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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,368 Views
11 Pages

The evaluation index system of urban aquatic ecosystem health is of great significance for the assessment and management of urban river networks, and for urban development planning. In this paper, the concept of urban aquatic ecosystem health was ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,772 Views
18 Pages

An Underwater Image Enhancement Algorithm Based on Generative Adversarial Network and Natural Image Quality Evaluation Index

  • Kai Hu,
  • Yanwen Zhang,
  • Chenghang Weng,
  • Pengsheng Wang,
  • Zhiliang Deng and
  • Yunping Liu

When underwater vehicles work, underwater images are often absorbed by light and scattered and diffused by floating objects, which leads to the degradation of underwater images. The generative adversarial network (GAN) is widely used in underwater im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,896 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Dimensional Indexes for the Sustainability Evaluation of an Active Distribution Network

  • Chenjun Sun,
  • Zengqiang Mi,
  • Hui Ren,
  • Zhipeng Jing,
  • Jinling Lu and
  • David Watts

24 January 2019

An active distribution network (ADN) differs from a traditional distribution network in many aspects, one of which is the integration of a large amount of distributed generation (DG), especially intermittent photovoltaics (PVs). The integration of in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,744 Views
15 Pages

1 January 2018

With the development of new energy technologies, distributed generation (DG) plays a growing role in power distribution networks. Although it solves the power supply problem in some areas, it also poses a challenge to the traditional power grid. To h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,215 Views
19 Pages

With the rapid development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry, various issues, such as the suboptimal deployment of charging facilities and inadequate distribution, hinder improvements in user satisfaction with EVs. Moreover, the interests of mult...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
18,930 Views
20 Pages

A Critical Review of Methods for Analyzing Freshwater Eutrophication

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Mingxuan Li,
  • Jiefeng Dong,
  • Hong Yang,
  • Lukas Van Zwieten,
  • Hui Lu,
  • Aref Alshameri,
  • Zihan Zhan,
  • Xin Chen and
  • Xueding Jiang
  • + 3 authors

18 January 2021

Water eutrophication is a global environmental problem that poses serious threats to aquatic ecosystems and human health. The evaluation of eutrophication provides a theoretical basis and technical guidance for the management and rehabilitation of wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,527 Views
20 Pages

1 March 2024

The lock navigation scheduling problem involves multiple stakeholder groups. The game relationship between stakeholders directly affects the sustainable development of regional society and economy. Considering the objectivity and accuracy of social n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,555 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2022

With the gradual popularization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs), the construction and planning of hydrogen refueling stations (HRSs) are increasingly important. Taking operational HRSs in China’s coastal and major cities as examples, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,373 Views
12 Pages

6 May 2023

Network public opinion is a mirror reflecting people’s will, and evaluating its urgency can help to find hidden social crises. Research on public opinion in the field of machine learning usually focuses on micro-sentiment judgment, which is una...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,070 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2024

Under the background of climate change, the problems of water resource allocation and desertification in arid areas are becoming increasingly prominent, which seriously threatens the sustainable development of society. Constructing an ecological netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,979 Views
19 Pages

22 September 2020

Due to the global coverage and real-time access advantages of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), the demonstration platform based on TDRSS can satisfy the new technology verification and demonstration needs of the space information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,143 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2023

With the rapid development of the economy in China, the scale and quantity of urban underground space development continue to grow rapidly; as such, geological safety problems in urban underground space development and utilization are a research hots...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,782 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2022

Pavement surface texture evaluation is mainly analyzed based on elevation data in previous research, and attention also need to be paid to wavelength information. Furthermore, a well-established relationship model between surface texture and skid res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,866 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2020

Historical seismic events show that water supply networks are increasingly vulnerable to seismic damage, especially in a violent earthquake, which leads to an unprecedented level of risk. Evaluation of vulnerability to seismic hazards can be consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,808 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2023

The use of coal as a source of energy is crucial for the growth of the national economy, but mining poses numerous risks and a potential for significant disasters. Coal mine safety is the prerequisite and guarantee for coal industry to achieve new in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,333 Views
18 Pages

1 June 2021

How to boost the economy and achieve more sustainable development with enhanced quality, efficiency, and fairness by leveraging digital technology in the post-COVID-19 era has been an important agenda faced by many countries. As China’s new infrastru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,894 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2023

High heat load on diesel engines is a main cause of ship failure, which can lead to ship downtime and pose a risk to personal safety and the environment. As such, predictive detection and maintenance measures are highly important. During the operatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
861 Views
26 Pages

10 May 2025

The sustainable development of urban agglomerations depends on the effective coordination of water, energy, food, and ecology (WEFE) systems. However, disparities in resource endowments and socio-economic conditions create challenges for achieving a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,178 Views
15 Pages

15 February 2025

In this paper, the feasibility of identifying freezing damage on the endosperm side and embryo side of single corn seeds was studied by combining hyperspectral imaging technology and the deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) method. Firstly, hyper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,737 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Pipeline Age Evaluation: Considering Overall Condition Index and Neural Network Based on Measured Data

  • Hassan Noroznia,
  • Majid Gandomkar,
  • Javad Nikoukar,
  • Ali Aranizadeh and
  • Mirpouya Mirmozaffari

Today, the chemical corrosion of metals is one of the main problems of large productions, especially in the oil and gas industries. Due to massive downtime connected to corrosion failures, pipeline corrosion is a central issue in many oil and gas ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,642 Views
21 Pages

4 February 2020

The information level of the urban public transport system is constantly improving, which promotes the use of smart cards by passengers. The OD (origination–destination) travel time of passengers reflects the temporal and spatial distribution o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,178 Views
15 Pages

A Network-Level Methodology for Evaluating the Hydraulic Quality Index of Road Pavement Surfaces

  • Gaetano Bosurgi,
  • Orazio Pellegrino,
  • Alessia Ruggeri and
  • Giuseppe Sollazzo

21 December 2022

Traffic loads and environmental factors cause various forms of distress on road pavements (cracks, depressions, potholes, ruts, etc.). Depressions and ruts produce localized variations of longitudinal and cross slopes, which are very hazardous for dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,436 Views
17 Pages

Research into Heat Stress Behavior Recognition and Evaluation Index for Yellow-Feathered Broilers, Based on Improved Cascade Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network

  • Yungang Bai,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Heyang Yao,
  • Chengrui Xin,
  • Sunyuan Wang,
  • Jiaqi Yu,
  • Cairong Chen,
  • Maohua Xiao and
  • Xiuguo Zou

The heat stress response of broilers will adversely affect the large-scale and welfare of the breeding of broilers. In order to detect the heat stress state of broilers in time, make reasonable adjustments, and reduce losses, this paper proposed an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2025

This study proposed a cloud model-based framework for assessing the seismic robust-ness of water supply networks (WSN). A multi-scale robustness indicator system was developed, which considers physical-layer attributes (pipe material, length), topolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
674 Views
23 Pages

2 October 2025

Evaluating regional water resource carrying capacity (WRCC) helps alleviate regional water supply–demand conflicts. This study constructed a 17-indicator system for evaluating WRCC in Major Grain-Producing Areas (MGPAs) based on the “prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,735 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2010

Energy is an important consideration in wireless sensor networks. In the current compression evaluations, traditional indices are still used, while energy efficiency is probably neglected. Moreover, various evaluation biases significantly affect the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,533 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2020

Evaluation of agricultural investment climate has essential reference value for site selection, operation and risk management of agricultural outward foreign direct investment projects. This study builds a back propagation neural network-based agric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,336 Views
17 Pages

A reliable transmission with QoE (Quality of Experience) guarantee is crucial for internet conversational service applications. However, due to the limited network bandwidth bottleneck effect and the drawback of transmission technology, there exists...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,376 Views
26 Pages

2 December 2021

The multiple benefits Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) bring in terms of time expediency and reduction in required resources establish them as an extremely useful tool for engineering researchers and field practitioners. However, the blind acceptanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,140 Views
21 Pages

Ship fires exhibit the main characteristics of a high possibility of occurrence, large load, fast spreading, high difficulty in extinguishing, and serious losses. Therefore, once a fire occurs, it will cause huge loss in terms of economic and personn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,369 Views
15 Pages

A Permutation Disalignment Index-Based Complex Network Approach to Evaluate Longitudinal Changes in Brain-Electrical Connectivity

  • Nadia Mammone,
  • Simona De Salvo,
  • Cosimo Ieracitano,
  • Silvia Marino,
  • Angela Marra,
  • Francesco Corallo and
  • Francesco C. Morabito

17 October 2017

In the study of neurological disorders, Electroencephalographic (EEG) signal processing can provide valuable information because abnormalities in the interaction between neuron circuits may reflect on macroscopic abnormalities in the electrical poten...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
528 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2025

This study aims to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model to predict the predicted mean vote (PMV) index, a key Indicator of thermal comfort. Based on the ASHRAE II dataset, our approach uses the six PMV variables: air temperature, relative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,005 Views
19 Pages

Historical network traffic retrieval, both at the packet and flow level, has been applied in many fields of network security, such as network traffic analysis and network forensics. To retrieve specific packets from a vast number of packet traces, it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,750 Views
20 Pages

Modeling and Numerical Methods of Supply Chain Trust Network with the Complex Network

  • Xuelong Zhang,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Jiangxia Nan,
  • Yuxi Luo and
  • Yanling Yi

25 January 2022

Finding reliable partners is the key to supply chain management. However, the symmetrical evaluation of enterprise trust is complex, so the decision-makers must understand its quantitative and qualitative characteristics in order to realize a reasona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,282 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2020

It is necessary to evaluate the reliability of the water supply network, when the water supply network is damaged by an earthquake. Therefore, this paper researched the feasibility and characteristics of the surplus power entropy as the reliability i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,410 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2019

Urban rail stations play an important role in passenger distribution and connectivity intervals in the network. How to effectively and reasonably evaluate their importance in the network is the key to optimizing the urban rail network structure and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,290 Views
13 Pages

Shipping networks face natural or man-made port emergencies, and the failure of a port affects the network’s connectivity and efficiency. It is very necessary to give priority to the selection of ports that should be maintained or ensure servic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
639 Views
24 Pages

25 July 2025

Investigating the construction of greenway network systems in mountainous suburban areas from an integrated “ecology–recreation” perspective is crucial for promoting the coordinated development of regional multifunctionality. Taking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,459 Views
23 Pages

16 December 2023

Assessing the risk of water leakage within urban water distribution networks (UWDN) is crucial prior to implementing any control measures. Conducting a risk assessment facilitates the development of effective water leakage management plans. By compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,599 Views
15 Pages

Power Grid Structure Performance Evaluation Based on Complex Network Cascade Failure Analysis

  • Di Zhang,
  • Limin Jia,
  • Jin Ning,
  • Yujiang Ye,
  • Hao Sun and
  • Ruifeng Shi

16 January 2023

A safe and stable operation power system is very important for the maintenance of national industrial security and social economy. However, with the increasing complexity of the power grid topology and its operation, new challenges in estimating and...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,276 Views
12 Pages

An Evaluation Approach of Community Emergency Management Ability Based on Cone-ANP

  • Kai Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Feng,
  • Jun Deng,
  • Chang Su and
  • Quanfang Li

In order to improve the emergency management ability of urban communities in response to emergencies and reduce the losses caused by emergencies, based on the method of Cone-Analytic Network Process (Cone-ANP), a whole-process community emergency man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,691 Views
18 Pages

A Feasible Community Detection Algorithm for Multilayer Networks

  • Dongming Chen,
  • Panpan Du,
  • Qianrong Jiang,
  • Xinyu Huang and
  • Dongqi Wang

2 February 2020

As a more complicated network model, multilayer networks provide a better perspective for describing the multiple interactions among social networks in real life. Different from conventional community detection algorithms, the algorithms for multilay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,654 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation Model Research of Coal Mine Intelligent Construction Based on FDEMATEL-ANP

  • Lin He,
  • Dongliang Yuan,
  • Lianwei Ren,
  • Ming Huang,
  • Wenyu Zhang and
  • Jie Tan

25 January 2023

To improve intelligent construction standard systems in coal mines, we must promote the high-quality development of the coal mining industry. The current intelligent construction of coal mines is inefficient. Considering the complexity and diversity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,192 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2019

Public transport accessibility (PTA) is an essential index for evaluating the efficiency of urban public transport resource and public service. Improving public transport accessibility is considered as the most effective way of alleviating urban cong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,782 Views
30 Pages

Optimal Vehicle Pose Estimation Network Based on Time Series and Spatial Tightness with 3D LiDARs

  • Hanqi Wang,
  • Zhiling Wang,
  • Linglong Lin,
  • Fengyu Xu,
  • Jie Yu and
  • Huawei Liang

14 October 2021

Vehicle pose estimation is essential in autonomous vehicle (AV) perception technology. However, due to the different density distributions of the point cloud, it is challenging to achieve sensitive direction extraction based on 3D LiDAR by using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,195 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2016

Reasonable distribution network planning is an essential prerequisite of the economics and security of the future power grid. The comprehensive benefit evaluation of a distribution network planning project can make significant contributions towards g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,753 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2021

Identifying influential edges in a complex network is a fundamental topic with a variety of applications. Considering the topological structure of networks, we propose an edge ranking algorithm DID (Dissimilarity Influence Distribution), which is bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,727 Views
12 Pages

Security Risk Intelligent Assessment of Power Distribution Internet of Things via Entropy-Weight Method and Cloud Model

  • Siyuan Cai,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Deng Chen,
  • Jianping Ju,
  • Yanduo Zhang,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Zhaohui Zheng

21 June 2022

The current power distribution Internet of Things (PDIoT) lacks security protection terminals and techniques. Network security has a large exposure surface that can be attacked from multiple paths. In addition, there are many network security vulnera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,880 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2022

With the rapid development of Internet technology, the innovative value and importance of the open source product community (OSPC) is becoming increasingly significant. Ensuring high robustness is essential to the stable development of OSPC with open...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,129 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2022

Accurately identifying the key nodes of the road network and focusing on its management and control is an important means to improve the robustness and invulnerability of the road network. In this paper, a classification and identification method of...

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