Cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather episodes, which are expected to
increase with climate change. Cities also influence their own local climate, for example …

Cities need to build on their resilience to deal with the combined effects of urbanization,
changing geopolitical contexts, and climate change. The physical form of cities has …

Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

The COVID-19 pandemic spreads rapidly around the world, and has given rise to huge
impacts on all aspects of human society. This study utilizes big data techniques to analyze …

Effective spatial planning of urban communities plays a critical role in the sustainable
development of cities. Despite the convenience brought by geographic information systems …

Urban centrality is critical for comprehending cities' most significant locations.
Conventionally, urbanists analyzed urban centrality by transforming urban spatial networks …

Popular concepts in urban planning, like the 15-minute city, suggest that everyday services
should be accessible to everyone within “walking distance”. However, walking distance is …

Foundational mapping remains a challenge in many parts of the world, particularly in
dynamic scenarios such as natural disasters when timely updates are critical. Updating …

Online vehicle routing is an important task of the modern transportation service provider.
Contributed by the ever-increasing real-time demand on the transportation system …

Quantum annealing algorithms belong to the class of metaheuristic tools, applicable for
solving binary optimization problems. Hardware implementations of quantum annealing …