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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,145 Views
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Large multi-UAV mission systems operate over time-varying communication graphs with heterogeneous platforms, where classical distributed task assignment may incur excessive message passing and suboptimal task–resource matching. To address these...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Optimisation and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
255 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2026

Federated clustering, an essential extension of centralized clustering for federated scenarios, enables multiple data-holding clients to collaboratively group data while keeping their data locally. In centralized scenarios, clustering driven by repre...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
209 Views
22 Pages

22 August 2026

Central heating systems often rely on uniform regulation, making it difficult to meet the differentiated comfort demands of users and frequently leading to overheating. This paper proposes an end-to-end, data-driven framework that systematically coup...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,850 Views
22 Pages

5 December 2024

Curvilinear building forms are increasingly common in modern architecture, yet their impact on wind dynamics remains understudied. This research examines the wind flow behavior around high-rise residential building rows configured with convex and con...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,714 Views
26 Pages

12 February 2024

This study formulates the joint decisions of commuters on departure time and parking location choices in a morning commute problem where the commuters travel with autonomous vehicles (AVs) or human-driven vehicles (HVs). Under a mixed traffic environ...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,937 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2024

This study adopts a data-driven methodology to address the challenge of garment fitting for individuals with diverse body shapes. Focusing on young Chinese women aged 18–25 from Central China, we utilized the German VITUS SMART LC3 3D body scan...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,980 Views
20 Pages

With the accelerating globalization and rapid development of science and technology, scientific collaboration has become a key driver of knowledge production, yet its patterns vary significantly across disciplines. This study aims to explore the disc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,649 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2020

We used data-driven approaches to identify independent diet exposures among 45 candidate variables, for which we then probed cross-sectional associations with cardiometabolic risk (CMR). We derived average daily caloric intake and macronutrient compo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circadian Misalignment, Nutrition, and Cardiometabolic Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,127 Views
35 Pages

28 April 2026

This paper presents a systematic, data-driven literature review of research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents based on the top 100 Google Scholar publications related to the search terms “AI agent” and “AI agents”. The ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computing Sciences for Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,560 Views
32 Pages

30 July 2025

As an integral component of humanity’s cultural heritage, traditional villages universally confront challenges such as population loss and cultural discontinuity amid rapid urbanization. Cluster-based protection models have increasingly become...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, 4th Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
464 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents a systematic, data-driven literature review of research on Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on the top 100 Google Scholar publications related to the search terms “Physical Artificial Intelligence” and &ldqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,954 Views
18 Pages

GraphDBSCAN: Optimized DBSCAN for Noise-Resistant Community Detection in Graph Clustering

  • Danial Ahmadzadeh,
  • Mehrdad Jalali,
  • Reza Ghaemi and
  • Maryam Kheirabadi

28 March 2025

Community detection in complex networks remains a significant challenge due to noise, outliers, and the dependency on predefined clustering parameters. This study introduces GraphDBSCAN, an adaptive community detection framework that integrates an op...

(This article belongs to the Topic Social Computing and Social Network Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
451 Views
32 Pages

7 September 2026

This study proposes a new method for the topological synthesis of principal component projections and hydrogeochemical stoichiometric equality lines on self-organizing map (SOM) component planes to assess groundwater chemistry forming factors and qua...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,211 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2025

Sustainable economic development requires transparent and consistent institutional communication from monetary authorities to maintain long-term financial stability and public trust. This study investigates the latent authorial structure and stylisti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Policy and Economic Analysis in Sustainability Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,059 Views
27 Pages

Social media platforms and user-generated content (UGC) have become central to how travelers discover and evaluate cultural destinations, yet lesser-known second-tier heritage sites remain substantially underrepresented in digital tourism research. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Tourism in the Digital Age: Evolving Trends in Marketing and Consumer Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,488 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2017

Farmland abandonment, including perennial and seasonal abandonment, is an important process of land use change that matters most to food security. Although there is a great deal of studies on farmland abandonment, seasonal abandonment, which is as se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Agriculture and Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,300 Views
10 Pages

The Surveillance of Chikungunya Virus in a Temperate Climate: Challenges and Possible Solutions from the Experience of Lazio Region, Italy

  • Francesco Vairo,
  • Carlo Di Pietrantonj,
  • Chiara Pasqualini,
  • Alessia Mammone,
  • Simone Lanini,
  • Emanuele Nicastri,
  • Concetta Castilletti,
  • Federica Ferraro,
  • Virginia Di Bari and
  • Giuseppe Ippolito
  • + 4 authors

14 September 2018

CHIKV has become an emerging public health concern in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere as a consequenceof the expansion of the endemic areas of its vectors (mainly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus). In 2017, a new outbreak of CHIKV...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Zoonotic and Vectorborne Viral Infections: Applying the One Health Vision—from Challenges to Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,712 Views
18 Pages

11 March 2025

The increasing demand for electricity and the environmental challenges associated with traditional fossil fuel-based power generation have accelerated the global transition to renewable energy sources. While renewable energy offers significant advant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,338 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2019

The sustainable development and innovation-driven development system has always been a guiding ideology for the Chinese government. Therefore, research on China’s environmental regulation and regional innovation output is of great significance....

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,481 Views
16 Pages

We analyzed the temporal and spatial variations in mortality burden of cirrhosis and liver cancer attributable to injection drug use (IDU) from 1990 to 2016. Mortality data of IDU-attributable cirrhosis and IDU-attributable liver cancer on the global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,453 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2025

The narrative structure of animated films plays a critical role in shaping audience perception, yet quantitative investigations into how character interaction networks influence film ratings remain limited. To address this gap, we apply complex netwo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,412 Views
13 Pages

Mapping the Literature on Diet and Multiple Sclerosis: A Data-Driven Approach

  • Xiaochen Qu,
  • Erin I. Walsh,
  • Nicolas Cherbuin and
  • Lucinda J. Black

14 November 2022

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system that is currently incurable. Diet may influence the onset and progression of MS. A variety of literature reviews have been conducted in the field of diet and MS....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition and Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,093 Views
18 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed programmatic advertising (PA) by enabling automated, data-driven personalization within digital marketing ecosystems. However, this transformation has also intensified concerns regarding privacy, consumer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Market Ecosystems: AI-Driven Intersections of E-Commerce, Branding, and Consumer Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
225 Citations
6,523 Views
20 Pages

Energy-Efficient Clustering Scheme for Flying Ad-Hoc Networks Using an Optimized LEACH Protocol

  • Salil Bharany,
  • Sandeep Sharma,
  • Sumit Badotra,
  • Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf,
  • Youseef Alotaibi,
  • Saleh Alghamdi and
  • Fawaz Alassery

22 September 2021

A Flying Ad-hoc network constitutes many sensor nodes with limited processing speed and storage capacity as they institute a minor battery-driven device with a limited quantity of energy. One of the primary roles of the sensor node is to store and tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2026

Cubane-type iron–sulfur clusters play central roles in biological nitrogen fixation, where precise redox regulation governs multi-electron transfer processes. However, how heterometal centers and terminal ligands cooperatively modulate the elec...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,691 Views
24 Pages

Distributed Reliable and Efficient Transmission Task Assignment for WSNs

  • Xiaojuan Zhu,
  • Kuan-Ching Li,
  • Jinwei Zhang and
  • Shunxiang Zhang

18 November 2019

Task assignment is a crucial problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that may affect the completion quality of sensing tasks. From the perspective of global optimization, a transmission-oriented reliable and energy-efficient task allocation (TRETA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sensors and Devices in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,192 Views
21 Pages

11 October 2025

The interaction between groundwater and surface water can be significant in lakes or irrigation channels, as well as in large dam reservoirs or along portions of them. To evaluate this interaction at a sampling location directly controlled by a large...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,351 Views
17 Pages

Bibliometric Analysis on Control Architectures for Robotics in Agriculture

  • Simone Figorilli,
  • Simona Violino,
  • Simone Vasta,
  • Federico Pallottino,
  • Giorgio Manca,
  • Lorenzo Bianchi and
  • Corrado Costa

(1) Background: Robotics and advanced control architectures are increasingly central to the development of precision agriculture (PA), supporting automated, efficient, and data-driven farm management. This review offers a comprehensive analysis of sc...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural and Field Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,039 Views
23 Pages

Smart Transportation Behavior through the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Ride-Hailing System in Iran

  • Atour Taghipour,
  • Mohammad Ramezani,
  • Moein Khazaei,
  • Vahid Roohparvar and
  • Erfan Hassannayebi

25 February 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes occurred in customer behavior, especially in traffic and urban transmission systems. In this context, there is a need for more scientific research and managerial approaches to develop behavior-based s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Cities, Eco-Cities, Green Transport and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
22 Pages

11 August 2026

Background: Voice disorders have become an important healthcare issue owing to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital healthcare. Although AI-related studies have rapidly increased, little is known about how research topics and knowledg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Text Mining with Information Extraction: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,203 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Flood Risks of Small Reservoirs in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China

  • Ning Yang,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Minglei Ren,
  • Qingqing Sun,
  • Rong Tang,
  • Liping Zhao,
  • Jintang Zhang and
  • Yawei Ning

14 June 2025

Based on the regional disaster system theory, this study constructed a comprehensive flood risk indicator system for small reservoirs, covering the entire flood disaster process from three dimensions: hazard, vulnerability, and exposure. The analytic...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
919 Views
25 Pages

20 June 2026

Identifying emerging research frontiers is essential for tracking disciplinary developments and institutional strategic planning. However, existing methods for topic identification present several limitations, including insufficient semantic understa...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,723 Views
15 Pages

22 June 2025

Traffic congestion poses a persistent challenge for modern cities, yet the complex behavior of urban road networks—particularly multistability in traffic flow—remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we analyzed a high-resolution t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,798 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2024

The impact of urbanization is multifaceted, especially in China, the coordinated development between cities and traditional architecture is paramount. Therefore, to further promote the coordinated development between cities and traditional architectu...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,255 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2025

The concept of accountability is central to understanding how sustainable corporate governance (SCG) structures shape organizational behavior, legitimacy, and firm performance in the pursuit of sustainability goals. While widely invoked, accountabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Corporate Governance and Firm Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,024 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2024

Utilizing GIS technology and spatial analysis methodologies, this study endeavours to delve into and grasp the localized attributes of the regional units under investigation from a geographical vantage point, as well as the interrelationships among t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Smart Cities Based on Data Processing and Intelligent Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
819 Views
27 Pages

This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) is represented within Korean-language recommendation algorithm discourse on TikTok and YouTube. To examine the structural characteristics and discourse tendencies of AI-related discussions, the...

(This article belongs to the Section Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,148 Views
29 Pages

3 August 2024

The diversified innovative strategies adopted by the new retail format in urban spaces have significantly driven retail transformation and innovation. The combination of online platforms and physical stores provides a substantial advantage in market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
862 Views
40 Pages

18 January 2026

Dynamic network conditions in precision agriculture motivate a scalable, privacypreserving federated learning architecture that tightly integrates ground-based edge intelligence with a space-assisted hierarchical aggregation layer. In Phase 1, hetero...

(This article belongs to the Collection AI, Sensors and Robotics for Smart Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,156 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2022

Over the past decade, Markov State Models (MSM) have emerged as powerful methodologies to build discrete models of dynamics over structures obtained from Molecular Dynamics trajectories. The identification of macrostates for the MSM is a central deci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Modeling and Simulation: Selected articles from the Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,678 Views
28 Pages

Understanding Cultural Geography as a Pseudo-Diffusion Process: The Case of the Veneto Region

  • Guido Ferilli,
  • Pier Luigi Sacco,
  • Massimo Buscema and
  • Giorgio Tavano Blessi

4 June 2015

In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Economy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,169 Views
25 Pages

14 May 2026

The rapid evolution of intelligent cluster systems—such as UAV swarms and networked autonomous agents—has brought spatial optimization and decision-making to the forefront of intelligent systems research. This paper provides a systematic...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
392 Views
29 Pages

17 September 2026

Complex Network Analysis (CNA) models river systems as networks of nodes (junctions) and edges (channels) to quantify structure and potential transport pathways. Unlike conventional river-network characterization, which often relies on multiple metri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,836 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Phylogeography of Southern African Bird Species Suggests an Ephemeral Speciation Model

  • Gary Voelker,
  • Guinevere O. U. Wogan,
  • Jerry W. Huntley and
  • Rauri C. K. Bowie

9 September 2021

Southern Africa is remarkably rich in avian species diversity; however, the evolutionary and biogeographic mechanisms responsible for that diversity are, in general, poorly understood, and this is particularly true with respect to the many species th...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Animal Diversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,202 Views
21 Pages

19 January 2026

Understanding regional disparities in Chinese modernization is essential for achieving coordinated and sustainable development. This study develops a multi-dimensional evaluation framework, integrating grey relational analysis, entropy weighting, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
420 Views
20 Pages

Unsupervised Clustering of Cities Using Commercial Air Traffic: A Proxy for Economic Connectivity

  • Sergio Iglesias-Perez,
  • Alberto Partida,
  • Juan Murillo and
  • Regino Criado

13 May 2026

This paper proposes a data-driven framework to identify and rank economically connected cities by using commercial air traffic as a proxy for urban economic connectivity. The study is motivated by the limitation of traditional city classifications, w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling of Processes in Transport Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
241 Views
34 Pages

12 August 2026

Satisfying the diverse electricity-consumption needs of heterogeneous users is central to refined operation in competitive retail markets. Existing package-recommendation methods remain limited by subjective specification of cluster numbers, incomple...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
330 Views
25 Pages

The Evolution of Land Subsidence Under the New Water Regime in the North China Plain: A TS-InSAR and Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis

  • Binjia Wang,
  • Tianfei Chen,
  • Jusong Shi,
  • Baoping Wen,
  • Beibei Chen,
  • Dexin Meng,
  • Jiuxin Yan,
  • Haigang Wang,
  • Liqiang Tang and
  • Lian Xia
  • + 1 author

16 September 2026

The North China Plain (NCP) has entered a “New Water Regime” driven by water diversions, stringent groundwater management, and climatic fluctuations, resulting in the widespread recovery of regional groundwater levels. How land subsidence...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Structural Centrality Versus Inferred Ancestral State: Unraveling Hidden Heterogeneity in Large HIV Molecular Clusters

  • Lingxuan Lai,
  • Yefei Luo,
  • Shunming Li,
  • Yingying Song,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Yanshan Cai,
  • Zhenming Tian,
  • Ying Yi,
  • Zhongjin Yao and
  • Yu Liu
  • + 2 authors

14 October 2026

Large HIV molecular clusters are often treated as homogeneous units, obscuring internal heterogeneity and the distinction between contemporary transmission hubs and inferred ancestral states. Using 935 CRF55_01B pol sequences (2008–2020, Guangz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinformatics and Computational Approaches in Viral Genomics and Evolution 2025–2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,543 Views
19 Pages

6 July 2023

The study evaluates the geothermal energy potential of two depleted oil and gas reservoirs representing two different lithostratigraphic formations—the carbonate formation of the Visean age from the basement of the Carpathian Flysch and the Rot...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)

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