Recent events involving both natural disasters and human-made attacks have emphasised the importance of solving challenging problems in risk management, security and defence. Traditional methods have proven insufficient to address these problems and hence Computational Intelligence techniques present themselves as a more appealing alternative.
AENOR (the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification) has awarded the certification of safety management systems for supply chain (based on the UNE-ISO 28000) to the Valencia Port Authority the first European operator to obtain certification. Rafael Aznar, Chairman of Port of Valencia was presented the certificate by Roque Giner, AENOR Director in Valencia.
S2 Grupo has organized the fourth session of the FastFix project group - having met the current stage objectives. In the first year, the project team has defined the overall system architecture and the main lines of work for each of the participants in this ambitious R&D European project.