Modeling thermal comfort provides quantitative evidence and parameters for effective and efficient urban planning, design, and building construction particularly in a dense and narrow inner city, which has become one of many concerns for sustainable urban development. This paper aims to develop...

Online rating can directly reflect users’ collective behavioral patterns which is of great concern in online social systems. In this paper, we investigate the correlations between the users’ rating behaviors and the real-time updated average ratings of objects given from other users’...

Recent studies have coupled blade element momentum (BEM) theory with the Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, as the BEM-CFD method to analyse the flows in marine current turbines is with much less computational resources. The accuracy of...

The process for absorbing knowledge becomes an essential element for innovation in firms and in adapting to changes in the competitive environment. In this paper, we present an improved knowledge diffusion hypernetwork (IKDH) model based on the idea that knowledge will spread from the target...

Using the requisition papers of Chinese Nature Science Basic Research in management and information department, we construct the weighted network of research areas (WNRA). In WNRA, two research areas, which is represented by the subject codes, are considered to be connected if they have been...

Firstly, risks in Chinese modern transformation are discussed from the perspective of gap between urban and rural areas and mobility of rural laborers. Secondly, the significant role of migrant works in elimination of risks in Chinese modern transformation is analyzed from two aspects, namely...

Social influence plays an important role in analyzing online users’ collective behaviors [Salganik et al., Science <Emphasis Type="Bold">311, 854 (2006)]. However, the effect of the social influence from the viewpoint of theoretical model is missing. In this paper, by taking into account the social influence and...</emphasis>

In this paper, we propose a simple rule that generates scale-free small-world networks with tunable assortative coefficient. These networks are constructed by two-stage adding process for each new node. The model can reproduce scale-free degree distributions and small-world effect. The...

This paper presents comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the distribution of individual annual incomes across the majority of the population in China from 1992–2009. The cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) and probability density functions (PDFs) are presented. Overall, the CDFs...

Adopting the entire collecting information of users, the hybrid information filtering of heat conduction and mass diffusion (HHM) (Zhou et al., 2010) was successfully proposed to solve the apparent diversity–accuracy dilemma. Since the recent behaviors are more effective to capture the...