open
Keywords: industry 4.0; automation; robotics; cyber-physical systems; artificial intelligence; digital twin; sensing; modelling; simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
Fault Classification and Detection Using Artificial Intelligence submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3619 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; artificial neural network; fault classification; pattern recognition; supervised learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Laser Material Processing and Thermal Joining Process
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3597 | Submission Open
Keywords: laser material processing; e.g. laser welding (cw and pw); surface structuring; thermal joining processes; e.g. friction stir welding; ultrasonic welding; innovative process design and technology; e.g. adjustable intensity distributions in laser material processing; tool design in friction stir welding; dynamic behavior of processes and tools; e.g. keyhole stability and tool wear; systems engineering including fixture design; process monitoring and control; joining of similar and dissimilar materials; e.g. steel-steel; aluminum-copper; aluminum-steel; metal-plastic; optimization; modelling and simulation; seam defects; formation mechanismns and avoidance; structural performance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
Sustainable Energy and Fuels from Biomass and Plastic Waste submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3581 | Submission Open
Keywords: plastic waste; pyrolysis; gasification; hydrothermal treatment; biomass; fuels; conversion technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Railway Structure and Track Engineering
edited by Xinwen Yang and Kai Zhou
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3451 | Submission Open
Keywords: railway structure; track engineering
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Dielectric Photonic Devices & Systems beyond Visible II - Merging Optics and Microwave submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3083 | Submission Open
Keywords: novel dielectric materials for NIR; Mid-IR; THz devices; rare earth based materials and devices; NIR and Mid-IR coherent light sources; supercontinuum generation; PBG devices; Metallo-dielectric photonic crystals; plasmonics; microresonators; integrated optics; components and system for biomedicine; interaction of light with biological tissues; optical diagnostic and therapy; microwave photonics applications and Radio-over-fibre transmission; optical 5G; optical antennas; THz and millimetre wave components; systems and applications; integration of microwave and optics; aerospace photonics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
Recent Advances in Intelligent Distributed Computing and Its Applications
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2856 | Submission Open
Keywords: intelligent distributed computing; learning-based resource management; data-driven network optimization; big data analysis; social network analysis; federated learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Machine Perception and Learning
edited by Yi Ding
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2848 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI-related brain and cognitive science; machine perception and human– machine interaction; machine learning and data mining; multimodal emotion recognition; pattern recognition and computer vision; signal processing and recognition; medical image processing; semi-supervised and weakly supervised learning; intelligent information processing; natural language processing; network intelligence and mobile computing; intelligent control and decision; robotics and intelligent systems; auto-ML; information fusion from disparate sources
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Latest Advances in Environmental Engineering: Approaches to the Management and Treatment of Water, Air and Waste submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2752 | Submission Open
Keywords: water treatment; advanced oxidation processes; WWTP optimization; air pollution; waste management; material and energy recovery; environmental engineering; modeling of pollutants dispersion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)
Structural Health Monitoring: Latest Applications and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2747 | Submission Open
Keywords: structural health monitoring; electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation; technical diagnostics; magnetic methods; thermovision; high-frequency electromagnetic methods; ultrasound methods; radiography; multi-sensor measuring systems; sensors network; multi-source data mining and fusion; data processing; image processing; numerical modelling; optimisation; neural networks; machine vision; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
edited by Gloria Iyawa and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2702 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital health; artificial intelligence; machine learning; responsible AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Application of New Technology and New Ideas in Intelligent Transportation System
edited by and Shidong Liang
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2602 | Submission Open
Keywords: connected automatic vehicles; safe driving assistance; vehicle control system; advanced public transportation system; rail transit system; the key technologies of intelligent transportation; operating vehicle management system; traffic big data analysis; information acquisition system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Advanced Research on Smart Cities Based on Data Processing and Intelligent Computing
edited by Yujie Tang and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2535 | Submission Open
Keywords: smart city; data processing; intelligent computing; machine learning; deep learning; reinforcement learning; experiment and validation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Science and Health Technology for Health Promotion: With a Focus on Applied Health Research submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2466 | Submission Open
Keywords: health promotion; health technology; healthy life; lifestyle factors; public health; rural health; women’ s health; men’ s health; chronic disease; primary care; musculoskeletal health; exercise physiology; physical activity; nutrition and dietetics; cardiac rehabilitation; applied nursing and health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Spectroscopic Techniques in Biomedical Imaging and Analysis submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2464 | Submission Open
Keywords: UV/visible spectroscopy; near IR spectroscopy; fluorescence spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; hyperspectral imaging; biomedical; imaging; diagnostic
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
Quantum Computation in Quantum Science
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2450 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum information; quantum communication; quantum algorithms; quantum machine learning; quantum cryptography; quantum key distribution; quantum blockchain; quantum error correction; quantum image processing; quantum games
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
Recent Advances in Microwave Photonics
edited by and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2399 | Submission Open
Keywords: microwave photonics; integrated microwave photonics; microwave photonic link; microwave photonic signal processor; optoelectronic oscillator; radio over fiber
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
New Advances for Open-Domain Information Mining in Theories and Applications submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2377 | Submission Open
Keywords: open-domain information extraction; structured-friendly and semantically information mining; open-domain knowledge structure construction and learning; applications in open-domain environments; explainable AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Cross Applications of Interactive Smart System and Virtual Reality
edited by and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2358 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI; AR/VR/XR/Metaverse; smart system; interactive system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
Advances in Performance of Mortar, Concrete and Composites Based on Portland and Alternative Binders submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2252 | Submission Open
Keywords: alkali-activated materials; geopolymers; building materials; calcium solfoaluminate binders; cementitious compo-sites; hybrid binders; calcinated clays; fly ash; blast furnace slag; natural pozzolans; waste management; immobili-zation of; toxic wastes; foamed and lightweight concretes; mortars; grouts and renders; reinforced concrete; precast concrete; corrosion; durability; environmental assessment; material processing; rheology; performance-based speci-fications; activators; additives; natural fibers; fiber-reinforced mortars and concrete; textile-reinforced mortars (TRM); harsh exposure; FRCM; 3D printing; supplementary cementitious materials; nanomaterials; unconventional reinforcement; recycled aggregates; waste; phase-change materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Waste Valorization, Green Technologies and Circular Economy submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2198 | Submission Open
Keywords: waste valorization; life cycle assessment; circular economy; recycling; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
Advanced Sensors for Postural or Gait Stability Assessment
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2099 | Submission Open
Keywords: gait recognition; wearable sensors; MEMS; posture detection; deep learning; CNN; bidirectional LSTM
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
Polymer Surface Treatments for Drug Delivery and Wound Healing
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2004 | Submission Open
Keywords: polymer; surface modification; nanocarriers; lipid nanoparticles; wound healing; drug delivery; targeting; inorganic nanoparticles; bioavailability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
Power Systems Stability in Current and Future Scenarios
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1982 | Submission Open
Keywords: power systems control; power systems stability; power systems dynamics; frequency stability; voltage stability; oscillatory stability; system inertia; system strength; system damping; power converters; grid-following; grid-forming
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Electromagnetic Detection Instruments and Signal Processing
edited by , and Haigen Zhou
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1971 | Submission Open
Keywords: EM instrument; resonance transmitting; noise suppression; signal processing; intelligence algorithm; data analysis; calibration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Advanced Technologies and Applications of High-Performance Computing and Parallel Computing
edited by and Liang Yuan
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1811 | Submission Open
Keywords: performance optimization; performance evaluation; parallel algorithms; parallel programming models; HPC applications; HPC in AI; big data; hardware/software co-design; performance and energy efficiency/benchmarks; performance tuning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Advances in Fuel Cell Renewable Hybrid Power Systems
edited by , Enrique Sanchis and Marcos López
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1784 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable transportation; green hydrogen; fuel cell technology; proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs); fuel cell electric vehicles; innovative materials; decarbonized powertrains; hybrid propulsion systems; energy storage solutions; renewable energy integration; infrastructure development; economic and environmental assessments
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
Advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems
edited by Seoungbum Kim and Joyoung Lee
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1750 | Submission Open
Keywords: cooperative intelligence transportation systems; vehicle sensor data-based analysis; ITS applications of emerging technologies in traffic operation; road maintenance; road safety; and environment; automated highway systems; application of AI and machine learning for ITS; real-time applications of ITS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Recent Advances in Ultrafast Laser Pulses
edited by Qian Li
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1740 | Submission Open
Keywords: ultrafast laser pulses; mode-locked laser; supercontinuum generation; low-noise laser; pulse compression
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
Computational Sensing and Imaging II
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submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1649 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational photography for 3D imaging; depth estimation and three-dimensional sensing; medical imaging (CT/MRI/PET image reconstruction); image restoration and denoising; image registration and super-resolution imaging; high-speed imaging systems and bandwidth reduction; computational sensing for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS); synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; seismic imaging; ultrasound imaging; computational sensing for advanced image signal processor (ISP); deep learning for image reconstruction; remote sensing and UAV image processing; under-water imaging and dehazing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Novel Approaches for Software Security
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1562 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI Security; HCI security and privacy; blockchain security; automobile security; web security; cloud security; authentication and authorization; applications of security techniques; trustworthy computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Internet of Things (IoT) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Construction Industry
edited by and Li Sun
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1442 | Submission Open
Keywords: Internet of Things; building information modelling; artificial intelligence; green building; sustainable construction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Design, Analysis, Intelligent Control and Optimization of Industrial and Manufacturing Processes submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1378 | Submission Open
Keywords: manufacturing engineering; manufacturing processes; smart manufacturing; high-precision manufacturing; Industry 4.0; supply chain management; logistics; smart logistics; internet of things (IoT); additive manufacturing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; processes and manufacturing design; processes and manufacturing analysis; processes and manufacturing intelligent control and optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
Advances in Audio and Video Processing submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1240 | Submission Open
Keywords: immersive media: immersive video and audio processing and coding; real-time immersive video applications; high QoE video and audio systems; objective quality assessment; neural networks in audiovisual data processing and coding; new audio and video compression standards
(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
Tunnel and Underground Engineering: Recent Advances and Challenges
edited by , Yuwei Zhang and Naifei Liu
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1229 | Submission Open
Keywords: tunnel engineering; underground engineering; intelligent construction; rock mechanics; numerical simulation; model tests
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Technical Advances in Optimal Control and Controller Design submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1225 | Submission Open
Keywords: adaptive control systems; stochastic systems; optimization method; artificial intelligence; network architecture; reinforcement learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
Advances and Challenges in Wind Turbine Mechanics
edited by , Małgorzata A. Śmiałek, and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1151 | Submission Open
Keywords: wind turbine design; wind turbine experimental research; wind turbine simulations; wind turbine optimization; wind potential assessment; wind turbine data processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Biofilms and Their Relevance in Cultural Heritage and Building Materials: Trends, Challenges and New Perspectives submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1122 | Submission Open
Keywords: biofouling; cultural heritage; art; biodeterioration; bioreceptivity; building materials; conservation; restoration; new treatments; challenges; climate changes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
Recent Advances in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Catalysis
edited by and Stefano Dughera
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1116 | Submission Open
Keywords: green chemistry; sustainability; sustainable catalysis; organocatalysis; photocatalysis; biomass valorization; renewable feedstocks; green metrics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
Smart Condition Monitoring and Maintenance in Mechanical Systems
edited by , , and Yang Liu
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1112 | Submission Open
Keywords: signal processing; machine learning; feature engineering; image processing; machine vision; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
Feature Review Papers in ‘Transportation and Future Mobility’ Section
edited by David Fernández-Llorca, and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1089 | Submission Open
Keywords: transportation; traffic; future mobility
(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
Advanced Techniques in Tunnelling
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1059 | Submission Open
Keywords: rock mechanics; laboratory test; numerical simulation; theoretical analysis; deep rock mass engineering; in-field monitoring
(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
Underground Energy Storage in Mining and Tunneling Engineering
edited by , Bo Yu and
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1040 | Submission Open
Keywords: underground natural gas storage; underground hydrogen storage; aquifer thermal energy storage; underground compressed air storage; hydrogen energy; geothermal energy; depleted oil/gas reservoirs; salt carven; reservoir simulation; mathematical modeling; experiments; computational algorithms; case study; industrial application
(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
From Fundamental Research to Application of Bio-Inspired, Bio-Hybrid, and Soft Robotics
edited by and Daisuke Kurabayashi
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1012 | Submission Open
Keywords: bio-inspired/bio-hybrid/soft robotics; behavioral algorithms; cyborg; embedded intelligence; ethology/neuroethology; soft materials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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