Green Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review of Metrics, Tools, Challenges, Trends, and Future Prospects

Peykani, P., A. Emrouznejad, S. Ghanidel, I. Javadi-Sisi, S. Mirjalili (2026) Green Artificial Intelligence: A Comprehensive Review of Metrics, Tools, Challenges, Trends, and Future Prospects,Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-026-10546-2. 

 

 

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