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The Role of Ontologies and Linked Open Data in Support of Disaster Management
An increasing number of disasters, of natural and anthropogenic origin, enhance the importance of the current role played by disaster management (DM) decision support systems regarding the actions at the diffe...
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Linked Open Data Supporting Semantic Integration and Collaboration in Disaster Management Cycle
An increasing number of multiple types of disasters challenge the current role of Disaster Management (DM) support systems regarding the interventions at the different phases of the DM cycle. Disaster Manageme...
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Assessing the Location of Search and Rescue Stations on the Portuguese Coast
The compliance, by a signatory country, with the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) requires maintaining adequate means of search and rescue at sea. An important component of such inf...
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K-Means Clustering for Information Dissemination of Fishing Surveillance
The Portuguese Navy is responsible for monitoring the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in Europe. The most captured species in this area are Scomber colias and Trachurus trachurus, commonly called Mackerel and Hor...
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Virtual Reality in Support of Maritime Rescue Training
One of the main missions of the maritime authorities is to provide safety for people at sea. This task often involves specialized trained professionals either lifeguards at the beaches, as well as divers assig...
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Artificial Neural Networks for Discovering Characteristics of Fishing Surveillance Areas
The demographic pressure entails over-exploitation of the coastal regions and the consumption of marine resources in a non-sustainable manner, jeopardizing the species renewal. Several species are currently fa...
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Using Augmented Reality for Learning Naval Operations
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that extends the perception of human reality by allowing, for example, inserting virtual objects in real environments. With augmented reality, learning can be more effect...
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Design of Disaster Management Intelligent System – A Review of the Applied UCD Methods
THEMIS is an Intelligent System designed to support Disaster Management in the context of disaster relief operations, contributing to reduce the decision-making burden typical of these stressful operational sc...
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Develo** a Serious Game to Support Disaster Management Preparedness - A Design Thinking Approach
Disaster management is the organization, planning and application of measures preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters. Disaster response is a complex activity where decision-makers and respo...
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Automatic Classification of Incidents in Coastal Zones
The increase of seasonal population on coastal areas, in certain periods of the year, as well as the diversity of events to be monitored by the authorities, raise the likelihood of marine incidents. These occu...
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An Approach to GDPR Based on Object Role Modeling
The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) is a set of legal rules to attain the privacy of people in the handling of their personal data and the movement of such data across countries. When those...
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Augmented Reality in the Context of Naval Operations
As technology evolves, the feasibility of implementing Augmented Reality applications on mobile systems has increased significantly opening opportunities in many usage domains. For instance, in the field of ed...
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Integrating the Scrum Framework and Lean Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma approach has been a successful manufacturing quality improvement tool. In the last decades, it has helped many services and product industries to achieve better performance and higher results. N...
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Performance Analysis of a GPS Equipment
In emerging economies the easiest way to ensure the geodetic support still is the static relative positioning (SRP) using a single reference station. This technique provides surveyors the ability to determine ...
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Knowledge Management in the Development of an Intelligent System to Support Emergency Response
Intelligent systems use applied artificial intelligence techniques with the aim of reaching, in a specific domain, a level of analysis and performance comparable to human experts. Intelligent systems are able ...
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Statistical Methods for Word Association in Text Mining
Text data has been growing dramatically in the last years, mainly due to the advance of web related technologies that enable people to produce an overwhelming amount of data. Many knowledge about the world is ...
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Empirical Studies in User Experience of an Emergency Management System
A system designed following usability principles, and considering users preferences and expectations ensures a high quality of user experience, which is particularly important when the system is used to suppor...
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Modeling and Simulation in Support of Disaster Preparedness
Modeling and Simulation (M&S) plays a key role in exercising the decision-making process and in training the use of complex systems and procedures. Authorities, responsible to tackle complex processes in respo...
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A Framework for Quality Measurement of BPMN Process Models
Nowadays organizations are collaborative and process-intensive. Measurement of process models have a variety of applications including process models’ quality evaluation, process improvement and task planning....
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Topics Discovery in Text Mining
Text data has been increasingly growing in the last years, due to the advances of web based technologies that enable the publishing of an overwhelming amount of data. One can say that, many knowledge about the...
