Enquadramento para a compreensão dos impactos do Open Government Data

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Adoção e difusão de aplicações das tecnologias da informação: iniciativas lançadas no âmbito de processos de implantação de aplicações em organizações – estudo de práticas profissionais e proposta de ferramenta de suporte

Tese de Doutoramento Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação

Big data e data analysis: visualização de informação

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Apoio à decisão na análise inteligente de reclamações

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Contributo para o mapeamento de responsabilidades e atividades em empresas de TI

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Urbanismo participativo e resiliência das comunidades: especificação de uma aplicação

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

A performance-based method for seismic evaluation of masonry walls strengthened with RC layers

A conventional method for seismic strengthening of masonry walls is externally application of reinforced concrete layer (shotcrete). However, due to the lack of analytical and experimental information on the behavior of strengthened walls, the design procedures are usually followed based on the empirical relations. Using these design procedures have resulted in massive strengthening details in retrofitting projects. This paper presents a computational framework for nonlinear analysis of strengthened masonry walls and its versatility has been verified by comparing the numerical and experimental results. Based on the developed numerical model and available experimental information, design relations and failure modes are proposed for strengthened walls in accordance with the ASCE 41 standard. Finally, a sample masonry structure has been strengthened using the proposed and available conventional methods. It has been shown that using the proposed method results in lower strengthening details and appropriate (ductile) failure modes

Pervasive data mining engine

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia e Gestão de Sistemas de Informação

Governança de TI em universidades públicas: proposta de um modelo

O objetivo deste trabalho de investigação é o desenvolvimento de um modelo de governança de TI em universidades públicas para que mais eficaz e eficientemente cumpram a sua missão. A investigação irá identificar os mecanismos de governança de TI utilizados em diferentes realidades universitárias e avaliar a eficiência e eficácia na sua implementação considerando fatores contingenciais. Recorrer-se-á à administração de surveys em contextos sobre os quais já se detém e se tem facilidade em adquirir conhecimento, nomeadamente, universidades federais brasileiras e universidades públicas portuguesas. Design Science Research será utilizada pela sua adequação à resolução de problemas organizacionais complexos que requerem o desenvolvimento de artefactos, neste caso, um modelo para governança de TI em universidades públicas. O modelo proposto gerado será avaliado por especialistas e profissionais da área TI através de surveys, entrevistas e workshops. Analisar-se-á a eficácia e facilidade de implementação de mecanismos e ferramentas que auxiliem na governança de TI. Espera-se contribuir com um modelo e um guia para a sua implementação nas universidades públicas enquanto se reforça o corpo de conhecimento na governança de TI.

Design of a case-based reasoner for information security in military organizations

Information security is concerned with the protection of information, which can be stored, processed or transmitted within critical information systems of the organizations, against loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. Protection measures to prevent these problems result through the implementation of controls at several dimensions: technical, administrative or physical. A vital objective for military organizations is to ensure superiority in contexts of information warfare and competitive intelligence. Therefore, the problem of information security in military organizations has been a topic of intensive work at both national and transnational levels, and extensive conceptual and standardization work is being produced. A current effort is therefore to develop automated decision support systems to assist military decision makers, at different levels in the command chain, to provide suitable control measures that can effectively deal with potential attacks and, at the same time, prevent, detect and contain vulnerabilities targeted at their information systems. The concept and processes of the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) methodology outstandingly resembles classical military processes and doctrine, in particular the analysis of “lessons learned” and definition of “modes of action”. Therefore, the present paper addresses the modeling and design of a CBR system with two key objectives: to support an effective response in context of information security for military organizations; to allow for scenario planning and analysis for training and auditing processes.

A integração de técnicas BIM (Building Information Modeling) no projeto e na construção de estruturas de madeira

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Civil

Contribution to an efficient transmission of information to the textile fashion consumer and the influence in sustainable attitudes

The concepts involved in sustainable textile fashion, demanding good knowledge about raw materials, processes, end use properties and circuits amongst others, are able to determine the way the textile product is designed and the behavior of the consumer, regarding life style and buying decisions. The textile product`s life integrates raw materials, their processing, distribution, use by the consumer and destination of the product after useful lifetime, this is, his complete life cycle. It is very important to recognize the power of the consumer to influence parameters related to sustainability, namely when he decides how, when and why he buys and afterwards by the attitudes taken during and after use. The conscious act of consumption involves ethical, ecological and technical knowledge in which the concern is overall lifecycle of the fashion product and not exclusively aesthetic and symbolic values strongly related with its ephemeral nature. The present work proposes the classification of textile products by means of an innovative label aiming to establish a rating related to the Life of Fashion Products, by using parameters considered with especial impact in lifecycle, as textile fibers, processing conditions, generated wastes, commercialization circuits, durability and cleaning procedures. This label for sustainable fashion products aims to assist the stakeholders with informed attitudes and correct decisions in order to promote the objectives of sustainable fashion near designers, consumers and industrial experts.