As the information environment evolves, social media has become the primary channel through which the public accesses and shares information, and perceived credibility has emerged as a critical influence on how users evaluate the credibility of infor...
Industrial engineering design is a crucial issue in manufacturing. To meet the competitive global market, manufacturers are continuously seeking solutions to design industrial products and systems inventively. Su-Field analysis, which is one of the T...
With tremendous growth and potential of online consumer reviews, online reviews of hospitality and tourism are now playing a significant role in consumer attitude and buying behaviors. This study reviewed and analyzed hospitality and tourism related...
In order to comprehensively evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of various heuristic intelligent optimization algorithms, this research employed particle swarm optimization, wind driven optimization, grey wolf optimization, and one-to-one-based op...
Allergic respiratory diseases such as asthma might be considered multifactorial diseases, having a complex pathogenesis that involves environmental factors and the activation of a large set of immune response pathways and mechanisms. In addition, var...
Climate change threats make it difficult to perform reliable and quick predictions on floods forecasting. This gives rise to the need of having advanced methods, e.g., computational intelligence tools, to improve upon the results from flooding events...
While Internet privacy is a subjective term that is challenging to define, describe, and quantify, assessing the level of privacy provided by data processors offering services over the Internet is essential for detecting privacy flaws and enabling co...
In a context of individualism, conflictual language, and scarce ethical passion, understanding how students co-construct meaning through dialogue is urgent. Teachers from primary to secondary school need tools to grasp these dynamics. This contributi...
Many text mining methods use statistical information as a text- and language-independent approach for sentiment analysis. However, text mining methods based on stochastic patterns and rules require many samples for training. On the other hand, determ...
Thermal power plants use coal as a fuel to create electricity while wasting a significant amount of energy as heat. If the heat and power plants are combined and used in cogeneration systems, it is possible to reuse the waste heat and hence enhance t...
As telecommunications are becoming increasingly important for modern systems, ensuring secure data transmission is getting more and more critical. Specialised numerous devices that form smart grids are a potential attack vector and therefore is a cha...
We investigate the construction of a partial absorbing continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) using a heuristic algorithm aimed at approximate transient analysis. The accuracy of transient state probabilities is indicated by the probability of absorbing...
This study proposes a structured, replicable, multimethod framework for evaluating the usability of institutional information systems serving heterogeneous user groups. It addresses the limited integration of expectation–satisfaction analysis,...
Advances in immersive technologies, such as Metahuman Creator integrated with Unreal Engine, offer new opportunities for interactive and realistic digital learning in nursing education. While computer-based training (CBT) has demonstrated benefits fo...
Ecological and resource-related challenges increasingly require reconsideration of private-law categories. This article examines Article 9 of the Chinese Civil Code, the so-called Green Principle, as a heuristic tool for identifying the dogmatic effe...
We present a novel approach for recommending actionable strategies by integrating strategic frameworks with decision heuristics through semantic analysis. While strategy frameworks provide systematic models for assessment and planning, and decision h...
This study addresses the challenge of accurately correlating detailed and reduced thermal models in aerospace applications by using heuristic global optimization methods. In the context of increasingly complex thermal systems, traditional manual corr...
The intrinsic relation between water and energy has made the water–energy nexus a burgeoning issue in the discussion of sustainable development. Recently, research has begun to pay attention to stakeholders in the nexus. They, however, identifi...
This article presents an in-depth analysis of three advanced strategies to tune fractional PID (FOPID) controllers for a nonlinear system of interconnected tanks, simulated using MATLAB. The study focuses on evaluating the performance characteristics...
Pedestrian distraction poses significant risks at signalized intersections, especially in populated urban areas. This study investigates the primary causes of pedestrian distraction to determine the contributing factors affecting crossing behavior. D...
Terrorism perpetrated in any country by either internal or external actors jeopardizes the country’s security, economic growth, societal peace, and harmony. Hence, accurate modelling of terrorism has become a necessary component of the national...
This research presents an evaluative energy model for estimating the energy efficiency of the design choices of architects and engineers in the early design phase. We analyze the effects of various parameters with different characteristics in various...
Indoor lighting systems are a significant contributor to building energy consumption while also directly affecting occupant comfort and circadian regulation. Recent advances in smart lighting have introduced adaptive and human-centric approaches; how...
Aiming at the multi-constraint three-dimensional bin packing problem for mixed vehicle types in urban logistics, where traditional exact algorithms are limited by NP-hard computational complexity and practical engineering constraints, this study prop...
Today, research on healthcare logistics is an important challenge in developing and developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The responses required during such a pandemic would benefit from an efficiently designed mode...
Sustainable closed-loop supply chain (SCLSC) network design and decision-making is a critical problem for enterprises and organizations’ operations because of its excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. This article proposes...
This study uses natural language processing (NLP) techniques to analyze the political discourse of the surprise presidential candidate, focusing on linguistic patterns, sentiment distribution, and recurring themes. This study addresses the problem of...
Can Hans Jonas’s heuristics of fear still ground a philosophy of artificial intelligence (AI), or does the digital artefact require its reformulation? Building on the empirical turn in the philosophy of technology and on a postphenomenological...
Due to the restructuring of the power system, customers always try to obtain low-cost power efficiently and reliably. As a result, there is a chance to violate the system security limit, or the system may run in risk conditions. In this paper, an eco...
Damping has attracted increasing attention as an indicator for structural health monitoring (SHM), owing to its sensitivity to subtle damage that may not be reflected in natural frequencies. However, the practical application of damping-based SHM rem...
Hyper-heuristics emerged as a broader metaheuristic framework to address the limitations of traditional optimization heuristics. By abstracting the design of low-level heuristics, hyper-heuristics offer a flexible and adaptable approach to solving co...
The article presents analysis and evaluation of information usefulness efficiency for recipients with secondary and higher education using the example of information and shopping websites. Different levels of quality and information usefulness effici...
In this work, the applicability of a Firefly Algorithm (FA) to the real problem of the minimum cost of a detailed design for steel frames is studied. To reduce the calculation time, which is a common problem of meta-heuristic algorithms when they are...
With continuing increases in the number of Oversize-Overweight (OSOW) vehicle permits issued in recent years, the management and analysis of OSOW permit data is becoming more inefficient and time-consuming. Large quantities of archived OSOW permit da...
Integration testing is an essential activity in software testing, especially in object-oriented software development. Determining the sequence of classes to be integrated, i.e., the class integration test order (CITO) problem, is of great importance...
Radio-frequency spectrum resources are finite and scarce, but their demand is increasing exponentially every year. Therefore, wireless network resources are too expensive to be wasted. To avoid waste, pricing techniques can efficiently control resour...
The integration of geospatial-analysis models is crucial for simulating complex geographic processes and phenomena. However, compared to non-geospatial models and traditional geospatial models, geospatial-analysis models face more challenges owing to...
The study involved Paralympic wheelchair fencers (N = 7) in two disability categories, and able-bodied female epee fencers (N = 7), members of the polish paralympic fencing teams. The performance of postural muscles and sword arm muscles in both grou...
Antivirus systems have evolved from static pattern matchers into complex algorithmic ecosystems that encapsulate the broader logic of modern cybersecurity. This review deconstructs their internal architecture, tracing the transition from deterministi...
Consumer demand for fuel efficient, low-emission vehicles is growing. This trend is motivated on one hand by the increasing fuel cost and on the other by government incentives and increased awareness. By hybridizing and electrifying powertrains, fuel...
With the emergence of the smart grid, both consumers and electricity providing companies can benefit from real-time interaction and pricing methods. In this work, a smart power system is considered, where consumers share a common energy source. Each...
Due to the complexity of shipyards’ operating scenes and the inconsistency of ship parts’ type and size, current sorting operations for ship parts mainly rely on laborers, resulting in weak control over the production process and key node...
Image clustering analysis faces the curse of dimensionality, distance concentration, multimodal landscapes, and rapid diversity loss that challenge meta-heuristics. Meanwhile, the standard Crayfish Optimization Algorithm (COA) has shown notable poten...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease, in which permanent joint deformation is largely preventable with the timely introduction of appropriate treatment strategies. However, there is no consensus for patients with RA to monitor their progres...
User experience (UX) evaluation is central to software quality, yet it remains difficult to integrate into software engineering workflows in a systematic, explainable, and early-stage manner. This paper presents TraceUX, a framework for operationaliz...
Mediterranean mountain regions have undergone several landscape changes since the end of the 19th century due to progressive depopulation and the abandonment of cattle rearing, forestry, charcoal production and agricultural activity. Such activity fa...
As exact algorithms are unfeasible to solve real optimization problems, due to their computational complexity, meta-heuristics are usually used to solve them. However, choosing a meta-heuristic to solve a particular optimization problem is a non-triv...
The deployment of deep-learning vulnerability detectors in production remains difficult. Models are large, false-positive rates are high, output is opaque, and a persistent gap separates benchmark performance from real-world utility. The objective of...
Energy-efficient buildings have attracted vast attention as a key component of sustainable development. Thermal load analysis is a pivotal step for the proper design of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems for increasing thermal...
Developing a simple and efficient attack detection system for ensuring the security of cloud systems against cyberthreats is a crucial and demanding process in the present time. In traditional work, various machine-learning-based detection methodolog...
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