Systems, Volume 10, Issue 6

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen a significant increase over time in several industries such as defense, healthcare, and agriculture to name a few. Their affordability has made it possible for industries to venture and invest in UA...

With the economic development in China, haze risks are frequent. It is important to study the urban haze risk assessment to manage the haze disaster. The haze risk assessment indexes of 11 cities in Fenwei Plain were selected from three aspects: the...

The article reflects the role of society in an era of uncertainty and people’s behavior in response to big challenges. The aim is to consider the responsibility for resolving crisis situations by state power. Comprehending is possible on the th...

In customer-intensive services, advertising can increase customers’ patience and bring more utility to customers. However, customers’ different perceptions of advertising can affect their utility and indirectly affect the decision making...

World models is a construct that is used to represent internal models of the world. It is an important construct for human-artificial intelligence systems, because both natural and artificial agents can have world models. The term, natural agents, en...

Dynamics always exist in complex systems. Graphs (complex networks) are a mathematical form for describing a complex system abstractly. Dynamics can be learned efficiently from the structure and dynamics state of a graph. Learning the dynamics in gra...

Fuzzy control theory has been extensively used in the construction of complex fuzzy inference systems. However, we argue that existing fuzzy control technologies focus mainly on the single-source fuzzy information system, disregarding the complementa...

Introduction: Worldwide health systems are being faced with unprecedented COVID-19-related challenges, ranging from the problems of a novel condition and a shortage of personal protective equipment to frequently changing medical guidelines. Many inst...

We studied the ability to reduce the supply–demand mismatch of a periodic Make-to-Order (MTO) production system using safety stocks with marketing managing demand using lead-time guarantee and price as levers. The aim is to understand the inter...

The manufacturing industry has created a rapid evolution of the economy, but it has also negatively impacted the ecosystem. A better understanding of the manufacturing industry in green growth is crucial to achieving the sustainability goals in China...

Living systems are complex dynamic information processing energy consuming entities with properties of consciousness, intelligence, sapience, and sentience. Sapience and sentience are autonomous attributes of consciousness. While sapience has been we...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management tool that can improve system quality, promote innovation, and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. Nonetheless, the traditional QFD method has defects in handling t...

Background: Inefficient use of public funds can have a negative impact on the lives of citizens. The development of machine learning-based technologies for data visualisation and prediction has opened the possibility of evaluating the accountability...

Sentiment and extrapolation are ubiquitous in the financial market, and they are not only the embodiment of human nature, but also the primary drivers of asset price bubbles. In this study, we first constructed a theoretical model that included funda...

To handle increasing complexity in product development, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approaches are well suited, in which the technical system is represented in a system model. To efficiently test requirements, domain models are integrated...

We studied the evolution of complex social networks over time. The elements of the networks are users, and the connections correspond to the interactions between them. At a particular moment in time, each node of a complex network has such characteri...

An underground mine is a very complex production system within the mining industry. Building up the underground mine development system is closely related to the installation of support needed to provide the stability of mine openings. The selection...

Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic situation, many enterprises have fallen into financial crisis. In order to explore the causes of enterprise financial risk and the conduction path of risk sources, this paper starts from the theory,...

The purpose of the paper is to discuss the issue of economies of scope in platform research and to attract attention to the importance of scope economies for the strength and growth of Big Tech corporations. Hitherto, most attention has been on netwo...

Microgrids are used in many applications to power critical loads that have significant consequences if they lose power. Losing power to medical centers, water treatment plants, data centers, national defense installations, airports, and other critica...

Information technology (IT) projects are becoming more complex due to technological advancements, increased sociopolitical demand, and competition. In recent years, the project complexity field has attracted increasing attention with diverse strategi...

A stock forecasting and trading system is a complex information system because a stock trading system needs to be analyzed and modeled using data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Previous time series models have been widely use...

The mixed ownership reform aims to improve the property rights structure of the state−owned enterprises (SOEs) and reduce agency costs, and the current mixed reform strategies mainly include equity blending by introducing external non−sta...

Childhood obesity has become one of the major health issues in the global population. The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity is associated with serious health issues and comorbidities related to obesity. Several studies mentioned that childho...

Ecological poverty alleviation (EPA) is a syngenetic approach to tackling challenges in alleviating extreme poverty and ecological protection. Such an approach is crucial to help countries facing these two challenges to accelerate their progression t...

Due to the automotive industry’s strict demands, customers submit constant production pressure, leading to the adoption of new methodologies, techniques, and management ideas. The goal is always to minimise losses and waste. These demands also...

The COVID-19 virus outbreak generated new questions about the health policy all over the world. Last several years’ evolutions proved that short-term financing solutions could help health systems to deal with shocks, but the research regarding...

The co-opetition strategy between manufacturers and remanufacturers is a key problem of the closed-loop supply chain, especially for the manufacturers often facing decision-making dilemmas when undertaking the environmental responsibilities of the de...

The electroencephalogram (EEG) can objectively reflect the emotional state of human beings, and has attracted much attention in the academic circles in recent years. However, due to its weak, non-stationary, and low signal-to-noise properties, it is...

Under the background of “dual-carbon” target construction, the low-carbon environmental protection and ecological construction of Huzhou city in China have received high attention. To scientifically measure the low-carbon construction eff...

This paper considers a sales mode selection problem between resale and agency modes on e-commerce platforms for a manufacturer with traditional retail channel, direct selling channel, and e-commerce platform channel. By considering the factors price...

This is an effort to analyze the reaction of stock prices of Indian public and private banks listed in NSE and BSE to the announcement of seven best case news events. Several recent studies have analyzed the correlation between stock prices and news...

Since the advent of the Internet has changed how risk information develops and disseminates, citizens’ risk perception alters correspondingly. Although extant studies have explored the impacts of Internet use on citizens, only a few have focuse...

A revised version of the ISO9001:2015 quality management system is an indispensable element for a corporation to survive against the severe competition and maintain sustainable, competitive superiority, as well as a new outlook. With this in mind, th...

The green technology innovation system is a fundamental method for China to achieve its goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Clarifying the relationship between two-way foreign direct investment (FDI) synergy and regional green technology inno...

Omnichannel catering firms need to pay attention to the consumer behavior of customers in both online and offline channels to make the corresponding capacity decisions. However, customers’ consumption behavior is not only affected by base utili...

Through the interaction terms of business condition expectations and structural shocks, the non-linear effects of business condition expectations on expected stock market returns were studied. We found that the recession expectation enlarges the posi...

System reliability is treated as a parameter and not modeled in the early concept design stages. We illustrate a reliability model for system reliability in early concept design using knowledge from similar systems, technology readiness levels (TRL),...

Data assets trading can encourage owners to distribute data and achieve large-scale data aggregation to promote the development of the supply chain system. Blockchain is a promising platform for constructing a decentralized data marketplace. The data...

We present a practical guide and step-by-step flowchart for establishing uncertainty intervals for key model outcomes in a simulation model in the face of uncertain parameters. The process starts with Powell optimization to find a set of uncertain pa...

Numerous researchers have investigated the concept of green absorptive capacity, but relatively few studies have been performed on its antecedents. The objective of the present research was to develop and empirically test a theoretical model, which a...

Social and economic development leads to the continuous urbanization process, accompanied by the increasingly prominent traffic congestion problem. Traffic congestion also brings problems such as serious environmental pollution and intensified social...

Realizing the coupled coordination between urban welfare (UW) and tourism development (TD) is an important guarantee to achieve healthy and orderly socioeconomic development and move towards a high-quality life. On the basis of constructing the evalu...

The development of emerging technologies promotes the transformation and upgrading of the retail business. However, the new retail service supply chain system’s node enterprises cannot meet quality supply and demand requirements, which leads to...

Building regional innovation systems (RISs) has become an important measure for China to implement an innovation-driven development strategy, but a moderately complex way to describe the characteristics of the RISs is needed for aiding the implementa...

Ranking several countries on a specific area may require the consideration of various factors simultaneously. To obtain a ranking of countries, the development of analytical approaches, which can aggregate opinions of a group of people on various cri...

Robotic assembly lines are widely applied to mass production because of their adaptability and versatility. As we know, using robots will lead to energy-consumption and pollution problems, which has been a hot-button topic in recent years. In this pa...

Eco-efficiency, as one of the evaluation tools for sustainable development performance, has been a widely discussed topic in academia for the past several decades. However, the existing research on eco-efficiency is rather homogeneous. Most of it is...

This study aims to explore online teaching from the perspective of the cultural-centered model (CCM) of user experience (UX) design and learning preferences (LP) for by investigating in Chinese national universities. A mixed-method approach was used...

An in-depth study of the product encroachment behavior on the composite e-commerce platform is of great significance to standardize the platform economy. This paper studies product encroachment behavior of composite e-commerce platforms with double-d...