Dear Colleagues,

Modern civilization is surrounded by a technologically networked environment. Many of the applications created for this digital ecosystem employ advanced artificial intelligence techniques to solve a variety of problems: ranging from improved search engines to advanced facial recognition features on the web; from shape recognition algorithms for image processing to pattern recognition methods for social networks and economic studies; and from complex behavioral engines for synthetic characters in computer-generated images in movies and video games to advanced routing algorithms. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the world in the future decades, from corporate to domestic uses.

It is predicted that AI will contribute more to the global economy than China and India combined. It is also expected that, within the next 10 years, practically every successful industry or corporation would employ some form of artificial intelligence to ensure that their operations run smoothly and efficiently.

This Special Issue aims to disseminate the most recent artificial intelligence research results and breakthroughs, with a particular emphasis on their practical applications in science, engineering, industry, medical, robotics, manufacturing, entertainment, optimization, business, and other sectors. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit high-quality original research or review articles on these subjects for consideration in this Special Issue.

The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, novel applications of:

• Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS);
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and smart vehicles;
• Analyzing big data and interpreting complex networks;
• Deep learning and real-world applications;
• Neural networks, fuzzy systems, and neuro-fuzzy systems;
• Architectures, methods, and approaches for distributed AI systems;
• Decision-support systems, including evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, nature and biologically inspired meta-heuristics, and so on;
• Knowledge representation, expert systems, and knowledge processing;
• Image processing, pattern recognition, and speech recognition;
• Detection, analysis, diagnostics, and monitoring of intelligent faults;
• Practical applications with the aforementioned approaches in the industry, such as case studies or benchmarking.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sustainability.

Dr. Muhammad Syafrudin
Dr. Ganjar Alfian
Dr. Norma Latif Fitriyani
Dr. Muhammad Anshari
Guest Editors

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• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and smart vehicles
• analyzing big data and interpreting complex networks
• deep learning and real-world applications
• neural networks, fuzzy systems, and neuro-fuzzy systems
• architectures, methods, and approaches for distributed ai systems
• decision-support systems, including evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, nature and biologically inspired meta-heuristics
• knowledge representation, expert systems, and knowledge processing
• image processing, pattern recognition, and speech recognition
• detection, analysis, diagnostics, and monitoring of intelligent faults