YouTube has become an important video sharing platform. Several users regularly produce video content and make this task their main livelihood. However, such success is also drawing the attention of malicious users propagating ...

The objective of this research is to show how distributed, cohesive and coupled applications can be developed. The proposal is to use metaprogramming technics in compilation to automate part of the applications source code ...

Paxos is an active replication algorithm that keeps the same shared state consistently among servers that handle requests from an application. It is unusual to find applications where the main processing happens through a ...

For the last decades, many Machine Learning methods have been proposed aiming categorizing data. Given many tentative models, those methods try to find the one that fits the dataset by building a hypothesis that predicts ...

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 ...

With the dissemination of mobile devices and the migration of activities that were once executed only on desktop computers to smartphones and tablets, the concerns related to accessibility in this environments have increased. ...

The requirements elicitation is a main step in an application development. Usually the requirements are listed and described with little to none participation of the stakeholders that have knowledge of the application’s ...

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 ...