Nowadays, Brazil has an expected growth in the tourism sector due to the FIFA World Cup (which had a huge success) and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, there is a lack of tourism applications for Brazil, such as Electronic Tourism Guides (ETGs) for mobile devices. The existence of ETGs that takes into account [...]
Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar as idéias para o desenvolvimento de um framework para balanceamento de carga chamado GetLB. Considerando o contexto de transferência eletrônica de fundos (TEF), GetLB oferece uma nova forma de organizar as interações entre o chaveador e as máquinas processadoras. Esta organização permite que o chaveador combine informações atualizadas para [...]
The development of applications that adapt to the environment and remain running even when the user is moving or switching device, remains an open research challenge. In this article we present a view of the EXEHDA middleware and a new service created for dynamic adaptation. EXEHDA is service-oriented, adaptive and was conceived to support the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]