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Decision support, emphasizing the consideration of multiple criteria/objectives and the tackling of imprecision/uncertainty, including:
• Methodologies and systems for supporting decision processes with multiple criteria
• Efficiency evaluation of services and companies
• Analysis and evaluation of investment projects
• Analysis and evaluation of applications/proposals in bids
• Multi-objective mathematical programming and planning
• Network optimization problems
• Systems for supporting group collaboration and negotiation processes
Teletraffic Engineering and telecommunication networks planning, including:
• Routing methods in IP/MPLS networks and transport WDM networks
• Broadcasting methods in MPLS networks
• Reliability in telecommunication networks
• Traffic modeling and simulation
• Application of Operational Research techniques in the project of networks
• Resilient routing/fault recovery in MPLS networks
Regional and urban planning, including:
• Decision support based on geographical information systems
• Vehicle routing and other network optimization problems
• Location of infrastructures and equipments
• Automatic extraction of objects from data obtained by laser scanning systems for the acquisition of 3D urban models
Rational use of energy and power systems planning, including:
• Analysis of energy performance in buildings
• Energy management in buildings
• Demand-side management for energy
• Electricity consumption models
• Urban energy planning
• Analysis of quality of service in electric networks
• Electricity markets
• Studies of energy-environment-economy interactions
• Energy and sustainable development
Computational mechanics devoted to structural systems, including:
• Structural non-linear analysis
• Computational-numerical methods for large-scale systems (finite element methods and other approaches)
• Safety evaluation of structural systems
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