Coordinated dispatch of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) with renewable energies has been proposed in recent years. However, it is difficult to achieve effective PEV dispatch with a win-win result, which not only optimizes power system operation, but...
Evaluating intrusion detection methods at the level of individual MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) for Industrial Control System techniques requires Operational Technology traffic in which each attack sequence...
Probabilistic interval ordering, as a helpful tool for expressing positive and negative information, can effectively address multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) problems in reality. However, when dealing with a significant number of decision-maker...
This paper describes a study conducted to develop a method to facilitate more reliable determination of the rehabilitation priority order for water pipes by taking into account the pipes’ hydraulic importance. Existing methods use only the pipeline d...
Most existing fuzzy AHP (FAHP) methods use triangular fuzzy numbers to approximate the fuzzy priorities of criteria, which is inaccurate. To obtain accurate fuzzy priorities, time-consuming alpha-cut operations are usually required. In order to impro...
This article presents assessment results for the priorities of different urban logistics stakeholders in order to launch crowd logistics (CL) solutions within a city area. Additionally, this analysis was conducted by using various dimensions of susta...
This paper proposes a new path planning strategy called the navigation strategy with path priority (NSPP) for multiple robots moving in a large flat space. In the space, there may be some static or/and dynamic obstacles. Suppose we have the path-prio...
This study focuses on the path-planning problem of rescue UAVs with regional detection priority. Initially, we propose a mixed-integer programming model that integrates coverage path planning (CPP) and the hierarchical traveling salesman problem (HTS...
In recent years, with the support of new information technology and national policies, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) has developed rapidly in China. About CMfg, scholars have conducted extensive and in-depth research, among which multi-objective service...
Public transport priority is the development trend in public transport, and signal priority is its main means. In order to further improve the accuracy of delay calculation and realize the priority of bus signals, this paper proposes the idea of mult...
Order scheduling is of a great significance in the internet and communication industries. With the rapid development of the communication industry and the increasing variety of user demands, the number of work orders for communication operators has g...
Failure mode and effects analysis is an effective and powerful risk evaluation technique in the field of risk management, and it has been extensively used in various industries for identifying and decreasing known and potential failure modes in syste...
This study proposed a pressure driven entropy method (PDEM) that determines a priority order of pressure gauge locations, which enables the impact of abnormal condition (e.g., pipe failures) to be quantitatively identified in water distribution netwo...
Based on current manual restoration methods, a better algorithm for restoring images based on sample blocks is proposed, along with a sustainable restoration technique for digital virtualization, with the aim of preserving and restoring the priceless...
In the dynamic flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP) where the environment changes irregularly, priority rules are used to calculate priorities for each job and machine, determining the processing order. To achieve efficient scheduling, it is...
In order to predict the cost of construction projects more accurately for cross-sectional data such as housing costs, a fractional heterogeneous grey model based on the principle of similar information priority was proposed in this paper. The advanta...
This research determines how to integrate factors related to evacuation in emergency preparedness using techniques for Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM). A distinctive MCDM technique that incorporates human behavior into evacuation models enhances...
Wireless edge networks increasingly support heterogeneous time-sensitive services whose terminals compete for limited communication and computing resources, making it challenging to balance system-wide efficiency, priority-aware service guarantees, a...
Recently, resolving a problem based on multi-criteria decision-making systems has become an attractive method. One of recent techniques is trapezoidal fuzzy VIKOR method which was used for selecting the best option among criteria. This research is ai...
Consumer trust projects have formed as a novel business idea to achieve industrial transformation and upgrade Chinese trust companies (consumer trust projects), and it is of great significance to identify risks and evaluate their ranking order based...
Optimizing traffic control systems at traffic intersections can reduce network-wide fuel consumption as well as improve traffic flow. While traffic signals have conventionally been controlled based on predetermined schedules, various adaptive control...
10 July 2023
Social determinants of health contribute to health disparities and inequities. We conducted a community forum on the topic of isolation with the objectives of (1) identifying and prioritizing key health-related issues needing attention in isolated co...
Under the circumstances of limited government funds, the future pollution remediation policies and practical implementation may need contemplation from the perspective of maximized efficacy, in order to pursue the most effective resource allocation....
Cities are facing increasing pressures to enact adaptation measures due to climate change. While blue-green infrastructure has emerged as a focal adaptation technique for stormwater management, in order to craft adaptation policies cities must consid...
In order to determine the installation position of the front fin on the example rocket forebody, an optimized method based on a comprehensive evaluation indicator and variable step search is presented. The comprehensive indicator consists of four wei...
In the context of big data, opening government data to society for development and utilization would improve the transparency of government work and promote harmonious social development. Improving the sustainability of open government data (OGD) is...
In order to safeguard the material and immaterial heritage and to foster delightful experiences for visitors, this investigation aimed to define a Matrix of Priorities for management of Visitation Impacts Management on the Geosites of Araripe UNESCO...
This paper aims to propose an innovative approach to group decision making (GDM) with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy (IVIF) preference relations (IVIFPRs). First, an IVIFPR is proposed based on the additive consistency of an interval-valued fuz...
Existing unmanned aerial vehicle fire monitoring methods primarily recognize visible smoke or flame cues but cannot reliably determine whether an observed anomaly is an uncontrolled fire requiring intervention. This study reformulates UAV fire monito...
Spatial decision support systems for forest management have steadily evolved over the past 20+ years in order to better address the complexities of contemporary forest management issues such as the sustainability and resilience of ecosystems on fores...
The goal of carbon neutrality is an extensive and profound economic and social change, which will have far-reaching impacts on industrial structure, energy structure, and social consumption structure. Energy sectors will face in-depth adjustment, and...
In the case of the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EV), it is well known that their use and charging could affect the network distribution system, with possible repercussions including line overload and transformer saturation. In consequenc...
Multi-satellite collaborative computing has achieved task decomposition and collaborative execution through inter-satellite links (ISLs), which has significantly improved the efficiency of task execution and system responsiveness. However, existing m...
Aiming at the fault diagnosis accuracy of rolling bearings is not high enough, and unknown faults cannot be correctly identified. A priority elimination (PE) method is proposed in this paper. First, the priority diagnosis sequence of faults was deter...
11 February 2022
The conservation of World Natural Heritage Sites has become a global concern. The identification of priority conservation areas can preserve the value of heritage sites while promoting sustainable development, which is important for balancing the con...
Transit Signal Priority (TSP) is a system designed to grant right-of-way to buses, yet it can lead to delays for private vehicles. With the rapid advancement of network technology, self-driving buses have the capability to efficiently acquire road in...
Coordinating the construction of villages and towns with the county as the basic unit and promoting the optimal allocation of infrastructure and public utilities within the county is an important measure to improve the rural habitat and enhance the w...
In this paper, we compare three methods for deriving a priority vector in the theoretical framework of pairwise comparisons—the Geometric Mean Method (GMM), Eigenvalue Method (EVM) and Best–Worst Method (BWM)—with respect to two features: sensitivity...
With the Internet of Things (IoT) development, there is an increasing demand for multi-service scheduling for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). We propose using polling for scheduling in edge computing to accommodate multi-service scheduling methods bette...
For the mine of large goaf, there are many factors that affect the filling quality. In order to improve the filling quality, it is necessary to identify the factors that have a significant impact. In this paper, the fuzzy mathematical method was used...
Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) delay refers to the difference between a flight’s Target Take-Off Time (TTOT) and its Calculated Take-Off Time (CTOT), reflecting congestion levels in the air traffic network. ATFM delays are assigned to balan...
15 June 2021
(1) Background: The vaccine supply is likely to be limited in 2021 due to constraints in manufacturing. To maximize the benefit from the rollout phase, an optimal strategy of vaccine allocation is necessary based on each country’s epidemic status. (2...
The proliferation of deep learning has propelled image inpainting to an important research field. Although the current image inpainting model has made remarkable achievements, the two-stage image inpainting method is easy to produce structural errors...
To respond to emergencies in a timely manner, emergency engineering equipment has been an important tool to implement emergency strategies. However, random failures of the equipment may occur during operation. Therefore, appropriate maintenance and s...
In order to solve the problem of multi-AGV path planning in a packaging workshop, this paper proposes a multi-AGV path-planning method based on time windows. A grid method is selected to build a map model. A penalty function is added to the A* algori...
Accidents in marine operations are occurring consistently despite government safety initiatives and efforts to lower the number of accidents and the ensuing human casualties. Since each accident type has a different frequency and casualty rate, ident...
Background: Epidemiological surveillance of a nursing diagnosis is an approach anchored in a post-modern epidemiology focused on a person’s health disease responses. Regarding public health priorities, the population where our study occurred ha...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the operations of factories worldwide. However, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different factories is not the same. In other words, the robustness of factories to the COVID-19 pandemic varies. To explore thi...
The metro network plays a vital role in the urban transportation system. However, the metro network is easily damaged by humans and natural disturbances. This can cause serious economic damage, such as the suspension of metro station operations and l...
Regular cervical screening can largely prevent the development of cervical cancer and innovative methods are needed to better engage people in screening. In Ontario, Canada, South Asian women have some of the lowest rates of screening in the province...
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