In the Pursuit of Hygge Software
Hygge is a Danish and Norwegian word for well-being related to conviviality. Two healthcare scenarios show ways to achieve hygge by integrating software and distributed technologies. IEEE Software
Um Estudo do Impacto da Implantação de uma Rede Social Educacional
A popularização dos dispositivos móveis e a crescente difusão das redes sociais fomentou a possibilidade de utilizar esses equipamentos na educação como um novo canal para trabalho colaborativo. Este artigo apresenta a Rede Social Educacional, nomeada como RedEdu, implantada na Rede de Ensino Municipal de Novo Hamburgo (RS) avaliando sua utilização como ferramenta de apoio [...]
Lean Risk: Gestão de Riscos em Times Distribuídos Universo PM
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Um Sistema de Recomendação para Professores e Coordenadores de Curso utilizando Predição de Reprovação na Educação a Distância
Este artigo propõe um modelo de Sistema de Recomendação Educacional baseado na predição de reprovação de aprendizes em disciplinas de Educação a Distância. Propõe-se o RECD, um modelo de Sistema de Recomendação Educacional para coordenadores de curso e professores, que recebe de um algum sistema de predição, dentre eles o MD-PREAD, dados estatísticos quanto à [...]
Ontology-based information extraction for juridical events with case studies in Brazilian legal realm
The number of available legal documents has presented an enormous growth in recent years, and the digital processing of such materials is prompting the necessity of systems that support the automatic relevant information extraction. This work presents a system for ontology-based information extraction from natural language texts, able to identify a set of legal events. [...]
In search of computer-aided social support in non-communicable diseases care
Non-communicable diseases burden is well-known and care for these diseases goes beyond patients’ engagement, extending to their family, friends, and acquaintances. The ability of social relations in alleviating the harmful effects of health risks is known as social support. Computing can be used to promote social support to enhance the care of non-communicable diseases. However, [...]
Um Modelo Computacional para Cidades Inteligentes Assistivas
Este artigo apresenta o MASC, um modelo computacional para criação de cidades inteligentes assistivas. A aplicação da computação ubíqua na acessibilidade oportuniza soluções para pessoas com deficiências (PcDs). Diferente dos trabalhos relacionados, o MASC utiliza as interações das PcDs para composição de trilhas que são oferecidas como serviços. O modelo é genérico, auxiliando em diferentes [...]
A Mapping Study on Mobile Games for Patients of Chronic Diseases
There is a growing interest of using technologies to propose solutions for healthcare issues. One of such issues is the incidence of chronic diseases, which are responsible for a considerable proportion of worldwide mortality. It is possible to prevent the development of such diseases using tools and methods that instruct the population. To achieve this, [...]
Towards Enabling Live Thresholding as Utility to Manage Elastic Master-Slave Applications in the Cloud
The elasticity feature of cloud computing has been proved as pertinent for parallel applications, since users do not need to take care about the best choice for the number of processes/resources beforehand. To accomplish this, the most common approaches use threshold-based reactive elasticity or time-consuming proactive elasticity. However, both present at least one problem related [...]
ElCity: an Elastic Multilevel Energy Saving Model for Smart Cities
As a result of rural and suburban migration to the cities, urban life has become a significant challenge for citizens and, particularly, for city administrators who must manage the sustainable use of resources such as energy, water, and transportation. Smart cities are the biggest vision to efficiently address these challenges through a real-time monitoring, providing [...]