Network Science
7th International Winter Conference, NetSci-X 2022, Porto, Portugal, February 8–11, 2022, Proceedings
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In recent years, there has been a surge in the prevalence of high- and multidimensional temporal data across various scientific disciplines. These datasets are characterized by their vast size and challenging ...
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The continuous representation of spatiotemporal data commonly relies on using abstract data types, such as moving regions, to represent entities whose shape and position continuously change over time. Creating th...
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Being able to capture the characteristics of a time series with a feature vector is a very important task with a multitude of applications, such as classification, clustering or forecasting. Usually, the featu...
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In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections have been incorporated: The author name “Marcelo Brites” has been changed to “Marcelo Brites-Pereira” in the Frontmatter, Backmatter and i...
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, affecting respiratory performance of many people, limiting the airflow and is not fully reversible. It is a clin...
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Acute ischemic stroke is essentially a hemodynamic event: It is triggered by a vascular occlusion and the current mainstay of treatment is reopening the culprit vessel using endovascular procedures and/or thro...
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7th International Winter Conference, NetSci-X 2022, Porto, Portugal, February 8–11, 2022, Proceedings
Article
We present a model for measuring the impact of offloading soft real-time jobs over multi-tier cloud infrastructures. The jobs originate in mobile devices and offloading strategies may choose to execute them lo...
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This paper aims to present a paradigm regarding the circular economy (CE) concept's communication, referring to the difficulty presented by the type of reflexivity involved in the circular economy process. We ...
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The aging of population in recent years and the increase in life expectancy is raising challenges for finding new ways to guarantee healthy and controlled activities for the elderly. Most of them prefer living...
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The purpose of this paper aims to describe the implementation of a Design Diagnosis practice within the scope of an International project under the acronym – REINOVA (Reindustrialization, entrepreneurship, an...
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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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Evaluating scientists based on their scientific production is a controversial topic. Nevertheless, bibliometrics and algorithmic approaches can assist traditional peer review in numerous tasks, such as attribu...
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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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The population of the world is getting increasingly older, and with that new challenges appear. It is thus necessary to promote healthy aging, where people maintain their independence and autonomy for longer. ...
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Reducing the dimensionality of datasets is a fundamental step in the task of building a classification model. Feature selection is the process of selecting a smaller subset of features from the original one in...
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Thinking through drawing in classroom settings on a Design bachelor degree, is a learning strategy capable of develo** perception on new project values. Several studies explain how drawing serves as a reason...
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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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Terabytes of data are generated day-to-day from modern information systems, cloud computing and digital technologies, as the increasing number of Internet connected devices grows. However, the analysis of the...