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Smart Governence as its roots in e-government, in the principles of good governance, and in the assumptions of citizens' participation and involvement in public decision-making and is considered one of the six main characteristics of smart cities. The present investigation was intended to answer the question: "What smart governance practices are being implemented in European smart cities" through an extensive literature review and content analysis of the websites of six European smart cities: Amsterdam; Barcelona; Copenhagen; Lisbon; Manchester and Stockholm. The objective was to identify the presence of factors related with e-participation; e-services; and the functioning of local public administration on the city's websites. It was concluded that all the smart cities analyzed presented some factors related with smart governance, but with different levels of development and application.

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Este trabalho apresenta um Mapeamento Sistemático da Literatura sobre evasão escolar, em que se buscou identificar tecnologias de mineração de dados e fatores indutores para evasão escolar, que vem sendo exploradas para desvendar as possíveis causas da evasão escolar. As buscas foram realizadas em quatro bases de dados científicas, com o objetivo de responder a seguinte questão de pesquisa: “Quais ferramentas, técnicas e fatores indutores vem sendo utilizados para desvendar possíveis causas da evasão escolar?”. Observou-se que a ferramenta Weka é a mais utilizada para auxiliar a desvendar as causas da evasão escolar. Entre as técnicas, destaca-se a utilização da classificação. Por fim, o mapeamento identificou que os principais trabalhos da área se concentram em estudar fatores relacionados às características individuais do aluno.

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Enterprises have been challenged to adopt practices of sustainability to benefit shareholders and society with goods standing much beyond monetary profit or required by law. In combination with environmental and economic concerns, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an option to leverage businesses with good reputation and to attract sustainability-aware market segments. In line with such a demand, this paper presents a systematic literature review of conceptual modeling studies referring explicitly to certifications, laws or norms of CSR. The more specific research goal of this work is to discover ontologies for representing CSR best practices, design patterns or policies. In total, 921 peer-reviewed papers were analyzed, from which only 17 were considered relevant for data extraction. The main result of this work is the identification of a research gap in explicit knowledge representation of CSR practices for Information Systems design, which ought to be filled to complement the (dominant) economic perspective on sustainability.

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Safety-critical cooperative vehicle applications such as platooning, require extensive testing, however, the complexity and cost involved in this process, increasingly demands for realistic simulation tools to ease the validation of such technologies, helping to bridge the gap between development and real-word deployment. In this paper we propose a realistic co-simulation framework for cooperative vehicles, that integrates Gazebo, an advanced robotics simulator, with the OMNeT++ network simulator, over the Robot Operating System (ROS) framework, supporting the simulation of advanced cooperative applications such as platooning, in realistic scenarios.

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Deterministic Synchronous Multichannel Extension (DSME) is a prominentMAC behavior first introduced in IEEE 802.15.4e supporting deterministic guarantees using its multisuperframe structure. DSME also facilitates techniques like multi-channel and Contention Access Period (CAP) reduction to increase the number of available guaranteed timeslots in a network. However, any tuning of these functionalities in dynamic scenarios is not explored in the standard. In this paper, we present a multisuperframe tuning technique called DynaMO which tunes the CAP reduction and Multisuperframe Order in an effective manner to improve flexibility and scalability, while guaranteeing bounded delay. We also provide simulations to prove that DynaMO with its dynamic tuning feature can offer up to 15-30% reduction in terms of latency in a large DSME network. © Copyright held by the authors.