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  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,210 Views
13 Pages

4 December 2019

Employment in forestry is an essential component of the forestry industry. It is a socio-economic phenomenon, which has been at the edge of economists’ interest for quite a long time. The proportion of employees in the forestry sector is relati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
218 Views
30 Pages

31 October 2025

Localized employment gains from new or expanded fossil fuel development commonly are cited by its proponents in response to sustainability-related concerns raised by local drilling area residents. This paper analyzes local employment effects in drill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,989 Views
17 Pages

The Multidimensional Logistic Model According to the Forecast of Employment of Graduates of Institutions of Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan

  • Laura A. Khassenova,
  • Altyn M. Yessirkepova,
  • Marat K. Seidakhmetov,
  • Zarema A. Bigeldiyeva and
  • Dinmukhamed S. Zhakipbekov

This article constructs a multidimensional logistic model for predicting the employment of graduates of higher educational institutions trained under the program of academic mobility, using the example of Kazakh universities. The purpose of the resea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
20,208 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2020

Population projections serve various actors at subnational, national, and international levels as a quantitative basis for political and economic decision-making. Usually, the users are no experts in statistics or forecasting and therefore lack the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,741 Views
20 Pages

The transformation path to electric mobility will have fundamental impacts on the existing value chain and employment structures in the automotive industry. The purpose of this paper is to derive and examine these effects based on two different elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,517 Views
22 Pages

20 December 2024

This research studies the current changes in Polish renewable resources employment and Poland’s position in rankings in comparison to European countries. The research aims to define the actual situation and the future perspectives of renewable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,858 Views
22 Pages

17 September 2014

We build upon much of the accumulated knowledge of the widely used SLEUTH urban land change model and offer advances. First, we use SLEUTH’s exclusion/attraction layer to identify and test different urban land cover change drivers; second, we leverag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,522 Views
32 Pages

4 March 2013

This study estimates the fiscal, energy, and environmental tradeoffs involved in supplying California’s future energy needs. An integrated framework is developed whereby an econometric forecasting system of California energy demand is coupled with en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,898 Views
18 Pages

Energy Consumption Forecasting for Smart Meters Using Extreme Learning Machine Ensemble

  • Paulo S. G. de Mattos Neto,
  • João F. L. de Oliveira,
  • Priscilla Bassetto,
  • Hugo Valadares Siqueira,
  • Luciano Barbosa,
  • Emilly Pereira Alves,
  • Manoel H. N. Marinho,
  • Guilherme Ferretti Rissi and
  • Fu Li

3 December 2021

The employment of smart meters for energy consumption monitoring is essential for planning and management of power generation systems. In this context, forecasting energy consumption is a valuable asset for decision making, since it can improve the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,304 Views
13 Pages

10 May 2025

Tourism is a core sector of Singapore’s economy, contributing significantly to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment. Accurate tourism demand forecasting is essential for strategic planning, resource allocation, and economic stability, pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,725 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2022

Okun’s law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the relations between output and labor input across regions or across business cycles. Based on results by James D. Hamilton we replaced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,345 Views
23 Pages

15 March 2022

Demographic change is leading to the aging of German society. As long as the baby boom cohorts are still of working age, the working population will also age—and decline as soon as this baby boom generation gradually reaches retirement age. At...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,691 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2021

The Renewable Energy Plan for the period 2011–2020 established as a general goal to ensure that renewable sources represent at least 20% of final energy consumption in 2020, together with a minimum contribution of 10% from renewable energy sources in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,249 Views
14 Pages

Integrated land use and transportation models are helpful when policy, planning, or environment impacts are being evaluated, but the strengths and limitations in these models must be optimized. To optimize the ITLUP (Integrated Transportation and Lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,812 Views
18 Pages

Socio-Economic Development of European Countries in Times of Crisis: Ups and Downs

  • Dariusz Krawczyk,
  • Viktoriya Martynets,
  • Yuliia Opanasiuk and
  • Ihor Rekunenko

12 October 2023

This article analyzes the dynamics of the changes in indicators of socio-economic development under conditions of financial and economic crises and their negative consequences. The study proves that financial crises are associated with severe and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,961 Views
14 Pages

The Europe 2030 project identified the need to create a growth model that is based on a dynamic balance between economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This involves, among other objectives, redirecting the resources that are allocated to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,438 Views
22 Pages

Economic Activity Forecasting Based on the Sentiment Analysis of News

  • Mantas Lukauskas,
  • Vaida Pilinkienė,
  • Jurgita Bruneckienė,
  • Alina Stundžienė,
  • Andrius Grybauskas and
  • Tomas Ruzgas

22 September 2022

The outbreak of war and the earlier and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic determined the need for real-time monitoring of economic activity. The economic activity of a country can be defined in different ways. Most often, the country’s economic activit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,785 Views
13 Pages

28 September 2020

Against the background of China’s relaxation of family planning standards, this thesis analyzed the demographic trends in ethnic minority areas and their impacts on regional development under China’s adjustment of its population strategy....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,401 Views
33 Pages

19 June 2024

Global economic growth, marked by rising GDP and population, has spurred demand for essential goods including furniture. This study presents a comprehensive demand forecasting analysis for retail furniture sales in the U.S. for the next 36 months usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,616 Views
26 Pages

Developing a Parametric Cash Flow Forecasting Model for Complex Infrastructure Projects: A Comparative Study

  • Mahir Msawil,
  • Faris Elghaish,
  • Krisanthi Seneviratne and
  • Stephen McIlwaine

13 October 2021

Forecasting the cash flow for infrastructure projects has not received much attention in the existing models. Moreover, disregarding the cost flow behaviour and proposing models that entail a relatively high dimensionality of inputs have been the mai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,019 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2020

Conventional compressive strength test of concrete involves the destruction of concrete samples or existing structures. Thus, the focus of this research is to ascertain a more effective method to assess the compressive strength of concrete, especiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,208 Views
22 Pages

A Smart Forecasting Approach to District Energy Management

  • Baris Yuce,
  • Monjur Mourshed and
  • Yacine Rezgui

25 July 2017

This study presents a model for district-level electricity demand forecasting using a set of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) (parallel ANNs) based on current energy loads and social parameters such as occupancy. A comprehensive sensitivity analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
622 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2025

Accurate and timely forecasting of cross-regional tourist flows is essential for sustainable destination management, yet existing models struggle with sparse data, complex spatiotemporal interactions, and limited interpretability. This paper presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,454 Views
18 Pages

11 February 2022

Although the recent development of solar power forecasting through machine learning approaches, such as the machine learning models based on numerical weather prediction (NWP) data, has been remarkable, their extreme error requires an increase in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,059 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating Labour Market Flexibility Using the TOPSIS Method: Sustainable Industrial Relations

  • Anna Galik,
  • Monika Bąk,
  • Katarzyna Bałandynowicz-Panfil and
  • Giuseppe T. Cirella

4 January 2022

This study evaluates labour market flexibility using the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) method. TOPSIS is employed by comparing spatial (i.e., different countries)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,152 Views
18 Pages

9 June 2023

Manufacturing sales forecasting is crucial for business survival in the competitive and volatile modern market. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative impact on the demand and revenue of firms globally due to disruptions in supply chain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,447 Views
28 Pages

Forecasting the dynamical behaviors of nonlinear systems over long time intervals represents a great challenge for scientists and has become a very active area of research. The employment of the well-known artificial recurrent neural networks (RNNs)-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,737 Views
15 Pages

Development of an SVR Model for the Fault Diagnosis of Large-Scale Doubly-Fed Wind Turbines Using SCADA Data

  • Mingzhu Tang,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Qi Zhao,
  • Huawei Wu,
  • Wen Long,
  • Bin Huang,
  • Lida Liao and
  • Kang Zhang

3 September 2019

Fault diagnosis and forecasting contribute significantly to the reduction of operating and maintenance associated costs, as well as to improve the resilience of wind turbine systems. Different from the existing fault diagnosis approaches using monito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,319 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has harmed the global tourism and hospitality industry, crippling foreign currency earnings and employment in many countries, South Africa (SA) included. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on oversea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,987 Views
17 Pages

Sales forecasting is a crucial aspect of any successful manufacturing organisation as it provides the foundation for investment, employment development, and innovation. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) had a negative impact on the manufacturing sect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,862 Views
26 Pages

China’s Provincial Vehicle Ownership Forecast and Analysis of the Causes Influencing the Trend

  • Lin Ma,
  • Manhua Wu,
  • Xiujuan Tian,
  • Guanheng Zheng,
  • Qinchuan Du and
  • Tian Wu

19 July 2019

The growth of vehicle ownership not only brings opportunity for the economy, but also brings environment and transport problems, which is not good for sustainable transportation. It is of great significance to build supporting infrastructure and othe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,428 Views
23 Pages

Improving fertilizer use efficiency (FUE) is an effective means to reduce fertilizer use and environmental contamination. Few studies have considered the spatial effects of FUE and its determinants. This paper calculated the FUE of agricultural produ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,514 Views
25 Pages

Perspectives of Ecological Footprint in European Context under the Impact of Information Society and Sustainable Development

  • Simona Ioana Ghita,
  • Andreea Simona Saseanu,
  • Rodica-Manuela Gogonea and
  • Catalin-Emilian Huidumac-Petrescu

9 September 2018

The perspective of ecological footprint, which is a tool for measuring and monitoring the sustainability of the new information society and the higher degree of openness in the European economy powered by the globalization process, was approached fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,583 Views
24 Pages

13 July 2020

The food and beverage industry plays a significant role in the economic development of developing and emerging countries in Asia through an immense contribution to the national income, employment, value-added inducement, and foreign exchange earnings...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,147 Views
12 Pages

Rice as a Determinant of Vietnamese Economic Sustainability

  • Kamil Maitah,
  • Luboš Smutka,
  • Jeta Sahatqija,
  • Mansoor Maitah and
  • Nguyen Phuong Anh

23 June 2020

This paper aims to examine the rice industry in Vietnam during the period 1997–2017, focusing its production and export. The total area of Vietnam is 33.121 million hectares, out of which 39.25% consists of agricultural land. The agricultural s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
12,538 Views
10 Pages

The advent of autonomous vehicles is forecast to bring enormous changes to the workplace as positions primarily involving driving become progressively redundant. Little is known about public awareness of these impending changes and the potential impa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
20,716 Views
14 Pages

Hospitality and Tourism Demand: Exploring Industry Shifts, Themes, and Trends

  • Carlos Sampaio,
  • João Renato Sebastião and
  • Luís Farinha

17 October 2024

Tourism demand is critical for the hospitality industry and is influenced by a set of continuously changing factors. The tourism and hospitality industries play a critical role in many regions and countries, supporting the local economy, providing em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,435 Views
14 Pages

Towards Predictive Vietnamese Human Resource Migration by Machine Learning: A Case Study in Northeast Asian Countries

  • Nguyen Hong Giang,
  • Tien-Thinh Nguyen,
  • Chac Cau Tay,
  • Le Anh Phuong and
  • Thanh-Tuan Dang

24 March 2022

Labor exports are currently considered among the most important foreign economic sectors, implying that they contribute to a country’s economic development and serve as a strategic solution for employment creation. Therefore, with the support o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
1,553 Views
24 Pages

A Dependability Neural Network Approach for Short-Term Production Estimation of a Wind Power Plant

  • Fabio Famoso,
  • Ludovica Maria Oliveri,
  • Sebastian Brusca and
  • Ferdinando Chiacchio

28 March 2024

This paper presents a novel approach to estimating short-term production of wind farms, which are made up of numerous turbine generators. It harnesses the power of big data through a blend of data-driven and model-based methods. Specifically, it comb...

  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
18,620 Views
17 Pages

Review of the Construction Labour Demand and Shortages in the EU

  • Belinda Brucker Juricic,
  • Mario Galic and
  • Sasa Marenjak

This paper reviews the recent literature on skill and labour shortages in the labour market with special emphasis on the construction sector in the European Union Member States, foreseeing the Construction 4.0 era. The free movement of people is one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
13,486 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Weather on the Behaviour of Tourists in a Beach Destination

  • Diego R.-Toubes,
  • Noelia Araújo-Vila and
  • José Antonio Fraiz-Brea

20 January 2020

In sun-and-beach destinations, weather has a decisive influence on the variability of the daily flow of tourists. Uncertainty in demand flows directly affects businesses and employment. This work aims to improve understanding of the behaviour of tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,425 Views
24 Pages

22 August 2018

The term additive manufacturing (AM) groups together a set of technologies with similar characteristics forming part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. AM is being developed globally, as evidenced by the standards published by and the agreements be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
14,583 Views
15 Pages

Analyzing and Forecasting Tourism Demand in Vietnam with Artificial Neural Networks

  • Le Quyen Nguyen,
  • Paula Odete Fernandes and
  • João Paulo Teixeira

28 December 2021

Vietnam has experienced a tourism expansion over the last decade, proving itself as one of the top tourist destinations in Southeast Asia. The country received more than 18 million international tourists in 2019, compared to only 1.5 million twenty-f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,055 Views
16 Pages

Putting the Personalized Metabolic Avatar into Production: A Comparison between Deep-Learning and Statistical Models for Weight Prediction

  • Alessio Abeltino,
  • Giada Bianchetti,
  • Cassandra Serantoni,
  • Alessia Riente,
  • Marco De Spirito and
  • Giuseppe Maulucci

27 February 2023

Nutrition is a cross-cutting sector in medicine, with a huge impact on health, from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Employment of digital medicine in nutrition relies on digital twins: digital replicas of human physiology representing an emergent s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,713 Views
24 Pages

Cultural and Creative Ecosystems in Medium-Sized Cities: Evolution in Times of Economic Crisis and Pandemic

  • Ana Escalona-Orcao,
  • Diego A. Barrado-Timón,
  • Severino Escolano-Utrilla,
  • Belén Sánchez-Valverde,
  • Maricruz Navarro-Pérez,
  • Mariola Pinillos-García and
  • Luis Antonio Sáez-Pérez

23 December 2020

This article seeks to forecast the short- and medium-term impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the cultural and creative ecosystems of the 81 cities in Spain with between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. Data on employment in nine sectors (per NACE...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,413 Views
6 Pages

17 October 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set in Agenda 2030, are examined in this study, along with India’s progress towards attaining them, and creative solutions based on forecasting and optimization modelling are presented. We investigate t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
999 Views
7 Pages

Stochastic Assessment of Day-Ahead, Wind Energy Curtailment-Driven Demand Response Requirements in Non-Interconnected Island Systems

  • Dimitrios Zafirakis,
  • Konstantinos Christopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Moustris and
  • John K. Kaldellis

Occurrence of wind energy curtailments in non-interconnected island systems of considerable wind power capacity comes as a result of local grid limitations and significant load variation across seasons. Facilitating increased wind energy generation r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,400 Views
13 Pages

Applications of Mobile Augmented Reality to Water Resources Management

  • Domenica Mirauda,
  • Ugo Erra,
  • Roberto Agatiello and
  • Marco Cerverizzo

13 September 2017

The present paper proposes a mobile prototype platform, based on Augmented Reality and multimedia smart-phone technology, which operates on a combination of real environment and computer-generated data in order to increase the human perception of a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,497 Views
21 Pages

Offering Carbon Smart Options through Product Development to Meet Customer Expectations

  • Diana Blagu,
  • Denisa Szabo,
  • Diana Dragomir,
  • Călin Neamțu and
  • Daniela Popescu

11 August 2022

Addressing the global threat of climate change is one of the present priorities of both companies and their customers. Societal trends demand a significant change in consumer behavior in the foreseeable future to contribute to the reduction in carbon...

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