Jornada sobre Smart Cities y Movilidad

El jueves 26 de noviembre de 2015 celebramos en la Sala de Usos Múltiples del CITIC-UGR (C/ Periodista Rafael Gómez, nº 2) la Jornada sobre Smart Cities y Movilidad, enmarcada en el Programa De Ayudas Genil Para Realización De Actividades Por Grupos De Investigación Interdiciplinares (RAGII-2015).

El objeto de esta Jornada fue la investigación en el área de la gestión de la movilidad, internet de las cosas y smart cities.

A lo largo de la mañana asistimos a varias conferencias, impartidas por responsables del Area de Movilidad del Ayuntamiento de Granada, de varias empresas, así como por parte de investigadores de la Universidad de Granada en este ámbito.

Los objetivos finales fueron crear sinergia entre los diversos grupos de investigación y empresas de este área, así como facilitar el contacto de cara a promover colaboraciones, tales como solicitar proyectos, o realizar transferencia de conocimiento a partir de los resultados de investigación.

El desarrollo de la Jornada se basó en presentaciones de unos 40 minutos, en las que el ponente, por parte del Área de Movilidad del Ayuntamiento de Granada, Nazaríes, UXMobile, Geokeda, e investigadores de los grupos de investigación, comentaron los proyectos en los que trabajan actualmente en el área de las smart cities, así como las problemáticas, y los retos a los que se enfrentan.

Workshop on Spatially Structured Metaheuristics

We cordially invite you to attend the following two-presentations on Spatially Structured Metaheuristics. This mini-workshop will be held at 11.30 a.m. in the CITIC-UGR building (June 26th, 2014).

Spatially Structured Metaheuristics: Principles and Practical Applications
by Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo (University of Luxembourg)

A relevant number of metaheuristics are based on population. Although conventions may establish different names, individuals in evolutionary algorithms, ants in ant colony optimization or particles in particle swarm optimization belong to the same side of a coin: they are all  atomic elements of the population (a.k.a. building-blocks). In this context, spatially structured metaheuristics investigate how to improve the performance of metaheuristics by confining these elements in neighborhoods. This talk aims at presenting the working principles of spatially structured metaheuristics and practical applications to enhance diversity, scalability and robustness.

 

Spatially Structured Metaheuristics: Dynamic and Self-organized Topologies
by Carlos M. Fernandes (University of Lisbon)

Population based metaheuristics are computational search or optimization methods that use a population of possible solutions to a problem. These solutions are able communicate, interact and/or evolve. Two types of strategies for structuring population are possible. In panmictic populations, every individual is allowed to interact with every other individual. In non-panmictic metaheuristics, also called spatially structured population-based metaheuristics, the interaction is restricted to a pre-defined or evolving structure (network). Traditional spatially structured metaheuristics are built on pre-defined static networks of acquaintances over which individuals can interact. However, alternative strategies that overcome some of the difficulties and limitations of static networks (extra design and tuning effort, ad hoc decision policies, rigid connectivity, and lack of feedback from the problem structure and search process) are possible. This talk discusses dynamic topologies for spatially structured metaheuristics and describes a new model for structuring populations into partially connected and self-organized networks. Recent applications of the model on Evolutionary Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization are given and discussed.