[Excerpt ] Welcome to Porto, Portugal, and to the 18th International Conference on HybridIntelligent Systems (HIS 2018); the 10th International Conference on SoftComputing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2018); and the 13th InternationalConference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2018) held at InstitutoSuperior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) during December 13–15, 2018.Hybridization of intelligent syst...
Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically influenced almost every aspect of human life. Activities requiring human gatherings have either been postponed, cancelled, or held completely virtually. To supplement lack of in-person contact, people have increasingly turned to virtual settings on-line, advantages of which include increased inclusivity and accessibility and reduction of carbon...
With the recent development of weblogs and social networks, many supplier industries share their data on different websites and weblogs. Even the Small-to-Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector (as well as non-manufacturing sector) are rapidly strengthening their web presence in order to improve their visibility, customer reachability and remain competitive in the global market. Our study a...
Current Manufacturing Systems challenges due to international economic crisis, market globalization and e-business trends, incites the development of intelligent systems to support decision making, which allows managers to concentrate on high-level tasks management while improving decision response and effectiveness towards manufacturing agility. This paper presents a novel negotiation mechanism for dynamic sch...