2022
Autores
Paulino, D; Correia, A; Reis, A; Guimaraes, D; Rudenko, R; Nunes, C; Silva, T; Barroso, J; Paredes, H;
Publicação
UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: NOVEL DESIGN APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES, UAHCI 2022, PT I
Abstract
Today digital labor increasingly advocates for the inclusion of people who are excluded from society in someway. The proliferation of crowdsourcing as a new form of digital labor consisting mainly of microtasks that are characterized by a low level of complexity and short time periods in terms of accomplishment has allowed a wide spectrum of people to access the digital job market. However, there is a long-recognized mismatch between the expectations of employers and the capabilities of workers in microwork crowdsourcing marketplaces. Cognitive personalization has the potential to tailor microtasks to crowd workers, thus ensuring increased accessibility by providing the necessary coverage for individuals with disabilities and special needs. In this paper an architecture for a crowdsourcing system intended to support cognitive personalization in the design of microtasks is introduced. The architecture includes an ontology built for the representation of knowledge on the basis of the concepts of microtasks, cognitive abilities, and types of adaptation in order to personalize the interface to the crowd worker. The envisioned system contains a backend and a frontend that serve as an intermediary layer between the crowdsourcing platform and the workers. Finally, some results obtained to evaluate the proposed system are presented.
2022
Autores
Sulun, S; Davies, MEP; Viana, P;
Publicação
IEEE ACCESS
Abstract
In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty of our approach centres on conditioning a state-of-the-art transformer based on continuous-valued valence and arousal labels. In addition, we provide a new large-scale dataset of symbolic music paired with emotion labels in terms of valence and arousal. We evaluate our approach in a quantitative manner in two ways, first by measuring its note prediction accuracy, and second via a regression task in the valence-arousal plane. Our results demonstrate that our proposed approaches outperform conditioning using control tokens which is representative of the current state of the art.
2022
Autores
Nogueira, M; Oliveira, J; Ferreira, CG; Coimbra, MT; Jorge, AM;
Publicação
2022 IEEE-EMBS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS (BHI) JOINTLY ORGANISED WITH THE IEEE-EMBS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEARABLE AND IMPLANTABLE BODY SENSOR NETWORKS (BSN'22)
Abstract
Cardiac auscultation is still the most cost-effective screening procedure for cardiovascular diseases. The development of computer assisted methods can empower a large variety of health professionals and thus enable mass cardiac health low-cost screening. The procedure for correct cardiac auscultation includes listening to the heart sounds of the four main auscultation spots. Until recently, attempts to develop automatic heart sound analysis methods that explore the multi-channel richness of a real auscultation, were very difficult due to the lack of adequate public datasets. In this work, we use the CirCor Dataset which is characterized by the existence of more than one heart sound per patient (each patient has heart sounds collected at different auscultation spots). Using this dataset, we evaluate and quantify the comparative impact of using a single or a multichannel approach. A single channel approach uses the sound from a single auscultation spot, whereas a multi-channel approach uses four auscultation spots in an asynchronous way. From the different classifiers tested, models that use four auscultation spots achieved a higher overall performance than those that search for abnormalities in a single heart sound spot. Our best result is a multi-channel SVM that analyzes four auscultation spots, with an overall performance of 87,4 %. This opens the path to future research using a multi-channel approach.
2022
Autores
Piardi, L; Leitão, P; Costa, P; de Oliveira, AS;
Publicação
Studies in Computational Intelligence
Abstract
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) transform traditional systems into a network of connected and heterogeneous systems, integrating computational and physical elements, that works as a complex system whose overall properties are greater than the sum of its parts. However, CPS is not free from faulty episodes and their consequences such as malfunctions, breakdowns, and service interruption. Traditional centralized models for fault-tolerance do not meet the complexity of the current industrial scenarios and particularly the industrial CPS requirements. Having this in mind, this work presents a holonic-based architecture to address the fault-tolerance in CPS by distributing the detection, diagnosis, and recovery in the local individual entities and also considers the emergent behaviour resulting from the collaboration of these entities. An experimental case study is used to illustrate the potential application of the fault-tolerant approach. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2022
Autores
Grasel, B; Tragner, M; Baptista, J;
Publicação
ELEKTROTECHNIK UND INFORMATIONSTECHNIK
Abstract
2022
Autores
Moreira, A; Navaia, E; Ribau, C;
Publicação
ECONOMIES
Abstract
Although innovation capabilities are important drivers of export performance, few studies address how they influence export performance in the context of emerging economies. This paper evaluates the moderating effects of government institutional support and firms' active and reactive internationalization behaviors on the relationship between innovation capabilities and export performance. The sample analyzed is based on 250 Mozambican small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The results indicate that although innovation capabilities positively influence the export performance of Mozambican SMEs, the moderating effects of government institutional support and firms' active and reactive internationalization behaviors were not found to be statistically significant.
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