• Preliminary design study of a fuzzy tracking controller applied to a crane type manipulator 

      Ferreiro García, Ramón; Pardo, Xoán C.; Vidal Paz, José (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1999)
      [Abstract] The main purpose of a control system is usually to force the output to follow a reference input with zero steady state error while satisfying certain transient requirements such the settling time for rapid ...
    • Preliminary design study to implement multipurpose virtual sensors 

      Ferreiro García, Ramón; Pérez Castelo, Francisco Javier; Pardo, Xoán C.; Vidal Paz, José (International Federation of Automatic Control, 2000)
      [Abstract] This paper describes a method to perform the task of measuring some different magnitudes with a unique differential pressure transducer. To do so, it is necessary to perform the task of calibrate the primary ...
    • Rule base reduction on a self-learning fuzzy controller 

      Ferreiro García, Ramón; Pardo, Xoán C.; Vidal Paz, José (Universidad de les Illes Balears, Servei de Publicacions i Intercanvi Científic, 1999)
    • Running scientific codes on amazon EC2: a performance analysis of five high-end instances 

      Expósito, Roberto R.; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Pardo, Xoán C.; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón (Springer New York LLC, 2013)
      [Abstract] Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a well-known public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider whose Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) o ering includes some instances, known as cluster instances, aimed at High-Performance ...
    • SFC++: A tool for developing distributed real time control 

      Pardo, Xoán C.; Ferreiro García, Ramón; Vidal Paz, José (Universitat de Girona, 1998)
      This paper describes a visual tool for developing real time software for the control of distributed manufacturing systems. The aim of this project, currently in progress, is to get a visual programming environment which ...
    • Spark Implementation of the Enhanced Scatter Search Metaheuristic: Methodology and Assessment 

      Pardo, Xoán C.; Argüeso-Alejandro, Pablo; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Elsevier BV, 2020-12)
      [Abstract] Optimization problems arise nowadays in all disciplines, not only in the scientific area but also in the field of engineering or economics, and in many others. Currently, challenging optimization problems require ...
    • The HPS3 Service: Reduction of Cost and Transfer Time for Storing Data on Clouds 

      Veiga, Jorge; Taboada, Guillermo L.; Pardo, Xoán C.; Touriño, Juan (IEEE Computer Society, 2015-03-12)
      [Abstract] In the past several years, organizations have been changing their storage methods as the volume of data they managed has increased. The cloud computing paradigm offers new ways of storing data based on scalability ...
    • The linear model of an unknown dynamic process 

      Ferreiro García, Ramón; Vidal Paz, José; Pardo, Xoán C. (CIMNE, Barcelona, 1998)
      [Abstract] This work describes a novel algorithmic approach to find the linear model of any dynamic process. Dynamic behaviour as a knowledge concept is acquired by means of proposed learning algorithm, being supported by ...
    • Towards cloud-based parallel metaheuristics: A case study in computational biology with Differential Evolution and Spark 

      Teijeiro, Diego; Pardo, Xoán C.; González, Patricia; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Sage Publications Ltd., 2016-11-28)
      [Abstract] Many key problems in science and engineering can be formulated and solved using global optimization techniques. In the particular case of computational biology, the development of dynamic (kinetic) models is ...
    • Using the Cloud for Parameter Estimation Problems: Comparing Spark vs MPI with a Case-Study 

      González, Patricia; Pardo, Xoán C.; Penas, David R.; Teijeiro, Diego; Banga, Julio R.; Doallo, Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-07-13)
      [Abstract] Systems biology is an emerging approach focused in generating new knowledge about complex biological systems by combining experimental data with mathematical modeling and advanced computational techniques. Many ...
    • Virtual intelligent sensors on wide plant control applications: an approach 

      Ferreiro García, Ramón; Pérez Castelo, Francisco Javier; Pardo, Xoán C.; Vidal Paz, José (International Federation of Automatic Control, 2000)
      [Abstract] This paper describes a simple and reliable method to acquire information instantaneously on the basis of predictive computations of data acquired with significant time delay. The estimated value of any measured ...