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  • Article
  • Open Access
670 Views
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QC-MM: A Metadata and Schema Model for Traceable Quantum-Circuit Experiments

  • Nawel Huenchuleo,
  • Samuel Sepúlveda and
  • Alejandro Fernández

24 June 2026

Context: Modern quantum-computing experimentation generates heterogeneous, context-dependent execution data whose scientific value depends on preserving calibration state, compilation decisions, and run outcomes in a traceable and repository-ready fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Database Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
402 Views
27 Pages

3 September 2026

Research data are often prepared in spreadsheets, but the meanings of their columns and values must still be translated into reusable metadata schemas. Even with a graphical editor, this translation requires repeated decisions about field names, type...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
Software2026, 5(4), 52;https://doi.org/10.3390/software5040052 
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15 November 2026

Config-driven user interface (CDUI), also called server-driven user interface, moves user interface (UI) layout out of the app binary into server responses so teams can update screens without an app store release. Because one schema serves many insta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,795 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2022

Although proposed more than half a century ago, the Nelder–Mead simplex search algorithm is still widely used. Four numeric constants define the operations and behavior of the algorithm. The algorithm with the original constant values performs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,550 Views
12 Pages

30 March 2022

The role of intelligence in chess is crucial because the game involves a situation of adversity between two players whose goal is to checkmate the opponent’s king. Due to the complex nature of the game and the huge amount of information needed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Improving Early Childhood Nurturing Care to Support Childhood Development and Adult Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,739 Views
16 Pages

Knowledge processing is an important feature of intelligence in general and artificial intelligence in particular. To develop computing systems working with knowledge, it is necessary to elaborate the means of working with knowledge representations (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,056 Views
16 Pages

EvoAgent-SQL: An Evolutionary Multi-Agent Text2SQL Framework Integrating User Feedback and Reflective Adaptation

  • Bin He,
  • Yanshu Du,
  • Hao Meng,
  • Shengbing Tang and ,
  • Ting Zhang and
  • Longfei Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 May 2026

Natural language to structured query language (Text2SQL) is a critical task in intelligent question answering and database interaction. A fundamental challenge lies in achieving semantic symmetry between natural language expressions and database sche...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,484 Views
30 Pages

Entity Attribute Value Style Modeling Approach for Archetype Based Data

  • Shivani Batra,
  • Shelly Sachdeva and
  • Subhash Bhalla

29 December 2017

Entity Attribute Value (EAV) storage model is extensively used to manage healthcare data in existing systems, however it lacks search efficiency. This study examines an entity attribute value style modeling approach for standardized Electronic Health...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,768 Views
4 Pages

Yin-yang, thought in ancient Chinese philosophy, contains rich information philosophy implications. The theory of “Yin-yang Gan Sheng” believes that Yin and Yang’s interaction can make emergences of new things and new life, which im...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 International Summit on the Study of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,157 Views
17 Pages

Wastewater Management Using a Neural Network-Assisted Novel Paradigm for Waste Prediction from Vermicomposting

  • Thanjai Vadivel,
  • Kumar Barathi,
  • Ganeshan Arulkumaran,
  • Muthu Bala Anand and
  • Claudia Cherubini

30 November 2024

Vermicomposting is one of the most important waste management techniques in the process of vermiculture. In this study, a neural network-assisted novel paradigm is proposed to predict waste from vermicomposting. The proposed neural network skeleton i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches to Nutrient and Pollutant Removal from Wastewater (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
225 Views
24 Pages

SEBGen: A Self-Evolving Benchmark Generation Framework for Software Engineering Agents

  • Jingjing Huang,
  • Zhaowen Feng,
  • Daode Xiong,
  • Changwei Ren and
  • Yunxiao Geng

12 October 2026

Static software engineering benchmarks such as SWE-bench suffer from three fundamental limitations: task sets are fixed and become saturated as model capabilities rapidly improve; expert construction is costly and slow; and difficulty levels cannot a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LLM-Driven Software/Hardware Code Generation, Testing, and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,216 Views
31 Pages

17 July 2020

Due to the stochastic characteristics of bio-inspired optimization algorithms, several executions are often required; then a suitable infrastructure must be available to run these algorithms. This paper reviews a virtualized distributed processing sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,528 Views
16 Pages

Contextual Constraints: Dynamic Evolution of Snake Venom Phospholipase A2

  • Vivek Suranse,
  • Timothy N. W. Jackson and
  • Kartik Sunagar

20 June 2022

Venom is a dynamic trait that has contributed to the success of numerous organismal lineages. Predominantly composed of proteins, these complex cocktails are deployed for predation and/or self-defence. Many non-toxic physiological proteins have been...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Venoms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,678 Views
21 Pages

Semantic-Aware Fusion of Mineral Exploration Knowledge Streams Towards Dynamic Geological Knowledge Graphs

  • Ying Qin,
  • Hui Yang,
  • Liu Cui,
  • Yuan Zhang and ,
  • Gefei Feng,
  • Yina Qiao and
  • Yuejing Yao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 November 2025

Integrating heterogeneous and multilingual geoscience texts into coherent knowledge graphs is challenged by semantic inconsistencies from terminology variations, diverse expressions, and data heterogeneity, hindering the construction of reliable mine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Big Data Mining, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Geoscience, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,679 Views
20 Pages

17 July 2018

For more than 30 years, data warehouses (DWs) have attracted particular interest both in practice and in research. This success is explained by their ability to adapt to their evolving environment. One of the last challenges for DWs is their ability...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantics for Big Data Integration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,322 Views
43 Pages

6 December 2019

What triggered the emergence of uniquely human behaviors (language, religion, music) some 100,000 years ago? A non-circular, speculative theory based on the mother-infant relationship is presented. Infant “cuteness” evokes the infant sche...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,947 Views
15 Pages

25 December 2024

Tumor angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing vasculature, is a crucial process in cancer growth and metastasis. Mathematical modeling through partial differential equations helps to understand this complex biological pheno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Differential Equations in Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
263 Views
41 Pages

28 October 2026

Text-to-SQL translates natural-language questions into executable SQL, enabling non-expert access to relational databases. Despite advances in large language models (LLMs), reliable systems must ground questions in schemas and values, handle large sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI, Large Language Models and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,229 Views
20 Pages

17 January 2020

The objective of this study was to understand the development of Chinese contemporary architectural discourses and analyze the comfort of the 156 projects residences to help improve the sustainable planning and design of today’s urban residenti...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,923 Views
19 Pages

Textual analysis is grounded in conceptual schemes of traditional qualitative and quantitative content analysis techniques that have led to the hybridization of methodological styles widely used across social scientific fields. This paper delivers an...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,326 Views
32 Pages

Crowdsourced Reconstruction of Cellular Networks to Serve Outdoor Positioning: Modeling, Validation and Analysis

  • Andrea Brunello,
  • Andrea Dalla Torre,
  • Paolo Gallo,
  • Donatella Gubiani and ,
  • Angelo Montanari and
  • Nicola Saccomanno
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 December 2022

Positioning via outdoor fingerprinting, which exploits the radio signals emitted by cellular towers, is fundamental in many applications. In most cases, the localization performance is affected by the availability of information about the emitters, s...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,326 Views
24 Pages

The Evolution of Spanish Ver ‘to See’ in Constructions with a Predicate Participle or Adjective

  • Chantal Melis,
  • María Isabel Jiménez Martínez and
  • Milagros Alfonso Vega

31 December 2025

The focus in this corpus-based study is on a set of Spanish constructions formed with the verb of visual perception, ver ‘to See’, and a predicate adjective or participle. In addition to a clearly recognizable transitive schema, the set i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Romance Historical Syntax: Special Issue on Syntactic Analyzability in Diachrony)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
818 Views
25 Pages

18 June 2026

Metallurgical lifting equipment operates under prolonged heavy-load, high-impact, and complex working conditions. The resulting failure reports contain rich field knowledge applicable to fault diagnosis and predictive maintenance. Nevertheless, relia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,571 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2026

This study presents an explainable knowledge graph (KG) framework that transforms continuous spindle monitoring time-series data into transparent, reasoning-ready diagnostic structures. Existing data-driven approaches, while accurate, often lack the...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,637 Views
12 Pages

With 500+ papers and 20+ books spanning many scientific disciplines, Mark Burgin has left an indelible mark and legacy for future explorers of human thought and information technology professionals. In this paper, I discuss his contribution to the ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue in Memory of Professor Mark Burgin)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,913 Views
29 Pages

Assessing Crowdsourced POI Quality: Combining Methods Based on Reference Data, History, and Spatial Relations

  • Guillaume Touya,
  • Vyron Antoniou,
  • Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond and
  • Marie-Dominique Van Damme

With the development of location-aware devices and the success and high use of Web 2.0 techniques, citizens are able to act as sensors by contributing geographic information. In this context, data quality is an important aspect that should be taken i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Volunteered Geographic Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,483 Views
17 Pages

Streamlining the Pipeline for Generation of Recombinant Affinity Reagents by Integrating the Affinity Maturation Step

  • Renhua Huang,
  • Kevin T. Gorman,
  • Chris R. Vinci,
  • Elena Dobrovetsky and ,
  • Susanne Gräslund and
  • Brian K. Kay
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 September 2015

Often when generating recombinant affinity reagents to a target, one singles out an individual binder, constructs a secondary library of variants, and affinity selects a tighter or more specific binder. To enhance the throughput of this general appro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,721 Views
30 Pages

15 November 2021

Knowledge engineering relies on ontologies, since they provide formal descriptions of real-world knowledge. However, ontology development is still a nontrivial task. From the view of knowledge engineering, ontology learning is helpful in generating o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ontology-Based Information Systems Establishment and Recent Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
748 Views
20 Pages

The rapid evolution of data-driven enterprises demands scalable and intelligent systems capable of managing substantial volumes of heterogeneous data in real time. However, traditional systems lack a holistic approach to managing distributed data eng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Experimental AI to Industrial Decision Systems)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,221 Views
29 Pages

The World Wide Web (www) consists of the surface web, deep web, and Dark Web, depending on the content shared and the access to these network layers. Dark Web consists of the Dark Net overlay of networks that can be accessed through specific software...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Situational Awareness Techniques and Human Factors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,954 Views
22 Pages

9 February 2022

Since the advent of the first form of electronic procurement (EP), the procurement process (i.e., the stages and underlying activities) has evolved to transform the world of commerce significantly. In the construction industry, EP has revolutionized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Procurement in Construction Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,939 Views
30 Pages

13 March 2024

In the dynamic realm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and, more specifically, Quadrotor drones, this study heralds a ground-breaking integrated optimal control methodology that synergizes a distributed framework, predictive control, H-infinity con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,870 Views
23 Pages

Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite–Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: I. Forsterite

  • Julia A. Mikhailova,
  • Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk,
  • Andrey O. Kalashnikov,
  • Yakov A. Pakhomovsky and ,
  • Ayya V. Bazai,
  • Taras L. Panikorovskii,
  • Victor N. Yakovenchuk,
  • Nataly G. Konopleva and
  • Pavel M. Goryainov
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 June 2018

The Kovdor alkaline-ultrabasic massif (NW Russia) is formed by three consequent intrusions: peridotite, foidolite–melilitolite and phoscorite–carbonatite. Forsterite is the earliest mineral of both peridotite and phoscorite–carbonat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Arctic Mineral Resources: Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
721 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2026

Legal regulation and market-oriented land property rights reforms have long been the mainstream, whereas the role of cultural embeddedness in driving land institutional innovation remains insufficiently explored. This paper develops an analytical fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,101 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2022

Since the 1980s, China has experienced an unprecedentedly rapid urbanization process, during which the historical environment of many cities has been damaged to some extent. Accordingly, the fragmented historical environment poses great challenges to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vegetation Management, Conservation of Historic Structures and Biodiversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
795 Views
23 Pages

Research on Structured Extraction and Material Matching of Logistics Documents Based on Lightweight Large Language Models

  • Lunlei Yang,
  • Dongsheng Li,
  • Shuaichao Zheng,
  • Lingzheng Kong and ,
  • Ming Li,
  • Fankang Kong and
  • Wenrui Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 June 2026

Paper-based logistics documents remain widely used in multi-enterprise supply chains, where heterogeneous layouts, noisy document images, non-standard material descriptions, and limited edge-computing resources make structured extraction and material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
14,965 Views
25 Pages

A Machine Learning Approach for Solar Power Technology Review and Patent Evolution Analysis

  • Amy J.C. Trappey,
  • Paul P.J. Chen,
  • Charles V. Trappey and
  • Lin Ma

9 April 2019

Solar power systems and their related technologies have developed into a globally utilized green energy source. Given the relatively high installation costs, low conversion rates and battery capacity issues, solar energy is still not a widely applied...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,142 Views
23 Pages

10 December 2025

A special class of complex adaptive systems—biological and social—thrive not by passively accumulating patterns, but by engineering coherence, i.e., the deliberate alignment of prior knowledge, real-time updates, and teleonomic purposes....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,198 Views
30 Pages

9 August 2021

The aim of this paper is to show the presence of religion and the particular evolution of lyrical matrixes connected to religion in the Polish poems of female poets. There is a particular presence of women in the roots of the Polish literary and lyri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue East-Slavic Religions and Religiosity: Mythologies, Literature and Folklore: A Reassessment)