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Ulrich A. Ngamalieu-Nengoue, Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey, F. Javier Martínez-Solano and Daniel Mora-Meliá
Extreme rainfall events cause immense damage in cities where drainage networks are nonexistent or deficient and thus unable to transport rainwater. Infrastructure adaptations can reduce flooding and help the population avoid the associated negative conse...
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Parag C. Pendharkar
Dimensionality reduction research in data envelopment analysis (DEA) has focused on subjective approaches to reduce dimensionality. Such approaches are less useful or attractive in practice because a subjective selection of variables introduces bias. A c...
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Ulrich A. Ngamalieu-Nengoue, Pedro L. Iglesias-Rey and F. Javier Martínez-Solano
The drainage network always needs to adapt to environmental and climatic conditions to provide best quality services. Rehabilitation combining pipes substitution and storm tanks installation appears to be a good solution to overcome this problem. Unfortu...
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Pavement design is essentially and usually a structural long-term evaluation process which is needed to ensure that traffic loads are efficiently distributed at all levels of the total road structure. Furthermore, to get a complete analysis of its durabi...
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Juan Reca, Juan Martínez and Rafael López
This work presents a new approach to increase the efficiency of the heuristics methods applied to the optimal design of water distribution systems. The approach is based on reducing the search space by bounding the diameters that can be used for every ne...
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Yuanyuan Zhu, Shijie Su, Yuchen Qian, Yun Chen and Wenxian Tang
Ship antiroll gyros are a type of equipment used to reduce ships? roll angle, and their parameters are related to the parameters of a ship and wave, which affect gyro performance. As an alternative framework, we designed a calculation method for roll red...
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Mardelle Shepley, Naomi Sachs, Hessam Sadatsafavi, Christine Fournier and Kati Peditto
Can the presence of green space in urban environments reduce the frequency of violent crime? To ascertain the evidence on this topic, we conducted an in-depth literature review using the PRISMA checklist. The search parameters included US articles writte...
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Thaweesak Khongtuk
Discovering All Frequent Items is one of the most important steps in the association rules mining process. Typically, the minimum support is used as a criterion for selecting an interesting itemset. There are many researchers who focus to improve the eff...
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Guido Carpinelli, Fabio Mottola, Daniela Proto, Angela Russo and Pietro Varilone
This paper deals with the problem of optimal allocation (siting and sizing) of storage resources in unbalanced three-phase low voltage microgrids. The siting and sizing problem is formulated as a mixed, non-linear, constrained optimization problem whose ...
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Vladislav T. Todorov, Dmitry Rakov and Andreas Bardenhagen
Disruptive technologies and novel aircraft generations represent a potential approach to address the ambitious emission reduction goals in aviation. However, the introduction of innovative concepts is a time-consuming process, which might not necessarily...
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Mohamed Abbas, Mohammed A. Alshehri and Abdulwasa Bakr Barnawi
Active power losses have the potential to affect the distribution of power flows along transmission lines as well as the mix of energy used throughout power networks. Grey wolf optimization algorithms (GWOs) are used in electrical power systems to reduce...
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Andrew S. Thelen, Dean E. Bryson, Bret K. Stanford and Philip S. Beran
The simultaneous optimization of aircraft shape and internal structural size for transonic flight is excessively costly. The analysis of the governing physics is expensive, in particular for highly flexible aircraft, and the search for optima using analy...
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George Tsakalidis, Kostas Georgoulakos, Dimitris Paganias and Kostas Vergidis
Business process optimization (BPO) has become an increasingly attractive subject in the wider area of business process intelligence and is considered as the problem of composing feasible business process designs with optimal attribute values, such as ex...
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Rui Xin, Tinghua Ai, Ruoxin Zhu, Bo Ai, Min Yang and Liqiu Meng
Metaphor are commonly used rhetorical devices in linguistics. Among the various types, spatial metaphors are relatively common because of their intuitive and sensible nature. There are also many studies that use spatial metaphors to express non-location ...
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Umberto Junior Mele, Luca Maria Gambardella and Roberto Montemanni
Recent systems applying Machine Learning (ML) to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) exhibit issues when they try to scale up to real case scenarios with several hundred vertices. The use of Candidate Lists (CLs) has been brought up to cope with t...
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Lea Heinrich, Wolfgang H. Schulz, Isabella Geis
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Transport systems are marked by a strong path dependency due to habits, infrastructure, and market rigidities. This path dependency result is challenging for innovative solutions as they face unexpected barriers, but also abrupt acceleration once the bar...
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