The ever growing importance of computers and their use created a need for the teaching of computational thinking. In order to better analyze the learning process of the students, teachers and researches often resort to ...

The current Internet architecture has been the same since the time of its creation and has undergone increments and modifications in its protocols to meet new demands that have been arising over time. As the resolution of ...

Agile practices are approaches widely used in industrial context. User Stories (US) are valuable artifacts to agile teams, being a succinct description of a requirement with its details complemented by other artifacts. ...

Forests have huge environmental, social and economic importance. However, over the years they have been destroyed and transformed into pastures, agricultural fields, etc. Due to the popularity of remote sensing images, ...

Precision Agriculture involves the use of technology for management and decision making to allow rural producers to get better production results. To gain the desired effect, it is necessary a huge data collection and ...

The country's education is central topic of many discussions due to the complexity associated with its multiple variables.The Programme for International Student Assessment - PISA - is one of the most relevant indicators, ...

The Information Visualization area studies ways to present data graphically in an efficient way to assist the user in decision making. Education professionals have been increasingly interested in the inclusion of visualization ...

Single-label text classification has been extensively studied in the last decades and usually more attention has been given to offline learning scenarios, where all of the training data is available in advance. However, ...

Distributed algorithms have been increasingly used because of commercial and technical factors, especially when the aim is to obtain scalability or high availability of data. Regarding high scalability, stands out the ...