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Nadir Abbas, Zeshan Abbas and Xiaodong Liu
The rapid expansion of the Internet and communication technologies is leading to significant changes in both society and the economy. This development is driving the evolution of smart cities, which utilize cutting-edge technologies and data analysis to ...
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Tigezaw Lamesgin Addis, Belay Simane Birhanu and Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu
Addis Ababa is one of the eleven cities in Africa that have been taking bold action in meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement. At the present time, the city is working toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enabling the city to be resilient ...
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Florina Popa
Ensuring the convergence in the process of the Romanian economic and social environment adaptation, to the requirements of internal market of European Union, but also the alignment of public policies with good practices of European Union, led to the emer...
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Nasik Najar and Kenneth M. Persson
The 2020 Sustainability Index (SI), a benchmark system, shows that 2% of the 184 municipal water and wastewater utilities (WWS) in Sweden have a good performance level (green), i.e., they meet all benchmark requirements for the ?climate adaptation and fl...
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Yutao Jing, Xianghe Wang, Juan Heredia-Juesas, Charles Fortner, Christopher Giacomo, Rifat Sipahi and Jose Martinez-Lorenzo
This work designed a disturbance-observer-based nonlinear sliding mode surface controller (SMC) and validated the controller using a simulated PX4-conducted quadcopter. To achieve this goal, this research (1) developed a dynamic mathematical model; (2) b...
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Waqas ur Rahman, Md Delowar Hossain and Eui-Nam Huh
Video clients employ HTTP-based adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms to optimize users? quality of experience (QoE). ABR algorithms adopt video quality based on the network conditions during playback. The existing state-of-the-art ABR algorithms ignore the ...
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Andrei V. Panteleev and Aleksandr V. Lobanov
In this paper, we consider the application of the zero-order mini-batch optimization method in the problem of finding optimal control of a pencil of trajectories of nonlinear deterministic systems in the case of incomplete information about the state vec...
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Bin Jiang
Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: ?Far more small things than ...
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Nabil Nafia, Abdeljalil El Kari, Hassan Ayad and Mostafa Mjahed
In this study, we develop a rigorous tracking control approach for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with unknown dynamics, unknown physical parameters, and subject to unknown and unpredictable disturbances. In order to better estimate the unknow...
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Matthew J. Deitch and Brock Dolman
Seasonal rainfall dynamics in Mediterranean-climate coastal California place pressures on humans and aquatic ecosystems. Without rainfall during summer, residents and land managers commonly turn to streams and adjacent shallow aquifers to meet domestic, ...
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