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Rafael Stubs Parpinelli - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Protein structure prediction in three dimensions represents a fundamental challenge in Structural Bioinformatics. Leveraging problem-specific information such as fragment insertion, secondary structure, and contact maps can significantly enhance the exploration of the search space. In this study, an evolutionary algorithm is introduced, which incorporates such problem information for protein struc...Show More
The protein structure prediction problem is one of the most important bioinformatics problems. Computational methods can be used to approach this problem and de novo methods are able to generate protein structures without the need of having known similar structures to the predicted protein. These methods transform the prediction problem into an optimization problem, using optimization models that ...Show More
Proteins are base molecules present in live organisms. The study of their structures and functions is of considerable importance for many application fields, particularly for the pharmaceutical area. This paper presents a multi-objective model to the Protein Structure Prediction problem, using three objectives: energy score, secondary structure information, and contact maps information. A BRKGA me...Show More
The efficient management of resources after a disaster, must take place within a short time and efficiently. Therefore, resource scheduling protocol which shares resources among the victims, respecting time constraints, is decisive. In disaster scenarios, communication infrastructure is usually damaged and a commonly used solution for ensuring connectivity between victims and providers is Mobile A...Show More
This paper presents an approach for resource scheduling in service discovery to MANETs operating in cenarios with time constraints, as emergency scenarios. The shared resources can be ambulances or rescue cars. With an efficient model of resource scaling, it is intended to provide the largest number of victims in the shortest time. In this work, we present an approach for resource scheduling model...Show More
Low-power and Lossy network (LNN) is commonly deployed in Internet of Things applications. It consists of a considerable amount of devices, also known as motes, with sensory capacity and wireless connectivity deployed in a wide geographical area. Such devices face limitations in terms of energy, memory and processing. A common topology in LNN is a mesh-like one. The communication between nodes oft...Show More
This paper presents a genetic algorithm for resource scheduling in service discovery to MANETs operating in emergency scenarios. The shared resources could be ambulances or support cars. Through an appropriate model for scheduling resources, we aim to attend the greatest number of victims in the affected area. Performance evaluation results on the Network Simulator NS-3 confirm the effectiveness o...Show More
Face recognition (FR) systems based on populationbased heuristics algorithms is common nowadays. Depends on the approach, there is a need for tuning parameters in preprocessing step using optimization algorithms. Regarding FR challenges, the illumination variation is one of the critical factors. The homomorphic filter (HF) is one of the methods that can compensate ination aiding to stabilize the f...Show More
Symbiotic relationships are one of several phenomena that can be observed in nature. These relationships consist of interactions between organisms and can lead to benefits or damages to those involved. In an optimization context, symbiotic relationships can be used to perform information exchange between populations of candidate solutions to a given problem. This paper presents an information exch...Show More
In this work, a vision system has been developed using a frontal camera to monitor the driver, enabling to recognize the use of a cell phone while driving. It is estimated that 80% of car crashes and 65% of near collisions involved drivers who were inattentive in traffic for three seconds before the event. Five videos in real environments were generated to test the proposed system. The solution is...Show More
It is estimated that 80% of crashes and 65% of near collisions involved drivers inattentive to traffic for three seconds before the event. This paper develops an algorithm for extracting characteristics allowing the cell phones identification used during driving a vehicle. Experiments were performed on sets of images with 100 positive images (with phone) and the other 100 negative images (no phone...Show More
This paper applies a heterogeneous parallel ecology-inspired algorithm (pECO) to solve a complex problem from bioinformatics. The ecological-inspired algorithm represents a new perspective to develop cooperative evolutionary algorithms. Different algorithms are applied to compose the computational ecosystem in a heterogeneous model. The aim is to search low energy conformations for the Protein Str...Show More
This paper applies an ecology-inspired algorithm (ECO) to solve a complex problem from bioinformatics. The ecological-inspired algorithm represents a new perspective to develop cooperative evolutionary algorithms. Different algorithms are applied to compose the computational ecosystem, both homogeneously and heterogeneously. The aim is to search low energy conformations for the Protein Structure P...Show More
The search for nature-inspired ideas, models and computational paradigms always was of great interest for computer scientists, particularly for those from the Natural Computing area. The concept of optimization is present in several natural processes as in the evolution of species, in the behavior of social groups, in the dynamics of the immune system, in the food search strategies and ecological ...Show More
The paper proposes an algorithm for data mining called Ant-Miner (ant-colony-based data miner). The goal of Ant-Miner is to extract classification rules from data. The algorithm is inspired by both research on the behavior of real ant colonies and some data mining concepts as well as principles. We compare the performance of Ant-Miner with CN2, a well-known data mining algorithm for classification...Show More