The classical decentralized detection problem of finding the optimal decision rules at the sensor and fusion center, as well as variants that introduce physical channel impairments have been studied extensively in the literature. The deployment of WS...
In this paper, we study the problem of privacy-preserving data synthesis (PPDS) for tabular data in a distributed multi-party environment. In a decentralized setting, for PPDS, federated generative models with differential privacy are used by the exi...
It is highly critical that renewable energy-based power generation units provide continuous and high-quality electricity. This requirement is even more pronounced in standalone wind–diesel systems where the wind power is not always constant or...
The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is a significant environmental threat, and an economic and social challenge to manage. As such, the efficient treatment of OFMSW is a significant key factor in achieving sustainable waste manageme...
The Internet of Things has driven the transformation of the traditional offline rental model to online rental platforms such as Zillow, Zigbang, and Lianjia. These platforms provide abundant housing options, detailed information, convenient communica...
The Conventional Cloud Common Data Model (CDM) uses a centralized method of user identification and credentials. This needs to be solved in a decentralized way because there are limitations in interoperability such as closed identity management and i...
Escalating events such as extreme weather conditions, geopolitical incidents, acts of war, cyberattacks, and the intermittence of renewable energy resources pose substantial challenges to the functionality of global electric grids. Consequently, rese...
To cope with the energy crisis and environmental pollution, the future development of the power system has to change towards a clean, low-carbon, flexible, and diversified direction. This paper proposes a decentralized power dispatching model based o...
Policies and technical safeguards for artificial intelligence (AI) governance have implicitly assumed that AI systems will continue to operate via massive power-hungry data centers operated by large companies like Google and OpenAI. However, the pres...
In recent years, small-scale microgrids have become popular in the power system industry because they provide an efficient electrical power generation platform to guarantee autonomy and independence from the power grid, which is a critical feature in...
This paper presents a formal description and analysis of an SIR (involving susceptible- infectious-recovered subpopulations) epidemic model in a patchy environment with vaccination controls being constant and proportional to the susceptible subpopula...
Terminals are key components of intermodal transport networks, as they are the facilities where freight is transferred between transport modes. The efficiency of such facilities crucially depends on their locations (and sizes), which are typically ch...
Microgrid (MG) is a novel concept for a future distribution power system that enables renewable energy sources (RES). The intermittent RES, such as wind turbines and photovoltaic generators, can be connected to the MG via a power electronics inverter...
This paper studies the electromechanical transient model and the control strategy of line commutated converter (LCC) and modular multilevel converter (MMC) based decentralized hybrid High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Transmission systems. The decent...
Thailand’s power system has been facing an energy transition due to the increasing amount of Renewable Energy (RE) integration, prosumers with self-consumption, and digitalization-based business models in a Local Energy Market (LEM). This paper intro...
The copyright of data is a key point that needs to be solved in spatial data infrastructure for data sharing. In this paper, we propose a decentralized digital rights management model of spatial data, which can provide a novel way of solving the exis...
10 November 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the core technology of digital economy, which leads the transition to a sustainable economic growth approach under the Chinese-style environmentally decentralized system. In this paper, we first measured the green tota...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has introduced “shared manufacturing” as a key concept that leverages digitalization, IoT, blockchain, and robotics to redefine the production and delivery of manufacturing services. This paper presents a...
Municipal solid waste management is considered one of the major environmental challenges. Organic waste, especially food waste, usually accounts for over 50 wt% of municipal solid waste, yet, in most countries, it is the least recovered material. Dec...
Biomass gasification, a promising sustainable technology for decentralized electricity production, has the potential to displace fossil fuels while valorizing locally produced waste. Previous studies indicate that its technical and financial viabilit...
In recent years, smart homes have garnered extensive attention as a prominent application scenario of IoT technology. However, the unique characteristics of smart homes have brought forth serious security threats, emphasizing the paramount importance...
With the expansion of global trade and the deterioration of the marine environment, research on the sustainability of marine transport has drawn increasing scientific attention. This study takes the marine supply chain composed of Maersk and ports in...
Since cloud computing is an essential component of any modern company (usually accounting for a considerable share of information technology (IT) infrastructure investment), consumers rely on cloud services. Data privacy and security are worries when...
This paper deals with the design of a decentralized guidance and control strategy for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with the objective of maintaining a given connection topology with assigned mutual distances while flying to a target ar...
Increasing renewable energy share in total energy production is a direction that leads toward the European Union’s aims of carbon neutrality by 2050, as well as increasing energy self-sufficiency and independence. Some of the main challenges to...
The platform economy denotes a subset of economic activities enabled by platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Uber. Due to their tremendous success, more and more offerings concentrate around platforms increasing platforms’ positional-power, h...
Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is a promising technology to identify the modulation mode of the received signal in drone communication systems. Recently, benefiting from the outstanding classification performance of deep learning (DL), var...
In this paper a microscopic, non-discrete, mathematical model based on stigmergy for predicting the nodal aggregation dynamics of decentralized, autonomous robotic swarms is proposed. The model departs from conventional applications of stigmergy in b...
In order to estimate traffic densities in a large-scale urban freeway network in an accurate and timely fashion when traffic sensors do not cover the freeway network completely and thus only local measurement data can be utilized, this paper proposes...
Digital healthcare is a composite infrastructure of networking entities that includes the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)-based Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), base stations, services provider, and other concerned components. In the recent decade, it...
The growing adoption of Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) systems, particularly in the healthcare field, demonstrates that RFID is a positive asset for healthcare institutions. RFID offers the ability to save organizations time and costs by enabl...
Aiming at the economic dispatch problem for an interconnected system with wind power integration, and in order to realize the goals of system economy and improvement of the cross-regional consumption level of wind energy, a decentralized coordination...
9 May 2022
Energy efficiency and energy intensity are gradually gaining attention, and it is now an important proposition to reconcile financial marketization, fiscal decentralization, and regional energy intensity. Using Chinese mainland provincial panel data...
This paper proposes a solution to the transfer problem between blockchain-based heterogeneous cryptocurrencies and CBDCs, with research derived from an analysis of the existing literature. Interoperability between heterogeneous blockchains has been a...
Venture capital (VC) models can be optimized with emerging decentralized technology. There are many disadvantages that come with traditional VC fundraising including illiquidity and ownership struggles, as well as timing. This paper will discuss alte...
Internet of Things (IoT) networks’ wide range and heterogeneity make them prone to cyberattacks. Most IoT devices have limited resource capabilities (e.g., memory capacity, processing power, and energy consumption) to function as conventional i...
Decarbonizing air transport is a major challenge in the global energy transition since electrification is not yet feasible. Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is a promising solution because it can reduce CO2 emissions without major infrastructure chang...
9 June 2022
Green innovation is vital in transforming China’s economic development from high speed to high quality. Environmental regulation plays an important role in stimulating regional green innovation, and appropriate environmental decentralization is...
Fiscal decentralization, as a policy with which to regulate the financial power relationships between central and local governments, undoubtedly has an impact on high-quality economic development, and in the current context of focusing on environment...
The impact of Chinese-style fiscal decentralization on regional energy intensity has long been disputed by the supporters of “federal environmentalism” and those who hold “race to the bottom” views. At the same time, with the...
Due to inadequate resource availability and environmental contamination, the Chinese government has placed a high priority on ecological civilization in recent years. Emphasis has been placed on the environmentally friendly conversion of the economy...
Under the “dual carbon” targets, the influence of environmental regulation on carbon emissions is critical, and the moderating role of environmental decentralization should not be overlooked. Using provincial panel data from China, this s...
Being the primary cause of inter-area oscillations and due to the fact that they limit the generation’s output, Low-Frequency Electromechanical Oscillations (LFEOs) represent a real threat to power system networks. Mitigating their effects is t...
In this work, a decentralized robust direct model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) via e-modification is suggested for the pose control of a quadrotor to prevent parameter drift. The governing equations of motion referred to the rotational system...
In this paper, a fault estimation technique is proposed for discrete-time nonlinear interconnected systems with uncertain interconnections. To achieve the fault estimation, the decentralized fuzzy observer is adopted based on the Takagi–Sugeno...
With the rapid economic growth, environmental problems have become a significant bottleneck restricting the high-quality development of China’s economy. In the fiscal decentralization system, balancing economic growth and environmental governan...
This article presents the design of a novel decentralized nonlinear multivariate control scheme for an underactuated, nonlinear and multivariate laboratory helicopter denominated the twin rotor MIMO system (TRMS). The TRMS is characterized by a coupl...
Using the spatial Durbin model, this study investigates, systematically, the link between green taxes and carbon emissions and the influence of green taxation on carbon emissions under fiscal decentralization in the context of the shift in performanc...
A modeling framework was conceptualized for capturing the complexities in resilience and sustainability associated with integration of centralized and decentralized water and energy systems under future demographic, climate, and technology scenarios....
In this paper, we present the implementation of an artificial intelligence health assistant designed to complement a previously built eHealth data acquisition system for helping both patients and medical staff. The assistant allows users to query med...
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