Diego-Mas, Jose Antonio; Alcaide Marzal, Jorge(Elsevier, 2015-03)
Avatars are used in different contexts and situations: e-commerce, e-therapy, virtual worlds, videogames,collaborative online design... In this context, a good design of an avatar may improve the user experience. The ability ...
[EN] Aged road pavements and insufficient maintenance budgets, along with increasing concerns over the environmental issues related to transportation have introduced additional challenges to highway agencies. Multiobjective ...
Rodríguez Molins, Mario; Ingolotti Hetter, Laura Paola; Barber Sanchís, Federico; Salido Gregorio, Miguel Angel; Sierra, María R.; Puente, Jorge(2014-07-01)
[EN] Scheduling problems usually obtain the optimal solutions assuming that the environment is deterministic. However, actually the environment is dynamic and uncertain. Thus, the initial data could change and the initial ...
Sánchez Anguix, Víctor; Valero Cubas, Soledad; García Fornes, Ana María(World Scientific Publishing, 2011-04)
[EN] An agent-based Virtual Organization is a complex entity where dynamic collections of agents agree to share resources in order to accomplish a global goal or offer a complex service. An important problem for the ...
Azzouz, Ameni; Ennigrou, Meriem; Ben Said, Lamjed(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-01-31)
[EN] Job-shop scheduling problem is one of the most important fields in manufacturing optimization where a set of n jobs must be processed on a set of m specified machines. Each job consists of a specific set of operations, ...
[EN] The problem of allocating students to supervisors for the development of a personal project or a dissertation is a crucial activity in the higher education environment, as it enables students to get feedback on their ...
Morillo-Torres, Daniel; Barber, Federico; Salido, Miguel A.(SAGE Publications, 2017)
[EN] This article focuses on obtaining sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for limited resource programming problems. To this end, a model for integrating makespan and energy consumption objectives in multi-mode ...
[EN] The use of a voltammetric electronic tongue for the quantitative analysis of quality parameters in influent wastewater from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) that treats domestic and industrial wastewater is proposed. ...
Azketa, Ekain; Gutiérrez, J. Javier; Di Natale, Marco; Almeida, Luís; Marcos, Marga(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-07-09)
[ES] El despliegue y la planificación de tareas y mensajes en sistemas de tiempo real distribuidos son problemas NP-difíciles (NP- hard), por lo que no existen métodos óptimos para solucionarlos en tiempo polinómico. En ...
[EN] Pruning is a cultural operation linked to Mediterranean agricultural management and it offers through its wastes the chance to procure biofuels. Currently, these residues are disposed of by burning or shredding, not ...
Jiménez Bello, Miguel Ángel; Martínez Alzamora, Fernando; Bou Soler, Vicente; Bartolín Ayala, Hugo José(Springer-Verlag, 2010)
[EN] The transformation of traditional irrigation systems into pressure irrigation networks allows water users associations to use central fertigation systems. For efficient fertigation management, however, it is essential ...
Martí Gimeno, Pasqual(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-09-09)
[EN] Genetic algorithms (GA) are a good technique for obtaining near-optimal solutions to
problems with no known strategy, saving computational power. However, without the
adequate configuration of parameters, a GA will ...
Martínez Iranzo, Miguel Andrés; Herrero Durá, Juan Manuel; Sanchís Saez, Javier; Blasco, Xavier; García-Nieto, Sergio(Elsevier, 2009)
[EN] It is well known that many engineering design problems with different objectives, some of which can be opposed to one another, can be formulated as multi-objective functions and resolved with the construction of a ...
FALK, Andreas; VAN BUELOW, Peter(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-22)
The theme of this paper is interaction between and within plate-based roof structures braced by branching columns and tensile members. Interaction of cross-laminated timber plate structures and branching column systems ...
BASSO, Paolo; DEL GROSSO, Andrea E.; PUGNALE, Alberto; SASSONE, Mario(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-02-09)
In this paper an optimization problem related to the tessellation of a free form grid shell is
presented. This kind of structures is generally composed by a supporting grid that defines
the geometry of a large number of ...
Aguado, Alberto; Gómez, Alfredo; del Pozo, Abelardo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2007-11-07)
[EN] In this paper, it is presented a solution to the model based non linear predictive control which differs from other approaches in the use of a neural model as predictor and a specially designed genetic algorithm as ...
Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2008-05-06)
El objetivo de esta tesis es la investigación de estructuras y técnicas de acoplo para minimizar las pérdidas de acoplo entre guías dieléctricas y cristales fotónicos planares. En primer lugar se ha estudiado el modelado ...
Mora Meliá, Daniel; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luis; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier; Fuertes Miquel, Vicente Samuel(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2013-09)
[EN] Genetic algorithms (GA) are optimization techniques that are widely used in the design of water distribution networks. One of the main disadvantages of GA is positional bias, which degrades the quality of the solution. ...
Lerma Elvira, Néstor; Paredes Arquiola, Javier; Andreu Álvarez, Joaquín; Solera Solera, Abel(Taylor & Francis; STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2013-05-01)
[EN] An alternative procedure for assessment of reservoir Operation Rules (ORs) under drought situations is proposed. The definition of ORs for multi-reservoir water resources systems (WRSs) is a topic that has been widely ...