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Metaheuristic Algorithms in Maritime Operations Optimization focuses on the seaside and port side problems regarding the maritime transportation. The book reviews and introduces the most important problems regarding the shipping network design, long-term and short-term scheduling and planning problems in both bulk and container shipping as well as liquid maritime transportation. Application of meta heuristic algorithm is important for these problems, as most of them are hard and time-consuming to be solved optimally.

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In this paper we bring together a stochastic mixed integer programming model for transmission network expansion planning, incorporating portfolios of real options to address the evolution in time of uncertain parameters, with the adjusted generalized log-transformed model, to expand the number of correlated parameters that can be modeled. We apply these methods to evaluate the potential contribution of underwater transmission investments to increase renewables penetration in the Azores archipelago. The approach also includes expansion lead times, due to the large timespans involved in the construction of new transmission lines. Our analysis focuses on a set of the four closest islands in the archipelago, Pico, Faial, S. Jorge and Terceira, and shows that even though investments are delayed and the future network configuration varies according to the evolution of renewable generation scenarios, an investment in underwater transmission, if technically feasible, within the assumptions of our model, could in fact contribute to increase renewables penetration, by enabling islands with an excess in generation from renewable sources to supply other islands in a deficit situation.

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The ANTAREX project relies on a Domain Specific Language (DSL) based on Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) concepts to allow applications to enforce extra functional properties such as energy-efficiency and performance and to optimize Quality of Service (QoS) in an adaptive way. The DSL approach allows the definition of energy-efficiency, performance, and adaptivity strategies as well as their enforcement at runtime through application autotuning and resource and power management. In this paper, we present an overview of the ANTAREX DSL and some of its capabilities through a number of examples, including how the DSL is applied in the context of one of the project use cases. © 2018 IEEE.

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This article presents a medical simulation solution. This solution allows a physician to train a clinical scenario by interacting with a graphical interface. The aim is to instigate the learning and internalization of clinical procedures. Currently these resources have been intensifying in the most diverse areas, being our focus, Medicine. Within this area, the focus is on medical simulation. There are numerous biomedical simulation centers, whose main objective is to create realistic simulations to aid health professionals. Thus, it is intended to optimize its performance, to meet the needs detected and to anticipate unexpected situations (critical or complex events). However, current simulation systems face some limitations, since they have enough difficulties in the development of new scenarios, since they are restricted to the level of modularity and the number of simulated situations. The training of these professionals is limited to simulation centers. The goal is to create a platform to simulate real scenarios and develop serious games that simulate various clinical situations, in order to facilitate access to this type of training and training.

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Musicians are entrepreneurs, despite a lack of specific literature treating them thus. Musicians take the risk of launching themselves as performers, often with very little to fall back on if it does not work out. Musicians are not accustomed to creating a business plan for their careers and, more generally, lack an understanding of business models and financial investments, as often the return for hours of individual practice is simply not cost-effective. Many musicians also have careers in teaching, juggling a mix of music-related activities to make ends meet. Music is a life of passion and not one where riches are expected to flow. Additionally, at a time when the pressure to perform well is increasing daily, due also to added competition, and with performing musicians starting their music studies and careers earlier and earlier, at ever more tender ages, the probability of suffering a severe injury during one's career is exceedingly high. This research intends to discuss a process of prolonging careers and minimizing injury, while also maximizing performance, by way of leveraging technology. Research is in fact lacking linking classical music to technology, and this study shows that a biomechanical approach can produce significant changes in the hand position over the violin. All violinists and violists face the difficulties of playing on a non-symmetrical instrument, which makes it quite easy to create wrong postures and techniques. Retroreflective markers were placed on the joints of the left hand, and their movement during violin play captured by a MoCap system (Qualisys AB, Sweden) operating at a sampling frequency of 200 Hz. A violinist was asked to play a score (Al) using his usual playing technique and next to perform the same score using the enhanced technique (A2). The resulting data was analysed in the Visual 3D software (C-Motion, USA) in order to extract relevant parameters and metrics. Very positive and encouraging results were captured. The enhanced technique seems to allow the violinist to play the same score with less tension in the hand, with greater amplitude of the fingers, and a more natural position with angulations closer to the natural ones, allowing to play faster and with smaller pattern deviation, and so with more precision.