Advances in hardware technology have enabled more integration of sophisticated software,
triggering progresses in development and employment of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs), and …

Providing accurate information on available evacuation routes is critical during the time-
sensitive emergency situation of a building fire, particularly when it occurs in a large-scale …

Given the unpredictable nature of transportation networks, a strategic disaster evacuation
plan involving taking detours, which avoids congested and less connected links, is of …

As global warming caused by greenhouse gases grows (GHGs) into a global environmental
threat, carbon dioxide emissions are drawing increasing attention in these years. Among all …

This paper presents a solution to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) large scale
route planning and task assignment joint problem. Given a set of constraints (eg, time) and a …

Intelligent autonomous evacuation navigation (AEN) system manages to solve wayfinding
problems during emergency evacuation, especially for those who are not familiar with the …

Video streaming has emerged as a killer application in today's Internet, delivering a
tremendous amount of media contents to millions of users at any given time. Such a heavy …

In engineering studies, finding the best route from a start point to an end point on pixel-
based weighted maps is a big problem for researchers. For this problem many methods and …

The inspection of transmission line using suspended based robots has drawn great attention
from many utility companies. Such an emerging smart technology has the advantages of …

A graphical application of graph theory is to follow the shortest route between two nodes,
starting at one node and linking to another node through many intermediate nodes. This …