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2020

BAT Algorithm aplicado à localização de robôs móveis

Authors
Braga, AdF; De Souza, JPC; Coelho, FdO; Marcato, ALM;

Publication
Principia: Caminhos da Iniciação Científica

Abstract
A robótica assistiva está presente em diversas áreas de pesquisa do mundo atual. Trabalhos voltados para o aumento da produtividade e para o auxílio de pessoas com deficiência física são alguns exemplos de como a robótica pode facilitar e melhorar a qualidade de vida do ser humano. Com o desenvolvimento de aplicações remotas é possível controlar diferentes dispositivos sem a necessidade de estar presente no local de atuação. Este artigo tem como objetivo controlar um robô humanoide remotamente através do reconhecimento de sinais de eletromiografia, bem como localizá-lo em seu ambiente.

2020

What kind of emotions do emoticons communicate?

Authors
Brito, PQ; Tones, S; Fernandes, J;

Publication
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND LOGISTICS

Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the nature and concept of emoticons/emojis. Instead of taking for granted that these user-generated formats are necessarily emotional, we empirically assessed in what extent are they and the specificity of each one. Drawing on congruent mood state, valence core and emotion appraisal theories we expected a compatible statistical association between positive/negative/neutral emotional valence expressions and emoticons of similar valence. The positive emoticons were consistently associated with positive valence posts. Added to that analysis, 21 emotional categories were identified in posts and correlated with eight emoticons. Design/methodology/approach Two studies were used to address this question. The first study defined emoticon concept and interpreted their meaning highlighting their communication goals and anticipated effects. The link between emojis and emoticons was also obtained. Some emoticons types present more ambiguity than others. In the second study, three years of real and private (Facebook) posts from 82 adolescents were content analyzed and coded. Findings Only the neutral emoticons always matched neutral emotional categories found in the written interaction. Although the emoticon valence and emotional category congruence pattern was the rule, we also detected a combination of different valence emoticons types and emotion categories valence expressions. Apparently the connection between emoticon and emotion are not so obviously straightforward as the literature used to assume. The created objects designed to communicate emotions (emoticons) have their specific corresponding logic with the emotional tone of the message. Originality/value Theoretically, we discussed the emotional content of emoticons/emojis. Although this king of signals have an Asian origin and later borrowed from the western countries, their ambiguity and differing specificity have never been analyzed.

2020

IEEE PELS WIE Breakfast Reception at Joint SPEC-COBEP 2019 Honors Prof. Camila Gehrke

Authors
Araujo, MRSS; de Freitas, NB;

Publication
IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE

Abstract

2020

Optimal Load Restoration in Active Distribution Networks Complying With Starting Transients of Induction Motors

Authors
Sekhavatmanesh, H; Rodrigues, J; Moreira, CL; Lopes, JAP; Cherkaoui, R;

Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID

Abstract
Large horsepower induction motors play a critical role as industrial drives in production facilities. The operational safety of distribution networks during the starting transients of these motor loads is a critical concern for the operators. In this paper, an analytical and convex optimization model is derived representing the starting transients of the induction motor in a semi-static fashion. This model is used to find the optimal energization sequence of different loads (static and motor loads) following an outage in a distribution network. The optimization problem includes the optimal control of the converter-based DGs and autotransformers that are used for the induction motor starting. These models together with the semi-static model of the induction motor are integrated into a relaxed power flow formulation resulting in a Mixed-Integer Second Order Cone Programming (SOCP) problem. This formulation represents the transient operational limits that are imposed by different protection devices both in the motor side and network side. The functionality of the proposed optimization problem is evaluated in the case of a large-scale test study and under different simulation scenarios. The feasibility and accuracy of the optimization results are validated using I) off-line time-domain simulations, and II) a Power Hardware-In-the-Loop experiment.

2020

Impact of Trust and Reputation Based Brokerage on the CloudAnchor Platform

Authors
Veloso, B; Malheiro, B; Burguillo, JC; Gama, J;

Publication
Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trustworthiness. The PAAMS Collection - 18th International Conference, PAAMS 2020, L'Aquila, Italy, October 7-9, 2020, Proceedings

Abstract
This paper analyses the impact of trust and reputation modelling on CloudAnchor, a business-to-business brokerage platform for the transaction of single and federated resources on behalf of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME). In CloudAnchor, businesses act as providers or consumers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources. The platform adopts a multi-layered multi-agent architecture, where providers, consumers and virtual providers, representing provider coalitions, engage in trust & reputation-based provider look-up, invitation, acceptance and resource negotiations. The goal of this work is to assess the relevance of the distributed trust model and centralised fuzzified reputation service in the number of resources successfully transacted, the global turnover, brokerage fees, losses, expenses and time response. The results show that trust and reputation based brokerage has a positive impact on the CloudAnchor performance by reducing losses and the execution time for the provision of both single and federated resources and increasing considerably the number of federated resources provided. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

2020

Percentile and stochastic-based approach to the comparison of the number of citations of articles indexed in different bibliographic databases

Authors
Pech, G; Delgado, C;

Publication
SCIENTOMETRICS

Abstract
Recent studies have shown that the coverage of Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases differs substantially. Consequently, the citation counts of a paper are different depending on the database used, making it difficult to apply both together. To address this problem, this paper aims to examine whether the percentile- and stochastic-based approach is effective for converting citation counts between two databases while guaranteeing its time-normalization. For this analysis, we collected a dataset of 326,345 papers, published in 1987-2017 in the top 10% source titles of the following fields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Aquatic Science, Social Psychology and Archaeology. First, we applied the linear regression model to the citation percentiles of indexed papers in both databases. Secondly, we used the predicted results of this linear dependence, combined with the Monte Carlo simulations, to obtain the probability density function of a percentile from papers in the database in which they are missing. The results indicate that, with the method proposed in this paper, it is possible to convert the citation counts of articles between Scopus and WoS. In addition, it also predicts the citation impact of a missing paper on one of those databases, based on the citation impact on the other database. Tests on subsamples, using Lin's concordance coefficient, suggest substantial agreement between estimated and real citation values. This allows the combined use of the citation counts of two databases, improving the coverage and accuracy of both bibliometric studies and bibliometric indicators.

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