Mientras que la mayoría de los libros relativos a los problemas de optimización se dedican principalmente al diseño de algoritmos heurísticos y exactos para la solución efectiva de los problemas considerados, el objetivo de este libro es facilitar la difícil tarea de la adecuada modelización de los problemas a abordar. La tarea de enseñar a construir un modelo matemático correcto es muy difícil, mucho más que la de enseñar teoremas y cómo demostrarlos. La mejor técnica didáctica es guiar g...

Este texto contiene ensayos sobre el marco de la contratación pública en Colombia. La obra se interesa por realizar un estudio transversal de la ley, la jurisprudencia del Consejo de Estado y la doctrina, con el objetivo de identificar los principales problemas de los temas propios del proceso contractual, tanto en el régimen general de contratación como en los regímenes exceptuados y, además, pretende brindar una solución a los mismos.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Technologies, Systems and Applications, held in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a hybrid format.The 29 full papers along with 1 short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on smart technologies; smart systems; smart trends and applications....

This book contains the reviewed, accepted contributions of the First International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS)that was held in Merida (Mexico) from 16-18 March 2016.We received 25 submissions from 13 countries. Each submission had been evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee and external reviewers. Based on these reviews, 12 papers were selected for long oral presentation. In addition to the contributed papers, four keynote speake...

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICICTD 2022), held on July 29–30, 2022, at the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT), Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh. The topics covered are ICT in health care, ICT in e-commerce, e-governance, collective intelligence, soft computing, optimization, cloud computing, machine learni...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2017, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2017.The 73 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: machine learning in image recognition; machine learning for medical image computing; image enhancement and reconstruction; image segmentation; mo...

This two-volume set (CCIS 915 and CCIS 916) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2018, held in Medellín, Colombia, in October 2018.The 41 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as green logistics and optimization, Internet of Things (IoT), digital signal processing (DSP), network applications, miscellaneous applicati...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, IWAIPR 2021, held in Havana, Cuba, in October 2021. The 42 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions.The papers promote and disseminate ongoing research on mathematical methods and computing techniques for artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, in particular in bioinformatics, cognitive and humanoid visio...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the Second International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2020, held in Ota, Nigeria, in October 2020.The 35 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence; business process management; cloud computing; data analysis; decision systems; health care information systems; human-computer interaction; image processing; learning man...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2021, which was planned to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, in June 2021. The conference was instead held virtually.The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: artificial intelligence techniques and recognition; pattern recognition techniques; neural networks and deep learning; com...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2022, which took place in Arequipa, Peru, in October 2022.The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The contributions are divided into the following thematic blocks: Artificial Intelligence; Data Analysis; Decision Systems; Health Care Information Systems; ICT-Enabled Social Innovation; Image Processing; Robotic Autonomy; Soft...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2021, held in Medellín, Colombia, in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a hybrid mode.The 33 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computational intelligence; bioengineering; Internet of Things (IoT); op...