[EN] This paper examines the economic optimization of reinforced concrete road frame bridges by threshold acceptance. The formulation of the problem includes 50 discrete variables: three geometrical ones, three types of ...

In the no-idle flowshop, machines cannot be idle after finishing one job and before starting the next one. Therefore, start times of jobs must be delayed to guarantee this constraint. In practice machines show this ...

[EN] The pedestrian walkways are a structural element widely used in urban areas for safe crossing transport infrastructure (roads, highways, railways) by pedestrians. Specifically mixed pedestrian walkways and are ...

[ES] En la actualidad existen grandes volúmenes de imágenes que representan textos manuscritos digitalizados, estas imágenes han sido tomadas con dispositivos completamente diferentes a causa del avance tecnológico a lo ...

Differentiating between users that interact on a tabletop could be beneficial for collaborative tasks to support territoriality-oriented features such as a more efficient space management or a better presentation of the ...

In this paper, we present FLAP, a partial-order planner that accurately applies the least-commitment principle that governs traditional partial-order planning. FLAP fully exploits the partial ordering among actions of a ...

Task scheduling has a significant impact on the performance of the MapReduce computing framework. In this paper, a scheduling problem of periodical batch jobs with makespan minimization is considered. The problem is ...

This paper discusses horizontal cooperation in road transportation and supports the relevance of this praxis as a way of reducing delivery costs and greenhouse gas emissions. In a competitive market, costs reduction due ...

[EN] The aim of this study was to compare the performance of the well-known genetic algorithms and tabu search heuristics with the financial problem of the partial tracking of a stock market index. Although the weights of ...

[EN] Maritime container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between ships or between ships and land vehicles (trucks or trains). These terminals involve a large number of complex and combinatorial ...