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Article ; Online: Prioritizing the Potential Smartification Measures by Using an Integrated Decision Support System with Sustainable Development Goals (a Case Study in Southern Italy)

Giuseppe Guido / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Alessandro Vitale / Vincenzo Gallelli / Vittorio Astarita

Safety, Vol 8, Iss 35, p

2022 Volume 35

Abstract: With the increasing population of cities, expanding roads as one of the essential urban infrastructures is a necessary task; therefore, adverse effects such as increased fuel consumption, pollution, noise, and road accidents are inevitable. One of the ... ...

Abstract	With the increasing population of cities, expanding roads as one of the essential urban infrastructures is a necessary task; therefore, adverse effects such as increased fuel consumption, pollution, noise, and road accidents are inevitable. One of the most efficient ways to mitigate congestion-related adverse effects is to introduce effective intelligent transportation systems (ITS), using advanced technologies and mobile communication protocols to make roads smarter and reduce negative impacts such as improvement in fuel consumption and pollution, and reduction of road accidents, which leads to improving quality of life. Smart roads might play a growing role in the improved safety of road transportation networks. This study aims to evaluate and rank the potential smartification measures for the road network in Calabria, in southern Italy, with sustainable development goals. For this purpose, some potential smartification measures were selected. Experts in the field were consulted using an advanced procedure: four criteria were considered for evaluating these smartification measures. The Integrated fuzzy decision support system (FDSS), namely the fuzzy Delphi analytic hierarchy process (FDAHP) with the fuzzy technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) were used for evaluating and ranking the potential smartification measures. The results demonstrated that the repetition of signals in the vehicle has the highest rank, and photovoltaic systems spread along the road axis has the lowest rank to use as smartification measures in the roads of the case study.
Keywords	smart roads ; ITS ; sustainable development goal ; road safety ; FDSS ; FDAHP-FTOPSIS ; Industrial safety. Industrial accident prevention ; T55-55.3 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
Subject code	380
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-05-01T00:00:00Z
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Article ; Online: Development of an Assessment Method for Investigating the Impact of Climate and Urban Parameters in Confirmed Cases of COVID-19: A New Challenge in Sustainable Development.

Pirouz, Behrouz / Shaffiee Haghshenas, Sina / Pirouz, Behzad / Shaffiee Haghshenas, Sami / Piro, Patrizia

International journal of environmental research and public health

2020 Volume 17, Issue 8

Abstract: Sustainable development has been a controversial global topic, and as a complex concept in recent years, it plays a key role in creating a favorable future for societies. Meanwhile, there are several problems in the process of implementing this approach, ...

Abstract	Sustainable development has been a controversial global topic, and as a complex concept in recent years, it plays a key role in creating a favorable future for societies. Meanwhile, there are several problems in the process of implementing this approach, like epidemic diseases. Hence, in this study, the impact of climate and urban factors on confirmed cases of COVID-19 (a new type of coronavirus) with the trend and multivariate linear regression (MLR) has been investigated to propose a more accurate prediction model. For this propose, some important climate parameters, including daily average temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed, in addition to urban parameters such as population density, were considered, and their impacts on confirmed cases of COVID-19 were analyzed. The analysis was performed for three case studies in Italy, and the application of the proposed method has been investigated. The impacts of parameters have been considered with a delay time from one to nine days to find out the most suitable combination. The result of the analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model and the impact of climate parameters on the trend of confirmed cases. The research hypothesis approved by the MLR model and the present assessment method could be applied by considering several variables that exhibit the exact delay of them to new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
MeSH term(s)	Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Climate ; Coronavirus ; Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology ; Disease Outbreaks ; Forecasting ; Health Impact Assessment ; Humans ; Italy/epidemiology ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology ; Population Density ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Sustainable Development ; Temperature ; Wind
Keywords	covid19
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-04-18
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2175195-X
ISSN	1660-4601 ; 1661-7827
ISSN (online)	1660-4601
ISSN	1661-7827
DOI	10.3390/ijerph17082801
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Article: Road safety assessment and risks prioritization using an integrated SWARA and MARCOS approach under spherical fuzzy environment.

Jafarzadeh Ghoushchi, Saeid / Shaffiee Haghshenas, Sina / Memarpour Ghiaci, Ali / Guido, Giuseppe / Vitale, Alessandro

Neural computing & applications

2022 Volume 35, Issue 6, Page(s) 4549–4567

Abstract: There are a lot of elements that make road safety assessment situations unpredictable and hard to understand. This could put people's lives in danger, hurt the mental health of a society, and cause permanent financial and human losses. Due to the ... ...

Abstract	There are a lot of elements that make road safety assessment situations unpredictable and hard to understand. This could put people's lives in danger, hurt the mental health of a society, and cause permanent financial and human losses. Due to the ambiguity and uncertainty of the risk assessment process, a multi-criteria decision-making technique for dealing with complex systems that involves choosing one of many options is an important strategy of assessing road safety. In this study, an integrated stepwise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) with measurement of alternatives and ranking according to compromise solution (MARCOS) approach under a spherical fuzzy (SF) set was considered. Then, the proposed methodology was applied to develop the approach of failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) for rural roads in Cosenza, southern Italy. Also, the results of modified FMEA by SF-SWARA-MARCOS were compared with the results of conventional FMEA. The risk score results demonstrated that the source of risk (human) plays a significant role in crashes compared to other sources of risk. The two risks, including landslides and floods, had the lowest values among the factors affecting rural road safety in Calabria, respectively. The correlation between scenario outcomes and main ranking orders in weight values was also investigated. This study was done in line with the goals of sustainable development and the goal of sustainable mobility, which was to find risks and lower the number of accidents on the road. As a result, it is thus essential to reconsider laws and measures necessary to reduce human risks on the regional road network of Calabria to improve road safety.
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-10-25
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	1480526-1
ISSN	1433-3058 ; 0941-0643
ISSN (online)	1433-3058
ISSN	0941-0643
DOI	10.1007/s00521-022-07929-4
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Book ; Online: Investigating a Serious Challenge in the Sustainable Development Process

Behrouz Pirouz / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Patrizia Piro

Sustainability ; Volume 12 ; Issue 6

Analysis of Confirmed cases of COVID-19 (New Type of Coronavirus) Through a Binary Classification Using Artificial Intelligence and Regression Analysis

2020

Abstract: Nowadays, sustainable development is considered a key concept and solution in creating a promising and prosperous future for human societies. Nevertheless, there are some predicted and unpredicted problems that epidemic diseases are real and complex ... ...

Abstract	Nowadays, sustainable development is considered a key concept and solution in creating a promising and prosperous future for human societies. Nevertheless, there are some predicted and unpredicted problems that epidemic diseases are real and complex problems. Hence, in this research work, a serious challenge in the sustainable development process was investigated using the classification of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (new version of Coronavirus) as one of the epidemic diseases. Hence, binary classification modeling was used by the group method of data handling (GMDH) type of neural network as one of the artificial intelligence methods. For this purpose, the Hubei province in China was selected as a case study to construct the proposed model, and some important factors, namely maximum, minimum, and average daily temperature, the density of a city, relative humidity, and wind speed, were considered as the input dataset, and the number of confirmed cases was selected as the output dataset for 30 days. The proposed binary classification model provides higher performance capacity in predicting the confirmed cases. In addition, regression analysis has been done and the trend of confirmed cases compared with the fluctuations of daily weather parameters (wind, humidity, and average temperature). The results demonstrated that the relative humidity and maximum daily temperature had the highest impact on the confirmed cases. The relative humidity in the main case study, with an average of 77.9%, affected positively, and maximum daily temperature, with an average of 15.4 ° C, affected negatively, the confirmed cases.
Keywords	sustainable development ; COVID-19 ; GMDH algorithm ; binary classification ; environmental factors ; covid19
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-03-20
Publisher	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Publishing country	ch
Document type	Book ; Online
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Article ; Online: Investigating a Serious Challenge in the Sustainable Development Process

Behrouz Pirouz / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Patrizia Piro

Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 6, p

Analysis of Confirmed cases of COVID-19 (New Type of Coronavirus) Through a Binary Classification Using Artificial Intelligence and Regression Analysis

2020 Volume 2427

Abstract	Nowadays, sustainable development is considered a key concept and solution in creating a promising and prosperous future for human societies. Nevertheless, there are some predicted and unpredicted problems that epidemic diseases are real and complex problems. Hence, in this research work, a serious challenge in the sustainable development process was investigated using the classification of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (new version of Coronavirus) as one of the epidemic diseases. Hence, binary classification modeling was used by the group method of data handling (GMDH) type of neural network as one of the artificial intelligence methods. For this purpose, the Hubei province in China was selected as a case study to construct the proposed model, and some important factors, namely maximum, minimum, and average daily temperature, the density of a city, relative humidity, and wind speed, were considered as the input dataset, and the number of confirmed cases was selected as the output dataset for 30 days. The proposed binary classification model provides higher performance capacity in predicting the confirmed cases. In addition, regression analysis has been done and the trend of confirmed cases compared with the fluctuations of daily weather parameters (wind, humidity, and average temperature). The results demonstrated that the relative humidity and maximum daily temperature had the highest impact on the confirmed cases. The relative humidity in the main case study, with an average of 77.9%, affected positively, and maximum daily temperature, with an average of 15.4 °C, affected negatively, the confirmed cases.
Keywords	sustainable development ; covid-19 ; gmdh algorithm ; binary classification ; environmental factors ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
Subject code	333
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
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Article ; Online: Evaluation of Contributing Factors Affecting Number of Vehicles Involved in Crashes Using Machine Learning Techniques in Rural Roads of Cosenza, Italy

Giuseppe Guido / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Alessandro Vitale / Vittorio Astarita / Yongjin Park / Zong Woo Geem

Safety, Vol 8, Iss 28, p

2022 Volume 28

Abstract: The evaluation of road safety is a critical issue having to be conducted for successful safety management in road transport systems, whereas safety management is considered in road transportation systems as a challenging task according to the dynamic of ... ...

Abstract	The evaluation of road safety is a critical issue having to be conducted for successful safety management in road transport systems, whereas safety management is considered in road transportation systems as a challenging task according to the dynamic of this issue and the presence of a large number of effective parameters on road safety. Therefore, the evaluation and analysis of important contributing factors affecting the number of vehicles involved in crashes play a key role in increasing the efficiency of road safety. For this purpose, in this research work, two machine learning algorithms, including the group method of data handling (GMDH)-type neural network and a combination of support vector machine (SVM) and the grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA), are employed. Hence, the number of vehicles involved in an accident is considered to be the output, and the seven factors affecting transport safety, including Daylight (DL), Weekday (W), Type of accident (TA), Location (L), Speed limit (SL), Average speed (AS), and Annual average daily traffic (AADT) of rural roads in Cosenza, southern Italy, are selected as the inputs. In this study, 564 data sets from rural areas were investigated, and the relevant, effective parameters were measured. In the next stage, several models were developed to investigate the parameters affecting the safety management of road transportation in rural areas. The results obtained demonstrated that the “Type of accident” has the highest level and “Location” has the lowest importance in the investigated rural area. Finally, although the results of both algorithms were the same, the GOA-SVM model showed a better degree of accuracy and robustness than the GMDH model.
Keywords	road safety ; safety management ; road transportation ; GMDH ; GOA-SVM ; machine learning ; Industrial safety. Industrial accident prevention ; T55-55.3 ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
Subject code	380
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
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Article: Application of Harmony Search Algorithm to Slope Stability Analysis

Haghshenas, Sina Shaffiee / Haghshenas, Sami Shaffiee / Geem, Zong Woo / Kim, Tae-Hyung / Mikaeil, Reza / Pugliese, Luigi / Troncone, Antonello

Land. 2021 Nov. 15, v. 10, no. 11

2021

Abstract: Slope stability analysis is undoubtedly one of the most complex problems in geotechnical engineering and its study plays a paramount role in mitigating the risk associated with the occurrence of a landslide. This problem is commonly tackled by using ... ...

Abstract	Slope stability analysis is undoubtedly one of the most complex problems in geotechnical engineering and its study plays a paramount role in mitigating the risk associated with the occurrence of a landslide. This problem is commonly tackled by using limit equilibrium methods or advanced numerical techniques to assess the slope safety factor or, sometimes, even the displacement field of the slope. In this study, as an alternative approach, an attempt to assess the stability condition of homogeneous slopes was made using a machine learning (ML) technique. Specifically, a meta-heuristic algorithm (Harmony Search (HS) algorithm) and K-means algorithm were employed to perform a clustering analysis by considering two different classes, depending on whether a slope was unstable or stable. To achieve the purpose of this study, a database made up of 19 case studies with 6 model inputs including unit weight, intercept cohesion, angle of shearing resistance, slope angle, slope height and pore pressure ratio and one output (i.e., the slope safety factor) was established. Referring to this database, 17 out of 19 slopes were categorized correctly. Moreover, the obtained results showed that, referring to the considered database, the intercept cohesion was the most significant parameter in defining the class of each slope, whereas the unit weight had the smallest influence. Finally, the obtained results showed that the Harmony Search algorithm is an efficient approach for training K-means algorithms.
Keywords	algorithms ; cohesion ; databases ; land ; landslides ; risk ; safety factor
Language	English
Dates of publication	2021-1115
Publishing place	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Document type	Article
ZDB-ID	2682955-1
ISSN	2073-445X
ISSN	2073-445X
DOI	10.3390/land10111250
Database	NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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Article ; Online: Prioritizing and Analyzing the Role of Climate and Urban Parameters in the Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Based on Artificial Intelligence Applications.

Shaffiee Haghshenas, Sina / Pirouz, Behrouz / Shaffiee Haghshenas, Sami / Pirouz, Behzad / Piro, Patrizia / Na, Kyoung-Sae / Cho, Seo-Eun / Geem, Zong Woo

International journal of environmental research and public health

2020 Volume 17, Issue 10

Abstract: Nowadays, an infectious disease outbreak is considered one of the most destructive effects in the sustainable development process. The outbreak of new coronavirus (COVID-19) as an infectious disease showed that it has undesirable social, environmental, ... ...

Abstract	Nowadays, an infectious disease outbreak is considered one of the most destructive effects in the sustainable development process. The outbreak of new coronavirus (COVID-19) as an infectious disease showed that it has undesirable social, environmental, and economic impacts, and leads to serious challenges and threats. Additionally, investigating the prioritization parameters is of vital importance to reducing the negative impacts of this global crisis. Hence, the main aim of this study is to prioritize and analyze the role of certain environmental parameters. For this purpose, four cities in Italy were selected as a case study and some notable climate parameters-such as daily average temperature, relative humidity, wind speed-and an urban parameter, population density, were considered as input data set, with confirmed cases of COVID-19 being the output dataset. In this paper, two artificial intelligence techniques, including an artificial neural network (ANN) based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and differential evolution (DE) algorithm, were used for prioritizing climate and urban parameters. The analysis is based on the feature selection process and then the obtained results from the proposed models compared to select the best one. Finally, the difference in cost function was about 0.0001 between the performances of the two models, hence, the two methods were not different in cost function, however, ANN-PSO was found to be better, because it reached to the desired precision level in lesser iterations than ANN-DE. In addition, the priority of two variables, urban parameter, and relative humidity, were the highest to predict the confirmed cases of COVID-19.
MeSH term(s)	Algorithms ; Artificial Intelligence ; Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Cities ; Climate ; Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis ; Humans ; Italy ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Temperature ; Wind
Keywords	covid19
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-05-25
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	2175195-X
ISSN	1660-4601 ; 1661-7827
ISSN (online)	1660-4601
ISSN	1661-7827
DOI	10.3390/ijerph17103730
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Article ; Online: Development of a Binary Classification Model to Assess Safety in Transportation Systems Using GMDH-Type Neural Network Algorithm

Giuseppe Guido / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Alessandro Vitale / Vincenzo Gallelli / Vittorio Astarita

Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 6735, p

2020 Volume 6735

Abstract: Evaluating road safety is an enduring research topic in Infrastructure and Transportation Engineering. The prediction of crash risk is very important for avoiding other crashes and safeguarding road users. According to this task, awareness of the number ... ...

Abstract	Evaluating road safety is an enduring research topic in Infrastructure and Transportation Engineering. The prediction of crash risk is very important for avoiding other crashes and safeguarding road users. According to this task, awareness of the number of vehicles involved in an accident contributes greatly to safety analysis, hence, it is necessary to predict it. In this study, the main aim is to develop a binary model for predicting the number of vehicles involved in an accident using Neural Networks and the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH). For this purpose, 775 accident cases were accurately recorded and evaluated from the urban and rural areas of Cosenza in southern Italy and some notable parameters were considered as input data including Daylight, Weekday, Type of accident, Location, Speed limit and Average speed; and the number of vehicles involved in an accident was considered as output. In this study, 581 cases were selected randomly from the dataset to train and the rest were used to test the developed binary model. A confusion matrix and a Receiver Operating Characteristic curve were used to investigate the performance of the proposed model. According to the obtained results, the accuracy values of the prediction model were 83.5% and 85.7% for testing and training, respectively. Finally, it can be concluded that the developed binary model can be applied as a reliable tool for predicting the number of vehicles involved in an accident.
Keywords	road safety ; transportation system ; neural network ; GMDH ; binary model ; Environmental effects of industries and plants ; TD194-195 ; Renewable energy sources ; TJ807-830 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
Subject code	380
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-08-01T00:00:00Z
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Article ; Online: Development of an Assessment Method for Investigating the Impact of Climate and Urban Parameters in Confirmed Cases of COVID-19

Behrouz Pirouz / Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas / Behzad Pirouz / Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas / Patrizia Piro

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 2801, p

A New Challenge in Sustainable Development

2020 Volume 2801

Abstract	Sustainable development has been a controversial global topic, and as a complex concept in recent years, it plays a key role in creating a favorable future for societies. Meanwhile, there are several problems in the process of implementing this approach, like epidemic diseases. Hence, in this study, the impact of climate and urban factors on confirmed cases of COVID-19 (a new type of coronavirus) with the trend and multivariate linear regression (MLR) has been investigated to propose a more accurate prediction model. For this propose, some important climate parameters, including daily average temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed, in addition to urban parameters such as population density, were considered, and their impacts on confirmed cases of COVID-19 were analyzed. The analysis was performed for three case studies in Italy, and the application of the proposed method has been investigated. The impacts of parameters have been considered with a delay time from one to nine days to find out the most suitable combination. The result of the analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model and the impact of climate parameters on the trend of confirmed cases. The research hypothesis approved by the MLR model and the present assessment method could be applied by considering several variables that exhibit the exact delay of them to new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Keywords	sustainable development ; climate and urban parameters ; COVID-19 ; MLR ; Medicine ; R ; covid19
Subject code	710
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
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