Prediction of various market indicators is an important issue in finance. This can be accomplished through computer models and related applications to finance, and in particular through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) which have been used in stock market prediction and exchange rates during...

La microbilogia predittiva (PFM – Predictive Food Microbiology) e' un’area multidisciplinare di ricerca della microbiologia alimentare. Essa implementa elementi fondamentali di matematica, microbiologia, ingegneria e chimica per sviluppare ed applicare modelli matematici e per predire la...

Because the CPU is a very expensive resource in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), it is very important to consider the overhead introduced in a routing protocol. Many theories have been hypothesized with the aim of minimizing it. But how much is the energy consumption from a network node’s...

Le possibili applicazioni della modellizzazione e simulazione nel campo della Bioinforma- tica sono molto ampie. Le applicazioni spaziano dalla comprensione dei percorsi metabolici di base all'esplorazione della variabilita genetica. I biologi molecolari necessitano di robusti strumenti di...

The photovoltaic (PV) industry in Italy has already crossed the threshold of 1 GW of installed capacity. Currently there are approximately 70,000 certified facilities in operation for a power generation of 1,300 GWh/year. With these figures, Italy has become the second country in Europe for PV...

Yeld analysis is an activity common to all companies manufacturing semiconductor devices on an industrial scale and consists in identifying problems relating to the production cycle by analyzing the number and distribution of non-functioning chips on the wafer. This is an extremely expensive...

The best tools to manage the exchange of information and services between heterogeneous subjects through new technological tools with particular reference to information systems are certainly the Web-based information systems. Leveraging the infrastructure of the Web, these systems may be able...

An algorithm of "Simulated Annealing" for solving scheduling problems is presented. The issues related to scheduling are discussed, together with the Simulated Annealing approximation method and its main parameters (freezing, temperature, cooling, number of neighbourhoods to explore), the...