Complex and customized manufacturing requires a high level of collaboration between production and logistics in a flexible production system. With the widespread use of Internet of Things technology in manufacturing, a great amount of real-time and m...
The emergence of Industry 5.0 brings a paradigm shift towards collaborative environments where humans and intelligent robots work side-by-side, enabling personalized, flexible, and resilient manufacturing. However, integrating humans and robots intro...
In preview of the special issue on “Environmental Governance for Sustainability”, this manuscript examines three key themes on governance and sustainability. Governance for sustainability, by its nature, requires long-enduring institutional arrangeme...
In a human–robot collaboration scenario, operator safety is the main problem and must be guaranteed under all conditions. Collision avoidance control techniques are essential to improve operator safety and robot flexibility by preventing impacts that...
Regional integration and pairing assistance are two forms of cross-regional emergency collaboration practice carried out by the Chinese government. Based on the Chinese government’s emergency management practice, evolutionary game models of cro...
This study assessed the impact of smallholders’ collaborative groupings on farm household income and their decision to adapt management strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change within their farming areas. A sample of 225 households&...
Growing cities face severe land use conflicts. Urban expansion and the densification of existing built areas are increasing the pressure on green spaces, which are key for climate change adaptation. Planning procedures embroiled in these land use con...
It is not uncommon that collaborative governance is now generating new attention in Indonesia as a method of governing. This is because of the terrible historical experience of governance during the New Order era, including the state’s dominant...
Collaborative operations of multiple AUVs have been becoming increasingly popular and efficient in underwater tasks of marine applications. Autonomous navigation capability and cooperative control stability of multiple AUVs are crucial and challengin...
Aiming at the problem of reduced positioning accuracy of unmanned swarm navigation systems due to dynamic abrupt noise in a complex electromagnetic environment, this paper proposes an adaptive Kalman filtering positioning and calibration method based...
Moving from the scientific literature on the evaluation of environmental projects and programs, this study identifies how and under which conditions collaborations in environmentally sustainable projects are considered effective for the adaptive gove...
With the rapid development of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), the explosive growth of data has placed increasingly higher demands on real-time processing and intelligent decision making. Cloud-edge collaborative computing has emerged...
The middleware framework for IoT collaboration services should provide efficient solutions to context awareness and uncertainty issues among multiple collaboration domains. However, existing middleware frameworks are mostly limited to a single system...
The paper focuses on the issue of collaborative control of a two quadrotor (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle QDR) system. In particular, two quadrotors perform the task of horizontally transporting a long payload along a predefined trajectory. A leader–...
This paper examines the challenges of and facilitating strategies for linking disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in addressing urban floods, drawing from Indonesia’s experience. The fragmentation between efforts t...
The field of environmental management, specifically flood risk management (FRM), emphasizes participatory decision-making to address diverse issues and conflicting interests among stakeholders. This approach recognizes the complexity of decisions and...
The disordered nature of electric vehicle (EV) charging and user electricity consumption behaviors has intensified the strain on the grid. Meanwhile, energy storage technologies and microgrid interconnections still lack effective supply–consump...
Industrial collaborative robots (cobots) are known for their ability to operate in dynamic environments to perform many different tasks (since they can be easily reprogrammed). Due to their features, they are largely used in flexible manufacturing pr...
While human–robot collaboration is already integrated in industrial and service robotics applications, it is only used with able-bodied workers. However, collaboration through assistive robots is a major driver toward the inclusion of people wi...
In recent years, the large-scale integration of new power distribution technologies such as distributed power generation, electric vehicles, and flexible load control has led to a sharp increase in the operating pressure of the power cloud master sta...
In order to meet the demand for large-scale device access in Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and to overcome the problem that some resources are wasted due to the use of single decode-and-forward (DF) or amplify-and-forward (AF) collaboration...
This paper proposes a multi-terminal adaptive collaborative operation method for solving the problem of unstable internal force tracking in the clamping and handling of unknown objects by multi-terminal robots. In the proposed method, the internal co...
As an essential domain of project management, inter-organization collaboration (IOC) is crucial for stakeholders in off-site construction (OSC) projects because of the high linkage between design, production, and site construction stages. Current stu...
The transboundary partnership encourages multi-stakeholder efforts to mobilize adaptation funding and services for adaptation governance. However, challenges exist in scope, equality, and transparency when engaging these stakeholders. Few studies hav...
With the rapid global spread and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the question is whether every culture makes similar use of the ideology that often underlies its creators’ design. ICT applications are designed with unde...
Collaborative governance approaches have been suggested as strategies to handle wicked environmental problems. Evaluations have found promising examples of effective natural resource governance, but also highlighted the importance of social-ecologica...
In snow-fed inland river systems in the western United States, water supply depends upon timing, form, and amount of precipitation. In recent years, this region has experienced unprecedented drought conditions due to decreased snowpack, exacerbated b...
In the current era of e-commerce, users are overwhelmed with countless products, making it difficult to find relevant items. Recommendation systems generate suggestions based on user preferences, to avoid information overload. Collaborative filtering...
The local community is an essential and key partner in managing protected areas, especially for national parks in Indonesia. Therefore, there is a need to establish adaptive collaborative management (ACM) between the park authorities and the local co...
The challenges of multistakeholder innovation in smart city projects can be navigated through collaboration and a clear understanding of each organisation’s values, technology, user groups, and potential policy changes. Increasing technology us...
Nowadays, the intelligent unmanned agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm collaboration network (AUSCN) has fully demonstrated its advantages in agricultural monitoring and management. By using an AUSCN, multi-machine cooperation can be rea...
In this paper, a multipopulation dynamic adaptive coevolutionary strategy is proposed for large-scale optimization problems, which can dynamically and adaptively adjust the connection between population particles according to the optimization problem...
Through an integrative literature review and theory adaption approach, this research aims to shed light on the efficacy of research partnerships and their implications for academic scholarship and knowledge production. Adapting the concept of creativ...
The system inertia insufficiency brought on by a high percentage of wind power access to a power grid can be effectively resolved by wind-storage collaborative participation in primary frequency regulation (PFR). However, the impact of energy storage...
This study investigates the influence of adaptive leadership on crisis management effectiveness in complex construction engineering projects in Saudi Arabia. Adaptive leadership was conceptualized through six core dimensions: Flexibility in Decision-...
The Laser Light Screen System faces critical technical challenges in high-speed, long-range target detection: when a target passes through the light screen, weak light flux variations lead to significantly degraded signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Trad...
The capabilities of collaborative robotics have transcended the conventional abilities of decentralised robots as it provides benefits such as scalability, flexibility and robustness. Collaborative robots can operate safely in complex human environme...
Assessing the drought resilience of snow‐fed river dependent communities in the arid Western United States has taken on critical importance in response to changing climatic conditions. The process of assessing drought resiliency involves understand...
The optimization of collaborative service scheduling is the main bottleneck restricting the efficiency and cost of collaborative service execution. It is helpful to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency to deal with the scheduling problem correc...
This study investigates the impact of job demands and perceived burdensomeness on employees’ willingness to collaborate with service robots (SRs) in the workplace, with a focus on the moderating effects of organizational support, self-esteem, a...
This paper represents a research response to the current vision on transformations regarding the capacity building of smart cities focused towards sustainability, by addressing the knowledge based urban development and collaborative tools that suppor...
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The success and competitive edge of enterprises has become increasingly dependent on the enterprises’ agility to become members in business networks that support their own business strategies. Therefore, integration solutions with their well-weathere...
The UN Sustainable Development Goal “Sustainable Cities and Communities” foregrounds access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing. However, housing as a sector has faced significant sustainability challenges. Countries such as Austral...
Collaborative business ecosystems (CBEs) are increasingly exposed to disruptive events (e.g., pandemics, supply chain breakdowns, cyberattacks) that challenge organizational adaptability and value creation. Traditional approaches to resilience and ro...
This study addresses a notable gap in the climate change literature by examining the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI–ML) in urban climate change adaptation and sustainable development across major global continents. Whil...
The paper introduces the Integrated Measurement of Performance and Contextual Task-related effects (IMPACT) dataset, designed to facilitate comprehensive investigations into contextual dynamics within human–machine collaboration (HMC) systems....
Recent progress and innovation are testament to the willingness of municipal authorities to address climate change. However, urban regions worldwide exhibit an immense diversity of conditions, capabilities and responses to the challenges of changing...
Agroforestry is considered a subsistence system that balances the urgent need for food and income of small scale farmers with restoration and conservation of ecosystem services, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Vi Agroforestry Progra...
Most industrial workplaces involving robots and other apparatus operate behind the fences to remove defects, hazards, or casualties. Recent advancements in machine learning can enable robots to co-operate with human co-workers while retaining safety,...
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Several studies have highlighted the importance of parent–teacher collaboration (PTC) in special education (SE). In Lebanon, there is a widespread perception among practitioners that out of many educational challenges facing SE organizations, t...
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