In the current knowledge age, with the continuous growth of the web data volume and where business decisions must be made quickly, traditional BI mechanisms become increasingly inaccurate in order to help the decision-making ...

Data and text mining applications managing Web data have been the subject of recent research. In every case, data mining tasks need to work on clean, consistent, and integrated data for obtaining the best results. Thus, ...

Before buying a product or choosing for a trip destination, people often seek other people’s opinions to obtain a vision of the quality of what they want to acquire. Given that, opinions always had great influence on the ...

Let G = (V, E) be a simple and undirected graph. An edge-coloring is an assignment of colors to the edges of the graph such that any two adjacent edges receive different colors. The chromatic index of a graph G is the ...

Since the emergence of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and, more precisely, since the development of an open interface in 2008 called OpenFlow protocol, it is being observed that this new networking paradigm is ...

The use of mobile devices to browse the Web has become increasingly popular as a consequence of easy access to the Internet. However, moving from the desktop development to the mobile platform features, requests from ...

The population growth combined with the industrial development and the increasing consumption caused several problems related to the solid waste management such as inadequate disposal. Due to global pressures and new polices ...

With the rapid growth of unstructured data, such as text documents, it becomes more and more interesting and necessary to extract such information to support decision making in business intelligence systems. Recommendations ...

The use of small mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets has been growing in various public in Brazil. Even though many devices have features such as touch, gestures, voice, many applications do not adopt such ...

Multicore processors adoption is due to the need of expansion on the computational capacity, what have been done in mobile devices, due to the high availability of online applications in such devices. Elliptic curve ...