Urbanization is accelerating rapidly, highlighting the critical role of aligning with sustainable development goals, urban green and blue spaces (UGS and UBS). These spaces play a crucial role in enhancing the health ...
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Urbanization is accelerating rapidly, highlighting the critical role of aligning with sustainable development goals, urban green and blue spaces (UGS and UBS). These spaces play a crucial role in enhancing the health and well-being of city residents in terms of ecology. Acknowledging the importance of urban ecology, this study utilizes Sentinel-2A data and support vector machine classification, aimed to identify UGS and UBS. To examine the connections between UGS and UBS, specific indices, spectral bands, and textures were calculated. Additionally, the concentration of chlorophyll, a vital indicator of ecological health, was assessed using three indices. Structural equation modeling was employed to elucidate the relationship between UGS and UBS and their impact on chlorophyll concentration for the years 2017 and 2023. In the 2017 model, UGS exhibited a positive path coefficient (0.25) with chlorophyll-a, indicating that an increase in UGS is associated with an increase in chlorophyll levels. Conversely, in 2023, the path coefficient turned negative (− 0.83), presenting a stark contrast to the 2017 model. This shift suggests potential environmental or urban development changes, such as alterations in the quality or type of urban green spaces, potentially including more non-native or ornamental plants that contribute less to overall chlorophyll levels. UGS can be subjected to pollution, soil compaction, and other stressors that reduce plant health. Similarly, the UBS showed an increase in its path coefficient from − 0.99 in 2017 to − 1.8 in 2023, suggesting improvements such as cleaner water or urban planning strategies aimed at reducing water pollution. The consistent negative relationship across both years suggests that urban water bodies are not contributing to Chl levels due to complex interactions of water bodies with their urban surroundings. However, further research is essential to delve into these dynamics and comprehend the implications for urban ecological
Identifying the most influential spreaders as an influence maximization problem (IMP) has become one of the most compelling topics in social network analysis due to its successes in viral marketing. In this paper, we ...
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We solve the problem of robot path planning using Dynamic Programming (DP) designed to perform well in case of a sudden path blockage. A conventional DP algorithm works well for real time scenarios only when the updat...
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In this paper, an approach to multi robot exploration is presented. One of the key issues in multi robot exploration is how to assign target locations to the individual robots and how to better distribute the robots o...
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(纸本)9783037853610
In this paper, an approach to multi robot exploration is presented. One of the key issues in multi robot exploration is how to assign target locations to the individual robots and how to better distribute the robots over the environment. The proposed technique applies a well-known unsupervised clustering algorithm (k-means) in order to fairly divide the space into as many disjoint regions as available robots. Hungarian Method is used for the assignment of robots to the individual regions with the task to explore the corresponding area. To drive the robots around the environment, a frontier 'regions on the boundary between open space and unexplored space' based navigation strategy is used to decide where to move next, according to the data collected so far. Furthermore, we discuss improvements to the frontier based exploration strategy, by pruning the frontier cells that further reduces the computational time. The numbers of candidate locations are evaluated based on three criteria: number of unknown cells, number of known cells and real path travelling cost. Simulations are presented to show the performance of the proposed technique. This method can best be applied in search and rescue operations, partitioning helps to explore different regions of the workspace parallely by different robots instead of concentrating efforts in particular spot, pruning helps to make movement decisions much faster, the result is that the potential victims in a region will not have to wait much longer.
A new distributed learning automata (DLA) based algorithm for solving stochastic shortest path problem is presented. The objective is to use DLA to find a policy that determines a path from a source node to a destinat...
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(纸本)0970789017
A new distributed learning automata (DLA) based algorithm for solving stochastic shortest path problem is presented. The objective is to use DLA to find a policy that determines a path from a source node to a destination node with minimal expected cost. It has been shown that the proposed algorithm finds the shortest path in a stochastic graph with probability as close as to unity.
Learning automata (LA) is a global search method and used for solving several NP-Complete problems, such as object partitioning problem and optimizing the structure of neural networks. In this paper, we introduce an a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0970789017
Learning automata (LA) is a global search method and used for solving several NP-Complete problems, such as object partitioning problem and optimizing the structure of neural networks. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm based on the learning automata for solving graph isomorphism problem. The feasibility of this algorithm is shown through computer simulations. Based on the simulation results, we conjecture that the proposed algorithm has average time complexity of order θ(n3), which shows an improvement in order of magnitude.
Despite intensive research, it is still at its early stage to prevent breakdown of construction machine, leading to a need to develop an autonomous and robust solution that minimizes equipment downtime and ensures the...
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Area exploration is the key behind many researches in robotics. Numerous exploration problems have been solved based on the concept of frontiers that can be defined as the boundary between the explored and unexplored ...
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