Systems, Volume 13, Issue 2

This study addresses the critical challenge of identifying key nodes in complex networks, an essential task for optimizing network stability, efficiency, and resilience. Traditional approaches often rely on single-dimensional metrics, which may fail...

In China, the current policy of the financial sector on water conservation and management is being vigorously pursued; therefore, efficient synergy between the two systems is of great significance. In this study, the coupling and coordination degree...

Dualistic views in mathematics and natural sciences are severely reducing the scope of science. It began by claiming, more than one century ago, that, in mathematical theories, “a formal list of signs“ (the axioms and rules of inference,...

This study delves into the gender-specific challenges and opportunities in sweet potato farming in Goromonzi District, Zimbabwe, against the backdrop of escalating droughts. Through a blend of surveys, expert analysis, and high-resolution satellite i...

Strategic human resource management plays a crucial role in fostering long-term organizational performance through data-driven decision-making. Human Resource Analytics (HRA), using advanced business intelligence and integrated reporting tools, provi...

Grasping the effective carrying capacity of airport hub subway stations in real-time serves as the foundation for enhancing the safety assurance capability of the hub. Starting from the perspectives of multiple subsystems, including people, stations,...

In response to public health emergencies, the importance of resilient medical facilities—such as large exhibition centers and sports venues that can be rapidly converted into temporary emergency hospitals—has become increasingly evident....

Judicial decision-making in continental law systems requires carefully evaluating complex, interdependent evidence while ensuring consistency and fairness. This study investigates the application of Bayesian networks in structuring legal evidence wit...

To enhance the security and supervision of emergency materials from their source to transport, thus preventing safety incidents, a tripartite evolution model integrating the government, material production enterprises, and logistics entities is propo...

In open innovation projects (OIPs), project members from different participating organizations often have dual social identifications, namely, project identification and organizational identification. While such dual identifications may align or conf...

Recognizing the factors that influence business formation in developing contexts is critical for promoting economic growth. This study examines the drivers of entrepreneurship among university alumni in Ecuador, addressing gaps in the literature rega...

Emergency logistics is essential for rapid and efficient disaster response, ensuring the timely availability and deployment of resources to affected areas. In the process of rescue work, the dynamic changes in rescue point information greatly increas...

Seeking inter-organisation cooperation is an important way to achieve communication technology innovation, and dynamic networked cooperation deserves more attention. The present paper aims to reveal the influence of cooperation network evolution on c...

How can local governments in the Global South effectively implement and sustain digital public participation initiatives, and what specific roles do public officials and knowledge intermediaries play in catalysing and supporting this digital transfor...

This study examines the efficacy of a novel form of consumer-generated content (CGC) digital advertising, termed “directed” consumer-generated content (DCGC), in comparison to traditional brand-created social media advertisements. The ana...

The swift advancement of digital technologies under Industry 4.0 has significantly transformed business operations and supply chain management. These advancements hold the potential to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and foster sustainable developm...

Megaprojects are complex systems comprising interdependent subsystems and diverse stakeholders, each contributing to the project’s resilience and long-term outcomes. Traditional methods for assigning stakeholder influence often assume that stak...

With the continuous development of information and communication technology, “software-defined vehicle” has become the trend of the times. The intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) is becoming a new direction for the development of the auto...

Digital twin technology offers immersive and cost-effective solutions for workforce training, yet its practical implementation within SME training frameworks remains limited. This study develops and evaluates the Digital Twin Framework for Workforce...

Systems-of-systems are often characterized as systems where the constituent parts have some independence from the whole. Recent research has aimed at clarifying in more detail what this independence means. It has shown that independence requires the...

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented boom of Electric Vehicles (EVs). However, EVs’ further development confronts critical bottlenecks due to EV Energy (EVE) issues like battery hazards, range anxiety, and charging inefficiency. Emergin...

In the big data era, global business competition focuses on industrial chain coordination. The whole rural e-commerce industry chain, as an advanced system characterized by digital transformation, is experiencing rapid growth. This paper aims to expl...

The rise of Industry 4.0 has led more manufacturers to embrace the concept of intelligent transformation. Understanding this relationship improves both transformation efficiency and the quality of innovation. This study, based on resource orchestrati...

This study investigates the relationship between corporate financialization and innovation investment in Chinese manufacturing firms under the backdrop of economic policy uncertainty (EPU). We systematically examine the dual mechanisms through which...

In the digital era, cybersecurity is integral for preserving national security, digital privacy, and social sustainability. This research emphasizes the role of non-functional equirements (NFRs) in developing secure software systems that enhance soci...

The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies supports the digital transformation of production processes, making them more efficient. This study examines how digital infrastructure, digital skills, and the use of cloud technologies influence labor produ...

In the 21st-century global economy, the rapid growth of the finance industry, particularly in personal credit, fuels economic growth and market prosperity. However, the rapid expansion of personal credit business has brought explosive growth in the a...

The research on aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) mostly relies on a single attention mechanism or grammatical semantic information, which makes it less effective in dealing with complex language structures. To address the challenges in fine-gra...

As the global demand for surveillance cameras increases, the digital footage data also explicitly increases. Analyzing and extracting meaningful content from footage is a resource-depleting and laborious effort. The traditional video synopsis techniq...

With the increasing importance of renewable energy in the global energy transition, the microgrid has attracted wide attention as an efficient and flexible power solution. However, there are some problems in current networked microgrid systems, such...

Taking into account retailers’ resistance and operational costs, manufacturer enterprises are facing the optimal decision-making problem of whether and what kind of direct sales channels to open. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of asymmetric de...

Emergency scenario characterization and analysis is an essential approach to describing and understanding the future development of emergencies and assisting in response decision-making. This paper aims to develop a method for emergency evolution ana...

Integrating lean principles into lean robotics systems emerges as a transformative path for production processes. This paper addresses the question of what are the best practices of integrating lean principles within robotics systems to enhance produ...

The 20th CPC Central Committee stressed that the key to high-quality economic development is to cultivate new quality productive forces, and AI plays a key role in cultivating new quality productive forces. This paper takes A-share listed enterprises...

The industrial Internet plays a vital role in promoting the digital transformation of enterprises, especially in the core application field of the power industry. Evaluating the maturity of the industrial Internet of power enterprises and finding the...

More and more attention has been paid to the environmental problems brought about by the development of the global economy. Based on the principal–agent theory, this paper constructs an incentive model for the government and polluting enterpris...

Innovation ecosystem resilience (IER) is the maximum tolerance of an innovation ecosystem to accidents, crises, and other external shocks. Developing such resilience involves stages such as risk diversification, impact mitigation, recovery and recons...

Health checks aim to improve the health of the population by identifying individuals with risk factors earlier and intervening to prevent disease. The role of commissioners is to ensure health checks provide as much benefit as possible for taxpayer f...

This study constructs a Stackelberg competitive model that includes manufacturers, e-commerce platforms, and third-party marketing platforms to explore the impact of precision marketing services on the strategic balance of all parties involved. The a...

This study examines how environmental regulation (ER), green intellectual capital (GIC), green human resource management (GHRM), and green ambidextrous innovation (GAI) contribute to enhancing the sustainable performance (SP) of manufacturing firms....

Globally, recycled building materials have attracted much attention, but the ambiguity of the use of recycled building materials makes it difficult for the building material remanufacturer (BMR) to compete with the building material manufacturer (BMM...

In the globalized, technologically advanced landscape, coopetition—simultaneously cooperating and competing—has become a key strategy for innovation and enhanced value creation. This research focuses on the impact of technology-driven coo...

Accurate prediction of station passenger flow is crucial for optimizing rail transit efficiency, but peak passenger flow in urban rail transit (URT) is often disrupted by random events, making predictions challenging. In this paper, in order to solve...

Crowd management at turnstiles in metro stations is a critical task for ensuring safety, efficiency, and comfort for passengers. A methodology based on observation and microsimulation provides an advanced understanding and optimization of crowd flow...

Digital tools are transforming the construction industry, reshaping how projects are designed, managed, and delivered. Building Information Modeling (BIM), a cornerstone of this transformation, requires a systemic approach because its implementation...

In the dual-channel retail industry, excessive enthusiasm in offline retailers’ services often extends beyond the customer’s “interpersonal distance zone”, leading to psychological discomfort for customers and a subsequent los...

The layout of emergency medical services (EMS) is of vital importance. A well-planned layout significantly impacts the timeliness of response and operational efficiency, which are crucial for saving lives and mitigating injury severity. This paper pr...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimization of the HIV drug supply chain, with a dual focus on minimizing freight costs and delivery times. With the help of a dataset containing 10,325 instances of supply chain transactions, key variable...

The paper describes our project to develop, verify, and deploy an All-Hazards Return of Investment (ROI) model for the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to provide army installations with a decision support tool for evaluatin...

An important way to realize urban–rural integration and regional coordinated development is to attract labor forces back to rural areas. Most of the existing studies consider the impact of individual factors on population migration, they lack a...