This study analyzed the decision-making times (DMTs) of participants at T-type indoor intersections according to the horizontal/vertical installation locations and the arrow directions of escape route signs. A total of 120 university students partici...
Fire at a construction site usually results in serious accidents. Therefore, fire management at the construction site is critical to decreasing possible accidents. However, conventional fire safety management can be problematic in many aspects, such...
The increasing functional complexity and high-density integration of integrated circuits (ICs) present formidable routing challenges for printed circuit boards. Specifically for components utilizing high-density Ball Grid Array and other Grid Pin Arr...
When a fire occurs underground, pre-existing emergency escape routes may become ineffective. Such scenarios necessitate the real-time planning of escape routes that consider evolving conditions and prioritize safety. This paper proposes a multi-objec...
Background: Escape routes are important measures for firefighters to ensure their own safety, providing predetermined paths to safe areas. Their establishment needs to consider numerous factors, such as the timeliness and safety of the routes. Aims:...
With the expansion of network scale, the distance between routing nodes increases, and various routing constraints cause significant interference to the optimization process of traditional routing algorithms. To address this issue, based on the DSR r...
As a classical combinatorial optimization problem, the traveling salesman problem (TSP) has been extensively investigated in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research. Due to being NP-complete, it is still rather challenging to so...
In this paper, the automation of the evacuation process of a military ship is studied in real time. For this purpose, a scenario is reconfigured to produce a failure or damage. Then, an optimal network of alternative escape routes is computed. The re...
We modeled water inrush propagation in mines and the optimization of evacuation routes. By constructing a water flow model, the propagation process of water flow through the tunnel network is simulated to explore branching, superposition, and water l...
The Quantum Snowflake Algorithm (QSA) is a novel metaheuristic for both continuous and discrete optimization problems, combining collision-based diversity, quantum-inspired tunneling, superposition-based partial solution sharing, and local refinement...
With the rapid advancement of drone technology, the efficient distribution of drones has garnered significant attention. Central to this discourse is the energy consumption of drones, a critical metric for assessing energy-efficient distribution stra...
Due to the inappropriate or untimely distribution of post-disaster goods, many regions did not receive timely and efficient relief for infected people in the coronavirus disease outbreak that began in 2019. This study develops a model for the emergen...
Understanding evacuees’ responses to dynamic environmental changes, during an emergency evacuation, is of great importance in determining which aspects are ideal and which aspects should be eliminated or corrected. Evacuees differ in their abil...
This paper presents a methodology to solve a special case of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) called the heterogeneous fleets VRP with excessive demand of the vehicle at the pickup points, and the longest time constraint (HFVRP-EXDE-LTC). We develop...
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), developed for more than 30 years, are still being extensively studied due to their excellent delivery performance. Compared with other delivery vehicles, CPPs hold promise for delivering different types of drugs. Her...
To improve the performance of the whale optimization algorithm and further enhance the search accuracy, while increasing the convergence speed, a quasi-reflective chaotic mutant whale swarm optimization, namely QNWOA, is proposed, fused with an opera...
In the face of fire in buildings, people need to quickly plan their escape routes. Intelligent optimization algorithms can achieve this goal, including the sparrow search algorithm (SSA). Despite the powerful search ability of the SSA, there are stil...
As the possibility of safe escape is one of the most crucial aspects of a building’s fire safety features, understanding of human behaviour under fire conditions is important for a successful evacuation. Although most of today’s buildings are equippe...
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults. The prognosis is extremely poor even with standard treatment of maximal safe resection, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Recurrence is inevitable within months, and treatment opt...
The Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows (VRPTW) has remained a classic and continuously studied problem since its introduction. With the rapid growth of cold chain product distribution demands, VRP research has become increasingly important fo...
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) experienced an unprecedented global outbreak in 2022, characterized by a significant departure from historical patterns: a rapid spread of the epidemic to more than 110 non-traditional endemic countries, with more than 90,000 c...
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This research developed a solution approach that is a combination of a web application and the modified differential evolution (MDE) algorithm, aimed at solving a real-time transportation problem. A case study involving an inbound transportation prob...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused a global pandemic in the years 2020–2022. With a high prevalence, an easy route of transmission, and a long incubation time, SARS-CoV-2 spread quickly and affected public healt...
Facility emergence evacuation is often a complicated process under extreme conditions. Most of the buildings today use pre-installed signages to guide the emergence evacuation. However, these guidances are sometimes insufficient or misleading, partic...
Cancer immunotherapy increasingly relies on nucleic acid-based vaccines, yet achieving efficient and safe delivery remains a critical limitation. Polyplexes—electrostatic complexes of cationic polymers and nucleic acids—have emerged as ve...
For wildland firefighters, the ability to efficiently evacuate the fireline is limited by terrain, vegetation, and fire conditions. The impacts of terrain and vegetation on evacuation time to a safety zone may not be apparent when considering potenti...