Terminology and knowledge engineering conference. New frontiers in the constructive symbiosis of terminology and knowledge engineering

To meet the increasing demands of the complex inter-organizational processes and the demand for continuous innovation and internationalization, it is evident that new forms of organisation are being adopted, fostering more intensive collaboration processes and sharing of resources, in what can be called collaborative networks (Camarinha-Matos, 2006:03). Information and knowledge are crucial resources in collaborative networks, being their management fundamental processes to optimize. Knowledge organisation and collaboration systems are thus important instruments for the success of collaborative networks of organisations having been researched in the last decade in the areas of computer science, information science, management sciences, terminology and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this area didn’t give much attention to multilingual contexts of collaboration, which pose specific and challenging problems. It is then clear that access to and representation of knowledge will happen more and more on a multilingual setting which implies the overcoming of difficulties inherent to the presence of multiple languages, through the use of processes like localization of ontologies. Although localization, like other processes that involve multilingualism, is a rather well-developed practice and its methodologies and tools fruitfully employed by the language industry in the development and adaptation of multilingual content, it has not yet been sufficiently explored as an element of support to the development of knowledge representations - in particular ontologies - expressed in more than one language. Multilingual knowledge representation is then an open research area calling for cross-contributions from knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences. This workshop joined researchers interested in multilingual knowledge representation, in a multidisciplinary environment to debate the possibilities of cross-fertilization between knowledge engineering, terminology, ontology engineering, cognitive sciences, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and management sciences applied to contexts where multilingualism continuously creates new and demanding challenges to current knowledge representation methods and techniques. In this workshop six papers dealing with different approaches to multilingual knowledge representation are presented, most of them describing tools, approaches and results obtained in the development of ongoing projects. In the first case, Andrés Domínguez Burgos, Koen Kerremansa and Rita Temmerman present a software module that is part of a workbench for terminological and ontological mining, Termontospider, a wiki crawler that aims at optimally traverse Wikipedia in search of domainspecific texts for extracting terminological and ontological information. The crawler is part of a tool suite for automatically developing multilingual termontological databases, i.e. ontologicallyunderpinned multilingual terminological databases. In this paper the authors describe the basic principles behind the crawler and summarized the research setting in which the tool is currently tested. In the second paper, Fumiko Kano presents a work comparing four feature-based similarity measures derived from cognitive sciences. The purpose of the comparative analysis presented by the author is to verify the potentially most effective model that can be applied for mapping independent ontologies in a culturally influenced domain. For that, datasets based on standardized pre-defined feature dimensions and values, which are obtainable from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) have been used for the comparative analysis of the similarity measures. The purpose of the comparison is to verify the similarity measures based on the objectively developed datasets. According to the author the results demonstrate that the Bayesian Model of Generalization provides for the most effective cognitive model for identifying the most similar corresponding concepts existing for a targeted socio-cultural community. In another presentation, Thierry Declerck, Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Dagmar Gromann present an ongoing work and propose an approach to automatic extraction of information from multilingual financial Web resources, to provide candidate terms for building ontology elements or instances of ontology concepts. The authors present a complementary approach to the direct localization/translation of ontology labels, by acquiring terminologies through the access and harvesting of multilingual Web presences of structured information providers in the field of finance, leading to both the detection of candidate terms in various multilingual sources in the financial domain that can be used not only as labels of ontology classes and properties but also for the possible generation of (multilingual) domain ontologies themselves. In the next paper, Manuel Silva, António Lucas Soares and Rute Costa claim that despite the availability of tools, resources and techniques aimed at the construction of ontological artifacts, developing a shared conceptualization of a given reality still raises questions about the principles and methods that support the initial phases of conceptualization. These questions become, according to the authors, more complex when the conceptualization occurs in a multilingual setting. To tackle these issues the authors present a collaborative platform – conceptME - where terminological and knowledge representation processes support domain experts throughout a conceptualization framework, allowing the inclusion of multilingual data as a way to promote knowledge sharing and enhance conceptualization and support a multilingual ontology specification. In another presentation Frieda Steurs and Hendrik J. Kockaert present us TermWise, a large project dealing with legal terminology and phraseology for the Belgian public services, i.e. the translation office of the ministry of justice, a project which aims at developing an advanced tool including expert knowledge in the algorithms that extract specialized language from textual data (legal documents) and whose outcome is a knowledge database including Dutch/French equivalents for legal concepts, enriched with the phraseology related to the terms under discussion. Finally, Deborah Grbac, Luca Losito, Andrea Sada and Paolo Sirito report on the preliminary results of a pilot project currently ongoing at UCSC Central Library, where they propose to adapt to subject librarians, employed in large and multilingual Academic Institutions, the model used by translators working within European Union Institutions. The authors are using User Experience (UX) Analysis in order to provide subject librarians with a visual support, by means of “ontology tables” depicting conceptual linking and connections of words with concepts presented according to their semantic and linguistic meaning. The organizers hope that the selection of papers presented here will be of interest to a broad audience, and will be a starting point for further discussion and cooperation.

Assessing Reading Abilities of Mechanical Engineering College Students: A Prospecting Study*

Reading is a basic competence that students have to master to be successful. Despite this fact, recent studies show that there may be a significant decline in the reading abilities of college students, one of the most educated segments of any population. This work is a prospecting study regarding the assessment of reading abilities of college students, namely in the context of Engineering education. Based on an existing screening test for assessing reading difficulties of children and teenagers, this work presents the results obtained by administrating that test to students at a top engineering institution in Portugal. An outcome of this study is the determination of a time range suitable for a massive, time limited, use of the previously mentioned test to assess college students, thus enabling a basic tool that will permit, in future works, to screen reading abilities in wider college populations. This work also shows evidence that ca. 20% of college students present a poor reading performance, revealing a strong need for monitoring college students’ reading abilities along different generations.

Certificação de filtros em fatores de transmissão e de cerâmicas em fatores de reflexão, em colorimetria

Mestrado em Engenharia Química - Tecnologias de Protecção Ambiental

Engineering Temporal and Spatial Aspects in OWL using Patterns

WWW is a huge, open, heterogeneous system, however its contents data is mainly human oriented. The Semantic Web needs to assure that data is readable and “understandable” to intelligent software agents, though the use of explicit and formal semantics. Ontologies constitute a privileged artifact for capturing the semantic of the WWW data. Temporal and spatial dimensions are transversal to the generality of knowledge domains and therefore are fundamental for the reasoning process of software agents. Representing temporal/spatial evolution of concepts and their relations in OWL (W3C standard for ontologies) it is not straightforward. Although proposed several strategies to tackle this problem but there is still no formal and standard approach. This work main goal consists of development of methods/tools to support the engineering of temporal and spatial aspects in intelligent systems through the use of OWL ontologies. An existing method for ontology engineering, Fonte was used as framework for the development of this work. As main contributions of this work Fonte was re-engineered in order to: i) support the spatial dimension; ii) work with OWL Ontologies; iii) and support the application of Ontology Design Patterns. Finally, the capabilities of the proposed approach were demonstrated by engineering time and space in a demo ontology about football.

Estudo relativo à utilização dos Equipamentos de Medida e Precisão (EMP) nas ações de manutenção da frota F-16

Esta dissertação foi realizada, tendo como objecto de estudo a utilização de equipamentos de Medida e Precisão, em diversas áreas da manutenção da Base Aérea Nº 5. Como hipótese de trabalho, no âmbito da dissertação do Mestrado de Engenharia Instrumentação e Metrologia, foi proposta a elaboração de um estudo, tendo em vista, uma melhoria das capacidades da organização demonstrar certos requisitos no âmbito da gestão e controlo de equipamentos de Medida e Precisão. Assim, a metodologia utilizada para a realização desta dissertação, partiu da análise do estado da arte nas normas internacionais, da regulamentação emitida pela Força Aérea Portuguesa e no estudo das práticas em uso na manutenção da Base Aérea Nº 5, assim como, nos atuais meios de execução e controlo dessa gestão num sistema integrado de “gestão de conteúdos”. Foram realizados diversos trabalhos, tendo como objectivo uma melhoria no processo de gestão de Equipamentos de Medida e Precisão, com resultados imediatos, tais como um novo portal de metrologia, e-mail de informação sobre Equipamentos de Medida e Precisão e certificados digitais. Seguidamente, forma apresentados os resultados do estudo e demonstrada a necessidade de implementar um processo de recall, para as acções onde são usados Equipamentos de Medida e precisão. Na dissertação, são utilizadas terminologias aeronáuticas, por as mesmas serem comuns no seio da organização, assim como, consonantes com a prática usual na indústria de manutenção aeronáutica militar no mundo.

Construção do Parque Eólico Rymanów (Polónia)

O presente relatório tem como principal objetivo caracterizar os trabalhos desenvolvidos e estudados ao longo do estágio realizado na Martifer Renewables S.A., empresa de Engenharia na vertente das energias renováveis. O estágio incidiu na construção do parque eólico Rymanów, tendo-se desenvolvido no local da obra onde se acompanhou o processo de construção, bem como nos escritórios da empresa em Cracóvia onde se obteve informação relevante sobre o projeto. Este trabalho começa por abordar a energia eólica no seu contexto histórico, onde são referidas as suas vantagens e desvantagens e é analisado o seu processo evolutivo. Faz uma referência às razões que levam uma empresa a construir um parque eólico na Polónia, e demonstra os tipos de investidores existentes neste mercado. Posteriormente é descrito o estudo de viabilidade do projeto, isto é, os parâmetros essenciais desenvolvidos na fase inicial do projeto, assim como a fase de lançamento de concursos para a sua construção. De seguida, é abordado o processo de construção do parque eólico, onde o acompanhamento da obra foi imprescindível. É apresentado o procedimento de operações e manutenção do parque eólico e é feita uma análise sobre o tipo de financiamento da obra de construção. Por fim, é realizada uma abordagem acerca da internacionalização das empresas portuguesas, como é o caso da empresa atrás referida. É apresentada uma curiosidade relativamente às construções na Polónia, tal como algumas novas experiências culturais que a estagiária teve a oportunidade de viver. No final do trabalho, são tiradas conclusões e sugeridos desenvolvimentos.

Development of Biomimetic Robots in the EPS Engineering Programme Capstone Project

This paper proposes the development of biologically inspired robots as the capstone project of the European Project Semester (EPS) framework. EPS is a one semester student centred international programme offered by a group of European engineering schools (EPS Providers) as part of their student exchange programme portfolio. EPS is organized around a central module (the EPS project) and a set of complementary supportive modules. Project proposals refer to open multidisciplinary real world problems. Its purpose is to expose students to problems of a greater dimension and complexity than those faced throughout the degree programme as well as to put them in contact with the socalled real world, in opposition to the academic world. Students are organized in teams, grouping individuals from diverse academic backgrounds and nationalities, and each team is fully responsible for conducting its project. EPS provides an integrated framework for undertaking capstone projects, which is focused on multicultural and multidisciplinary teamwork, communication, problem-solving, creativity, leadership, entrepreneurship, ethical reasoning and global contextual analysis. The design and development of biologically inspired robots allows the students to fulfil the previously described requirements and objectives and, as a result, we recommend the adoption of these projects within the EPS project capstone module for the benefit of engineering students.

Development of Biomimetic Robots in the EPS Engineering Programme Capstone Project

This paper presents the development of a fish-like robot called Bro-Fish. Bro-Fish aims to be an educational toy dedicated to teaching mechanics, programming and the physics of floating objects to youngsters. The underlying intention is to awaken the interest of children for technology, especially biomimetic (biologically inspired) approaches, in order to promote sustainability and raise the level of ecological awareness. The main focus of this project was to create a robot with carangiform locomotion and controllable swimming, providing the opportunity to customize parts and experiment with the physics of floating objects. Therefore, the locomotion principles of fishes and mechanisms developed in related projects were analysed. Inspired by this background knowledge, a prototype was designed and implemented. The main achievement is the new tail mechanism that propels the robot. The tail resembles the undulation motion of fish bodies and is actuated in an innovative way, triggered by an elegant movement of a rotating helicoidal. First experimental tests revealed the potential of the proposed methodology to effectively generate forward propulsion.

Software de gestão de manutenção como ferramenta de apoio à melhoria da eficiência da gestão de infraestruturas

Este trabalho académico surge no âmbito da realização da dissertação do Mestrado em Engenharia e Gestão Industrial. Tem como objetivo a melhoria da gestão do Departamento de Infraestruturas, numa empresa de produção de motores elétricos para a indústria automóvel, através da análise, implementação e melhoria de um software de gestão de manutenção, de forma a aumentar a eficiência do Departamento. Este estudo foi desenvolvido durante um estágio curricular na empresa Globe Motors Portugal Lda, localizada em Vila do Conde. Para sua sustentação, foi efetuada uma análise funcional, suportada por um Software de gestão de manutenção, de forma a perceber qual a importância que o mesmo tem no funcionamento do Departamento de Infraestruturas. Pretendeu-se compreender quais as vantagens e desvantagens da sua utilização. Posteriormente, implementou-se uma nova versão deste software, analisando-se os pontos fortes e as oportunidades de melhoria, de forma a tornar o Departamento de infraestruturas mais eficiente, através da utilização desta renovada ferramenta de trabalho. Como objetivo último, pretendeu-se à melhoria da organização e gestão do Departamento de infraestruturas, contribuindo para um desenvolvimento de toda a empresa, uma vez que comungamos a ideia de que só é possível ser competitivo, num mercado altamente exigente, através de processos eficientes, possibilitando a redução de custos a todos os níveis.

Introducing numerical analysis tools in engineering: a Scilab user case in electronics course

Software tools in education became popular since the widespread of personal computers. Engineering courses lead the way in this development and these tools became almost a standard. Engineering graduates are familiar with numerical analysis tools but also with simulators (e.g. electronic circuits), computer assisted design tools and others, depending on the degree. One of the main problems with these tools is when and how to start use them so that they can be beneficial to students and not mere substitutes for potentially difficult calculations or design. In this paper a software tool to be used by first year students in electronics/electricity courses is presented. The growing acknowledgement and acceptance of open source software lead to the choice of an open source software tool – Scilab, which is a numerical analysis tool – to develop a toolbox. The toolbox was developed to be used as standalone or integrated in an e-learning platform. The e-learning platform used was Moodle. The first approach was to assess the mathematical skills necessary to solve all the problems related to electronics and electricity courses. Analysing the existing circuit simulators software tools, it is clear that even though they are very helpful by showing the end result they are not so effective in the process of the students studying and self learning since they show results but not intermediate steps which are crucial in problems that involve derivatives or integrals. Also, they are not very effective in obtaining graphical results that could be used to elaborate reports and for an overall better comprehension of the results. The developed tool was based on the numerical analysis software Scilab and is a toolbox that gives their users the opportunity to obtain the end results of a circuit analysis but also the expressions obtained when derivative and integrals calculations, plot signals, obtain vector diagrams, etc. The toolbox runs entirely in the Moodle web platform and provides the same results as the standalone application. The students can use the toolbox through the web platform (in computers where they don't have installation privileges) or in their personal computers by installing both the Scilab software and the toolbox. This approach was designed for first year students from all engineering degrees that have electronics/electricity courses in their curricula.

Autonomous guided vehicles applied to industrial engineering and management studies

This article presents a framework to an Industrial Engineering and Management Science course from School of Management and Industrial Studies using Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGV) to supply materials to a production line as an experimental setup for the students to acquire knowledge in the production robotics area. The students must be capable to understand and put into good use several concepts that will be of utmost importance in their professional life such as critical decisions regarding the study, development and implementation of a production line. The main focus is a production line using AGVs, where the students are required to address several topics such as: sensors actuators, controllers and an high level management and optimization software. The presented framework brings to the robotics teaching community methodologies that allow students from different backgrounds, that normally don’t experiment with the robotics concepts in practice due to the big gap between theory and practice, to go straight to ”making” robotics. Our aim was to suppress the minimum start point level thus allowing any student to fully experience robotics with little background knowledge.

Desenvolvimento de Aplicação para a Otimização de Processo Produtivo

Empreendimentos industriais requerem o acompanhamento completo e preciso de dados de máquinas em tempo real, integrando as atividades do chão de fábrica com a engenharia, suporte e negócios. É reconhecido que sistemas de monitorização são fundamentais para melhorar a qualidade do produto, reduzir os tempos e para a adaptação rápida às mudanças de produção. Os sensores de processos possuem custos altos, não são compactos e são de difícil implementação. Portanto, seria estratégico desenvolver sistemas de monitorização que usufruem ao máximo dos recursos já existentes nas máquinas e ferramentas e que não representem custos adicionais elevados e de difícil implementação. O uso de PLC nas indústrias é crescente. Estes mostram-se como ferramentas potenciais para atender a estas exigências. Os PLC possuem os recursos necessários para a aquisição de informações e controlo das máquinas, facilitando a interação com um sistema SCADA. O objetivo do presente trabalho é pesquisar soluções sobre sistemas de monitorização que possam substituir um sistema instalado antiquado e encontrar uma solução para o controlo de um processo de vazamento. Para tal, foram consideradas duas soluções: uma passaria por desenvolver um sistema de monitorização que controlasse o processo de vazamento, e outra que permitisse ser o PLC a fazer o controlo, adquirindo um HMI apenas para monitorização. Esta última solução revelou-se como a melhor, visto que um PLC tem mais durabilidade em relação a um PC, em termos de atualizações de hardware e software. Assim, foram criadas funções no PLC para fazer o controlo de vazamento e foi adquirido uma consola Beijer, e respetivo software de programação SCADA, para a criação do sistema de monitorização. Os resultados mostram que o PLC é capaz de executar o controlo, não sendo necessário investir em PC que são mais caros, bastando para isso adquirir sistemas SCADA simples e capazes.

Sustainability Improvement of a composite materials’ industry through recycling and re-engineering process approaches

Recent Advances in Mechanics and Materials in Design

Massive Open Online Course management: learning science and engineering through peer-reviewed projects

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are gaining prominence in transversal teaching-learning strategies. However, there are many issues still debated, namely assessment, recognized largely as a cornerstone in Education. The large number of students involved requires a redefinition of strategies that often use approaches based on tasks or challenging projects. In these conditions and due to this approach, assessment is made through peer-reviewed assignments and quizzes online. The peer-reviewed assignments are often based upon sample answers or topics, which guide the student in the task of evaluating peers. This chapter analyzes the grading and evaluation in MOOCs, especially in science and engineering courses, within the context of education and grading methodologies and discusses possible perspectives to pursue grading quality in massive e-learning courses.