This paper presents the QALL-ME benchmark, a multilingual resource of annotated spoken requests in the tourism domain, freely available for research purposes. The languages currently involved in the project are Italian, English, Spanish and German. It introduces a semantic annotation scheme for spoken information access requests, specifically derived from Question Answering (QA) research. In ad...

Experimental and theoretical absorption spectra of [2-[2-[4-(dimethylamino) phenyl]ethenyl]-6-methyl-4H- pyran-4-ylidene]-propanedinitrile (DCM) have been studied. UV-Visible (UV-Vis.) absorption spectrum of DCM has been reported after its synthesis. Two relatively intense peaks appeared at 473 and 362 nm respectively. A theoretical investigation on the electronic structure of DCM is presented ...

The Sierra report proposes a methodology for states to use to demonstrate that their Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) programs are obtaining emissions reductions similar to those estimated by the MOBILE emissions factor model. The proposed methodology involves comparing fleetwide test average emissions of a state I/M program with those of a benchmark program (Sierra suggests using the Arizona I...

The object of the TerraMobilita/iQmulus 3D urban analysis benchmark is to evaluate the current state of the art in urban scene analysis from mobile laser scanning (MLS) at large scale. A very detailed semantic tree for urban scenes is proposed. We call analysis the capacity of a method to separate the points of the scene into these categories (classification), and to separate the different obje...

In the paper, control possibilities for the nitrogen removal process within activated sludge wastewater treatment plants are discussed. A predictive controller is introduced which aims to reduce the peaks in effluent concentration for ammonia nitrogen. Additionally, the controller improves the overall nitrogen removal using less aeration energy. A parsimonious deterministic model is used for th...

This paper presents a new nature inspired Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) based algorithm for finding peaks in continuous multimodal optimization problems. Initially various conceptual similarities were identified between IWD algorithm and Genetic Algorithm(GA). Simultaneously applying IWD-Continuous Optimization(IWD-CO) algorithm and GA on a function in finding the global optima and found IWDCO ...

A method for the calculation of x-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) based on the use of the normalized elimination of the small component (NESC) formalism combined with the restricted active space state interaction (RASSI) approach with atomic mean field integrals (AMFI) is developed. Benchmark calculations carried out for the 4f XPS of U show that the NESC/RASSI/AMFI method is capable of reprodu...

In real life we are often confronted with dynamic optimization problems whose optima change over time. These problems challenge traditional optimization methods as well as conventional evolutionary optimization algorithms. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary model that combines the differential evolution algorithm with cellular automata to address dynamic optimization problems. In the pro...

Many real-world optimization problems are dynamic (time dependent) and require an algorithm that is able to track continuously a changing optimum over time. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for dynamic continuous optimization. The proposed algorithm is based on several coordinated local searches and on the archiving of the optima found by these local searches. This archive is used when...

Many real world optimization problems are dynamic, meaning that their optimal solutions are time-varying. In recent years, an effective approach to address these problems has been the multi-swarm PSO (mPSO). Despite this, we believe that there is still room for improvement and, in this contribution we propose two simple strategies to increase the effectiveness of mPSO. The first one faces the d...