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One-way carsharing facility planning under uncertain demand
The rapid increase in the ownership of private vehicles has exacerbated social and environmental problems, such as traffic congestion and exhaust...
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Urban Big Data: City Management and Real Estate Markets
In this chapter we discuss recent trends in the application of urban big data and their impact on real estate markets. We expect such technologies to...
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Integration of maintenance scheduling and planning for large-scale asset fleets
Large fleets of engineering assets that are subject to ongoing degradation are posing the challenge of how and when to perform maintenance. For a...
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Planning and Management of Charging Facilities for Electric Vehicle Sharing
Electric vehicle (EV) sharing has experienced rapid development and has served as a flexible and environmental friendly means for urban...
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Smart Farming as a Game-Changer for Regional-Spatial Planning
The present chapter deals with smart farming and its future development, related critical concerns and opportunities as well as possible strategy...
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Network flow problem heuristic reduction using machine learning
Most of the supporting tools developed for logistic optimization and processing infrastructure planning are based on the network flow problem. The...
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Subsymmetries of the Wallpaper Groups in Architecture and Urban Designs
Wallpaper patterns are commonly used in architecture and decorative art, regardless of region and culture. An interesting consequence is that the...
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A bi-objective decision model and method for the integrated optimization of bus line planning and lane reservation
The increasingly serious traffic congestion makes the bus system more and more inefficient. It is recognized all over the world that designing an...
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Mathematical Model and Random Search Algorithm for the Optimal Planning Problem of Replacing Traditional Public Transport with Electric
We investigate the complex optimization problem that arises in the planning of the transition process from traditional public transport to electric...
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A Cross-Domain Landscape of ICT Services in Smart Cities
With the rapid growth of emerging technologies and services, smart city has been extensively studied with the development of modern societies. There...
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A spatially explicit optimization model for the selection of sustainable transport technologies at regional bus companies
Buses account for almost 60% of the total public transport services in Europe, and most of the vehicles are diesel fuelled. Regional transport...
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Co-optimizing the smart grid and electric public transit bus system
As climate change provides impetus for investing in smart cities, with electrified public transit systems, we consider electric public transportation...
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Example Applications of Stochastic Programming
In this chapter, we preview a variety of example applications of stochastic programming (SP). These applications include flexible manufacturing...
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Emerging Spanning Trees in the Work of Candilis–Josic–Woods
This paper introduces the use of graph theory for the study of the work of Candilis–Josic–Woods. Α short introduction to the architects’ main...
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“The Leaves”: Redevelopment and Culture, West Guagfu Road Redevelopment Project in Shanghai
This thesis was developed in China in 2019 and deals with using bamboo for lightweight, self-supporting roofing. The research topic is the study of...
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Introductory remarks on the special issue of Optimization and Engineering dedicated to SDEWES 2021 conference
The background of this Special Issue (SI) of the Optimization and Engineering (OPTE) journal is the 2021 Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and...
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Model-Predictive Control of Traffic Emissions in Port-City Environments
In this paper, we present a method, based on model predictive control (MPC), to reduce the impact of pollutant emissions in contexts where a port is...
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From Complex Dynamics to the Architecture of the City
The paper presents a theory for the architecture of the city. The aim of the theory, based on the imitation of cities that grow spontaneously, is to...
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Rotorcraft low-noise trajectories design: black-box optimization using surrogates
This paper addresses the noise-minimal trajectory optimization problem for a specific type of aircraft: rotorcraft. It relies on a realistic noise...
