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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) represents up to 40% of global solid waste, posing a significant barrier to achieving circular economy (CE) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 and SDG 12. However, construction waste management (CWM) systems remain constrained by fragmented data environments ...
Mohamed T. Elnabwy, Pablo Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical Analysis of a Telephone Call Center: A Queueing-Science Perspective [PDF]

A call center is a service network in which agents provide telephone-based services. Customers that seek these services are delayed in tele-queues. This paper summarizes an analysis of a unique record of call center operations.
Noah Gans, Novemer, Lawrence Brown, Anat Sakov, Avishai Mandelbaum, Sergey Zeltyn, Linda Zhao, Haipeng Shen   +7 more
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Sustainable Production Planning: Insights Into Factors, Models, and Solution Methods

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Effective resource management remains a major challenge for organizations seeking to balance economic efficiency with environmental and social responsibility. In this context, production planning becomes a strategic mechanism for integrating sustainability into industrial operations.
Daysi Ortiz, Pedro Gómez‐Gasquet, Francisco Fraile   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANALISIS SISTEM ANTREAN PADA SPBU 54.803.16 ULUWATU UNTUK MENGUKUR EFISIENSI PELAYANAN

E-Jurnal Matematika
This study aims to analyze the queuing characteristics of motorcycles refueling pertalite at SPBU 54.803.16 Uluwatu and to determine the most appropriate queueing model to represent the performance of its service system.
RAGAH NIHAN RAZANDO, NOVIA NURROHMAH, NI MADE ARI PUAN KAMINI, I GEDE DARMA YUDA UDAYANA, MADE AYU DWI OCTAVANNY   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Runtime in Spark‐Like Systems With Allocation‐Aware Deterministic Models

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Apache Spark is widely used for distributed data processing, but accurately predicting application execution time remains challenging because performance depends on application structure, resource configuration, and executor‐allocation behavior.
Hina Tariq, Olivia Das
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum Machine Learning for Cybersecurity: A Taxonomy and Future Directions

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Context The rapid increase in cyber threats, coupled with increasingly sophisticated attack strategies and the exponential growth of data in recent years, has exposed significant limitations in classical machine learning, rule‐based, and signature‐based defense mechanisms.
Siva Sai, Ishika Goyal, Shubham Sharma, Sri Harshita Manuri, Vinay Chamola, Rajkumar Buyya   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Open‐Source Serverless Frameworks: An Empirical Analysis of Issues and their Underlying Causes

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
Context Serverless computing, also referred to as Function‐as‐a‐Service (FaaS), has revolutionized application development by abstracting the management of underlying infrastructure. Accordingly, the software industry frequently adopts open‐source serverless frameworks such as OpenFaaS and Apache OpenWhisk for greater portability and flexibility ...
Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Kari Smolander, Tommi Mikkonen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The power-series algorithm applied to cyclic polling systems [PDF]

Polling Systems;Queueing Theory;operations ...
Blanc, J.P.C.
core  

Deploying Soft Operations Research Techniques in Hybrid Modelling: The Role of Qualitative System Dynamics in Sustainability Analysis

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organisations increasingly need modelling approaches that can support sustainable development decisions across economic, environmental and social dimensions. The triple bottom line (TBL) perspective provides a useful basis for such analysis, but it also introduces modelling challenges because the relevant dimensions are often interdependent ...
Masoud Fakhimi, Navonil Mustafee, Lampros Stergioulas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source