Nowadays smartphones are composed of a wide range of sensors and resources such as GPS (Global Positioning System), Bluetooth and Internet connection through Wi-Fi, 3G, among others resources. Along with the smartphone’s ...

The evolution of the interaction between humans and computers has accompanied the technological evolution of computers themselves. This process culminated in the rise of a subfield of computing called Questioning Answering ...

Unsupervised data clustering is not a trivial process, as no previous knowledge is available and real data is often complex and multi-faceted. To make matters worse, traditionally, clustering aims to describe the data ...

Monitoring tools have evolved over the years to keep support of advances in computer network technology, adapting to new paradigms such as virtualization, software orientation, and more recently a programmable data plan. ...

This work describes a new classification technique called P2C - Partitioning to Classify. The main goal is to achieve reasonable classification performances using linear prediction methods, even on datasets with non-linear ...

In a context where the most informations stored by the organizations is in the text format, the development of computer tools for knowledge discovery aimed to organization and information retrieval is a task that holds ...

The methodologies currently used by startups for market discovery and software development focus on a more agile and fast development, aiming to obtain learning about the potential market. Often, these methodologies set ...

The Smart City (SC) concept aims to promote dynamic and flexible systems to the cities, that interact with each others and help to maintain the stability and scalability of it’s resources and services, usually through ...

Due to the widespread adoption of distributed systems when building applications, demand for reliability and availability has increased. These properties can be achieved through replication techniques using algorithms that ...

Electricity in Brazil is mostly generated by hydroelectric plants that depend on the volume of water in their reservoirs. Due to the fact that rainfall is decreasing, other methods with higher costs to generate energy are ...