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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,393 Views
12 Pages

17 July 2024

This study examined whether an individual’s self-efficacy has a moderating role in the relationship between the different types of recycling/reuse knowledge they may have and their recycling/reuse intention, and the positive relationship betwee...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,567 Views
21 Pages

Modularization Method to Reuse Medical Knowledge Graphs

  • Maricela Bravo,
  • Darinel González-Villarreal,
  • José A. Reyes-Ortiz and
  • Leonardo D. Sánchez-Martínez

21 November 2022

During the creation and integration of a health care system based on medical knowledge graphs, it is necessary to review and select the vocabularies and definitions that best fit the information requirements of the system being developed. This implie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,654 Views
17 Pages

4 November 2022

The current study examines knowledge reuse (focused on the recipient) from a product life-cycle perspective in the context of product-service systems through 27 semi-structured interviews in 11 firms. This study focused on the phases of the beginning...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,071 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2021

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have achieved significant progress in the multi-agent domain. However, training for increasingly complex tasks would be time-consuming and resource intensive. To alleviate this problem, efficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,487 Views
26 Pages

21 October 2021

Mass customization aims to meet individual requirements and, therefore, is one way to attract and retain customers—a key challenge in the design industry. The increase in design automation has offered new opportunities to design customized products a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
324 Views
22 Pages

19 September 2026

Despite advances in digital engineering tools, early-stage sheet metal forming tooling design remains strongly dependent on the tacit knowledge of experienced engineers, making systematic knowledge reuse difficult. This study addresses the need for a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Insights in Sheet Metal Forming)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,738 Views
29 Pages

22 August 2025

Complex task crowdsourcing (CTC) integrates distributed talent, knowledge, and ideas into innovation via the web; however, task decomposition remains a critical challenge. While existing studies focus primarily on workflow management for specific tas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,426 Views
23 Pages

25 December 2023

Ship coating, as one of the three pillar processes in the shipbuilding industry, runs through the entire process of ship construction. However, there is currently a lack of effective organization, management methods, and mechanisms for ship coating p...

(This article belongs to the Section Corrosion, Wear and Erosion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,052 Views
19 Pages

Genetic Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Generate Textual Patterns for Requirements Authoring

  • Jesús Poza,
  • Valentín Moreno,
  • Anabel Fraga and
  • José María Álvarez-Rodríguez

1 December 2021

The writing of accurate requirements is a critical factor in assuring the success of a project. Text patterns are knowledge artifacts that are used as templates to guide engineers in the requirements authoring process. However, generating a text patt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,187 Views
15 Pages

28 March 2022

With the development and appliance of multi-agent systems, multi-agent cooperation is becoming an important problem in artificial intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is one of the most effective methods for solving multi-agent coo...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,342 Views
50 Pages

Adaptive Reuse as Configuration Knowledge: Design Intelligence in Seven European Post-Industrial Trajectories

  • Djamil Ben Ghida,
  • Izaskun Aseguinolaza Braga and
  • Maialen Sagarna Aranburu

4 June 2026

Adaptive reuse of post-industrial heritage is often studied through technical performance, formal intervention strategies, or decision-support models. While these approaches clarify important aspects of reuse, they give limited attention to how proje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architectural Restoration Between Design and Contemporaneity: European Overview and Relevant Case Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,843 Views
16 Pages

Constructing a Coal Mine Safety Knowledge Graph to Promote the Association and Reuse of Risk Management Empirical Knowledge

  • Jiangshi Zhang,
  • Yongtun Li,
  • Jingru Wu,
  • Xiaofeng Ren and ,
  • Yaona Wang,
  • Hongfu Jia and
  • Mengyu Xie
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 October 2024

Coal mining production processes are complex and prone to frequent accidents. With the continuous improvement of safety management systems in China’s coal mining industry, a vast amount of coal mine safety experience knowledge (CMSEK) has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,281 Views
24 Pages

3 January 2025

Based on resource orchestration theory, this paper examines the influence of data-intelligence empowerment on enterprise knowledge recombinant capabilities empirically, using A-share-listed high-technology enterprises from 2012 to 2021 as research ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
22 Pages

This paper presents a predictive analytics framework for dynamic resource allocation in next-generation networks, with a focus on 5G and 6G scenarios. The proposed approach uses Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models to predict traffic patterns and pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,652 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2022

This study examines the role of environmental knowledge, perceived consumer effectiveness, and willingness to sacrifice on travelers’ towel reuse behavior. Additionally, it tests whether environmental consciousness moderates the effect of envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological Transition and Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,834 Views
11 Pages

Prevalence and Factors Associated with the Reuse of Mask during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Survey in Taiwan

  • Feng-Shiang Cheng,
  • Yung-Feng Yen,
  • Shu-Yi Lin,
  • Shih-Han Weng and ,
  • Yi-Chang Chou,
  • Dachen Chu,
  • Chu-Chieh Chen and
  • Hsiao-Yun Hu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Mask usage is an effective measure to prevent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infection; however, mask reuse is not recommended. Studies examining the factors associated with mask reuse during the coronavirus disease (COV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,220 Views
24 Pages

This paper presents the development and structure of a geospatial (work in progress), architectural heritage database designed to document, interpret, and valorize Second World War military fortifications in Sardinia. Currently hosting over 1800 geor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies for Architectural Conservation and Adaptive Reuse)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,629 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2021

The aim of this article is to discuss the logic and assumptions behind the concept of neural reuse, to explore its biological advantages and to discuss the implications for the cognition of a brain that reuses existing circuits and resources. We firs...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,974 Views
25 Pages

21 September 2023

Software upcycling, a form of software reuse, is a concept that efficiently generates novel, innovative, and value-added development projects by utilizing knowledge extracted from past projects. However, how to integrate the materials derived from th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Software Engineering and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
929 Views
40 Pages

28 July 2026

Vernacular settlements retain tangible fabric and intangible knowledge that can support climate-responsive conservation, adaptive reuse, and urban regeneration, yet these dimensions are often assessed separately. This study applies a values-based con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reframing Urban Morphology: Heritage, Sustainability, and Contemporary Urban Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Views
32 Pages

5 November 2026

Drawing on China’s Green Factory initiative and data from Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms in the Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2012 to 2024, this study employs a staggered difference-in-differences model to examine the effect of green i...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
506 Views
39 Pages

30 June 2026

Meeting European carbon neutrality and energy performance targets requires large-scale rehabilitation of historic and traditional buildings, one of the construction sector’s key challenges by 2050. This will significantly increase demand for ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Digital Technology in Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
197 Views
24 Pages

15 October 2026

Industrial heritage digitalization increasingly connects documentation, conservation, adaptive reuse, regeneration, and heritage management, yet its interdisciplinary terminology complicates systematic characterization of the field. This study examin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Landscape Management and Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,626 Views
19 Pages

27 September 2025

The ancient Chinese texts exhibit marked intertextual characteristics, where scholars engage in citation, reinterpretation, and reconstruction of earlier works, forming an intellectual lineage spanning millennia. With advances in digital humanities,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalization of Cultural Heritage with Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Deep Learning Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,563 Views
21 Pages

tribAIn—Towards an Explicit Specification of Shared Tribological Understanding

  • Patricia Kügler,
  • Max Marian,
  • Benjamin Schleich,
  • Stephan Tremmel and
  • Sandro Wartzack

27 June 2020

Within the domain of tribology, the science and technology for understanding and controlling friction, lubrication, and wear of relatively moving interacting surfaces, countless experiments are carried out and their results are published worldwide. D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,255 Views
16 Pages

Knowledge Graph-Based Assembly Resource Knowledge Reuse towards Complex Product Assembly Process

  • Xiaolin Shi,
  • Xitian Tian,
  • Jianguo Gu,
  • Fan Yang and ,
  • Liping Ma,
  • Yun Chen and
  • Tianyi Su
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 November 2022

Assembly process designers typically confront the challenge of seeking information out of large volumes of non-structured files with a view to supporting the decision-making to be made. It is a leading concern that embedding data in text documents ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,010 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2018

Transfer Learning (TL) has received a great deal of attention because of its ability to speed up Reinforcement Learning (RL) by reusing learned knowledge from other tasks. This paper proposes a new transfer learning framework, referred to as Transfer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Technology and Its Applications 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,973 Views
15 Pages

7 August 2022

This study explores the extension configuration methods of complex product conceptual design, seeking to improve the product design efficiency and design quality. The paper firstly reviews the literature on element representation models of multi-type...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Applications in the Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,208 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2023

The transformation of virtual product development to Digital Engineering (DE) requires the successful integration of Digital Engineering or data-driven methods into existing product development processes. Those methods allow for the analysis and usag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ontology Engineering and Knowledge Graphs Design in Decision Support Systems: Novel Advances and Use-Cases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,921 Views
19 Pages

High-throughput scientific instruments are generating massive amounts of data. Today, one of the main challenges faced by researchers is to make the best use of the world’s growing wealth of data. Data (re)usability is becoming a distinct characteris...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,882 Views
21 Pages

10 June 2019

Climate change, increase in population and scarcity of freshwater have led to a global demand for wastewater reuse in irrigation. However, wastewater has to be treated in order to minimize the presence of pathogens, in particular, the ova of soil-tra...

(This article belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,272 Views
15 Pages

23 February 2021

The growing popularity of social media data brings questions about its accuracy and usefulness for a wide array of cultural heritage projects, often lacking data sources crucial for better planning and implementation. In this paper, we are studying t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Valorization of the Cultural Heritage and Landscape as the Entrance Point for the Circular City Strategy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
24,522 Views
18 Pages

History and Technology of Terra Preta Sanitation

  • Sabino De Gisi,
  • Luigi Petta and
  • Claudia Wendland

12 March 2014

In order to reach the Millennium Development Goals for significantly reducing the number of people without access to adequate sanitation, new holistic concepts are needed focusing on economically feasible closed-loop ecological sanitation systems rat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Processes and Management: Past, Present and Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,242 Views
15 Pages

Graph-Structured Persistent Memory for Efficient LLM-Based Computer Use Agents

  • Danylo Vorvul,
  • Andrii Musienko,
  • Iryna Galchenko,
  • Mykola Myroniuk and
  • Andrii Sobchuk

2 June 2026

Large language model (LLM)-driven computer use agents (CUAs) automate graphical user interface (GUI) tasks but often re-solve previously encountered subtasks, increasing token use and latency. We address this limitation with a directed graph-based pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Trends and Application of Decision-Making Theory, Stability and Control, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,806 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Ontology Merging through Iterative Update of RDF Graph

  • Mohammed Suleiman Mohammed Rudwan and
  • Jean Vincent Fonou-Dombeu

Ontology merging is an important task in ontology engineering to date. However, despite the efforts devoted to ontology merging, the incorporation of relevant features of ontologies such as axioms, individuals and annotations in the output ontologies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
288 Views
25 Pages

10 October 2026

Sparse phased multiple-input multiple-output (phased-MIMO) radar combines wide transmit coverage with high-resolution virtual-aperture reception, but simultaneous multi-beam synthesis requires mainlobe shaping, sidelobe control, and interference null...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,865 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Classification of Web Images as UML Static Diagrams Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Valentín Moreno,
  • Gonzalo Génova,
  • Manuela Alejandres and
  • Anabel Fraga

1 April 2020

Our purpose in this research is to develop a method to automatically and efficiently classify web images as Unified Modeling Language (UML) static diagrams, and to produce a computer tool that implements this function. The tool receives a bitmap file...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Retrieval and Reuse)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,937 Views
12 Pages

Responsible Water Reuse Needs an Interdisciplinary Approach to Balance Risks and Benefits

  • Milou M. L. Dingemans,
  • Patrick W. M. H. Smeets,
  • Gertjan Medema,
  • Jos Frijns and ,
  • Klaasjan J. Raat,
  • Annemarie P. van Wezel and
  • Ruud P. Bartholomeus
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 April 2020

Freshwater is a precious resource, and shortages can lead to water stress, impacting agriculture, industry, and other sectors. Wastewater reuse is increasingly considered as an opportunity to meet the freshwater demand. Legislative frameworks are und...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Security and Governance in Catchments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,398 Views
25 Pages

13 April 2021

The successes of the digital market depend on customers’ intentions to purchase and reuse products or services. Previous studies have extensively discussed customer shopping value and customer learning, but most studies have analyzed the influencing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Model and Digital Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
16 Views

Representation and Application of Jacket Knowledge Based on Domain Ontology

  • Xiao-Yu Jiang,
  • Bo-An Ying,
  • Xiao-Feng Wang and
  • Jing Qi

This paper takes jacket as an example, constructs a clothing knowledge model based on domain ontology, and explores ways to represent and reuse clothing knowledge in the context of the Internet economy. In this paper, jacket knowledge is sorted out b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,983 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2023

Robot software development can be considered as a component-driven process, and existing ROS components, such as an ROS node, can be reused to construct robot applications. By reusing the ROS node, the development process of robot software can be sig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies and Applications of Human-Robot Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,436 Views
55 Pages

Experiential Approach to a Neolithic Lakeside Settlement Using Extended Reality (XR) Technologies

  • Athanasios Evagelou,
  • Alexandros Kleftodimos,
  • Magdalini Grigoriou and
  • Georgios Lappas

10 December 2025

The present paper discusses extended reality (XR) applications specifically designed to enhance experiential location-based learning in outdoor spaces, which are utilized in the context of an environmental education program of the Education Center fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,737 Views
25 Pages

16 May 2021

Cultural heritage drives and enables sustainable urban development. The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage creates values while prolonging the lifespan of heritage. Similarly, circular economy creates value while extending the useful life of materia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Reuse of Historical Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,003 Views
45 Pages

27 February 2026

Education is a complex and multidisciplinary field. Effective personalization in education is grounded in both educational theory and hybrid AI practice. Personalization is typically driven by explicit, structured knowledge; however, the effective au...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,866 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2022

Knowledge management in construction health and safety is an intensive process involving different stakeholders. However, this domain’s information is still fragmented and stored in various disordered formats that require systematic structure f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BIM-Based Digital Constructions)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,086 Views
29 Pages

The success of disaster management efforts demands meaningful integration of data that is geographically dispersed and owned by stakeholders in various sectors. However, the difficulty in finding, accessing and reusing interoperable vocabularies to o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disaster Management and Geospatial Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,439 Views
21 Pages

EKA—Enterprise Knowledge Assistant: Collaborative Multi-Agent AI for Large Claims Handling

  • Alberto Loffredo,
  • Yunting Liu,
  • Zhengdao Chen,
  • Yifei Fu and ,
  • Joerg Ahrens,
  • Yifeng Lu and
  • Dong Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Large insurance claims handling is a complex, knowledge-intensive process that requires the analysis of heterogeneous information sources and the reuse of past experience distributed across multiple organizational data sources. Consequently, a signif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collaborative and Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems for Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
852 Views
15 Pages

Any e-organization, whether it is commercial or governmental, requires a knowledge management support in order to achieve optimal performance. Many of the technologies that serve the operations of such organizations can also support knowledge managem...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,297 Views
28 Pages

Global water scarcity is becoming an increasingly critical issue; greywater reuse presents a promising solution to alleviate pressure on freshwater resources, particularly in arid and water-scarce regions. Greywater typically sourced from household a...

(This article belongs to the Collection 2nd Edition of Achieving Environmental Health Equity: Great Expectations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,071 Views
15 Pages

Perceptions of Different Stakeholders on Reclaimed Water Reuse: The Case of Beijing, China

  • Weiping Chen,
  • Yanying Bai,
  • Weiling Zhang,
  • Sidan Lyu and
  • Wentao Jiao

21 July 2015

Public involvement is critical to the successful implementation of reclaimed water reuse programs. Based on the participatory research method, we studied the attitudes of the stakeholders who are involved in reclaimed water reuse in Beijing, China. R...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

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