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2018

Context-aware tourism technologies

Authors
Leal, F; Malheiro, B; Burguillo, JC;

Publication
KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING REVIEW

Abstract
Nowadays travellers can benefit from the computing capabilities, collection of on board sensors and ubiquitous Internet access provided by mobile devices. These are the three pillars of any tourist support system since they provide the power, means and data to establish the local user context, to access remote services and to provide value-added user-centred context-aware applications. However, making sense of the user context data is not straightforward, as it requires dedicated knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation solutions. Besides, the range and diversity of available data sources is huge, requiring appropriate knowledge processing techniques to provide addequated tourism services. This article presents an updated review, and a comparison of recent context-aware tourism applications (CATA), including supporting technologies; and considering four possible dimensions: knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, knowledge processing and knowledge-based services. We propose and apply a CATA analysis framework, contemplating these four dimensions to the applications found in the literature. This survey constitutes, not only, a state of the art review on tourism mobile applications, but, also, anticipates the latest development trends in tourism-related applications.

2018

Deep Image Segmentation by Quality Inference

Authors
Fernandes, K; Cruz, R; Cardoso, JS;

Publication
2018 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN)

Abstract
Traditionally, convolutional neural networks are trained for semantic segmentation by having an image given as input and the segmented mask as output. In this work, we propose a neural network trained by being given an image and mask pair, with the output being the quality of that pairing. The segmentation is then created afterwards through backpropagation on the mask. This allows enriching training with semi-supervised synthetic variations on the ground-truth. The proposed iterative segmentation technique allows improving an existing segmentation or creating one from scratch. We compare the performance of the proposed methodology with state-of-the-art deep architectures for image segmentation and achieve competitive results, being able to improve their segmentations.

2018

Consumo de Canábis: craving e a relação com ansiedade, stresse e depressão

Authors
Vasconcelos-Raposo, J; Couto, S; Formiga, N; Teixeira, CM;

Publication
Actualidades en Psicología

Abstract
A canábis é a substância ilícita mais consumida em Portugal com um início de consumo muito precoce. O craving é considerado um dos factores fundamentais ligados ao consumo de canábis, associando-se à depressão, a ansiedade e ao stresse. Espera-se que nível de craving e sexo se relacionem com a depressão, ansiedade e stresse numa amostra de consumidores portugueses. A amostra foi constituída por 143 consumidores da zona Norte do país e os dados recolhidos através de questionários online (DASS-21 e o MCQ-SF). Os resultados permitem concluir que a emocionalidade, a intencionalidade e a compulsividade relacionaram-se positivamente com o nível do craving, bem como, com o stresse e a depressão. Quanto ao número de anos de consumo, constatou-se um efeito significativo, de dimensão média, na ansiedade.

2018

An indoor navigation architecture using variable data sources for blind and visually impaired persons

Authors
Gomes, JP; Sousa, JP; Cunha, CR; Morais, EP;

Publication
2018 13TH IBERIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (CISTI)

Abstract
Contrary to outdoor positioning and navigation systems, there isn't a counterpart global solution for indoor environments. Usually, the deployment of an indoor positioning system must be adapted case by case, according to the infrastructure and the objective of the localization. A particularly delicate case is related with persons who are blind or visually impaired. A robust and easy to use indoor navigation solution would be extremely useful, but this would also be particularly difficult to develop, given the special requirements of the system that would have to be more accurate and user friendly than a general solution This paper presents a contribute to this subject, by proposing a hybrid indoor positioning system adaptable to the surrounding indoor structure, and dealing with different types of signals to increase accuracy. This would permit lower the deployment costs, since it could be done gradually, beginning with the likely existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to get a fairy accuracy up to a high accuracy using visual tags and NFC tags when necessary and possible.

2018

Estimation and control of multidimensional systems

Authors
Azevedo Perdicoulis, TPCA;

Publication
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL

Abstract

2018

Reap-SoS: A Requirement Engineering Approach for System of Systems

Authors
Duarte, FL; Félix de Castro, A; Gadelha Queiroz, PG;

Publication
Computer Science & Information Technology

Abstract

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