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  • Open Access
130 Views
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23 October 2026

For lumped uncertainty caused by hysteresis saturated input, external disturbance and model uncertainty, traditional adaptive control accuracy depends on unilateral parameter learning and nonlinear approximation ability. To improve learning capabilit...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,638 Views
11 Pages

In this paper, we present an aircraft localization solution developed in the context of the Aircraft Localization Competition and applied to the OpenSky Network real-world ADS-B data. The developed solution is based on a combination of machine learni...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 8th OpenSky Symposium 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,451 Views
25 Pages

23 August 2024

The relationship between natural resource development and sustainable development has long been a focus in academia. In the context of a new global economic cooperation system, many scholars argue that such cooperation can lead to a “resource c...

(This article belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,605 Views
31 Pages

AI-Based Indoor Localization Using Virtual Anchors in Combination with Wake-Up Receiver Nodes

  • Sirine Chiboub,
  • Aziza Chabchoub,
  • Rihab Souissi,
  • Salwa Sahnoun and ,
  • Ahmed Fakhfakh and
  • Faouzi Derbel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Accurate indoor localization is essential for navigation, monitoring, and industrial applications, especially in environments with Non-line of sight (NLOS) conditions. An indoor positioning system consists of fixed physical nodes, referred to as anch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Indoor Localization Technologies: From Theory to Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,853 Views
22 Pages

Robotic Rehabilitation Through Multilateral Shared Control Architecture

  • Srikar Annamraju,
  • Harris Nisar,
  • Anne Christine Horowitz and
  • Dušan Stipanović

16 April 2025

The shortage of therapists required for the rehabilitation of stroke patients, together with the patients’ lack of motivation in regular therapy, creates the need for a robotic rehabilitation platform. While studies on shared control architectu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development of Biomedical Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,547 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Lateral Well Productivity Evaluation Based on Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Model in Nankai Trough, Japan

  • Xin Xin,
  • Ying Shan,
  • Tianfu Xu,
  • Si Li and ,
  • Huixing Zhu and
  • Yilong Yuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2023

Widely employed in hydrate exploitation, the single well method is utilized to broaden the scope of hydrate decomposition. Optimizing the well structure and production strategy is necessary to enhance gas recovery efficiency. Complex wells represente...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Coupled Numerical Simulation of Gas Hydrate Behaviour in Porous Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,490 Views
23 Pages

27 October 2020

In this work, the use of Machine Learning methods for robust Received Signal Strength (RSS)-based Visible Light Positioning (VLP) is experimentally evaluated. The performance of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) models and Gaussian processes (GP) is invest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visible Light Communication, Networking, and Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,086 Views
31 Pages

20 March 2025

In recent years, rate of penetration (ROP) prediction using machine learning has attracted considerable interest. However, few studies have addressed ROP prediction uncertainty and its relation to training data and model inputs. This paper presents t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for a Sustainable Oil and Gas Industry and Energy Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,336 Views
13 Pages

16 January 2023

Due to the local and natural characteristics of high latitude and altitude in the Three Polar Region (TPR)—that is, the Antarctic, the Arctic, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP)—this region has been significantly affected by climate chan...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,252 Views
19 Pages

Design and Performance Analysis of Dry Gas Fishbone Wells for Lower Carbon Footprint

  • Habib Ouadi,
  • Aimen Laalam,
  • Amjed Hassan,
  • Abderraouf Chemmakh and ,
  • Vamegh Rasouli and
  • Mohamed Mahmoud
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 February 2023

Multilateral well drilling technology has recently assisted the drilling industry in improving borehole contact area and reducing operation time, while maintaining a competitive cost. The most advanced multilateral well drilling method is Fishbone dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,882 Views
14 Pages

The importance of active learning has continued to increase in Japan. The authors conducted classes for first-year students who entered the nursing program using the problem-based learning method which is a kind of active learning. Students discussed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,657 Views
16 Pages

INFLUTRUST: Trust-Based Influencer Marketing Campaigns in Online Social Networks

  • Adedamola Adesokan,
  • Aisha B Rahman and
  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

This paper introduces the INFLUTRUST framework that is designed to address challenges in trust-based influencer marketing campaigns on Online Social Networks (OSNs). The INFLUTRUST framework enables the influencers to autonomously select products acr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2024 and 2025 Feature Papers from Future Internet’s Editorial Board Members)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,617 Views
25 Pages

Do Randomized Algorithms Improve the Efficiency of Minimal Learning Machine?

  • Joakim Linja,
  • Joonas Hämäläinen,
  • Paavo Nieminen and
  • Tommi Kärkkäinen

Minimal Learning Machine (MLM) is a recently popularized supervised learning method, which is composed of distance-regression and multilateration steps. The computational complexity of MLM is dominated by the solution of an ordinary least-squares pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,421 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2021

In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based indoor two-dimensional (2D) localization scheme using a 24 GHz frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. In the proposed scheme, deep neural network and convolutional neural network (CNN) models...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,666 Views
22 Pages

Design Space Exploration of a Multi-Model AI-Based Indoor Localization System

  • Konstantinos Kotrotsios,
  • Anastasios Fanariotis,
  • Helen-Catherine Leligou and
  • Theofanis Orphanoudakis

12 January 2022

In this paper, we present the results of a performance evaluation and optimization process of an indoor positioning system (IPS) designed to operate on portable as well as miniaturized embedded systems. The proposed method uses the Received Signal St...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance, Simulation and Modelling of Sensors Networks in the Context of IoT, Edge Computing, and AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,762 Views
18 Pages

Graduate students often seek hands-on experiences in the international development field. Given that Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) provide hundreds of billions of dollars in aid each year, we expected that reviewing the design, implementation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Pedagogies for Cultivating Leadership amidst the Climate Change Crisis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,107 Views
33 Pages

Influenza Vaccine Technology Transfer: A Mixed-Methods Study with Vaccine Manufacturers and Global Experts to Assess Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • Christopher Chadwick,
  • Erin Sparrow,
  • Claudia Nannei,
  • Jessica Taaffe and ,
  • William Ampofo,
  • Antoine Flahault and
  • Seth Berkley
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 June 2026

Background/Objectives: Technology transfer (TT) has been identified as a global health priority due to its impact on improving access to vaccines, including for pandemic influenza preparedness and response through bilateral and multilateral mechanism...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pandemic Influenza Vaccination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Views
23 Pages

30 October 2026

WiFi Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) directly provides round-trip delay ranging information between a mobile terminal and an access point (AP), serving as a critical technical foundation for the development of low-cost indoor positioning systems. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,307 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2023

On 19 April 2022, in order to overcome a succession of recent global food health and agriculture safety (FHAS) incidents, the Taiwanese government instituted and announced 20 comprehensive Articles under the Taiwanese Food and Agricultural Education...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Food Systems and Food Policy for Healthy Diets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,762 Views
28 Pages

Port shipping collaboration is vital to greener, more resilient trade, yet decisions remain siloed and uncertain. This study develops a Bayesian network model grounded in empirical data from major Chinese ports, aiming to systematically analyze and e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Maritime Transport and Port Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,697 Views
16 Pages

AI-Enabled Energy Policy for a Sustainable Future

  • Mir Sayed Shah Danish and
  • Tomonobu Senjyu

The present time is a seminal decade for the transition of the energy sector through the deployment of green energy and the optimization of efficiencies using the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), which demands competitive policie...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,052 Views
19 Pages

Visible Light Positioning for Accurate 3D Indoor Localization

  • Arman Nikraftar Khiabani,
  • Nobby Stevens,
  • Tom Dhaene and
  • Ivo Couckuyt

Visible light positioning (VLP) based on received signal strength (RSS) offers a low-cost solution for indoor localization, being easily implemented in a warehouse based on existing infrastructure. However, RSS-based VLP remains challenging in 3D and...

(This article belongs to the Section Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,762 Views
17 Pages

5 June 2025

In 2025, the U.S. reciprocal tariff policy destabilized global multilateral trade and accelerated the advance of regional trade cooperation. As the world’s most populous regional trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,224 Views
19 Pages

TRUST-ME: Trust-Based Resource Allocation and Server Selection in Multi-Access Edge Computing

  • Sean Tsikteris,
  • Aisha B Rahman,
  • Md. Sadman Siraj and
  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

4 August 2024

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has attracted the interest of the research and industrial community to support Internet of things (IoT) applications by enabling efficient data processing and minimizing latency. This paper presents significant contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable and Distributed Cloud Continuum Orchestration for Next-Generation IoT Applications: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,396 Views
27 Pages

Transforming Medical Education Through Intelligent Tools: A Bibliometric Exploration of Digital Anatomy Teaching

  • Salvatore Pezzino,
  • Tonia Luca,
  • Mariacarla Castorina,
  • Stefano Puleo and
  • Sergio Castorina

11 March 2025

The teaching of human anatomy is experiencing significant transformation. Particularly in recent years, incorporating new digital technologies has drastically changed the approach to education. Our bibliometric study aims to investigate trends and is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology-Based Immersive Teaching and Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
8,068 Views
22 Pages

31 March 2022

Great attention has been paid to indoor localization due to its wide range of associated applications and services. Fingerprinting and time-based localization techniques are among the most popular approaches in the field due to their promising perfor...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,459 Views
38 Pages

16 March 2026

Accurate node localization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is challenging under variable signal propagation and strict energy constraints. This paper presents a hybrid localization framework that combines a deep neural network (DNN) with particle...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,069 Views
19 Pages

A Complete Solution for Ultra-Wideband Based Real-Time Positioning

  • Vlad Ratiu,
  • Ovidiu Ratiu,
  • Olivier Raphael Smeyers,
  • Vasile Teodor Dadarlat and ,
  • Stefan Vos and
  • Ana Rednic
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 July 2025

Real-time positioning is a technological field with a multitude of applications, which expand across many scopes: from positioning within a large area to localization within smaller spaces; from locating people to locating equipment; from large-scale...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Techniques for Indoor Positioning and Localization: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,721 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2025

This paper proposes a strategic framework to enhance nuclear energy governance by advancing the Qudrat-Ullah Nuclear Peace and Trust (Q-NPT) framework. Designed to complement existing treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and In...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,323 Views
31 Pages

Indoor Positioning Systems in Logistics: A Review

  • Laura Vaccari,
  • Antonio Maria Coruzzolo,
  • Francesco Lolli and
  • Miguel Afonso Sellitto

4 December 2024

Background: Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) have gained increasing relevance in logistics, offering solutions for safety enhancement, intralogistics management, and material flow control across various environments such as industrial facilities, off...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,324 Views
36 Pages

Risk Mitigation in Agriculture in Support of COVID-19 Crisis Management

  • Boris M. Leybert,
  • Oksana V. Shmaliy,
  • Zhanna V. Gornostaeva and
  • Daria D. Mironova

15 May 2023

The main focus of this article is the problem of exacerbating agricultural risks in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, which started against the background of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The motivation for conducting the research pres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The COVID-19 Crisis: Datasets and Data Analysis to Reduce Risks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,390 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2018

Readiness is the current mantra in the climate finance discourse and is a key determinant for accessing climate finance. This study develops and applies an analytical 3-dimensional framework to appraise climate finance readiness in selected Asia-Paci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,935 Views
16 Pages

Methodological Ambiguity and Inconsistency Constrain Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as A Silver Bullet for Monitoring Ecological Restoration

  • Todd M. Buters,
  • Philip W. Bateman,
  • Todd Robinson,
  • David Belton and ,
  • Kingsley W. Dixon and
  • Adam T. Cross
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 May 2019

The last decade has seen an exponential increase in the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to ecological monitoring research, though with little standardisation or comparability in methodological approaches and research aims. We reviewed...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,421 Views
12 Pages

The Effects of the ACTIVE VALUES Program on Psychosocial Aspects and Executive Functions

  • José Francisco Jiménez-Parra,
  • Noelia Belando-Pedreño and
  • Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela

The main objective of this study was to implement an educational program named ACTIVE VALUES and to analyse the psychosocial and cognitive effects of its application. It is a quasi-experimental repeated measures research with a non-randomised experim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Citations
14,675 Views
10 Pages

Thailand has been affected by COVID-19, like other countries in the Asian region at an early stage, and the first case was reported as early as mid-January 2020. Thailand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been guided by the “Integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Disaster Resilience and Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,797 Views
47 Pages

Hand Gesture Recognition on Edge Devices: Sensor Technologies, Algorithms, and Processing Hardware

  • Elfi Fertl,
  • Encarnación Castillo,
  • Georg Stettinger,
  • Manuel P. Cuéllar and
  • Diego P. Morales

8 March 2025

Hand gesture recognition (HGR) is a convenient and natural form of human–computer interaction. It is suitable for various applications. Much research has already focused on wearable device-based HGR. By contrast, this paper gives an overview fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,166 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2025

In this study, we propose the Integrated Developmental Entrepreneurship Resiliency Framework (IDERF), a conceptual model positioning universities as orchestrators of stakeholder networks for entrepreneurial resilience and sustainability. Review and a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Resilience: Academia’s Critical Role in Education, Research, and Community Engagement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,373 Views
28 Pages

A Precise and Scalable Indoor Positioning System Using Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation

  • Hamada Rizk,
  • Ahmed Elmogy,
  • Mohamed Rihan and
  • Hirozumi Yamaguchi

16 November 2024

User location has emerged as a pivotal factor in human-centered environments, driving applications like tracking, navigation, healthcare, and emergency response that align with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, accurate indoor localizati...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)