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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,490 Views
11 Pages

17 May 2025

As an emerging and lively research field, game designers are employing Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) in Game Artificial Intelligence (Game AI) to improve player experience. Traditional DDA methods focus little on player churn, which cannot alwa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,494 Views
14 Pages

3 April 2020

In order to improve the transmission dynamic fuzzy adjustment ability of web information acquisition data, a dynamic fuzzy adjustment method of web information acquisition data transmission based on auto correlation feature matching is proposed. This...

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  • Open Access
532 Views
31 Pages

Carbon Finance and Dynamic Capital Structure Adjustment

  • Xiaowen Tang,
  • Xiaoyue Wang,
  • Yin Zhang and
  • Sangare Mohamed Lamine

9 December 2025

Using data of China’s A-share-listed companies between 2014 and 2024, we investigate the effect of carbon finance on the speed of dynamic capital structure adjustment and the degree of deviation of enterprises. We find that carbon finance has a signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,383 Views
21 Pages

27 June 2023

Over the past two decades, there has been a surge in digital innovation. China is the world’s second-largest digital economy entity and the national strategy to build a digital China is in full swing. Chinese enterprises have received great sup...

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  • Open Access

18 March 2026

This work presents a method for implementing dynamic difficulty adjustment in the arcade game of Air Hockey using reinforcement learning. The resulting AI-controlled opponent is capable of adapting its skill level to the player’s performance to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,071 Views
18 Pages

Dynamic Markov Model: Password Guessing Using Probability Adjustment Method

  • Xiaozhou Guo,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Kaijun Tan,
  • Wenyu Mao,
  • Min Jin and
  • Huaxiang Lu

18 May 2021

In password guessing, the Markov model is still widely used due to its simple structure and fast inference speed. However, the Markov model based on random sampling to generate passwords has the problem of a high repetition rate, which leads to a low...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,765 Views
16 Pages

Creating Competitive Opponents for Serious Games through Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

  • David Kristan,
  • Pedro Bessa,
  • Ricardo Costa and
  • Carlos Vaz de Carvalho

14 March 2020

Competition is a basic element of our society. It drives us to rise above previously perceived limitations, increases our engagement and makes the world more interesting. Competition rewards our existing skills and prompts us to identify and improve...

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  • Open Access
464 Views
32 Pages

19 November 2025

To address the issues of incomplete indicator coverage and dynamic weights not aligning with changes in the external environment in the evaluation of equipment group capability adaptability—resulting in biased evaluation results and poor applic...

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  • Open Access
1,990 Views
26 Pages

29 September 2025

This study researches the effects of a biofeedback-based Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (DDA) system on player stress management in a survival-horror video game. For this purpose, a game titled Code: Terror was developed, in which players’ psych...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
21,450 Views
26 Pages

Maintaining player engagement is pivotal for video game success, yet achieving the optimal difficulty level that adapts to diverse player skills remains a significant challenge. Initial difficulty settings in games often fail to accommodate the evolv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,610 Views
17 Pages

Competition, Debt Maturity, and Adjustment Speed in China: A Dynamic Fractional Estimation Approach

  • Sultan Sikandar Mirza,
  • Tanveer Ahsan,
  • Raheel Safdar and
  • Ajid Ur Rehman

The purpose of this study was to investigate the capital structure adjustment rate in different levels of product market competitions. We classified Chinese non-financial listed firms into highly, moderately, and less competitive firms and applied an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,837 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2023

This study focuses on the dynamic secondary mirror truss adjustment mechanism for large aperture telescopes. The relative positions between the primary and secondary mirrors have stringent requirements for large aperture optical telescopes, with an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
985 Views
16 Pages

6 October 2025

With the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) technology, massive data are continuously integrated into intelligent transportation systems, making efficient computing resource allocation a critical challenge for enhancing network performan...

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  • Open Access
1,084 Views
23 Pages

17 July 2025

Buildings are a significant component of urban space and are essential to smart cities, catastrophe monitoring, and land use planning. However, precisely extracting building polygons from remote sensing images remains difficult because of the variety...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,957 Views
12 Pages

Human Resource Skill Adjustment in Service Sector: Predicting Dynamic Capability in Post COVID-19 Work Environment

  • Nurul Mohammad Zayed,
  • Friday Ogbu Edeh,
  • Saad Darwish,
  • K. M. Anwarul Islam,
  • Halyna Kryshtal,
  • Vitalii Nitsenko and
  • Olena Stanislavyk

The havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitality businesses across the world affected the human resource skills of the industry to the extent that managers and industry experts are still finding difficult how best to upgrade the skills of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,135 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2022

The MapReduce architecture can reliably distribute massive datasets to cloud worker nodes for processing. When each worker node processes the input data, the Map program generates intermediate data that are used by the Reduce program for integration....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,978 Views
22 Pages

The formation of the water rights trading price is an important part of the water rights trading system. In order to continuously and dynamically reflect the social–economic development changes and water resource scarcity, herein, we discuss the dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,743 Views
23 Pages

9 August 2023

Traditional methods often ignore the direct influences of vehicle vibration on the flywheel battery system, which leads to an inaccurate analysis of the dynamic performance of the flywheel battery system and its control effect. Therefore, to make up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
15,362 Views
18 Pages

The Use of Deep Learning to Improve Player Engagement in a Video Game through a Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment Based on Skills Classification

  • Edwin A. Romero-Mendez,
  • Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla,
  • Miguel Garcia-Ruiz,
  • Osval A. Montesinos-López and
  • Luis E. Anido-Rifón

16 July 2023

The balance between game difficulty and player skill in the evolving landscape of the video game industry is a significant factor in player engagement. This study introduces a deep learning (DL) approach to enhance gameplay by dynamically adjusting g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,573 Views
39 Pages

27 March 2025

This study addresses the challenges of real-time channel state estimation and adaptive parameter adjustment in dynamic LoRa networks, where the existing methods often fail to adapt efficiently to highly variable channel conditions. This study present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
397 Views
26 Pages

Automated Dynamic Adjustment of Runoff Threshold in Ungauged Basins Using Remote Sensing Data

  • Laura D. Pachón-Acuña,
  • Jorge López-Rebollo,
  • Junior A. Calvo-Montañez,
  • Susana Del Pozo and
  • Diego González-Aguilera

15 February 2026

Accurate runoff estimation in ungauged basins is critical for water resource management but often relies on static parameters like the runoff threshold (P0), derived from the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number method, which fail to capture spatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,313 Views
20 Pages

This study focuses on optimizing two tandem columns to separate ethylbenzene and styrene. A steady-state model is developed to minimize total energy consumption (TEC) and total annualized cost (TAC) by optimizing the reflux flow rates. An integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,229 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2024

This paper analyzes the experience of first-person shooter (FPS) players when game difficulty is adjusted by personalizing their audio cue settings, considering the balance between player performance, modeled using Gaussian process regression (GPR),...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
739 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Serious Games: A Literature Review

  • Lucia Víteková,
  • Christian Eichhorn,
  • Johanna Pirker and
  • David A. Plecher

17 January 2026

This systematic literature review analyzes the role of dynamic difficulty adaptation (DDA) in serious games (SGs) to provide an overview of current trends and identify research gaps. The purpose of the study is to contextualize how DDA is being emplo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,590 Views
12 Pages

18 September 2018

Image adjustment methods are one of the most widely used post-processing techniques for enhancing image quality and improving the visual preference of the human visual system (HVS). However, the assessment of the adjusted images has been mainly depen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,114 Views
30 Pages

12 August 2018

A novel global harmony search (NGHS) algorithm, as proposed in 2010, is an improved algorithm that combines the harmony search (HS), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and a genetic algorithm (GA). Moreover, the fixed parameter of mutation probabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,354 Views
26 Pages

22 August 2024

The combine harvester equipped with attitude-adjustment functionality significantly enhances its adaptability to complex terrain but often struggles to maintain the reliability of its mechanisms. Therefore, investigating the dynamic load characterist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,164 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2013

This paper presents a novel micro dynamically tuned gyroscope (MDTG) with adjustable static capacitance. First, the principle of MDTG is theoretically analyzed. Next, some simulations under the optimized structure parameters are given as a reference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,945 Views
22 Pages

14 June 2022

Motor rehabilitation is used to improve motor control skills to improve the patient’s quality of life. Regular adjustments based on the effect of therapy are necessary, but this can be time-consuming for the clinician. This study proposes to us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,070 Views
14 Pages

21 January 2023

The effective way to improve the reliability of the fuel metering system in an aero-engine is to use a high-speed on/off valve (HSV) instead of a servo valve as the pilot stage of the fuel metering valve. However, the dynamic performance of the fuel...

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  • Open Access
706 Views
36 Pages

3 December 2025

This study examines how information frictions in climate policy credibility shape carbon border adjustment mechanisms when trading partners cannot fully verify each other’s commitment to green industrial policies. A dynamic signaling framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,348 Views
10 Pages

12 September 2020

The traffic queueing problem usually can be solved by two concepts: static and dynamic mode. Usually, the static mode may not reflect the real-world situation. This encourages us to propose the dynamic adjusting model to solve the traffic queuing pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,078 Views
20 Pages

An ROI Optimization Method Based on Dynamic Estimation Adjustment Model

  • Ziyue Li,
  • Qinghua Zeng,
  • Yuchao Liu and
  • Jianye Liu

5 May 2023

An important research direction in the field of traffic light recognition of autonomous systems is to accurately obtain the region of interest (ROI) of the image through the multi-sensor assisted method. Dynamic evaluation of the performance of the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,810 Views
18 Pages

Fuzzy Logic-Based Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment for Adaptive Game Environments

  • Panagiotis D. Paraschos and
  • Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis

Game players frequently seek video games that offer great replayability and unpredictable challenges, aiming to minimize anxiety and maximize fun. One of the most suitable game genres for achieving these objectives is the “shoot ’em up&rd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,741 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2019

In this paper, a dynamic access probability adjustment strategy for coded random access schemes based on successive interference cancellation (SIC) is proposed. The developed protocol consists of judiciously tuning the access probability, therefore c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,497 Views
28 Pages

Engagement Analysis Using Electroencephalography Signals in Games for Hand Rehabilitation with Dynamic and Random Difficulty Adjustments

  • Raúl Daniel García-Ramón,
  • Ericka Janet Rechy-Ramirez,
  • Luz María Alonso-Valerdi and
  • Antonio Marin-Hernandez

20 September 2024

Background: Traditional physical rehabilitation involves participants performing repetitive body movements with the assistance of physiotherapists. Owing to the exercises’ monotonous nature and lack of reward, participants may become disinteres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,826 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2024

Decision-making for collision avoidance in complex maritime environments is a critical technology in the field of autonomous ship navigation. However, existing collision avoidance decision algorithms still suffer from unstable strategy exploration an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
179 Views
27 Pages

A Generalized Weighted Fractional Cobweb Model for Dynamic Market Adjustment

  • Yasir A. Madani,
  • Mohammed S. Abdo,
  • Alawia Adam,
  • Khaled Aldwoah,
  • Osman Osman,
  • Amer Alsulami and
  • Mohammed Rabih

In this work, we propose a dynamic cobweb-type market equilibrium model where supply responds to price using a Mittag–Leffler kernel generalized weighted Caputo fractional derivative. By permitting independent fractional orders, a time-varying...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,766 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Insulin Basal Needs Estimation and Parameters Adjustment in Type 1 Diabetes

  • Jesús Berián,
  • Ignacio Bravo,
  • Alfredo Gardel-Vicente,
  • José-Luis Lázaro-Galilea and
  • Mercedes Rigla

2 August 2021

Technology advances have made possible improvements such as Continuous Glucose Monitors, giving the patient a glucose reading every few minutes, or insulin pumps, allowing more personalized therapies. With the increasing number of available closed-lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,709 Views
16 Pages

22 September 2020

Reinforcement learning, as a branch of machine learning, has been gradually applied in the control field. However, in the practical application of the algorithm, the hyperparametric approach to network settings for deep reinforcement learning still f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,665 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2018

Maritime transportation is an economic form of mass transportation, but it is associated with significant energy consumption and pollutant emissions. External forces such as tidal currents, waves, and wind strongly influence the energy efficiency of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,547 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2019

Galactic swarm optimization (GSO) is a recently created metaheuristic which is inspired by the motion of galaxies and stars in the universe. This algorithm gives us the possibility of finding the global optimum with greater precision since it uses mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,505 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2020

Height measurement and location by a laser sensor is a key technology to ensure accurate and stable operation of a dispensing robot. In addition, alternation of dynamic and static working modes of a robot, as well as variation of surface and height o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,369 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2024

In situ dynamic testing is conducted to study the dynamic characteristics of the wooden structure of the North House main hall. The velocity response signals on the measurement points are obtained and analyzed using the self-interaction spectral meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,359 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2022

In this paper, the dynamic balance of a rigid variable speed rotor is tested and analyzed. The vibration acceleration is measured by vibration analyzer instrumentations. The rotor adjustment parameters of counterweight, pitch, and trailing-edge flap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,205 Views
22 Pages

Adaptive educational systems are essential for addressing the diverse learning needs of students by dynamically adjusting instructional content and user interfaces (UI) based on real-time performance. Traditional adaptive learning environments often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,931 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2023

The flow field is the fluid dynamic flow path in strongly heterogeneous reservoirs, and its evolution significantly affects the distribution of remaining oil, showing a disordered and highly dispersed mode caused by long-time water injection. By comb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,719 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2023

Improving the dynamic regulation ability of thermal power units is effective for realizing flexible scheduling in modern power systems. At present, the unit regulation capacity is usually reflected by the load adjustment of the main steam pressure an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,925 Views
18 Pages

22 April 2021

Remote sensing image object detection has been studied by many researchers in recent years using deep neural networks. However, optical remote sensing images contain many scenes with small and dense objects, resulting in a high rate of misrecognition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,462 Views
19 Pages

Automatic Dynamic Range Adjustment for Pedestrian Detection in Thermal (Infrared) Surveillance Videos

  • Oluwakorede Monica Oluyide,
  • Jules-Raymond Tapamo and
  • Tom Mmbasu Walingo

23 February 2022

This paper presents a novel candidate generation algorithm for pedestrian detection in infrared surveillance videos. The proposed method uses a combination of histogram specification and iterative histogram partitioning to progressively adjust the dy...

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