Tecnologia de revestimentos em zinco e cobre na envolvente exterior de edifícios

Mestrado em Engenharia Civil – ramo Tecnologia e Gestão das Construções

Computing semantic relatedness using DBPedia

Extracting the semantic relatedness of terms is an important topic in several areas, including data mining, information retrieval and web recommendation. This paper presents an approach for computing the semantic relatedness of terms using the knowledge base of DBpedia — a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia. Several approaches to extract semantic relatedness from Wikipedia using bag-of-words vector models are already available in the literature. The research presented in this paper explores a novel approach using paths on an ontological graph extracted from DBpedia. It is based on an algorithm for finding and weighting a collection of paths connecting concept nodes. This algorithm was implemented on a tool called Shakti that extract relevant ontological data for a given domain from DBpedia using its SPARQL endpoint. To validate the proposed approach Shakti was used to recommend web pages on a Portuguese social site related to alternative music and the results of that experiment are reported in this paper.

CodeSkelGen: a program skeleton generator

Existent computer programming training environments help users to learn programming by solving problems from scratch. Nevertheless, initiating the resolution of a program can be frustrating and demotivating if the student does not know where and how to start. Skeleton programming facilitates a top-down design approach, where a partially functional system with complete high level structures is available, so the student needs only to progressively complete or update the code to meet the requirements of the problem. This paper presents CodeSkelGen - a program skeleton generator. CodeSkelGen generates skeleton or buggy Java programs from a complete annotated program solution provided by the teacher. The annotations are formally described within an annotation type and processed by an annotation processor. This processor is responsible for a set of actions ranging from the creation of dummy methods to the exchange of operator types included in the source code. The generator tool will be included in a learning environment that aims to assist teachers in the creation of programming exercises and to help students in their resolution.

Seqins: a sequencing tool for educational resources

The teaching-learning process is increasingly focused on the combination of the paradigms “learning by viewing” and “learning by doing.” In this context, educational resources, either expository or evaluative, play a pivotal role. Both types of resources are interdependent and their sequencing would create a richer educational experience to the end user. However, there is a lack of tools that support sequencing essentially due to the fact that existing specifications are complex. The Seqins is a sequencing tool of digital resources that has a fairly simple sequencing model. The tool communicates through the IMS LTI specification with a plethora of e-learning systems such as learning management systems, repositories, authoring and evaluation systems. In order to validate Seqins we integrate it in an e-learning Ensemble framework instance for the computer programming learning.

JSON on Mobile: is there an efficient parser?

The two largest causes for battery consumption on mobile devices are related with the display and network operations. Since most application need to share data and communicate with remote servers, communications should be as lightweight and efficient as possible. In network communication, serialization plays a central role as the process of converting an object into a stream of bytes. One of the most popular data-interchange format is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). This paper presents a survey on JSON parsers in mobile scenarios. The aim of the survey is to find the most efficient JSON parser in mobile communications characterised by high transfer rate of small amounts of data. In the performance benchmark we compare the time required to read and write data with several popular JSON parser implementations such as Gson, Jackson, org.json and others. The results of this survey are important for others that need to select an efficient parser for mobile communication.

Revestimento de fachadas e coberturas com chapas de zinco e cobre

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo da utilização do zinco e do cobre como revestimento de coberturas e de fachadas em edifícios. O trabalho inicia-se com uma introdução sobre as características do zinco e cobre e a sua aplicação desde os primeiros tempos até à atualidade. Incluiu-se uma breve explanação sobre a sua produção, extração, disponibilidade de recursos, reciclagem e compatibilidade com outros materiais. O trabalho inclui também um capítulo destinado a compreender os princípios que justificam o seu uso em revestimentos, onde se aborda a sua importância na ventilação, sistemas de drenagem e noutras temáticas associadas ao processo construtivo. Em seguida desenvolve-se um capítulo orientado para os sistemas de revestimento mais comuns, onde se faz a separação entre sistemas com e sem ventilação e as diferentes técnicas e formas de instalação. Apresenta-se finalmente um caso prático de estudo de um sistema de revestimento de uma cobertura, onde se completa com um subcapítulo destinado à quantificação da ação do vento, da chuva e dos seus efeitos, mas também, onde se realça a importância da análise do comportamento e desempenho dos respetivos órgãos de drenagem.