Mobile application as a tool for urban traffic data collection and generation to advanced traveler information systems using Wi-Fi networks available in urban centers

This paper presents an Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) developed on Android platform, which is open source and free. The developed application has as its main objective the free use of a Vehicle-to- Infrastructure (V2I) communication through the wireless network access points available in urban centers. In addition to providing the necessary information for an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) to a central server, the application also receives the traffic data close to the vehicle. Once obtained this traffic information, the application displays them to the driver in a clear and efficient way, allowing the user to make decisions about his route in real time. The application was tested in a real environment and the results are presented in the article. In conclusion we present the benefits of this application. © 2012 IEEE.

Interface gráfica no contexto de teoria dos jogos sob a forma de Java Apples

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Biomobile: sistema de identificação de usuários em dispositivos móveis na plataforma Android utilizando reconhecimento de faces a partir de vídeo

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

Roteiros e produção de conteúdos interativos para celulares nos cursos de educação a distância na televisão digital interativa

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Serviço de referência digital: uma análise apoiada em agentes de interface

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Emergetic ternary diagrams: five examples for application in environmental accounting for decision-making

In a recent paper, "A combined tool for environmental scientists and decision makers: ternary diagrams and emergy accounting." [Giannettti BF, Barrella FA, Almeida CMVB. A combined tool for environment scientists and decision makers: ternary diagrams and emergy accounting. J Clean Prod, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.09.002] Ternary diagrams were proposed as a graphical tool to assist emergy analysis. The graphical representation of the emergy accounting data makes it possible to compare processes and systems with and without ecosystem services, to evaluate improvements and to follow the system performance over time. The graphic tool is versatile and adaptable to represent products, processes, systems, countries, and different periods of time.The use and the versatility of ternary diagrams for assisting in performing emergy analyses are illustrated by means of five examples taken from the literature, which are presented and discussed. It is shown that emergetic ternary diagram's properties assist the assessment of the system of the system efficiency, its dependance upon renewable and non-renewable inputs and the environmental support for dilution and abatement of process emissions. With the aid of ternary diagrams, details such as the interaction between systems and between systems and the environment are recognized and evaluated. Such a tool for graphical analysis allows a transparent presentation of the results and can serve as an interface between emergy scientists and decision makers, provided the meaning of each line in the diagram is carefully explained and understood. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Desenvolvimento de um Game para Android O S

With the technology advancement, mobile devices have become increasingly more powerful and have started to have functions beyond of making phone calls. New applications, which perform these new functions, have been launched. The digital entertainment market has become one of the most benefited with this, once the games have become one of the most used applications for various types of users. This monograph presents the development of a game for Android OS, considering concepts like: physics, scenarios/views and character animation

Controle e aquisição de dados experimentais com tecnologia bluetooth em dispositivos móveis

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DiffServer: Application Level Differentiated Services for Web Servers

Web content hosting, in which a Web server stores and provides Web access to documents for different customers, is becoming increasingly common. For example, a web server can host webpages for several different companies and individuals. Traditionally, Web Service Providers (WSPs) provide all customers with the same level of performance (best-effort service). Most service differentiation has been in the pricing structure (individual vs. business rates) or the connectivity type (dial-up access vs. leased line, etc.). This report presents DiffServer, a program that implements two simple, server-side, application-level mechanisms (server-centric and client-centric) to provide different levels of web service. The results of the experiments show that there is not much overhead due to the addition of this additional layer of abstraction between the client and the Apache web server under light load conditions. Also, the average waiting time for high priority requests decreases significantly after they are assigned priorities as compared to a FIFO approach.

Motor de juegos en Ruby para Android

[ES] El proyecto es un motor de juegos, que permite programar videojuegos usando el lenguaje Ruby en dispositivos Android. La API del motor es igual a la del software para PC Gosu, con lo que se extiende su uso a terminales móviles. La novedad principal radica en que se trata del primer motor, que permite programar juegos en Android usando Ruby, dado que el resto de motores hasta la fecha obligan al desarrollador a usar Java. Para lograr esto, se usa un intérprete de Ruby programado en Java llamado Ruboto. Este intérprete es una adaptación de JRuby que fue desarrollado para ser usado en PC.

I-Found

[ES] El presente proyecto final de carrera surge con la idea de cubrir una necesidad social a un servicio no existente en muchos contextos. "I-Found" es un concepto de oficina virtual de objetos perdidos, con el añadido de que no solo gestiona objetos, sino también personas y animales (lo que en este proyecto se denomina un "OPA"). Además ofrece la posibilidad de poner en contacto directo y sin intermediarios a personas que han perdido o les ha sido robado un "OPA", con personas que los haya encontrado y viceversa, dentro de cualquier ámbito posible. Los objetivos principales del proyecto son : el aprendizaje de la plataforma Android para dispositivos móviles y el desarrollo de una aplicación, basada en el concepto "I-Found", totalmente funcional, experimental, libre y gratuita, restringida al ámbito geográfico e institucional de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Por este motivo, la app desarrollada se denomina "I-Found@ULPGC", leído en inglés como "I-Found at ULPGC". Esta app demuestra la capacidad de personalización del concepto "I-Found" a múltiples contextos institucionales o geográficos.

Contador de repeticiones en ejercicios

[ES] Aplicación para dispositivos móviles Android que, ayudada por acelerómetros y giroscopios, da soporte al desarrollo de actividades físicas que necesiten un plan de trabajo basado en repeticiones y rutinas de ejercicios. El App ayuda a contabilizar las repeticiones de cada ejercicio, informando al usuario mediante sonido, para que este pueda mantener un ritmo continuo. El App permite la realización de ejercicios individuales hasta alcanzar un número objetivo de repeticiones o repeticiones libres; o permite la realización de una serie de ejercicios que forman parte de una rutina de ejercicios. Es posible crear rutinas de ejercicios personalizadas, eliminar rutinas o editar rutinas ya existentes (añadiendo o eliminando ejercicios y repeticiones). El reconocimiento de movimientos para la contabilización de repeticiones se realiza usando el valor absoluto del vector de aceleración generado a partir de los datos del acelerómetro del dispositivo. Este método, aunque no permite la precisión de reconocimiento de movimientos que permitiría el modelado tridimensional de la aceleración lineal del dispositivo, permite un reconocimiento menos computacionalmente costoso, ignorando ciertos factores exteriores y sin la necesidad de entrenamiento previo de la aplicación.

Diseño e implementación de un conjugador verbal como aplicación Android

[ES]Desarrollo de una aplicación Android con un diseño de interfaz de usuario para smartphones y otro para tabletas cuya finalidad es mostrar información acerca del verbo introducido por el usuario. Por un lado, sería la visualización de todas las formas verbales que posee el verbo, las cuáles son obtenidas de una serie de servicios remotos pertenecientes al grupo TIP (Text & Information Processing) y que deberán ser tratadas antes de ser visualizadas. Y, por otro lado, la información que nos permitirá identificar al verbo, las definiciones de sus posibles significados y notas asociadas a la forma de conjugarse. Esta información, en cambio, se obtendrá de una serie de servicios locales en la propia aplicación basado en ficheros de texto.

Application-oriented Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming

In the most recent years there is a renovate interest for Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems. This can be explained for different reasons: (i) the performance of solvers handling non-linear constraints was largely improved; (ii) the awareness that most of the applications from the real-world can be modeled as an MINLP problem; (iii) the challenging nature of this very general class of problems. It is well-known that MINLP problems are NP-hard because they are the generalization of MILP problems, which are NP-hard themselves. However, MINLPs are, in general, also hard to solve in practice. We address to non-convex MINLPs, i.e. having non-convex continuous relaxations: the presence of non-convexities in the model makes these problems usually even harder to solve. The aim of this Ph.D. thesis is to give a flavor of different possible approaches that one can study to attack MINLP problems with non-convexities, with a special attention to real-world problems. In Part 1 of the thesis we introduce the problem and present three special cases of general MINLPs and the most common methods used to solve them. These techniques play a fundamental role in the resolution of general MINLP problems. Then we describe algorithms addressing general MINLPs. Parts 2 and 3 contain the main contributions of the Ph.D. thesis. In particular, in Part 2 four different methods aimed at solving different classes of MINLP problems are presented. Part 3 of the thesis is devoted to real-world applications: two different problems and approaches to MINLPs are presented, namely Scheduling and Unit Commitment for Hydro-Plants and Water Network Design problems. The results show that each of these different methods has advantages and disadvantages. Thus, typically the method to be adopted to solve a real-world problem should be tailored on the characteristics, structure and size of the problem. Part 4 of the thesis consists of a brief review on tools commonly used for general MINLP problems, constituted an integral part of the development of this Ph.D. thesis (especially the use and development of open-source software). We present the main characteristics of solvers for each special case of MINLP.

Il rapporto tra processo e prodotto software: il ruolo dei modelli

L’obiettivo della tesi è dimostrare come da un’idea progettuale si arriva alla realizzazione di un prodotto finito passando attraverso la sua modelizzazione. In questo caso l’oggetto dell’attività voleva essere quello di risolvere la problematica degli accessi nelle Ztl. Per risolvere questa problematica è sufficiente comunicare l’accesso al comando dei vigili urbani, per questo i canali di comunicazione scelti dall’azienda sono multipli, in particolare nella tesi verrà mostrato in che modo si arriva al prodotto finale attraverso l’attività di modellizzazione, usando il canale APP versione QR-Code.