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2 November 2026

Generative-AI systems are increasingly trained on datasets containing AI-generated content, creating recursive feedback that may cause progressive losses of tail mass, diversity, and effective variance in learned distributions–a phenomenon comm...

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Graph Neural Reasoning for Semantic Understanding of Traffic Signs in Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Zongcheng Zuo,
  • Mengjia Liu,
  • Yutong Yan,
  • Yi Lu and ,
  • Zhuoyue Ma and
  • Yichao Ma
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31 October 2026

In the domain of intelligent transportation systems, interpreting informative traffic signs requires more than recognizing isolated objects. Our study is dedicated to Traffic Sign Semantic Understanding (TSSU), with the goal of examining diverse traf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematical Models and Computational Intelligence for Transportation System Planning and Management)
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31 October 2026

This paper describes a human-in-the-loop TSO-DCR architecture that incorporates transmission system simulation, HMS, HPMS, and HPSN. MATLAB App Designer, MATPOWER, and Simulink/Simscape Electrical were used to examine baseline conditions, a transmiss...

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31 October 2026

The paper develops a dynamic model for ironless axial-flux permanent-magnet synchronous machines (AFPMSMs) fabricated using 3D-printing techniques. The model employs lumped parameters determined through an efficient two-dimensional (2D) magnetic-fiel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution of Electric Motors: Current Trends and Future Prospects for Industrial Applications)
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Adaptive Inertia and Damping Tuning for VSG Using Improved Harris Hawks Optimization

  • Rencai Hao,
  • Tinglong Pan,
  • Tianle Yin,
  • Zhenyang Cai and ,
  • Dezhi Xu and
  • Chengxi Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 October 2026

Conventional virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control with fixed parameters cannot simultaneously achieve fast transient response and effective overshoot suppression, while adaptive VSG performance depends strongly on empirically tuned gains. This...

(This article belongs to the Section Control and Systems Engineering)
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31 October 2026

Extended Reality (XR) technologies have demonstrated considerable potential for enhancing robotics education by enabling immersive visualization, safe experimentation and improved access to practical laboratory experiences. Despite these advantages,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Methodologies in Education 4.0)
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30 October 2026

Educational data mining (EDM) often reports classifiers and feature selectors fitted to large-scale assessments without respecting how these surveys are designed. This study specifies an evaluation protocol for such data—a published predictor a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Educational Technologies: Systems and Applications)
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30 October 2026

Smart-inverter Volt–Var and Volt–Watt control is established practice, but the relative merits of local controller architectures depend on network conditions and inverter capability. This simulation-based study evaluates a reactive-power-...

(This article belongs to the Section Control and Systems Engineering)
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Low-Cost IoT Monitoring of Energy-Relevant Variables in an Industrial Compressed-Air System: Field Deployment in a Colombian SME

  • Alejandro Vargas Cortes,
  • Edwin Enrique Velez Jaramillo,
  • Maria Vilma García Buitrago,
  • Daniel Hincapié-Baena and
  • Daniel Sanin-Villa

29 October 2026

Industrial compressed-air systems require continuous operational visibility because pressure regulation, load cycling, thermal conditions, and pneumatic demand affect energy performance. This study develops and field-evaluates a low-cost Internet of...

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Hydrogen-Efficient Operation of a PEMFC-Powered Induction Motor Drive via Dhole-Inspired Optimization and a Neural Network Controller

  • Mahmoud M. Elkholy,
  • A. El-Sayed,
  • Hossam Ashraf,
  • Mohammed Jufaili and
  • M. Abdelateef Mostafa

29 October 2026

This paper presents an energy-efficient operating strategy for a three-phase induction motor drive powered by a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The proposed approach minimizes hydrogen consumption and improves motor efficiency over a wide...

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29 October 2026

Road-surface ice, snow and standing water can impair winter driving, while irregular boundaries and changing illumination complicate image-based assessment. This study investigates pixel-wise semantic segmentation using HPC-D, a DeepLabv3+ architectu...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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28 October 2026

In this article, we consider an operator of an autonomous electric ride-hailing fleet who must decide, for every vehicle and period, whether to remain in place, travel empty to a rider, carry a rider, or charge at a station. The proposed mixed-intege...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied System Optimization for Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
  • Communication
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27 October 2026

To overcome the thermal loss and interconnect delays of conventional electronic processors under escalating AI computing workloads, analog optical processors have emerged as a compelling low-latency alternative. This work introduces an integrated opt...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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An IoT-Enabled Multi-Sensor Smart IV Infusion Monitoring System with Edge–Cloud Integration

  • Ming-Cheng Kao,
  • Kai-Huang Chen,
  • Kuo-Chien Liao,
  • Fu-Xue Chen and ,
  • Kuan-Sheng Ho and
  • Yu-Zhen Tong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2026

Conventional gravity-fed intravenous (IV) infusion relies largely on visual inspection, and abnormal events such as incorrect drip rate, depletion, and blood backflow may occur between nursing rounds. This study develops and evaluates an IoT-enabled...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of IOT on Manufacturing, Communication and Engineering, 2nd Volume)
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23 October 2026

This exploratory research examines learning-process engagement in artificial intelligence (AI)-supported courses, measured through students’ self-reported attention, active participation, and thinking during class. Necessary Condition Analysis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Educational Technologies: Systems and Applications)
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167 Views
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23 October 2026

Planned last-mile routes often change during execution, making pre-dispatch identification of likely deviations useful. Performance measured when test routes involve drivers and addresses represented in training may not extend to unseen entities. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied System Optimization for Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
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Bi-Level Optimization for Capacity Configuration and Low-Carbon Scheduling of Multi-Energy Systems with Energy-Carbon Coupling

  • Yun Yang,
  • Hongning Zhen,
  • Dawei Feng,
  • Shirui Feng and ,
  • Shichao Sun,
  • Youruo Wu and
  • Xiaohu Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 October 2026

Coordinating capacity configuration and operational scheduling in multi-energy systems is inherently complex, given their distinct time scales and intertwined economic and carbon constraints. To address this challenge, a bi-level optimization model f...

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BERTopic-Based Latent Hazards Mining and Topic Database Construction for Gas Pipeline Accidents

  • Xilong Shi,
  • Chenghu Zhang,
  • Wenlong Jiang,
  • Wenling Jiao and
  • Chunling Wang

19 October 2026

As critical energy infrastructure, gas pipeline networks play an essential role in maintaining stable energy supply and supporting energy infrastructure sustainability. However, accident reports are characterized by dispersed data sources, highly uns...

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217 Views
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A Systems Engineering Design Framework for University Air Traffic Control Simulators: Integrating Regulatory Requirements, Human Factors, and Infrastructure Design

  • Ioana Catalina Enache,
  • Oana Roxana Chivu,
  • Răzvan Lepădatu,
  • Timur-Vasile Chiș and ,
  • Vitor J. Sá and
  • Berna Haktanirlar Ulutas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 October 2026

Air traffic control (ATC) simulators are essential tools for controller training, operational research and higher education, enabling realistic practice without affecting live air traffic. Although commercial simulation platforms are widely available...

(This article belongs to the Topic Circularity Research and Innovation Towards Sustainable Cities and Built Environment)
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A Capability-Based Framework for Classifying and Evaluating Digital Twins in the Oil and Gas Industry

  • Jackson Silverio de Sousa,
  • Leonardo Alves da Silva,
  • Gustavo Jorge Martins de Aguiar,
  • Ramon Baptista Narcizo and ,
  • Jamile Eleutério Delesposte,
  • Guido Vaz Silva,
  • Edwin Benito Mitacc Meza,
  • Danilo Colombo,
  • Iara Tammela and
  • Dalton Garcia Borges de Souza
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

16 October 2026

Digital Twin technologies have seen growing adoption in the Oil and Gas industry, yet the term is applied to systems with markedly different levels of data integration, analytical capability, physical–digital interaction, and operational autono...

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Analytics Investment in EOQ Systems: Joint Ordering- and Holding-Cost Reduction Under Benefit Realisation Risk

  • Siraj Zahran,
  • Mohammad Kanan,
  • Ramiz Assaf,
  • Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi and
  • Sara Atef

14 October 2026

Analytics programmes can reduce EOQ ordering and holding costs, but expenditure is committed before planned benefits are fully realised. This study extends an established joint cost reduction formulation with a post-optimisation benefit realisation e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied System Optimization for Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
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12 October 2026

This paper proposes the Raid Team Strategy (RTS), a population-based metaheuristic inspired by the tactical organization of raid teams in search-and-attack operations. At each iteration, the best-ranked agents act as leaders and exploit their neighbo...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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A Digital Twin Framework for Monitoring and Fault Identification of Marine Internal Combustion Engines

  • Dmytro Minchev,
  • Roman Varbanets,
  • Yurii Kucherenko and
  • Pavlo Bratchenko

10 October 2026

Monitoring the current technical condition of a marine internal combustion engine and diagnosing the causes of deviations of its operating parameters from reference values are important tasks for ensuring the efficient and safe operation of marine po...

(This article belongs to the Section Control and Systems Engineering)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
238 Views
7 Pages

AI-Driven Decision Support for Systemic Innovation

  • Yong Qin,
  • Yuyan Luo and
  • Xinxin Wang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the scope of decision support from model-assisted analysis toward systems in which algorithms, data, domain knowledge, and human judgment interact throughout the decision process [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Decision Support for Systemic Innovation)
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Matching surgical patients to intensive care beds in real time remains stubbornly difficult in healthcare business operation. Demand spikes. Capacity tightens. Yet, even brief admission delays might trigger avoidable complications and inflate operati...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Mathematics)
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This study investigates the temporal evolution of e-commerce research topics from 1996 to 2025 using a reproducible semantic–temporal framework that combines a fixed-seed K = 20 BERTopic specification with adjacent-year Pearson correlation coef...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
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328 Views
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Traditional ant colony optimization (ACO) often suffers from insufficient initial pheromone information, premature convergence, and limited adaptability across problem scales when solving the traveling salesman problem (TSP). This study proposes a mu...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Mathematics)
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224 Views
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Optimal Management of a Virtual Power Plant with Active Demand Using a MILP–MPC Scheme

  • Brayan Benavides-Vergara,
  • Javier Revelo-Fuelagán and
  • John E. Candelo-Becerra

30 September 2026

The increasing penetration of non-conventional renewable energy sources poses operational flexibility challenges that motivate the coordination of distributed energy resources via active demand management. This study proposes an optimal operational s...

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Multi-Objective Optimization of Magnetic-Assisted Titanium Electropolishing in a Deep Eutectic Solvent Using Taguchi-TOPSIS Methodology

  • Eurison Jeyandra Tanamal,
  • Asseghaf Bintang Ramadhani,
  • Muhammad Fawwaz Kanziwa,
  • Rizky Astari Rahmania and ,
  • Kartika Nur ‘Anisa’,
  • Chandrawati Putri Wulandari,
  • Muslim Mahardika,
  • Nor Hasrul Akhmal Ngadiman and
  • Gunawan Setia Prihandana
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29 September 2026

Titanium and its alloys present machining challenges that necessitate post-machining surface finishing to guarantee functional reliability and surface integrity. Because traditional methods often rely on hazardous acidic media, recent sustainable man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in the ‘Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’ Section)
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29 September 2026

Artificial intelligence is included in several parts of education, and it serves as an important tool for it. In this study, we present the initial design and pre-deployment formative evaluation of an AI-powered educational chatbot, called TouriBot,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Educational Technologies: Systems and Applications)
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29 September 2026

Effective Internet of Things (IoT) education requires students to integrate sensing, actuation, embedded programming, networking, and application development into complete cyber-physical systems. Achieving this integration remains challenging, partic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Methodologies in Education 4.0)
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28 September 2026

Macro-fibre composite (MFC) actuators offer improved flexibility and damage tolerance over monolithic piezoceramics, which have been widely utilised recently. However, direct bonding to a heritage substrate of MFC actuators may cause local stress con...

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27 September 2026

The metering verification center of Yunnan Power Grid processes dynamically arriving batches of single-phase and three-phase smart meters, low-voltage current transformers, and collection terminals through multi-operation test chains on six automated...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
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25 September 2026

The world population is aging at an accelerating pace, and the rate of disability caused by chronic diseases and trauma is on the rise. The traditional rehabilitation model has some structural defects, such as subjective evaluation, homogeneity in tr...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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24 September 2026

This paper addresses a green intermodal route-planning problem considering delivery time sensitivity and cargo integrity, in which a fuzzy time window, damage costs and the carbon tax policy are comprehensively integrated. A linear route-planning mod...

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Simulation-Based Benchmarking of Virtual Coupling Operational Scenarios: A UK West Coast Main Line Case Study

  • Alican Erdem,
  • Mehmet Zahid Hamarat,
  • Marcelo Blumenfeld,
  • Lei Chen and
  • Clive Roberts

23 September 2026

Virtual Coupling (VC) is an emerging railway signalling concept that allows successive trains to run closer together than the conventional absolute braking distance, promising higher line capacity. Prior VC research has mainly targeted controller des...

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468 Views
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23 September 2026

Background: Real-time Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is important for enabling spatial-audio perception in resource-constrained environments. Edge and mobile platforms—including smartphones, wearables, embedded processors, microc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reviews of Critical and Emerging Technologies for Applied System Innovation)
  • Review
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854 Views
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Maritime GNSS Threats and Resilience: A Layered Review of Vulnerabilities and Defences

  • Dimitrios Piromalis,
  • Efthymios Tserepas and
  • Panagiotis Papageorgas

19 September 2026

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin maritime Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), supporting bridge functions such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS), the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), radar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Communication, Positioning and IoT Systems for Smart Infrastructure and Industrial Applications)
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17 September 2026

Accurate load loss forecasting is important to prevent plant failures and improve power station reliability. While the Temporal Fusion Transformer and LSTM have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in modelling complex temporal patterns, their e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Decision Support for Systemic Innovation)
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A Morphology-Driven Conceptual Design Framework for Passive Sit-to-Stand Assistive Mechanisms

  • Harold A. Rodriguez-Arias,
  • Julio C. Rodríguez Ribón,
  • Efrain Rodriguez and
  • Diego Páez-Granados

17 September 2026

Passive sit-to-stand (STS) assistive devices provide an affordable and reliable alternative to powered rehabilitation systems; however, their effectiveness depends on the kinematic compatibility between the mechanism and the user. Existing studies pr...

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336 Views
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Classification of Dynamic Operating Modes of Electric Motors Using Synthetic Load Profiles

  • Stoil Kavalov,
  • Angel Nikolov,
  • Miroslav Vasilev and
  • Zlatin Zlatev

16 September 2026

The analysis of transient regimes is important for the reliable monitoring and diagnostics of electromechanical systems, since dynamic changes in load have a significant impact on the electrical and mechanical characteristics of electric motors. In t...

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335 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2026

With the rapid development of smart devices and mobile Internet, Location-based Consumer Electronics (LCE) increasingly rely on accurate destination prediction to support location-aware services. However, existing destination prediction methods often...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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23 Pages

14 September 2026

This study investigates a novel on-time and reliable intermodal routing problem for time-sensitive cargoes. Three practical factors, hard time window, damage costs, and fuzzy demand, are fully integrated into the problem optimization to achieve compr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied System Optimization for Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
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Early Academic Performance Prediction in Secondary Education: Are Simple Machine Learning Models Enough?

  • Víctor D. Díaz Suárez,
  • Marina Praena-Delgado,
  • María de los Ángeles Buenavista-Ruiz,
  • Carmen Román-León and ,
  • Miriam Martín-Paciente and
  • Carlos M. Travieso-González
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11 September 2026

Most predictive approaches in educational data mining rely on complex models whose opacity limits practical adoption by classroom teachers, creating a gap between model sophistication and classroom usability. This gap is particularly acute at the cla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Methodologies in Education 4.0)
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10 September 2026

In this study, statistical analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) were employed to study the efficiency and self-starting trade-off of a Savonius–Darrieus hybrid turbine. The research focused on identifying the optimal radius ratio, co...

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26 Pages

A Low-Cost Distributed Multi-Sensor Rule-Based System for Real-Time Sitting Posture Monitoring and Remote Behavioral Feedback

  • Wenyuan Bian,
  • Junjie Li,
  • Yuan Diao,
  • Kai Tian and ,
  • Zhihao Fan,
  • Tianji Zou and
  • Boqi Kang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 September 2026

Prolonged sitting and poor posture are linked to musculoskeletal discomfort, higher spinal loading, and lower study and work efficiency. An Arduino-based distributed system combining a multi-sensor was developed for low-cost, camera-free sitting post...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Methodologies in Education 4.0)
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Design and Early Industrial Deployment of a Digital Continuous Improvement System for Manufacturing

  • Paulo Peças,
  • Jéssica Lopes,
  • Hugo Botelho,
  • Diogo Jorge and ,
  • Anshuman Kumar Sahu and
  • Paulo Soares
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 September 2026

Manufacturing companies often register process deviations in operational systems while managing continuous improvement (CI) actions through separate spreadsheets, templates and meeting records. This fragmentation weakens traceability between detectio...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
  • Perspective
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22 Pages

3 September 2026

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems—software that plans, acts, and decides without step-by-step human approval—are already deployed in finance, healthcare, recruitment, and public services. They differ from earlier AI in one crit...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
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Realization and Functional Safety Assessment of the National Modular Microprocessor-Based Interlocking System KZ-MPC-MA

  • Kanibek Sansyzbay,
  • Yelena Bakhtiyarova,
  • Laura Tasbolatova,
  • Sergey Vlasenko and
  • Gennady Patokin

2 September 2026

This study investigates the realization and verification of safety-related functions of the KZ-MPC-MA national modular microprocessor-based railway interlocking system for Kazakhstan. The work focuses on the realization stage of the IEC 61508 safety...

(This article belongs to the Section Control and Systems Engineering)
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1 September 2026

The use of satellite imagery to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals is increasingly common, driven by advances in remote sensing and deep learning. Introducing remote sensing into academic graduate programs at maritime institutions not only fol...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Systems on Educational Innovations and Emerging Technologies)
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