Progress in Industrial Mathematics: Success Stories

Part I: The Industry Point of View: Hartmann, D. et al.,  Digital Twins.-  Karame, G., Towards Scalable and Private Industrial Blockchains.-  Pina, M., Industrial Mathematics: driving a new management approach.-  Moorthy, A. and  Kearsley, A., Pattern similarity measures applied to mass spectra.- Carrillo Pousa, G., et al., Numerical study of in-situ acoustic impedance and reflection coefficient estimation of locally reacting surfaces with pressure-velocity probes.- Part II: The Academia Point of View: Carrasco, J. and Akhmatskaya, E., Multiscale Modelling and Simulation of Advanced Battery Materials.-  Gorria, C. and Lezaun, M., Optimization of the scheduling of the compound production machines in a tires factory.- Luis Santos, J. and Oliveira, A., Traveling Salesman Problem in a Geographic Information Management System.- Cruz, M. et al., Order and Stock Costs Optimization in an Automotive Spare Parts Wholesaler.- Kolmbauer, M. et al., Topological index analysis and its application to multi-physical systems in system simulation software.- Barroso, S. et al., Price Modelling on Heavy-Duty Assistance Contracts.- González-Vida, J.M., et al., Tsunami-HySEA: A numerical model developed for Tsunami Early Warning Systems (TEWS).- Rodriguez Veiga, J. et al., Wildfire resources management: a decision support tool created with R to solve optimisation models in logistics for fighting forest fires.

Manuel Cruz is Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto and coordinator of the Mathematical Engineering Laboratory at the same institution. He was elected President of the Portuguese Mathematics Network for Industry and Innovation in 2016, and member of the European Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation executive board in 2019. He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto and has participated in several challenges of technology transfer from Mathematics to Industry.