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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used to inspect the performance and progress of businesses. This study introduces a new, integrated approach to manage KPIs in the context of decentralized information efficiently and to address the visual and managerial gaps existing in companies. The proposed Business Indicator Management (BIM) system is essential for any businesses to meet their needs in terms...
Computer Science students usually carry practical activities for the identification of software requirements and for understanding the organization business rules. Within this context, during the last two years we have conducted a project with software industry and Computer Science students, using comic strips to support the software requirements specification. We created a method of scenario simulation...
This paper presents the application outcomes of a three-dimensional virtual environment which simulates a farm, called Fazenda 3D, in the Technical Course on Agriculture and Farming of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas, at Parintins city. The purpose of the software is to support the technical subjects studies of the course. In order to evaluate the software we...
This electronic puppet is an assistive educational technology designed especially for non-oralized children. The purpose of this is article is present a project of assistive educational technology named Electronic Puppet. In order to do this, we use the electronic puppet, that fits in the concept of internet of things, connecting himself to the multimedia system with images, sound, animations and...
This work brings a Systematic Review on the use of Virtual Reality in Fetal Medicine in order to recover the state of the art on the use of Virtual Reality tools in Fetal Medicine and also which Fetal Medicine areas has been focus of Virtual Reality application. The keywords “Virtual Reality” and “Fetal Medicine”, “Virtual Reality” and “Fetus” were used in both Portuguese and English and the “And”...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a paradigm adopted in computer networks that decouple the control logic from the physical to the software layer, reducing the routers' complexity and enabling a high-level network awareness. This work explores the SDN paradigm on NoCs to manage Circuit Switching (CS) connections in an original Multi-Physical Network (MPN) architecture. Related works focus its CS...
Given the importance of elearning to the process of teaching and learning contemporary, precisely, in higher education, and distance learning opportunities offered by the use of online platforms, we undertook in this article an empirical-descriptive research to know the extent of this problematic, guided by a literature review how the scientific method. Here, we present concepts, historical perspectives,...
The planning of an autonomous mission for UAVs requires more than the description of the points to be visited along the trajectory by which a certain task must be performed. However, the way in which such missions are planned does not provide conditions for the aircraft or the ground control system to find alternative ways of carrying out the mission, in the event of a risk or other situation different...
This paper presents the work performed in the implementation of an underwater simulation environment for the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle for the exploration of flooded underground tunnels. In particular, the implementation of a laser based structured light system, multibeam sonar and other robot details were addressed. The simulation was used as a relevant tool in order to study...
The RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna is a large (1.5m × 15m) slotted waveguide planar array operating at 5.3 GHz. The antenna comprises 32 slotted waveguide rows, and is mechanically divided into 4 panels to enable stowage during launch. Each waveguide row is fed by a 1-to-8 azimuth power dividing network (APDN). The 32 rows of the APDN are excited across the 1.5m dimension by the elevation...
Underwater communication and robot technologies have grown rapidly in the last decade. Systems made of underwater unmanned vehicles have moved from single vehicle deployments to systems comprising teams of assets. As of today the possibility to support cooperation and interoperability of heterogeneous platforms is a key issue. The objective of this paper is to present the SUNRISE [1] approach to overcome...
Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) is becoming a big data science straining the capabilities of computers and networks. New techniques of serial crystallography are allowing new science to be done but they are increasing the heterogeneity of the data that must be handled. Two new beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source-II, for Frontier Macromolecular Crystallography (FMX) and for highly...
This research aims to describe the phases and the proper procedures for recovering storage device data, analyzing the computational forensics tools: Autopsy Forensic Browser and Foremost, used for information retrieval, review the evidence and give it probative value before a jury. Check which of the tools used is the best performer, stressing the runtime and the performance of these tools.
Agile software development methodologies use an iterative and incremental development in order to handle evolving systems. Consolidated techniques in the field of testing have been applied to these techniques with the main purpose of aiding in the test creation stage. An example is Model-Based Test Driven Development (MBTDD) which joins the concepts of Model-Based Testing (MBT) and Test Driven Development...
Software requirements management is essential to achieve expected levels of productivity and quality in software development. This paper proposes to apply this process a governamental institution, by proposing a standardized methodology of requirements management, adapted to the needs of the institution, to improve productivity and quality. Therefore we analysed the traditional method of software-development,...
Some of the greatest challenges for Software requirements elicitation are related with the identification of what is needed to be developed and with the understanding of the organization business rules. In this context, this paper aims to suggest the use of Comic Books in the process of requirements elicitation within a business model and evaluate the results of applying this technique. To reach this...
With this paper we intend to present a systematic literature review on Web accessibility. During this research project, 782 papers were identified and by following a set of inclusion criteria, 38 stood out and were extensively analyzed. On this context we approach a set of Web accessibility critical issues, such as: guidelines, standards and regulations; mobile accessibility; organizations and user...
Pursuant decree law no. 197/2012 and 198/2012 published by Portuguese government, whereby it states that any company with turnover higher than 100.000 € is obliged to possess an electronic billing software, this article seeks to identify and evaluate the impacts of an ERP implementation in Portuguese SME. Through both exploratory interviews performed to three entrepreneurs and questionnaire performed...
The novelty proposed in this work regarding teaching and training of software engineering is about how the Project-Based Learning approach is performed for developing a web system for managing academic projects. The supporting project is a real-life problem. Its development was planned in four phases: prototype, code refactoring, release-to-manu-facturing and deployment. We employed some strategies...
Gesture-controlled applications typically are tied to specific gestures, and also tied to specific recognition methods and specific gesture-detection devices. We propose a concern-separation architecture, which mediates the following concerns: gesture acquisition, gesture recognition, and gestural control. It enables application developers to respond to gesture-independent commands, recognized using...
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