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Barbara Cardone, Valeria D?Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
One of the issues of greatest interest in urban planning today concerns the evaluation of the most vulnerable urban areas in the presence of different types of climate hazards. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy MCDA model is implemented on a GIS-bas...
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Xuelong Li, Deyou Chen, Jianhua Fu, Shumin Liu and Xuesheng Geng
Based on the relationship between rockburst and microseismic event indicators, this study proposes that the risk of rockburst in mine working faces, roadways, and even the entire mine should be studied through the ?double high? risk evaluation of microse...
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Yared Gari, Paul Block, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Muluneh Mekonnen, Getachew Assefa, Abebe Kidus Ephrem, Yared Bayissa and Seifu A. Tilahun
The absence of a basin-wide apportionment agreement on using the Nile River equitably has been a long-standing source of disagreement among Nile riparian states. This study introduces a new approach that the riparian states can consider that quantifies t...
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Wen-Kai K. Hsu, Jun-Wen Chen, Nguyen Tan Huynh and Yan-You Lin
This study aims to discuss a risk assessment of navigation safety for ferries. In this research, the risk factors (RFs) for the navigation safety of ferries are first investigated from relevant literature and ferry operational features. A fuzzy AHP (Anal...
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Jianjie Sun, Xi Chen, Zhengwu Fu and Giuseppe Lacidogna
In this study, the clustering method of the concrete matrix rupture and rubber fracture damages as well as the prediction of the ultimate load of crumb rubber concrete using the acoustic emission (AE) technique were investigated. The loading environment ...
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Shaoyue Shi, Danhong Zhang, Yixin Su, Chengpeng Wan, Mingyang Zhang and Cong Liu
This paper develops a decision-making model to assist the improvement of the carrying capacity of ship locks by combing fuzzy logic, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (T...
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Chan-Uk Yeom and Keun-Chang Kwak
In this paper, we propose context-based GK clustering and design a CGK-based granular model and a hierarchical CGK-based granular model. Existing fuzzy clustering generates clusters using Euclidean distances. However, there is a problem in that performan...
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Ming-Yuan Hsieh
This research has interdisciplinarily employed the ?SoLoMo? concept of Intern of Things (IoT) technology, Social Cognitive Theory and the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) into the hierarchical Analytical Network Process (ANP) model of qualitative ana...
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Jae Hyuk Cho and Hayoun Lee
Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) is a typical routing protocol that effectively reduces transmission energy consumption by forming a hierarchical structure between nodes. LEACH on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been widely studied in t...
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Hsin-Pin Fu, Tsung-Sheng Chang, Hsiao-Ping Yeh and Yu-Xuan Chen
Currently, the green procurement activities of private hospitals in Taiwan follow the self-built green electronic-procurement (e-procurement) system. This requires professional personnel to take the time to regularly update the green specification and so...
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Jeng-Fung Chen, Quang Hung Do, Thi Van Anh Nguyen and Thi Thanh Hang Doan
Electricity load forecasting plays a paramount role in capacity planning, scheduling, and the operation of power systems. Reliable and accurate planning and prediction of electricity load are therefore vital. In this study, a novel approach for forecasti...
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Ying Lv, Yuxin Wang, Xiaokai Zhang and Dasheng Zhang
The efficient utilization of water resources is the key to ensuring sustainable development. Due to the complex relationship between resource utilization and economy and the environment, there are positive societal effects from a scientific and precise a...
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Zenith Rathore and Emad Elwakil
Organizations have been trying to increase their efficiency and improve their performance in order to achieve their goals. Various factors determine organizational success. The construction industry is a project-based industry which is exceptionally dyna...
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Ping Lu, Xuan Yang and Zhou-Jing Wang
Energy-saving and low-carbon technologies play important roles in reducing environmental risk and developing green tourism. An energy-saving and low-carbon technology scheme selection may often involve multiple criteria and sub-criteria as well as multip...
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The editor of this special issue on “Intelligent Control in Energy Systems” have made an attempt to publish a book containing original technical articles addressing various elements of intelligent control in energy systems. The response to ou...
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Tugce Yanar, Sultan Kocaman and Candan Gokceoglu
Urban areas may be affected by multiple hazards, and integrated hazard susceptibility maps are needed for suitable site selection and planning. Furthermore, geological?geotechnical parameters, construction costs, and the spatial distribution of existing ...
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Lin Zhang, Yian Zhu and Xianchen Shi
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) received an unprecedented surge of people?s interest worldwide in recent years. This paper investigates the specific problem of cooperative mission planning for multiple UAVs on the battlefield from a hierarchical decision...
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Xiaohong Jiang, Huiying Wang and Xiucheng Guo
The advent of e-commerce has led to a rapid acceleration of rural logistics development in China. To enhance green and sustainable development of rural logistics, it is necessary to improve the service quality of the rural last mile delivery and analyze ...
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Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, Wanchang Zhang, Atefeh Gholami and Zhijie Zhang
Site selection for runoff harvesting at large scales is a very complex task. It requires inclusion and spatial analysis of a multitude of accurately measured parameters in a time-efficient manner. Compared with direct measurements of runoff, which is tim...
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