Shandong Institute of Agricultural Sustainable Development

The impact of perceived fairness on consumers’ willingness to pay for water quality improvements: evidence from China

Financing drinking water improvements in low tariff regimes requires price increases, yet affordability alone cannot ensure public acceptance. In a survey experiment with 1027 urban Chinese residents, perceived fairness is associated with 0.58–0.84 RMB/m3 higher WTP for cleaner r...

An Intelligent Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Cost-Efficient and Energy-Aware Cloud Resource Management

The rapid growth of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has intensified the need for efficient resource allocation, energy management, and cost optimization in large-scale data centers. Traditional optimization and machine learning approaches, while effectiv...