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This paper presents our experience in coordinating and teaching a novel graduate systems and computing course named 'Successful Systems in Production' (SSP). The course targets graduate students of different research interests in Computer Science. The course aims at giving a breadth knowledge on cutting-edge well-known systems in production, and exploring the potential synergies across different areas of research. Having its roots in Distributed Computing, SSP addresses those systems that overlap with other research areas like Computational Systems, Parallel Computing, Databases, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Security, etc. SSP exhibits an agile topic selection model that fits several students' backgrounds in each academic year. The topics focus on the practical aspects of each selected system that is considered 'successful', i.e., based on its worldwide impact and technical significance. This is important for graduate students to acquire best practices in industry and academia, necessary to build practical computing systems. In the same vein, the assessment method includes a project that is based on one of the presented systems and also intersects with the student's own research plan. Based on our teaching experience and the excellent feedback of the students, we strongly recommend this graduate course to be taught at other universities. © 2019 IEEE.

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Este artigo apresenta parte de uma pesquisa, em andamento, financiada pelo Edital CAPES/FAPITEC/SE N° 10/2016 - Programa de Estímulo a Mobilidade e ao Aumento da Cooperação Acadêmica da Pós-Graduação em Sergipe. Esta pesquisa, desenvolvida em rede, tem como finalidade a promoção de ações colaborativas e cooperativas, na perspectiva da compreensão sobre como a cidade pode se constituir em espaços de convivência híbridos e multimodais de aprendizagem no âmbito da gamificação na educação na era da mobilidade. Participam desta investigação três universidades brasileiras Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) e Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) e seus respectivos programas de pós-graduação, linhas e grupos de pesquisa. Como resultado, parcial, observamos um gap existente entre o mundo das crianças e adolescentes e o mundo da escola (o que envolve a formação docente em diferentes níveis), que apesar de seu caráter histórico, precisa problematizar as dimensões da instabilidade tecnológica vivenciadas pela juventude.

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Low velocity compressional wave (P-wave), Vp values, have been observed from the lunar geophysical measurements made during the Apollo 14, 16 and 17 missions. These low velocities are attributed to lack of water, low soil compaction as well as the non-consolidated nature of the regolith. The microgravity lunar regolith simulant velocity experiment (µ-SVeLSE) aims to determine if there is any dependence of gravitational force on the seismic longitudinal velocity measurements and thus correlate with data previously determined from in-situ lunar regolith measurements. The experiment is composed of a small cylindrical container and a low power control and data acquisition electronics. No external power source was necessary. The prototype is comprised of a regolith container (22cm x 7cm) with all the data acquisition and control electronics included and working on a low voltage battery power sources. The system, designed by us, produces very minute vibration impulses. The impulses from the source transducer (Tx) are sent during limited temporal windows of emission-reception (10 milliseconds), and recorded as weak sonic-ultrasonic impulses that reach the two receivers (Rx). The system has just a start-stop switch than can be initiated directly by a wireless mechanism. The system records the data on a micro-SD card and weighed, together with the lunar regolith (JSC-1), approximately 1.4 kg. The container is completely closed and designed not to vent any regolith particles. During October 2018 we took the experiment onboard an airborne microgravity campaign, carried out in Ottawa (Canada) by the National Research Council’s Falcon 20 aircraft. We acquired data on three parabolas of between 15 and 30 seconds with low noise microgravity values. Preliminary Vp measurement results, compared with those obtained in Earth’s normal 1g, show variations of signal amplitude that are attributed to lower coupling of the source and receivers to the suspended grains during the micro-g phases of flight. Vp velocity results measured during 1g were around 90 m/s whereas during micro-g phases of flight the velocities apparently decreased.

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This paper presents a long-term impact evaluation algorithm to assess advanced under frequency load shedding (UFLS) schemes on distribution systems with intentional islanding of distributed generation (DG). The algorithm is based on a combined discrete-continuous simulation model which is utilized to verify the effect of the schemes on reliability indices such as the system average interruption frequency index, system average interruption duration index, and energy not supplied. Moreover, a polynomial neural network-based approach to advanced load shedding is implemented to support DG islanding in order to illustrate the applicability of the evaluation. Simulation results highlight the long-term effect of employing UFLS to support intentional islanding of DG using an actual network from the South of Brazil.

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The brisk and dynamic environment that factories are facing, both as an internal and an external level, requires a collection of handy tools to solve emerging issues in the industry 4.0 context. Part of the common challenges that appear are related to the increasing demand for high adaptability in the organizations' production lines. Mechanical processes are becoming faster and more adjustable to the production diversity in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). Concerning the previous characteristics, future factories can only remain competitive and profitable if they have the ability to quickly adapt all their production resources in response to inconstant market demands. Having previous concerns in focus, this paper presents a fast and adaptative framework for automated cells modeling, simulation and offline robot programming, focused on palletizing operations. Established as an add-on for the Visual Components (VC) 3D manufacturing simulation software, the proposed application allows performing fast layout modeling and automatic offline generation of robot programs. Furthermore, A* based algorithms are used for generating collision-free trajectories, discretized both in the robot joints space and in the Cartesian space. The software evaluation was tested inside the VC simulation world and in the real-world scenario. Results have shown to be concise and accurate, with minor displacement inaccuracies due to differences between the virtual model and the real world.

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Purpose Service design is a multidisciplinary approach that plays a key role in fostering service innovation. However, the lack of a comprehensive understanding of its multiple perspectives hampers this potential to be realized. Through an activity theory lens, the purpose of this paper is to examine core areas that inform service design, identifying shared concerns and complementary contributions. Design/methodology/approach The study involved a literature review in two stages, followed by a qualitative study based on selected focus groups. The first literature review identified core areas that contribute to service design. Based on this identification, the second literature review examined 135 references suggested by 13 world-leading researchers in this field. These references were qualitatively analyzed using the NVivo software. Results were validated and complemented by six multidisciplinary focus groups with service research centers in five countries. Findings Six core areas were identified and characterized as contributing to service design: service research, design, marketing, operations management, information systems and interaction design. Data analysis shows the various goals, objects, approaches and outcomes that multidisciplinary perspectives bring to service design, supporting them to enable service innovation. Practical implications - This paper supports service design teams to better communicate and collaborate by providing an in-depth understanding of the multiple contributions they can integrate to create the conditions for new service. Originality/value This paper identifies and examines the core areas that inform service design, their shared concerns, complementarities and how they contribute to foster new forms of value co-creation, building a common ground to advance this approach and leverage its impact on service innovation.