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City scan as a tool to assess resilience challenges and vulnerabilities at the community level
PublikacjaThe majority of the world’s population lives in cities and cities are the key to achieving resilience. Local governments own only part of the land and can only partially decide about measures that should be taken ‘on the ground’. Local governments are therefore highly dependent on individuals, communities, and businesses to adapt and transform and take action in their own backyards or neighbourhoods. Since, for many people, climate...
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Socially sustainable housing environment = Społeczne równoważenie środowiska mieszkaniowego
PublikacjaOmówiono najnowsze tendencje w ksztaltowaniu środowiska mieszkaniowego, oparte na strategii przemieszania, połączenia i poczucia bezpieczeństwa. Przedstawiono realizowaną w Wielkiej Brytanii politykę wspierania zrównoważonych osiedli mieszkaniowych, określanych jako 'wspólnoty zróżnicowanych dochodów' (Mixed Income Communities) oraz wyniki badań nad trzema koncepcjami kształtowania zrównoważonego środowiska mieszkaniowego typu...
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ANALYSIS OF THE INCREASE OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS IN URBAN REGENERATION PROJECTS
PublikacjaThe subject of this paper is the analysis and evaluation of the reasons for construction costs increases in urban regeneration projects. The analysis considers major refurbishments of real estates’, as well as heavy repair and modernization of the road system. For the period mentioned, the costs from works and expenditure schedules were compared with the costs of additional works, which shows the percentage cost increase in relation...
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Meeting Modernisms in Gdynia
PublikacjaThe paper focused on the architectural heritage of the city of Gdynia, in Poland, built in 1920s and 1930s. The city was established (founded) on the seaside of the Baltic Sea as the only port of Poland – a country that regained independence after Versailles Treaty. The history of the city, built from scratch is outstanding in Europe. Modernist architecture of the city is represented by buildings built for different purposes: housing,...
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State of the Art of Automated Buses
PublikacjaUrban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide towards electrification and automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers. Such a big change requires strong collaboration and efforts among public administration, research and stakeholders in developing, testing and promoting these technologies in the public transportation. Working in this direction, this work provides...
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Wind Conditions in Urban Layout – Numerical and Experimental Research
PublikacjaThis paper presents research which compares the numerical and the experimental results for different cases of airflow around a few urban layouts. The study is concerned mostly with the analysis of parameters, such as pressure and velocity fields, which are essential in the building industry. Numerical simulations have been performed by the commercial software Fluent, with the use of a few different turbulence models, including...
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Maritime heritage of small port towns of the Polish coast
PublikacjaThe article describes problems of the gradual disappearance of real maritime heritage in small Polish port cities. The maritime heritage of small port cities was shaped by coastal processes and urban historical conditions what has led to creation of specific types of landscapes. Special architectural objects of the post-port heritage of small ports of the Polish coast are hydrotechnical constructions (i.e. breakwaters, quays),...
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Aerodynamics in the education of prospective architects
PublikacjaThe inclusion of issues of aerodynamics in the education of architecture students is discussed in this article. The field of aerodynamics knowledg of the nature of wind phenomena around building developments. It is especially important to know how to influence the occurrence of such phenomena by means of shaping buildings through architectural and urban design. The method applied for working with Master’s degree students in...
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Student competitions as a socio-spatial tool for planning urban structures
PublikacjaThe aim of the article is to show the interdependencies between theory and practice based on the example of the student competitions at the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology. These competitions, on the one hand, broaden the spectrum of issues related to design and, on the other hand, contribute to the better recognition of problems related to tasks to be solved. Both the teaching and applicational aspects...
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Speace frienly for the blind = Przestrzeń przyjazna dla niewidomych
PublikacjaThe article presents issues connected with accessibility of public space for people with eyesight disabilities. The use of the extravisual spatial stimuli in shaping the urban environment has been analysed. Spaces in which musltisensory spatial reception is feasible become user-friendly, as they come to meet the changing needs of their users. The article introduces a system of textures aiding spatial orientation, navigation and...
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RESHAPING THE GDANSK HARBOR –THE CONTINUOUS PROCESS
PublikacjaGdańsk is the harbour city with a history of more than 1000 years. For many centuries the harbour structures were evolving within the central part of the historic city centre, and – in result – a specific urban structures associated with these functions were created. But the evolution of the maritime technology as well as new needs regarding servicing the ships and cargo-handling activities effected in creation of the more modern...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 1, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 1, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 1, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 1, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 3, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 3, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 3, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 3, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 5, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 5, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 2, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 2, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 4, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 4, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 2, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 2, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 5, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 5, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 4, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 4, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 6, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 6, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located in Lower...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 2, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 2, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located...
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Values and problems analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 1, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 1, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 1, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 1, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located...
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Values and problems analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 6, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 6, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the context...
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Vision of the development of transformations in the district – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 3, April 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the vision of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 3, from April 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the future image of the neighborhood and initial ideas of the development of transformations of the area located...
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Values and problems analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 3, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 3, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Values and problems analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 2, March 2021
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the studies of the development possibilities of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 2, from March 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the values and problems analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Dynamic Charging of Electric Buses as a Way to Reduce Investment Risks of Urban Transport System Electrification
PublikacjaNight charging and fast charging are currently the two most common systems for charging electric buses. Despite the fact that numerous trial installations were started, neither of these two systems has obtained unqualified approval of the users. The alternative is to charge vehicles in motion - dynamic charging which combines the advantages of trolleybus transport and of electric buses. One of the advantages is the reduction of...
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Accelerator of the entrepreneurship: suburbs in the coastal metropolis of GOM
PublikacjaPolish model of suburban structure is made of variety types of enterprises in different scales, and a range of housing. However this mass of unordered structure with its urban development problems, often leads to the establishment of business and also the development of local entrepreneurship. This article investigates SME sector located in the suburban area of costal metropolis GOM to prove the thesis that the positive effect...
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An Algorithm for Optimizing the Determination of Cycling Routes on the Example of the Gdansk Agglomeration
PublikacjaPhysical activity is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle. One of the manifestations of the change in a society type from consumer to information one is the understanding of the importance of ecology and a healthy lifestyle. This is evident, inter alia, in the inventiveness and involvement of the society in the start-up and solutions referred to as the Smart City. One example is the development of e-bike rental and local investments...
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Move into the open space – what can we expect from moving artistic interventions to open urban spaces?
PublikacjaThe paper discuses the role of incorporating creative engagement into the processes of urban and social development using cultural means of action and expression and the potential of artistic interventions in public space. The block of initiatives within the People’s Smart Sculpture EU project, realized by Gdańsk City Gallery, has been named “Move Into The Open Space”. This paper will provide...
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Contemporary Architectural Design in the Context of Historic Remains: The Case of the Old City of Gdańsk
PublikacjaThis article presents several examples of modern developments designed to preserve and coexist with fragments of historic brick buildings. These building projects each faced a similar task; to save and display the historical urban fabric, but they differed significantly in how they chose to achieve that goal. Not all of the projects presented in this study meet the requirements of the Venice Charter equally well. In this field,...
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Designing digital displays and interactive media in today’s cities by night. Do we know enough about attracting attention to do so?
PublikacjaWith the huge transformation in the development of digital screen technology and its consistently decreasing cost, digital billboards are progressively replacing traditional static, two-dimensional poster advertisements in our cities1. Previously, due to the substantial expenditure involved, they were only available to major international brands with vast promotional resources to build their brand fame. Today, however, they are...
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THE ART OF VIRTUAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON REAL CITY SPACE
PublikacjaThe paper investigates the impact of the new genres of contemporary public art based on the virtual information exchange in real spaces of the cities. On the basis of theoretical approaches, trans-disciplinary surveys and case studies, the paper focuses on the art that not only relies on the technological support but also refers to the new public sphere, where people are co-creators of the art object giving their personal input...
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Towards Compact City 2.0 – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 1, February 2022
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 1, from February 2022. The result/ aim of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of land use plan. The participatory methodology...
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Towards Compact City 2.0 – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 4, February 2022
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 4, from February 2022. The result/ aim of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of land use plan. The participatory methodology...
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Towards Compact City 2.0 – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, February 2022
Dane BadawczeThe data presents results of work within the participatory planning process: Towards Compact City – Gdańsk-Osowa district case study, proposal no 5, from February 2022. The result/ aim of the process was to present the new, innovative design visions for the area located in Gdańsk-Osowa district in the context of land use plan. The participatory methodology...
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Searching for evaluation procedures for Web based courses - cases from EU projects
PublikacjaCentrum Edukacji Niestacjonarnej Politechniki Gdańskiej realizuje projekty Unii Europejskiej od 1997 roku. Większość projektów była ukierunkowana na dostarczanie kursów internetowych. Jednak nie wszystkie powstałe kursy mogą być wykorzystane jako dobrej jakości, gotowy do wprowadzenia produkt. W artykule, na bazie doświadczeń nabytych podczas realizacji projektów Leonardo da Vinci (1998-2004), przedstawiono ocenę jakości i osiągniętej...
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Power converter interface for urban DC traction substations - solutions and functionality.
PublikacjaThis paper focuses on extending an urban DC traction substation functionality by means of an additional power converter interface (PCI). In particular, by enabling bidirectional energy exchange between LV DC traction grid, AC grid and V2G chargers. Among other things, the presented material compares general attributes of the most promising DC/DC converters that can be used in a PCI, meet the requirements of galvanic isolation and...
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Contemporary architecture within the context of architectural education
PublikacjaAnalysed in this article are the diploma projects of students of architecture in European countries. The aim was to examine how students approach an important issue related to sustainable development, i.e. the integration of newly designed architecture into the existing historical, cultural and natural context. The rational use and protection of the environment requires the skilful shaping of urbanised space. Many changes in the...
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New approach to urban housing - Report of ISOCARP Young Planning Professionals Workshop, Gdynia School of Urbanizm, Aesop Urban Summer School
PublikacjaThe workshop was organized along with the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LIVING IN THE CITY – PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SHAPING HOUSING POLICY which is hosted by the City of Gdynia Poland. It was conducted in frame of Young Planning Professionals Program and 7th AESOP uropean Urban Summer School but also as the new type of the activity for the Young Planners “Gdynia School of...
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Wind resource assessment and energy yield prediction for the small wind turbine on the Szubieniczne Hill
PublikacjaThe goal of this study is to preliminary assess the wind resources on the Szubieniczne Hill in order to predict the annual energy production for planned small wind turbine. The analyzed site is located close to the Gdańsk University of Technology campus, in complex urban environment additionally surrendered by forested hills. The assessment is based on Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations which allow to evaluate the wind energy potential...
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Systematics of intelligent transport systems services
PublikacjaRecent years have seen a more intensified deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in Polish cities. Work is also underway on the implementation of ITS on the national roads within the National Traffic Management System (KSZR). The research project RID-4D (part of Road Innovations), is designed to fill the gap, which is the lack of systematics of ITS services in Poland. The paper presents a proposal of ITS services systematics,...
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Comparative Analysis of Numerical and Experimental Studies of the Airflow Around the Sample of Urban Development
PublikacjaIn this paper, on the background of a short overview of the recent advances in the field of Environmental Wind Engineering (EWE), a comparison of wind tunnel experiment and numerical simulation for some cases of airflow around an urban layout have been reported. The purpose of the study is quantitative and qualitative comparison of measurements in the wind tunnel as well as numerical simulation using Ansys Fluent software. The...
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The principles of arturbain.fr for teaching sustainable urban design
PublikacjaThe article is an attempt to show how important it is in the contemporary education of architecture students to use an ordered repertoire of principles and concepts of a universal nature, at the same time, pointing to the new directions of solutions and answers to the problems of the 21st century. This task is implemented by the French Association L'Arturbain dans les Territoires. It is accompanied by an idea consisting in observing...
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Online urban acoustic noise monitoring system
PublikacjaConcepts and implementation of the Online Urban Noise Monitoring System are presented. Principles of proposed solution used for dynamic acoustical maps creating are discussed. The architecture of the system and the data acquisition scheme are described. The concept of noise mapping, based on noise source model and propagation simulations, was developed and employed in the system. Dynamic estimation of noise source parameters utilized...
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Study of QoS Parameters Measurement Methodology and Requirements in RSMAD
PublikacjaThe paper presents the results of analysis and research of the quality of service requirements (defined by the QoS parameters) for data transmission services in Radio System for Monitoring and Acquisition of Data from Traffic Enforcement Cameras (in short: RSMAD). The paper also presents and discusses the results of test of impact of the size of images from traffic enforcement cameras (TECs) on the average transmission time. Moreover,...
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Multi-criteria Differential Evolution for Optimization of Virtual Machine Resources in Smart City Cloud
PublikacjaIn a smart city, artificial intelligence tools support citizens and urban services. From the user point of view, smart applications should bring computing to the edge of the cloud, closer to citizens with short latency. However, from the cloud designer point of view, the trade-off between cost, energy and time criteria requires the Pareto solutions. Therefore, the proposed multi-criteria differential evolution can optimize virtual...