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The increase in the world's population combined with the development of new economies has led to a large scale increase in the demand for energy resources. New technologies have emerged that allow for the maintenance of the energy supply. Renewable sources and energy storage systems (ESS) are emerging as a crucial option for the development of Smart Grids. Using a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) optimization model, the effects of renewable production sources and storage systems on an electrical grid were studied, in order to maximize the profit of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). The obtained results allowed us to verify the efficiency of the proposed method. The placement of renewable producers and the ESS, as well as the management optimization of the purchase and transfer process of the stored energy definitely increased the profit of VPP. The use of these technologies also improves the voltage profile and decreased the active power losses by 84% along with the network.

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The development of the Internet created new technologies that are changing the way of doing business, particularly Industry 4.0 in current days. One challenge of the implementation of new technologies is the change required from companies' business models. However, the literature concerning Industry 4.0 is mainly focused on technological innovations and less in their impact on business models. This paper aims to understand the impacts of the digitalization process inherent to Industry 4.0 on business models. To achieve this purpose, an exploratory multiple-case study based on semi-structured interviews was conducted in two Portuguese medium companies from two different sectors. Findings show that besides companies being able to change to a customer-oriented approach, individualized mass production may not be the only purpose of this transformation. Networking is particularly appealing for small and medium enterprises, once they usually have fewer resources to dedicate to innovation projects. Additionally, in the era of globalization, logistic costs are still an obstacle for serving international markets. Finally, social media are seen as an internal tool of communication for business-to-business companies. Being one of the first empirical studies of the Portuguese context, it aims to diminish the lack of literature concerning this particular topic and enable future researches on the use of business models as a management tool. Secondly, it intends to help managers develop or redesign business models adjusted to a more dynamic and competitive environment. © 2021 IEEE.

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The main objective of this paper is to make a contribution in the automation of web applications' development, starting from prototypes of their graphical user interfaces. Due to the exponential increase in the use of internet-based services and applications, there is an also increasing demand for Web designers and developers. At the same time, the proliferation of languages, frameworks and libraries illustrates the current state of immaturity of web development technologies. This state of affairs creates difficulties in the development and maintenance of Web applications. In this paper, we argue that integrating concepts of model-based user interface development with the more traditional user-centred design approach to development can provide an answer to this situation. An approach is presented that allows designers to use prototyping tools, in this case Adobe XD, to design graphical interfaces, and then automatically converts them to Vue.js +Bootstrap code, thus creating a first version of the implementation for further development. This is done through the interpretation of the SVG file that Adobe XD exports.