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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,190 Views
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A FACTS Devices Allocation Procedure Attending to Load Share

  • Samuel Marrero Vera,
  • Ignacio Nuez and
  • Mario Hernandez-Tejera

16 April 2020

Power system stability is a topic which is attracting considerable interest due to the increase of both electrical demand and distributed variable generation. Since Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices are an increasingly widespread solut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Power Quality 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,311 Views
7 Pages

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of academic research on location-allocation of electric vehicle fast chargers into the pattern of the actual fast-charger allocation in the United States. The work aims to highlight the gap between academic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from The 31st International Electric Vehicles Symposium and Exhibition (Kobe, Japan))
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,442 Views
19 Pages

Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,109 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2025

To fight disinformation, fact-checking initiatives have used artificial intelligence tools as part of the investigation process, whether to monitor false narratives, to assist in the construction of content, or to allocate verifications more effectiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disinformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
5,571 Views
24 Pages

Optimal Allocation of Static Var Compensators in Electric Power Systems

  • Martin Ćalasan,
  • Tatjana Konjić,
  • Katarina Kecojević and
  • Lazar Nikitović

21 June 2020

In the current age, power systems contain many modern elements, one example being Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices, which play an important role in enhancing the static and dynamic performance of the systems. However, due to the high c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning, Operation, and Analysis of Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Systems by Artificial Intelligence Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,241 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2023

On lunar missions, efficient and safe transportation of human–robot systems is essential for the success of human exploration and scientific endeavors. Given the fact that transportation constructs bottlenecks for numerous typical lunar mission...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ergonomics and Human Factors in Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,924 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2023

This paper investigates the joint task allocation and resource optimization problem in an integrated radar and communication multi-UAV (IRCU) system. Specifically, we assign reconnaissance UAVs and communication UAVs to perform the detection, trackin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,500 Views
17 Pages

Prestressed Steel Material-Allocation Path and Construction Using Intelligent Digital Twins

  • Zhansheng Liu,
  • Guoliang Shi,
  • Jie Qin,
  • Xiangyu Wang and
  • Junbo Sun

6 April 2022

This study is aimed at the fact that material allocation and construction progress cannot be intelligently controlled in the construction of prestressed steel structures. An intelligent planning method of a material-allocation path for prestressed st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling, Test and Practice of Steel Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,233 Views
12 Pages

Sintering Properties and Regression Analysis of Imported Iron Ore Powder

  • Shuai Hao,
  • Guoping Luo,
  • Yifan Chai,
  • Yuanyuan Lu and ,
  • Shengli An and
  • Wei Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 November 2022

In order to reduce the sintering allocation scheme and lower the cost of allocation, two semi-lignite ores with similar properties and large price differences were selected for blending to achieve the purpose of complementary advantages. The sintered...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,189 Views
24 Pages

A Review on Optimization Objectives for Power System Operation Improvement Using FACTS Devices

  • Sohrab Mirsaeidi,
  • Subash Devkota,
  • Xiaojun Wang,
  • Dimitrios Tzelepis and ,
  • Ghulam Abbas,
  • Ahmed Alshahir and
  • Jinghan He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 December 2022

In recent decades, the rapid rise in electricity demand has compelled transmission and distribution systems to operate at almost their maximum capacity. This can pose numerous technical challenges such as excessive power losses, voltage and transient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
258 Views
27 Pages

13 October 2026

Dynamic warehouse task allocation must coordinate loading, transport and unloading robots under changing conditions. We propose a versioned neuro-symbolic architecture in which DeepSeek proposes facts and restricted rules, an authenticated semantic s...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,530 Views
13 Pages

13 November 2020

The high time needed to reconfigure cloud resources in Network Function Virtualization network environments has led to the proposal of solutions in which a prediction based-resource allocation is performed. All of them are based on traffic or needed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,353 Views
15 Pages

21 October 2020

In the modern power system, Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices are widely used. An increased share of the distributed generation (DG) and the development of microgrids change the power flows in the existing distribution...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,428 Views
15 Pages

Thermal-Aware Virtual Machine Allocation for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Centers

  • Abbas Akbari,
  • Ahmad Khonsari and
  • Seyed Mohammad Ghoreyshi

4 June 2020

In recent years, a large and growing body of literature has addressed the energy-efficient resource management problem in data centers. Due to the fact that cooling costs still remain the major portion of the total data center energy cost, thermal-aw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,406 Views
24 Pages

Responsibility Hoarding by Overconfident Managers

  • Petra Nieken,
  • Abdolkarim Sadrieh and
  • Nannan Zhou

26 July 2025

Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral bias that involves the overestimation of one’s own capabilities. We introduce a model in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,550 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2025

Integrating Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) backscatter with Cognitive Radio (CR) can effectively alleviate the pressure of large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) device connections while reducing power consumption. In the downlink of NOMA backsc...

(This article belongs to the Section Wireless Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,100 Views
14 Pages

Optimized Rear Drive Torque Allocation Strategy for Dual-Motor Mining Dump Trucks

  • Yuzhou Chen,
  • Zheyun Wang,
  • Zhengjun Pan and
  • Yanping Zheng

3 September 2024

This paper takes the dual-motor pure electric mining dump truck as the research object and designs a dual-motor rear-drive torque optimization allocation strategy in view of the problems such as the large load variation of the dump truck and the fact...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical Machines and Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,866 Views
18 Pages

22 August 2022

A key focus in research on changes in historical land cover has been to improve existing gridded cropland allocation methods based on land suitability for cultivation to generate credible historical cropland cover data. This study developed a settlem...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,522 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2019

The fact that the water resource governor has to allocate limited water resources to two competing agricultural water users under the administrative system (AS) leads to a principal-agent issue. Hence, this paper constructs a two-stage performance-ba...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,477 Views
18 Pages

With the rapid development of artificial-intelligence technologies in the field of automated driving, many jurisdictions have successively adopted legislation and policy guidance to regulate the safe use of such technologies and to promote their orde...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,039 Views
17 Pages

Flexible Resource Optimization for D2D XL-MIMO Communication via Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit

  • Zhaomin Jian,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Yunchao Song,
  • Mengshuang Liu and
  • Huibin Liang

Extremely large-scale multi-input and multi-output (XL-MIMO) communication, compared to conventional massive multi-input multi-output communication, can support more users and higher data throughput, thereby significantly improving its spectral effic...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Comment
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,363 Views
5 Pages

14 November 2018

Schosser (Games 2018, 9, 26) claims to have found an alternative solution to design appropriate performance measures than the State-Contingent Relative Benefit Cost Allocation (RBCA) introduced by Ortner et al. (Management Accounting Research 2017, 3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,711 Views
16 Pages

Indistinguishability Operators Applied to Task Allocation Problems in Multi-Agent Systems

  • José Guerrero,
  • Juan-José Miñana,
  • Oscar Valero and
  • Gabriel Oliver

21 September 2017

In this paper we show an application of indistinguishability operators to model response functions. Such functions are used in the mathematical modeling of the task allocation problem in multi-agent systems when the stimulus, perceived by the agent,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,485 Views
24 Pages

A shared autonomous electric vehicle (SAEV) fleet and the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) strategy both have great potential to reduce GHG emissions. As these concepts have complementary value, they are even more promising combined. However, to the best of our...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,308 Views
20 Pages

Sizing and Sitting of Static VAR Compensator (SVC) Using Hybrid Optimization of Combined Cuckoo Search (CS) and Antlion Optimization (ALO) Algorithms

  • Hana Merah,
  • Abdelmalek Gacem,
  • Djilani Ben Attous,
  • Abderezak Lashab and ,
  • Francisco Jurado and
  • Mariam A. Sameh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 July 2022

Worldwide, due to the abrupt growth of population, the load demand has been rising dramatically in the last few years. This led to an increase in branch overloads, voltage deviations, and power losses. These problems may result in line outages or the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,716 Views
15 Pages

Efficiency Analysis of the Progress of Orange Farms in Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam towards Sustainable Development

  • Thu Trang Tran Nguyen,
  • Hai Ha Le,
  • Thi Minh Hop Ho,
  • Thomas Dogot and ,
  • Philippe Burny,
  • Thi Nga Bui and
  • Philippe Lebailly
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 April 2020

Nowadays, Vietnam is known as a developing country with a fast-growing economy. Agriculture is the main traditional sector which plays an important role in Vietnamese economic growth and development. Improving the efficiency of agricultural productio...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,786 Views
24 Pages

5 March 2019

With the increasingly severe global environment and climate change, the growing social attention toward the environmental problems has prompted local governments to make policy adjustments. The formulation of the carbon emission right allocation sche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,548 Views
32 Pages

Privacy Aware Incentivization for Participatory Sensing

  • Martin Connolly,
  • Ivana Dusparic,
  • Georgios Iosifidis and
  • Mélanie Bouroche

19 September 2019

Participatory sensing is a process whereby mobile device users (or participants) collect environmental data on behalf of a service provider who can then build a service based upon these data. To attract submissions of such data, the service provider...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Crowdsensing and Its Security, Privacy and Trust Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
693 Views
24 Pages

Adaptive Boundary-Aware Fact-Checker Placement for Misinformation Suppression in Social Networks

  • Mostafa Taghizade Firouzjaee,
  • Ghazal Naderi,
  • Ross Gore and
  • Neda Moghim

11 May 2026

The spread of fake news on online social networks is driven by imitation-based user behavior and network topology, often leading to persistent misinformation clusters and echo chambers. In this study, we develop a spatial evolutionary game-theoretic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Decision Support Systems and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,258 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2017

In this paper, we investigate a low probability of intercept (LPI)-based optimal power allocation strategy for a joint bistatic radar and communication system, which is composed of a dedicated transmitter, a radar receiver, and a communication receiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Resources Management for Multi-Platform Infrastructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,146 Views
17 Pages

Allocation of Renewable Energy Resources in Distribution Systems While Considering the Uncertainty of Wind and Solar Resources via the Multi-Objective Salp Swarm Algorithm

  • Iraj Faraji Davoudkhani,
  • Farhad Zishan,
  • Saeedeh Mansouri,
  • Farzad Abdollahpour and ,
  • Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña and
  • Oscar Danilo Montoya
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 January 2023

Given the importance of renewable energy sources in distribution systems, this article addresses the problem of locating and determining the capacity of these sources, namely, wind turbines and solar panels. To solve this optimization problem, a new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Topics in Power Electronic Converters of Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,907 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2024

This article investigates the role of the model of family and their savings as a support to growth and source of economic sustainability. The central objective of the present article was to determine the impact of the model of a family on the propens...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,609 Views
19 Pages

Nutrient Variations and Their Use Efficiency of Pinus massoniana Seedling Tissues in Response to Low Phosphorus Conditions

  • Jin Xu,
  • Zunji Jian,
  • Yuanzheng Zhang,
  • Xiuxiu Deng and ,
  • Lei Lei,
  • Lixiong Zeng,
  • Wenfa Xiao and
  • Yanyan Ni
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 February 2024

Investigating the mechanisms by which plants adapt to low phosphorus content in ecosystems is crucial for nutrient dynamics division. Our study investigated the growth adaptation strategies of Pinus massoniana seedlings to low phosphorus conditions,...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,282 Views
25 Pages

15 March 2024

This work investigates the pseudo-command restricted problem for tailless unmanned aerial vehicles with snake-shaped maneuver flight missions. The main challenge of designing such a pseudo-command restricted controller lies in the fact that the neces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,849 Views
25 Pages

10 October 2018

In terms of role assignment and informational characteristics, different contexts have been used when measuring distributional preferences. This could be problematic as contextual variance may inadvertently muddle the measurement process. We use a wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dictator Games)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,418 Views
17 Pages

Optimal Allocation Method of Circuit Breakers and Switches in Distribution Networks Considering Load Level Variation

  • Guodong Huang,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Chen Yang,
  • Qiong Zhu and ,
  • Li Zhou,
  • Xiaofeng Dong,
  • Junting Li and
  • Junpeng Zhu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 July 2023

Reliability is a fundamental concept for power systems, and the optimal placement of switchable devices is a valuable tool for improvements in this area. The goal of this paper is to propose an optimal allocation method for circuit breakers and switc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Design and Modeling of Low-Carbon Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,641 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2024

In response to global energy demand, the enhancement of transport capacity in electrical transmission lines is deemed essential. The conventional method of constructing new lines is considered costly, time-consuming, and subject to constraints impose...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,627 Views
18 Pages

The eruption of the novel virus brought to the global scene the prediction that Africa would be worse hit by the pandemic. This prediction was partly built on the widely recognized fact that Africa is the continent with the weakest public health care...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systemic Recovery: Lessons from COVID-19, Modeling, Analysis, and Policy Implications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,397 Views
27 Pages

24 May 2022

With the rapid development of the renewable energy source (RES), network congestion management is increasingly important for transmission system operators (TSOs). The limited transmission network capacity and traditional intervention methods result i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Energy Systems Planning and Scheduling in Energy Markets: The Role of Flexibility for the Energy Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,854 Views
18 Pages

Tail Dependence and Risk Spillover from the US to GCC Banking Sectors

  • Faisal Alqahtani,
  • Nader Trabelsi,
  • Nahla Samargandi and
  • Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad

18 November 2020

This study investigates the structure of the tail dependence between the United States (US) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking sectors for the period February 2010 to July 2017. Conditional value at risk and conditional diversification benefi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Analysis and Models to Financial Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,084 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates the impact of commodity price volatility (including soft commodities, precious metals, industrial metals, and energy) on the dynamics of corporate sukuk returns. Using a sample of sukuk indices from Gulf Cooperation Council (G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
3,673 Views
27 Pages

Allocation and Sizing of DSTATCOM with Renewable Energy Systems and Load Uncertainty Using Enhanced Gray Wolf Optimization

  • Ridha Djamel Mohammedi,
  • Abdellah Kouzou,
  • Mustafa Mosbah,
  • Aissa Souli and ,
  • Jose Rodriguez and
  • Mohamed Abdelrahem
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 January 2024

Over the last decade, flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) have been crucial in ensuring optimal power distribution within modern power systems. A vital component of FACTS devices is the distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Systems and Renewable Energy Systems: Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,484 Views
17 Pages

From Basic Research to Competitiveness: An Econometric Analysis of the Global Pharmaceutical Sector

  • Zoltán Lakner,
  • Anna Kiss,
  • József Popp,
  • Zoltán Zéman and ,
  • Domicián Máté and
  • Judit Oláh
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 June 2019

The pharmaceutical sector is a flagship of the economy in most developed countries and is one of the most research-intensive sectors of modern economies. The aim of this paper was to determine the mutual relationships between the research and develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and New Technology Challenges of Sustainable Business)
  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
17,168 Views
14 Pages

When and Why Did Brains Break Symmetry?

  • Lesley J. Rogers and
  • Giorgio Vallortigara

2 December 2015

Asymmetry of brain function is known to be widespread amongst vertebrates, and it seems to have appeared very early in their evolution. In fact, recent evidence of functional asymmetry in invertebrates suggests that even small brains benefit from the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,041 Views
26 Pages

A Greedy Scheduling Approach for Peripheral Mobile Intelligent Systems

  • Ghassan Fadlallah,
  • Djamal Rebaine and
  • Hamid Mcheick

30 April 2021

Smart, pervasive devices have recently experienced accelerated technological development in the fields of hardware, software, and wireless connections. The promotion of various kinds of collaborative mobile computing requires an upgrade in network co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
354 Citations
24,566 Views
19 Pages

The Physiological Importance of Glucosinolates on Plant Response to Abiotic Stress in Brassica

  • María Del Carmen Martínez-Ballesta,
  • Diego A. Moreno and
  • Micaela Carvajal

30 May 2013

Glucosinolates, a class of secondary metabolites, mainly found in Brassicaceae, are affected by the changing environment. This review is focusing on the physiological significance of glucosinolates and their hydrolysis products in the plant response...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Research in Plant Secondary Metabolism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,798 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2021

A novel constraints model of credibility-fuzzy for the reliability redundancy allocation problem (RRAP) is studied in this work. The RRAP that must simultaneously decide reliability and redundancy of components is an effective approach in improving t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Networks for Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,422 Views
16 Pages

19 December 2022

The quasi-synchronization for a class of general heterogeneous neural networks is explored by event-based impulsive control strategy. Compared with the traditional average impulsive interval (AII) method, instead, an event-triggered mechanism (ETM) i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chaotic Systems and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,522 Views
20 Pages

Information-centric networking (ICN) is a promising solution that can meet the challenges of IP-based networks. ICN adopts the solution of separating name and address to solve the dual semantics problem of IP addresses, which has natural advantages i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,885 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2020

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based non-orthogonal multiple access (OFDM-NOMA) is a competitive solution to achieve a capacity gain over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based orthogonal multiple access (OFDM-OMA). However, a m...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)

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