The popularization of smartphones has given rise to several online taxi-booking applications as a more efficient way to call for a taxi. These applications mediate communication between passengers and taxi drivers, reducing ...

Background: aiming to implement software processes quality models for small companies, several projects were developed in collaboration with Universidade Federal de São Carlos and USP São Carlos research centers. In this ...

Large growing knowledge bases have been an interesting field in many researches in the past few years. Most techniques focus on constructing algorithms to help a Knowledge Base (KB) automatically (or semi automatically) ...

With the advancement of computational technologies, several areas of knowledge have enjoyed more and more of their benefits. One of the benefits that this technological advance has brought, within the area of health are ...

The quality of the geographic data must be a relevant concern for providers and consumers of this type of data because the manipulation and analysis of low quality geographic data may result in errors, which will be ...

Mobile cloud computing is one of the main ways to augment the performance of resource-constrained mobile devices, bringing resources and services from computationally powerful remote servers in order to provide support to ...

Situation Awareness (SAW) is a concept widely used in areas that require critical decision making, and refers to the ability of an individual or team to perceive, understand and anticipate the future state of a current ...

Following the growing purposes and applications of digital games, the creation of this interactive media has been becoming more popular. Industry and academy alike have studied and created tools, methods, and techniques ...

NELL (Never-Ending Language Learning) is the first never-ending learning system presented in the litera ture. It has been modeled to create a knowledge base in an autonomous way, reading the web 24 hours per day, seven ...

Context: Build software with quality while respecting cost and time is one of the great challenges of systems development. The requirements traceability and testing activity, such as regression tests, are alternatives to ...