This study aims to assess the barriers impeding cloud computing (CC) applicability in sustainable construction. A total of 11 barriers in the use of CC were identified for the literature review. A questionnaire survey was used to collect the data fro...
Considering the worldwide evolutionary stage of Industry 4.0, this study wants to fill in a lack of information and decision-making, trying to answer a question about the level of preparation of Romanian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) rega...
This study aims to identify the critical parameters for implementing a sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) cloud system in the information technology industry (IT). To achieve this, an AHP-ISM-MICMAC integrated hybrid multi-criteria decision-mak...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face substantial barriers in accessing reliable and cost-effective IT infrastructure, primarily due to economic constraints and limited technical resources. Hybrid cloud computing solutions, including infrast...
Although cloud computing offers many benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, and profitability, some small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are still unable to fully utilize cloud resources, such as memory, computing power, storage, and network band...
With technological advancement, cloud computing paradigms are gaining massive popularity in the ever-changing technological advancement. The main objective of the cloud computing system is to provide on-demand storage and computing resources to the u...
Cloud interoperability provides cloud services such as Software as a Service (SaaS) or customer system to communicate between the cloud providers. However, one of the most important barriers for existing researches was to adopt the application’s or d...
In the cloud computing information technology environment, cloud computing has some advantages such as lower cost, immediate access to hardware resources, lower IT barriers to innovation, higher scalability, etc., but for the financial audit informat...
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Governments are increasingly using cloud computing to reduce cost, increase access, improve quality, and create innovations in healthcare. Existing literature is primarily based on successful examples from developed western countries, and there is a...
The high costs of acquiring and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) resources pose significant barriers for medium-sized enterprises and educational institutions, often forcing them to rely on expensive cloud-based solutions with recurring c...
Processing IoT applications directly in the cloud may not be the most efficient solution for each IoT scenario, especially for time-sensitive applications. A promising alternative is to use fog and edge computing, which address the issue of managing...
Many cloud providers offer IoT services that simplify the collection and processing of IoT information. However, the IoT infrastructure composed of sensors and actuators that produces this information remains outside the cloud; therefore, application...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing are increasingly facing challenges of digital transformation and a shift towards cloud-based solutions to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) or, more specifically, machine learning (ML)...
The primary objective of this research is to find the disparity for slow adoption of Smart Farming Technologies (SFT) in Ireland. The usage of Cloud Computing technology among Irish farmers would help to find out the adoption behaviour barrier and wa...
Clouds are significant barriers to the application of optical remote sensing images. Accurate cloud detection can help to remove contaminated pixels and improve image quality. Many cloud detection methods have been developed. However, traditional met...
Safety issues arising from a hydrogen explosion accident in Korea are discussed herein. In order to increase the safety of hydrogen refueling stations (HRSs), the Korea Gas Safety Corporation (KGS) decided to install a damage-mitigation wall, also re...
A CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analysis to investigate the effects of the installation of a barrier in a hydrogen refueling station (HRS) mock-up facility, with a dummy vehicle and dispensers in the vapor cloud region, during a hydrogen-air exp...
The Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, and fog computing are now a reality and have become the vision of the smart world. Self-directed learning approaches, their tools, and smart spaces are transforming traditional institutions into smart institutions...
Hydrogen is considered the next energy to replace fossil fuels, but it must be handled with care given that it is a flammable gas. A barrier wall is an effective way to mitigate the effect of an explosion, and to build a safe barrier wall, research o...
Educational institutions are transferring analytics computing to the cloud to reduce costs. Any data transfer and storage outside institutions involve serious privacy concerns, such as student identity exposure, rising untrusted and unnecessary third...
Research into blockchain technology has expanded significantly due to its potential to enhance transparency and trust in business operations, yet adoption is limited by technical challenges like scalability, consensus mechanisms, and security, as wel...
With the rapid growth of the health data scale, the limited storage and computation resources of wireless body area sensor networks (WBANs) is becoming a barrier to their development. Therefore, outsourcing the encrypted health data to the cloud has...
The government’s adoption of cloud computing is critical for digital transformation, but it faces persistent concerns over information security, privacy, governance, and risk. This study examines the factors influencing a government’s int...
Digital transformation (DT) has become a strategic imperative for sustaining competitiveness in global supply chains. This study situates DT within the frameworks of Dynamic Capabilities Theory (DCT) and Structural Contingency Theory (SCT) to explain...
This study explores the challenges hindering the government’s adoption of cloud computing despite its benefits in improving services, reducing costs, and enhancing collaboration. Key barriers include information security, privacy, compliance, a...
The ocean disposal of wastewater is an efficient alternative in the sewage system of coastal areas since the urban density of such regions is a barrier to the settlement of conventional sewage treatment plants. In addition, the associated costs of th...
Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a domain that stemmed from advances in mobile technology and cloud computing. Although debate continues about the best strategies to preserve privacy and personal data protection in MCC, it is essential to explore the...
This systematic review examines how digital technologies enable circular economy (CE) transitions across sectors and value chains. Analysing 266 peer-reviewed publications (2016–2025), we develop a comprehensive taxonomy of digital enablers&mda...
This paper introduces the concept of Comfort as a Service (CaaS), a new energy supply paradigm for providing comfort to residential customers. CaaS takes into account the available passive and active elements, the external factors that affect energy...
Edge artificial intelligence (Edge AI) requires real-time inference under stringent constraints on computation, memory, energy, and connectivity. Although training can be offloaded to servers, efficient, high-capacity inference and rapid on-device ad...
Methoxy radicals (CH3O•), formed as intermediates during methane oxidation, may play an underexplored but locally significant role in the atmospheric oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a key sulfur-containing compound emitted primarily by mari...
Cloud computing technology has revolutionized the field of data management as it has enhanced the barriers of storage restrictions and high-cost establishment for its users. The benefits of the cloud have paved the way for its extensive implementatio...
The nexus of sustainable manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies is redefining modern industrial practices. Conventional manufacturing, characterized by intensive energy use, resource depletion, and waste generation, is increasingly unsustainable...
The importance of building information is highly attached to the ability of conventional storing to provide professional analysis. The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices offer a vast amount of live data stored in heterogeneous repositories, a...
The Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) model has emerged as a foundational cybersecurity paradigm that eliminates implicit trust and enforces continuous verification across users, devices, and networks. This study presents a systematic literature review o...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer significant advantages when used in various image classification tasks and computer vision applications. CNNs are increasingly deployed in environments from edge and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to high-...
This paper presents a systematic, narrative review of 62 academic publications (2015–2025) that explore the integration of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) with emerging smart city technologies to improve local governance. SDIs provide a str...
Coarse registration of 3D point clouds plays an indispensable role for parametric, semantically rich, and realistic digital twin buildings (DTBs) in the practice of GIScience, manufacturing, robotics, architecture, engineering, and construction. Howe...
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the future digitalization of microgrids to meet the increasing energy demand. It begins with an overview of the background of microgrids, including their components and configurations, control and managem...
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Physical rehabilitation and exercise training have emerged as promising solutions for improving health, restoring function, and preserving quality of life in populations that face disparate health challenges related to disability. Despite the immense...
In the quest to promote constant value for money, value management (VM) has been proposed and adopted within the construction industry of countries across the world. To improve the VM process for a more effective outcome, pervasive digital technologi...
Undeniably, the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, exceeding all growth expectations and ubiquity barriers. From sensor to cloud, this giant network keeps breaking technological bounds in several domains, and...
Floods degrade road networks at the same time as demand for emergency medical services (EMSs) rises, yet national EMS command systems rarely receive any information on flood-induced road barriers. This paper presents Ambulance STARS (SaTellite-assist...
State-of-the-art historical global burned area (BA) products largely rely on MODIS data, offering long temporal coverage but limited spatial resolution. As a result, small fires and complex landscapes remain underrepresented in global fire history re...
Cattle-body dimensions support growth monitoring, body-conformation assessment, health management, genetic evaluation, and breeding decisions. Traditional contact measurement is labour-intensive, affected by operator and posture, and may induce handl...
Digital twins are expected to improve supply chain decisions by linking physical operations with models that simulate and optimize them. This literature review, guided by PRISMA 2020, analyzes 104 studies (2016 to 2026) on the enabling technologies o...
Digital livestock farming faces a critical deployment challenge: bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI algorithms and practical implementation in resource-constrained agricultural environments. While deep learning models demonstrate exceptional ac...
Despite its potential for STEM education, educational robotics remains out of reach for many classrooms due to upfront purchase costs, maintenance requirements, storage space, and numerous other barriers to entry. As demonstrated previously, these ph...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become a widely adopted management technology, even among small enterprises, driven by the expansion of cloud-based solutions that reduce infrastructure barriers. However, many implementations fail to s...
Project implementations normally fail due to sustainable development problems that inhibit the usage levels required to facilitate successful implementations. This paper explores the successful implementation from a Bangladesh perspective. In particu...
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