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Selecting quality improvement projects among a variety of mutually competing ones is characterised by prioritisation. In practice, this is often done by the rule of thumb, following a single attribute criterion or by subjective preferences of individual stakeholders of a project team. An approach to track systematically nonconformities and to identify those critical ones that should be prioritised based on multi-attribute criteria is presented. The approach is introduced and its purpose is explained. After the background of relevant topics is given, the method's importance in research and for practitioners is derived. Steps of the approach are portrayed and an application case of a mature industrial company, integrated in the supply-chain of the automotive industry, is presented. Elements of quality tools and techniques are used as attributes, namely failure mode and effect analysis and Pareto diagram. Results based on industrial data indicate that the use of this approach contributes to support informed and structured prioritisation decisions, which foster a more efficient improvement of future quality-based projects.

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The optimization and simulation of power systems continues to be an area of concern for electricity companies and researchers worldwide namely considering the development of electricity markets and competition in the generation activity Therefore generation companies are devoting an increasing attention to market issues justifying the development of models to help them preparing bidding strategies to the day-ahead market. In this context, agent-based models have been reported as a complement to optimization and equilibrium models when the problem is too complex to be analyzed by traditional approaches. This paper details an Agent-Based Model for an electricity market considering a detailed modeling for hydro stations and presents some preliminary results taking the Iberian Electricity Market as an example.

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Photovoltaic (PV) solar power capacity is growing in several countries, either concentrated in medium/large size solar parks or distributed by the medium and low voltage grid. Solar power forecasting is a key input for supporting grid management, participation in the electricity market and maintenance planning. This paper proposes a new forecasting system that is a hybrid of different models, such as electrical and statistical models, as well as different Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) sources. The time horizon is 48 hours ahead. The proposed model was operationalized and tested in a real PV installation located in North Portugal with 16 kW.

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Chord progressions are widely used in music. The automatic generation of chord progressions can be challenging because it depends on many factors, such as the musical context, personal preference, and aesthetic choices. In this work, we propose a penalty function that encodes musical rules to automatically generate chord progressions. Then we use an artificial immune system (AIS) to minimize the penalty function when proposing candidates for the next chord in a sequence. The AIS is capable of finding multiple optima in parallel, resulting in several different chords as appropriate candidates. We performed a listening test to evaluate the chords subjectively and validate the penalty function. We found that chords with a low penalty value were considered better candidates than chords with higher penalty values.

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The use of unmanned vehicle networks for diverse applications is becoming widespread. It is generally hard to program unmanned vehicle networks as a "whole", however. The coordination of multiple vehicles requires careful planning through intricate human intervention, and a high degree of informality is implied in what concerns the specification of a "network program" for an application scenario. In this context, we have been developing a programming language for expressing global specifications of coordinated behavior in unmanned vehicle networks, the Networked Vehicles' Language (NVL). In this paper we illustrate the use of the language for a thermal pollution plume tracking scenario employing unmanned underwater vehicles.

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O presente artigo tem como objeto os resultados dum estudo que teve por objetivo a investigação do uso dos sistemas e tecnologias de informação (STI) no turismo em espaço rural (TER) na região do Algarve. Os resultados foram obtidos através de um questionário eletrónico, direcionado a proprietários e/ou gestores de 51 unidades TER, no qual se procurou identificar o impacto dos STI nas variáveis: tomada de decisão; satisfação dos gestores quanto ao uso dos STI; qualidade do serviço de reservas de quarto; e resultados financeiros. O estudo permitiu concluir que, de uma forma geral, a utilização dos STI são uma componente importante na gestão das unidades TER e têm impactos positivos na identificação de problemas e minimização do seu tempo de resolução; na confiança depositada no sistema e linguagem utilizada no computador; na qualidade das reservas de quartos; e nos resultados financeiros por via da inovação em tecnologia e existência de rede na organização.;This article aims to present the results of a study that investigated the use of information systems and technologies (IST) in tourism in rural space (TRS) in the Algarve region. The results were obtained through an electronic questionnaire given to the owners and/or managers of fifty one units TRS, in which we tried to identify the impact of IST in the following variables: decision making, satisfaction of managers in the use of IST, quality of room reservations service, and financial results. The study concluded that, in general, the use of IST are an important component in the TRS units of management and have positive impacts in identifying problems and minimizing their time resolution, confidence in the system and language used in the computer, the quality of rooms reservations, and financial results through innovation in technology, and network existence in the organization.