As a frequently occurring natural disaster, drought will cause great damage to agricultural production and the sustainable development of a social economy, and it is vital to reasonably evaluate the comprehensive risk level of drought for constructin...
With the increase in the number of high-dimensional data, the characteristic phenomenon of unbalanced distribution is increasingly presented in various big data applications. At the same time, most of the existing clustering and feature selection alg...
At present, coal enterprises generally have inadequate environmental protection, serious social issues, and poor corporate governance. Against the background of sustainable development strategies and the “carbon peaking” and “carbon...
It is significant to adopt scientific temperature control criteria for high concrete dams in the construction period according to practical experience and theoretical calculation. This work synthetically uses information entropy and a cloud model and...
The randomness and fuzziness that exist in rolling bearings when faults occur result in uncertainty in acquisition signals and reduce the accuracy of signal feature extraction. To solve this problem, this study proposes a new method in which cloud mo...
Prefabricated construction has garnered widespread attention worldwide. As an important part in purchasing management, prefabricated component suppliers (PCSs) undertake the bulk of the work and responsibility in the supply chain from on-site to off-...
The current power distribution Internet of Things (PDIoT) lacks security protection terminals and techniques. Network security has a large exposure surface that can be attacked from multiple paths. In addition, there are many network security vulnera...
As an essential part of a city, community is significant to the sustainable development of the city. At present, research on community sustainability assessment systems is relatively scarce. The existing community sustainability assessment systems of...
The development of Xiongan New Area in Hebei Province, China, as a significant national choice, has considerable strategic significance for the integrated growth of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. This paper proposes a cloud model for the suitability ev...
A postulate that relates global warming to higher entropy generation rate demand in the tropospheric is offered and tested. This article introduces a low-complexity model to calculate the entropy generation rate required in the troposphere. The entro...
Uncertainty quantification in cloud models requires simultaneous characterization of fuzziness (via Entropy, En) and randomness (via Hyper-entropy, He), yet existing similarity measures often neglect the stochastic dispersion governed by He. To addre...
Smart grid training system needs to evaluate actions during power grid operations in order to complete training for relevant personnel. The commonly used action evaluation methods are difficult for evaluating fine actions during power grid operations...
Existing risk assessment approaches for soft rock tunnels in fault-fractured zones typically employ single weighting schemes, inadequately integrate subjective and objective weights, and fail to define clear risk. This study proposes a risk-grading m...
To address urban flooding challenges exacerbated by climate change and urbanization, this study develops an integrated assessment framework combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), entropy weight method, and cloud model to quantify urban flood...
Creating a safe and resilient urban environment is a crucial part of sustainable urban development. Therefore, it is imperative that a city’s safety resilience is evaluated from various perspectives. To evaluate and improve the resilience of ur...
With the development of 3D scanning technology, a huge volume of point cloud data has been collected at a lower cost. The huge data set is the main burden during the data processing of point clouds, so point cloud simplification is critical. The main...
8 October 2022
As a fundamental and strategic resource, water is a crucial controlling element of ecosystem and natural environment and it plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining and promoting the sustainable development of the economy and society. To achieve th...
(1) In recent years, with China’s increasing investment in the transportation industry, the construction of highways and bridges has flourished, bringing great convenience to people’s lives. At the same time, there are many uncertain fact...
The complex power system and trading environment in China has led to higher requirements for the efficient and stable operation of the electricity market. With the continuous advancement of power system reforms, regular evaluation of the operation of...
A scientifically accurate assessment of tunnel health is the prerequisite for the safe maintenance and sustainability of the in-service road tunnel. The changing trend of tunnel health is not considered in existing research. Most evaluation indicator...
In order to accurately assess the fire risk of urban utility tunnels, an evaluation method based on the improved cloud model and evidence theory is proposed. Firstly, an evaluation index system for the fire risk of urban utility tunnels is constructe...
In order to select the optimal transportation route among alternative transportation routes more accurately and objectively, the choice of urban oversize cargo transportation routes was studied by taking the optimization weight–TOPSIS combination met...
To improve the accuracy of the risk evaluation results of hazardous chemical road transportation systems, an accident risk evaluation model based on the combined weight-cloud model is proposed to address the problems of ambiguity and randomness in th...
Short-term traffic flow prediction plays a crucial role in transportation systems by describing the time evolution of traffic flow over short periods, such as seconds, minutes, or hours. It helps people make informed decisions about their routes to a...
29 December 2016
This study focused on a cloud model approach for considering debris-flow hazard assessment, in which the cloud model provided a model for transforming the qualitative and quantitative expressions. Additionally, the entropy method and analytical hiera...
Mountain torrent disasters are common natural hazards that occur in mountainous terrains. The risk assessment of mountain torrent disasters entails a multi-criteria decision-making process and involves a transformation between qualitative and quantit...
In urban underground construction, Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunneling faces complex geological uncertainties and dynamic operational risks. Traditional safety management approaches often struggle under such conditions. This paper proposes an inte...
(1) In recent years, the economy of the Yellow River basin in China has developed rapidly, and a series of large bridges across the Yellow River have been built on both sides of the Yellow River, which has brought great convenience to regional socio-...
The current situation of the energy crisis requires various industries around the world to seek technological upgrades to achieve energy conservation. The renovation of power grid lines, transformers, and substations significantly affects the compreh...
In order to improve the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of mineral resource sustainability and enhance its scientific and objective nature, in this paper, a cloud model-based risk assessment method is introduced to determine the sustainability o...
We aimed to enable an accurate assessment of the emergency capability of subway shield construction, and promote the construction of emergency capability of enterprises, so as to better guarantee the sustainable development of subway shield construct...
Nowadays robots have been commonly adopted in various manufacturing industries to improve product quality and productivity. The selection of the best robot to suit a specific production setting is a difficult decision making task for manufacturers be...
Green innovation is an important driving force in promoting the sustainable development of manufacturing enterprises and improving market competitiveness. This study selects indicators from the two aspects of ecostate and ecorole in order to reflect...
Floods are serious threats to the safety of people’s lives and property. This paper systematically introduces the basic theories and methods of flood risk assessment, takes Sichuan Province as the study area, and establishes a flood risk assess...
Converter transformers are the key and the most important components in high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission systems. Statistics show that the failure rate of HVDC converter transformers is approximately twice of that of transformers...
To evaluate the ecological niche of photovoltaic agriculture in China, an evaluation index system was constructed. Based on the presentation form of interval numbers, we used the interval entropy weight method and interval cloud model to measure the...
Intelligent construction is vital for achieving new building industrialization by enhancing prefabricated buildings through integrated, digital, and intelligent management across production and construction processes. Despite its significance, detail...
Current risk assessment in railway track maintenance operations faces challenges (low spatiotemporal accuracy, limited adaptability to various scenarios, and tendency of linear fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) methods to underestimate high-risk f...
The selection of insulation materials during the renovation of enclosure structures in old communities significantly impacts project quality, cost, and carbon emissions. Many insulation materials currently in use only meet energy-saving standards as...
As a crop with high water consumption, rice is an important measure of efforts to improve agricultural irrigation efficiency and alleviate the contradiction between the supply and demand of agricultural water resources. This paper takes the Longtouqi...
In the process of sustainable development within modern agriculture, in order to ensure that agricultural production has adequate water resources, canal lining (CL) is often used to transport water in order to reduce water seepage, thus promoting the...
With the current acceleration of climate change, there is a global demand for sustainable development and carbon emission reduction. As a major link in the global supply chain, the logistics industry’s green and low-carbon transformation has be...
The 3D modelling of indoor environments and the generation of process simulations play an important role in factory and assembly planning. In brownfield planning cases, existing data are often outdated and incomplete especially for older plants, whic...
This paper aims to evaluate and analyze the application effect of intelligent construction technology in the process of building construction because of the complexity and uncertainty of the technology itself. It also aims to promote the digital appl...
21 September 2021
With the rapid growth of express delivery industry, service failure has become an increasingly pressing issue. However, there is a lack of research on express service failure risk assessment within the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) framewo...
The goals of sustainable development are constantly negatively impacted by infrastructure initiatives. The importance of these projects in advancing the economic, social, and civilizational growth of the country will, however, prevent their construct...
Under the background of the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” strategy, energy saving and environmental protection (ESEP) management has become one of the most important projects of enterprises. In order to evaluate the ESEP manageme...
The uncertainty of information is an important issue that must be faced when dealing with decision-making problems. Randomness and fuzziness are the two most common types of uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a multicriteria group decision-making...
Point cloud registration is a crucial preprocessing step for point cloud data analysis and applications. Nowadays, many deep-learning-based methods have been proposed to improve the registration quality. These methods always use the sum of two cross-...
3 January 2020
Eutrophication has become one of the most serious problems threatening the lakes/reservoirs in China over 50 years. Evaluation of eutrophication is a multi-criteria decision-making process with uncertainties. In this study, a cloud matter element (CM...
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