A disciplina de Canto Coral e o seu reportório de 1918 a 1960

Este artigo resulta da apresentação, no último Encontro da Escola de Outono realizado em 50 de Setembro de 2000, de um trabalho de dissertação de mestrado em Ciências Musicais, Especialidade de Ciências Musicais históricas, sob o título A Disciplina de Canto Coral no Período do Estado Novo: Contributo para a história do Ensino da Educação Musical em Portugal. Apesar da investigação ter incidido no período compreendido entre 1950 e 1960, que para muitos historiadores são as datas que marcaram, respectivamente, o começo da estabilização do regime e o seu declínio, recuou-se até 1918, data da institucionalização da disciplina para toda a população do ensino liceal. Dado que o Canto Coral passou por fases distintas ao longo do período já referido, optou-se pela escolha de três canções que pudessem ajudar a caracterizar três momentos particularmente significativos da história da disciplina.

Accessing complexity from genome information

This paper studies the information content of the chromosomes of 24 species. In a first phase, a scheme inspired in dynamical system state space representation is developed. For each chromosome the state space dynamical evolution is shed into a two dimensional chart. The plots are then analyzed and characterized in the perspective of fractal dimension. This information is integrated in two measures of the species’ complexity addressing its average and variability. The results are in close accordance with phylogenetics pointing quantitative aspects of the species’ genomic complexity.

Simulation relations, interface complexity, and resource optimality for real-time hierachical systems

Compositional schedulability analysis of hierarchical realtime systems is a well-studied problem. Various techniques have been developed to abstract resource requirements of components in such systems, and schedulability has been addressed using these abstract representations (also called component interfaces). These approaches for compositional analysis incur resource overheads when they abstract components into interfaces. In this talk, we define notions of resource schedulability and optimality for component interfaces, and compare various approaches.

Slow down or race to halt: towards managing complexity of real-time energy management decisions

Existing work in the context of energy management for real-time systems often ignores the substantial cost of making DVFS and sleep state decisions in terms of time and energy and/or assume very simple models. Within this paper we attempt to explore the parameter space for such decisions and possible constraints faced.