2026 January - 117 articles
This study proposes a multi-level performance margin modeling and belief reliability framework for redundant systems. Starting from system performance, a “performance–margin–reliability” linkage is established by defining the...
The integration of generative AI into creative industries is reshaping how content is produced, evaluated, and distributed. While recent advancements offer new opportunities for automation and innovation, they also raise questions about authorship, a...
With the ongoing development of the digital economy, the productive function of data as an economic factor has become increasingly salient. Scientifically and rigorously assessing the value of data assets is essential for improving the national econo...
Effective communication skills are widely recognized as essential for entrepreneurial success, yet limited empirical research has explored their direct relationship with individual entrepreneurship perceptions, particularly among women entrepreneurs....
As chatbot technology becomes increasingly prevalent across a wide range of industries, it is crucial to explore the factors that shape user satisfaction with this AI-driven innovation. This research provides insights into how age and gender impact u...
Transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) communities face persistent health inequities that are reproduced through everyday administrative and clinical encounters across care systems. A feedback-focused lens can clarify how those inequities are generat...
Crypto asset markets are often described as globally integrated. However, empirical evidence suggests that they remain segmented across exchanges and jurisdictions. One notable example is the Korean premium (i.e., Kimchi premium), which refers to per...
The integration of complex system concepts and sustainability in chemical engineering education is often limited to elective or separate courses rather than their integration into the core curriculum. This pedagogical gap can lead to graduates who la...
Intercity population flows are playing an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the spatial evolution and structural dynamics of urban networks. Drawing upon Amap Migration Data (2018–2023), this study maps China’s urban networks using soc...
Existing research often regards a family business’s choice of auditor as a simple and isolated decision. In contrast, this paper presents a complex adaptive system in a broader definition of family businesses, and shows audit supervision emergi...
The emergence of artificial intelligence as a transformative force in the field of information technology has exerted a significant impact on the development of renewable energy. In-depth analysis of the impact of AI on renewable energy development i...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into marketing and sales has significantly reshaped the European digital economy, altering how companies engage with consumers and create online value. This research examines the impact of AI adoption o...
Employee satisfaction, as a critical form of organisational social capital, represents a significant interdisciplinary topic in management and finance. A key question is whether it can be transformed into sustainable innovation momentum for corporate...
The rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle systems (AVS) has introduced complex challenges to road safety. While some studies have investigated the contribution of factors influencing AV-involved crashes, few have focused on the impact of vehicle-sp...
The sustainability of local implicit debt reflects its effect on promoting economic growth. By analyzing the sustainability of local implicit debt, valuable insights can be gained to support the high-quality economic development of relevant countries...
Accurate traffic flow prediction is a core component of intelligent transportation systems, supporting proactive traffic management, resource optimization, and sustainable urban mobility. However, urban traffic networks exhibit heterogeneous multi-sc...
Previous studies, constrained by the overly rigid stability requirements, often fail to adapt to complex systems and struggle to identify stable outcomes that align with the practical context of multi-agent resource allocation. To address the three-s...
The growing complexity and dynamism of industrial and organizational projects require management approaches that can effectively adapt to uncertainty and rapidly changing operational environments. In this context, this study proposes a methodology to...
Coal mine ventilation systems face coupled and systemic risks characterized by structural interconnection and disaster chain propagation. In order to accurately quantify and evaluate this overall system risk, this study presents a new method of risk...
In today’s increasingly serious environmental problems, a growing number of enterprises are upgrading remanufacturing as an important corporate strategy. This paper compares two third-party remanufacturing models: the entrusting and Authorizing...
Systems thinking is not a static concept, but rather a dynamic and evolving paradigm that continually adapts to the challenges of its time, becoming more refined and applicable in different areas, such as education. The main objective of the study is...
Promoting social participation is a core objective of digital inclusive development. Drawing on rural household survey data from five provinces in China and the Digital Governance Index developed by Peking University, this study systematically examin...
Leadership lies at the core of public administration, yet research on boundary-spanning leadership has paid limited attention to the micro-level behaviors through which regional collaboration is enacted. Drawing on empirical evidence from China and a...
This paper addresses the critical need for efficient energy management in healthcare facilities, where fluctuating energy demands pose challenges to both operational reliability and sustainability objectives. Traditional energy management approaches...
Current research on automotive supply networks predominantly examines single-type entities connected through one relationship type, resulting in oversimplified, single-layer network structures. This conventional approach fails to capture the complex...
High-precision calibration of inertial measurement units for automotive safety systems combines fixed automated chamber cycles with semi-manual loading, alignment, and transfer. Motion waste and ergonomic constraints can therefore dominate throughput...
Urban shared parking systems represent a complex socio-technical challenge. Despite vast potential, utilization remains persistently low (<15%), revealing a critical policy failure. To address this, this study develops a dynamic system framework b...
(1) Background. The rapid development of the digital economy provides a new perspective for enhancing industrial chain resilience. This study examines how manufacturing firms’ digitalization affects their industrial chain resilience, drawing on...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) must dynamically maintain sufficient safe distances from surrounding vehicles to ensure safety. Many existing studies have focused on collisions avoidance, such as the safety ranges in a rectangular shape that consider only...
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—framed around social, environmental, and governance dimensions—offers societies across the world the possibility of achieving long-term prosperity and ensuring that future generations enj...
To ensure the safety of vehicles and occupants under failures or functional limitations of ego vehicles, a minimum risk maneuver (MRM) has been proposed as a key automated driving system (ADS) function. However, executing an MRM may pose certain pote...
Lean implementations often deploy tools in isolation, leaving gaps in how abnormalities are exposed, resolved at the root cause, escalated when needed, and converted into organisational learning. This study proposes a five-stage closed-loop routine f...
High-end manufacturing supply chains are increasingly exposed to disruption risks and environmental uncertainty, yet how Industrial Internet (II) empowerment builds supply chain resilience (SCR) and when such benefits are most pronounced remain uncle...
Digital technologies have transformed the spatial organization of finance. As a result, geographic and virtual agglomerations co-exist. In this paper, we model the synergistic integration of geographic and virtual agglomerations within China’s...
The complexity of modern cyber–physical systems is steadily increasing as their functional scope expands and as regulations become more demanding. To cope with this complexity, organizations are adopting methodologies such as model-based system...
Urban heat islands pose intensifying threats to public health, equity, and urban livability as climate change amplifies temperature extremes. This systematic review synthesizes evidence from 33 primary studies (2021–2025) examining health impac...
The global countryside constitutes a complex social–ecological system undergoing profound transformation. Understanding how such systems navigate transitions and achieve resilient, sustainable outcomes requires examining the interactions and ad...
With the advancement of digitization in the era of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), highly automated, semi-autonomous, and fully autonomous systems are emerging. Within this context, multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a promising approach for automating tasks and p...
The healthy evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem relies on the symbiotic relationships among its diverse internal actors. This study addresses a gap in entrepreneurial ecosystem research, which has predominantly focused on two-agent models, by c...
Accurate credit risk assessment for small firms and farmers is crucial for financial stability and inclusion; however, many models still rely on binary default labels, overlooking the continuum of borrower vulnerability. To address this, we propose T...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted critical issues in health services and public policy, particularly in long-term care facilities across Canada. Failures in these facilities revolving around chronic underfunding, staffing shortages, inadequate infect...
The piston pin operates under severe mechanical and thermal conditions, making accurate lubrication prediction essential for engine durability. This study presents a comprehensive digital engineering framework for piston pin bearings, built upon a fu...
This paper develops a procedure for assessing both supply chain processes and strategic criteria in the context of platform-based supply chains, addressing the problem that organizations often invest in digital platforms without a clear understanding...
Firms globally are transforming digitally to enhance performance through building differentiated organizational capabilities within their digital ecosystem to maximize value. Drawing from the dynamic capability theory, this study aims to investigate...
Smart cities aim to integrate technological, infrastructural, and socio-environmental systems in order to improve urban sustainability and quality of life. To qualify as both smart and sustainable, a city is generally expected to pursue self-sufficie...
This study examines how green finance influences high-quality economic development, with a particular focus on its spatial spillover mechanisms. Specifically, we investigate the competing roles of technology spillover and the pollution haven effect....
This meta-review systematically examines 88 review papers from the scientific literature, focusing on the diverse ways scholars define and conceptualise the resilience of complex sociotechnical systems (STS). Among the 484 different conceptualisation...
The unique natural environment and climate of tropical island regions present significant challenges to construction. Under these variable natural conditions and complex construction processes, identifying and analyzing potential risks that could lea...
Considering the escalating international geopolitical tensions and the ensuing great power maneuvers, China’s oil supply faced unprecedented threats. To safeguard against these risks and harness domestic resources more effectively, addressing t...
The integration of digitalization and sustainability has become a prevailing trend in China’s current economic and social development. However, existing research rarely focuses on how emerging technology enterprises achieve responsible innovati...
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