RFID together with multi-agent systems to control global value chains

Nowadays, the cooperative intelligent transport systems are part of a largest system. Transportations are modal operations integrated in logistics and, logistics is the main process of the supply chain management. The supply chain strategic management as a simultaneous local and global value chain is a collaborative/cooperative organization of stakeholders, many times in co-opetition, to perform a service to the customers respecting the time, place, price and quality levels. The transportation, like other logistics operations must add value, which is achieved in this case through compression lead times and order fulfillments. The complex supplier's network and the distribution channels must be efficient and the integral visibility (monitoring and tracing) of supply chain is a significant source of competitive advantage. Nowadays, the competition is not discussed between companies but among supply chains. This paper aims to evidence the current and emerging manufacturing and logistics system challenges as a new field of opportunities for the automation and control systems research community. Furthermore, the paper forecasts the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies integrated into an information and communication technologies (ICT) framework based on distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) supported by a multi-agent system (MAS), as the most value advantage of supply chain management (SCM) in a cooperative intelligent logistics systems. Logistical platforms (production or distribution) as nodes of added value of supplying and distribution networks are proposed as critical points of the visibility of the inventory, where these technological needs are more evident.

Comunicação no desporto: estratégia de relações públicas para a divulgação da natação sincronizada em Portugal

Este projeto pretende contribuir com uma resposta para o problema da falta de conhecimento/reconhecimento da Natação Sincronizada em Portugal. A Natação Sincronizada é uma modalidade amadora e, tendo em conta os seus benefícios vários, a beleza e atratividade da modalidade e o papel que pode ter na saúde, bem-estar e entretenimento da comunidade é possível dinamizá-la, despertando o interesse dos stakeholders, através de uma Estratégia de Comunicação eficaz. As Relações Públicas no sector desportivo, embora mais habituais nas modalidades profissionais, são uma área em que urge apostar, tanto ao nível da investigação teórica como nas áreas da investigação critica sobre as suas práticas. Partindo precisamente de uma reflexão teórica sobre esta disciplina propomo-nos apresentar uma estratégia de Relações Públicas que permita dar uma maior visibilidade a esta modalidade e consequentemente leve a um aumento substancial do número de praticantes e técnicos nos próximos anos.

Action, reaction and protest by publishers in 1960s Portugal: books and other publications in the Catholic opposition

The authoritarian regime of the Portuguese Estado Novo (New State), the longest dictatorship in twentieth-century Western Europe, suffered one of its most serious threats during the late 1950s and the whole of the following decade. An array of events and dynamics of opposition to the regime and condemnation of the political and social situation in Portugal appeared at that time. One of the core groups that displayed their dissidence in the 1960s, with the awakening of their critical conscience, originated in Catholic sectors that rallied the laity and the clergy to express their disagreement or even break with the government of Salazar (and, later, Marcelo Caetano). This article aims to establish the role of print culture and, in particular, publishing in the opposition’s mobilisation of Catholics who criticised the Estado Novo. It will also closely examine the contribution of certain publishers to the formulation of the terms of this mobilisation, in publishing new authors and topics and creating new printed forums (e.g. periodicals) for discussion and reflection. The most detailed case will be that of the publishing house Livraria Moraes Editora, under the command of the publisher António Alçada Baptista.

O poder comunicacional da maratona : uma perspectiva de relações públicas

Tese especialmente elaborada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação

Responsabilidade social das empresas: caso de estudo

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

A importância da informação contabilística multidimensional face às necessidades dos múltiplos stakeholders: estudo de caso da entidade BETA, SROC, Lda.

Mestrado em Contabilidade