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Systems, Volume 11, Issue 4

2023 April - 49 articles

Cover Story: The article discusses changeability analysis methods that help in responding to uncertain and new requirements from system stakeholders. These methods include asset management issues such as modeling lifecycle path dependency of system/asset upgrades. Epoch-era networks are an effective tool for managing evolving requirements of a capability system to ensure sustained value throughout its life. Stakeholders have numerous options to change capability systems over time, which can impact future decisions. The paper introduces a revised epoch-era network approach exploring potential lifecycle paths and utility vs. expense strategies using a military frigate as an example. The study shows that selecting the largest and most capable technology upgrades too early in life can limit future value. View this paper
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
27,870 Views
31 Pages

20 April 2023

For a successful digital transformation, organizations must create an accurate roadmap and manage the process effectively. A digital maturity model is a critical success factor as it enables organizations to assess their current situation and create...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Researches in Multiple Humans–Machine(s) Collaboration for Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,170 Views
23 Pages

20 April 2023

Digital government construction is a complex system project, and data sharing is its governance niche. Cross-sectoral data sharing is the core issue of improving governance capacity in the construction of digital governments. Aimed at the dilemma of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,234 Views
17 Pages

Protection Schemes for DDoS, ARP Spoofing, and IP Fragmentation Attacks in Smart Factory

  • Tze Uei Chai,
  • Hock Guan Goh,
  • Soung-Yue Liew and
  • Vasaki Ponnusamy

20 April 2023

Industry Revolution 4.0 connects the Internet of Things (IoT) resource-constrained devices to Smart Factory solutions and delivers insights. As a result, a complex and dynamic network with a vulnerability inherited from the Internet becomes an attrac...

(This article belongs to the Topic SDGs 2030 in Buildings and Infrastructure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,048 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2023

With the acceleration of human society’s digitization and the application of innovative technologies to emerging media, popular social media platforms are inundated by fresh news and multimedia content from multiple more or less reliable source...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,847 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2023

Green innovation is considered an important way to promote low-carbon society formation and the sustainable development of environmental engineering. However, few quantitative studies have focused on the impact of intellectual property rights (IPR) o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,864 Views
31 Pages

Distributed Control of Cyber Physical System on Various Domains: A Critical Review

  • Muzaffar Hamzah,
  • Md. Monirul Islam,
  • Shahriar Hassan,
  • Md. Nasim Akhtar and ,
  • Most. Jannatul Ferdous,
  • Muhammed Basheer Jasser and
  • Ali Wagdy Mohamed
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2023

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a symbol of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) by integrating physical and computational processes which can associate with humans in various ways. In short, the relationship between Cyber networks and the physical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,509 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2023

In this study, we analyze the upside and downside risk connectedness among international stock markets. We characterize the connectedness among international stock returns using the Diebold and Yilmaz spillover index approach and compute the upside a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Applications of Forecasting and Evaluation Techniques in Energy, Environment and Economy Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,744 Views
21 Pages

19 April 2023

The present research presented a novel model for incorporating service design to create guest experiential value. Taking a star hotel in Taiwan as an example, this study used the KJ method to classify online reviews about hotel services and then crea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Futures Thinking in Design Systems and Social Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,345 Views
28 Pages

The Role of Privacy Obstacles in Privacy Paradox: A System Dynamics Analysis

  • Ektor Arzoglou,
  • Yki Kortesniemi,
  • Sampsa Ruutu and
  • Tommi Elo

19 April 2023

People use social media to achieve particular gratifications despite expressing concerns about the related privacy risks that may lead to negative consequences. This inconsistency between privacy concerns and actual behaviour has been referred to as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,550 Views
22 Pages

Towards the Senior Resident Social Interaction System: A Case Study of Interactive Gallery

  • Cun Li,
  • Linghao Zhang,
  • Xu Lin,
  • Kai Kang and ,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Bart Hengeveld and
  • Caroline Hummels
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 April 2023

The number of older adults residing in nursing institutions is increasing, and many of them experience social isolation. The social interaction of older adults constitutes a complex system that involves multiple stakeholders, including fellow residen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Human–Machine Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,088 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2023

The rapid development of digital finance has changed all aspects of human life and has also had a deep impact on the social governance system. This paper constructs an unbalanced panel of data of the theft crime rates for 289 cities in China during 2...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Technologies for Urban Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,493 Views
21 Pages

Leveraging Ethereum Platform for Development of Efficient Tractability System in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

  • Muntaha Aslam,
  • Sohail Jabbar,
  • Qaisar Abbas,
  • Mubarak Albathan and ,
  • Ayyaz Hussain and
  • Umar Raza
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 April 2023

Consumer knowledge of the goods produced or processed by the numerous suppliers and processors is still relatively low due to the growing complexity of the structure of pharmaceutical supply chains. Information asymmetry in the pharmaceutical sector...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Teaming: Synergy, Decision-Making and Interdependency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,867 Views
14 Pages

17 April 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology plays a crucial role in infectious disease outbreak prediction and control. Many human interventions can influence the spread of epidemics, including government responses, quarantine, and economic support. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Teaming: Synergy, Decision-Making and Interdependency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,742 Views
21 Pages

16 April 2023

This study looks at how well bachelor’s degree holders in Spain match into jobs five years after graduation. Based on workers’ self-assessment, education–job mismatch is defined as the discrepancy between the formal qualifications t...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,467 Views
29 Pages

16 April 2023

The present paper seeks to analyze and understand terrorism as a comprehensive process that, through various stages, transforms a “normal” individual with some grievances into a radicalized agent ready and available to be recruited and tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systemic and Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Societal Threats)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
15,933 Views
19 Pages

16 April 2023

Sustainability has been widely recognized as a pervasive phenomenon that underlies the operations and performance of businesses. Recent research has examined the effect of green logistics management on the sustainability performance of businesses. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enablers and Capabilities for the Digital Supply Chain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,314 Views
26 Pages

16 April 2023

The adoption and diffusion level of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) technology among listed enterprises is an important indicator of the capital market‘s openness and efficiency degree. In this study, we established an evolutionar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,502 Views
19 Pages

Using Dual Attention BiLSTM to Predict Vehicle Lane Changing Maneuvers on Highway Dataset

  • Farzeen Ashfaq,
  • Rania M. Ghoniem,
  • N. Z. Jhanjhi,
  • Navid Ali Khan and
  • Abeer D. Algarni

14 April 2023

In this research, we address the problem of accurately predicting lane-change maneuvers on highways. Lane-change maneuvers are a critical aspect of highway safety and traffic flow, and the accurate prediction of these maneuvers can have significant i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,756 Views
27 Pages

Evaluating the Presence of Sustainable Development Goals in Digital Teen Series: An Analytical Proposal

  • Sara Valenzuela-Monreal,
  • Javier Lozano Delmar and
  • Rafael A. Araque-Padilla

12 April 2023

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. Several experts on sustainable development have highlighted the need for educational transformation to achieve them on time. Simultaneously, the influence of teen series on the pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication for the Digital Media Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,081 Views
21 Pages

12 April 2023

Many countries have adopted carbon regulatory policies in pursuit of carbon neutrality, which pose great transition risks for energy-intensive sectors. Using the panel data of 186 Chinese listed enterprises in the energy-intensive sector from 2007 to...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,265 Views
24 Pages

Civil Servant and Expert Perspectives on Drivers, Values, Challenges and Successes in Adopting Systems Thinking in Policy-Making

  • Le Khanh Ngan Nguyen,
  • Cecilia Kumar,
  • Marine Bisaro Shah,
  • Andrew Chilvers and ,
  • Isabella Stevens,
  • Rachel Hardy,
  • Claire J. Sarell and
  • Nici Zimmermann
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 April 2023

The use of systems thinking (ST) to handle complexity and wicked policy problems is gaining traction in government and the Civil Service, but policy-makers and civil servants can encounter several challenges in practice. How best to support them in u...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,103 Views
22 Pages

11 April 2023

Characterized by its resilience, connectivity, and real-time data processing capabilities, the fourth industrial revolution, referred to as Industry 4.0, is the main driver of today’s digital transformation. It is crucially important for manufa...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,800 Views
22 Pages

9 April 2023

A number of recent studies have examined the impact of advanced technologies on organizations. However, many (particularly those in developing countries) still face challenges when it comes to the adoption of mature technologies and have also continu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,931 Views
19 Pages

8 April 2023

By using the Delphi technique and a case study on Malaysia’s nanotechnology research and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries, this paper aims to determine the development and convergence of nanotechnology and ICT innovatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Applications of Forecasting and Evaluation Techniques in Energy, Environment and Economy Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,597 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2023

In recent years, Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) has continued to develop as a standard for designing, managing, and maintaining increasingly complex systems. Unlike the document centric approach, MBSE puts the model at the heart of system des...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering: From Design to Practical Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,302 Views
26 Pages

7 April 2023

This study proposes a tripartite evolutionary game model to investigate the interactions among digital platforms, governments, and users to address the negative consequences of data abuse. The paper identifies that the high tax incentives and low pen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data-Driven Group Decision-Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,108 Views
32 Pages

6 April 2023

Due to its potential for cutting down energy consumption, sharing transport costs, and reducing negative impacts on the environment, ridesharing has been adopted as a viable model by many cities all over the world to achieve sustainability goals. Alt...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,387 Views
18 Pages

Femvertising and COVID-19—What Did Brand Owners Broadcast during the Lockdown?

  • Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado,
  • Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez,
  • Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa,
  • Fernando Olivares-Delgado and
  • María T. Benlloch-Osuna

6 April 2023

The aim of this study was to analyze, from a gender perspective, advertising broadcasts during a time of crisis. A holistic perspective of the stereotypes, roles, professions, and gender relations represented is offered by utilizing a content analysi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication for the Digital Media Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
33,418 Views
29 Pages

Customer Attitude toward Digital Wallet Services

  • Galina Ilieva,
  • Tania Yankova,
  • Yulia Dzhabarova,
  • Margarita Ruseva and ,
  • Delian Angelov and
  • Stanislava Klisarova-Belcheva
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 April 2023

The goal of this study is to examine and identify the factors influencing customer attitude toward and intention to use digital wallets (electronic wallets, e-wallets) during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 257 correctly fulfilled questio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Intelligence as a Tool for Business Competitiveness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,500 Views
14 Pages

An Infrastructure Cost and Benefits Evaluation Framework for Blockchain-Based Applications

  • Miguel Pincheira,
  • Elena Donini,
  • Massimo Vecchio and
  • Raffaele Giaffreda

5 April 2023

Blockchain is currently a core technology for developing new types of decentralized applications. With the unique properties of blockchain, unique challenges and characteristics are introduced to the system. Among these characteristics, the infrastru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in the Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Simulating Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,257 Views
24 Pages

2 April 2023

Changeability analysis methods primarily assist with formulating a response to uncertain and new requirements from various system stakeholders and include asset management issues such as modelling lifecycle path dependency. Epoch-era networks proved...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simplifying the Complex: Modeling and Analysis for System Design and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,002 Views
23 Pages

System of Project Management at a Medical Hub as an Instrument for Implementation of Open Innovation

  • Igor Ilin,
  • Olga Voronova,
  • Dmitriy Pavlov,
  • Azret Kochkarov and ,
  • Andrea Tick and
  • Bulat Khusainov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 April 2023

Globalization activates qualitative changes in multiple economic entities and requires the development of alternative forms of business organization. At present, one of the most promising development tracks is represented by the implementation of net...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Intelligence as a Tool for Business Competitiveness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,898 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2023

Complex mechanisms exist between public risk perception, emotions, and coping behaviors during health emergencies. To unravel the relationship between these three phenomena, a meta-analytic approach was employed in this study. Using Comprehensive Met...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,622 Views
16 Pages

30 March 2023

This paper addresses the issue of choosing an appropriate reward function in multi-agent reinforcement learning. The traditional approach of using joint rewards for team performance is questioned due to a lack of theoretical backing. The authors expl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in the Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Simulating Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,820 Views
16 Pages

29 March 2023

E-commerce companies generate massive orders daily, and efficiently fulfilling them is a critical challenge. In the “parts-to-picker” order fulfillment system, the joint optimization of order allocation and rack selection is a crucial pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simplifying the Complex: Modeling and Analysis for System Design and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,635 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2023

Creating a suitable travel package has become increasingly difficult for businesses within the tourism industry because of various factors affecting tourists’ decision-making behavior and businesses’ desire to make profits. This paper pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,742 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2023

Cartesian genetic programming is a popular version of classical genetic programming, and it has now demonstrated a very good performance in solving various use cases. Originally, programs evolved by using a centralized optimization approach. Recently...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in the Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Simulating Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,662 Views
14 Pages

28 March 2023

Requirement expression media is an overlooked consideration in requirements innovation. The path to including media other than natural language requirement sentences begins with determining the viability of media to be used as requirement expressions...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,038 Views
32 Pages

28 March 2023

Recently, the craze of K-POP contents is promoting the development of Korea’s cultural and artistic industries. In particular, with the development of various K-POP contents, including dance, as well as the popularity of K-POP online due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,338 Views
22 Pages

27 March 2023

Promoting green development and promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature are strategic tasks for the construction of ecological civilization in China in the new era. Currently, the growing environmental governance investment in Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,230 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2023

The dense population and the large amount of domestic waste generated make it difficult to determine the best route and departure time for waste removal trucks in a city. Aiming at the problems of municipal solid waste (MSW) removal and transportatio...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data-Driven Group Decision-Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
10,342 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Digital Capabilities on Digital Transformation: The Mediating Role of Digital Citizenship

  • Marko Slavković,
  • Katarina Pavlović,
  • Tatjana Mamula Nikolić,
  • Tamara Vučenović and
  • Marijana Bugarčić

26 March 2023

The imperative of changes associated with digital transformation gave impetus to this study, which aims to examine the impact of digital capabilities and digital citizenship on digital transformation, as well as to identify the role of digital citize...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,637 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2023

In an omni-channel environment of banks, the information transmission between banks and customers is the basis for decision-making on both sides. This dissertation analyzes the characteristics of signals sent between banks and customers at different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Intelligence as a Tool for Business Competitiveness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,285 Views
22 Pages

How Can Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Public–Private Partnership Projects Performance Compensate during the Operation Period? A Two-Stage Perspective of Recycling and Remanufacturing

  • Yuxin Liu,
  • Jiekuo Hao,
  • Chunhui Li,
  • Yuejia Li and ,
  • Chuyue Zhou,
  • Haoxuan Zheng,
  • Shiqi Xu,
  • Weihong Chen and
  • Xingwei Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 March 2023

Research in the field of project management has focused on recycling construction and demolition waste (CDW). However, the problem of how to compensate for the performance of CDW recycling public–private partnership (PPP) projects during the op...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,564 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2023

A recommendation method based on heterogeneous information networks and multiple trust relationships is proposed. Firstly, the node sequence in the heterogeneous information network is obtained through the random walk of the meta-path, and the repres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,565 Views
22 Pages

23 March 2023

Our research contributes a new point of view on China’s rare earth dynamic risk spillover measurement; this was performed by combining complex network and multivariate nonlinear Granger causality to construct the time-varying connectedness comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Complex Network Theory and Its Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,718 Views
26 Pages

23 March 2023

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has introduced innovative technologies to manufacturing, resulting in digital production systems with consequences on workers’ roles and well-being. From the literature emerges the necessity to delve into the wo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Systems for Industry 5.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,974 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2023

The absence of a comprehensive smart city governance model has prompted research into the characteristics of the relationships among cities, services, and stakeholders. This study aims to identify, from the perspectives of governance and sociotechnic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,372 Views
23 Pages

Building the Foundation for a Necessary Debate: Projectification of Society

  • Begoña Moreno Escobar,
  • Germán Martínez Montes and
  • Claudette El Hajj

23 March 2023

Projectification is the phenomenon whereby activities traditionally carried out in a functional manner are approached as projects. It also includes the transformation processes of organisations as project management and non-functional structures. It...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
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