Systems, Volume 13, Issue 6

Urgency and severity of climate change impacts have become increasingly prominent, making the enhancement of corporate climate risk disclosure (CCRD) a shared demand among regulators, investors, and the general public. From the perspective of irratio...

Emergency material suppliers serve as a critical component within emergency logistics systems, with their capabilities directly influencing operational efficiency. To identify suppliers with comprehensive capabilities, this study establishes an evalu...

In the era of shifting global economic dynamics and rapid digital transformation, the demand for enhanced corporate innovation capabilities has significantly increased. However, workplace ostracism, which often arises in complex organizational contex...

Many traffic conflicts on the roads are caused by a small proportion of drivers. Currently, there are few studies exploring the time-varying patterns of driving behavior among these drivers. This paper proposes a generic time-series analytical framew...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education highlights the growing need for AI literacy among K–12 teachers, particularly to enable effective human–machine cooperation. This study investigates Saudi K–12 educators&r...

Heightened environmental policies along with the necessity for a resilient supply chain (SC) network have driven companies to adopt circular economy (CE) strategies. Although CE initiatives have shown significant effects on SC operations, the advent...

The digitalization of rural areas has emerged as a crucial strategy for promoting economic development, yet the phenomenon of “digital suspension” poses a challenge, where the lack of digital integration in certain sectors may hinder econ...

This work underlines an analogy between urban and biological systems. The dialogic approach of systems biology showed us that parts constitute a whole and, in turn, the whole constitutes the parts. The development of a biological system such as an an...

The evaluation of port service quality (PSQ) is critical for enhancing the competitiveness of container terminals. As technological innovation continues to reshape port operations, PSQ has shifted beyond operational efficiency to deliver smart, relia...

With the continuous advancement of the Internet and information technologies, the capacity for development and integration of vehicle and cargo resources has been significantly enhanced, driving the rapid emergence of vehicle–cargo matching pla...

The EVM method is an essential project management technique that compares the work done to the planned values (PVs) to identify project variances. However, the inherent uncertainties and possibilities in the project introduce uncertainty in the input...

Existing studies on platoon trajectory optimization of connected and automated vehicles face challenges in balancing computational efficiency, privacy, and safety. This study proposes a distributed optimization method that decomposes the platoon traj...

The intermodal express network of high-speed railways and highways can fully utilize the flexibility of highways and the advantages of high-speed railways, such as low cost, high efficiency, and low carbon emission. This paper studies the hub locatio...

In today’s fast-changing business environment, artificial intelligence (AI) capability plays a critical role in fostering product innovation (PI). Resource-based theory (RBT) posits that resources and capabilities characterized as valuable, rar...

The connected and automated vehicles (CAV) smoothing mixed traffic flow has gained attention, and a thorough assessment of these control algorithms is necessary. Our previous research proposed the time-varying model predictive control (TV-MPC) strate...

The present study addresses the need for valid and reliable tools to assess employability thinking among young people in training. In a labor market increasingly shaped by transversal skill demands, the objective was to construct and validate a scale...

Construction projects are becoming increasingly complex due to their dynamic nature, the integration of multiple disciplines, and the need for strategic alignment between organizational processes and project management. However, traditional project m...

Accurately forecasting emergency material demand during the initial stages of disaster response is challenging due to communication disruptions and data scarcity. This study proposes a hybrid model integrating regression analysis and intelligent anal...

This study presents a methodology for integrating Asset Performance Management (APM) and Asset Investment Planning (AIP) platforms for joint optimization of productivity and reliability using simulation experiments. This research combines data from a...

In response to escalating societal and environmental expectations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved into a strategic imperative rather than a voluntary or peripheral activity. This study investigates the effect of employees’ CS...

Cryptocurrency markets are characterized by high volatility, nonlinear dependencies, and limited transparency, making short-term forecasting particularly challenging for both researchers and practitioners. To address these complexities, this study in...

The global tourism industry is currently experiencing a significant boom, leading to increasing prosperity in the tourism economy. However, litigation disputes and conflicts between tourism consumers and operators have become more frequent, severely...

In the context of increasing environmental awareness and resource scarcity, trade-in and remanufacturing have emerged as important strategies for sustainable product management. This study constructs decision-making models for a monopolistic manufact...

The public–private partnerships (PPP) mode is very popular in public infrastructure projects. The PPP model for sponge city construction (SCC) provides an effective way to curb and manage the increasingly serious ecological water problems in Ch...

This scoping review explores the integration of sustainability into design education within Taiwanese higher education institutions. Taiwan has implemented education reforms and national sustainability policies, yet their integration into creative di...

The study analyses at the information level the impact of the main economic indicators on migration and access to services in the European Union, using methods specific to intelligent information systems. The research is based on the correlations bet...

Air cargo logistics plays a crucial role in transforming supply chains and increasing speed, reliability, and global connectivity. However, fragmented data integration and limited digitalization are key challenges in air cargo supply. Global challeng...

This study examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on agricultural land conversion. Using a newspaper-based index of EPU and a comprehensive panel dataset covering 270 prefecture-level cities in China, we estimate a city fixed effect...

Effectively managing immigrant workforces presents a significant contemporary challenge for organizations operating in a globalized world. Current management practices often fall short, failing to adequately address the complex interplay of social is...

As ESG practices become increasingly embedded in global capital markets, their impact on firm financing costs remains an open question in emerging economies, where regulatory divergence and rating inconsistency complicate investor perceptions, partic...

Micro smart factories (MSFs) represent a new way for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to build smart factories. Intelligence and manufacturing are two important dimensions of intelligent manufacturing. However, there is still a gap in the re...

Cyber threats that target Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing environments are growing in scale and complexity, which necessitates the development of security solutions that are both robust and scalable while also protecting privacy. Edge sce...

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With the widespread application of AI-generated content (AIGC) tools in creative domains, users have become increasingly concerned about the ethical issues they raise, which may influence their adoption decisions. To explore how ethical perceptions a...

This study examines how a low-carbon manufacturer strategically adopts blockchain technology and selects sales modes with a dual-purpose e-commerce platform that focuses on both profit and consumer surplus. We develop six game-theoretic models by com...

A digital innovation (DI) process with multiple stakeholder involvement is complex. While a reductionist approach might be occasionally favourable, embracing the complexity is more beneficial. In terms of researchers, it is social scientists’ c...

Grey target decision making is a useful tool to solve multiple-criteria decision-making problems. Decision makers’ expected information can reflect their preferences and play an important role in decision process. In this paper, a new grey targ...

With the rapid development of the Internet, businesses in the traditional catering industry are increasingly shifting toward the Online-to-Offline mode, as on-demand food delivery platforms continue to grow rapidly. Within these takeout systems, ride...

Mobile payment technology (MPT) has emerged as a tool with the potential to advance financial inclusion and sustainable development. However, the existing literature inadequately explains how sustainability factors influence user behavior toward MPT...

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital ecosystems has reshaped privacy dynamics, particularly for young digital citizens navigating data-driven environments. This study explores evolving privacy concerns across three ke...

This study investigates the evolutionary game dynamics of medical knowledge sharing (KS) among Chinese hospitals under government regulation, focusing on the strategic interactions between general hospitals, community health service centers, and gove...

Efficient task allocation remains a fundamental challenge in multi-agent systems, particularly under resource constraints and large-scale deployments. Classical methods, including market-based mechanisms, centralized optimization techniques, and game...

This paper utilizes the Shifting the Burden Archetype (Senge/Stroh) to document a systemic pattern that is unfortunately, often unconscious to the parties involved and inadvertently leads to the undermining of corporate or government/Indigenous relat...

Understanding user interaction patterns during technology-triggered public discourse provides critical insights into how emerging technologies gain social meaning. This study develops an intelligent digital twin framework for modeling discourse dynam...

The efficacy of new FMECA methods can be assessed through qualitative comparisons of the failure mode rankings. This approach is suitable for a few failure modes but can become impractical or lead to misleading results for more extensive problems. Th...

Urbanization in African countries entails substantial growth in the urban population and economic development. The interdependent progress of the population and economy significantly impacts the sustainable development of these nations. By constructi...

Traditional off-the-job training is becoming ineffective in high-end equipment research and development (R&D) projects due to the contradiction between rapid technological progress and the slow growth of newcomers, calling for “on-the-job m...

To address the challenges of data fragmentation, inconsistent standards, and weak interactivity in oil and gas field surface engineering, this study proposes an intelligent delivery system integrated with three-dimensional dynamic modeling. Utilizing...

Congestion on port motorways often leads to reduced capacity and traffic efficiency, while the growing prevalence of connected vehicles (CVs) offers new opportunities for improving traffic control. This paper proposes a hierarchical control method in...

This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in the purchasing department of Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, aiming to analyze and improve risk management practices within its project environment. Projects in this department are character...