Purpose A sustainable transportation system should represent a win-win situation: minimizing transport's impact on the environment and reducing natural disasters' effects on transportation. A well-distributed set of rain gauges is crucial for monitoring services in smart cities. However, those...

We present a continuous nonlinear optimization model to solve the Spin Glass Problem. We proved that a solution of this continuous model is also a solution of the combinatorial approach that originally models the problem. The computational experiments indicate that the new model presents better...

In the last years, natural disasters have become more frequent and their impacts have reached a large number of people. When these events happen in unprepared regions, they can cause human and material losses. The consequences can be even more catastrophic when the responsible entities are not...