Dr. Sanket Lodha
LEAD GUEST EDITOR & CHIEF EDITOR, BJDD PRINT EDITION
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Lincoln University, Malaysia, D. Y. Patil Institute of Master of Computer Applications and Management, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Special Issue on Emerging Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary Intelligent Systems
The Special Issue titled “Emerging Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary Intelligent Systems” aims to provide a multidisciplinary academic platform for researchers, academicians, scientists, and technology professionals to explore recent advancements, emerging challenges, and innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent computing technologies across diverse fields. This Special Issue brings together research contributions focusing on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), autonomous systems, and advanced data-driven technologies. It highlights the growing role of intelligent systems in transforming research methodologies, decision-making processes, automation, and digital innovation. The scope extends to interdisciplinary applications of AI in healthcare, education, cybersecurity, defence technologies, business intelligence, smart infrastructure, and assistive technologies. Particular emphasis is placed on privacy-preserving AI, explainable and trustworthy intelligent systems, autonomous decision-making, early disease detection, personalized learning, and AI-enabled monitoring and management solutions. By integrating theoretical perspectives, technological frameworks, critical reviews, and application-oriented research, this Special Issue seeks to encourage scholarly collaboration, promote responsible AI development, and advance innovative solutions to contemporary scientific, technological, and societal challenges. Published in the BODHIVRUKSHA JOURNAL OF DIVERSE DISCIPLINE (BJDD), this Special Issue aims to contribute to academic knowledge, interdisciplinary research, and the development of intelligent technologies that support sustainable innovation and societal progress.
Published: 20 October 2026
Mode: - Total Articles: 43
ISSN: 3139-1486
Editorial / Conference Details
GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Vishal Gangadhar Puranik
GUEST EDITOR
Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Ajeenkya DY Patil School of Engineering, Pune
Dr. Bhagyashree Manish Dhakulkar
GUEST EDITOR
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Engineering
Ajeenkya DY Patil School of Engineering
Articles in this Issue
43 articles01
Research Article
Open Access
AI-BASED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PROTECTIVE COATING DEFECTS IN DEFENCE PLATFORMS : A Standards-Aligned Survey and Proposed Framework
Protective coatings are the first line of defence against corrosion on naval, aerospace and land defence platforms, yet their condition is still judged largely by human visual inspection, which is subjective, difficult to audit and hard to scale across a fleet. Recent d...
Coating defect detection
Defence platforms
ISO 4628
SSPC-VIS
Explainable AI
Few-shot learning
Federated learning
Multi-modal fusion
Literature survey
02
Research Article
Open Access
PRIVACY-PRESERVING MULTIMODAL AI FOR REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED LEARNING OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Classrooms that rely on a single, general-purpose AI tool to support students with disabilities tend to cover very little of what those students actually need, because such tools are built for one input or output channel and cannot adjust a lesson in response to how a s...
multi-agent systems
large language models
inclusive education
assistive technology
accessibility
agentic AI
AI TRiSM
privacy
03
Research Article
Open Access
AIoT-Based Smart Public Toilet Management System: An ESP32 Prototype with Cloud Logging, a Multi-Location Dashboard and a Staged Hygiene-Analytics Plan
Most public toilets are cleaned on a timetable. Nobody counts how many people actually used them, nobody notices the water tank running low until it is empty, and the air inside can turn hot and damp for hours without anyone knowing. We built a small prototype to see ho...
AIoT
ESP32
smart toilet
sanitation monitoring
water management
Supabase
smart city
Random Forest
04
Research Article
Open Access
Generative AI for Early Detection of Depression Using Multimodal Data: A Review
Depression is a major mental-health condition that affects emotion, behaviour, communication and daily functioning, and its early identification remains a significant challenge for both clinicians and researchers. Conventional assessment relies mainly on clinical interv...
Generative AI
Multimodal Data Fusion
Depression Detection
Mental-Health Informatics
Large Language Models
Deep Learning
Transformer Networks
05
Research Article
Open Access
AI-Based Snoring Detection and Early Sleep Apnea Prediction Using Deep Learning: Review
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is largely underdiagnosed due to the reference test, overnight polysomnography (PSG) requiring a sleep laboratory and trained staff. Because loud, habitual snoring is among the first outward signs of OSA, a number of recent studies ask whet...
obstructive sleep apnea
snoring detection
deep learning
polysomnography
spectrogram
explainable AI
wearable sensing
06
Research Article
Open Access
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Enhancing Large Language Models with External Knowledge: A Critical Theoretical Review
During their training, Large Language Models (LLMs) learn their knowledge in the form of parameters. As a result, LLMs can be prone to hallucination (generation of misinformation) and have outdated information. They are also limited in terms of what they can understand...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models
Natural Language Processing
Dense Passage Retrieval
Fusion-in-Decoder
Hallucination Mitigation
Knowledge-Intensive NLP
07
Research Article
Open Access
GENERATIVE AI FOR AUTOMATED SOFTWARE PROJECT PLANNING
Software project planning involves defining the scope, requirements, stakeholders’ roles, task dependencies, duration of each task and potential risks. For the most part, these activities are carried out manually and highly depend on the experience of project managers....
Generative AI
Large Language Models
Software Project Planning
Task Decomposition
Effort Estimation
Risk Analysis
Project Scheduling.
08
Research Article
Open Access
ADAPTIVE HYBRID FRAMEWORK FOR FACIAL PRIVACY PROTECTION AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED FACE RECOGNITION
Facial recognition technology has become an important component of modern computer vision systems and is widely used for authentication, surveillance, access control, social media applications, and identity verification. However, the increasing use of automated facial r...
Adversarial Machine Learning
Adaptive Image Filtering
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Diffusion Models
Facial Privacy Protection
Facial Recognition
Image Processing
Privacy-Preserving AI
Semantic Perturbation
09
Research Article
Open Access
Deep Learning-Based Fruit and Vegetable Quality Grading Using Computer Vision: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions:Review
The grading of fruits and vegetables is mostly dependent on subjective visual inspection techniques that require labor. Computers and advanced machine learning systems can help to invent non-destructive tools for quality evaluation of fruits and vegetables based on colo...
Computer vision
deep learning
edge AI
explainable AI
fruit quality classification
hyperspectral imaging
transfer learning
vision transformer
10
Research Article
Open Access
Space Debris Detection Using Deep Learning and Computer Vision: Survey and Proposed Detection Pipeline
Dead spacecraft and burnt-out rocket bodies and the pieces of spacecraft and rocket that fragments from old spacecraft collisions make are getting more and more crowded in orbit around the planet. The smallest and faintest of these objects is hard to detect with surveys...
Orbital debris
neural networks
small-object detection
simulated imagery
space situational awareness.
11
Research Article
Open Access
A REVIEW OF ANTI-SPOOFING AND SPEAKER VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES FOR PRIVACY-FIRST, ON-DEVICE DETECTION OF AI-CLONED VOICE SCAMS AND FAMILY VOICE VERIFICATION
Cloned voices are now cheap to make and easy to misuse in phone scams that imitate a relative or a colleague. This review paper examines what the research literature offers for defending ordinary users against such calls and uses it to propose Voice-Clone Guardian, a mo...
anti-spoofing
voice cloning
speaker verification
on-device AI
audio deepfake detection
mobile security
privacy.
12
Research Article
Open Access
An Explainable Risk-Aware Framework for Governing and Monitoring Shadow AI in Enterprise Environments
Generative AI assistants are now being used for work purposes, often beyond the view of enterprise IT, security, and compliance functions, creating a shadowy14 area where data usage is difficult to track and responsibility hard to establish. By analyzing six different p...
Shadow AI
Enterprise Cybersecurity
AI Governance
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Risk Assessment
Security Monitoring
Policy Enforcement.