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2 November 2026

Variable network situations combine a network situation with a probability distribution on the set of all networks. In this framework, the decision maker does not know which particular network will materialize but has formed a well-defined probabilit...

(This article belongs to the Section Cooperative Game Theory and Bargaining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
9,399 Views
15 Pages

24 August 2020

Mobile Social Network Games (MSNGs) are defined as a product that combines games and social network services (SNSs). Compared with games played individually, MSNGs offer additional enjoyment to users through competition or cooperation. Mobile phone g...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
370 Views
30 Pages

Variable Time Scale Dispatch Strategy for Multi-Microgrid Active Distribution Systems Based on a Hybrid Game

  • Yudong Wang,
  • Fan Tang,
  • Hancong Guo,
  • Chao Yang and ,
  • Yingli Wei and
  • Qibao Kang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 June 2026

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy generation (REG) in novel distribution systems, active distribution networks (ADNs) integrated with microgrids (MGs) play a crucial role in enhancing the flexibility of regulation resources and prom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control, Operation and Energy Management of Distribution Networks and Smart Grids: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,675 Views
8 Pages

25 March 2019

(1) Background: This study aimed to compare the incidence of tactical principles, the percentage of successful tactical principles, and the network properties between higher and lower aerobic power in young football players during small-sided games....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Training Process in Soccer Players)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,621 Views
17 Pages

This study analyzes the key factors influencing player rank prediction in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), using machine learning models to evaluate in-game performance. By examining variables such as “walkDistance”, “boo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,336 Views
18 Pages

Improved Bayesian Network and Its Application in Autonomous Capability Evaluation

  • Jingtao Yan,
  • Shuguang Liu,
  • Weishi Peng and
  • Mingjun Shao

3 October 2022

The Bayesian network (BN) is a new intelligent evaluation technology, which has become one of the effective methods to solve uncertainty problems and deal with asymmetric information. However, its application is limited in the case of complex indicat...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,102 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2014

Cognitive radio (CR) method was introduced in smart grid communication systems to resolve potential maladies such as the coexistence of heterogeneous networks, overloaded data flow, diversity in data structures, and unstable quality of service (QOS)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,418 Views
17 Pages

11 July 2022

This paper proposes a possible mechanism for obtaining sizeable behavioral structures by simulating a network–agent dynamic on an evolutionary public good game with available social .learning. The model considers a population with a fixed numbe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,647 Views
27 Pages

Gaming is one of the largest industries of digital entertainment. Modern gaming software may be susceptible to command execution delay, which may be caused by various factors, such as insufficient rendering capabilities or limited network resources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
12,705 Views
13 Pages

Excessive online behaviors refer to harmful or disproportionate use of digital network applications. Such behaviors are likely to be associated with escapist motives. Our aim was to analyze whether escapism predicts excessive gambling, excessive gami...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,700 Views
17 Pages

Gamifying Massive Online Courses: Effects on the Social Networks and Course Completion Rates

  • Luis de Marcos-Ortega,
  • Antonio Garcia-Cabot,
  • Eva Garcia-Lopez,
  • Raul Ramirez-Velarde and ,
  • Antonio Moreira Teixeira and
  • José-Javier Martínez-Herráiz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2020

This paper analyzes the effects of gamification in the social network of a massive online course. An educational social-networking platform gathered information about the contributions of participants and about the social networks that were formed du...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,630 Views
18 Pages

Hybrid Model-Based Traffic Network Control Using Population Games

  • Sindy Paola Amaya,
  • Pablo Andrés Ñañez,
  • David Alejandro Martínez Vásquez,
  • Juan Manuel Calderón Chávez and
  • Armando Mateus Rojas

Modern traffic management requires sophisticated approaches to address the complexities of urban road networks, which continue to grow in complexity due to increasing urbanization and vehicle usage. Traditional methods often fall short in mitigating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,027 Views
16 Pages

Addiction to New Technologies and Cyberbullying in the Costa Rican Context

  • Raquel Lozano-Blasco,
  • Alberto Quilez-Robres,
  • Roxana Rodriguez-Araya and
  • Raquel Casanovas-López

30 November 2022

Addiction to new technologies (Internet, smartphone and video games) as well as cyber-aggression presents a growing incidence at a global level. Correlational research is proposed with a sample of n = 127 Costa Rican adolescents, with a mean age of 1...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,867 Views
19 Pages

Quantum Game Application to Recovery Problem in Mobile Database

  • Magda M. Madbouly,
  • Yasser F. Mokhtar and
  • Saad M. Darwish

20 October 2021

Mobile Computing (MC) is a relatively new concept in the world of distributed computing that is rapidly gaining traction. Due to the dynamic nature of mobility and the limited bandwidth available on wireless networks, this new computing environment f...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Metaheuristic Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,394 Views
29 Pages

A Subsidization Scheme for Maximizing Social Welfare in Mobile Communications Markets

  • Carlos Agualimpia-Arriaga,
  • José Vuelvas,
  • Carlos-Iván Páez-Rueda,
  • Carlos Adrián Correa-Flórez and
  • Arturo Fajardo

19 March 2024

In contemporary mobile communications markets, various agents or players interact to pursue welfare. Regulatory policies enacted by governments in certain markets aim to maximize social welfare. However, some countries, both least developed and devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,886 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2025

In the context of real-time strategy video games like StarCraft II, strategic decision-making is a complex challenge that requires adaptability and precision. This research creates a mixed recommendation system that uses causal models and deep neural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Human-Computer Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,065 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2021

Under the background of COVID-19, the conditions and environment of international cooperation in Arctic sustainable fisheries have changed. Accurately predicting the impact of environmental changes on the evolution of Arctic fishery cooperation, iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,728 Views
19 Pages

31 May 2023

In order to solve the problem of low voltage caused by unbalanced load in the distribution network, a transformer loss intelligent prediction model under unbalanced load is proposed. Firstly, the mathematical model of a transformer with an unbalanced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Advanced Control and Optimization Paradigms in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,560 Views
19 Pages

Passing Networks and Tactical Action in Football: A Systematic Review

  • Sergio Caicedo-Parada,
  • Carlos Lago-Peñas and
  • Enrique Ortega-Toro

The aim of this study is to examine the most significant literature on network analyses and factors associated with tactical action in football. A systematic review was conducted on Web of Science, taking into account the PRISMA guidelines using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,846 Views
23 Pages

19 February 2023

The ongoing deployment of 5G is accompanied by architecture and pricing decisions. Network sharing is a critical feature, allowing operators to reduce their costs, but introducing a mixed partnering/competition situation, where the infrastructure own...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,123 Views
17 Pages

Outdoor Thermal Comfort during Anomalous Heat at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada

  • Alexandria J. Herdt,
  • Robert D. Brown,
  • Ian Scott-Fleming,
  • Guofeng Cao and ,
  • Melissa MacDonald,
  • Dave Henderson and
  • Jennifer K. Vanos
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2018

Mass sporting events in the summertime are influenced by underlying weather patterns, with high temperatures posing a risk for spectators and athletes alike. To better understand weather variations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) during the Pan Ame...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Design and City Microclimates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,781 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2022

This study aims to solve the issue of the safe navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in an unknown underwater environment. AUV will encounter canyons, rocks, reefs, fish, and underwater vehicles that threaten its safety during underwate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Navigation and Path Planning of Marine Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
9,332 Views
15 Pages

Incidence of a Non-Sustainability Use of Technology on Students’ Reading Performance in Pisa

  • Esteban Vázquez-Cano,
  • José Gómez-Galán,
  • Alfonso Infante-Moro and
  • Eloy López-Meneses

20 January 2020

This article describes an investigation that made a comparative analysis of the influence of the use of technology for non-academic activities on the reading performance of students in 21 countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Online and Ubiquitous Training, Mobile Technology in Education and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
11,979 Views
35 Pages

Context-Aware Generative Adversarial Privacy

  • Chong Huang,
  • Peter Kairouz,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Lalitha Sankar and
  • Ram Rajagopal

1 December 2017

Preserving the utility of published datasets while simultaneously providing provable privacy guarantees is a well-known challenge. On the one hand, context-free privacy solutions, such as differential privacy, provide strong privacy guarantees, but o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Machine Learning and Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,611 Views
27 Pages

13 February 2025

The rotational speed and load torque of wind turbine gearboxes can vary widely during operation, which has an obvious impact on the gearbox fault diagnosis carried out based on vibration signals. To address this problem, this paper proposes a fault d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science in Prognostics and Health Management of Industrial Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,429 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2020

To solve the problem of dwell time management for multiple target tracking in Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) radar network, a Nash bargaining solution (NBS) dwell time allocation algorithm based on cooperative game theory is proposed. This algori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radio Sensing and Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,207 Views
18 Pages

A Stackelberg Game-Based Optimal Scheduling Model for Multi-Microgrid Systems Considering Photovoltaic Consumption and Integrated Demand Response

  • Jie Li,
  • Shengyuan Ji,
  • Xiuli Wang,
  • Hengyuan Zhang and ,
  • Yafei Li,
  • Xiaojie Qian and
  • Yunpeng Xiao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 November 2024

To enhance the interests of all stakeholders in the multi-microgrid integrated energy system and to promote photovoltaic consumption, this paper proposes a master–slave game operation optimization strategy for a multi-microgrid system consideri...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Views
28 Pages

Feature attributions can describe a fitted predictor while differing from a declared engineering reference. This study develops a reference-aligned audit that keeps predictive performance, attribution agreement, estimator precision, and reference evi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,961 Views
19 Pages

Problematic Internet Use among Adults: A Cross-Cultural Study in 15 Countries

  • Olatz Lopez-Fernandez,
  • Lucia Romo,
  • Laurence Kern,
  • Amélie Rousseau and ,
  • Bernadeta Lelonek-Kuleta,
  • Joanna Chwaszcz,
  • Niko Männikkö,
  • Hans-Jürgen Rumpf,
  • Anja Bischof and
  • Daria J. Kuss
  • + 18 authors+ 13 authors

29 January 2023

Background: The present study compared adult usage patterns of online activities, the frequency rate of problematic internet use (PIU), and risk factors (including the psychopathology associated with PIU, i.e., distress and impulsivity) among adults...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Updates on Etiology and Clinical Interventions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
571 Views
18 Pages

11 February 2026

To address the issue the that traditional positive definite quadratic cost function, which incorporates both state and control variables, tends to approach infinity over an infinite time horizon in tracking problems—thus rendering optimization...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetries in Dynamical Systems and Control Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,487 Views
13 Pages

Network Analysis-Based Disentanglement of the Symptom Heterogeneity in Asian Patients with Schizophrenia: Findings from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antipsychotics

  • Joonho Choi,
  • Hyung-Jun Yoon,
  • Jae Hong Park,
  • Yukako Nakagami and ,
  • Chika Kubota,
  • Toshiya Inada,
  • Takahiro A. Kato,
  • Shu-Yu Yang,
  • Sih-Ku Lin and
  • Seon-Cheol Park
  • + 19 authors+ 14 authors

3 January 2022

The symptom heterogeneity of schizophrenia is consistent with Wittgenstein’s analogy of a language game. From the perspective of precision medicine, this study aimed to estimate the symptom presentation and identify the psychonectome in Asian p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Precision Medicine in Psychosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,123 Views
18 Pages

The growth of professional soccer in the United States is evident through the rapid expansion of franchises and increased game attendance within Major League Soccer (MLS) and the United Soccer League (USL). Coinciding with this growth is the emergenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Social Networks for Sport and Physical Activity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,270 Views
15 Pages

Risk Assessment of Distribution Lines in Typhoon Weather Considering Socio-economic Factors

  • Anduo Hu,
  • Xiaoyue Fan,
  • Dongmei Huang,
  • Feng Zhang and
  • Shuai Shi

17 September 2023

In recent years, the frequent occurrence of typhoon weather has posed a significant threat to the stable operation of the distribution network in the southeastern coastal areas of China. Ensuring the safety of distribution lines is crucial for the no...

(This article belongs to the Topic Power System Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,358 Views
26 Pages

Optimizing Smart City Street Design with Interval-Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Game Theory for Autonomous Vehicles and Cyclists

  • Maryam Fayyaz,
  • Gaetano Fusco,
  • Chiara Colombaroni,
  • Esther González-González and
  • Soledad Nogués

12 December 2024

Encouraging older and newer mobility alternatives to standard privately owned cars, such as cycling and autonomous vehicles, is necessary to reduce pollution, enhance safety, increase transportation efficiency, and create a more sustainable urban env...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Paving the Future: Sustainable Road Design and Urban Mobility in Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,463 Views
21 Pages

FOXN3 and GDNF Polymorphisms as Common Genetic Factors of Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors

  • Andrea Vereczkei,
  • Csaba Barta,
  • Anna Magi,
  • Judit Farkas and ,
  • Andrea Eisinger,
  • Orsolya Király,
  • Andrea Belik,
  • Mark D. Griffiths,
  • Anna Szekely and
  • Eszter Kotyuk
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

26 April 2022

Epidemiological and phenomenological studies suggest shared underpinnings between multiple addictive behaviors. The present genetic association study was conducted as part of the Psychological and Genetic Factors of Addictions study (n = 3003) and ai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Personalized Molecular Neurobiology of Brain Mapping of Global Pain and Mental Illness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,160 Views
25 Pages

15 January 2021

Energy constraint hinders the popularization and development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). As an emerging technology equipped with rechargeable batteries, wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) are being widely accepted and recognized. I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,179 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2023

The occurrence of rockburst can seriously impact the construction and production of deep underground engineering. To prevent rockburst, machine learning (ML) models have been widely employed to predict rockburst based on some related variables. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,898 Views
21 Pages

Training and Technology Acceptance of ChatGPT in University Students of Social Sciences: A Netcoincidental Analysis

  • Elena María García-Alonso,
  • Ana Cristina León-Mejía,
  • Roberto Sánchez-Cabrero and
  • Raquel Guzmán-Ordaz

18 July 2024

This study analyzes the perception and usage of ChatGPT based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). Conducting reticular analysis of coincidences (RAC) on a convenience survey among university students in the social sciences, this research delves...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Supporting Student Learning in Postsecondary Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,394 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2019

As traffic congestion in cities becomes serious, intelligent traffic signal control has been actively studied. Deep Q-Network (DQN), a representative deep reinforcement learning algorithm, is applied to various domains from fully-observable game envi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems in Sensor Networks and Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
665 Views
14 Pages

10 February 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) is widely used to learn sequential decision-making policies in complex environments. Deep Q-network (DQN) extends Q-Learning using deep neural networks, enabling learning in high-dimensional state spaces. However, conventi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
33 Pages

23 August 2026

The rapid growth of distributed renewable generation and electric vehicles has increased the demand for flexible peak-shaving resources. Battery swapping stations (BSSs), which centrally manage standardized batteries under the battery-as-a-service mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Complex Systems and Cybernetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,287 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2024

In this paper, the implementation of a new pupil detection system based on artificial intelligence techniques suitable for real-time and real-word applications is presented. The proposed AI-based pupil detection system uses a classifier implemented w...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,529 Views
28 Pages

3 October 2018

Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork (VANET) is a special mobile ad hoc network that composed of facilities such as vehicle nodes and roadside units. Message transfer among vehicle nodes has been a great challenge due to the network’s highly variable topol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Paradigms in Data Sensing and Processing for Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,532 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Energy Management and Trading Strategy for Multi-Distribution Networks with Shared Energy Storage Based on Nash Bargaining Game

  • Yuan Hu,
  • Zhijun Wu,
  • Yudi Ding,
  • Kai Yuan and ,
  • Feng Zhao and
  • Tiancheng Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 June 2025

In distribution networks, energy storage serves as a crucial means to mitigate power fluctuations from renewable energy sources. However, due to its high cost, energy storage remains a resource whose large-scale adoption in power systems faces signif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Smart Microgrids in Renewable Energy Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,428 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of Mycological Possibility Using Machine Learning Models for Effective Inclusion in Sustainable Forest Management

  • Raquel Martínez-Rodrigo,
  • Beatriz Águeda,
  • Teresa Ágreda,
  • José Miguel Altelarrea and ,
  • Luz Marina Fernández-Toirán and
  • Francisco Rodríguez-Puerta
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 July 2024

The integral role of wild fungi in ecosystems, including provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services, is well recognized. However, quantifying and predicting wild mushroom yields is challenging due to spatial and temporal variability....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Forestry Management and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,209 Views
15 Pages

11 January 2023

The cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) constitutes a gold standard for the assessment of an individual’s cardiovascular fitness. A trend is emerging for the development of new machine-learning techniques applied to the automatic process of CP...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning for Intelligent Engineering Systems and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,106 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2023

Intergovernmental collaboration is essential for regionally coordinated air pollution prevention and control. An evolutionary game model of local government behavior strategy selection taking into account the fixed cost of the local government, the t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Balancing Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emission under the Context of Carbon Peak in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,700 Views
16 Pages

Age-Aware Utility Maximization in Relay-Assisted Wireless Powered Communication Networks

  • Ning Luan,
  • Ke Xiong,
  • Zhifei Zhang,
  • Haina Zheng and ,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Pingyi Fan and
  • Gang Qu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 September 2021

This article investigates a relay-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where the access point (AP) inspires the auxiliary nodes to participate together in charging the sensor, and then the sensor uses its harvested energy to send s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,320 Views
26 Pages

3 June 2023

As the penetration rate of variable renewable energy such as wind power increases in the power system, the composition and balance of the system also change gradually. The intermittency of renewable energy poses great stability challenges to the trad...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,115 Views
24 Pages

11 December 2025

Nanosatellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are an attractive platform for commercial and scientific missions, but their downlink capacity is constrained by bandwidth and by low ground station duty cycles (often under 5%). These limitations are particula...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)

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