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2015

Holistic Analysis for Fork-Join Distributed Tasks supported by the FTT-SE Protocol

Autores
Martínez, Ricardo Garibay; Nelissen, Geoffrey; Ferreira, Luís Lino; Pedreiras, Paulo; Pinho, Luís Miguel;

Publicação

Abstract
This paper presents a holistic timing analysis for fixed-priority fork-join Parallel/Distributed tasks (P/D tasks) over a Flexible Time Triggered - Switched Ethernet (FTT-SE) network. The holistic approach considers both time-triggered and eventtriggered tasks/messages.

2015

The iMPAcT Tool: Testing UI Patterns on Mobile Applications

Autores
Morgado, IC; Paiva, ACR;

Publicação
2015 30TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ASE)

Abstract
This paper presents the iMPAcT tool that tests recurring behaviour, i.e., UI Patterns, on mobile applications. This tool is implemented in Java and makes use of Android's APIs UI Automator and UiAutomation. The tool automatically explores a mobile application in order to automatically identify and test UI Patterns. Each UI Pattern has a test strategy, Test Patterns, associated, which is applied when an UI Pattern is found. The approach works on top of a catalogue of UI Patterns, which determines which UI Patterns are to be tested, and what should their correct behaviour be, and may be used for any application.

2015

Robust scheduling of variable wind generation by coordination of bulk energy storages and demand response

Autores
Heydarian Forushani, E; Golshan, MEH; Moghaddam, MP; Shafie khah, M; Catalao, JPS;

Publicação
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT

Abstract
The intermittent nature of wind generation will lead to greater demands for operational flexibility. Traditionally, reserves came from conventional power plants provide the majority of additional required flexibility leading to higher efficiency losses due to technical restrictions of such units. Recently, demand response programs and emerging utility-scale energy storages gained much attention as other flexible options. Under this perspective, this paper proposes a robust optimization scheduling framework to derive an optimal unit commitment decision in systems with high penetration of wind power incorporating demand response programs as well as bulk energy storages in co-optimized energy and reserve markets. In this regard, an improved demand response model is presented using the economic model of responsive loads based on customer's behavior concept that gives choice right opportunity to customers in order to participate in their desired demand response strategy. Moreover, bulk energy storages are considered to be as active market participants. Computational results demonstrate how coordinated operation of different type of demand response programs and bulk energy storages can help accommodate wind power uncertainty from the economic and technical points of view.

2015

An Ontology-based Methodology for Reusing Data Cleaning Knowledge

Autores
Almeida, R; Maio, P; Oliveira, P; Barroso, J;

Publicação
KEOD 2015 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, part of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2015), Volume 2, Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015

Abstract
The organizations' demand to integrate several heterogeneous data sources and an ever-increasing volume of data is revealing the presence of quality problems in data. Currently, most of the data cleaning approaches (for detection and correction of data quality problems) are tailored for data sources with the same schema and sharing the same data model (e.g., relational model). On the other hand, these approaches are highly dependent on a domain expert to specify the data cleaning operations. This paper extends a previously proposed data cleaning methodology that reuses cleaning knowledge specified for other data sources. The methodology is further detailed/refined by specifying the requirements that a data cleaning operations vocabulary must satisfy. Ontologies in RDF/OWL are proposed as the data model for an abstract representation of the data schemas, no matter which data model is used (e.g., relational; graph). Existing approaches, methods and techniques that support the implementation of the proposed methodology, in general, and specifically of the data cleaning operations vocabulary are also presented and discussed in this paper. Copyright

2015

Evaluation of Tone-Mapping Operators for HDR Video Under Different Ambient Luminance Levels

Autores
Melo, M; Bessa, M; Debattista, K; Chalmers, A;

Publicação
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM

Abstract
Since high dynamic range (HDR) displays are not yet widely available, there is still a need to perform a dynamic range reduction of HDR content to reproduce it properly on standard dynamic range (SDR) displays. The most common techniques for performing this reduction are termed tone-mapping operators (TMOs). Although mobile devices are becoming widespread, methods for displaying HDR content on these SDR screens are still very much in their infancy. While several studies have been conducted to evaluate TMOs, few have been done with a goal of testing small screen displays (SSDs), common on mobile devices. This paper presents an evaluation of six state-of-the-art HDR video TMOs. The experiments considered three different levels of ambient luminance under which 180 participants were asked to rank the TMOs for seven tone-mapped HDR video sequences. A comparison was conducted between tone-mapped HDR video footage shown on an SSD and on a large screen SDR display using an HDR display as reference. The results show that there are differences between the performance of the TMOs under different ambient lighting levels and the TMOs that perform well on traditional large screen displays also perform well on SSDs at the same given luminance level.

2015

Improving a neural networks based HVAC predictive control approach

Autores
Ruano, AE; Silva, S; Pesteh, S; Ferreira, PM; Duarte, H; Mestre, G; Khosravani, H; Horta, R;

Publicação
2015 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP)

Abstract
This paper improves an existing Model Based Predictive Control Approach (MBPC), applied for Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control in buildings. The existing approach uses the Predictive Mean Vote (PMV) to assess thermal comfort. It has been found that PMV estimation and forecasts deteriorate when the room is occupied. In order to solve this problem, we propose to incorporate measurements of activity inside the room in the predictive models of the inside air temperature. Another improvement to the existing approach is to use an economic cost function, reflecting the money needed for the HVAC control, instead of a cost function related with the consumption of energy.

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