2021
Authors
Leal, F; Veloso, B; Malheiro, B; Burguillo, JC;
Publication
WorldCIST (1)
Abstract
Crowdsourced data streams are continuous flows of data generated at high rate by users, also known as the crowd. These data streams are popular and extremely valuable in several domains. This is the case of tourism, where crowdsourcing platforms rely on tourist and business inputs to provide tailored recommendations to future tourists in real time. The continuous, open and non-curated nature of the crowd-originated data requires robust data stream mining techniques for on-line profiling, recommendation and evaluation. The sought techniques need, not only, to continuously improve profiles and learn models, but also be transparent, overcome biases, prioritise preferences, and master huge data volumes; all in real time. This article surveys the state-of-art in this field, and identifies future research opportunities.
2021
Authors
Chaves, R; Schneider, D; Motta, C; Correia, A; Paredes, H; Caetano, B; de Souza, JM;
Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 IEEE 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK IN DESIGN (CSCWD)
Abstract
Over the past decades, the use of digital technologies to support participatory urban planning and design has been repeatedly described as a crucial instrument and critical building block for tackling historical problems of participation in such processes. Social media, e-participation platforms, and crowdsourcing applications are examples of technologies that can involve citizens in decision-making processes and thus leverage the benefits of collective intelligence. However, despite the extensive use of social media platforms, old problems related to engagement and participation still occur in digital initiatives. Successful collaboration examples between citizens, policymakers, and strategic stakeholders are still scarce based on online social practices. This study aims to introduce a collective intelligence model, which combines crowdsourcing and social storytelling to support participatory urban planning and design from a bottom-up perspective. The paper concludes by discussing a scenario where citizens can engage in mapping, taking photos, sending ideas, or even creating collective stories about their university issues in a post-pandemic future.
2021
Authors
Nogueira, AR; Ferreira, C; Gama, J; Pinto, A;
Publication
PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (EPIA 2021)
Abstract
One of the most significant challenges for machine learning nowadays is the discovery of causal relationships from data. This causal discovery is commonly performed using Bayesian like algorithms. However, more recently, more and more causal discovery algorithms have appeared that do not fall into this category. In this paper, we present a new algorithm that explores global causal association rules with Uncertainty Coefficient. Our algorithm, CRPA-UC, is a global structure discovery approach that combines the advantages of association mining with causal discovery and can be applied to binary and non-binary discrete data. This approach was compared to the PC algorithm using several well-known data sets, using several metrics.
2021
Authors
Uppal, AA; Fernandes, MCRM; Vinha, S; Fontes, FACC;
Publication
ENERGIES
Abstract
An airborne wind energy system (AWES) can harvest stronger wind streams at higher altitudes which are not accessible to conventional wind turbines. The operation of AWES requires a controller for the tethered aircraft/kite module (KM), as well as a controller for the ground station module (GSM). The literature regarding the control of AWES mostly focuses on the trajectory tracking of the KM. However, an advanced control of the GSM is also key to the successful operation of an AWES. In this paper we propose a cascaded control strategy for the GSM of an AWES during the traction or power generation phase. The GSM comprises a winch and a three-phase induction machine (IM), which acts as a generator. In the outer control-loop, an integral sliding mode control (SMC) algorithm is designed to keep the winch velocity at the prescribed level. A detailed stability analysis is also presented for the existence of the SMC for the perturbed winch system. The rotor flux-based field oriented control (RFOC) of the IM constitutes the inner control-loop. Due to the sophisticated RFOC, the decoupled and instantaneous control of torque and rotor flux is made possible using decentralized proportional integral (PI) controllers. The unknown states required to design RFOC are estimated using a discrete time Kalman filter (DKF), which is based on the quasi-linear model of the IM. The designed GSM controller is integrated with an already developed KM, and the AWES is simulated using MATLAB and Simulink. The simulation study shows that the GSM control system exhibits appropriate performance even in the presence of the wind gusts, which account for the external disturbance.
2021
Authors
Luis; Lima J.; de Oliveira A.S.;
Publication
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, SIMULTECH 2021
Abstract
The advancement of technology and techniques applied to robotics contributes to increasing the quality of life and safety of humanity. One of the most widespread applications of mobile robotics is related to monitoring indoor environments. However, due to factors such as the size of the environment impacting the monitoring response, battery autonomy, and autonomous navigation in environments with unknown obstacles, they are still significant challenges in the diffusion of mobile robotics in these areas. Strategy adopting multiple robots can overcome these challenges. This work presents an approach to use multi-robots in hazardous environments with gas leakage to perform spatial mapping of the gas concentration. Obstacles arranged in the environment are unknown to robots, then a fuzzy control approach is used to avoid the collision. As a result of this paper, spatial mapping of an indoor environment was carried out with multi-robots that reactively react to unknown obstacles considering a point gas leak with Gaussian dispersion.
2021
Authors
Matias, M; Almeida, F; Moura, R; Barraca, N;
Publication
CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Abstract
Rehabilitation, restoration and maintenance of monuments, heritage and buildings pose challenging tasks to engineers and architects, as any intervention must respect their architectural and constructive characteristics. Often these are unknown and sources of information have long been lost in time. Thus, there is a need to use methods capable of providing information on a wide range of aspects such as building foundations, construction characteristics and materials, alterations from the original layout, infrastructure mapping, pathologies, etc. These methods must respect the inherent structural delicacy and characteristics of ancient buildings and non-destructive methods, NDT such as geophysical methods, have been proposed to investigate these problems. It is common knowledge that a single geophysical method cannot provide full information on the problems to investigate. Thus, herein the combined use of Seismic Transmission Tomography and Ground Penetrating Radar - GPR - is demonstrated to provide important results in the investigation of the constructive elements (columns and walls) of a 14th century UNESCO monument. As demonstrated, high-resolution geophysical data obtained from both methods provide very good images of the interior of both walls and columns giving information on the quality and spatial distribution of the materials used in the construction of the monument. Finally, the results herein discussed prove the suitability and complementarity of these two methods to investigate, built heritage, monuments and buildings in general.
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