Mathematical Modeling and Computational Intelligence in Engineering Applications

Preliminary Correlations for Characterizing the Morphology of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms as Predictor of Rupture.- Mathematical-Computational Simulations of Cytoskeletal Dynamics.- Fault Diagnosis with Missing Data based on Hopfield Neural Networks.- Diagnosing Time-Dependent Incipient Faults.- An Indirect Kernel Optimization Approach to Fault Detection with KPCA.- Uncertainty Quantification in Chromatography Process Identification based on Markov Chain Monte Caro.- Inverse Analysis of a New Anomalous Diffusion Model Employing Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Estimation.- Accelerated Direct Problem Solution: A Complementary Method for Computational Time Reduction.- Effects of Antennas on Structural Behavior of Telecommunication Towers.- Comparing Two-Level Preconditioners for Solving Petroleum Reservoir Simulation Problems.- Assessment of the Reliability of Electrical Power Systems.- Polymeric Thin Film Transistors Modeling in the Presence of non-Ohmic Contacts.

Antônio José da Silva Neto is a Mechanical and Nuclear Engineer (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil, 1983), M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering (UFRJ, 1989), and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Computational Mathematics (North Carolina State University, USA, 1993). He worked as engineer and researcher for the Brazilian National Nuclear Energy Commission - CNEN (1984-1986), and as consultant and engineer for Promon Engineering (1986-1997). In 1997 he joined the faculty of Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, being currently a Full Professor at the Polytechnic Institute. He is the President (2014-2017) of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics - SBMAC, Member (2014-2016) of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq, Coordination Member (2008 - ) of the Interdisciplinary Area of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES, and Area Coordinator in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (2012 - ) of the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). He is also the Head of the Patrícia Oliva Soares Laboratory for Experimentation and Numerical Simulation in Heat and Mass Transfer (LEMA) and of the Paulo Márcio Mello Laboratory for Metrology and Mechanical Testing (LEMec). He was the President (2009-2013) of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering - ABCM, the Secretary of Science and Technology  (2010-2011) in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, and the Coordinator of Projects and Technological Development (1997 - 2008) and the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Computational Modeling (2005-2007) of the Polytechnic Institute (UERJ). He published nine books (four as editor/organizer), more than 90 journal papers, and more than 300 conference papers. He has supervised 19 doctoral and 39 masters students. His areas of interest are Mechanical Engineering,