Data Analysis and Optimization for Engineering and Computing Problems

Introduction.- PART I: Heuristic Design and Optimization.- A new heuristic based on a parallel implementation of Firefly Algorithm.- A new approach of the Rain-fall Optimization Algorithm using parallelization.- Algorithm to detect and calculate the cerebrospinal fluid through Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- PART II: Mixed-Integer Programming and Global Optimization.- Backbone distribution network design for the Mexican automotive industry.- A hybrid model for improving the performance of basketball lineups.- Location of Bases for Pre-Hospital Services.- Balance layout problem with the optimized distances between objects.- Optimized Packing of Object Clusters with Balancing Conditions.- PART III: Simulation and Distributed Systems.- Didactic Tool for Teaching Election Algorithms in Distributed Systems.- Evaluation of the feasibility of implementing industry 4.0 technologies in the intralogistics processes of the Logistics Operators of the Department of the Atlantic, a look towards the continuous improvement of organizational efficiency.- Secure Key Distribution Prototype based on Kerberos.- A decision-making approach using Fuzzy Logic and ANFIS: A retail study case.- PART IV: Renewable Energies.- Development of renewable energy resources in global energy interconnection.- PART V: Information Technologies.- Main Metric Components in the generation of mixed indicators.- SMOTE-Cov: A new over-sampling method based on the Covariance Matrix.- A Sentiment Analysis Method for Analyzing Users Opinions about Drugs for Chronic Diseases.- Proofs of the Undecidability of Stegananalysis Techniques.- Vulnerability of Network Coding under Pollution Attacks.- Stream cipher Hadamard transform cryptanalysis.- A Comparison of Speech-to-Speech Neural Network Methodologies for Digit Pronunciation.- Conclusion.

Dr. Pandian Vasant is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia and an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE). He holds Ph.D. in Computational Intelligence (UNEM, Costa Rica), M.Sc. (University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, Engineering Mathematics) and B.Sc. (Hons, Second Class Upper) in Mathematics (University of Malaya, Malaysia). His research interests include Soft Computing, Hybrid Optimization, Innovative Computing and Applications. He has co-authored research articles in journals, conference proceedings, presentation, special issues guest editor, book chapters (248 publications indexed in Web of Science) and General Chair of EAI International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering in Penang, Malaysia (2016) and Bangkok, Thailand (2018). In the year 2009 and 2015, Dr. Pandian Vasant was awarded top reviewer and outstanding reviewer for the journal Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). He has 27 years of working experiences at the universities. Currently he is an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering, and Member of AMS (USA), NAVY Research Group (TUO, Czech Republic) and MERLIN Research Group (TDTU, Vietnam).



 Igor Litvinchev Professor Igor Litvinchev received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Fizteh), Russia; Ph.D. in Systems Theory and Operations Research and Dr.Sci. (Habilitation) in Systems Modeling and Optimization from Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He has held long term visiting positions at universities in Brazil, Mexico, and Norway, as well as positions at various universities and research centers in Russia. He is currently a Head of Department at Computing Center Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor at Nuevo Leon State University, Mexico. He is an author of 4 books and numerous research papers focused on large-scale systems modeling,