Currently, the role of culture in urban competitiveness is becoming increasingly important. How historic cities identify and protect the spatial structures formed since ancient times, which are the carriers of urban culture, has become an important i...
This paper presents an adaptive optimal consensus tracking control scheme for canonical nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics, employing an actor–critic reinforcement learning (RL) framework. The scheme integrates a sliding...
Tilt-rotor Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (TR-VTOL UAVs) combine fixed-wing and rotary-wing configurations, offering optimized flight planning but presenting challenges due to their complex dynamics and uncertainties. This stud...
Virtual coupling control of trains is a promising technology for improving railway capacity and operational efficiency. However, existing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches struggle to capture long-sequence temporal dependencies amo...
3 October 2025
Short-form video platforms have shifted advertising from standalone, time-bounded spots to feed-embedded, swipeable stimuli, creating a high-velocity processing context that can penalize casting complexity. We ask whether a “one face, many role...
The role of exogenous sources in new path development of regional industries has attracted increasing attention. However, the underlying processes and mechanisms through which external resources and capabilities are mobilized, anchored, and transform...
Communities of practice (CoPs) interact with a range of external stakeholders who collectively influence the direction of the community and the achievement of its goals. In the case of multi-actor co-innovation partnerships, which are perceived as a...
Grassroots community governance has gained increasing attention for its vital role in resource integration and multi-actor collaboration. As an innovative governance model, the “Five-Sector Linkage” (FSL) mechanism enhances service effici...
Although rural public cultural spaces in China have expanded rapidly, many struggle to maintain stable and sustained public participation. Taking Sanchalu Village in Wuhan as a case, this study examines how multi-actor interactions transform fragment...
The diversification of rural development actors in China has promoted a shift from state-centered governance toward collaborative approaches, with rural operation emerging as an important pathway for resource mobilization and value creation. While ex...
Many real-world networks have a natural tripartite structure. Investigating the structure and the behavior of actors in these networks is useful to gain a deeper understanding of their behavior and dynamics. In our paper, we describe an evolving trip...
Promoting the effective use of abandoned farmland has become a key policy priority for strengthening food security in China. However, disentangling the decision-making processes among diverse participating actors is a foundational prerequisite for ad...
In the context of open platforms, flexible employment, and intelligent technologies jointly reshaping the food system, food safety risks have dispersed from supply chains composed of a few fixed enterprises to multi-actor, multi-interface scenarios s...
Increased life expectancy and reduced fertility mean more generations are living simultaneously but with fewer members. There is also a growing group of older people (aged 80 and over) who need care and support. This impacts mutual support within fam...
Digital twins are becoming vital decision-making infrastructures across critical infrastructure sectors such as smart city urban services, transportation, energy, and healthcare. As digital twins become autonomous and gain real-time intervention capa...
Toxic metal pollution in farmland soils has become a critical environmental issue threatening land security and agricultural sustainability. This study develops an evolutionary game model involving the government, enterprises, the public, and environ...
Farmers’ low-carbon transition has become a critical issue for achieving sustainable agricultural development. Fundamentally, this transition is driven by multi-actor collaboration and is subject to stochastic disturbances. However, the collabo...
With the emergence and development of servitization, more and more enterprises are turning from product focus to service focus. Service is customer-oriented, and driven by customer requirements. Value is the goal pursued by all actors in the service....
Agroecology represents a holistic approach in the transition to food system sustainability, integrating different dimensions, including knowledge creation, practices redefinition and social mobilisation. This study aims to explore the processes under...
The past few decades have seen a continuing shift of natural resource management paradigm towards multifunctional and multi-actor adaptive management in hope of achieving more resilient landscapes. Recognizing the multitude of institutional actors an...
This work presents INTELLECTUM as a reference architecture and design-time evaluation framework for multi-entity XR–AI–digital twin systems. Rather than optimizing a specific implementation, the paper formalizes architectural invariants,...
Deposit Refund Systems (DRS) are widely adopted in many European countries as effective mechanisms for increasing recycling rates and promoting circular-economy practices. Greece is currently preparing for the introduction of a national DRS for bever...
Disaster governance in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) spans multiple administrative regions, institutions, and platforms, and hazards such as typhoons, storm surges, and urban waterlogging generate strong cross-bound...
Healthcare is a multi-actor environment that requires independent actors to have a different view of the same data, hence leading to different access rights. Ciphertext Policy-Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) provides a one-to-many access control...
For the last decade, urban actors around the globe have been struggling to adapt to a post-crisis and austerity context through increasing social mobilization and experimentation, calling for an urban democracy renewal and challenging established neo...
Prefabricated construction technology (PCT) is a significant driver for promoting high-quality development in the construction industry. Patents, as critical outputs of technological innovation, provide diversified data that can manifest trends in te...
Urban areas provide the seedbed conditions for a variety of agglomeration advantages, including incubator conditions for the ICT sector. This study aims to present the foundations for a data-driven digital architecture based on the notion of open acc...
By constructing a system dynamics (SD) model of how mission-oriented innovation consortia empower the development of future industries, this study reveals the internal causal structure and dynamic evolution mechanism of the system in the process of m...
City information systems are steadily relying on various stakeholders, heterogeneous resources, and interrelated digital services. Nevertheless, many initiatives still face difficulties in aligning actors, business processes, data, and technological...
12 April 2016
The effects of climate change on infectious diseases are an important global health concern and necessitate decisions for allocation of resources. Economic tools have been used previously; however, how prioritization results might differ when done us...
This paper adopts field theory and the concept of regionalization in structuration theory as an integrated framework to conduct a diachronic socio-spatial comparative study on the origin and development of three historic cultural districts in Guangzh...
Climate change governance has attracted increasing academic interest. However, holistic reviews on the dynamic complexity and stability of climate change governance have received little attention. This study addresses this research gap by conducting...
As urban mining plays an increasingly important role in resource security and sustainable development, insufficient coordination among reverse supply chain participants has become a major constraint on the efficient recovery of urban mineral resource...
The global integration of digital technologies into energy systems constitutes a critical pathway for achieving sustainable and intelligent energy governance. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the energy digital transformation policies across...
In this paper, we present the Integrated Policy Package Assessment (IPPA) approach and relate IPPA to three substantial concepts of problem-oriented research concerned with societal transformations: technology assessment (TA), sustainability research...
Sustainability in post-mining landscapes has left a critical governance challenge in resource-rich countries such as Indonesia, where extraction leaves communities economically vulnerable and environments degraded. This study aims to develop and vali...
Promoting the commercialization of agricultural science and technology (S&T) achievements is a critical pathway toward achieving agricultural sustainability and a key governance challenge in advancing global food security and the Sustainable Deve...
The transfer of environmentally sound technologies has always been the focus of controversy to combat global climate change. The essence of the transfer of environmentally sound technologies is the coordination of interests among regions, with the ai...
Public participation in Global South urban regeneration often exhibits a “high-commitment—low-conversion” gap between institutional intent and effective citizen influence. Taking Guangzhou, China, as a case, this study develops a Po...
The rapid growth of China’s prepared food industry has created new opportunities for industrial upgrading, but it has also intensified concerns regarding product quality, supervision gaps, and the long-term sustainability of governance structur...
From the perspective of symbiosis theory, collaborative work safety governance in industrial parks can be understood as a dynamic multi-actor symbiotic system jointly composed of the park management committee, leading enterprises, and small and mediu...
This article examines how deficiencies in data used by artificial intelligence systems become legally relevant and how the resulting harm is allocated across a multi-actor chain. This study combines doctrinal analysis, functional comparison, a target...
River basin planning under the European Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE, WFD) poses two major challenges to EU countries: coordination among administrative units for large-scale river basin planning and the inclusion of interested parties in de...
20 February 2026
To address the challenge of complex quality control in shared manufacturing arising from loose “partner” relationships, a quality disclosure mechanism is incorporated into a shared manufacturing supply chain. By developing a platform-led...
Property-rights confirmation and registration are widely regarded as an institutional foundation for ecological-product value realization, yet the dynamic mechanism through which registration clarity affects multi-actor cooperation remains insufficie...
Urban mobility in Lisbon faces persistent constraints driven not only by congestion, parking scarcity, and emissions but also by deeper structural issues such as fragmented governance and limited cross-peripheral public transport connectivity. These...
Against the backdrop of the ongoing advancement of the “dual carbon” goals and the carbon emission trading system, green innovation in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises faces multiple practical constraints, including financ...
Value co-creation is essential for the success and sustainability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), enabling them to integrate resources and knowledge from multiple stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, and universities, to develop innova...
Food cold chains rely on refrigeration, cold storage, refrigerated transport, packaging and monitoring systems that consume electricity and fuel while preserving food safety, quality and shelf life. Although many studies propose energy-saving technol...
This study draws on socio-technical transition theory to examine how multi-actor dynamics among producers, consumers, and the media within an experimental niche—Korea’s regulatory sandbox—shape policy responsiveness and the regulato...
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