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Soil conservation (SC) plays a vital role in preventing soil erosion and ensuring ecological security. While current research on SC primarily focuses on historical spatiotemporal variations, there remains a dearth of sufficient simulation research ex...

In this study, we assessed the effect of a diverse ownership structure with different management strategies within and between owner categories in long-term projections of economic, ecological and social forest sustainability indicators, representing...

The Han River is the water source of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the “Han River to Wei River Water Diversion Project” in China. In order to ensure that the water quality and quantity are sufficient for the water diversion project,...

Generating realistic and diverse driving scenarios is essential for effective scenario-based testing and validation in autonomous driving and the development of driver assistance systems. Traditionally, parametric models are used as standard approach...

With the rapid development of social economy and global climate warming, scarce transboundary water resources, as one of the basic resources for socio-economic development, have increasingly become the focus of basin countries. To investigate the soc...

Land use change has a significant impact on the sustainability of ecosystems, and ecological security patterns (ESPs) can improve environmental quality through spatial planning. This study explored a multi-scenario ESP framework by integrating future...

Scenario analysis combined with system and market modelling is a well-established method to evaluate technological and societal developments and their impacts on future energy pathways. This paper presents a process-oriented method for developing con...

Ensuring the safety of Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) requires structured and transparent validation processes. Scenario-based testing has emerged as a widely adopted approach, enabling the targeted assessment of system behavior under diverse and c...

This study proposes a two-tier scenario planning model, consisting of scenario development and policy portfolio planning, to demonstrate the environmental sustainability policy planning process. Scenario development embodies future scenarios that inc...

Increases in particulate matter in cities threaten both public health and ecosystems. Street trees, which are a corridor-type green infrastructure capable of absorbing particulate matter, have been promoted as one possible solution to this problem. H...

Understanding of the complexity of gifted students who present with an intersection of unique profiles of abilities and challenges, cultural, ethnic, gender and linguistic perspectives, learning experiences across contexts and personal expectations r...

Urbanization, driven by socio-economic development, has significantly impacted river ecosystems, particularly in plain city regions, leading to disruptions in river network structure and function. These changes have exacerbated hydrological fluctuati...

With the rapid development of wireless communications, the occupation of time and frequency resources becomes more crowded. The exploitation of space resources is necessary and the diversity combining techniques have substantial applications. Diversi...

Validating the safety and reliability of automated driving systems is a critical challenge in the development of autonomous driving technology. Such systems must reliably replicate human driving behavior across scenarios of varying complexity and cri...

Diverse drought indices have been developed and used across the globe to assess and monitor droughts. Among them, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) are drought indices that have been recently developed...

With the development of smart cities and intelligent transportation systems, path planning in multi-scenario urban mobility has become increasingly complex. Traditional path-planning approaches typically focus on a single optimization objective, limi...

Research in architecture and urbanism is a complex undertaking. It involves a multitude of challenges, approaches, variables, diverse scales, and types of environments to examine. This entry dives into the complexities of architectural and urban rese...

Virtual reality allows to generate an environment of great realism, while achieving the immersion of the user in it. The purpose of this project is to use this technology as a complementary tool in the rehabilitation of people with functional diversi...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations cover all living things on Earth. However, downscaling the SDGs to regional scales for implementation is challenging. In the paper, we convert the general SDGs into tangible and actionabl...

This survey explores the evolution of test scenario generation for autonomous vehicles (AVs), distinguishing between non-adaptive and adaptive scenario approaches. Non-adaptive scenarios, where dynamic objects follow predetermined scripts, provide re...

As the impact factors of the waste Not-In-My-Back Yard (NIMBY) crisis are complex, and the scenario evolution path of it is diverse. Once the crisis is not handled properly, it will bring adverse effects on the construction of waste NIMBY facilities,...

Quantities of multi-temporal remote sensing (RS) images create favorable conditions for exploring the urban change in the long term. However, diverse multi-source features and change patterns bring challenges to the change detection in urban cases. I...

The function and necessity of water resources make them an important factor affecting economic and social development. To explore various water security issues impacting water use, the pressure-state-response model was applied in this study to constr...

Cybersecurity is a critical issue in today’s internet world. Classical security systems, such as firewalls based on signature detection, cannot detect today’s sophisticated zero-day attacks. Machine learning (ML) based solutions are more...

Many modern frameworks for community resilience and emergency management in the face of extreme hydrometeorological and climate events rely on scenario building. These scenarios typically cover multiple hazards and assess the likelihood of their occu...

Land use/cover change (LUCC) can impact the provision of ecosystem service values (ESVs), particularly in wetland regions that are subject to frequent and unsustainable land conversions. Exploring the past and future trajectory of LUCC and its effect...

The validation of autonomous vehicles remains a vexing challenge for the automotive industry’s goal of fully autonomous driving. The systematic hierarchization of the test scenarios would provide valuable insights for the development, testing,...

Amid intensifying climatic threats, university campuses are increasingly vulnerable. Morphological resilience offers a practical pathway to strengthen disaster response in higher-education institutions. However, research on University Campus Morpholo...

This contribution proposes a learning approach to system design in a transhuman era. Understanding transhuman settings as systems of co-creation and co-evolution, development processes can be informed by learning principles. A development framework i...

This study aims to examine the impact of land use variations on carbon emissions by incorporating the development of photovoltaics as a scenario. To meet this end, we investigate the carbon emissions fluctuations resulting from different development...

The location of railway emergency rescue spots is facing diverse scenarios including the location of new facilities and optimization of existing layouts with limited or non-limited conditions. Generally there will be heavily redundant covering abilit...

As growth in the western U.S. continues to lead to the development of land, pressure is being exerted on agricultural production, and could lead to the loss of prime agricultural land. A wide array of perspectives concerning agricultural protection r...

This study aims to develop a multi-dimensional framework to systematically identify optimal adjustment zones for converting orchard land into cultivated land, thereby providing a reference for spatial optimization of cultivated land within the contex...

As the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) and distributed generations (DGs) increases, the need for stable and reliable operation of microgrids (MGs) becomes crucial. However, the inherent low inertia of such systems poses intricate contr...

The age of pervasive computing has initiated a boom in the development of adaptive context-aware learning environments (ACALEs), i.e., systems that are capable of detecting a learner’s context and providing adaptive learning services based on t...

The scientific quantification of the ecological effects of carbon emissions, the reduction of ecological risk (ER), and the evaluation of the interaction effect between carbon emissions and ER are the pivotal measures for ensuring the longevity and c...

Cyber–physical systems (CPS) integrate diverse elements developed by various vendors, often dispersed geographically, posing significant development challenges. This paper presents an improved version of our previously developed co-simulation i...

As the global shift towards renewable energy sources accelerates, the challenge of effectively modeling the inherent uncertainty associated with these energy units becomes increasingly significant. Sustainable energy sources, like solar and wind powe...

Social-ecological interactions mediate water–energy–food security in small developing islands, but community-scale insights are underrepresented in nexus research. These interactions are dynamic in their response to environmental and anth...

Discrepancies between water demand and supply are intensifying and creating a need for sustainable water resource process management associated with rapid economic development, population growth, and urban expansion. In this study, a scenario-based i...

Managing complex behaviors in disability support settings requires competent de-escalation skills. However, the current training methods often lack sufficient opportunities for realistic practice. This study details a three-stage development and eval...

Despite Guangxi’s unique ecological diversity and its important role in land-based ecological security and conservation, research on the assessment and prediction of its habitat quality under the influences of rapid urbanization and environment...

The Paris Agreement presents new fields of research related to the adaptation strategies to climate change. A challenge for future research consists in developing context-specific guidelines to support adaptation. This Special Issue on “Adaptation st...

Research investigates the transformations in production–living–ecological spaces (PLES) across diverse scenarios and their ecological effects, with the aim of offering advice for environmental preservation and long-term growth in Sichuan...

Optimal water resource allocation in agricultural irrigation districts constitutes a core strategy for achieving coordinated regional water–food–ecosystem development. However, current studies rarely integrate inter-basin water diversion...

Automated crowd counting is a crucial aspect of surveillance, especially in the context of mass events attended by large populations. Traditional methods of manually counting the people attending an event are error-prone, necessitating the developmen...

This study aims to improve the accuracy and interpretability of deep groundwater level forecasting in Cangzhou, a typical overexploitation area in the North China Plain. To address the limitations of traditional models and existing machine learning a...

In this paper, we review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Scenarios and their assumptions on biodiversity conservation, using a framework based on the cultural theory (CT) perspectives. We explored...

Biodiversity and ecosystem service models are frequently used to consider current conditions or recent changes in the availability of a service. The application of scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem service assessment remains underdeveloped, pa...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industry 4.0 and the transition towards Industry 5.0, manufacturing systems face the challenge of adapting to dynamic, hyper-customized demands. Current Simulation Optimization (SO) systems struggle with the flexi...