### Recent Submissions

• #### An efficient evolutionary algorithm for the orienteering problem ﻿

(Computers and Operations Research, 2017-09-06)
This paper deals with the Orienteering Problem, which is a routing problem. In the Orienteering Problem, each node has a profit assigned and the goal is to find the route that maximizes the total collected profit subject ...
• #### The Weighted Independent Domination Problem: ILP Model and Algorithmic Approaches ﻿

(European Journal of Operational Research, 2017-08-30)
This work deals with the so-called weighted independent domination problem, which is an $NP$-hard combinatorial optimization problem in graphs. In contrast to previous work, this paper considers the problem from a ...
• #### Measuring the Class-imbalance Extent of Multi-class Problems ﻿

(Pattern Recognition Letter, 2017-07-30)
Since many important real-world classification problems involve learning from unbalanced data, the challenging class-imbalance problem has lately received con- siderable attention in the community. Most of the methodological ...
• #### Cost-efficient deployment of multi-hop wireless networks over disaster areas using multi-objective meta-heuristics ﻿

(Neurocomputing, 2017-07)
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 ...
• #### Comparative study of pheromone control heuristics in ACO algorithms for solving RCPSP problems ﻿

(Applied Soft Computing, 2017-11)
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) belong to a kind of traditional NP-hard problems with a high impact on both research and industrial domains. The goal of these problems is to find a feasible assignment for a group ...
• #### Millimeter Wave V2V Communications: Distributed Association and Beam Alignment ﻿

(IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2017)
Recently millimeter-wave bands have been postulated as a means to accommodate the foreseen extreme bandwidth demands in vehicular communications, which result from the dissemination of sensory data to nearby vehicles for ...
• #### Underwater Robot Task Planning Using Multi-Objective Meta-Heuristics ﻿

(Sensors, 2017-04)
Robotics deployed in the underwater medium are subject to stringent operational conditions that impose a high degree of criticality on the allocation of resources and the schedule of operations in mission planning. In this ...
• #### A novel Fireworks Algorithm with wind inertia dynamics and its application to traffic forecasting ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017)
Fireworks Algorithm (FWA) is a recently contributed heuristic optimization method that has shown a promising performance in applications stemming from different domains. Improvements to the original algorithm have been ...
• #### Nature-inspired approaches for distance metric learning in multivariate time series classification ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017)
The applicability of time series data mining in many different fields has motivated the scientific community to focus on the development of new methods towards improving the performance of the classifiers over this particular ...
• #### Multi-objective heuristics applied to robot task planning for inspection plants ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017)
Robotics are generally subject to stringent operational conditions that impose a high degree of criticality on the allocation of resources and the schedule of operations in mission planning. In this regard the so-called ...
• #### Nature-inspired heuristics for the multiple-vehicle selective pickup and delivery problem under maximum profit and incentive fairness criteria ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017)
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. ...
• #### A local search method for graph clustering heuristics based on partitional distribution learning ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017)
The community structure of complex networks reveals hidden relationships in the organization of their constituent nodes. Indeed, many practical problems stemming from different fields of knowledge such as Biology, Sociology, ...
• #### KETpic-Matlab Toolbox for LaTeX High-Quality Graphical Artwork in Educational Materials on Bézier Curve Algorithms at a Master Level ﻿

(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017-07)
This paper introduces a new toolbox to generate high-quality graphical artwork about the main algorithms for Bézier curves and related topics. The package has been implemented by the authors as a supporting middleware tool ...
• #### A simple Bayesian linear excess relative risk model ﻿

(2017-07-11)
A new Bayesian Poisson relative risk model is proposed for displaying the excess relative risk associated to a unique exposure as a probability distribution in a closed form. The background risk can be modelled by a unique ...
• #### Detection of non-technical losses in smart meter data based on load curve profiling and time series analysis ﻿

(Energy, 2017-06)
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 ...
• #### The weighted independent domination problem: ILP model and algorithmic approaches ﻿

(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017-06-01)
This work deals with the so-called weighted independent domination problem, which is an N P -hard combinatorial optimization problem in graphs. In contrast to previous theoretical work from the liter- ature, this paper ...
• #### Evolutionary algorithms to optimize low-thrust trajectory design in spacecraft orbital precession mission ﻿

(IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2017-06-06)
In space environment, perturbations make the spacecraft lose its predefined orbit in space. One of these undesirable changes is the in-plane rotation of space orbit, denominated as orbital precession. To overcome this ...
• #### Modelling spatial trends in sorghum breeding field trials using a two-dimensional P-spline mixed model ﻿

(Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2017-04-03)
Adjustment for spatial trends in plant breeding field trials is essential for efficient evaluation and selection of genotypes. Current mixed model methods of spatial analysis are based on a multi-step modelling process ...
• #### Comparison of two discrimination indexes in the categorisation of continuous predictors in time-to-event studies ﻿

(SORT (Statistics and Operations Research Transactions), 2017-04)
The Cox proportional hazards model is the most widely used survival prediction model for analysing timeto-event data. To measure the discrimination ability of a survival model the concordance probability index is widely ...
• #### An investigation of clustering strategies in many-objective optimization: the I-Multi algorithm as a case study ﻿

(Swarm Intelligence, 2017-03-30)
A variety of general strategies have been applied to enhance the performance of multi-objective optimization algorithms for many-objective optimization problems (those with more than three objectives). One of these strategies ...