In Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs), nodes may be selfish and reluctant to expend their precious resources on forwarding messages for others. Therefore, an incentive scheme is necessary to motivate selfish nodes to cooperatively forward messages. Howev...
Large public transport subsidies necessitated by operating deficits have become a heavy financial burden on some local governments. However, the present subsidy scheme lacks incentives to encourage bus operators to reduce deficits to lessen subsidies...
In order to incentivise consumers to engage in sustainable consumption, a mobile application system is developed to implement an eco-incentive scheme, in which eco-credits are awarded to consumers who recycle and reuse end-of-life products and in whi...
Many incentive schemes address the selfishness issue in opportunistic networks and show performance improvement by simulations. However, the insights of incentive schemes that affect network performance are not clear. Network capacity analysis can re...
This paper presents an innovative methodology for the dynamic emergency response scheme selection (ERSS) problem in post-major natural disasters. It employs a combination of subjective and objective composite weights and the integrated ELECTRE-score...
As uncertainty increases within the aviation industry, the importance of airport sustainability has come to the forefront, necessitating continuous demand generation through strategic aviation marketing. Consequently, there is an urgent need to analy...
Emission trading scheme (ETS) promotes carbon emission reductions by leveraging market incentives for enterprises. However, the lack of enthusiasm among enterprises in China’s building carbon emission trading market signals some deficiencies in...
Demand response (DR) can offer a wide range of advantages for electrical systems by facilitating the interaction and balance between supply and demand. However, DR always requires a central agent, giving rise to issues of security and trust. Besides...
Mobile crowdsourcing has been exploited to collect enough fingerprints for fingerprinting-based localization. Since the construction of a fingerprint database is time consuming, mobile users should be well motivated to participate in fingerprint coll...
With the rapid development of cloud storage and cloud computing technology, users can upload data to the cloud and share it with other users. However, the integrity and the privacy of data files at the cloud service provider suffer from challenges. I...
As a key technology of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been promising to provide safety and infotainment for drivers and passengers. To support different applications about traffic safety, traffic eff...
In recent years, there has been significant growth in location-based services (LBSs) and applications. These services empower users to transmit their location data to location service providers, thereby facilitating the provisioning of pertinent reso...
This paper proposes an incentive scheme based on a public–private partnership (PPP) to encourage low-carbon travel behavior by inducing the mode choice shift from private cars to public transit. The scheme involves three key entities: travelers...
As a part of the intelligent transportation system, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide timely information about road events and traffic to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. However, VANETs face many challenges, such as attacks from...
Today, the household sector in the European Union and in Sweden accounts for approximately 25% and 22% of the final energy demand, respectively, and the sector will continue to grow in the next decades. To limit the impact on the energy demand of bui...
Background: In order to tackle the public health threat of antimicrobial resistance, improvement in antibiotic prescribing in primary care was included as one of the priorities of the Quality Premium (QP) financial incentive scheme for Clinical Commi...
In South Korea, renewable energy policy is mainly focused on electricity and tends to neglect renewable heat (RH). However, for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the heating sector must sharply switch from its use of conventional fuel...
Various operational communication models are using Delay-Tolerant Network as a communication tool in recent times. In such a communication paradigm, sometimes there are disconnections and interferences as well as high delays like vehicle Ad hoc netwo...
This study focuses on the optimal incentive schemes in a multi-agent moral hazard model, where each agent has other-regarding preferences and an individual measure of output, with both being observable by the principal. In particular, the two agents...
The integration of renewable rnergy sources (RESs) into the power grid involves operational challenges due to the inherent RES energy-production variability. Imbalances between actual power generation and scheduled production can lead to grid instabi...
The recovery of recyclables from the waste stream is a vital factor to consider in any recycling scheme since it enhances the quality of recyclables and ensures efficient recycling schemes. This study was conducted in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana t...
As financial incentive schemes have the tendency to increase risky behavior, we analyzed their effect on rule-related behavior in a safety-critical task. We compared risky behavior (in terms of the amount of rule violations) between three payment con...
With the development of 5G and artificial intelligence, the security of Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration (CEEC) networks becomes an increasingly prominent issue due to the complexity of the environment, real-time variability and diversity of edge devices...
Economic incentives are widely used to promote green buildings (GB) and consume social resources. However, few studies evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing economic incentives, including hidden costs and benefits. This paper applies cost&n...
Blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading is one of the most viable solutions to incentivize prosumers in distributed electricity markets. However, P2P energy trading through an open-end blockchain network is not conducive to mutual credit a...
Agroecosystems are complex socio-ecological systems that are managed by farmers to achieve desired outcomes, including economic income and environmental benefits contributed by ecosystem services (ES). Therefore, understanding farmers’ attitude...
The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a smart system that interconnects smart entities by incorporating low-cost or low-energy gadgets that are useful for communication with people, processes, data, and devices/things. In such an instantaneously connec...
Energy communities (ECs) have emerged across the EU, with the Clean Energy Package providing the legal foundation for the establishment of energy communities. The actual transposition is up to the member states, leading to heterogeneous regulatory ap...
Active customers play a critical role in the successful implementation of support schemes, paving the way for the emergence of an energy community. This analysis explores the cooperation among active customers and the implications for developing ener...
Wildfires are one of the most prominent risks for Mediterranean forests, reducing the flow of ecosystem services and representing a hazard for infrastructure and human lives. Several wildfire prevention programs in southern Europe are currently incor...
This paper studies the impact of fiscal subsidies on the sustainability of China’s rural pension system. We first provide an overview of China’s rural pension system, and explain the formulas used to calculate the pension payments. We the...
Traffic congestion results from the spatio-temporal imbalance of demand and supply. With the advances in connected technologies, incentive mechanisms for collaborative routing have the potential to provide behavior-consistent solutions to traffic con...
For reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) programs, it is particularly important that monitoring for emission reductions is tied to the revenues a developing country receives from REDD+ projects; any estimated uncertain...
Although the use of incentives has been widely recognized as an effective project management tool, its application still needs specific exploration. Existing research on incentives mainly focuses on intra-organizational incentives, lacking systematic...
The recycling target for plastics is expected to increase Europe-wide from 22.5% to 55% by 2025, hence the relevance of incentive schemes and the need to reach conclusions about how to encourage families to recycle more. Following this objective, a p...
Electric vehicles have strengthened the coupling between transportation systems and power distribution networks, giving rise to new challenges in the coordinated management of traffic flow and charging demand. Monetary incentives, such as tariffs and...
Due to the technological advancement in cellular networks, massive data traffic appends to the existing digital technologies. These emerging digital technologies face quality of service (QoS) challenges, particularly when it comes to maintaining the...
Indirect load control (ILC) is a method by which the customer determines load reduction of electricity by using a price signal. One of the ILCs is a time-of-use (TOU) tariff, which is the most commonly used time-varying retail pricing. Under the TOU...
With the growing demand for trustworthy multi-party data sharing, federated learning has demonstrated broad potential in cross-entity collaborative modeling. However, it still faces challenges such as insufficient participant engagement, inaccurate c...
Federated learning (FL) enables data owners to collaboratively train a machine learning model without revealing their private data and sharing the global models. Reliable and continuous client participation is essential in FL for building a high-qual...
With the increasing popularization and application of the smart grid, the harm of the data silo issue in the smart grid is more and more prominent. Therefore, it is especially critical to promote data interoperability and sharing in the smart grid. E...
Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, notably REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestatio...
Demand response modeling in smart grids plays a significant role in analyzing and shaping the load profiles of consumers. This approach is used in order to increase the efficiency of the system and improve the performance of energy management. The us...
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Towards the long-term sustainable development of the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, the design of migration motivation mechanisms is a key issue. Considering motivation perspectives and social exchange theories, a framework and measureme...
Platforms often fail to incorporate the needs of white hats who prefer non-material incentives when designing reward schemes. To study incentive design under private preference information, this paper develops a dynamic game with incomplete informati...
Soon after the UK’s Feed-in Tariff (FiT) Scheme providing incentive prices for renewable energy was introduced in 2010, adjustments and modifications were made to eligibility criteria and incentive prices. Prices paid for renewable energy (RE) under...
Salespeople, as the core executors of product distribution, form a classical principal–agent relationship with the firm. A substantial body of academic research has focused on how firms can develop optimal sales incentive contracts in various s...
Most of the irrigated agricultural regions in Europe are supplied by surface irrigation networks managed by local water authorities (WAs). Under such conditions, WAs are not able to fully monitor water usage and farmers have an information advantage...
This paper introduces a dynamic mechanism design tailored for uncertain environments where incentive schemes are challenged by the inability to observe players’ actions, known as moral hazard. In these scenarios, the system operates as a Markov...
Energy production from biogas can play a pivotal role in many European countries, and specifically in Italy, for three main reasons: (i) fossil fuels are scarce, (ii) imports cover large shares of internal demand, and (iii) electricity and heat produ...
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