2013
Autores
Veloso, B; Sousa, L; Malheiro, B;
Publicação
Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence - 10th International Conference, DCAI 2013, Salamanca, Spain, May 22-24, 2013
Abstract
This paper reports the development of a B2B platform for the personalization of the publicity transmitted during the program intervals. The platform as a whole must ensure that the intervals are filled with ads compatible with the profile, context and expressed interests of the viewers. The platform acts as an electronic marketplace for advertising agencies (content producer companies) and multimedia content providers (content distribution companies). The companies, once registered at the platform, are represented by agents who negotiate automatically the price of the interval timeslots according to the specified price range and adaptation behaviour. The candidate ads for a given viewer interval are selected through a matching mechanism between ad, viewer and the current context (program being watched) profiles. The overall architecture of the platform consists of a multiagent system organized into three layers consisting of: (i) interface agents that interact with companies; (ii) enterprise agents that model the companies, and (iii) delegate agents that negotiate a specific ad or interval. The negotiation follows a variant of the Iterated Contract Net Interaction Protocol (ICNIP) and is based on the price/s offered by the advertising agencies to occupy the viewer's interval. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013.
2013
Autores
Teixeira, T; Malheiro, B;
Publicação
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 8TH IBERIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (CISTI 2013)
Abstract
This paper presents the system developed to promote the rational use of electric energy among consumers and, thus, increase the energy efficiency. The goal is to provide energy consumers with an application that displays the energy consumption/production profiles, sets up consuming ceilings, defines automatic alerts and alarms, compares anonymously consumers with identical energy usage profiles by region and predicts, in the case of non-residential installations, the expected consumption/production values. The resulting distributed system is organized in two main blocks: front-end and back-end. The front-end includes user interface applications for Android mobile devices and Web browsers. The back-end provides data storage and processing functionalities and is installed in a cloud computing platform -the Google App Engine - which provides a standard Web service interface. This option ensures interoperability, scalability and robustness to the system.
2013
Autores
Moura, Marcos; Tasa, Mihkel; Olejniczak, Olga Agata; Ahmad, Naeem; Silva, António Ferreira da; Malheiro, Benedita; Silva, Manuel F.; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina; Caetano, Nídia Sá; Ferreira, Paulo; Guedes, Pedro;
Publicação
1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education
Abstract
Waste oil recycling companies play a very important
role in our society. Competition among companies is tough and
process optimization is essential for survival. By equipping oil
containers with a level monitoring system that periodically reports
the level and alerts when it reaches the preset threshold, the oil
recycling companies are able to streamline the oil collection process
and, thus, reduce the operation costs while maintaining the quality of
service. This paper describes the development of this level
monitoring system by a team of four students from different
engineering backgrounds and nationalities. The team conducted a
study of the state of the art, draw marketing and sustainable
development plans and, finally, designed and implemented a
prototype that continuously measures the container content level and
sends an alert message as soon as it reaches the preset capacity.
2013
Autores
Reimus, Aare; Miklaszewska, Izabela; Fernandez, Maria Ricondo; Jurjonaité, Toma; Silva, António Ferreira da; Malheiro, Benedita; Silva, Manuel F.; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina; Caetano, Nídia Sá; Ferreira, Paulo; Guedes, Pedro;
Publicação
1st International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education
Abstract
Interactive products are appealing objects in a
technology-driven society and the offer in the market is wide and
varied. Most of the existing interactive products only provide
either light or sound experiences. Therefore, the goal of this
project was to develop a product aimed for children combining
both features. This project was developed by a team of four thirdyear
students with different engineering backgrounds and
nationalities during the European Project Semester at ISEP
(EPS@ISEP) in 2012. This paper presents the process that led to
the development of an interactive sound table that combines nine
identical interaction blocks, a control block and a sound block.
Each interaction block works independently and is composed of
four light emitting diodes (LED) and one infrared (IR) sensor.
The control is performed by an Arduino microcontroller and the
sound block includes a music shield and a pair of loud speakers. A
number of tests were carried out to assess whether the controller,
IR sensors, LED, music shield and speakers work together
properly and if the ensemble was a viable interactive light and
sound device for children.
2013
Autores
Oliveira, PM; Lobo, V;
Publicação
2013 OCEANS - SAN DIEGO
Abstract
When operating low cost autonomous vehicles, we are often faced with the need to apply integro-differential operators to numerical sequences. The need may arise in many different contexts, from vehicle navigation to data collection/estimation, and is strongly reinforced by constraints to the number of deployable sensors. Integration and, particularly, differentiation of discrete data sequences are, however, error prone operations. Even in the absence of noise, the traditional approaches introduce distortions and artifacts in the output data, mostly due to the mismatch between their underlying polynomial model and the spectral contents of the collected data. This article presents an alternative way to apply integro-differential operators to discrete data streams. The operators are applied in a strictly band-limited way, in both time and frequency, and no extraneous artifacts are introduced in the data. No assumptions or models are used, other than assuming that the original data stream was correctly sampled. As such, the procedure can be safely applied to data streams sampled at rates close to Nyquist, without the usual performance degradation.
2013
Autores
Bastos, A; Trigo, RM; Barbosa, SM;
Publicação
TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
Abstract
Mean sea level (MSL) in the Baltic Sea is influenced by several factors and therefore presents a complex behaviour over a wide range of time-scales. This work performs a multi-scale analysis of MSL variability in the Baltic Sea using discrete wavelet analysis. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is well known for having a strong influence in MSL variability over the Baltic; however, the relationship between MSL and NAO at different time-scales is still little understood. In this work a comparison of MSL and NAO variability is performed for a wide range of temporal scales, uncovering distinct relationships in high-frequency and long-term temporal variability. The annual and sub-annual scales are found to account for more than 50% of the total MSL variability. The MSL annual cycle is analysed and a shift from low to high amplitude values is identified in the 1970s for most stations. MSL is found to be anti-correlated to NAO at short time-scales while on the long-term NAO and MSL appear to be positively correlated for most stations. The physical mechanisms behind these distinct relationships deserve deeper study.
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