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4 Citations
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Human Resource Allocation in the State-Owned Forest Farm of China for the Changing Climate

  • Xiaofang Deng,
  • Junkui Li,
  • Lijuan Su,
  • Shan Zhao and
  • Shaofei Jin

5 August 2022

Global climate change has become a hot topic in today’s international political, economic, environmental and diplomatic arenas. China has implemented a series of strategies, measures and actions to cope with climate change, which has promoted i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability with Changing Climate and Extremes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,571 Views
21 Pages

A Regional Water Resource Allocation Model Based on the Human–Water Harmony Theory in the Yellow River Basin

  • Jinxin Zhang,
  • Deshan Tang,
  • Mei Wang,
  • Ijaz Ahamd and ,
  • Jianyong Hu,
  • Zhenzhu Meng,
  • Dan Liu and
  • Suli Pan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 April 2023

Considering the issues of water scarcity, water environment deterioration, and unreasonable allocation of water resources in the urban area of the Yellow River Basin, this paper introduces the human–water harmony theory to the allocation of reg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Yellow River Basin Management under Pressure: Present State, Restoration and Protection II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
471 Views
36 Pages

18 June 2026

This paper addresses a human resource allocation problem with spatial-temporal constraints (HRAP-SC) in the parallel assembly of complex products, such as satellites and aircraft. It involves coordinating a limited pool of multi-skilled workers acros...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Scheduling and Optimization in Smart Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,442 Views
18 Pages

Research on the Mathematical Model for Optimal Allocation of Human Resources in the Operation and Maintenance Units of a Heavy Haul Railway

  • Linfang Shen,
  • Kuoyu Liu,
  • Jinfei Chai,
  • Weibin Ma and ,
  • Xiaoxiong Guo,
  • Yao Li,
  • Peng Zhao and
  • Boying Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 October 2022

According to the existing personnel structure, quantity, development strategy, and market demand of the Shuohuang Railway Company’s operation and maintenance project, the demand quantity of various employees of the company for the past three ye...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,103 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2025

Effective human resource allocation is crucial for research and development project success. While multi-attribute decision-making methods are valuable, their application to human resource allocation in research and development remains underexplored;...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,080 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Attribute Decision-Making for Intelligent Allocation of Human Resources in Industrial Projects

  • Iuliana Grecu,
  • Roxana-Mariana Nechita,
  • Oliver Ulerich and
  • Corina-Ionela Dumitrescu

Effective project management depends on a deep understanding of the human attributes that influence project success. This study aims to quantify the causal relationships between human resource variables in order to establish a prioritisation criterio...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,179 Views
16 Pages

Efficient human resource deployment is one of the key aspects of road traffic management for maintaining the lifelines of any metropolitan city. The problem becomes relevant when collaboration between human resources with different skills in day-to-d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traffic Accident Control and Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Views
25 Pages

9 October 2026

Modern service industries are an important part of the national economy. As data has become a new factor of production and the economy has shifted toward high-quality development, exploring the impact of the data factor on the high-quality developmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,449 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2025

Businesses and organizations often struggle to cope in a rapidly changing and competitive environment, requiring changes with increasing frequency and complexity. The evolution of information systems has enabled direct access to information and data,...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,043 Views
14 Pages

21 June 2023

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led construction companies to prioritize the intelligent and optimal scheduling of human resources in construction projects to reduce costs. This study addresses the problem of heterogeneity in human resource...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,691 Views
39 Pages

Dynamic Workload Management System in the Public Sector: A Comparative Analysis

  • Konstantinos C. Giotopoulos,
  • Dimitrios Michalopoulos,
  • Gerasimos Vonitsanos,
  • Dimitris Papadopoulos and ,
  • Ioanna Giannoukou and
  • Spyros Sioutas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Efficient human resource management is critical to public sector performance, particularly in dynamic environments where traditional systems struggle to adapt to fluctuating workloads. The increasing complexity of public sector operations and the nee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,157 Views
28 Pages

Dynamic Workload Management System in the Public Sector

  • Konstantinos C. Giotopoulos,
  • Dimitrios Michalopoulos,
  • Gerasimos Vonitsanos,
  • Dimitris Papadopoulos and ,
  • Ioanna Giannoukou and
  • Spyros Sioutas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Workload management is a cornerstone of contemporary human resource management with widespread applications in private and public sectors. The challenges in human resource management are particularly pronounced within the public sector: particularly...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
22 Pages

4 June 2026

As the digital economy develops and the green transition advances, digital–intelligent transformation has become a critical pathway for firms to enhance green innovation and achieve high-quality development. However, existing research lacks a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,523 Views
12 Pages

27 August 2024

This paper establishes a multivariate function model for natural human load-carrying walking in some typical scenarios such as college equipment and material relocation by students and a large amount of identical freight relocation in commercial acti...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
734 Views
28 Pages

9 April 2026

Organizational change is a complex process often accompanied by intense human reactions and increased uncertainty. Resistance to change (RtC) can cause critical performance declines during the organizational change period, which can delay implementat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Numerical Algorithms and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,323 Views
18 Pages

This study describes shelter operations by public health nurses (PHNs) in Kesennuma City, located near the epicenter of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011. The data were semi-structured interviews with 10 PHNs, 2 nutrit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disaster Nursing and Public Health Emergency Preparedness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,883 Views
29 Pages

24 April 2025

Sustainable development is an inevitable derivative outcome of the advancement of social productive forces and the innovation of science and technology. In the current era, a multitude of global issues are intertwined. Sustainable development provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,658 Views
12 Pages

11 March 2021

The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0, hereinafter I 4.0) has led to an entirely fresh approach to production, helping to enhance the key industrial processes and therefore increase the growth of labor productivity and compe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalized Economy, Society and Information Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,283 Views
16 Pages

As intellectual capital is considered an important strategic resource in knowledge-intensive industries, such as the health and pharmaceutical industries, scholars have developed a deeper understanding of the human capital at different levels of orga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,841 Views
16 Pages

This paper stems from the current global worsening of the scarcity of resources for healthcare, which will deepen even more in future public emergencies. This justifies strengthening the reflection on the allocation of resources which, in addition to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Rationing of Health Resources in Emergency Conditions and Decision Making under Scarcity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,108 Views
18 Pages

Modelling and Analysis of Neuro Fuzzy Employee Ranking System in the Public Sector

  • Konstantinos C. Giotopoulos,
  • Dimitrios Michalopoulos,
  • Aristeidis Karras,
  • Christos Karras and
  • Spyros Sioutas

9 March 2023

Human resource management has a significant influence on the performance of any public body. Employee classification and ranking are definitely time-consuming processes, which in many cases lead to controversial results. In addition, assessing employ...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,464 Views
23 Pages

22 July 2024

China’s rural areas have long been backward in development, and many villages have completed poverty alleviation with the help of the government. Facing the requirements of sustainable development, it is necessary to change the development path...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Solutions to Urban-Rural Coordinated Development in the Megacity Regions II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,927 Views
26 Pages

15 August 2025

The decrease in employee performance that occurs during organizational change is one of the main problems that this study attempts to address. This phenomenon, which is known as resistance to change, has been directly linked to the failure or abandon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Analytics and Decision-Making: Models, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,344 Views
29 Pages

Towards Evaluating Proactive and Reactive Approaches on Reorganizing Human Resources in IoT-Based Smart Hospitals

  • Gabriel Souto Fischer,
  • Rodrigo da Rosa Righi,
  • Cristiano André da Costa,
  • Guilherme Galante and
  • Dalvan Griebler

2 September 2019

Hospitals play an important role on ensuring a proper treatment of human health. One of the problems to be faced is the increasingly overcrowded patients care queues, who end up waiting for longer times without proper treatment to their health proble...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,386 Views
20 Pages

This paper examines the ethical implications of healthcare resource allocation during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy, from 21 February to 31 May 2020, with a focus on the utilitarian principles that prioritized age-based resource allocation. By...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,115 Views
17 Pages

16 July 2021

Through the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation index system, this paper analyzes the allocation of science and technology resources in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2014 to 2020, evaluates the allocation efficiency of scie...

(This article belongs to the Topic Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,694 Views
30 Pages

Background: Each disaster has its specific resource requirements, varying based on its size, location, and the affected region’s socio-economic level. Pre-disaster planning and post-disaster dynamic resource allocation including material and hu...

(This article belongs to the Section Humanitarian and Healthcare Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,320 Views
15 Pages

Land-Acquisition and Resettlement (LAR) Conflicts: A Perspective of Spatial Injustice of Urban Public Resources Allocation

  • Jinxia Zhu,
  • Qian Xu,
  • Yi Pan,
  • Lefeng Qiu and ,
  • Yi Peng and
  • Haijun Bao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 March 2018

Land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) is an important step in urban development. As one of the ‘externalities of development’, LAR conflicts have affected social stability and development in rural areas of China. With social conflict research shift...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,412 Views
20 Pages

16 July 2020

Resource allocation of the availability of certain departments for dealing with emergency recovery is of high importance in municipalities. Efficient planning for facing possible disasters in the coverage area of a municipality provides reassurance f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advancement in Edge/Fog Computing for Intelligent IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,451 Views
22 Pages

19 February 2025

As one of the most dynamic natural elements, water resources play a vital role in both ecological and economic activities. The rational allocation of water resources is essential for the sustainable development of human society. Using data from prefe...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,511 Views
22 Pages

18 August 2021

Competitions and disputes between various human water sectors and environmental flow of the river are exacerbated due to the rapid growth of the economy in Yellow River basin as well as the limited supply of available water resources in recent decade...

(This article belongs to the Collection Water Policy Collection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,733 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2021

Human resources services (HRS) are kinds of services concerning human resources acquisition, development, and allocation provided to employers and workers. The services promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the human resources market. Recently,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Policy Evaluation and Sustainable Economic Development: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,216 Views
19 Pages

17 January 2022

The surface water ecosystem has important ecological value and plays an important supporting and guarantee role in the sustainable development of human society. In this study, an inexact two-stage stochastic programming (ITSP) model was developed for...

(This article belongs to the Topic Water Management in the Era of Climatic Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,879 Views
13 Pages

Modeling the Transformation of Configuration Management Processes in a Multi-Project Environment

  • Nataliia Dotsenko,
  • Igor Chumachenko,
  • Andrii Galkin,
  • Heorhii Kuchuk and
  • Dmytro Chumachenko

28 September 2023

Human resource management during project implementation in a multi-project environment requires addressing the resource-constrained project scheduling problem. Agile methodologies allow for greater management flexibility, necessitating an agile trans...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
42 Pages

20 April 2026

Currently, airport fleet maintenance is characterized by diverse aircraft models, densely concurrent tasks, and tightly coupled professional skills. Traditional specialized personnel allocation models often lead to severe human resource redundancy an...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,316 Views
21 Pages

16 January 2025

Cooperative afforestation, reforestation, and forest management initiatives between state-owned forest farms and village collectives serve as pivotal strategies for restoring degraded ecosystems, establishing new forested areas, and revitalizing coll...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,425 Views
28 Pages

30 December 2023

The rapid development of digital technology has injected new vitality into green technological innovation within manufacturing enterprises. Proper application of digital technology during the innovation process can propel global sustainable developme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management in Digital Transformation Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,098 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Hospital Management: Combining Vital Signs IoT Data and the Elasticity Technique to Support Healthcare 4.0

  • Gabriel Souto Fischer,
  • Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos,
  • Cristiano André da Costa,
  • Antonio Marcos Alberti and ,
  • Dalvan Griebler,
  • Dhananjay Singh and
  • Rodrigo da Rosa Righi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 June 2024

Smart cities can improve the quality of life of citizens by optimizing the utilization of resources. In an IoT-connected environment, people’s health can be constantly monitored, which can help identify medical problems before they become serio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,652 Views
28 Pages

A Survey on Fair Allocation of Chores

  • Hao Guo,
  • Weidong Li and
  • Bin Deng

21 August 2023

Wherever there is group life, there has been a social division of labor and resource allocation, since ancient times. Examples include ant colonies, bee colonies, and wolf colonies. Different roles are responsible for different tasks. The same is tru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimisation Algorithms and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,132 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2024

Single-Pilot Operations (SPO) mode is set to reshape the decision-making process between human-machine and air-ground operations. However, the limited on-board computing resources impose greater demands on the organization of performance parameters a...

(This article belongs to the Collection Avionic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
525 Views
31 Pages

18 September 2026

Sustainable growth has become an increasingly important strategic objective for entrepreneurial firms facing resource constraints, technological change, and growing environmental and social pressures. Although previous studies have established a posi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Strategic Management in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,108 Views
29 Pages

Task Allocation and Sequence Planning for Human–Robot Collaborative Disassembly of End-of-Life Products Using the Bees Algorithm

  • Jun Huang,
  • Sheng Yin,
  • Muyao Tan,
  • Quan Liu and ,
  • Ruiya Li and
  • Duc Pham
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 November 2024

Remanufacturing, which benefits the environment and saves resources, is attracting increasing attention. Disassembly is arguably the most critical step in the remanufacturing of end-of-life (EoL) products. Human–robot collaborative disassembly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Human–Robot Interaction: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,148 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2023

In today’s world, global ecological environment problems are increasingly serious, and human beings have gradually realized the importance of protecting the ecological environment. With the continuous deepening of the concept of sustainable dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Application of Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,091 Views
8 Pages

1 September 2025

Chazence is a subsidiary of Zence Object Technology Company in the Greater Bay Area of China. It is a sustainable enterprise that combines tea industry consumables (tea residue) with fiber composite technology to replace traditional materials and con...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2025 IEEE 5th International Conference on Electronic Communications, Internet of Things and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,579 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Allocation of Water Resources Based on Water Supply Security

  • Jianhua Wang,
  • Baodeng Hou,
  • Dachuan Jiang,
  • Weihua Xiao and ,
  • Yongxiang Wu,
  • Yong Zhao,
  • Yuyan Zhou,
  • Chongshan Guo and
  • Gaoxu Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

2 June 2016

Under the combined impacts of climate change and human activities, a series of water issues, such as water shortages, have arisen all over the world. According to current studies in Science and Nature, water security has become a frontier critical to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tackling Complex Water Problems in China under Changing Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,942 Views
19 Pages

Old but Resilient Story: Impact of Decentralization on Social Welfare

  • José Luis Alberto Delgado,
  • Dilek Demirbaş and
  • Ahmet Faruk Aysan

This paper analyzes the fiscal performance of Turkey and Argentina during the period 2000–2021, when both countries faced rapid economic growth with the consequent impact on social welfare. This work explored two different systems: Centralizati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictive Modeling for Economic and Financial Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,940 Views
21 Pages

An Agent-Based Simulation Platform for a Safe Election: From Design to Simulation

  • Ali V. Barenji,
  • Benoit Montreuil,
  • Sevda Babalou,
  • Dima Nazzal and ,
  • Frederick Benaben and
  • Richard DeMillo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 September 2023

Managing the logistics and safety of an election system, from delivering voting machines to the right locations at the right time to ensuring that voting lines remain reasonable in length is a complex problem due to the scarcity of resources, especia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,461 Views
18 Pages

Evaluating a Multidisciplinary Model for Managing Human Uncertainty in 5G Cyber–Physical–Social Systems

  • Nestor Alzate Mejia,
  • Jordi Perelló,
  • Germán Santos-Boada and
  • José Roberto de Almeida-Amazonas

29 September 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the previously introduced multidisciplinary model to quantify human uncertainty (MMtQHU) within a realistic 5G-enabled cyber–physical–social systems (CPSS) environment. The MMtQHU, which i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication Networks: From Technology, Methods to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,413 Views
24 Pages

Efficient Strategies Algorithms for Resource Allocation Problems

  • Yacouba Adama Koné,
  • Jacqueline Konaté,
  • Oumar Y. Maïga and
  • Hamidou Tembiné

23 October 2020

Strategic modelling with a panoramic view plays an important role in decision-making problems. It offers the possibility of generating different solutions before making a decision. This is particularly relevant in critical situations. This article ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,382 Views
29 Pages

22 September 2022

To address the current limitation of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) in tackling urban–rural sustainability issues, this study proposes a Cooperative Human-Agent Service System (CHASS) by leveraging the decentralized communication and coordina...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Technologies for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development)

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