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Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space

  • Margaret Boone Rappaport and
  • Christopher J. Corbally

9 August 2022

This is an exploratory review of two very recent, intersecting segments of space science: neuroplasticity in space, and decision-making in space. The high level of neuroplasticity in humans leads to unfortunate neurological and physical deconditionin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,799 Views
26 Pages

Autonomous parking systems (APSs) can help drivers complete the task of finding a parking space and the parking operation, which improves driving comfort. Current research on APSs focus on the perception, localization, planning, and control modules,...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,343 Views
24 Pages

COVID-19 has forced people to spend more time indoors due to lockdown and social distancing, and clients demand personalized indoor spaces designed to increase individual satisfaction indoors. Consequently, various fourth industrial revolution techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,107 Views
22 Pages

13 February 2020

Urbanization leads to the continuous expansion of urban built-up areas and the erosion of green space in urban fringe areas, leading to the continuous decline of biodiversity. Urban planners and managers need corresponding decision support tools to c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,867 Views
21 Pages

13 September 2019

The performance of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is in most cases measured in terms of the populations’ approximation quality in objective space. As a consequence, most MOEAs focus on such approximations while neglecting the d...

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  • Open Access
2,160 Views
18 Pages

Technological roadmaps are essential tools for managing and planning complex projects, especially in the rapidly evolving field of space exploration. Defined as dynamic schedules, they support strategic and long-term planning while coordinating curre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,408 Views
19 Pages

In Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN), computation offloading technology is a new way to improve the processing efficiency of node tasks and improve the limitation of computing storage resources. To solve the problem of large delay and ener...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,162 Views
13 Pages

Increasing coastal space resource utilization (CSRU) activities and their impact on coastal environments has been recognized as a critical coastal zone stressor. Consequently, the need for sustainable and valid CSRU management has been highlighted. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,451 Views
18 Pages

13 February 2021

Shelf space on which products are exhibited is a scarce resource in the retail environment. Retailers regularly make decisions related to allocating products to their outlets’ limited shelf space. The aim of the paper was to develop a practical shelf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
831 Views
24 Pages

30 May 2025

A critical step for gene selection algorithms using rough set theory is the establishment of a gene evaluation function to assess the classification ability of candidate gene subsets. The concept of dependency in a classic neighborhood rough set mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,120 Views
17 Pages

29 October 2022

Multi-functional rainwater storage space is a practical solution to flood and runoff pollution in high-density built-up areas. This study presents a location decision method to improve the control effect of total runoff volume, runoff peak flow, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,770 Views
31 Pages

16 September 2025

The increasing complexity and commercialization of the global space sector have elevated the strategic role of public–private partnerships (PPPs). However, the criteria for selecting suitable PPP models remain underexplored, particularly regard...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,979 Views
9 Pages

This paper studies a novel self-pilot tone based adaptive threshold return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) decision for free-space optical (FSO) communications. RZ-OOK has the characteristics of impulse series in the spectrum. Therefore, these impulse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,122 Views
30 Pages

21 April 2020

The purpose of this extension of the ESM’2019 conference paper is to propose some means to implement an artificial thinking model that simulates human psychological behavior. The first necessary model is the time fuzzy vector space model (TFVS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,020 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2022

Shared parking improves the utilization rate of parking spaces by taking advantage of temporal and spatial differences, which is conducive to alleviating parking problems. From the perspective of bounded rationality, this paper studies the factors th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,251 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2017

The Ka-band and higher Q/V band channels can provide an appealing capacity for the future deep-space communications and Space Information Networks (SIN), which are viewed as a primary solution to satisfy the increasing demands for high data rate serv...

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  • Open Access
464 Views
48 Pages

30 December 2025

In urban design, public open spaces (POS) are essential for enhancing health and well-being across the lifetime. High-quality public open spaces facilitate the maintenance of optimal physical and mental health in older individuals by encouraging acti...

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  • Open Access
2,577 Views
27 Pages

16 August 2025

Urban sustainability poses a deeply interdisciplinary challenge, spanning technical fields like data science and environmental science, design-oriented disciplines like architecture and spatial planning, and domains such as economics, policy, and soc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,611 Views
9 Pages

24 October 2023

The security of a network requires the correct identification and characterization of the attacks through its ports. This involves the follow-up of all the requests for access to the networks by all kinds of users. We consider the frequency of connec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,438 Views
24 Pages

8 September 2021

With increased participation of non-state actors in global governance, the inclusion of vulnerable groups in making sustainability regulations remains a relevant challenge requiring more research. Based on an ethnographic study on creating the Nagoya...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,143 Views
22 Pages

11 August 2025

Human personality (HP) is seen as an individual’s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving by today’s psychological studies, in which HPs are characterized in terms of traits—in particular, as relatively enduring chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,237 Views
18 Pages

19 August 2025

This study proposes an integrated computational framework that combines deep learning-based visual perception analysis with multi-criteria decision making to optimize indoor architectural layouts in terms of both visual coherence and sustainability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,735 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2024

The importance of architecture design keeps increasing as the complexity of systems and system-of-systems (SoSs) continues rising. While the architecture frameworks such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) are commonly used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,556 Views
17 Pages

22 October 2020

Monitoring the condition of rotating machinery, especially planetary gearboxes, is a challenging problem. In most of the available approaches, diagnostic procedures are related to advanced signal pre-processing/feature extraction methods or advanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,624 Views
23 Pages

6 December 2022

Mitigation of the heat island effect is critical due to the frequency of extremely hot weather. Urban street greening can achieve this mitigation and improve the quality of urban spaces and people’s welfare. However, a clear definition of stree...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,202 Views
29 Pages

The Finishing Space Value for Shooting Decision-Making in High-Performance Football

  • Nelson Caldeira,
  • Rui J. Lopes,
  • Duarte Araujo and
  • Dinis Fernandes

30 July 2024

Football players’ decision-making behaviours near the scoring target (finishing situations) emerge from the evolving spatiotemporal information directly perceived in the game’s landscape. In finishing situations, the ball carrier’s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,192 Views
27 Pages

9 August 2024

In the context of sustainable development and global challenges such as climate change and energy security, this paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of scientific journals on multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods with an emphasis on their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,350 Views
23 Pages

19 January 2022

Parking lots are typical urban spaces with a large total area and scattered distribution. With the development of smart cars and shared driving, parking demand is likely to decline. Thus, the reuse of existing parking spaces presents important opport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,523 Views
33 Pages

This research takes the Suzhou Gardens, a World Cultural Heritage Site, as the object of study and investigates a rapid scheme generation approach for garden restoration and expansion projects, assisting designers in making scientific decisions. Cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,812 Views
40 Pages

19 February 2022

Knowledge bases in complex domains must take into account many attributes describing numerous objects that are themselves components of complex objects. Temporal case-based reasoning (TCBR) requires comparing the structural evolution of component obj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,813 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2019

The paper presents a possibility to use a new PVM-VSI (Preference Vector Method computed in Vector Space of Increments) method in making decisions that demand that different variants should be considered, while being evaluated with respect to differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,036 Views
21 Pages

The precise simulation of urban space evolution and grasping of the leading factors are the most important basis for urban space planning. However, the simulation ability of current models is lacking when it comes to complicated/unpredictable urban s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,217 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Decision-Making Approach for Dual-Channel Manufacturing Systems under Space Constraints

  • P. Mala,
  • M. Palanivel,
  • S. Priyan,
  • N. Anbazhagan,
  • Srijana Acharya,
  • Gyanendra Prasad Joshi and
  • Joohan Ryoo

16 October 2021

In response to the digital revolution, nowadays, many companies operate online and offline businesses in parallel to ensure their future competitiveness. This research examines the inventory strategy for multi-product vendor-buyer supply chain system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,676 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2025

Behavioral decision-making is an important part of the high-level intelligent driving system of intelligent vehicles, and efficient and safe behavioral decision-making plays an important role in the deployment of intelligent transportation system, wh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,478 Views
36 Pages

Decision-Making for Path Planning of Mobile Robots Under Uncertainty: A Review of Belief-Space Planning Simplifications

  • Vineetha Malathi,
  • Pramod Sreedharan,
  • Rthuraj P R,
  • Vyshnavi Anil Kumar,
  • Anil Lal Sadasivan,
  • Ganesha Udupa,
  • Liam Pastorelli and
  • Andrea Troppina

15 September 2025

Uncertainty remains a central challenge in robotic navigation, exploration, and coordination. This paper examines how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) and their decentralized variants (Dec-POMDPs) provide a rigorous foundation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,183 Views
16 Pages

The rise of mechanical automation in orchards has sparked research interest in developing robots capable of autonomous tree pruning operations. To achieve accurate pruning outcomes, these robots require robust perception systems that can reconstruct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
474 Views
24 Pages

5 January 2026

In the face of rapid aging, depression in later life has become a prominent issue in urban public health and environmental research. As potential places for social activities and emotional healing, the social stayability of shaded community spaces is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,298 Views
11 Pages

14 November 2020

Decision-making for the condition-based maintenance (CBM) of power transformers is critical to their sustainable operation. Existing research exhibits significant shortcomings; neither group decision-making nor maintenance intention is considered, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,656 Views
17 Pages

Perception and Decision-Making in Virtual Telepsychology Spaces and Professionals

  • Luis-Lucio Lobato Rincón,
  • Maria Ángeles Medina Sánchez and
  • Rubén Tovar Bordón

Humans interact with virtual environments for a variety of purposes, and the use of telemedicine services and e-health platforms has become increasingly significant in recent years. Telepsychology is an emerging service and is understood as the provi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,517 Views
18 Pages

Decision-Making Rules and the Influence of Memory Data

  • Vaclav Beran,
  • Marek Teichmann and
  • Frantisek Kuda

29 January 2021

The problems that decision-makers face can escalate under imbalances, turbulent development, risks, uncertainties, disasters, and other influences. The development of processes in technical and economic structures is generally considered complex and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,667 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2023

The complexity inherent in navigating intricate traffic environments poses substantial hurdles for intelligent driving technology. The continual progress in mapping and sensor technologies has equipped vehicles with the capability to intricately perc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,451 Views
15 Pages

21 October 2022

The present paper comes across the main steps that were laid from Zadeh’s fuzziness and Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets to Smarandache’s indeterminacy and to Molodstov’s soft sets. Two hybrid methods for assessment and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,279 Views
13 Pages

This paper proposes a deep learning (DL)-assisted high-pass-filter (HPF)-based fixed-threshold decision (FTD) for free-space optical (FSO) communication. HPF is applied to reduce the scintillation effect by filtering out the low-frequency components...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,667 Views
30 Pages

The autonomous decision-making model for ship navigation requires extensive interaction and trial-and-error in real, complex environments to ensure optimal decision-making performance and efficiency across various scenarios. However, existing approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
13,183 Views
10 Pages

Priorities of Coworking Space Operation Based on Comparison of the Hosts and Users’ Perspectives

  • Jongseok Seo,
  • Lidziya Lysiankova,
  • Young-Seok Ock and
  • Dongphil Chun

22 August 2017

More than 1,180,000 people use several thousand coworking spaces these days, but the running of coworking spaces is a rather fragile business model. Coworking spaces need entrepreneurial sustainability as well. Therefore, this study identifies succes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,607 Views
27 Pages

29 January 2024

Space infrared dim target recognition is an important applications of space situational awareness (SSA). Due to the weak observability and lack of geometric texture of the target, it may be unreliable to rely only on grayscale features for recognitio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,348 Views
27 Pages

26 May 2025

This study establishes a novel mathematical framework for stochastic maintenance optimization in production systems by integrating Markov decision processes (MDPs) with convex programming theory. We develop a Z-transformation-based dual-space decompo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,852 Views
24 Pages

Enhancing Sustainable Urban Planning through GIS and Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Case Study of Green Space Infrastructure in Taif Province, Saudi Arabia

  • Sahl Abdullah Waheeb,
  • Bilel Zerouali,
  • Ahmed Elbeltagi,
  • Mamdooh Alwetaishi,
  • Yong Jie Wong,
  • Nadjem Bailek,
  • Ahmad Ameen AlSaggaf,
  • Sahar I. M. Abd Elrahman,
  • Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos and
  • Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Majrashi

23 August 2023

Ecotourism in Saudi Arabia (KSA) is gaining significant attention due to the country’s diverse natural landscapes, rich biodiversity, and efforts to preserve and display its environmental treasures. This study presents a comprehensive assessmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,753 Views
28 Pages

Application of Systems-Approach in Modelling Complex City-Scale Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production Process and Learning Patterns for Climate Resilience

  • Burnet Mkandawire,
  • Bernard Thole,
  • Dereck Mamiwa,
  • Tawina Mlowa,
  • Alice McClure,
  • Jessica Kavonic and
  • Christopher Jack

22 January 2021

Literature shows that much research has been conducted on the co-production of climate knowledge, but it has neither established a standardized and replicable model for the co-production process nor the emergent learning patterns as collaborators tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,671 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2024

Path planning is one of the most essential parts of autonomous navigation. Most existing works are based on the strategy of adjusting angles for planning. However, drones are susceptible to collisions in environments with densely distributed and high...

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