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Bringing underused learning objects to the light: a multi-agent based approach

The digital learning transformation brings the extension of the traditional libraries to online repositories. Learning object repositories are employed to deliver several functionalities related to the learning object’s lifecycle. However, these educational resources usually are not described effectively, lacking, for example, educational metadata and learning goals. Then, metadata incompleteness limits the qua...

Enhancing learning object repositories with ontologies

In this paper, we present a review on the use of ontologies in learning object repositories systems for searching and suggestion purposes, considering its adoption for the seaThings project that aims to promote the ocean literacy. We also describe the use case of the Cognix system and Agent-based Learning Objects - OBAA metadata standard for learning objects which is being implemented on a new learning objects ...

A decision-support system for municipal management

This paper describes a decision support system for providing indicators to support management decisions in a local government organization, the municipality of Lagoa - S. Miguel, Azores. The work includes modeling, using the UML notation, the creation of the relational database MySQL, algorithms for data collection using PHP, and forecasting models in R. Users have access to predictions made by different models...

InqExpert: An application for textual treatment of the Royal Inquiries of 1258

In this paper, we present the construction of a software application, particularly tailored for the quantitative analysis of Royal Inquiries of 1258, named InqExpert, which enables us to look for information, in several domains (e.g. metrology), over all its corpus in a fast and rigorous way. This corpus represents in itself a paradox in the Portuguese historiography: researchers that usually complaint about th...

Cuida@web: programa de apoio a familiares cuidadores

Special Focus: The Use of Emerging Technologies on the Internet of Everything

Cuid@Web : plataforma de apoio aos cuidadores informais

[…]. A plataforma Cuid@Web, projeto em curso do NIDeS (unidade de investigação da UAc), cujo protótipo inicial foi publicado nos proceedings da CISTI 2015, visa desenvolver uma infraestrutura de apoio aos cuidadores informais, promovendo a sua literacia em saúde, através do desenvolvimento de capacidades relacionadas com as suas funções e com a gestão dos riscos para a própria saúde. Esta plataforma Web 2.0 per...

Big Data in SATA Airline : finding new solutions for old problems

With the rapid growth of operational data needed in airlines and the value that can be attributed to knowledge extracted from these data, airlines have already realized the importance of technologies and methodologies associated with the concept of big data. In this article, we present the case study of SATA Airlines. The operational and the decision support systems are described as well as the perspectives of ...

Big data in SATA Airline: finding new solutions for old problems

With the rapid growth of operational data needed in airlines and the value that can be attributed to knowledge extracted from these data, airlines have already realized the importance of technologies and methodologies associated with the concept of big data. In this article we present the case study of SATA Airlines. The operational and the decision support systems are described as well as the perspectives of u...

Um sistema de apoio à decisão para a gestão autárquica

Neste trabalho, descreve-se um Sistema de Apoio à Decisão para fornecer indicadores de suporte a decisões de gestão numa organização de poder local, a autarquia de Lagoa - S. Miguel, Açores. É contemplada a modelação, recorrendo à notação UML, a criação de base de dados relacional MySQL, algoritmos de recolha de dados implementados em PHP e modelos de previsão na linguagem R. O sistema disponibiliza aos utiliza...