Cristiano André da Costa

SWTRACK: An intelligent model for cargo tracking based on off-the-shelf mobile devices

Logistics represent the biggest cost for transportation companies. Companies are investing in monitoring and tracking systems aiming at improving services, reducing costs and ensuring the safety in cargos transports. This article presents an intelligent model to obtain the position of vehicles, using off-the-shelf mobile devices named SWTRACK. The proposal allows distributors companies to track loads [...]

A proposal of an infrastructure for load-balancing transactions on electronic funds transfer systems

This article aims to present the first ideas for developing a framework for load-balancing called GetLB. Considering the electronic funds transfer (EFT) context, GetLB offers a new scheduling heuristic that optimizes the selection of Processing Machines to execute transactions in a processing center. Instead of using the Round-Robin typical approach, the proposal combines data from [...]

Oversized or Undersized? Defining the Right-sized Computer Center for Electronic Funds Transfer Processing

Electronic Funds Transfer represents an upward trend, which fosters the proximity among consumers and suppliers. Each transaction is sent to a Computer Center, in charge of decoding, processing and returning the results as fast as possible. Particularly, the present article covers the GetNet Company day-by-day, focusing on one of their subsystems. In the article, we [...]

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