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Objectives - This study reported in this article aimed to identify: i) the concerns of the actual research related to the application of the Design for All paradigm in the development of information technology applications to support older adults? ii) the types of applications based on information technology that are being developed according to the Design for All paradigm to support older adults; and iii) the maturity level of these applications. Methods - A systematic review was performed based on a search of the literature. Results - A total of 31 proof-of-concepts prototypes were identified targeting the following application areas: special purpose machines, virtual assistants, social networking, messaging services, intelligent environments, information services and healthcare. Conclusion - Although the studies included in this systematic review present positive impact of the application of the Design of All paradigm, there is a lack of robust trials with strong experimental evidence.

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Innovation is recognised as an important source of competitive advantage by both academics and managers. Nowadays, supply chain partners play a crucial part in driving many aspects of innovation, from the definition of the product concept to the launch to the market. This chapter analyzes how the relationship between supply chain management and the innovation process is addressed in the literature and discuss ways to improve the performance by means of this relationship. A bibliometric analysis—including citation and co-citation analysis—is carried out to study the intellectual structure of the topic. In the end, four literature clusters were identified, and their characteristics are discussed. © 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.

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Information and Communication Technologies appear one of the most critical areas to the success of tourism in the future and the way it will promote the tourist destinations. This paper aims to analyze the relevance given by the various Portuguese institutions of higher education to Information and Communication Technologies in their degrees. The analysis carried out was done in degree courses operating in this academic year, 2017/2018, in Portuguese universities and polytechnics, public and private. A comparison was also made with the reality of 2012/2013, since as undergraduate degrees have been evaluated by the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), often making changes, resulting from the evaluation. © 2018 AISTI.

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Some industries have critical areas (dangerous or hazardous) where the presence of a human must be reduced or avoided. In some cases, there are areas where humans should be replaced by robots. The present work uses a robot with differential drive to scan an environment with known and unknown obstacles, defined in 3D simulation. It is important that the robot be able to make the right decisions about its way without the need of an operator. A solution to this challenge will be presented in this paper. The control application and its communication module with a simulator or a real robot are proposed. The robot can perform the scan, passing through all the waypoints arranged in a grid. The results are presented, showcasing the robot’s capacity to perform a viable trajectory without human intervention. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.

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In smart grid, demand response (DR) programs can be deployed to encourage electricity consumers towards scheduling their controllable demands to off-peak periods. Motivating the consumers to participate in a DR program is a challenging task, as they experience a confidential discomfort cost by modifying their load demand from the desirable pattern to the scheduled pattern. Meanwhile, to balance the load and generation, the independent system operator (ISO) requires to motivate the suppliers towards modifying their generation profiles to follow the changes in the load demands. Additionally, to protect the entities' privacy, the ISO needs to apply an effective well-designed pricing scheme. In this paper, we focus on proposing a decentralized DR framework considering the operating constraints of the grid. In our proposed framework, each individual entity responds to the control signals called conjectured prices from the ISO to modify its demand or generation profile with the locally-available information. We formulate the centralized problem of the ISO that jointly minimizes the suppliers' generation cost and the consumers' discomfort cost. We also discuss how the ISO determines the conjectured prices to motivate the entities toward an operating point that coincides with the solution to the centralized problem. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated on a modified IEEE 14-bus in reducing the suppliers' and consumers' cost, as well as the transmission lines congestion.

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Nowadays, web applications play an important role in our society and in the business world. Many companies earn a large part of their revenues through web applications that provide support services that must be maintained and improved over time. Most of these services operate on a large scale and are in constant change due to the environment in which they operate and due to the rapid technological evolution as we strive to improve our everyday lives. Due to this constantly changing environment, it is difficult to estimate the impact of changes; to maintain the software requirements documents updated; and to build and maintain a test suit for regression testing. Regression tests must be updated continually in order to test the current behavior after requested changes are implemented. REQAnalytics is a tool that aims to solve these problems. This paper presents REQAnalytics and an extension to generate test cases from the usage of a SaaS platform in order to diminish the effort in building and maintaining regression tests that are useful to check if the SaaS platform remains working as expected.