OPTIMIZING THE NUTRIENT CONTENT OF SPORT MEALS

Andrej Grošelj (2012) OPTIMIZING THE NUTRIENT CONTENT OF SPORT MEALS. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

Athletes and people who have special diets must take care of their meals' composition and pay attention to the intake ratio of basic food nutrients: proteins, carbohydrates and fats. The aim of the thesis is to develop a Web application which is able to propose various sports meals according to the required composition of the food menu. The solution uses a database of food items, combinations of which it optimizes using a constrained search algorithm in the input space. In doing so, we analyze the recommendations and principles of a healthy and balanced diet on which basis we developed our solution. The central part of the thesis presents a description of the design of an algorithm for proposing the meal templates and its integration in the software solution. Input space search with an adapted A* algorithm is the basis for the implementation of our solution. The resulting application was evaluated by an expert in the field of sport nutrition. The results have shown usefulness of the developed application.

Item Type:

Thesis (EngD thesis)

Keywords:

sport nutrition, nutrients in foods, input space search, A* algorithm, heuristic function, Web application

Number of Pages:

Language of Content:

Slovenian

Mentor / Comentors:

Name and Surname	ID	Function
doc. dr Zoran Bosnić	3826	Mentor
pred. dr. Boštjan Slivnik	280	Comentor

Link to COBISS:

http://www.cobiss.si/scripts/cobiss?command=search&base=50070&select=(ID=9621332)

Institution:

University of Ljubljana

Department:

Faculty of Computer and Information Science

Item ID:

1947

Date Deposited:

12 Dec 2012 07:54

Last Modified:

25 Jan 2013 10:22

URI:

http://eprints.fri.uni-lj.si/id/eprint/1947

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