To achieve scientific progress in terms of building a cumulative body of knowledge, careful
attention to benchmarking is of the utmost importance, requiring that proposals of new …

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) plays an essential role within buildings, impacting health,
well-being and productivity, considering that individuals spend much of their daily lives …

Choosing the proper hierarchical clustering algorithm and number of clusters is always a
key question in consumer sensory projects. In many cases, researchers do not publish any …

Passive acoustic monitoring is usually presented as a complementary approach to
monitoring wildlife communities and assessing ecosystem conditions. Automatic species …

Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has become a promising candidate for wearable
energy harvesting and self‐powered sensing systems. However, processing large amounts …

This paper gives an experimentally supported review and comparison of several indices
based on the conventional K-means inertia criterion for determining the number of clusters …

Assessing progress on the pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals is crucial for
evaluating the sustainability of a Country, although this is not easy, considering the …

Method comparisons are essential to provide recommendations and guidance for applied
researchers, who often have to choose from a plethora of available approaches. While many …

Unsupervised learning, particularly K-means clustering, seeks to partition data into clusters
with distinct intra-class cohesion and inter-class disparity. However, the arbitrary selection of …

In the context of climate change, adapting a city's open spaces to heat waves and extreme
heat is crucial for mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect and ensuring the wellbeing of its …