The last decades have witnessed the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications that add intelligence into industrial applications to drive continuous improvement, knowledge transfer, and data-based decision making, leading to development of modern industries towards sustainable and smart innovative manufacturing and management models. Multiple sustainable criteria, including product quality, environmental impacts, recycling capacity, should be simultaneously considered in these models. A huge volume of data collected from various industrial process can feed real-time analytic solutions provided by AI and Decision Support Systems (DSS), which can lead to optimal industrial operations.
In this context, extended from the related papers presented in the international conference of FLINS-ISKE 2024, this special Issue aims to offer a systematic overview of AI-based sustainable smart industrial systems and provide innovative computational intelligent approaches, to effectively support decision making in big data environments. The concerned industrial applications will include quality control, manufacturing process optimization, recycling, environmental impacts evaluation, and so on.