Crowdsourced civic engagement is a novel form of democratic participation that allows citizens to share their ideas and deliberate in a multitude of diverse participatory processes that are emerging all over the world, ...

The Quaternary Besòs delta is located on the Mediterranean coast in NE Spain. The Besòs Delta Complex includes 3 aquifers constituted by 3 sandy and gravelly bodies, separated by lutitic units. These aquifers supply water ...

This sequential explanatory design aims at exploring science teachers’ perceptions of technology integration regarding technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) which focused on quantitative findings (survey) ...

This paper presents a model predictive control strategy to assure reliability in drinking water networks given a customer service level and a forecasting demand. The underlying idea concerns a two-layer hierarchical control ...

This article presents a service-centric orchestration protocol for self-interested autonomic management systems that supports the coalition formation process in largescale collaborative and competitive environments. It ...

This paper proposes a positioning strategy for a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) airlifting wireless base stations driven by communication constraints. First, two schedulers that model the distribution of resources ...

Purpose: This paper aims to research the strengths and weaknesses of service-learning programs in order to identify the challenges of their application, the educational possibilities of service-learning and the impact on ...

One of the major difficulties in meshing 3D complex geometries is to deal with non proper geometrical definitions coming from CAD systems. Typically, CAD systems don’t take care of the proper definition of the geometries ...

Given a nonlinear discrete-time system, previous works exist that compute invariant sets as finite unions of boxes. Set inversion algorithms based on interval arithmetic are used to obtain inner approximations of the one ...