Indexação e pesquisa de informação com base em ontologias interligadas

Tecnologias da Web Semântica como RDF, OWL e SPARQL sofreram nos últimos anos um forte crescimento e aceitação. Projectos como a DBPedia e Open Street Map começam a evidenciar o verdadeiro potencial da Linked Open Data. No entanto os motores de pesquisa semânticos ainda estão atrasados neste crescendo de tecnologias semânticas. As soluções disponíveis baseiam-se mais em recursos de processamento de linguagem natural. Ferramentas poderosas da Web Semântica como ontologias, motores de inferência e linguagens de pesquisa semântica não são ainda comuns. Adicionalmente a esta realidade, existem certas dificuldades na implementação de um Motor de Pesquisa Semântico. Conforme demonstrado nesta dissertação, é necessária uma arquitectura federada de forma a aproveitar todo o potencial da Linked Open Data. No entanto um sistema federado nesse ambiente apresenta problemas de performance que devem ser resolvidos através de cooperação entre fontes de dados. O standard actual de linguagem de pesquisa na Web Semântica, o SPARQL, não oferece um mecanismo para cooperação entre fontes de dados. Esta dissertação propõe uma arquitectura federada que contém mecanismos que permitem cooperação entre fontes de dados. Aborda o problema da performance propondo um índice gerido de forma centralizada assim como mapeamentos entre os modelos de dados de cada fonte de dados. A arquitectura proposta é modular, permitindo um crescimento de repositórios e funcionalidades simples e de forma descentralizada, à semelhança da Linked Open Data e da própria World Wide Web. Esta arquitectura trabalha com pesquisas por termos em linguagem natural e também com inquéritos formais em linguagem SPARQL. No entanto os repositórios considerados contêm apenas dados em formato RDF. Esta dissertação baseia-se em múltiplas ontologias partilhadas e interligadas.

The 27th British liquid crystal society annual meeting 2013, Cambridge

Attending the British Liquid Crystal Society’s (BLCS) Annual Meeting was a formative experience in my days as a PhD student, starting way back in the 1990s. At that time, this involved travelling to (to me) exotic parts of the United Kingdom, such as Reading, Oxford or Manchester, away from Southampton where I was based. Some postdoctoral years in a different country followed, and three BLCS Meetings were missed, until in 1997 and 1998, I was able to attend again, in Southampton and Leeds, respectively. Not much had changed from my student days, the size and the format were still about the same, many of the leading characters were still around, and the closing talk would still be given by John Lydon. Well, at some point, I got myself a proper academic job on the Continent and stopped attending BLCS Annual Meetings altogether. The fond memories of my youth started to fade. Were the Meetings still on? It seemed so, as old friends and acquaintances would occasionally recount attending them, and even winning prizes at them. But, it all seemed rather remote now. Until, that is, it came to pass that the 27th BLCS Meeting would be held in Selwyn College, Cambridge, just down (or up, depending on how you look at it) the road from the Isaac Newton Institute, where I was spending part of my sabbatical leave. The opportunity to resume attendance could not be missed. A brief e-mail exchange with the organisers, and a cheque to cover the fee, duly secured this. And thus, it was with trepidation that I approached my first BLCS Annual Meeting in more than a decade.

e-Recruitment: descrição e inferência sobre oferta e procura

Trabalho de Projeto para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores

Maintenance and destrcution of R&D leadership

In the standard Schumpeterian-growth models only follower firms invest in R&D activities and larger economies grow faster. Since these results are counterfactual, this paper reveals that leader firms often support R&D activities and economic growth can be independent of the market size. In particular, the maintenance of R&D leadership increases with: (i) the technological-knowledge gap between leader and followers, since a firm-specific learning effect of accumulated technological knowledge from past R&D is considered, (ii) the leaders’ strategies that delay the next successful R&D supported by some follower firm, (iii) the market size, and (iv) the up-grade of each innovation.

Análise de satisfação com o sistema de triagem no serviço de urgência

Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto Politécnico do Porto para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Gestão das Organizações, Ramo de Gestão de Empresas Orientada pelo Professor Doutor Eduardo Sá e Silva Mestre Fátima Monteiro Esta dissertação não inclui as críticas e sugestões feitas pelo Júri

Type System for the ComponentJ Programming Language

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática.

A mobile robot platform for open learning based on serious games and remote laboratories

Within the pedagogical community, Serious Games have arisen as a viable alternative to traditional course-based learning materials. Until now, they have been based strictly on software solutions. Meanwhile, research into Remote Laboratories has shown that they are a viable, low-cost solution for experimentation in an engineering context, providing uninterrupted access, low-maintenance requirements, and a heightened sense of reality when compared to simulations. This paper will propose a solution where both approaches are combined to deliver a Remote Laboratory-based Serious Game for use in engineering and school education. The platform for this system is the WebLab-Deusto Framework, already well-tested within the remote laboratory context, and based on open standards. The laboratory allows users to control a mobile robot in a labyrinth environment and take part in an interactive game where they must locate and correctly answer several questions, the subject of which can be adapted to educators' needs. It also integrates the Google Blockly graphical programming language, allowing students to learn basic programming and logic principles without needing to understand complex syntax.

Enhancing information retrieval in folksonomies using ontology of place constructed from Gazetteer information

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

SmART: an application reconfiguration framework

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática.

Schem@Doc: a web-based XML schema visualizer

XML Schema is one of the most used specifications for defining types of XML documents. It provides an extensive set of primitive data types, ways to extend and reuse definitions and an XML syntax that simplifies automatic manipulation. However, many features that make XML Schema Definitions (XSD) so interesting also make them rather cumbersome to read. Several tools to visualize and browse schema definitions have been proposed to cope with this issue. The novel approach proposed in this paper is to base XSD visualization and navigation on the XML document itself, using solely the web browser, without requiring a pre-processing step or an intermediate representation. We present the design and implementation of a web-based XML Schema browser called schem@Doc that operates over the XSD file itself. With this approach, XSD visualization is synchronized with the source file and always reflects its current state. This tool fits well in the schema development process and is easy to integrate in web repositories containing large numbers of XSD files.

Entre o palco e o ecrã: feras amestradas: comédia musical negra à portuguesa: intermédia

Trabalho de Projeto submetido à Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teatro - especialização em Encenação

Chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Public policies and social network analysis of the hospitals services and oyhers health and social organizations to support joint action for children with diabetes

Comunicação apresentada na 18th Conference International of Health Promotion Hospitals & Health Services "Tackling causes and consequences of inequalities in health: contributions of health services and the HPH network", em Manchester de 14-16 de april de 2010

An Approach To Publish a Data Warehouse Content as Linked Data

Mestrado em Engenharia Informática - Área de Especialização em Tecnologias do Conhecimento e Decisão

Sistema online de apoio à decisão para médicos oncologistas

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores