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Proceedings, Volume 2, Issue 18

2018 XoveTIC 2018 - 41 articles

XoveTIC 2018

A Coruña, Spain | 27–28 September 2018

Issue Editors:
Ignacio Fraga, University of A Coruña, Spain
Alberto Alvarellos, University of A Coruña, Spain
Maria Montero, University of A Coruña, Spain
Javier Pereira, University of A Coruña, Spain
Manuel González Penedo, University of A Coruña, Spain

Cover Story: This issue of Proceedings gathers papers presented at XOVETIC2018 (A Coruña, Spain, 27–28 September 2018), a conference with the main goal of bringing together young researchers working in big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, HPC(High-performance computing), cybersecurity, bioinformatics, natural language processing, 5G and others areas from the field of ICT(Information Communications Technology), and offering a platform to present the results of their research to a national audience in the north of Spain.
This first edition aims to serve as the basis of this event, which will be consolidated over time and acquire international projection.
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Articles (41)

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A Vehicle Routing Problem with Periodic Replanning

  • Guido Ignacio Novoa-Flores,
  • Luisa Carpente and
  • Silvia Lorenzo-Freire

19 September 2018

In this work we focus on the problem of truck fleet management of the company GESUGA. This company is responsible of the collection and proper treatment of animals not intended for human consumption. On a daily basis, with the uncollected requests, t...

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  • Open Access
3,610 Views
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Increasing NLP Parsing Efficiency with Chunking

  • Mark Dáibhidh Anderson and
  • David Vilares

19 September 2018

We introduce a “Chunk-and-Pass” parsing technique influenced by a psycholinguistic model, where linguistic information is processed not word-by-word but rather in larger chunks of words. We present preliminary results that show that it is feasible to...

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  • Open Access
1,624 Views
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Channel Covariance Identification in FDD Massive MIMO Systems

  • José P. González-Coma,
  • Pedro Suárez-Casal,
  • Paula M. Castro and
  • Luis Castedo

19 September 2018

Channel estimation for Massive MIMO systems has drawn a lot of attention in the last years. A number of estimation methods rely on the knowledge of the channel covariance matrix to operate. However, this covariance is not known in practice, and it sh...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,269 Views
4 Pages

19 September 2018

In this short article the concept of Software Defined Radio (SDR) is introduced and compared with the traditional radio. Then, a research project of atlanTTic center which used this technology was briefly presented and lastly, we include a reference...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,656 Views
3 Pages

19 September 2018

Some authors have recently warned about the risks of the sentence with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves. The problem of nonparametric statistical inference in big data under the presence of sampling bias is considered in this work. The m...

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2,010 Views
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19 September 2018

In this paper we describe an environment that enables the interaction and data-fetching through a computer system from the Xiaomi Mi Band 2, a very popular and inexpensive Bluetooth Low Energy Fitness device, thus making it suitable for health-care l...

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1,752 Views
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A Task Planning Problem in a Home Care Business

  • Isabel Méndez Fernandez,
  • Ignacio García Jurado,
  • Silvia Lorenzo Freire,
  • Luisa Carpente Rodríguez and
  • Julián Costa Bouzas

19 September 2018

This work focuses on the study of a task planning problem in a home care business. The objective is to schedule the working days of the available nurses, in order to assist all the active clients. Due to the large size of the real cases that must be...

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1,774 Views
3 Pages

18 September 2018

This paper proposes a novel methodology for the automatic identification and segmentation of the Diffuse Retinal Thickening (DRT) edemas using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images as source of information. This Macular Edema (ME) type is commonl...

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1,712 Views
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Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of Listeria Monocytogenes Biofilms

  • Eva Balsa-Canto,
  • Alejandro López-Núñez and
  • Carlos Vázquez

18 September 2018

A biofilm is a layer of microorganisms attached to a surface and protected by a matrix of exopolysaccharides. Biofilm structures difficult the removal of microorganisms, thus the study of the type of structures formed throughout a biofilm life cycle...

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