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Advances in Sport Science: Athlete Development and Performance

edited by

William Guyton Hornsby

submission deadline 28 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3534 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport science; athlete monitoring; performance testing; coach education

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

Stress Analysis of Innovative Construction Materials

edited by Matteo Pelliciari and Vladislav Kozak

submission deadline 28 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel materials; nanomaterials and nanocomposites; composites for construction; mechanical behavior; analytical; numerical; and experimental analyses; finite element; linear and nonlinear elasticity

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

Elastic Waves and Acoustic Emission for Innovative Monitoring of Structures and Engineering Systems

edited by

Kanji Ono

and

Victor Giurgiutiu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 56604 | Submission Open

Keywords: Elastic wave NDE methods; Acoustic emission (AE); Structural health monitoring (SHM); Structural evaluation; crack signal discrimination; Extreme environments; NDE with Artificial Intelligence; Remote monitoring; Sensor and wireless technology; AE for quality control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)

New Trends in Long-Life Road Infrastructures: Materials and Structures

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 19 articles | Viewed by 20778 | Submission Open

Keywords: road infrastructures; long-life pavement; road materials; subgrade; multiscale characterization; laboratory test; numerical simulation; field construction; design method

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Advanced Imaging in Orthopedic Biomechanics

edited by

Claudio Belvedere

and

Sorin Siegler

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 18804 | Submission Open

Keywords: medical imaging; biomechanics; othopedics; computer tomography; magnetic resonance; joint modeling; joint prosthesis design; orthopedic diagnosis

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

Autonomous Vehicles: Technology and Application

edited by

Yi Han

and

Xiaojun Tan

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 16706 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous vehicles; new energy vehicles; cluster control for unmanned systems application; computer vision; smart driving

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

Near-Infrared Optical Tomography

edited by

Yoko Hoshi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16267 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical properties of biological tissue; functional imaging; radiative transfer equation; photon diffusion equation; image reconstruction algorithm; artificial intelligence; phantom experiment; pre-clinical and clinical application; fluorescence

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

Advances in Intelligent Control and Engineering Applications

edited by

Eloy Irigoyen

Javier Sanchís

and

Pedro Cabrera

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14840 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent control; soft computing techniques; modelling and simulation; engineering applications; multiobjective optimization; real-time control solutions

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

Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Renewable Energy Systems

edited by

Seongsoo Cho

and

Bhanu Shrestha

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 14324 | Submission Open

Keywords: hybrid fuzzy systems; artificial intelligence and fuzzy systems; intelligent systems; socio cyber‒-physical systems; environmental engineering; smart cities; healthcare; security; visualization; manufacturing systems; logistics; telecommunication; infrastructure; transportation; methods and approaches of design; development and application of fuzzy systems

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

Advanced Technology in Speech and Acoustic Signal Processing

edited by

Dong Wang

and

Andrew Abel

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13011 | Submission Open

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

Feature Papers in Section 'Applied Thermal Engineering'

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12787 | Submission Open

Keywords: combustion energy and power; low-carbon thermal engineering; heat transfer technologies; engineering thermodynamics; renewable energy; building energy conservation; zero-emission technologies; energy conversion; energy storage and heat storage; hydrogen and ammonia combustion; solar photothermal technology; battery thermal management; thermal management of electronic devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)

The Mobilization, Speciation and Transformation of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Soil-Groundwater Ecosystems

edited by

Yizhi Sheng

, Wanjun Jiang and Min Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 13 articles | Viewed by 11411 | Submission Open

Keywords: contaminant hydrogeochemistry; isotopic hydrogeochemistry; remediation of contaminants in soil and groundwater; biogeochemical processes in multi-interfaces

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advance in Processing and Quality Control of Dairy Products

edited by

Roberto Anedda

and

Elena Curti

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10758 | Submission Open

Keywords: dairy innovation; science towards technology; imaging; fraud; non-invasive analysis; in-line analysis; quality assurance; quality control

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

Computer Methods in Mechanical, Civil and Biomedical Engineering

edited by

Jakub Krzysztof Grabski

Chia-Ming Fan

and

Po-Wei Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9585 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical methods; finite element method; meshless methods; radial basis functions; method of fundamental solutions; artificial intelligence; artificial neural networks; evolutionary algorithms; direct and inverse problems

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

Applied Computer Vision in Industry and Agriculture

edited by

Salik Khanal

and

Vitor Filipe

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9310 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine vision; computer vision; agriculture automation; industry automation

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

Feature Review Papers in Civil Engineering

edited by

Daniel Dias

L. Di Sarno

and

Dimitrios Nalmpantis

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9066 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Manufacturing Systems Operations and Engineering

edited by

Arkadiusz Gola

R.M. Chandima Ratnayake

and

Martin Krajcovic

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8295 | Submission Open

Keywords: manufacturing systems; operations management; manufacturing system engineering; manufacturing technologies; optimization; industry 4.0

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

Advances in Signal and Image Processing for Biomedical Applications

edited by

Bo Yang

Bo Jin

and

Xiaoyan Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6761 | Submission Open

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

Pathways for Water Conservation

edited by

Ana Maria Antão Geraldes

and

Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6509 | Submission Open

Keywords: water conservation; water scarcity; nature-based solutions; water efficiency; water contaminants removal; urban water circularity; water sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Pollution Control Chemistry II

edited by

Carmen Zaharia

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6097 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental analysis and control; environmental chemistry; environment characteristic; environmental remediation/depollution; monitoring; quality; treatment

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

Heat Treatment of Metals

edited by

Giulia Stornelli

and

Andrea Di Schino

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5901 | Submission Open

Keywords: microstructure; metals and alloys; heat treatments; properties; simulation model

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

Geothermal System: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

edited by

Hong Li

and

Na Wu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5759 | Submission Open

Keywords: geothermal system; geothermal reservoir construction techniques; drilling and completion techniques; microseismic monitoring techniques; optimal design and evaluation; heat and mass transfer; application of artificial intelligence; rock mechanics; lifecycle analysis; financial; environmental and safety risk assessment in geothermal development; numerical simulation of coupled multiphysical fields of geothermal energy extraction processes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)

Artificial Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis and Signal Processing

edited by

Roque A. Osornio-Rios

Athanasios Karlis

and

Andres Bustillo Iglesias

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5567 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural networks; machine learning; sensors; novelty detection; data mining; signal processing methods; signal processing implementation; FPGA; HIL; industrial applications

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

Autonomous Formation Systems: Guidance, Dynamics and Control

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5477 | Submission Open

Keywords: spacecraft formation; constellation systems; robotics; aircraft systems; mission management and trajectory planning; guidance; dynamics; and control; swarm intelligence of networked systems

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

Smart Geotechnical Engineering

edited by Jiwei Zhang, Hui Cao and Song Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5405 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotechnical design; computational method; numerical model; intelligent geotechnical monitoring; data mining; expert system; intelligent field survey; theoretical model; physical model; construction technology; engineering disaster assessment; intelligent mining blasting; intelligent reinforcement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Terahertz Technologies and Applications

edited by

Liming Si

and

Xiue Bao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5381 | Submission Open

Keywords: THz sources; THz detectors; THz plasmonics; THz metamaterials; THz devices; THz systems; THz measurements; THz sensors; THz imaging; THz radar; THz wireless communication; THz wireless power transfer

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

Biomechanics of Soft and Hard Tissues

edited by

Cecilia Surace

and

Alice Berardo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5111 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological tissue; biomaterials; medical devices; biomechanics; experimental analysis; computational biomechanics

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

Geological Modeling and Geomechanical Characterization of Rock Masses for Civil and Mining Engineering Practice

edited by

Sabrina Bonetto

Pietro Mosca

and

Chiara Caselle

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4834 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological modeling; rock mass characterization; rock mechanics and rock engineering for infrastructures; heterogeneity; anisotropy; multiscale approach

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Feature Review Papers in Materials Science and Engineering

edited by

Maria Pia Ferraz

and

Ana Catarina Silva

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4746 | Submission Open

Keywords: materials science; nanomaterials; biomaterials; emergent materials

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

Research Progress on Hydraulic Fluid and Hydraulic Systems

edited by

Vito Tič

and

Darko Lovrec

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4604 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydraulic fluids; hydraulic systems; conventional; alternative and new fluids; energy saving fluids; high-performance fluids; material properties; additives; operational conditions; testing; material compatibility; standards; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Applications in Medicine

edited by

Serena Fiocchi

Emma Chiaramello

and

Paolo Ravazzani

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4502 | Submission Open

Keywords: LF EMF applications in medicine; RF EMF applications in medicine; in vitro studies; in vivo studies; computational studies; dosimetry; EMF applications safety

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)

Food-Related Bioactive Compounds: Extraction, Bioavailability, and Applications Volume II

edited by

Ivelina Desseva

and

Dasha Mihaylova

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4490 | Submission Open

Keywords: food bioactive compounds; biological activity; extraction; bioaccessibility and bioavailability; antioxidants; and antimicrobials; plant; animal; marine; and insect sources; health effects

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

Applications of Text Mining in Software Repository Analysis

edited by

Miltiadis G. Siavvas

and

Erol Gelenbe

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3904 | Submission Open

Keywords: software engineering; mining software repositories; text mining; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; deep learning; requirements verification; and validation; bug and vulnerability prediction; bug and vulnerability detection; code clone detection; automatic code generation

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

Advances in Deep Space Probe Navigation

edited by

Mingzhen Gui

, Jin Liu,

Chengxi Zhang

and Mingzhe Dai

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3451 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep space probe; autonomous navigation; integrated navigation; celestial navigation; pulsar navigation

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

Robotic Systems for Inspections and Surveillance of Industrial Infrastructure

edited by

Dwayne McDaniel

and

Leonel E. Lagos

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3411 | Submission Open

Keywords: robotics; surveillance; inspection; automation; digital twins; virtual/augmented reality; 3D point cloud; 3D models

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

Advances in Active and Passive Techniques for Fluid Flow Manipulation

edited by

Josep Maria Bergadà

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3182 | Submission Open

Keywords: active and passive flow control applications; fluidic oscillators; synthetic jets; plasma actuators; optimization techniques; cavitation control; heat transfer enhancement

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

Feature Review Papers in "Computing and Artificial Intelligence" Section

edited by

Ugo Vaccaro

and

Chun-Xia Zhang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3108 | Submission Open

Keywords: social network analysis; data security; data compression and protection; sequential and distributed computing; deep learning; uncertainty quantification; machine learning; high-performance computing; reinforcement learning; variational inference

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

Innovative Building Materials for Sustainable Built Environment

edited by Paolino Cassese and Carlo Rainieri

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3029 | Submission Open

Keywords: functionalized materials; structural health monitoring; self-sensing composites; cement-based materials; alkali-activated materials; self-healing; energy improvement; structural retrofitting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Application of Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Network

edited by

Thinagaran Perumal

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2800 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI/ML; modelling approach; 6G networks; IoT; channel coding

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

Geomicrobiology: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez

and

Valme Jurado Lobo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2788 | Submission Open

Keywords: geomicrobiology of the deep biosphere; geomicrobiology of extreme environments; geomicrobiology of the built environment; microbe– mineral interactions; microbialites formation; biomineralization; bioleaching; biomining and bioremediation; aquatic geomicrobiology; biogeochemical cycles; microbial origins of life

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

Computational Approaches for Cancer Research

edited by Dimitrios Kleftogiannis,

Giovanni Cugliari

Yosep Chong

and

Nikolaos Dikaios

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2772 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioinformatics; systems biology; genomics; single-cell omics; precision medicine; image analysis; machine learning; multi-omics data integration

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

Emerging Methods and Tools for Production Systems’ Design and Management in the Mass Customization Era

edited by

Marco Bortolini

and

Francesco Gabriele Galizia

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2769 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced production; manufacturing systems; mass customization; personalisation; changeable manufacturing; reconfigurability; virtual manufacturing

New Digital Technologies for Masonry Structures

edited by

Luís Carlos Martins da Silva

Marco Francesco Funari

Bora Pulatsu

and

Antonio Maria D'Altri

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2746 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital tools; masonry mechanics; masonry structures; BIM; digital twin; scan-to-FEM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Orthopedic Trauma and Fractures: From Pathophysiology to Novel Therapeutic Approaches

edited by

Giuseppe Rinonapoli

and

Paolo Ceccarini

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2728 | Submission Open

Keywords: fracture; osteoporosis; osteosynthesis; surgery; bone; diagnosis

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

Advances in Hypersonic Flows

edited by

Jiaao Hao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2628 | Submission Open

Keywords: hypersonic flows; hypersonic aerodynamics; hypersonic aerothermodynamics; hypersonic rarefied flows

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

Applications of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods: 2nd Edition

edited by

Yujin Lim

and

Hideyuki Takahashi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2568 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deel learning; artificial intelligence; natural language processing; computer vision; data mining; robotics

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

Advanced Remote Sensing Imaging for Environmental Sciences

edited by

Weiwei Cai

and

Jianlei Kong

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2535 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced remote sensing imaging; environmental resource detection; hyperspectral image classification; environmental monitoring; advanced machine learning methods; neural networks; feature selection of complex environmental data; smart monitoring system; prediction of environmental pollution; multi-sensor data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel Complexes

edited by

Petja Marinova

and

Anife Ahmedova

submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2442 | Submission Open

Keywords: metal complexes; coordination compounds; biological activity; antibacterial; anticancer

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

Emerging GIS Technologies and Their Applications

edited by