Guest editorial:Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Computational Approaches for Tribology

Tribo-behavior is a complex system-based time-dependent process,and it is difficult to accurately model a tribo-system and predict its behavior.Hence,tribology research,in most cases,has relied on extensive experimentation.Driven by the artificial intelligence(AI)-for-science revolution,AI and other emerging computational approaches provide opportunities to explore the complex processes in tribo-systems and the physical mechanisms of tribo-behavior in an efficient way,significantly pushing the boundaries of tribology research.