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  • The teaching involvement of the users, the units and the whole UPC measured through the Moodle indicators of the virtual platform Atenea. An extension proposal of Atenea’s BI platform 

    Prat Farran, Joana d'Arc; Llorens García, Ariadna; Alier Forment, Marc (European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2022)
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    Atenea is the Moodle virtual platform of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) with about 31000 users and 5000 active subjects from 16 school centers. Atenea indicators give information on the teaching activity ...
  • Simheuristics: an introductory tutorial 

    Juan, Angel A.; Li, Yuda; Ammouriova, Majsa; Panadero Martínez, Javier; Faulín Fajardo, Francisco Javier
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    Both manufacturing and service industries are subject to uncertainty. Probability techniques and simulation methods allow us to model and analyze complex systems in which stochastic uncertainty is present. When the goal ...
  • A biased-randomized simheuristic for a hybrid flow shop with stochastic processing times in the semiconductor industry 

    Ammouriova, Majsa; Panadero Martínez, Javier; Laroque, Christoph; Juan, Angel A.; Leißau, Madlene; Schumacher, Christin
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    Compared to other industries, production systems in semiconductor manufacturing have an above-average level of complexity. Developments in recent decades document increasing product diversity, smaller batch sizes, and a ...
  • Combining survival analysis and simheuristics to predict the risk of delays in urban ridesharing operations with random travel times 

    Herrera Machado, Erika Magdalena; Panadero Martínez, Javier; Carracedo Garnateo, Patricia; Juan, Angel A.; Torre Martínez, María del Rocío de la; Perez Bernabeu, Elena
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    More sustainable transportation and mobility concepts, such as ridesharing, are gaining momentum in modern smart cities. In many real-life scenarios, travel times among potential customers' locations should be modeled as ...
  • Stackelberg game design and operation of a non-cooperative Bi-Level H2 supply chain under cournot equilibrium 

    Flores Pérez, José Manuel; Azzaro Pantel, Catherine; Ponsich, Antonin Sebastien; Aguilar Lasserre, Alberto A. (2022)
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    This paper proposes a hybrid solution algorithm for the mixed-integer bi-level programming problem (MIBLP) as a mathematical model of the Stackelberg game with the novelty inclusion of multi-followers in competition. The ...
  • Solving facility location problems for disaster response using simheuristics and survival analysis: a hybrid modeling approach 

    Martin Solano, Xabier Andoni; Panadero Martínez, Javier; Corlu, Canan Gunes; Juan, Angel A.
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    One of the important decisions for mitigating the risk from a sudden onset disaster is to determine the optimal location of relevant facilities (e.g., warehouses), because this affects the subsequent humanitarian operations. ...
  • A pruning tool for the multi-objective optimization of autonomous electrification systems 

    Ponsich, Antonin Sebastien; Domenech Léga, Bruno; Ferrer Martí, Laia; Juanpera Gallel, Marc; Pastor Moreno, Rafael (2022)
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    Despite global progresses worldwide, many people living in rural areas still have no electricity. Autonomous generation systems based on renewable energy and microgrid distribution represent a viable alternative, but their ...
  • Profile of the participants in a STEAM lecturer-training program based on competencies. Lessons for the future 

    Pérez Poch, Antoni; Alcober Segura, Jesús Ángel; Alier Forment, Marc; Llorens García, Ariadna; López Álvarez, David (European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2022)
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    This paper presents the results of a research study on the profile of the participants in a postgraduate lecturer training program (15 ECTS) based on competencies in a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and ...
  • Methodology for integrated multicriteria decision-making with uncertainty (MIMDU) for robust analysis. Case study about agricultural efficiency in Colombia 

    Juanpera Gallel, Marc; Domenech Léga, Bruno; Ferrer Martí, Laia; Garfi, Marianna; Pastor Moreno, Rafael (2022)
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    Selecting the best among different alternatives may require asking for experts’ opinions to weight key criteria and assess the alternatives. Their opinions can be: 1) hesitant, and 2) difficult to quantify on a numerical ...
  • Learnings from gender in teaching courses: main needs and resistances 

    Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Peña Carrera, Marta; Olmedo Torre, Noelia; Lusa García, Amaia (International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2022)
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    Universities can be understood as actors of change to reach gender equality. This can be reached through the education they provide, by educating students on gender equity, teaching curricula with a gender dimension and ...
  • Solution for a fast and equitable delivery of food products in a social distribution entity 

    Juanpera Gallel, Marc; Fernández-Novell, Judit M.; Soler-Noguera, Albert; Carpintero, Daniel; Ferrer Martí, Laia (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2022)
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    The network of entities for the social distribution of food in Terrassa "El Rebost" is dedicated to the periodic delivery of baskets of food products to beneficiaries who suffer from food insecurity. El Rebost must carry ...
  • DISCOVERER: Final results and outcomes 

    Roberts, Peter C.E; Crisp, Nicholas H.; Edmonson, Steve; Arcos, Antonio; Herdrich, Georg; Skalden, Jonathan; Rodríguez Donaire, Silvia; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Macario Rojas, Alejandro; Smith, Katharine L.; Sureda Anfres, Miquel (International Astronautical Federation, 2022)
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    The DISCOVERER project commenced in 2017 with the aim to advance the development of key technologies to enable the commercially viable, sustained operation of satellites in very low Earth orbits (VLEO). Funded by the ...

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