Contributed Talks
Thursday am
10:30 Distributed Particle Swarm Intelligence for optimization in the Water Industry - J. Izquierdo (Centro Multidisciplinar de Modelación de Fluidos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), Co Authors: I. Montalvo (Centro Multidisciplinar de Modelación de Fluidos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) R. Pérez(Centro Multidisciplinar de Modelación de Fluidos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), M. Tavera (Centro Multidisciplinar de Modelación de Fluidos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), M. M. Tung (Instituto de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
10:50 Some Hints on Finding the Most Important Components in a System - M. Pons (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), Co Author: J. Freixas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
11:10 On Alternative Safety Metrics for the Probability of the Collision Between Aircraft - L.M.B. C. Campos (Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Aeronáuticas, Portugal), Co Author: J.M.G. Marques (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal and Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Aeronáuticas e Espaciais, Lisboa, Portugal)
11:30 Optimising the use of wind power in an electricity grid - W.L. Sweatman (Massey University, New Zealand), Co Authors: G. Pritchard (University of Auckland, New Zealand), B. Whiten (University of Queensland, Australia), M. Camden (Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand) and K. Nan (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
11:50 An age-dependent metapopulation model - E. Pereira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) and J. Silva (Departamento de Mathética, IM – UFRGS, Brasil)
12:10 Simple Models of Burglary - J.P. Curtis (QinetiQ), Co Author: F.T. Smith (University College London, UK)