The booming express delivery industry corresponds to the environmental challenges
caused by massive express packaging waste (EPW). An efficient logistics network is …

Corrosion is the leading cause of leakage and burst failures in long-distances gas pipelines.
Periodic maintenance is often used to extend the service life of the pipeline. The presence of …

With the rapid development of the Chinese economy in the last thirty years, crude oil has
become an essential commodity and a strategic resource for China. Thus, the topic of crude …

To address information vagueness and uncertainty of the order demand, the logistics service
provider (LSP) service capacity and the target preference caused by emergency events, a …

This paper emphasises the pivotal role of enhancing research and development (R&D) staff
competence and boosting team innovation efficiency in configuring R&D project teams for …

Crowdsourcing has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A large amount of
labelled data can be obtained efficiently and cheaply from the crowdsourcing platform …

Online product reviews on e-commerce platforms help consumers evaluate and select
products. However, the large number of accumulated product reviews leads to information …

Spatio-temporal crowdsourcing (STC) is a typical case of complex system-of-systems (SoSs)
design, wherein the primary objective is to allocate real-time tasks to suitable groups of …

Advancements of electronic platforms in construction industry makes it possible for
construction service scheduling (CSS). However, fairness concerns in CSS, such as …

Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of tasks to a crowd of contributors on a dedicated platform.
The crowd on these platforms is very diversified and includes various profiles of contributors …