2015
Autores
Ferreira, MC; Dias, TG;
Publicação
EXPLORING SERVICES SCIENCE, IESS 2015
Abstract
It is crucial to promote the use of cleaner transport modes, and new technologies are key to achieve this goal. Most mobile-based solutions are focused on services related with the journey itself (mobile ticketing, real-time traffic information and trip planners). Adopting a holistic point of view, and considering every trip has a purpose (work, school, shopping and entertainment), a new service approach is considered. This paper presents a multiservice approach that links city services and public transport to encourage the use of sustainable transport modes. This multiservice approach is based on mobile technologies, which are a unique channel of interaction between service providers and customers. The conceptual model of this approach is materialized in a concrete example. This multiservice approach may represent a step towards a sustainable mobility, while improving the image and efficiency of Public Transport Operators (PTOs), boosting local businesses loyalty and sales and bringing convenience, better service quality and monetary savings to customers.
2015
Autores
Leitão, P; Rodrigues, N; Barbosa, J;
Publicação
IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
Abstract
In the nowadays highly unstable manufacturing market, companies are faced, on a daily basis, with important strategic decisions, such as "does the company has the necessary capacity to accept a high volume order?" or "what measures need to be implemented if the product demand increases x% a year?". Decision-makers, i.e. company's managers, rely on their experience and insights supported by classical tools to take such decisions. Classical mathematical solvers or agent-based systems are typical architectural solutions to implement strategic planning tools to support decision-makers on this important task. Within the ARUM (Adaptive Production Management) project, a hybrid strategic planning tool was specified and developed, combining the optimization features of classical solvers with the flexibility and agility of agent systems. This paper briefly presents such architecture and focuses on the generation of the "what-if game" mechanism to support the generation of more intelligent and dynamic planning solutions. © 2015 IEEE.
2015
Autores
Costa, AP; Loureiro, MJ; Reis, LP; de Souza, FN;
Publicação
Revista Lusofona de Educacao
Abstract
Collaboration and cooperation are two of the main factors in the development of good quality software. Thus, it is particularly important to examine these two dimensions in the course of a software development process to ensure its quality and enable improvements in the development process. Having as fundamentals these premises the 4C model was proposed, based on the following dimensions: Communication, Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation. This paper describes the 4C model and its applicability in the analysis of the Hybrid User Centered Development Methodology (HUCDM) which formed the basis for the development of the educational resource Courseware Sere -The Human Being and the Natural Resources. The 4C model allowed the analysis of the process defined in HUCDM to be performed based on the interactions arising in the forums available on Moodle. This paper is based on the interactions that occurred on the development of the software first screen of phase I -Oil, focusing the analysis on the collaboration and cooperation dimensions. The results achieved clearly support the importance of developing educational resources based on collaborative and cooperative work based on multidisciplinary teams.
2015
Autores
Metz, D; Saraiva, JT;
Publicação
2015 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EUROPEAN ENERGY MARKET (EEM)
Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of storage installations on grid electricity demand. Storage systems allow the decoupling of consumption from electricity generation and therefore have the potential to change the daily demand profile seen by the network in a significant way. This has far reaching consequences for many stakeholders, as changes in the net demand would for example impact electricity prices or change the requirements for peak generation. The developed approach considers the installation of storage devices to increase self-consumption of locally generated electricity in a residential and small commercial end users context as well as its application for electricity arbitrage. Assumptions about their implementation on a system level are described and their impact on overall electricity demand is determined considering the German case.
2015
Autores
Murta, D; Oliveira, JN;
Publicação
SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Abstract
In the trend towards tolerating hardware unreliability, accuracy is exchanged for cost savings. Running on less reliable machines, functionally correct code becomes risky and one needs to know how risk propagates so as to mitigate it. Risk estimation, however, seems to live outside the average programmer's technical competence and core practice. In this paper we propose that program design by source-to-source transformation be risk-aware in the sense of making probabilistic faults visible and supporting equational reasoning on the probabilistic behaviour of programs caused by faults. a la Bird-Moor algebra of programming. This paper studies, in particular, the propagation of faults across standard program transformation techniques known as tupling and fusion, enabling the fault of the whole to be expressed in terms of the faults of its parts.
2015
Autores
Eko Saputro, T; Daneshvar Rouyendegh (Babek Erdebil, B;
Publicação
International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management
Abstract
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