The move from in-person to online scientific conferences due to the global health crisis has been hailed as a positive step towards inclusivity in its attenuation of economic, physical and legal barriers. Yet pre-existing and new challenges to truly inclusive conference experiences remain unaddressed. While acknowledging the benefits of an online setting, especially for individuals who have traditionally been underrepresented or excluded, fostering social justice requires active care to be taken to center inclusivity in every aspect of online conference design.In this work, we draw from literature on recent online events and from our own experiences as researchers during the past year to identify practices that purposefully encourage a diverse community to attend, participate in, and lead online conferences.
Foundries are a very energy-demanding industry due to the intensive use of furnaces which purpose is to melt metallic resources. Nowadays, the scheduling of the orders and the optimisation of the foundry process itself is carried out based on expert knowledge acquired over years of experience, loosely taking into account energy costs and hourly electricity prices.This paper contributes to the state of the art by applying, for the first time, a set of genetic, simulated annealing and backtracking algorithms to the foundry scheduling problem, empirically demonstrating with real data that such approach is sound, feasible and provides better results than classical methods.
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