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Journalism --- Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau --- anno 1900-1999 --- Netherlands --- ANP --- ANP.

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A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and maintenance. Operational research, management science, and optimization methods provide a consistent and applicable groundwork for engineering decision-making. These topics have received the interest of researchers and, after a rigorous peer-review process, eight papers have been published in this Special Issue. The articles in this Printed Edition demonstrate how solutions in civil engineering, which bring economic, social, and environmental benefits, are obtained through a variety of methodologies and tools. Usually, decision-makers need to take into account not just a single criterion, but several different criteria and, therefore, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches have been suggested for application in five of the published papers; the rest of the papers apply other research methods. Most approaches suggested decision models under uncertainty, proposing hybrid MCDM methods in combination with fuzzy or rough set theory, as well as D-numbers. The application areas of the proposed MCDM techniques mainly cover production/manufacturing engineering, logistics and transportation, and construction engineering and management. We hope that a summary of the Special Issue as provided here will encourage a detailed analysis of the papers included in the Printed Edition.

railway wagon --- rough sets --- Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) --- neural network --- cost estimation --- boarding/deboarding strategies --- optimisation --- multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- Step-Wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) --- ruled surface --- seat preference --- image processing --- risk management --- fuzzy sets --- supply chain --- Grasshopper --- experimental test --- parametric design --- rough Best–Worst Method (BWM) --- EDAS --- artificial neural networks --- 3D modelling --- civil engineering --- shovel machine --- interval-valued fuzzy Additive Ratio Assessment --- airplane turn time --- oil and gas well drilling projects --- MCDM --- roof shell --- consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR) --- DEMATEL --- tool-flank-wear monitoring --- analytical network process (ANP) --- logistics --- multi criteria decision making --- internal transport --- conceptual design --- hybrid MCDM --- structural analysis --- D number --- construction --- architecture --- multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- performance evaluation --- rough number --- construction project risk --- multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) --- finite element method (FEM) --- manufacturing engineering --- transportation --- experimental testing --- hybrid model --- flexible manufacturing --- rough Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) --- D numbers --- multivariate regression

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The purpose of this Special Issue is to investigate topics related to sustainability issues in the new era, especially in Industry 4.0 or other new manufacturing environments. Under Industry 4.0, there have been great changes with respect to production processes, production planning and control, quality assurance, internal control, cost determination, and other management issues. Moreover, it is expected that Industry 4.0 can create positive sustainability impacts along the whole value chain. There are three pillars of sustainability, including environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and social sustainability. This Special Issue collects 15 sustainability-related papers from various industries that use various methods or models, such as mathematical programming, activity-based costing (ABC), material flow cost accounting, fuel consumption model, artificial intelligence (AI)-based fusion model, multi-attribute decision model (MADM), and so on. These papers are related to carbon emissions, carbon tax, Industry 4.0, economic sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), etc. The research objects come from China, Taiwan, Thailand, Oman, Cyprus, Germany, Austria, and Portugal. Although the research presented in this Special Issue is not exhaustive, this Special Issue provides abundant, significant research related to environmental, economic, and social sustainability. Nevertheless, there still are many research topics that require our attention to solve problems of sustainability.

carbon reduction --- PID controller --- n/a --- time study --- VIKOR --- life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) --- Activity-Based Costing (ABC) --- LS-ARIMAXi-ECM model --- DANP (DEMATEL based ANP) --- multi-attribute decision model (MADM) --- artificial intelligence --- white noise --- OECD --- integrated mathematical programming --- Activity-Based Standard Costing (ABSC) --- qualitative-empirical study --- energy efficiency --- multi-attribute value theory (MAVT) --- e-commerce platform --- decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) --- colored noise --- carbon tax policy --- material flow cost accounting --- Manufacturing Execution System (MES) --- cap & trade --- manufacturing sustainability --- sustainability --- OEE --- mathematical programming --- aluminum-alloy wheel industry --- sustainable development --- return policy --- small and medium enterprises --- decision making --- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) --- tire industry --- footwear industry --- carbon tax --- electrical appliances --- niche inheritance --- carbon emission --- social sustainability --- material handling systems --- small and medium-sized enterprises --- product-mix decision --- internal control --- economic growth --- active suspension --- Industry 4.0 --- corporate social responsibility --- greenhouse gas --- carbon emissions --- succession plan --- digital transformation --- corporate social responsibility (CSR) --- fuel consumption --- agent-based control architecture --- sustainability performance --- activity-based costing (ABC) --- corporate characteristics --- firm value --- industry 4.0 --- digital platforms --- ISO14051 --- theory of constraints (TOC) --- long- and short-term --- NSGAII --- CO2 emissions --- family capital --- green production --- industrial internet of things --- multi-objective optimization --- family business --- exogenous variables

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During the past five decades, we have witnessed a tremendous evolution in water resource system management. Three characteristics of this evolution are of particular note: First, the application of the systems approach to complex water management problems has been established as one of the most important advances in the field of water resource management. Second, the past five decades have brought a remarkable transformation of attitude in the water resource management community towards environmental concerns and action to address these concerns. Third, applying the principles of sustainability to water resource decision-making requires major changes in the objectives on which decisions are based, and an understanding of the complicated inter-relationships between existing ecological, economic, and social factors. The Special Issue includes 15 contributions that offer insights into contemporary problems, approaches, and issues related to the management of complex water resources systems. It will be presumptuous to say that these 15 contributions characterize the success or failure of the systems approach to support water resources decision-making. However, these contributions offer interesting lessons from current experiences and highlight possible future work.

History of engineering & technology --- system dynamics --- system analysis --- complex water system --- uncertainty assessment --- climate change --- regional climate models --- averaging procedures --- HEC-HMS --- Lim river --- Lim water systems --- n/a --- artificial recharge --- groundwater --- treated wastewater --- freshwater resources --- water footprint --- water management --- wine production --- winemaking sector --- Italy --- SuDS --- decision-making --- Soft Systems --- ANP --- modelling --- stakeholder --- systems analyses --- water resources --- planning --- management --- implementation --- political processes --- innovation --- impact --- multi-purpose dam --- water resources systems --- performance-based engineering --- simulation --- resilience --- disaster --- risk --- perception --- community --- Canada --- integrated urban watershed management --- group decision-support system --- risk analysis --- group consensus --- Kashafroud watershed --- water policy --- water portfolio planning --- water resources management --- systems assessment --- adaptive capacity --- coupled human–natural systems --- integrated water resources management --- sociohydrology --- modeling perspectives --- agent-based modeling --- differential equations --- uncertainty --- artificial intelligence --- machine learning --- water resource modelling --- multiobjective optimisation --- river abstraction --- reservoir operation --- stochastic dynamic programming --- fuzzy optimization --- reservoir-river system --- water quantity-quality management --- socio-hydrology --- hydro-sociology --- human-water systems --- human-nature systems --- social-ecological systems --- CHANS --- SES --- socio-hydrologic modeling --- IWRM --- hydrology --- multireservoir operations --- optimization --- multi-agent reinforcement learning --- aggregation–decomposition --- neural networks --- systems --- complexity --- coupled human-natural systems --- aggregation-decomposition