Water, energy, food, and ecology play significant roles in poverty reduction, human well-
being, and regional sustainable development. With the increasing demand for energy and …

The search for powerful optimizers has led to the development of a multitude of
metaheuristic algorithms inspired from all areas. This work focuses on the animal kingdom …

With the rapid increase of ageing infrastructures worldwide, effective and robust inspection
techniques are highly demanding to evaluate structural conditions and residual lifetime. The …

There are many studies on the sustainability of renewable energy, mainly focusing on
energy supply, economic, social, environmental and technological aspects, but there are few …

Investigation of the coupling coordination between urbanization and geological hazards is
an important component in fostering environmentally sustainable development. This study …

Continuous urbanization, development of the economy, and the unrestrained exploitation
and use of natural resources, the earth's ecosystems have been severely damaged by …

Prefabrication has been considered an effective alternative to conventional building. It has
gained an increasing amount of attention over the last few decades as a way to advance …

The utilization of water resources and water security in Central Asia are critical to the stability
of the region. This paper assesses the water security of the five Central Asian countries …

Solving a complex optimization problem in a limited timeframe is a tedious task.
Conventional gradient-based optimization algorithms have their limitations in solving …

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) that widely exist in real world concern all
optimal solutions compromised among multiple objectives. Chicken swarm optimization …