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Electricity has been acquiring a more significant presence in our lives, and it is estimated that the future will be increasingly electric. Nowadays, we have access to enormous amounts of data that do not have much-added value if they cannot support decision-making or plan systems in advance and correctly. Forecasts are vital tools to support decision-making. We believe it is possible to resort to open data available on the Internet to make electricity price forecasts that - decision-makers can use in the sector. In this work, we study the multi-attribute hourly forecast of the electricity price in MIBEL (Iberian electricity market) for the 24 h of the following day, using open data. The realization of the multi-attribute predictions fell on the TIM (‘Tangent Information Modeler’) tool with AutoML (‘Auto Machine Learning’) capabilities. The TOPSIS (‘technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution’) decision support technique was used to analyze the results. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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The increasing presence of renewable energy plants has created new challenges such as grid integration, load balancing and energy trading, making it fundamental to provide effective prediction models. Recent approaches in the literature have shown that exploiting spatio-temporal autocorrelation in data coming from multiple plants can lead to better predictions. Although tensor models and techniques are suitable to deal with spatio-temporal data, they have received little attention in the energy domain. In this paper, we propose a new method based on the Tucker tensor decomposition, capable of extracting a new feature space for the learning task. For evaluation purposes, we have investigated the performance of predictive clustering trees with the new feature space, compared to the original feature space, in three renewable energy datasets. The results are favorable for the proposed method, also when compared with state-of-the-art algorithms.

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Low loss optical waveguides are the key component for the fabrication of more complex integrated optics devices. In most works related to femtosecond laser written waveguides, the values presented give results at a single wavelength or in a narrow wavelength band; but some applications in optical sensing, for example, would benefit from waveguides having good propagation properties in a larger wavelength range. This paper presents results that allow one to gain insight into the major loss mechanisms present in laser written waveguides in two different types of glasses (fused silica and Eagle 2000 glass) and the dependence of those on the fabrication parameters. Finally, an example of application of broadband operating waveguides is given.

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There has been a significant effort by the research community to address the problem of providing methods to organize documentation, with the help of Information Retrieval methods. In this paper, we present several experiments with stream analysis methods to explore streams of text documents. This paper also presents possible architectures of the Text Document Stream Organization, with the use of incremental algorithms like Incremental Sparse TF-IDF and Incremental Similarity. Our results show that with this architecture, significant improvements are achieved, regarding efficiency in grouping of similar documents. These improvements are important since it is of general knowledge that great amounts of text analysis are a high dimensional and complex subject of study, in the data analysis area.

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This paper focuses primarily on the flexibility of active prosumers in an islanded microgrid operation. The main objective is finding the best strategy to implement on an existing medium voltage grid, with several consumers, with the capability of producing some power for the grid operation, via Renewable Energy Resources (RES), or thermal Units, generally gas turbines, also there is the capability of some energy storage through batteries. Since power output of RES has a cost per kw of zero, it is greatly important to find the best combination of these resources who best suit the test system. For the purposes of these tests, the available investment funds are unlimited, although, there are some constraints regarding maximum RES penetration and ESS capacity.

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Customer relationship management is critical for organizations. Public institutions, in particular municipalities, are no exception to this. Since the process of implementing a CRM system is not risk-free, it is important to know the factors that influence its success. From studies conducted, it was possible to verify that there is a gap in the literature regarding the influential factors of the successful adoption of CRM systems in public institutions (CzRM). Also, through interviews conducted in some municipalities and CRM suppliers, it was possible to identify the relevant factors for the adoption of CRM systems. The purpose of this article is to present the influence factors of the success of the implementation of CzRM systems. © 2021, Associacao Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao. All rights reserved.