Sistema de alerta por sms e e-mail

A área de trabalho escolhida para o desenvolvimento foi a programação de um sistema de Contacto designada UMCont@ct, integrando as tecnologias de SMS e Email com programação em Java, PHP e base de dados MySQL. O Sistema será projetado e desenvolvido de uma forma genérica, de forma a permitir difundir informações diversas, de diversas sistemas e empresas quer a nível local, nacional ou mesmo internacional. Para tal o serviço disponibilizará dois URLs GET e POST e um Web Service como forma de comunicação entre os diversos sistemas e a UMCont@ct. O cérebro do sistema será o servidor Java responsável pela validação, preparação e envio de mensagens de alertas do sistema, com base no protocolo SMTP para envio de Email e protocolo HTTP para a comunicação com o gateway SMS a utilizar. Pretende-se ainda criar uma aplicação Web em linguagem PHP para administração e configuração de todo o sistema, bem como fazer a gestão de utilizadores do serviço. Já num vertente cliente o sistema disponibilizará um serviço Web, integrado como um módulo no projeto SIGA (Sistema Integrado de Gestão Académico) da nossa Universidade, que permitirá aos estudantes, docentes e funcionários da instituição agendar notificações SMS e Email sobre diversos assuntos referentes à Universidade do Mindelo, destacando entre eles o serviço de notificação das notas aos estudantes por meio de SMS.

Research- Web app for android

Application development for mobile devices has evolved substantially in recent years. Creating apps for mobile systems is becoming a standard in order to create better solutions to meet the market demand. Currently, half of the US population own Smartphones. This market comprises 150 million people, and 28% of these people consider mobiles their primary way of accessing the Web (Hales, 2013). A common feature of most websites tailored for mobile devices is that they are reduced versions of the desktop site. Several factors that must be considered when making this transition from desktop sites to mobile devices are: identifying elements from the desktop website that should be displayed on the mobile device screen; the amount of information the institution (BSU in this case) wishes to provide and designing an interface that will please the users;

Service Quality Analysis in the Five Stars Resort Hotels of Cape Verde

The objective of this study was the identification of the attributes and dimensions of service quality affecting the service performance of the five stars resort hotels located in the Cape Verde Islands. The reason boosting the initiative to do this research was the paramount role of the resort hotels in the development of the travel and tourism sector in Cape Verde, and the impact that today this sector has had in the economy of that country. The research opens with a literature review on the service quality theory in the hotel industry, starting from the middle of the 1980s with the classic model of service quality and SERVQUAL instrument to the analysis of recent models of service quality measurement in the hotel industry, as it is an example the scale of items developed in 2003 in the Lodging Quality Index (LQI). Furthermore, the study elaborates an analysis on the importance of the travel and tourism activities in the Cape Verde Islands, and it evidences the enormous importance of those activities in the performance of the Cape Verdean hotel industry. In sequence the study analyzes in details the hotel industry of Cape Verde and it identifies the market size of the five stars resort hotels and their current operators in that market. Moreover, the research develops with an online questionnaire elaborated and sent through the platforms of travel websites and communities to the guests whom have experienced the service of the five stars resort hotels located in the Cape Verde Islands. The scope of the questionnaire was to assess the attributes and dimensions of service quality in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde. The results of the questionnaire were in sequence analyzed through descriptive and applied statistics, using Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Content validity analysis, factor analysis, and reliability analysis of the factors were made to purify an initial scale of 47 items of service quality. An instrument with three dimensions covering twenty four attributes of service quality assessment in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde was finally created. The three dimensions found were: staff competence; food and entertainment; and physical facilities. This study on the service in the five stars resort hotels of Cape Verde ends with brief comments on the status of service quality according to the identified dimensions and their attributes. In the conclusion, the study summarizes the whole work and gives some directions for future research.