Lignocellulosic ethanol, also called second generation ethanol, is a promising alternative for decreasing fossil fuel dependency globally. Nevertheless, its production process still needs further improvements in order to ...

Brazil is one of the largest agricultural producers and exporters in the world, and is consequently a major user of agricultural pesticides to guarantee the sale of crops. It is globally known that many types of pesticides ...

A determinação da estratégia de controle adequada para bioprocessos batelada e batelada alimentada é uma questão prática importante devido ao alto valor agregado de alguns bioprodutos. Desde que é altamente desejável ...

This work deals with modeling applications, systematic and reliable optimization methodologies of global search, and other computational tools. It is expected that existing computational intelligence methods, encoded in ...