With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the demand for logistics activities is increasing significantly. Concurrently, growing urbanization is causing the space for logistics and warehousing to become limited. Thus, more and more attent...
With the growing diversity and complexity of marine monitoring requirements, the scientific deployment of moored buoys has attracted increasing attention. To address the limitations of traditional methods—such as inconsistent knowledge represen...
During the design process, architectural layout configuration is subject to complex constraints such as site conditions and design requirements, resulting in limited design efficiency. This research aims to provide architects with an effective design...
This study develops a numerical framework for optimizing microseismic sensor network layouts in the Woxi Mine. Three candidate deployment schemes were evaluated by combining synthetic arrival-time perturbations with the classical Geiger localization...
Analyzing the spatial layout equilibrium of highway transportation networks is essential for optimizing transportation networks, enhancing system efficiency and sustainability. To promote the equitable distribution and management of highway traffic r...
While cellular automata (CA) has become increasingly popular in land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) simulations, insufficient research has considered the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of urban development strategies and applied it to constrain CA mo...
Urban blue infrastructure (UBI) and urban green infrastructure (UGI) can be seen as an integrated system in which services and spatial layouts complement each other. However, given its complexity, it is difficult to integrate and optimize the layout...
Facility layout design (FLD) is critical for optimizing manufacturing efficiency, yet traditional approaches struggle with complexity, dynamic constraints, and fragmented data integration. This study proposes a generative-AI-enabled facility layout d...
Truss layout design aims to find the optimal layout, considering node locations, connection topology between nodes, and cross-sectional areas of connecting bars. The design process of trusses can be represented as a reinforcement learning problem by...
This study proposes a technique for effectively arranging irregularly shaped parts on a board using a modified genetic algorithm and image processing. This technique addresses the challenge of efficiently packing parts of the same shape and size to o...
Huizhou villages are representatives of traditional villages and have a high historical, cultural, and tourism value. In view of the problems of low commercial efficiency due to the small scale of commercial space and the imperfect layout in Longchua...
The quality of a mine’s microseismic network layout directly affects the location accuracy of the microseismic network. Introducing the microseismic probability factor Fe, the microseismic importance factor FQ, and the effective range factor FV...
We address issues in existing house layout generation methods, including chaotic room layouts, limited iterative refinement, and restricted style diversity. We propose Graph-RWGAN, a generative adversarial network based on a multi-relational graph at...
Indoor formaldehyde pollution poses a serious threat to human health, and residential layout design plays a critical role in formaldehyde diffusion. However, current research on the correlation between typical residential layout shapes and formaldehy...
The rational spatial layout of retail businesses is the foundation for promoting urban economic sustainable development and meeting the growing material living needs of residents. Meanwhile, the spatial correlation between commercial establishments a...
Power battery enterprises are a key link in the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry chain. However, studies analyzing the investment layout of power battery enterprises from a micro perspective are relatively scarce. This study takes Contemporary Amper...
Ecological infrastructure plays a crucial role in strengthening the relationship between humans and the environment by optimizing ecological space and resource allocation in urban environments. However, there are few studies on the functional assessm...
5 November 2021
Optimising the layout of garbage bins is a requirement for improving the utilisation efficiency of rural infrastructure and continuously promoting the renovation of rural human settlements in China. This study selects Yuding Village in Chongqing, Chi...
With the development of ecological civilization construction, urban planning and development in China have entered a phase in which optimizing and constructing ecological spaces is required. As a national livable city, Xuchang has experienced rapid e...
This study employed unsupervised machine learning clustering algorithms to systematically analyze the spatial layout characteristics of residential buildings in villages along the Miao Frontier Wall and Miao Frontier Corridor in Western Hunan. The re...
In the face of geopolitical challenges and climate change, economic progress, safe production, and environmental protection have emerged as important directions for chemical industry development. However, the rational optimization of the chemical ind...
Transitioning toward efficient and digital industrial design requires preliminary tools that support early decision-making in plant layout studies. This qualitative and exploratory study analyzes an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted and Augmented...
24 January 2023
An urban emergency shelter provides a place of temporary life and shelter for victims after a disaster. As a very important public service facility, its spatial layout is greatly related to the security of lives and the property of the urban resident...
With the intensification of climate challenges driven by rapid urbanization, the microclimate and thermal comfort of residential blocks have attracted increasing attention. Current research predominantly focuses on isolated morphological factors&mdas...
As a crucial component of urban economic activities, the layout and optimization of urban commercial spaces directly influence the economic prosperity and quality of life of residents. Therefore, comprehensively and accurately characterizing the dist...
Wind farm layout optimization is commonly studied under a fixed number of turbines, although turbine quantity is closely coupled with wake effects and power generation efficiency. This study formulates the problem as a variable-turbine-number optimiz...
This review systematically integrates recent advancements in path optimization algorithms for the automated layout of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems within complex building environments. A hybrid optimization framework is introduc...
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) are gaining traction as a solution for harnessing wind energy in deepwater regions where traditional fixed-bottom turbines may not be viable due to water depth. This paper investigates the feasibility and optim...
Urban form optimization is crucial for controlling carbon emissions. Taking Shenzhen as a case study with 2022 data, this research constructs a multidimensional indicator system covering land use, functional mix, transportation structure, and spatial...
10 November 2025
With the rapid growth of e-commerce and rising demand for faster, reliable last mile delivery, optimizing the spatial layout of terminal logistics facilities is critical. This paper proposes a two-stage location framework for mini-depots and lockers...
Rain gauge networks are the core infrastructure for hydrological and water resource monitoring, flood control and disaster mitigation early warning, and water resource planning and regulation. The rationality of their layout directly determines the a...
The intensifying Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates urban heat stress. While vegetation is a key mitigation strategy, the quantitative effects of its spatial configuration are not fully understood. This study employed ENVI-met simulations to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the inequalities in health services in countries around the world under severe pressure. As crucial pillars in the prevention and control of COVID-19, fever clinics and fever sentinels are important sites for the scre...
This study proposes an integrated computational framework that combines deep learning-based visual perception analysis with multi-criteria decision making to optimize indoor architectural layouts in terms of both visual coherence and sustainability....
Electric buses have been vigorously promoted and implemented in major countries worldwide and have generated a huge demand for charging stations. Optimizing the daily charging experience of electric buses, adapting the daily operation scheduling, imp...
In the past, plant layouts were regarded as highly static structures. With increasing internal and external factors causing turbulence in operations, it has become more necessary for companies to adapt to new conditions in order to maintain optimal p...
Achieving robust environmental responsiveness in early stage architectural spatial layout design remains a critical challenge under the imperatives of global carbon neutrality and climate-adaptive building practice. Conventional parametric design and...
The conversion of aging residential buildings into public rental housing is considered a potential future application scenario. In response to the challenges of adapting the layouts of public rental housing to contemporary lifestyles, an integrated r...
Rapid urban expansion and chaotic urban land-use patterns cause many socio-economic and environmental issues, e.g., traffic congestion and urban heat islands; thus, scientific planning considering land-use trade-offs and layout optimization is highly...
Urban medical facilities are an irreplaceable foundation for ensuring higher levels of public health and medical equity. Hospital accessibility has an extremely important impact on the allocation efficiency and fairness of medical facilities. Althoug...
Parallel laying of high-voltage cables will generate a zero-sequence current, due to spatial electromagnetic induction, which reduces the cable’s current-carrying capacity, causing heating and corrosion of the grounding points and deteriorating...
This study focuses on the preservation of indoor murals, which can be supported by combining RTK and total station technology to explore the optimization of image geometric accuracy based on a control points layout. The study involves placing varying...
The curation design of cultural heritage sites, such as museums, influence the level of visitor satisfaction and the possibility of revisitation; therefore, an efficient exhibit layout is critical. The difficulty of determining the behavior of visito...
Against the global imperative to address climate change and accelerate energy transitions, the rapid growth of the electric vehicle (EV) industry has turned public charging infrastructure into a key foundation of urban operations, driven by carbon pe...
External spaces of buildings represent a type of potential space that can supplement the urban public space system under the background of urban renewal. However, as spaces with ambiguous publicness, their design and layout often need to convey stron...
The discussion about 15-minute cities (also referred to as cities of short distances) has gained considerable momentum in the last decade. Thanks to the optimal spatial layout of these urban areas, their residents can meet most or all of their day-to...
The social-ecological resilience of rural settlements refers to their ability to resist and mitigate the risks posed by internal and external disturbances, and to utilize the external environment to achieve a new equilibrium state. Amid rapid urbaniz...
This study integrates and develops methods, namely low impact development (LID) selection method and an LID spatial planning model, to enable decision-making to minimize pluvial flooding for a community. The objective is to minimize the flood risk un...
Establishing the National Comprehensive Disaster-Reduction Demonstration Community (NCDDC) is crucial for enhancing comprehensive disaster risk reduction at the grassroots level in China. Studying the distribution characteristics and influencing fact...
How to optimize the spatial layout of the logistics industry is a challenge faced by every city under the rapid development of e-commerce nowadays. Enterprises and nodes as the core of logistics and their locational formation mechanisms are the key c...
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