Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla

• PhD Computer Science
• Professor (Full) at University of Alicante

The indigenous peoples of the Amazon have experienced changes in cultural identity due to Western colonisation, contact with other cultures, migration, and pandemics. COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affected all of humanity, including populations with limited contact with Western cultures, such as the Waorani indigenous people of the Amaz...

Video games have evolved into a key part of modern culture and a major economic force, with the global market projected to reach ${\$}$ 282.30 billion in 2024. As technology advances, video games increasingly demand high computing power, often requiring specialized hardware for optimal performance. Real-time strategy games, in particular, are compu...

In any industry, maximizing the use of raw materials is essential to reduce waste and costs, which also positively impacts the environment. In footwear production, components are typically derived from cutting processes, requiring optimized systems to maximize the use of different materials, minimize waste, and accelerate production. In this contex...

The Mobile Cloud Computing paradigm has revolutionized the concepts of mobile computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). This paradigm allows outsourcing the workload of mobile devices, or other connected “things,” to be computed in the Cloud. Currently, outsourcing possibilities have been widely developed making available computing platforms at d...

The problem of nesting frequently arises in the industrial environment, and it has a strong ecological and economic impact in the manufacturing processes. It basically consists of placing a set of pieces (polygons) on a material sheet, making sure that the pieces do not overlap and that they do not exceed the boundaries of the sheet. With regard to...

Purpose This study investigates how federated learning (FL) and human–robot collaboration (HRC) can be used to manage diverse industrial environments effectively. We aim to demonstrate how these technologies not only improve cooperation between humans and robots but also significantly enhance productivity and innovation within industrial settings....

Within various industrial settings, such as shipping, aeronautics, woodworking, and footwear, there exists a significant challenge: optimizing the extraction of sections from material sheets, a process known as “nesting”, to minimize wasted surface area. This paper investigates efficient solutions to complex nesting problems, emphasizing rapid comp...

In present times, cities and industries have the opportunity to improve with emerging paradigms such as Smart Cities and Industry 5.0. The use of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing brings new applications that have the chance to improve quality of life in general. This paper refers to serverless edge computing as a me...

The Industry 5.0 paradigm presents new opportunities and challenges that companies must take advantage of to remain competitive in a highly competitive environment. The main idea is the intelligent collaboration between humans and machines, i.e., to combine human intelligence and creativity with efficient, intelligent and precise machines. The incr...

In 2020, the SARS-Cov2 or COVID pandemic broke out around the world and most people were isolated, at least temporarily. The present research shows a 5-year study that focuses on whether there have been changes in the education of the indigenous Waorani people after the pandemic. In order to measure the evolution of the different cultural aspects t...

Traditional manufacturing industries are currently immersed in an automation process, integrating new techniques and tools, driven by the demands from producers to improve the manufacturing process as well as the working conditions of employees. For the footwear industry, bonding is a key operation in the manufacturing process where the outsole is...

SAŽETAK: Obućarski proizvodi kao predmeti koji se koriste u našem životu imaju dugu istoriju vezanu za njihovu proizvodnju. Oni su prošli kroz razne promene praćene tehnološkim napretkom koji se dešavao tokom godina. Uprkos ovim promenama, u poređenju sa drugim industrijama, industrija obuće i dalje ostaje proizvodnja zasnovana na ljudskom radu. Ne...

The world of computing is constantly evolving. The trends that are shaping today’s applications are Cloud computing and GPU computing. These technologies allow bringing high performance computations to low power devices, when using a computing outsourcing architecture. Following the trend, bioinformatic applications are looking to take advantage of...

Consumers are the main drivers of many products being required, developed, and continuously changing. They try to seek for products that fulfill their requirements and improve their life. Among a wide range of products available on the market, garments and footwear are items used in everyday life and in continues change driven by fashion trends. Es...

Recent advances in the area of the Internet of Things shows that devices are usually resource-constrained. To enable advanced applications on these devices, it is necessary to enhance their performance by leveraging external computing resources available in the network. This work presents a study of computational platforms to increase the performan...

The world is becoming increasingly dependant in computing intensive applications. The appearance of new paradigms, such as Internet of Things (IoT), and advances in technologies such as Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are creating a demand for high-performance applications. In this regard, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have...

In 3D modelling, a surface mesh is a collection of vertices, edges, and faces that define the shape of a 3D object. The surface mesh is typically used to represent the outer surface of an object, as opposed to the internal structure. A surface mesh is usually defined as a polygon mesh, which is a collection of polygons (triangles or quadrilaterals...

Since the 2019 outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ecuador was challenged by a combination of high health risk and serious economic and social impact. A need emerged to evaluate the resilience of the population in a social situation at the level of health and public safety unprecedented since the term resilience appeared in the scientific literature...

Polygon meshes are a key element in computer-aided design (CAD). When working with this type of geometry, the simplification or reduction of polygons in the meshes is a very common operation for working with complex objects, but with a low density of polygons. These techniques are fundamental to be able to use CAD systems in an industrial environme...

The world is becoming increasingly dependant in computing intensive appliances. The appearance of new paradigms such as Internet of Things (IoT), and advances in technologies such as Computer Vision (CV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a demand for high performance applications. In this regard, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have the...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has had a global impact that has affected all areas of people’s lives. However, people have different capacities to adapt and cope with the adversities and traumatic events that may have occurred during the pandemic with different levels of resilience. One collective affected by this global crisis was university stud...

The digital transformation of the industry is vital for the survival of many companies that need to be able to compete in a world of globalization. In this sense, the digitalization of production processes and the use of technology enables gains in efficiency, productivity, and quality of service to customers. The Cloud Computing paradigm is one of...

The sine cosine algorithm’s main idea is the sine and cosine-based vacillation outwards or towards the best solution. The first main contribution of this paper proposes an enhanced version of the SCA algorithm called as ESCA algorithm. The supremacy of the proposed algorithm over a set of state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of solution accuracy an...

MARÍA LUISA PERTEGAL-FELICES Universidad de Alicante ANTONIO JIMENO-MORENILLA Universidad de Alicante 1. INTRODUCCIÓN Los pueblos indígenas en Latinoamérica han sufrido influencias externas en sus culturas como consecuencia de su colonización y de la globalización. Uno de los aspectos de influencia por parte de las culturas citadinas en los pueblos...

Several heuristic optimization algorithms have been applied to solve engineering problems. Most of these algorithms are based on populations that evolve according to different rules and parameters to reach the optimal value of a functioncost through an iterative process. Different parallel strategies have been proposed to accelerate these algorithm...

Dear Colleagues, in recent years, a growing trend has emerged addressed at improving data processing. From big data to artificial intelligence, strong requirements have arisen with regard to decreasing computational time while maintaining solutions’ quality. These require a high computational power, and therefore it is necessary to provide high-per...

In industrial environments, nesting consists in cutting or extracting pieces from a material sheet, with the purpose of minimizing the surface of the sheet used. This problem is present in different types of industries, such as shipping, aeronautics, woodworking, footwear, and so on. In this work, the aim is to find an acceptable solution to solve...

Technological advancements as part of fourth industrial revolution occurring every day have changed the way or the process that various products are created from concept to the final product. In this way by contributing even to a sustainable production in various industries. Due to the fact that footwear industry is the one classified as the fifth...

The development of the smart city concept and the inhabitants’ need to reduce travel time, as well as society’s awareness of the reduction of fuel consumption and respect for the environment, lead to a new approach to the classic problem of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) applied to urban environments. This problem can be formulated as “Given...

The indigenous communities in the Amazonia are in an accelerated process of acculturation. In this context, one of the main elements in order to determine the cause and effect of migration would be to measure the degree of ethnic identity of each indigenous individual or an entire community as a whole. In this research, a study is carried out that...

There is a growing need to automate the footwear industry by introducing new methods and tools to improve footwear production. The use of CAD tools for the design of shoes and their components is increasingly common, but it is a sector in permanent adaptation to socio-economic changes where it is therefore complicated to incorporate high-tech machi...

The traditional manufacturing sectors (footwear, textiles and clothing, furniture and toys, among others) are based on small and medium enterprises with limited capacity on investing in modern production technologies. Although these sectors rely heavily on product customization and short manufacturing cycles, they are still not able to take full ad...

The development of the smart city concept and inhabitants’ need to reduce travel time, in addition to society’s awareness of the importance of reducing fuel consumption and respecting the environment, have led to a new approach to the classic travelling salesman problem (TSP) applied to urban environments. This problem can be formulated as “Given a...

Cultural identity is a complex concept that includes subjective factors such as ideology, family knowledge, customs, language, and acquired skills, among others. Measuring culture involves a significant level of difficulty, since its study and scope differ from the point of view, the time and the place where the studies are carried out. In the Amaz...

The development of the smart city concept and the inhabitants’ need to reduce travel time, as well as society’s awareness of the reduction of fuel consumption and respect for the environment, lead to a new approach to the classic problem of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) applied to urban environments. This problem can be formulated as “Given...

The first step towards a Smart Village is that the community itself can benefit from the novel techniques that are applied. Some communities are far from being able to use the benefits that these technologies usually offer, however they can benefit from the techniques that have led to the development of smart cities. This is the case of the indigen...

The Jaya algorithm is a recent heuristic approach for solving optimisation problems. It involves a random search for the global optimum, based on the generation of new individuals using both the best and the worst individuals in the population, thus moving solutions towards the optimum while avoiding the worst current solution. In addition to its p...

Several population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithms have been proposed in the last decades, none of which are able either to outperform all existing algorithms or to solve all optimization problems according to the No Free Lunch (NFL) theorem. Many of these algorithms behave effectively, under a correct setting of the control parameter(s...

Gamification has proved to be a methodology that increases the likelihood of success and sustainability of educational institutions. This methodology has recently revealed itself as one of the most efficient teaching methodologies in the student body, proving useful at all educational levels. One of the most frequently mentioned properties is its a...

Nowadays, digital culture affects all levels of society. However, differences exist between individuals, commonly named as the “digital divide,” which impedes the equal access to the benefits of new technologies. The Usability and Accessibility (UA) module is a core, first-semester module during the first year of the Multimedia Engineering degree a...

Gamification methods adapt the mechanics of games to educational environments for the improvement of the teaching-learning process. Serious games play an important role as tools for gamification, in particular in the context of software engineering courses because of the idiosyncratic nature of the topic. However, the studies on the improvement of...

The utilization of optimization algorithms within engineering problems has had a major rise in recent years, which has led to the proliferation of a large number of new algorithms to solve optimization problems. In addition, the emergence of new parallelization techniques applicable to these algorithms to improve their convergence time has made it...

In many countries around us, traditional sectors (footwear, textiles and clothing, furniture and toys, among others) are supported by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited capacity to invest in modern production technologies. Although these sectors rely heavily on product customization and short manufacturing cycles, they are not y...

Latin American Indians have undergone changes in their cultural identity, especially as a result of contact with Western cultures. In order to determine the degree of change in cultural identity, the authors have recently developed an instrument designed from an indigenous perspective that provides information on 30 subdimensions and 5 cultural dim...

The use of smart watches and fitness wrists has been increasing in recent years. On the one hand, their cost has become cheaper and their performance has improved. On the other hand, the increase in the number of people who practice sports such as running and cycling is another factor to consider. The increase in the number of popular athletes has...

The development of internet technologies and their application to commerce environments has favoured new business strategies for industries. These allow to include in the design phase the experience of use that the clients have of the product. However, this new element has not been considered in formal terms. A fundamental problem in product design...

Educational models are incorporating methodologies to train students in teamwork skills in response to companies’ information technology (IT) requirements. Conflict management is key to effective teamwork. This paper proposes a method to improve students’ organisation, teamwork and conflict management skills. This method consists of a brief trainin...

Los indígenas latinoamericanos han sufrido cambios de identidad cultural especialmente a partir del contacto con culturas de occidente. Para determinar el grado de cambio de identidad cultural es necesario disponer de un instrumento de medida. En la amazonia, las dificultades para obtener datos de campo no han permitido establecer indicadores cultu...

Optimization methods allow looking for an optimal value given a specific function within a constrained or unconstrained domain. These methods are useful for a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. Recently, a new optimization method called Jaya has generated growing interest because its simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we...

The digital transforms are intensive in multiplication and accumulation operations which have a high computational cost. Advances in computer arithmetic and digital technologies allow simplifying the processing of complex algorithms when they are implemented in modern circuits. New computation techniques can be explored to provide efficient operati...

To solve optimization problems, in the field of engineering optimization, an optimal value of a specific function must be found, in a limited time, within a constrained or unconstrained domain. Metaheuristic methods are useful for a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, which accelerate being able to achieve optimal or near-optimal...

In higher education, it is usual to separate the theoretical contents from the practical ones and use teacher-centered methodologies. This fact makes students lose motivation due to the lack of connection with real professional tasks. Conversely, student-centered learning methods, like Project Based Learning (PBL) or Flipped Classroom, aim to integ...

A numerous group of optimization algorithms based on heuristic techniques have been proposed in recent years. Most of them are based on phenomena in nature and require the correct tuning of some parameters, which are specific to the algorithm. Heuristic algorithms allow problems to be solved more quickly than deterministic methods. The computationa...

Advances in embedded systems, based on System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architectures, have enabled the development of many commercial devices that are powerful enough to run operating systems and complex algorithms. These devices integrate a set of different sensorswith connectivity, computing capacities and cost reduction. In this context, the Internet of...

In the footwear sector, automation is often performed by robotic arms due to the inherent adaptive requirements of some of its tasks. With the Industry 4.0 revolution, automation is even less human dependent than before. The fact that fewer people interact with machinery during the manufacturing process has led to a rising need for production monit...

A wide range of applications use optimization algorithms to find an optimal value, often a minimum one, for a given function. Depending on the application, both the optimization algorithm’s behavior, and its computational time, can prove to be critical issues. In this paper, we present our efficient parallel proposals of the Jaya algorithm, a recen...

Laboratory tasks are a powerful pedagogical strategy for developing competences in science and engineering degrees, making students understand in a practical way the theoretical topics explained in the classroom. However, performing experiments in real conditions is usually expensive in terms of time, money and energy, as it requires expensive infr...

Virtual Reality is an incipient technology that is proving very useful for training different skills. Our hypothesis is that it is possible to design virtual reality learning activities that can help students to develop their spatial ability. To prove the hypothesis, we have conducted an experiment consisting of training the students using an on-pu...

Robotization in the footwear sector is a major challenge for the industry with difficulties present due to the inherent adaptive needs of some of the automated tasks performed by robotic arms. One of those of particular concern is collision prevention: working with those robots in automated on-line environments, considering they have limited awaren...

Anatomical insoles and additions have a corrective action on the footwear user. They are intended to reduce and adequately distribute plantar pressure among support points, thus minimising the stress these points can undergo. Such customised components have traditionally been manufactured either handcrafted or by subtractive techniques, i.e. by...

The evolving trends of mobility, cloud computing and collaboration have blurred the perimeter separating corporate networks from the wider world. These new tools and business models enhance productivity and present new opportunities for competitive advantage although they also introduce new risks. Currently, security is one of the most limiting iss...

Local binary patterns (LBP) are an effective texture descriptor for face recognition. In this work, a LBPbased hybrid system for face recognition is proposed. Thus, the dimensionality of LBP histograms is reduced by using principal component analysis and the classification is performed with support vector machines. The experiments were completed us...

The emotional profile of university students has been related to both academic performance and professional success. Such evidence has led higher education professionals to ask whether students can be trained in emotional skills at university stage. However, learning specific emotional skills requires a considerable investment of time from students...

Cyber-Physical Systems typically consist of a combination of mobile devices, embedded systems and computers to monitor, sense, and actuate with the surrounding real world. These computing elements are usually wireless, interconnected to share data and interact with each other, with the server part and also with cloud computing services. In such a h...

Interdisciplinary projects in industry typically require collaboration between professionals from various fields. However, this relationship is not generally addressed in the training offered by university programs, which often ignore this interdisciplinary approach. This paper offers an example of interdisciplinary interaction through joint labora...

Face detection is the first step of any automated face recognition system. One of the most popular approaches to detect faces in color images is using a skin color segmentation scheme, which in many cases needs a proper representation of color spaces to interpret image information. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy system for detecting skin in colo...

Shoe soles are extremely complex to design and manufacture due to their organically shaped but technically precise nature and their manufacturing constraints. Consequently, there is a need for the increased design process flexibility offered by the use of specific CAD methodologies and techniques, to facilitate the work of expert designers and perm...

Abstract. Nowadays, the different computer tools available enable designers to create complex industrial prototypes. The use of these tools is constrained by the limitations imposed by common devices, like screens and displays. Recently emerged Virtual and Augmented Reality techniques have started being used as supports in many learning and industr...

The last is the basic industrial component in footwear manufacturing, from which product development starts. Correct last grading ensures the best fit for the intended group of users of the footwear model to be produced. The size marked on the last should respect the specific intervals defined in the different international sizing systems, like the...

In recent years, the presence in the Internet of individuals has become virtually permanent due to the growth and popularity of web technologies and social networks. Through social networks, users express feelings, opinions or emotions, where comments or discussions are then established in public or private conversations. The increase of social con...

Human tremor can be defined as a somewhat rhythmic and quick movement of one or more body parts. From the mathematical point of view, human tremor can be defined as a weighted contribution of different sinusoidal signals which causes oscillations of some parts of the body. Two real cases have been tested using the algorithms developed in this inve...

In this work, we propose the use of the Neural Gas (NG), a neural network with unsupervised competitive hebbian learning (CHL), to develop a reverse engineering process. This is a simple and accurate method to reconstruct objects from the point cloud obtained from overlapped multiple views using low cost sensors. In contrast to other methods that m...

Human tremor can be defined as a somewhat rhythmic and quick movement of one or more body parts. In some people, it is a symptom of a neurological disorder. From the mathematical point of view, human tremor can be defined as a weighted contribution of different sinusoidal signals which causes oscillations of some parts of the body. This sinusoidal...

Mathematical morphology addresses the problem of describing shapes in an n-dimensional space using the concepts of set theory. A series of standardized morphological operations are defined, and they are applied to the shapes to transform them using another shape called the structuring element. In an industrial environment, the process of manufactur...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new geometric model based on the mathematical morphology paradigm, specialized to provide determinism to the classic morphological operations. The determinism is needed to model dynamic processes that require an order of application, as is the case for designing and manufacturing objects in CAD/CA...

Mathematical morphology has been an area of intensive research over the last few years. Although many remarkable advances have been achieved throughout these years, there is still a great interest in accelerating morphological operations in order for them to be implemented in real-time systems. In this work, we present a new model for computing mat...

Computer science studies possess a strong multidisciplinary aptitude since most graduates do their professional work outside of a computing environment, in close collaboration with professionals from many different areas. However, the training offered in computer science studies lacks that multidisciplinary factor, focusing more on purely technical...

Computer science studies possess a strong multidisciplinary aptitude since most graduates do their professional work outside of a computing environment, in close collaboration with professionals from many diff erent areas. However, the training off ered in computer science studies lacks that multidisciplinary factor, focusing more on purely technic...

La incorporación del EEES provocó una infinidad de desafíos y retos a las Universidades que a día de hoy aún están siendo solucionados. Además, ha conllevado nuevas oportunidades para la formación de estudiantes pero también para las Universidades. Entre ellas, la formación interuniversitaria entre estados miembro de la UE. El EEES permite unificar...

The use of 3D imaging techniques has been early adopted in the footwear industry. In particular, 3D imaging could be used to aid commerce and improve the quality and sales of shoes. Footwear customization is an added value aimed not only to improve product quality, but also consumer comfort. Moreover, customisation implies a new business model that...

Commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors are the core of low-cost embedded systems due to their programmability and cost-effectiveness. Recent advances in electronic technologies have allowed remarkable improvements in their performance. However, they have also made microprocessors more susceptible to transient faults induced by radiation. These no...