Integrating federated learning in bearing fault diagnosis marks a crucial step in industrial operations, showing great potential for enhancing diagnostic accuracy and data privacy. However, the effectiveness of federated learning is often compromised by varying data quality and quantity among cli...

Efficient irrigation water use is vital for food security, economic returns and ecological protection, yet it faces multiple uncertainties within the water-energy-carbon (WEC) nexus. Conventional optimization models are often limited by complexity, lack of interpretability, and poor alignment with rou...

This chapter examines the experiences of Syrian Refugee Women Entrepreneurs (SRWE) in Jordan between 2019–2021 in ways that highlight the significant challenges and tensions faced across personal, family, and business domains. Using Paradox Theory, gender paradoxes experienced by SRWE are examine...

Financial time-series forecasting lies between AI and market microstructure, but most studies optimise generic error metrics instead of risk-adjusted economic value under realistic frictions. Unlike NLP and vision, the field lacks a shared, reviewer-enforced standard for data handling and evaluation,&...

Fiber composite materials (FCMs) have been widely used in high-performance engineering systems owing to their high strength-to-weight ratio, corrosion resistance, and excellent mechanical properties. Reliable defect detection is therefore essential for ensuring structural integrity, operational safety, and serv...

This article addresses the distributed economic dispatch (ED) issue of microgrids. The primary objective of this study is to derive a distributed optimization algorithm with a compressed communication scheme over directed networks. Specifically, the algorithm aims to solve the ED problem, wh...

Gradual domain adaptation (GDA) has been recognized as an effective strategy for alleviating domain shift by decomposing large distribution discrepancies into a sequence of progressive adaptation steps, thereby enabling smoother knowledge transfer from source to target domains. However, existing GDA&#...

How do the distinctive managerial challenges of hybrid organizations appear in practice? Which skills can be taught to respond to those challenges? These important questions are investigated based on, first, an in-depth study of social incubators/accelerators and social ventures (SVs). Secon...

The aim of this paper is to aid educators in sustainability or social innovation to make sense of their creativity. We use a systems model of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi 1988, 1996, 1999) as an enquiring device to tease out issues that influence creativity within these realms...