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This documents introduces \Energyware" as a software engineering discipline aiming at defining, analyzing and optimizing the energy consumption by software systems. In this paper we present energyware analysis in the context of programming languages, software data structures and program's source code. For each of these areas we describe the research work done in the context of the Green Software Laboratory at Minho University: we describe energyaware techniques, tools, libraries, and repositories. © 2018 by the paper's authors.

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The recent technological advances on telecommunications create a new reality on mobility sensing. Nowadays, we live in an era where ubiquitous digital devices are able to broadcast rich information about human mobility in real-Time and at a high rate. Such fact exponentially increased the availability of large-scale mobility data which has been popularized in the media as the new currency, fueling the future vision of our smart cities that will transform our lives. The reality is that we just began to recognize significant research challenges across a spectrum of topics. Consequently, there is an increasing interest among different research communities (ranging from civil engineering to computer science) and industrial stakeholders on building knowledge discovery pipelines over such data sources. However, such availability also raises privacy issues that must be considered by both industrial and academic stakeholders on using these resources. © 2000-2011 IEEE.

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This paper presents the perception system designed for the underwater mine exploration UNEXMIN robot. This autonomous underwater vehicle was designed in the context of the European 112020 ENEXIVIIN project to explore flooded underground mines The presented work addresses the sensor choice and placement options, the characterization of the system with results obtained in test tank and on field missions in mines. The perception software and computational architecture is also discussed with details on its distributed features. This perception system is comprised of one multibeam imaging/profiling sonar, one mechanically scanning sonar, digital cameras and a set of custom developed laser based structured light systems. The presented results from the Kaatiala mine (Finland) field trials and the Idrija mine tests (Slovenia) are discussed and allow for the performance analysis of the system.

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Individuals and companies have a feeling of insecurity in the Internet, as every day a reasonable amount of attacks take place against users’ privacy and confidentiality. The use of digital equipment in illicit and unlawful activities has increasing. Attorneys, criminal polices, layers and courts staff have to deal with crimes committed with digital “weapons”, whose evidences have to be examined and reported by applying digital forensics methods. Digital forensics is a recent and fast-growing area of study which needs more graduated professionals. This fact has leveraged higher education institutions to develop courses and curricula to accommodate digital forensics topics and skills in their curricular offers. This paper aims to present the development of a cybersecurity and digital forensics master course in Polytechnic of Leiria, a public higher education institution in Portugal. The authors depict the roadmap and the general milestones that lead to the development of the course. The strengths and opportunities are identified and the major students’ outcomes are pointed out. The way taken and the decisions made are also approached, with a view to understanding the performance obtained so far. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Microcredit programs in Portugal represent a unique case for studying the microcredit repayment determinants in a developed country, as it experienced a financial hardship in 2008-2009, with economic and social consequences that led to unemployment crisis. This research examined the determinants of microcredit loan repayment based on a sample of 752 microcredit loans granted in Portugal by the National Association for the Right to Credit, adopting individual lending mechanisms and granting loans through partnerships with several credit institutions. This is the first study to ascertain the influence that a set of factors - grouped into three categories: borrowers' individual characteristics; loan characteristics; and characteristics of business projects implemented by borrowers - has on the repayment ability of microcredit programs, in a developed country of the Eurozone. Moreover, this is the first study using an ordered logistic regression (OLR) in estimating the determinants of microcredit loan repayment. Similar to previous studies, married borrowers tend to repay loans faster as they tend to be more responsible than single borrowers. Nationality seems to be an issue as foreigners tends to default the repayment loans. Finally, those involved in manufacturing activities perform better than those involved in service activities in repaying their loans. This clearly indicates that in developed countries special attention needs to be provided to minority groups as well as market/supply conditions, which are not normally considered in less favored economic countries.

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