Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has become increasingly popular in
recent years, leading to a surge in research on this topic that is widely represented in the …

Abstract The Ocean Observation Network (OON) is an ocean science and engineering
observation platform which integrates underwater wireless sensors, acoustic buoys …

Aerial robots are increasingly being utilized for environmental monitoring and exploration.
However, a key challenge is efficiently planning paths to maximize the information value of …

This article presents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art applications and
methodologies related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the healthcare …

In Bayesian optimization, accounting for the importance of the output relative to the input is a
crucial yet challenging exercise, as it can considerably improve the final result but often …

Controlling the water quality of water supplies has always been a critical challenge, and
water resource monitoring has become a need in recent years. Manual monitoring is not …

Scientists interested in studying natural phenomena often take physical specimens from
locations in the environment for later analysis. These analysis locations are typically …

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-
scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers …

We present a new type of acquisition function for online decision-making in multi-armed and
contextual bandit problems with extreme payoffs. Specifically, we model the payoff function …

We derive criteria for the selection of datapoints used for data-driven reduced-order
modelling and other areas of supervised learning based on Gaussian process regression …