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Leveraging Digital Twin Technology in Model-Based Systems Engineering

  • Azad M. Madni,
  • Carla C. Madni and
  • Scott D. Lucero

30 January 2019

Digital twin, a concept introduced in 2002, is becoming increasingly relevant to systems engineering and, more specifically, to model-based system engineering (MBSE). A digital twin, like a virtual prototype, is a dynamic digital representation of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
347 Citations
67,867 Views
48 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of Recent Research Trends on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

  • Khaled Telli,
  • Okba Kraa,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Abdelmalik Ouamane,
  • Mohamed Boumehraz,
  • Shadi Atalla and
  • Wathiq Mansoor

2 August 2023

The growing interest in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from both the scientific and industrial sectors has attracted a wave of new researchers and substantial investments in this expansive field. However, due to the wide range of topics and subdomai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
295 Citations
119,794 Views
22 Pages

19 January 2019

Systems theory has been challenged in the recent literature due to its perceived disconnection from today’s research and practice demands. Moving away from the reductionist frameworks and the complicated domain predominated by known unknowns an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
289 Citations
53,064 Views
18 Pages

13 November 2016

Nearly all nontrivial real-world systems are nonlinear dynamical systems. Chaos describes certain nonlinear dynamical systems that have a very sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Chaotic systems are always deterministic and may be very simple...

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237 Citations
15,859 Views
22 Pages

Low carbon and digitalization are the general trends of manufacturing upgrading and transformation. Digital technology enables the whole process of green manufacturing and breaks down the spatial barrier. To achieve the dual carbon goals, the pressur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision-Making Process and Its Application to Business Analytic)
  • Review
  • Open Access
215 Citations
48,818 Views
44 Pages

Blockchain Application in Healthcare Systems: A Review

  • Pranto Kumar Ghosh,
  • Arindom Chakraborty,
  • Mehedi Hasan,
  • Khalid Rashid and
  • Abdul Hasib Siddique

8 January 2023

In the recent years, blockchain technology has gained significant attention in the healthcare sector. It has the potential to alleviate a wide variety of major difficulties in electronic health record systems. This study presents an elaborate overvie...

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186 Citations
43,032 Views
26 Pages

25 February 2024

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, college students have faced various challenges that could negatively impact their critical thinking abilities due to disruptions to education, increased stress and anxiety, less social interaction, and the a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovations after COVID-19: Emerging and Systemic Models or Complexities)
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  • Open Access
168 Citations
30,665 Views
37 Pages

9 July 2023

Systematic reviews (SR) are crucial in synthesizing and analyzing existing scientific literature to inform evidence-based decision-making. However, traditional SR methods often have limitations, including a lack of automation and decision support, re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Teaming: Synergy, Decision-Making and Interdependency)
  • Review
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166 Citations
25,725 Views
90 Pages

1 October 2014

In this review I show that four major kinds of theoretical approaches have been used to explain the scaling of metabolic rate in cells, organisms and groups of organisms in relation to system size. They include models focusing on surface-area related...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Allometric Scaling)
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163 Citations
85,368 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2024

In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethin...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
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154 Citations
38,866 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2024

This research explores the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools among higher education students in Saudi Arabia, aiming to understand their current perceptions of these technologies. This study utilizes the Technology Acceptance Mo...

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151 Citations
8,469 Views
25 Pages

24 February 2023

Although building enterprises are actively developing towards the direction of an integrated building supply chain (IBSC), they still face many difficulties in digital green innovation (DGI) activities. The purpose of this study is to reveal the inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System Dynamics Modeling for Green Supply Chain Management)
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150 Citations
15,611 Views
20 Pages

1 February 2023

The Edu-Metaverse, a vast ensemble of different technologies, has initiated a great and unprecedented change in the field of education. This change has been effected through the following Edu-Metaverse characteristics: embodied and multimodal interac...

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149 Citations
12,868 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2022

This study aims to examine the effect of FinTech adoption on the sustainability performance of banking institutions in an emerging economy such as Bangladesh. Besides, this study also investigates the mediating role of green finance and green innovat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Modeling Approaches to Finance and Fintech Innovation)
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144 Citations
6,288 Views
16 Pages

Adapting Feature Selection Algorithms for the Classification of Chinese Texts

  • Xuan Liu,
  • Shuang Wang,
  • Siyu Lu,
  • Zhengtong Yin,
  • Xiaolu Li,
  • Lirong Yin,
  • Jiawei Tian and
  • Wenfeng Zheng

20 September 2023

Text classification has been highlighted as the key process to organize online texts for better communication in the Digital Media Age. Text classification establishes classification rules based on text features, so the accuracy of feature selection...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication for the Digital Media Age)
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144 Citations
6,329 Views
16 Pages

Developing Multi-Labelled Corpus of Twitter Short Texts: A Semi-Automatic Method

  • Xuan Liu,
  • Guohui Zhou,
  • Minghui Kong,
  • Zhengtong Yin,
  • Xiaolu Li,
  • Lirong Yin and
  • Wenfeng Zheng

1 August 2023

Facing fast-increasing electronic documents in the Digital Media Age, the need to extract textual features of online texts for better communication is growing. Sentiment classification might be the key method to catch emotions of online communication...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication for the Digital Media Age)
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141 Citations
23,912 Views
18 Pages

24 February 2023

This paper examines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to address societal megatrends, with a specific focus on OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3). To do this, we conducted an analysis using GPT-3 in order to explo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Teaming: Synergy, Decision-Making and Interdependency)
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139 Citations
21,140 Views
14 Pages

4 December 2023

In an age where computing capabilities are expanding at a breathtaking pace, the advent of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) technology presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges to the future of design. It is crucial for desi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Futures Thinking in Design Systems and Social Transformation)
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127 Citations
37,659 Views
45 Pages

20 June 2024

This study investigates the intersection of digital transformation, business resilience, and marketing capabilities, focusing on small businesses and startups. The digital revolution has significantly transformed business operations, supply chain man...

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125 Citations
14,418 Views
13 Pages

Stop Guessing in the Dark: Identified Requirements for Digital Product Passport Systems

  • Maike Jansen,
  • Tobias Meisen,
  • Christiane Plociennik,
  • Holger Berg,
  • André Pomp and
  • Waldemar Windholz

25 February 2023

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept for collecting and sharing product-related information along the life cycle of a product. DPPs are currently the subject of intense discussion, and various development efforts are being undertaken. Thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation in Services Production Systems and Product Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
124 Citations
25,288 Views
53 Pages

18 March 2024

Technologies, such as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT), are prime examples of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is a constantly evolving area. SMEs, particularly startups, can obtain a competitive edge, innovate their bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies to Build Startup Dynamic Capabilities for a Sustainable and Competitive Advantage: Engineering & Management Perspective)
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120 Citations
17,319 Views
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Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Elements and Its Main Factors

  • David Rehak,
  • Pavel Senovsky and
  • Simona Slivkova

Resilience in a critical infrastructure system can be viewed as a quality that reduces vulnerability, minimizes the consequences of threats, accelerates response and recovery, and facilitates adaptation to a disruptive event. In this context, compreh...

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116 Citations
65,705 Views
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Developing a Preliminary Causal Loop Diagram for Understanding the Wicked Complexity of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Oz Sahin,
  • Hengky Salim,
  • Emiliya Suprun,
  • Russell Richards,
  • Stefen MacAskill,
  • Simone Heilgeist,
  • Shannon Rutherford,
  • Rodney A. Stewart and
  • Cara D. Beal

18 June 2020

COVID-19 is a wicked problem for policy makers internationally as the complexity of the pandemic transcends health, environment, social and economic boundaries. Many countries are focusing on two key responses, namely virus containment and financial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Life in the Time of a Pandemic: Social, Economic, Health and Environmental Impacts of COVID-19—Systems Approach Study)
  • Review
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115 Citations
28,609 Views
26 Pages

Systems Thinking: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis

  • Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain,
  • Vidanelage L. Dayarathna,
  • Morteza Nagahi and
  • Raed Jaradat

Systems thinking (ST) is an interdisciplinary domain that offers different ways to better understand the behavior and structure of a complex system. Over the past decades, several publications can be identified in academic literature, focusing on dif...

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115 Citations
7,961 Views
24 Pages

28 December 2022

In the context of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, digital green innovation development is becoming more and more important for enterprises. In order to effectively improve green competitiveness and increase profits, photovoltaic building materials...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation in Services Production Systems and Product Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
110 Citations
22,589 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2023

Our study explores the association between the adoption of green technology and the development of green dynamic capabilities to achieve green competitive advantage. This research concentrates explicitly on the mediating function of green product inn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies to Build Startup Dynamic Capabilities for a Sustainable and Competitive Advantage: Engineering & Management Perspective)
  • Review
  • Open Access
109 Citations
14,288 Views
23 Pages

16 March 2023

Industry 4.0 is a recent trend representing the vision for the integration of information, objects and people in cyber-physical scenarios in order to transform factories into intelligent environments. Although this transition is still ongoing, the co...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
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  • Open Access
106 Citations
39,536 Views
29 Pages

25 August 2022

Bookkeeping data free of fraud and errors are a cornerstone of legitimate business operations. The highly complex and laborious work of financial auditors calls for finding new solutions and algorithms to ensure the correctness of financial statement...

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105 Citations
23,146 Views
48 Pages

AI in Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis: Techniques, Trends, and Future Directions

  • Yassine Habchi,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Hamza Kheddar,
  • Abdelkrim Boukabou,
  • Shadi Atalla,
  • Ammar Chouchane,
  • Abdelmalik Ouamane and
  • Wathiq Mansoor

17 October 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted thyroid cancer diagnosis in recent years, offering advanced tools and methodologies that promise to revolutionize patient outcomes. This review provides an exhaustive overview of the contemporar...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
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  • Open Access
104 Citations
30,504 Views
18 Pages

20 February 2019

In the face of ever-increasing complexity of systems and system development programs, several aerospace, automotive, and defense organizations have already begun or are contemplating the transition to model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The key c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering)
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100 Citations
18,458 Views
21 Pages

9 January 2025

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face complex systemic challenges in managing digital transformation while pursuing innovation in an increasingly interconnected business environment. This study adopts a systems theory perspective to investi...

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99 Citations
11,980 Views
20 Pages

29 May 2023

Growing Electric vehicle (EV) ownership leads to an increase in charging stations, which raises load demand and causes grid outages during peak hours. Microgrids can significantly resolve these issues in the electrical distribution system by implemen...

(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
99 Citations
12,266 Views
14 Pages

13 June 2023

In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet technology, the number of credit card users has increased significantly. Subsequently, credit card fraud has caused a large amount of economic losses to individual users and related financial en...

(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
99 Citations
27,656 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)
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  • Open Access
95 Citations
13,441 Views
12 Pages

The Theory of Knowledge Fields: A Thermodynamics Approach

  • Constantin Bratianu and
  • Ruxandra Bejinaru

29 March 2019

The emergence of knowledge economy and knowledge management revealed the need for reconsidering the concept of knowledge in a larger framework than that created by philosophers from ancient times. While the epistemology as a theory of knowledge and j...

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93 Citations
26,375 Views
27 Pages

15 January 2024

Recruitment is a fundamental aspect of Human Resource Management to drive organizational performance. Traditional recruitment processes, with manual stages, are time-consuming and inefficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI), which demonstrates its pote...

  • Review
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93 Citations
19,180 Views
32 Pages

14 March 2017

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an extension of the Internet in which large numbers of “things”, including sensors, actuators and processors, in addition to human users, are networked and able to provide high resolution data on their environment and...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
93 Citations
30,315 Views
19 Pages

Making Sense of Complexity: Using SenseMaker as a Research Tool

  • Susara E. Van der Merwe,
  • Reinette Biggs,
  • Rika Preiser,
  • Charmaine Cunningham,
  • David J. Snowden,
  • Karen O’Brien,
  • Marcus Jenal,
  • Marietjie Vosloo,
  • Sonja Blignaut and
  • Zhen Goh

There is growing interest in studying processes of human sensemaking, as this strongly influences human and organizational behavior as well as complex system dynamics due to the diverse lenses people use to interpret and act in the world. The Cogniti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Thinking: Concepts, Issues, and Applications in Large Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
88 Citations
16,083 Views
19 Pages

29 August 2024

This study investigates the factors influencing undergraduate students’ self-directed learning (SDL) abilities in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven interactive learning environments. The advent of generative AI has revolutionized i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
6,996 Views
18 Pages

A New Strategy-Based PID Controller Optimized by Genetic Algorithm for DTC of the Doubly Fed Induction Motor

  • Said Mahfoud,
  • Aziz Derouich,
  • Najib EL Ouanjli,
  • Mohammed EL Mahfoud and
  • Mohammed Taoussi

Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) is the most popular controller used in automatic systems, because of its robustness, ability to adapt the behaviors of the system, making them converge toward its optimum. These advantages are valid only in the...

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  • Open Access
87 Citations
19,862 Views
31 Pages

A Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Digital Twin for Manufacturing Process Optimization

  • Abdelmoula Khdoudi,
  • Tawfik Masrour,
  • Ibtissam El Hassani and
  • Choumicha El Mazgualdi

24 January 2024

In the context of Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, production factories are increasingly focusing on process optimization, high product customization, quality improvement, cost reduction, and energy saving by implementing a new type of digital s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
45,882 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2024

Given the rapid advancements in the digital transformation era, digital leadership has become essential for enhancing employee performance and organizational commitment. This study specifically examines the mediating role of digital transformation in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management in Digital Transformation Era)
  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
27,529 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2023

The emergence of artificial-intelligence (AI)-powered information technology, such as deep learning and natural language processing, enables human to shift their behaving or working diagram from human-only to human–AI synergy, especially in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–AI Teaming: Synergy, Decision-Making and Interdependency)
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  • Open Access
80 Citations
8,946 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Green Entrepreneurship on Social Change and Factors Influencing AMO Theory

  • Mohammed Mamun Mia,
  • Shahid Rizwan,
  • Nurul Mohammad Zayed,
  • Vitalii Nitsenko,
  • Oleksandr Miroshnyk,
  • Halyna Kryshtal and
  • Roman Ostapenko

26 August 2022

This study analyses the importance of the entrepreneurial intention of university students to promote social change by green entrepreneurship in regard to the three most vibrant components of AMO (Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity) theory, develop...

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  • Open Access
80 Citations
23,857 Views
25 Pages

29 January 2025

The current study examines the psychological factors shaping AI adoption, focusing on anxiety, motivation, and dependency. It identifies two dimensions of AI anxiety: anticipatory anxiety, driven by fears of future disruptions, and annihilation anxie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating Digital Transformation: Leadership and Decision Making in Today’s Systems)
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  • Open Access
79 Citations
17,198 Views
18 Pages

MBSE with/out Simulation: State of the Art and Way Forward

  • Bernard P. Zeigler,
  • Saurabh Mittal and
  • Mamadou Kaba Traore

15 November 2018

The limitations of model-based support for engineering complex systems include limited capability to develop multifaceted models as well as their analysis with robust reliable simulation engines. Lack of such Modeling and Simulation (M&S) infrast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering)
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  • Open Access
79 Citations
13,905 Views
26 Pages

1 October 2014

Both the slope and elevation of scaling relationships between log metabolic rate and log body size vary taxonomically and in relation to physiological or developmental state, ecological lifestyle and environmental conditions. Here I discuss how the r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Allometric Scaling)
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  • Open Access
75 Citations
5,870 Views
18 Pages

19 May 2023

The COVID-19 outbreak devastated business operations and the world economy, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With limited capital, poorer risk tolerance, and difficulty in withstanding prolonged crises, SMEs are more vulnerab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Applications of Forecasting and Evaluation Techniques in Energy, Environment and Economy Management)
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