In order to realize the dynamic regulation and control of regional water resources and alleviate the imbalance between supply and demand of regional water resources, on the basis of the demand of refined management of water resources, the dynamic Gen...
This paper presents a methodology for enhancing community resilience through optimal renewable resource allocation and load scheduling in order to minimize unserved load and thermal discomfort. The proposed control architecture distributes the comput...
Mathematical modeling represents a useful instrument to describe epidemic spread and to propose useful control actions, such as vaccination scheduling, quarantine, informative campaign, and therapy, especially in the realistic hypothesis of resources...
As an emerging communication paradigm, semantic communications (SC) focuses on the semantic content of information transmission, aiming to achieve more efficient and accurate information interaction. However, SC requires an in-depth analysis of infor...
Forest ecosystems are vital to sustainable development, contributing to economic, environmental and social well-being. However, the increasing frequency and severity of wildfires threaten these ecosystems, demanding more effective and integrated fire...
In Body Area Networks (BANs), how to achieve energy management to extend the lifetime of the body area networks system is one of the most critical problems. In this paper, we design a body area network system powered by renewable energy, in which the...
Carrier aggregation (CA) technology in the Fifth-Generation (5G) network can be considered as a major feature for high-rate data services, which can be combined with the concept of 5G in unlicensed band (5G-U) for data offloading to further enhance t...
The rational allocation and utilization of key corporate resources is the key to the success of collaborative innovation projects. Finding an optimal strategy for the allocation and utilization of key resources is of great significance for promoting...
The concept of network slicing (NS) has been proposed for flexible resource provisioning where a physical resource is partitioned into logically independent networks on demand. The NS resource allocation implies the definition of a feasible path in t...
The high data rates detail that internet-connected devices have been increasing exponentially. Cognitive radio (CR) is an auspicious technology used to address the resource shortage issue in wireless IoT networks. Resource optimization is considered...
Multicast transmission is an attractive solution when a large number of users receive the same content in a wide area, for example, as with mobile TV. Ever since the multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) was introduced in the 3rd Generation P...
This study addresses the problem of optimal resource allocation in nonlinear multi-module dynamic systems arising in complex computational and techno-economic processes, where numerical stability and strict enforcement of structural constraints are c...
The Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSAs) emphasize that formulating proper regional development plans is essential for achieving sustainable growth in aquaculture. Conventional research has limitations in allocating resources from a regional...
25 November 2018
Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allo...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed system that connects everything via internet. IoT infrastructure contains multiple resources and gateways. In such a system, the problem of optimizing IoT resource allocation and scheduling (IRAS) is vita...
The imbalance between water supply and demand (WSD) has been growing noticeable as a result of the economy’s fast expansion which can be effectively alleviated using optimal allocation of water resources. An urban water resources allocation (WR...
This study aims to achieve coordination between regional economic development and ecological environmental protection and to mitigate issues such as competition for water use among industries and significant disparities between water supply and deman...
With the deepening discrepancy between water supply and demand caused by water shortages, alleviating water shortages by optimizing water resource allocation has received extensive attention. How to allocate water resources optimally, rapidly, and ef...
In recent years, water scarcity and irrational utilization have become the pivotal issues for the sustainable development of river basins in China. This paper attempts to propose a new perspective for the optimization of water resources allocation in...
The reasonable allocation of water resources using different optimization technologies has received extensive attention. However, not all optimization algorithms are suitable for solving this problem because of its complexity. In this study, we appli...
Urban water usage spans diverse sectors, requiring effective management strategies to address increasing demand, limited supplies, and sector-specific needs. In this study, a multi-objective urban water resource allocation model is proposed to balanc...
Fog computing has become a hot topic in recent years as it provides cloud computing resources to the network edge in a distributed manner that can respond quickly to intensive tasks from different user equipment (UE) applications. However, since fog...
Transboundary water resources allocation is an effective measure to resolve water-related conflicts. Aiming at the problem of water conflicts, we constructed water resources allocation models based on game theory and multi-objective optimization, and...
Optimal allocation of water resources is an effective way to solve the supply and demand contradiction between water resources and water users. Recently, the rapid economic and social development of Handan has significantly increased water demand in...
Single-Pilot Operations (SPO) mode is set to reshape the decision-making process between human-machine and air-ground operations. However, the limited on-board computing resources impose greater demands on the organization of performance parameters a...
According to the existing personnel structure, quantity, development strategy, and market demand of the Shuohuang Railway Company’s operation and maintenance project, the demand quantity of various employees of the company for the past three ye...
The construction process of offshore wind farms involves multiple complexities, which is very complex to be scheduled manually, and the coordinating and optimized scheduling not only decreases project construction costs but also increases the constru...
The healthcare industry has recently faced the issues of enhancing patient care, streamlining healthcare operations, and offering high-quality services at reasonable costs. These crucial issues include general healthcare administration, resource allo...
In emergency communication networks, service demands and user mobility change dynamically. Low service rates and limited coverage are significant challenges that hinder the effectiveness of emergency services. Due to the flexibility, low deployment c...
Reclaimed water is considered to be an important alternative to freshwater to solve the imbalance between the supply and demand of regional water resources; it is also recognized as an effective tool for alleviating ecological problems caused by insu...
To effectively address the increase in maritime accidents and the challenges posed by the trend toward larger ships for maritime safety, it is crucial to rationally allocate the limited maritime search and rescue (MSAR) resources and enhance accident...
In group management, accurate assessment of individual performance is crucial for the fair allocation of resources such as bonuses. This paper explores the complexities of gauging each participant’s contribution in multi-participant projects, p...
In industrial applications, many systems present serious productivity problems due to limited resources. Generally, the dynamics of resource allocation are inherently discrete-event driven, such as the buffer allocation in production line systems. In...
Sequential resource allocation has long been a central problem in operations research, yet ongoing technological developments, particularly in cloud and high-performance computing and in multi-channel marketing, are giving rise to new structural cons...
Rapid socio-economic development has intensified the conflict between supply and demand for regional water resources, necessitating optimized water resource allocation to enhance water security. This study establishes a multi-objective water resource...
With the continuous growth in the global population, rapid socioeconomic development, and the impacts of factors like climate change, we are facing increasingly severe challenges regarding water scarcity. The scientific and rational allocation of wat...
Due to cost-push inflation, the trade-off between safety costs and risk prevention (safety) has become difficult worldwide. Most companies experience the difficulty of safety cost overruns and allocate safety resource inefficiently. In this paper, a...
With the rapid increase of water demand in urban life, ecology and production sectors, the problem of water resources allocation has become increasingly prominent. It has hindered the sustainable development of urban areas. Based on the supply of var...
This paper presents a joint communication–computation optimization (JCCO) framework for energy-efficient resource allocation in edge-assisted swarm robotics. The proposed framework jointly optimizes task offloading, bandwidth allocation, transm...
The rapid increase of train speed has brought greater challenges to the safety and reliability of railway systems. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the operation status of trains, infrastructure, and their operating environment in real time. Bec...
Water allocation remains a critical global challenge due to increasing scarcity, competing sectoral demands, and environmental pressures, requiring approaches that balance efficiency, equity, and ecosystem sustainability while facing the inherent con...
As the longest inland river in China, the Tarim River is characterized by water shortage and ecological degradation in the basin, and water resources have become the most important factor restricting the sustainable economic and social development of...
Fog computing has been prioritized over cloud computing in terms of latency-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) based services. We consider a limited resource-based fog system where real-time tasks with heterogeneous resource configurations are requir...
25 March 2021
Background and objective: Although the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) has significantly evolved with the introduction of direct-acting antivirals, the treatment uptake rates have been low especially among marginalized groups in the UK, such a...
Water competing conflict among water competing sectors from different levels should be taken under consideration during the optimization allocation of water resources. Furthermore, uncertainties are inevitable in the optimization allocation of water...
This paper proposes a technique to estimate the minimal quantity of orthogonal channel resources required for ad hoc and sensor network connectivity. Simultaneously, the resource allocation to each specific line is conducted by grouping lines into co...
Network disintegration is a fundamental issue in the field of complex networks, with its core in identifying critical nodes or sets and removing them to weaken network functionality. The research on this problem has significant strategic value and ha...
This study aims to unravel the resource allocation problem (RAP) by using a consensus-based distributed optimization algorithm under dynamic event-triggered (DET) strategies. Firstly, based on the multi-agent consensus approach, a novel one-to-all DE...
For the past few years, the IoT (Internet of Things)-based restricted WSN (Wireless sensor network) has sparked a lot of attention and progress in order to attain improved resource utilisation as well as service delivery. For data transfer between he...
Educational institutions face complex challenges when allocating limited teaching resources to specialized seminars, where budget, capacity, and balanced disciplinary representation must all be satisfied simultaneously. We address this for the first...
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