People spend more than 90% of their life time in buildings, which makes occupant behavior
one of the leading influences of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy and occupant …

Robust optimization over time (ROOT) is the combination of robust optimization and dynamic
optimization. In ROOT, frequent changes to deployed solutions are undesirable, which can …

Crowds can be subject to intrinsic and extrinsic sources of risk, and previous records have
shown that, in the absence of adequate safety measures, these sources of risk can …

Abstract The Kumbh Mela is the largest religious and spiritual mass gatherings on the Earth.
In this way, it remains a source of fascination for vast numbers of Hindus throughout the …

Rapid investigation and damage assessment are crucial for cultural heritage conservation.
At present, mobile crowd sensing (MCS) techniques are very effective for cultural heritage …

Crowd management is a flourishing, active research area and must be given attention due to
the potential losses, disasters, and accidents that could occur if it were neglected. For the …

With the increase in large-scale incidents in real life, crowd evacuation plays a pivotal role in
ensuring the safety of human crowds during emergency situations. The behavior patterns of …

Many real-world optimization problems are dynamic. The field of robust optimization over
time (ROOT) deals with dynamic optimization problems in which frequent changes of the …

The increasing availability of tremendous amounts of data generated by people, vehicles,
and things have provided unprecedented opportunities for understanding human behavior …

Urban infrastructure safety information collection and investigation from public participants
has become a trend in the era of big data. Mobile crowdsensing has facilitated ubiquitous …