Waste generation is a global challenge to be faced, especially in industrializing countries such as Brazil, where high waste generation in line with structural problems and inadequate waste management can result in ...

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 ...

The technological and economical changes observed in the last quarter of 20th century, associated with the tech-economical paradigm based on the microelectronic, built the bases to the resurgence of the Networking company, ...

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 ...

Knowledge representation process is an essential matter regarding Computer Music systems. Methods have been applied in order to provide computers with the capability to generate conclusions based on experience in specialized ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sustainable development raises at present days a number of challenges to manufacturing, precisely in order to make production more sustainable, equating economic and financial issues with environmental and social issues. ...