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2024

Socioeconomic impact of Brazilian electricity market liberalization: Forecasting and optimized tariff analysis

Authors
Silva, PF; da Costa, VBF; Dias, BH; Soares, TA; Bonatto, BD; Balestrassi, PP;

Publication
ENERGY

Abstract
-This article integrates forecasting methods with an optimized tariff model to assess the effectiveness of the schedule proposed by the Brazilian Association of Energy Traders, as outlined in the technical note NT n degrees 10/ 2022-SRM/ANEEL. This note discusses the regulatory measures to fully open the free energy market to all captive consumers by 2026. Several models, including Winters, SARIMA, ARIMA, and trend analysis were compared to determine the most suitable method for each input variable in the TAROT model, aiming to enhance forecasting accuracy. The results show that the new schedule proposed in the technical note successfully maintains the balance between the economic surplus of concessionaires and the socioeconomic welfare. Despite both approaches declining during the migration period of low-voltage consumers, their surpluses remain positive. However, there are negative effects on tariffs, impacting all consumer groups remaining in the regulated market, both high-voltage and low-voltage consumers. A key conclusion is that further regulatory changes are essential to mitigate additional increases in energy tariffs, aligning the proposed schedule with the reduction of legacy contracts.

2024

GAMAI, an AI-Powered Programming Exercise Gamifier Tool

Authors
Montella, R; De Vita, CG; Mellone, G; Ciricillo, T; Caramiello, D; Di Luccio, D; Kosta, S; Damasevicius, R; Maskeliunas, R; Queiros, R; Swacha, J;

Publication
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION: POSTERS AND LATE BREAKING RESULTS, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION TRACKS, PRACTITIONERS, DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM AND BLUE SKY, AIED 2024, PT I

Abstract
This paper presents GAMAI, an AI-powered exercise gamifier, enriching the Framework for Gamified Programming Education (FGPE) ecosystem. Leveraging OpenAI APIs, GAMAI enables the teachers to leverage the storytelling approach to describe the gamified scenario. GAMAI decorates the natural language text with sentences needed by OpenAI APIs to contextualize the prompt. Once the gamified scenario has been generated, GAMAI automatically produces the exercise files for the FGPE AuthorKit editor. We present preliminary results in AI-assessed gamified exercise generation, showing that most generated exercises are ready to be used with none or minimum human effort needed.

2024

Exploring the dynamics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in paraxial fluids of light

Authors
Ferreira, TD; Garwola, J; Silva, NA;

Publication
PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Abstract
Paraxial fluids of light have recently emerged as promising analog physical simulators of quantum fluids using laser propagation inside nonlinear optical media. In particular, recent works have explored the versatility of such systems for the observation of two-dimensional quantum-like turbulence regimes, dominated by quantized vortex formation and interaction that results in distinctive kinetic energy power laws and inverse energy cascades. In this manuscript, we explore a regime analog to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability to examine in further detail the qualitative dynamics involved in the transition from smooth laminar flow to turbulence at the interface of two fluids with distinct velocities. Both numerical and experimental results reveal the formation of a vortex sheet as expected, with a quantized number of vortices determined by initial conditions. Using an effective length transformation scale we get a deeper insight into the vortex formation phase, observing the appearance of characteristic power laws in the incompressible kinetic energy spectrum that are related to the single vortex structures. The results enclosed demonstrate the versatility of paraxial fluids of light and may set the stage for the future observation of distinct classes of phenomena recently predicted to occur in these systems, such as radiant instability and superradiance.

2024

The 'Healthcare Access and Quality Index' revisited: A fuzzy data envelopment analysis approach

Authors
Pereira, MA; Camanho, AS;

Publication
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS

Abstract
Nowadays, health systems comprise a series of resources structured to provide healthcare services to meet our health needs. However, premature deaths still occur. To quantify and understand personal healthcare conditions affecting such amenable mortality, the Healthcare Access and Quality Index (HAQI) was put forward, evaluating 195 countries and territories since 1990. Nevertheless, the literature acknowledges a series of limitations of this framework, such as the drawbacks of using principal component analysis to aggregate individual indicators, the absence of control for financing and environmental conditions, and the presence of a substantial degree of data uncertainty. Accordingly, we propose a methodological alternative to the computation of the HAQI using a novel fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis model to handle the aforementioned shortcomings. We also propose its extension towards the quantification of efficiency (E-HAQI) - in the sense of value for money - by incorporating financial aspects as modelling inputs. This way, we contribute with innovative modelling approaches that can also deal with the high degree of data uncertainty. Furthermore, in a second -stage analysis, the impact of key exogenous factors on healthcare access and quality is assessed via non -parametric hypothesis testing. Our results show positive and significant correlations of both the revisited HAQI and E-HAQI with the original HAQI 2016 dataset. They also reveal a better use of resources by European and Oceanian countries and territories than by Sub-Saharan African ones. Concerning contextual determinants, socio-demographic development, human development, and the type of health system were found to be statistically significant drivers of healthcare access and quality efficiency.

2024

Foreword

Authors
Barbosa, L; Moura, JP; Bessa, M; Melo, M;

Publication
ICGI 2024 - 6th International Conference on Graphics and Interaction, Proceedings

Abstract
[No abstract available]

2024

Enhancing Decision Analysis with a Large Language Model: pyDecision a Comprehensive Library of MCDA Methods in Python

Authors
Pereira, V; Basilio, MP; Tarjano Santos, CH;

Publication
CoRR

Abstract

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