The spatial orientation of linear and planar structures in geological fieldwork is still obtained using simple hand-held instruments such as a compass and clinometer. Despite their ease of use, the amount of data obtained in this way is normally smaller than would be considered as representative of the area available for sampling. LiDAR-based remote sensors [...]
Repositories form a central piece of the learning objects technology, providing storage spaces where the objects can be catalogued, located, and retrieved. However, repositories usually support only syntactical and morphological aspects of learning objects metadata for cataloguing and searching purposes. This article proposes two integrated systems, which provide the core services of a semantic repository [...]
Use of mobile devices and widespread adoption of wireless networks have enabled the emergence of Ubiquitous Computing. Application of this technology to improving education strategies gave rise to Ubiquitous e-Learning, also known as Ubiquitous Learning. There are several approaches to organizing ubiquitous learning environments, but most of them employ a centralized architecture. This approach offers [...]
The integration of variability models (e.g., feature models) is considered an error-prone activity, which can consume a lot of effort from development teams working in parallel, thereby compromising developers’ productivity as well as the quality of software developed. For this, many integration techniques have been proposed in last decades to support developers to integrate feature [...]
Inconsistencies in conflicting multi-view UML models can be major obstacles to the quality and productivity of software development. In the current literature it can be observed that some tools were developed to support the detection of inconsistencies, but none of them are still consolidated. In addition, many of these tools only evaluate syntactic inconsistencies, not [...]
The use of LiDAR-based models for natural outcrops and surfaces studies has increased in the last few years. This technique has been found to be potential to represent digitally tridimensional data, thus it increases the quality and amount of data available for interpretation by geoscientists. Researchers, in computations, face difficulties in handling the huge amount [...]
Laser scanning technique from airborne and land platforms has been largely used for collecting 3D data in large volumes in the field of geosciences. Furthermore, the laser pulse intensity has been widely exploited to analyze and classify rocks and biomass, and for carbon storage estimation. In general, a laser beam is emitted, collides with targets [...]
This paper presents a comparative study about 3D reconstruction based on active and passive sensors, mainly LiDAR – Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) and raster images (photography), respectively. An accuracy analysis has been performed in the positioning of outcrop point clouds obtained by both techniques. To make the comparison feasible, datasets are composed by point clouds [...]
Authentication and authorization are two of the most important services for any IT infrastructure. Taking into account the current state of affairs of cyber warfare, the security and dependability of such services is a first class priority. For instance, the correct and continuous operation of identity providers (e.g., OpenID) and authentication, authorization and accounting services [...]
Elasticity is undoubtedly one of the most striking characteristics of cloud computing. Especially in the area of high performance computing (HPC), elasticity can be used to execute irregular and CPU-intensive applications. However, the on- the-fly increase/decrease in resources is more widespread in Web systems, which have their own IaaS-level load balancer. Considering the HPC area, [...]