Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation ...

The advent and progressive deployment of the so-called Smart Grid has unleashed a profitable portfolio of new possibilities for an efficient management of the low-voltage distribution network supported by the introduction ...

In a competitive market relationships between telecommuni- cations operators serving simultaneously over a certain geographical area are diverse and motivated by very different business strategies and goals. Such relationships ...

Recently the relevance of adaptive models for dynamic data environments has turned into a hot topic due to the vast number of sce- narios generating nonstationary data streams. When a change (concept drift) in data ...

In the last decade the interest around network caching tech- niques has augmented notably for alleviating the ever-growing demand of resources by end users in mobile networks. This gained momentum stems from the fact that ...

This work focuses on wide-scale freight transportation logistics motivated by the sharp increase of on-line shopping stores and the upsurge of Internet as the most frequently utilized selling channel during the last decade. ...

Authorship attribution, conceived as the identification of the origin of a text be- tween different authors, has been a very active area of research in the scientific community mainly supported by advances in Natural ...

The Web of Data is widely considered as one of the major global repositories populated with countless interconnected and struc- tured data prompting these linked datasets to be continuously and sharply increasing. In this ...