Knowledge management framework based on brain models and human physiology

The life of humans and most living beings depend on sensation and perception for the best assessment of the surrounding world. Sensorial organs acquire a variety of stimuli that are interpreted and integrated in our brain for immediate use or stored in memory for later recall. Among the reasoning aspects, a person has to decide what to do with available information. Emotions are classifiers of collected information, assigning a personal meaning to objects, events and individuals, making part of our own identity. Emotions play a decisive role in cognitive processes as reasoning, decision and memory by assigning relevance to collected information. The access to pervasive computing devices, empowered by the ability to sense and perceive the world, provides new forms of acquiring and integrating information. But prior to data assessment on its usefulness, systems must capture and ensure that data is properly managed for diverse possible goals. Portable and wearable devices are now able to gather and store information, from the environment and from our body, using cloud based services and Internet connections. Systems limitations in handling sensorial data, compared with our sensorial capabilities constitute an identified problem. Another problem is the lack of interoperability between humans and devices, as they do not properly understand human���s emotional states and human needs. Addressing those problems is a motivation for the present research work. The mission hereby assumed is to include sensorial and physiological data into a Framework that will be able to manage collected data towards human cognitive functions, supported by a new data model. By learning from selected human functional and behavioural models and reasoning over collected data, the Framework aims at providing evaluation on a person���s emotional state, for empowering human centric applications, along with the capability of storing episodic information on a person���s life with physiologic indicators on emotional states to be used by new generation applications.

A contribui����o da inform��tica para o desenvolvimento sustent��vel: o exemplo do conceito de grid computing

Este trabalho foi realizado sob orienta����o do Prof. Ant��nio Brand��o Moniz para a disciplina ���Factores Sociais da Inova����o��� do Mestrado Engenharia Inform��tica realizado na Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)

Ubiquitous computing and natural interfaces for environmental information

Disserta����o apresentada na Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obten����o do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Gest��o e Sistemas Ambientais

A middleware for service oriented computing in dynamic environments

Disserta����o apresentada na Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obten����o do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Inform��tica

A calculus for modeling and analyzing conversations in service-oriented computing

Disserta����o apresentada para a obten����o do Grau de Doutor em Inform��tica pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Tecnologia

The adoption of cloud computing by SMEs: identifying and coping with external factors.

Comunica����o apresentada na CAPSI 2011 - 11�� Confer��ncia da Associa����o Portuguesa de Sistemas de Informa����o ��� A Gest��o de Informa����o na era da Cloud Computing, Lisboa, ISEG/IUL-ISCTE/, 19 a 21 de Outubro de 2011.

A framework for scientific computing with GPUs

Disserta����o para obten����o do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Inform��tica

Parallelization of web processing services on cloud computing: A case study of Geostatistical Methods

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Context-aware personalization environment for mobile computing

Disserta����o para obten����o do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Inform��tica

Processo de desenvolvimento e difus��o de cloud computing: estudo sobre as redes de colabora����o no Brasil

Com base no relat��rio de Projecto III para o Programa Doutoral em Avalia����o de Tecnologia (2011-2012)

Cloud computing adoption - Determinants of cloud computing adoption by firms

Disserta����o apresentada como requisito parcial para obten����o do grau de Mestre em Estat��stica e Gest��o de Informa����o

Printed electronics for ubiquitous computing applications

Disserta����o para obten����o do Grau de Doutor em Qu��mica

Chemical approaches to ubiquitous computing

Disserta����o apresentada para obten����o do Grau de Doutor em Qu��mica, perfil de Qu��mica F��sica, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Tecnologia

Mainroad: Cloud computing

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA ��� School of Business and Economics

Estimating data divergence in cloud computing storage systems

Disserta����o para obten����o do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Inform��tica