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2022

Tweet2Story: A Web App to Extract Narratives from Twitter

Authors
Campos, V; Campos, R; Mota, P; Jorge, A;

Publication
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, PT II

Abstract
Social media platforms are used to discuss current events with very complex narratives that become difficult to understand. In this work, we introduce Tweet2Story, a web app to automatically extract narratives from small texts such as tweets and describe them through annotations. By doing this, we aim to mitigate the difficulties existing on creating narratives and give a step towards deeply understanding the actors and their corresponding relations found in a text. We build the web app to be modular and easy-to-use, which allows it to easily incorporate new techniques as they keep getting developed.

2022

Integration of Switched Reluctance Generator in a Wind Energy Conversion System: An Overview of the State of the Art and Challenges

Authors
Touati, Z; Pereira, M; Araujo, RE; Khedher, A;

Publication
ENERGIES

Abstract
This paper presents a technical overview for Switched Reluctance Generators (SRG) in Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) applications. Several topics are discussed, such as the main structures and topologies for SRG converters in WECS, and the optimization control methods to improve the operational efficiency of SRGs in wind power generation systems. A comprehensive overview including the main characteristics of each SRG converter topology and control techniques were discussed. The analysis presented can also serve as a foundation for more advanced versions of SRG control techniques, providing a necessary basis to spur more and, above all, motivate the younger researchers to study magnetless electric machines, and pave the way for higher growth of wind generators based on SRGs.

2022

API Generation for Multiparty Session Types, Revisited and Revised Using Scala 3 (Artifact)

Authors
Cledou, G; Edixhoven, L; Jongmans, SS; Proença, J;

Publication
Dagstuhl Artifacts Ser.

Abstract

2022

Leveraging compatibility and diversity in computer-aided music mashup creation

Authors
Bernardo, G; Bernardes, G;

Publication
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract
AbstractWe advance Mixmash-AIS, a multimodal optimization music mashup creation model for loop recombination at scale. Our motivation is to (1) tackle current scalability limitations in state-of-the-art (brute force) computational mashup models while enforcing the (2) compatibility of audio loops and (3) a pool of diverse mashups that can accommodate user preferences. To this end, we adopt the artificial immune system (AIS) opt-aiNet algorithm to efficiently compute a population of compatible and diverse music mashups from loop recombinations. Optimal mashups result from local minima in a feature space representing harmonic, rhythmic, and spectral musical audio compatibility. We objectively assess the compatibility, diversity, and computational performance of Mixmash-AIS generated mashups compared to a standard genetic algorithm (GA) and a brute force (BF) approach. Furthermore, we conducted a perceptual test to validate the objective evaluation function within Mixmash-AIS in capturing user enjoyment of the computer-generated loop mashups. Our results show that while the GA stands as the most efficient algorithm, the AIS opt-aiNet outperforms both the GA and BF approaches in terms of compatibility and diversity. Our listening test has shown that Mixmash-AIS objective evaluation function significantly captures the perceptual compatibility of loop mashups (p < .001).

2022

A Hybrid Approach GABC-LS to Solve mTSP

Authors
Pereira, SD; Pires, EJS; Oliveira, PBD;

Publication
OPTIMIZATION, LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS, OL2A 2022

Abstract
The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (mTSP) is an interesting combinatorial optimization problem due to its numerous real-life applications. It is a problem where m salesmen visit a set of n cities so that each city is visited once. The primary purpose is to minimize the total distance traveled by all salesmen. This paper presents a hybrid approach called GABC-LS that combines an evolutionary algorithm with the swarm intelligence optimization ideas and a local search method. The proposed approach was tested on three instances and produced some better results than the best-known solutions reported in the literature.

2022

Customer Data Platforms: A Pattern Language for Digital Marketing Optimization with First-Party Data

Authors
Boldt Sousa, T;

Publication
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Abstract
The internet is used by the majority of the world's population. Many of its contents are free for consumers, supported by digital marketing investment. The current large online population can render digital marketing campaigns inefficient for brands buying ads if the right message is not reaching the right audience. Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) enables brands to collect first-party data about their customers and leverage it to reach the right audience, without sharing private customer data with third parties. This paper documents how CDPs work, by detailing their main components as patterns and relating them as a pattern language. The language is composed of five patterns: Event Tracking, ID Matching, User Profile Storage, Segmentation, and Activation. The pattern language can be used by marketeers and engineers in digital marketing as an introduction or reference to how CDPs are designed and work. © 2022 ACM.

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