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Computational social science in smart power systems: Reliability, resilience, and restoration

open access: yesEnergy Conversion and Economics, 2023
Smart grids are typically modelled as cyber–physical power systems, with limited consideration given to the social aspects. Specifically, traditional power system studies tend to overlook the behaviour of stakeholders, such as end‐users.
Jaber Valinejad   +4 more
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Scalable and serializable networked multi-actor programming [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2020
A major challenge in writing applications that execute across hosts, such as distributed online services, is to reconcile (a) parallelism (i.e., allowing components to execute independently on disjoint tasks), and (b)cooperation (i.e., allowing components to work together on common tasks).
Bo Sang   +4 more
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A Geometric Classification of World Urban Road Networks

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
This article presents a method to uncover universal patterns and similarities in the urban road networks of the 80 most populated cities in the world. To that end, we used degree distribution, link length distribution, and intersection angle distribution
Mohamed Badhrudeen   +4 more
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Methodology for Participatory GIS Risk Mapping and Citizen Science for Solotvyno Salt Mines

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2018
The Horizon 2020 interim evaluation (2017) indicates a steep increase in citizen engagement in European Union Citizen Science (CS) projects, with less than 1% in budgetary terms and minimal influence.
Abby Muricho Onencan   +2 more
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Agent-based modeling for data-driven enforcement: combining empirical data with behavioral theory for scenario-based analysis of inspections

open access: yesData & Policy
Effective enforcement of laws and regulations hinges heavily on robust inspection policies. While data-driven approaches to testing the effectiveness of these policies are gaining popularity, they suffer significant drawbacks, particularly a lack of ...
Eunice Koid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making Sense of Multi-Actor Social Collaboration in Building Information Modelling Level 2 Projects: A Case in Malaysia

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2021
Despite the diversity of thinking among the scholars on building information modelling (BIM) collaboration, there is a paucity of studies that capture the dimension of social collaboration in BIM projects.
Raja Nor Husna Raja Mohd Noor   +2 more
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AFFECTIVE COMPUTING AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR CAR DRIVING SIMULATORS

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2017
Car simulators are essential for training and for analyzing the behavior, the responses and the performance of the driver. Augmented Reality (AR) is the technology that enables virtual images to be overlaid on views of the real world. Affective Computing
Dragoș Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable digital education technologies: an analysis of selection processes in European universities

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
The digital transformation of education has rapidly evolved in recent years, driven by advancements in technology and further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Özge Okur   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Game of Chains: Unravelling Uncertainty and Trading Behaviour in Horticultural Supply Chains

open access: yesAgriculture
The Dutch horticultural supply chain is characterised by substantial uncertainty resulting from ongoing organisational changes, such as the transformation from an auction-cooperative system to a sales organisation-based structure. This uncertainty causes
Marinus van Haaften   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the Governance System Regarding Adoption of Energy Efficient Appliances by Households in Nigeria

open access: yesEnergies, 2017
The adoption of energy efficient electrical appliances by households has a great potential to reduce electricity consumption in Nigeria. A well-formulated and implemented policy (mix) to spur adoption is said to be required to drive this process.
James A. Gana, Thomas Hoppe
doaj   +1 more source

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