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Jorge Silva
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Process Mining in a Line Production
The search for more efficient strategies, cost savings, time optimization and productivity are the main goals of any successful company. Process mining arises in this context and, although it is not a new conc...
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Muography Applied in Underground Geological Surveys: Ongoing Work at the Lousal Mine (Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal)
The LouMu Project is an ongoing collaboration between the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP), the Institute of Earth Sciences—University of Évora and the Lousal Ciência Viva ...
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Berth Allocation Problem in Export Tidal Bulk Ports with Inventory Control
This paper presents the problem of allocating berth positions for vessels in tidal bulk port terminals (BAPTBI), considering the specific export scenario and robust control over goods’ stock levels. An integer...
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Investigating the Perception of the Elderly Population About Comfort, Safety and Security When Using Active Modes of Transport
Promoting active modes of transport, such as walking and cycling, has a positive impact on environmental sustainability and the health and well-being of citizens. This study explores the elderly population’s p...
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Control of the Depth of Anesthesia Using a New Model for the Action of Propofol and Remifentanil on the BIS Level
This paper presents a simple individualized open-loop control scheme for the automatic delivery of anesthetics in order to achieve and maintain a desired depth of anesthesia. This control scheme is based on a ...
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Design and Development of a F-16 Fighter Pilot Training System Using Virtual Reality: First Insights
This project presents a study under development with the Portuguese Air Force in order to improve the ability of F-16 pilots to analyze post-flight data using virtual reality (VR) devices. The technology allow...
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Revisiting Blockhain Use in Notary Services: An European Perspective
Notary services have long been identified as a recurrent example for dematerialisation through blockchain adoption, but has failed to become a world wide reality. The key issue being the distinct legal framewo...
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Web-Based Development and Visualization Dashboards for Smart City Applications
Smart city applications are inherently characterized by the integration of data from heterogeneous sources and the need of considering geographical information that represents the real-world urban space. To ad...
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Finding Dominant Nodes Using Graphlets
Finding important nodes is a classic task in network science. Nodes are important depending on the context; e.g., they can be (i) nodes that, when removed, cause the network to collapse or (ii) influential spr...
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OTARIOS: OpTimizing Author Ranking with Insiders/Outsiders Subnetworks
Evaluating scientists based on their scientific production is often a controversial topic. Nevertheless, bibliometrics and algorithmic approaches can assist traditional peer review in numerous tasks, such as a...
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Deep Learning Approaches for Gynaecological Ultrasound Image Segmentation: A Radio-Frequency vs B-mode Comparison
Ovarian cancer is one of the pathologies with t...
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End-to-End Ovarian Structures Segmentation
The segmentation and characterization of the ovarian structures are important tasks in gynecological and reproductive medicine. Ultrasound imaging is typically used for the medical diagnosis within this field ...
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Hierarchical Expert Profiling Using Heterogeneous Information Networks
Linking an expert to his knowledge areas is still a challenging research problem. The task is usually divided into two steps: identifying the knowledge areas/topics in the text corpus and assign them to the ex...
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Adaptive Filtering Techniques for Improving Hyperspectral Image Classification
Hyperspectral imaging sensors have been used to collect data for various applications, such as medicine, physics, archaeology, remote sensing, astronomy, geosciences, surveillance, among others. This work inve...
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Speech Features for Discriminating Stress Using Branch and Bound Wrapper Search
Stress detection from speech is a less explored field than Automatic Emotion Recognition and it is still not clear which features are better stress discriminants. The project VOCE aims at doing speech classifi...
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InVesalius: An Interactive Rendering Framework for Health Care Support
This work presents InVesalius, an open-source software for analysis and visualization of medical images. The tool has supported several surgeries in hospitals and has been downloaded from more than a hundred c...
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Modeling of a Virtual Open Platform for Human Cranium Simulation
To prevent, detect and treat trauma brain injuries (TBI) one must understand them and know how they occur. With the integration of biomechanical and clinical theories, as well as research cases, a new era of c...
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Segmentation of Carotid Ultrasound Images
This chapter surveys methodologies for the segmentation of carotid ultrasound images and describes a method for the semiautomatic detection of the lumen–intima and the media–adventitia interfaces of the near a...
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A Modified LGMD Based Neural Network for Automatic Collision Detection
Robotic collision detection is a complex task that requires both real time data acquisition and important features extraction from a captured image. In order to accomplish this task, the algorithms used need t...
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Efficient Self-Localization and Data Gathering Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
Plenty of proposed architectures for effective data gathering in WSN rely on the smart location awareness sensors andoptimize justthedata gathering processes. However, application of the several protocols to c...
