Emerging Paradigms in AI, Autonomous Systems, and Intelligent Technologies: A Synthesis of the First Edition

The first edition of the Special Issue entitled “Emerging Paradigms in AI, Autonomous Systems, and Intelligent Technologies”, published in Technologies within the Information and Communication Technologies section, was conceived around a practical observation that is now widely shared in engineering research: automation remains useful, but contemporary technological systems increasingly require autonomy, real-time decision making, transparent reasoning, robust communication, and reliable interaction with the physical world [...]