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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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15 September 2025

This study optimizes high-rise residential construction schedules using Integrated Building Platforms and genetic algorithms. By analyzing process sequences and overlapping relationships, a schedule optimization model is developed to overcome ineffic...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,714 Views
27 Pages

2 January 2026

The integrated platform provides a safe operating environment for high-rise residential construction and enables the simultaneous advancement of main structural works and facade operations. However, the construction workflow based on an integrated pl...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,605 Views
17 Pages

Using Extended Logical Primitives for Efficient BDD Building

  • David Fernandez-Amoros,
  • Sergio Bra,
  • Ernesto Aranda-Escolástico and
  • Ruben Heradio

31 July 2020

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) have been used to represent logic models in a variety of research contexts, such as software product lines, circuit testing, and plasma confinement, among others. Although BDDs have proven to be very useful, the main p...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,357 Views
13 Pages

25 May 2022

This article focuses on the contributions of the still-scarce corroborations available on the social nature of the metacognitive regulation of joint attempts in order to offer systematic means to operationalize and analyze shared regulation. The math...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effective Integration of the Affective Domain in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,093 Views
35 Pages

7 April 2026

Artificial intelligence has attracted increasing attention in the construction industry; however, automated time scheduling remains limited in practical applications. Schedule development remains manual, requiring planners to analyze project document...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum and AI Technologies in Engineering and Construction Projects: Design Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,950 Views
25 Pages

23 September 2021

This study aims to investigate the influence of the big-5 personality traits on causation and effectuation decision-making logics using the entrepreneurial process theory. This is an empirical study based on 113 surveys of managers/entrepreneurs from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,930 Views
20 Pages

Entity alignment in knowledge graphs plays a crucial role in ensuring the consistency and integration of data across different domains. For example, in power topology, accurate entity matching is essential for optimizing system design and control. Ho...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,075 Views
11 Pages

14 October 2025

Construction planning and scheduling, including task sequences, constraints, and interdependencies, is poorly structured within digital models such as BIM and Digital Twin and lacks effective integration with planning documents to support scheduling...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 7th Edition of the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Humanity (ICATH 2025))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
838 Views
10 Pages

Research on the Robustness of Boolean Chaotic Systems

  • Haifang Liu,
  • Hua Gao and
  • Jianguo Zhang

19 August 2025

Boolean chaotic systems solely composed of logic devices have been successfully applied in fields such as random number generation, reservoir computing, and radar detection because of their simple structure and amenability to integration. However, no...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,886 Views
14 Pages

Fuzzy Logic Tools Application to the Characterization of Stress–Strain Processes in Waste Construction Dam Geopolymers: A New Circular Mining

  • Juan María Terrones-Saeta,
  • Juan Carlos Fortes,
  • Ana Teresa Luís,
  • Javier Aroba and ,
  • Jesús Díaz-Curiel,
  • Emilio Romero and
  • Jose Antonio Grande
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 December 2022

The ceramics industry dedicated to the manufacture of building materials is a very significant cause of environmental pollution, and various research projects are being carried out to reduce the associated environmental impact. One of the most import...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Behavior, Leaching and Environmental Evaluation of Recycled Aggregates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,910 Views
15 Pages

Power System Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Zirui Wang,
  • Ziqi Zhang,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Mingxuan Du and ,
  • Huiting Zhang and
  • Bowen Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 October 2022

Intelligent power grid fault diagnosis is of great significance for speeding up fault processing and improving fault diagnosis efficiency. However, most of the current fault diagnosis methods focus on rule diagnosis, relying on expert experience and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Operation and Control of Energy System and Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,158 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2024

In the requirement-driven forward design process of civil aircraft, the large number of design tasks of complex systems with varying difficulty and the complex relationships between design tasks lead to unnecessary repetitive design iterations. In or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Model-Based Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,873 Views
35 Pages

Linking Theories, Past Practices, and Archaeological Remains of Movement through Ontological Reasoning

  • Laure Nuninger,
  • Philip Verhagen,
  • Thérèse Libourel,
  • Rachel Opitz and ,
  • Xavier Rodier,
  • Clément Laplaige,
  • Catherine Fruchart,
  • Samuel Leturcq and
  • Nathanael Levoguer
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2020

The amount of information available to archaeologists has grown dramatically during the last ten years. The rapid acquisition of observational data and creation of digital data has played a significant role in this “information explosion”...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Humanities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,950 Views
39 Pages

16 November 2012

In his Incomplete Nature, Deacon extends a thermodynamic concept of energy to yield a description of complex processes in which absence plays a critical role in their emergence and evolution. Starting from a quantum-mechanical picture of energy as an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information: Its Different Modes and Its Relation to Meaning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,890 Views
27 Pages

This paper presents, discusses, and tests a novel method for guiding roulette selection in evolutionary algorithms. The new method uses fuzzy logic and incorporates information from both current and historical generations to predict the best scheme f...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
10,988 Views
25 Pages

Amazon Employees Resources Access Data Extraction via Clonal Selection Algorithm and Logic Mining Approach

  • Nur Ezlin Zamri,
  • Mohd. Asyraf Mansor,
  • Mohd Shareduwan Mohd Kasihmuddin,
  • Alyaa Alway and ,
  • Siti Zulaikha Mohd Jamaludin and
  • Shehab Abdulhabib Alzaeemi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 May 2020

Amazon.com Inc. seeks alternative ways to improve manual transactions system of granting employees resources access in the field of data science. The work constructs a modified Artificial Neural Network (ANN) by incorporating a Discrete Hopfield Neur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information-Theoretic Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,636 Views
21 Pages

Latent Neighborhood Dynamics and the Logic of Community Engagement in American Policing

  • James J. Nolan,
  • Megan E. Gandy,
  • Taylor Williamson and
  • John Evans

7 March 2026

(1) Background: The purpose of this paper is to explicate the logic of community engagement in American policing. In the United States, the police are organized for crime control and social order through law enforcement. In fact, the terms police and...

(This article belongs to the Section Crime and Justice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,197 Views
15 Pages

Shielding Grounding Optimization Method for Spaceborne Multi-Cable

  • Zhentao Gong,
  • Haoting Du,
  • Wenming Wu,
  • Kehan Chen and ,
  • Jiang Tian,
  • Chengsheng Ji,
  • Dexin Sun and
  • Yinnian Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 March 2023

The coupling relationship between space electronics systems is complex, and the signals of optoelectronic load cables are susceptible to interference, especially the early anomalous weak signals on a ground surface used for immediate remote sensing,...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,730 Views
15 Pages

21 July 2017

Most existing fuzzy forecasting models partition historical training time series into fuzzy time series and build fuzzy-trend logical relationship groups to generate forecasting rules. The determination process of intervals is complex and uncertain....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,619 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2026

This study examines how digital transformation (DX) unfolds in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) through an analytical integration of dynamic capabilities (DCs) and service-dominant logic (SDL). While DX research is abundant, existing studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,185 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2022

The semantic web invests in systems that work collaboratively. In this article we show that the collaborative way is not enough, because the system must ‘understand’ the data resources that are provided to it, to organize them in the dire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,939 Views
20 Pages

Analysis of the Consistency of Prerequisites and Learning Outcomes of Educational Programme Courses by Using the Ontological Approach

  • Aizhan Nazyrova,
  • Marek Milosz,
  • Gulmira Bekmanova,
  • Assel Omarbekova and ,
  • Assel Mukanova and
  • Gaukhar Aimicheva
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 February 2023

The article presents the results of the application of an ontological approach to the description of the structure and content of the educational programme, and its subsequent analysis for the consistency of prerequisites and learning outcomes of cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,602 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2024

The revitalization of idle homesteads is an essential element in stimulating rural land resources and assets and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas. However, existing studies have paid less attention to the relationship bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Immigrants, Social Integration and Sustainable Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,869 Views
15 Pages

In response to the sustainable development goal of agriculture put forward by the United Nations, countries have introduced a series of agricultural environmental protection policies. However, the effectiveness of these policies has been hindered by...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,677 Views
5 Pages

Restoration of Arterial Blood Flow Access to Rhomboid Fossa Assists in Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Normalization

  • Kirill V. Zhukov,
  • Grigorii V. Dudnik,
  • Alexandre A. Vetcher,
  • Bagrat A. Gasparyan and
  • Alexander Y. Shishonin

We have found a logical way to prove a mechanism that allows us to demonstrate the relationship between the restoration of arterial blood flow through the cervical vertebral arteries to the rhomboid fossa and the normalization of left ventricular hyp...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Biomedicines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,892 Views
23 Pages

12 August 2020

Nickel-based alloys, especially Monel 400™, is gaining its significance in diverse applications owing to its superior mechanical properties and high corrosion resistance. Machining of these materials is extremely difficult through the tradition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Simulation in Alloy Cutting Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,325 Views
21 Pages

21 September 2020

Global warming represents a serious challenge, which requires the adoption of renewable energy technologies worldwide. However, it can negatively affect the availability of renewable energy resources, such as wind, which are needed for electricity ge...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,305 Views
21 Pages

28 September 2015

This study aimed at developing an artificial-neural-network (ANN)-based model that can calculate the required time for restoring the current indoor temperature during the setback period in accommodation buildings to the normal set-point temperature i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Conservation in Infrastructures)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,573 Views
23 Pages

24 May 2025

The rapid growth of social media and online information-sharing platforms facilitates the spread of rumors. Accurate rumor detection to minimize manual verification efforts remains a critical research challenge. While multimodal rumor detection lever...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
2,264 Views
12 Pages

25 March 2025

French political scientist Olivier Roy maintains that the West is undergoing a ‘crisis of culture’. The crisis derives from a process of ‘deculturation’ where superficial, deterritorial subcultures become the basis for shared...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catholic Theologies of Culture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,135 Views
23 Pages

30 November 2024

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology is driving the intelligentization process across various fields, particularly in knowledge graph construction, where significant achievements have been made. However, research on hyper-relat...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,639 Views
13 Pages

In the health care system, it is increasingly apparent that employee innovative behavior improves the core competitiveness and resilience of organizations. Previous research has identified leadership behavior as a key predictor of employee innovative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leadership and Management in the Health Care System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,069 Views
25 Pages

30 December 2021

The engineering of large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) increasingly relies on principles from self-organisation and collective computing, enabling these systems to cooperate and adapt in dynamic environments. CPS engineering also often leverages...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Security in Cyber Physical System Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,010 Views
18 Pages

Cause Mechanism of Metro Collapse Accident Based on Risk Coupling

  • Ming Fang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Mengjue Zhu and
  • Shaopei Chen

A metro collapse accident is the main type of metro construction accidents. How to scientifically analyze the key cause factors and their interaction coupling mechanism of the existing metro collapse accidents is crucial to reduce the occurrence of m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Health: Safety Management, Safety Human Factors and Ergonomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,336 Views
31 Pages

1 June 2020

A multitude of factors considered necessary for an informed choice of the location of the vineyard can be overwhelming for the decision-maker. Is there still a place for knowledge valuable from the perspective of an experienced winegrower in the era...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Analysis and Cultural Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,533 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2022

Changes in the information age have induced the necessity for a more efficient and effective self-decision-making requirement. A method of extracting and constructing naval operations decision-making rules based on scenario analysis is proposed. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,150 Views
21 Pages

SAT-Based Optimization Framework for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Routing Under Real-World Constraints

  • Shiva Sai Rama Krishna Ravipati,
  • Srinivasa Rao Jalluri and
  • Srikanth Kunta

With the rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), optimizing charging infrastructure and route planning has become increasingly crucial. Traditional methods such as Linear Programming (LP) have been widely used to address these challenges. However,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electric Vehicles and Charging Facilities for a Sustainable Transport Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,920 Views
23 Pages

A Refined Approach for Forecasting Based on Neutrosophic Time Series

  • Mohamed Abdel-Basset,
  • Victor Chang,
  • Mai Mohamed and
  • Florentin Smarandache

1 April 2019

This research introduces a neutrosophic forecasting approach based on neutrosophic time series (NTS). Historical data can be transformed into neutrosophic time series data to determine their truth, indeterminacy and falsity functions. The basis for t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New types of Neutrosophic Set/Logic/Probability, Neutrosophic Over-/Under-/Off-Set, Neutrosophic Refined Set, and their Extension to Plithogenic Set/Logic/Probability, with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,212 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Market Drivers on the Digital Maturity of Logistics Processes in a Supply Chain

  • Paulina Golinska-Dawson,
  • Karolina Werner-Lewandowska,
  • Karolina Kolinska and
  • Adam Kolinski

8 February 2023

Logistics processes allow for the movement of goods along the supply chain to the customers. Companies are using digital solutions more widely to support their logistics processes. Current studies focus mainly on the intrinsic perspective of the digi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Logistics and Supply Chain Management Challenges and Opportunities in the COVID-19 World – Smart, Agile and Sustainable Trends, Methods and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,242 Views
15 Pages

Predicting Pavement Condition Index Using Fuzzy Logic Technique

  • Abdualmtalab Ali,
  • Usama Heneash,
  • Amgad Hussein and
  • Mohamed Eskebi

The fuzzy logic technique is one of the effective approaches for evaluating flexible and rigid pavement distress. The process of classifying pavement distress is usually performed by visual inspection of the pavement surface or using data collected b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,527 Views
20 Pages

Semantic IFC Data Model for Automatic Safety Risk Identification in Deep Excavation Projects

  • Yongcheng Zhang,
  • Xuejiao Xing and
  • Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari

25 October 2021

Safety risk identification throughout deep excavation construction is an information-intensive task, involving construction information scattered in project planning documentation and dynamic information obtained from different field sensors. However...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ontology-Based Information Systems Establishment and Recent Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,845 Views
21 Pages

Purpose: The main objective of this research is to highlight the managerial and organizational implications for businesses resulting from the implementation of blockchain logic and technologies. The functionalities of blockchain technologies are comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bouncing Back or Bouncing Forward? Knowledge Drivers of Absorptive, Adaptive, and Transformative Resilience in Crises)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,871 Views
25 Pages

Shifting Power at the Front Door: State–Community Decision-Making Partnerships in Child Protection

  • Emily Keddell,
  • Andrew Rudolph,
  • Shayne Walker,
  • Karen Hale and ,
  • Jude Hughes,
  • Jonette Chapman and
  • William Kaipo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 December 2025

Inequities for Indigenous people in child protection systems are well established. One avenue for addressing these inequities is at the ‘front door’ of child protection, when reports are first made to statutory child protection services....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Work on Community Practice and Child Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,733 Views
21 Pages

An Electro-Pneumatic Force Tracking System using Fuzzy Logic Based Volume Flow Control

  • Zhonglin Lin,
  • Qingyan Wei,
  • Runmin Ji,
  • Xianghua Huang and ,
  • Yuan Yuan and
  • Zhiwen Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 October 2019

In this paper, a fuzzy logic based volume flow control method is proposed to precisely control the force of a pneumatic actuator in an electro-pneumatic system including four on-off valves. The volume flow feature, which is the relationship between t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,907 Views
29 Pages

29 April 2022

With the continuous expansion of system scale, the parameter coupling of the system is prominent. Due to limitations in knowledge and experience, it is difficult for designers to objectively analyze the interaction relationship between parameters, re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Methods for Mechanical and Industrial Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,255 Views
37 Pages

Seismic–Energy Retrofit as Information-Value: Axiological Programming for the Ecological Transition

  • Maria Rosa Trovato,
  • Vittoria Ventura,
  • Monia Lanzafame,
  • Salvatore Giuffrida and
  • Ludovica Nasca

15 March 2024

The research deals with the issue of the seismic and energy retrofit of historic building fabrics having as reference a historic district of Syracuse (Italy). The prospect of the ecological transition on the one hand and the public support funding on...

(This article belongs to the Section Green Building)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,276 Views
13 Pages

Computer Vision-Based Hazard Identification of Construction Site Using Visual Relationship Detection and Ontology

  • Yange Li,
  • Han Wei,
  • Zheng Han,
  • Nan Jiang and ,
  • Weidong Wang and
  • Jianling Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Onsite systematic monitoring benefits hazard prevention immensely. Hazard identification is usually limited due to the semantic gap. Previous studies that integrate computer vision and ontology can address the semantic gap and detect the onsite hazar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Methods for Infrastructures Management towards Sustainability, Intelligence, and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
486 Views
20 Pages

Spatial Relations of Photography—An Attempt at Classification

  • Krzysztof Ślachciak and
  • Joanna Stefańska

25 September 2026

This article proposes a conceptual framework for analysing spatial relationships between the photographic image and its surroundings, understood both as an exhibition context and as an element shaping the viewer’s experience. The analysis begin...

(This article belongs to the Section Visual Arts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,237 Views
21 Pages

16 December 2020

As a new generation of power-by-wire actuators, electromechanical actuators are finding increasingly more applications in the aviation field. Aiming at the application problem of the fault diagnosis of the electromechanical actuator, an improved diag...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)

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