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By means of the association of Psychology, Pedagogy and Computer Science concepts, it has been possible to develop several models, methods and tools to provide personalized education and adaptive support to different student's profiles. This knowledge area is associated with Adaptive Learning. In this context, this paper aims to present the state of the art regarding the definition of the student's...
In this paper, we present a medical diagnosis decision support model for gastrointestinal cancer. It should be used by general practitioners whenever there is a suspicion that a patient has this type of cancer. To build our model, we used Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) and Rule-Based Reasoning (RBR). We used real patient data as inputs to our model. We applied RBR to improve the CBR retrieve process....
The use of planning assistant agents is an appropriate option to provide support for members of a coalition. Planning agents can extend the human abilities and be customised to attend different kinds of activities. However, the implementation of a planning framework must also consider other important requirements for coalitions, such as the performance of collaborative activities and human-agent interaction...
The maintenance of legacy code is a hard task since developers do not have access to details of its implementation. Thus, the refactoring of code units usually generates problems in other parts of the code that already had been validated. A solution to this problem is to use an anticipated test design methodology, where unit tests are first created to each module/class/methods before their modification...
From September 2011 to May 2012, Microsoft delivered three pre-releases of Windows 8. Its principal goal was to present the features of this operating system (OS) and motivate the development of new applications to this platform. However, as any pre-release version, several parts of the code and related documentations were incomplete. Furthermore, its APIs were very prone to be changed until the final...
Recent advances in computing and communication technology have led to increased use of mobile devices. A trend in this area is the integration of different applications in a single general-purpose device, often resulting in much higher energy consumption and consequently much reduced battery life. This higher consumption brings up problems for the mobile evolution, once developers cannot use all the...
The technical debt metaphor is increasingly being used to describe the effect of delaying certain software maintenance tasks on software projects. Practitioners understand intuitively how technical debt can turn into a serious problem if it is left unattended. However, it remains unknown how serious the problem is and whether explicit measurement and management of technical debt is useful. In this...
Home-based health monitoring systems are currently being used to support early detection of abnormal conditions and prevention of its serious consequences. Many patients can benefit from continuous ambulatory monitoring as a part of a diagnostic procedure, optimal maintenance of a chronic condition or during supervised recovery from an acute event or surgical procedure. An evolution of this approach...
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