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Item Big data in road transport and mobility research(Elsevier, 2017-01-01) Campos-Cordobés, Sergio; del Ser, Javier; Laña, Ibai; Olabarrieta, Ignacio Iñaki; Sánchez-Cubillo, Javier; Sánchez-Medina, Javier J.; Torre-Bastida, Ana I.; LABORATORIO DE TRANSFORMACIÓN URBANA; SMART_TRANSPORT; IA; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; HPAUbiquitous computing has changed the acquisition of mobility data, with two aspects contributing: the high penetration rate and the ability to capture and share information on a continuous basis. This applies to geolocation information, operational mobile phone data, and also, social network crowdsourced information. Additionally, under the umbrella of the Internet of Things trend, the deployment of the Connected Vehicle (Car-as-a-sensor) concept, supported by advanced V2X communications, provides massive data volume. For all these cases, data are open to never before seen opportunities to analyze and predict individual and aggregated mobility patterns. Big Data refers to the processsing capabilities of such an explosion in the amount, quality, and heterogeneity of available data. This chapter will review the most relevant data sources, introduce the underlying techniques supporting the BigData paradigm and, finally, provide a list of some relevant applications in the transport and mobility domain.Item Current status of commercial ion implantation in Spain(1998-05) Oñate, J. I.; Alonso, F.; Braceras, I.; Sanz, A. L.; Rodríguez, R. J.; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; Centros PRE-FUSION TECNALIA - (FORMER); INGENIERÍA DE SUPERFICIESCommercial ion beam implantation has been steadily growing in Spain for the last 8 years. The emphasis has been placed, similar to other European countries, on the surface treatment of precision tooling and moulds rather than in large numbers of engineering components. This has somehow limited the growth of the market since ion implantation has to compete strongly with well established surface engineering alternatives, such as PVD, thermochemical and chemical processes. However, the possibilities of performing selected area ion implantation treatments at controlled temperatures and with computer control of the processing beam allows rapid treatment of selective areas at a very competitive level. One of the application areas where the process has been applied more successfully is in the area of transformation of plastics (injection and extrusion processes), where treatment of nozzles, mould cavities, calibrating extrusion dies, etc. is carried out on a regular basis. Also, ion implantation has yielded good results in the improvement of coining dies for the Spanish mint and is also currently applied for cutting tools for plastics, rubber and paper, as well as in tooling for the manufacturing of cans. Biomedical applications are still in the development and evaluation stage, largely due to the nature of the Spanish market, which has a less significant presence of native capital manufacturing companies. In this paper, an overview is presented of some of the current applications from the two active organisations in ion implantation, INASMET and AIN, with an indication of the areas in which actual research and technology development (R + TD) and industrial treatment services are performed.Item A survey on applications of the harmony search algorithm(2013-09) Manjarres, D.; Landa-Torres, I.; Gil-Lopez, S.; Del Ser, J.; Bilbao, M. N.; Salcedo-Sanz, S.; Geem, Z. W.; IA; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThis paper thoroughly reviews and analyzes the main characteristics and application portfolio of the so-called Harmony Search algorithm, a meta-heuristic approach that has been shown to achieve excellent results in a wide range of optimization problems. As evidenced by a number of studies, this algorithm features several innovative aspects in its operational procedure that foster its utilization in diverse fields such as construction, engineering, robotics, telecommunications, health and energy. This manuscript will go through the most recent literature on the application of Harmony Search to the aforementioned disciplines towards a three-fold goal: (1) to underline the good behavior of this modern meta-heuristic based on the upsurge of related contributions reported to date; (2) to set a bibliographic basis for future research trends focused on its applicability to other areas; (3) to provide an insightful analysis of future research lines gravitating on this meta-heuristic solver.