The issue of congestion on urban roads stems from an imbalance between transport demand and supply. It has become imperative to address the problem from the traffic demand side. While managing effective traffic demand relies on understanding the indi...
As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming crucial in modern warfare, research on autonomous path planning is becoming increasingly important. The conflicting nature of the optimization objectives characterizes path planning as a multi-objective...
To date, most studies on building environments and walking behavior have utilized top-down approaches (e.g., big data or social media data) yet lack bottom-up approaches to verify their findings. Therefore, this study divided urban streets into three...
Autonomous ground vehicle navigation in dynamic real-world environments demands path planning systems that simultaneously accommodate real-time environmental hazards and diverse user-defined objectives requirements that classical algorithms, with the...
The design of urban pedestrian–cycling routes is of great importance for the sustainable development of cities. Properly designed routes encourage the use of sustainable modes of transport. They also bring numerous environmental and social bene...
The last-mile delivery crisis, exacerbated by the surge in e-commerce demands, continues to face persistent challenges. Logistics companies often overlook the possibility that recipients may not be at the designated delivery location during courier d...
Humans often demonstrate diverse behaviors due to their personal preferences, for instance, related to their individual execution style or personal margin for safety. In this paper, we consider the problem of integrating both path and velocity prefer...
30 March 2020
To effectively deal with the waste management problems faced by cities, it is of great significance to promote the sorting and recycling of municipal solid waste. Given the correlation between individual behavior and psychological preferences and ext...
There have been many studies on the impact of urban greenery on perceived danger and preferences, but not many have been conducted in non-English speaking countries. We carried out our research among female university students in Poland, Latvia and C...
A number of decision support tools facilitating the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been recently developed. Due to the EVs’ limited autonomy, routing and path planning are the main challenges treated in such tools. Specifically, determinin...
In the field of map matching, algorithms using topological relationships of road networks along with other data are normally suitable for high frequency trajectory data. However, for low frequency trajectory data, the above methods may cause problems...
The Computing Network is an emerging network paradigm that aims to realize computing resource scheduling through the intrinsic capabilities of the network. However, existing resource scheduling architectures based on conventional TCP/IP networks for...
Spatially heterogeneous turbulent flow refers to nonuniform flow with coexisting multiple flow velocities, which is widely distributed in fish natural or husbandry environments, and its hydraulic parameters affect fish swimming behavior. In this stud...
In the context of choice with limited consideration, where the decision-maker may not pay attention to all available options, the consideration function of a decision maker is path-independent if her choice cannot be manipulated by the presentation o...
Ecotourism routes serve as powerful tools for fostering environmental awareness. To achieve this, it is crucial to design itineraries within natural parks that strike a balance between visitor experience and ecological preservation. Limiting the dura...
Achieving green development demands simultaneously balancing between economic growth and pollutant emission reduction, which can have complex impacts on regional disparities. This study measures the green development efficiency (GDE) for 266 Chinese...
8 May 2022
Soundscape perception is a very weak link in the national park landscape evaluation system in China. A thorough understanding of soundscapes and their effects on visual aesthetics is important for the management of national park landscapes. In this s...
The development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) has reached a stage where, in addition to the traditional challenges of path planning and control, there is an increasing focus on the behavior of these systems. Assistance functions shall...
Evaluation of a recreational walking environment for the elderly is an essential method for planning intervention in constructing a walking environment. The Stated Preference method, discrete choice model, Spearman correlation analysis, and logistic...
We have investigated public preferences for use intensity and visual quality of forest recreational infrastructure. Forest infrastructure covers five classes, along a continuum from unmarked paths to paved walkways. Altogether, 39 sites were categori...
In the realm of online learning, where resources are abundant, it is essential to customize recommendations and plans to meet individual learning needs. This involves not only identifying and addressing areas of weakness but also aligning the learnin...
Traditional book recommendation methods predominantly rely on collaborative filtering and context-based approaches. However, existing methods fail to account for the order of users’ book borrowings and the duration they hold them, both of which...
The impact that classical gardens have on the well-being and quality of life of visitors, especially city dwellers, is an important topic. Scholars have previously focused on landscape aspects, such as water bodies, plants, rocks, chairs, pavilions,...
Based on the dynamic reorganization mechanism of brain science and the fact that synaptic adaptability is affected by synaptic type, synaptic number and ion concentration, a bionic dynamic synaptic model is proposed and applied to a motif model and b...
Tourism recommendation must capture evolving preferences and dependencies among successive activities. This study proposes a place-transition-aware tourism recommendation framework integrating dual-side dynamic profiling, Event Evolutionary Graph-bas...
As an extension of quantitative temporal logic, uncertain temporal logic essentially describes the temporal behavior of uncertain and incomplete systems, thus better solving search and decision-making problems in such systems. Fuzzy linear temporal l...
In this paper, we propose a method to efficiently control the path of non-playable characters (NPC) in an interactive virtual environment such as a game or virtual reality (VR) by calculating a weight map and path similarity based on the user’s...
Recreation activity preferences in forest settings were explored in a scene preference study. The importance of type of human intervention and the level of biodiversity for preference and intention to engage in recreation activities were examined in...
30 December 2020
Urban green areas, such as parks, are becoming increasingly important in densifying cities. Urban parks encourage physical and social activity, recreation and relaxation, and thus eventually promote people’s well-being. The aim of the current s...
Previous studies, constrained by the overly rigid stability requirements, often fail to adapt to complex systems and struggle to identify stable outcomes that align with the practical context of multi-agent resource allocation. To address the three-s...
The elastic response of an open-hole material-extruded plate depends on both its interior raster architecture and the deposition paths around its boundaries. This study examines whether laminate preferences obtained from a homogeneous model persist w...
A general and still open question in clinical psychology is the crucial one: “What is a psychological/mental disorder?”. In the second half of the 20th century and now, the question has been addressed along two different parallel paths/ap...
In this paper, we analyse and construct a lifetime utility maximisation model with hyperbolic discounting. Within the model, a number of assumptions are made: complete markets, actuarially fair life insurance/annuity is available, and investors have...
Urban green spaces (UGSs) for women align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and contribute positively to women’s well-being. However, research on women’s preferences for green spaces is lacking. This study uses fuzzy-s...
This paper proposes the electric vehicle (EV)-station-grid coordination optimization strategy considering user preferences, which regulates the charging behaviors of EV users from the user side to ensure the stable and safe operation of the power gri...
The positive behaviors that urban forest parks encourage in urban residents (such as recommendations, repeat visits, etc.) are important considerations in the planning and construction of such forest parks. Recreators’ environmental preferences...
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are improving the controllability and flexibility of networks as an innovative network architecture paradigm. Segment routing (SR) exploits an end-to-end logical path and is composed of a sequence of segments as an ef...
The current paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey which examines the trail path usage conditions on Peranthi Hill in Arta, a medium-sized city in northwestern Greece. The key element of the survey is the detailed mapping of the suburba...
5 March 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic increased global anxiety, and many people shopped less frequently. This study quantifies customer preferences in where to shop while following social distancing regulations, specifically focusing on customers’ anxiety. Col...
Contour parallel tool paths have been proved to be a preferred machining strategy for their advantage of less tool retractions and less sharp turns. The traditional geometrical algorithm-based tool path generation method often makes it hard to simply...
For promoting pedestrian mobility, the quality levels of pedestrian paths should be increased. Many researchers suggest methodologies for determining the pedestrian level of service. Among these, some studies consider both paths’ physical characteris...
The main purpose of this paper is to study the influence of game players’ behavior preferences on the strategy choice and equilibrium results in the game process of large-scale engineering projects’ extreme disputes. In contrast to the se...
A comprehensive analysis of three graph-theoretic path planning algorithms designed for multi-robotic systems (MRS) was undertaken. The algorithms were the multi-robot path planning algorithm (MRPP), central algorithm (CA), and the optimisation centr...
Cost reduction is a cornerstone of the Lean administration’s sustainability through modify its algorithms scheme to become multi-useful. This paper focuses on control “movement” waste, to minimize pipeline, cabling and sewerage netw...
How an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) performs fully automated task allocation and achieves satisfactory mission planning effects during the search for potential threats deployed in an underwater space is the focus of the paper. First, the task...
This study conducts numerical analysis of fatigue crack propagation in deck-rib welded joints of orthotropic steel decks (OSDs) using linear elastic fracture mechanics. The stress intensity factor for central surface cracks under constant range bendi...
(1) Background: Promoting pedestrian mobility represents a strategy for achieving a sustainable transportation system, where problems such as traffic congestion, air and noise pollution are minimized. For this aim, it becomes fundamental to identify...
Vehicular traffic congestion is a significant problem that arises in many cities. This is due to the increasing number of vehicles that are driving on city roads of limited capacity. The vehicular congestion significantly impacts travel distance, tra...
Map design and usability issues are crucial when considering different device orientations. It is visible, especially in exploring the topographical space in landscape or portrait orientation on the mobile phone. In this study, we aim to reveal the m...
25 July 2022
This study focused on the work preferences of young adults with physical disabilities (YAPD) in Israel and the variables that affect those preferences. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was employed to explain work preferences. We examined direct...
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