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Cognitive robotics looks at human cognition as a source of inspiration for automatic perception capabilities that will allow robots to learn and reason out how to behave in response to complex goals. For instance, humans learn to recognize object categories ceaselessly over time. This ability to refine knowledge from the set of accumulated experiences facilitates the adaptation to new environments. Inspired by such abilities, this paper proposes an efficient approach towards 3D object category learning and recognition in an interactive and open-ended manner. To achieve this goal, this paper focuses on two state-of-the-art questions: (i) How to use unsupervised object exploration to construct a dictionary of visual words for representing objects in a highly compact and distinctive way. (ii) How to learn incrementally probabilistic models of object categories to achieve adaptability. To examine the performance of the proposed approach, a quantitative evaluation and a qualitative analysis are used. The experimental results showed the fulfilling performance of this approach types of objects. The proposed system is able to interact with human users and learn new object categories over time.

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Mobile applications are a rapidly increasing part of our daily life, featuring more than one million applications and fifty billions downloads in the two major markets. Thus, it is important to ensure their functional correctness. The Pattern-Based GUI Testing (PBGT) project presented an approach for systematising and automating the GUI testing of web applications by modelling testing goals with User Interface Test Patterns(UITPs), i.e., test strategies for recurring behaviour of the UI. This paper extends the set of UITPs used by the PBGT project with three UITPs specific to the testing of mobile applications: Side Drawer, Orientation and Resources Dependency.

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The increasing penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has encouraged solutions for facilitating their utilization. In this regard, PEV parking lots (PLs) have proved to be essential for future systems with high amounts of PEVs. However, operating a PL in order to maximize its profit while enforcing its own constraints generates conflicts between the PL and the distribution system operator (DSO). As a result, this paper proposes a model to solve the PL equilibria behavior. A bi-level problem including the operation of DSO and PL is solved using mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints (MPEC). The PL's behavior is defined by its hourly energy and reserve interaction with the market through the DSO. As the total amount of PL's interaction with the grid will affect the DSO's operational decision making, the proposed model finds the equilibrium point to maximize the benefit for PL and DSO.

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Herdade da Contenda (HC), located in Moura municipality, Beja district (Alentejo province) in the south of Portugal (southwestern Iberia Peninsula), is a national hunting area with 5270ha. The development of an integrated system that aims to make the management of the natural and cultural heritage resources will be very useful for an effective management of this area. This integrated system should include the physical characterization of the territory, natural conservation, land use and land management themes, as well the cultural heritage resources. This paper presents a new tool for an integrated environmental management system of the HC, which aims to produce maps under a GIS open source environment (QGIS). The application is composed by a single button which opens a window. The window is composed by twelve menus (File, DRASTIC, Forest Fire Risk, Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), Bioclimatic Index, Cultural Heritage, Fauna and Flora, Ortofoto, Normalizes Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Land Use Land Cover Cover (LULC) and Help. Several inputs are requires to generate these maps, e.g. DEM, geologic information, soil map, hydraulic conductivity information, LULC map, vulnerability and economic information, NDVI. Six buttons were added to the toolbar which allows to manipulate the information in the map canvas: Zoom in, Zoom out, Pan, Print/Layout and Clear. This integrated and open source GIS environment management system was developed for the HC area, but could be easily adapted to other natural or protected area. Despite the lack of data, the methodology presented fulfills the objectives.

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