Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Data-Driven Approach for Enhancing Customer Loyalty through Strategic Business Innovations and Technology Integration

Background: Customer trust and loyalty are critical in today’s competitive business environment. Integrating technology, sustainability, and omnichannel approaches has been recognised as a key factor in enhancing customer experience. Howeve...

Unraveling the airline value creation network with fuzzy cognitive maps

The creation of value is a critical factor that determines the competitive capacity of firms and their ability to survive. Notwithstanding its importance, value creation usually becomes a fuzzy concept that is difficult to grasp, especially...

International Business

Research on the multi-agent motivation coupling evolution and synergy improvement for farmland ecological protection in China

The global ecology movement of the 1960s gave rise to international efforts to of farmland ecological protection. In these systematic, multi-agent projects, the long-term viability of farmland ecological protection rests significantly upon ...

Conceptual System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modelling Simulation of Interorganisational Fairness in Food Value Chains: Research Agenda and Case Studies

System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple produ...

A techno-economic quantification of carbon reduction strategies in the Trinidad and Tobago power generation sector using Carbon Emission Pinch Analysis (CEPA)

Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) conditional commitment to the Paris Agreement requires an overall power emission avoidance (EAT) of 28.7 MtCO2-e from Business-As-Usual by 2030, dependent on international financing. T&T has outlined several init...

Integrating sensor data and GAN-based models to optimize medical university distribution: a data-driven approach for sustainable regional growth in Saudi Arabia

IntroductionThe regional disparity in higher education access can only be met when there are strategies for sustainable development and diversification of the economy, as envisioned in Saudi Vision 2030. Currently, 70% of universities are c...

A parametric similarity measure for neutrosophic set and its applications in energy production

As a useful tool for managing ambiguous and inconsistent data, the Single Value Neutrosophic Set (SVNSs) is an extension of both Fuzzy Sets (FSs) and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets (IFSs). In the field of information theory, metrics like similar...

Open Innovations for Tourism Logistics Design: A Case Study of a Smart Bus Route Design for the Medical Tourist in the City of Greater Mekong Subregion

ABSTRACT: One of the industries with the fastest growth rates worldwide, and notably in Thailand, is medical tourism. With connections to Cambodia and Laos, Ubon Ratchathani is located in lower northeastern Thailand, close to Vietnam and My...

Forestry at the EU’s Doorstep – How Much are We Ready in the Area of Occupational Safety in Forestry?

According to the classification of business activities in the National Classification of Activities, agriculture, forestry and fishery together account for 3.43% of all injuries recorded in 2009, which places them in the lower part of the a...

Empirical research on the evolution trend of heat and sentiment for emergencies

Emergencies inflict heavy casualties, economic losses, ecological damage, and significant social harm to society. By segmenting information topics and analysing emotional shifts, we can identify corresponding real-world events and their imp...

Facing post COVID-19 era, what is really important for Ecuadorian SMEs?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have to face the time post COVID-19. The pandemic impacted the SMEs with great force worsening the well-known situation of lack of resources and its tendency to disappear in the very early years of ...

Predictions of FluSurge 2.0 methodology on hospital utilization during the Covid-19 outbreaks in several countries

Application of the Flusurge 2.0 methodology to predict the needs of conventional hospital treatment, intensive care, and respiratory support resources as a consequence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in several countries. Different countr...

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCIAL REPORTING: INTEGRATED POLICY

Abstract. The project of the International Accounting Standards Board that updates and develops international accounting standards (IASB) has been lasting more than twenty years. In Ukraine, International accounting standards were adopted a...

The Digital Maturity Paradox: The Divergent Impact of Network Readiness and FDI Across Development Tiers

Contemporary economic growth trajectories are characterized by accelerating digital integration. However, the digital infrastructure required to accelerate growth remains unevenly distributed across development tiers. This study examines a ...

Effect of road surface deformations on lateral lane utilization and longitudinal driving behaviours

Various road surface deformations generally occur on urban and rural roads due to infrastructure, superstructure deficiencies and excessive heavy vehicle loads. In addition to driver-based errors, many accidents happen due to these mentione...

Optimization of Suspender Cable Force of Long-Span Concrete Arch Bridges Based on Embedded Matrix Method

In order to simplify the completion process of cable force optimization and adjustment in long-span concrete-filled steel tube arch bridges, a new method was proposed in the present study. To this end, a reasonable completion cable force ca...

Parameter Fuzzy Self-Adaptive Dynamic Window Approach for Local Path Planning of Wheeled Robot

As a classic algorithm for realizing robot local path planning, the dynamic window approach (DWA) uses an objective function to choose the optimal velocity commands. However, the path generated by the DWA in the complex environment is not s...

A Novel SINS/SRS/CNS Multi-Information Fusion Global Autonomous Navigation Method

In order to improve the continuity and smoothness of transpolar flight and optimize autonomous navigation performance, a SINS/SRS/CNS (strapdown inertial navigation system/spectral redshift navigation system/celestial navigation system) mul...

Departure Time and Route Choices With Accurate Information Under Binary Stochastic Bottleneck Capacity in the Morning Commute

Uncertainty, a critical factor of causing congestion and extra travel costs in the commute, can be mitigated by providing information. This paper studies the welfare effects of accurate pre-trip information on departure time and route choic...