Modeling and visualization of medical anesthesiology acts

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Valuation of marine and coastal ecosystems: The role of ecological-economic modeling

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

The Edges of Areal Units: a case study in the heterogeneous effects of assessment district edges

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

Analysis of urban land use and land cover changes: a case of study in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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

Watershed-scale runoff routing and solute transport in a spatially aggregated hydrological framework

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

Automated Generation of Indoor Accessibility Information for Mobility-Impaired Individuals

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

Perspectives and approaches for the internet of things

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Novas utilizações das potencialidades BIM – produção de informação as-built e apoio à medição de trabalhos realizados com recurso a realidade aumentada

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau Mestre em Engenharia Civil – Perfil de Construção

Governança e modelação de processos de TI

Estudos efectuados, ao longo dos últimos anos, têm demonstrado como os recursos de Tecnologia de Informação (TI) devem ser usados de maneira a propiciar a criação de ambientes organizacionais mais alinhados com as necessidades de negócio. Actualmente, vivemos um processo competitivo onde as organizações gerem muitos activos – pessoas, dinheiro, instalações, fornecedores, clientes – e investem fortemente em Tecnologia de Informação. Para que a organização consiga extrair benefícios concretos do processo de manipulação do conhecimento é necessário que esta possua mecanismos estruturais de gestão que permitam criar uma base de conhecimento adequada, levando a organização a preservar o seu capital intelectual. A governança de TI, na forma como é debatida actualmente no mercado, está mais focada no uso de boas práticas representadas por metodologias como CobiT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) e ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). No entanto, neste estudo vamos mais além e apresentamos uma visão de como a governança de TI pode ser útil ao alinhamento do negócio com a TI, através do uso de uma nova técnica que permite identificar os níveis de aptidão da gestão de serviços de TI, de modo a avaliar e gerir, não só os problemas complexos dos sistemas de informação e a tecnologia das organizações, mas também questões de gestão, operacionais e culturais. Esta dissertação propõe um método para avaliar o grau de maturidade da governança de TI dentro de uma organização. Simultaneamente, foram recolhidas métricas da complexidade dos processos de TI, as quais foram correlacionadas com os níveis de maturidade. Baseado nestas correlações, foi criado um modelo que interliga a governança de TI com o nível de complexidade dos processos de TI. Começamos por fornecer uma panorâmica sobre o trabalho que tem sido desenvolvido nas áreas de domínio desta dissertação; apresentamos alguns conceitos básicos sobre a governança de TI e qual a sua importância; relatamos detalhadamente a abordagem adaptada para determinar o perfil de governança de TI das empresas portuguesas; formalizamos um conjunto de indicadores quantitativos que permitem exprimir a complexidade de um processo, com recurso à linguagem OCL (Object Constraint Language), sobre um metamodelo BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation); analisamos os resultados e apresentamos as conclusões. Esta dissertação termina com a identificação das linhas de orientação gerais para a continuação futura do trabalho desenvolvido.

Predictive analytical and numerical modeling for orthogonal cutting

In this thesis, a predictive analytical and numerical modeling approach for the orthogonal cutting process is proposed to calculate temperature distributions and subsequently, forces and stress distributions. The models proposed include a constitutive model for the material being cut based on the work of Weber, a model for the shear plane based on Merchants model, a model describing the contribution of friction based on Zorev’s approach, a model for the effect of wear on the tool based on the work of Waldorf, and a thermal model based on the works of Komanduri and Hou, with a fraction heat partition for a non-uniform distribution of the heat in the interfaces, but extended to encompass a set of contributions to the global temperature rise of chip, tool and work piece. The models proposed in this work, try to avoid from experimental based values or expressions, and simplifying assumptions or suppositions, as much as possible. On a thermo-physical point of view, the results were affected not only by the mechanical or cutting parameters chosen, but also by their coupling effects, instead of the simplifying way of modeling which is to contemplate only the direct effect of the variation of a parameter. The implementation of these models was performed using the MATLAB environment. Since it was possible to find in the literature all the parameters for AISI 1045 and AISI O2, these materials were used to run the simulations in order to avoid arbitrary assumption.

Standardization of project management processes

Software development is a discipline that is almost as old as the history of computers. With the advent of the Internet and all of its related technologies, software development has been on high demand. But, and especially in SME (small and medium enterprise), this was not accompanied with a comparable effort to develop a set of sustainable and standardized activities of project management, which lead to increasing inefficiencies and costs. Given the actual economic situation, it makes sense to engage in an effort to reduce said inefficiencies and rising costs. For that end, this work will analyze the current state of software development’s project management processes on a Portuguese SME, along with its problems and inefficiencies in an effort to create a standardized model to manage software development, with special attention given to critical success factors in an agile software development environment, while using the best practices in process modeling. This work also aims to create guidelines to correctly integrate these changes in the existing IS structure of a company.

The implementation of an Enterprise Geographical Information System to support Cadastre and Expropriation activities.

The processes of mobilization of land for infrastructures of public and private domain are developed according to proper legal frameworks and systematically confronted with the impoverished national situation as regards the cadastral identification and regularization, which leads to big inefficiencies, sometimes with very negative impact to the overall effectiveness. This project report describes Ferbritas Cadastre Information System (FBSIC) project and tools, which in conjunction with other applications, allow managing the entire life-cycle of Land Acquisition and Cadastre, including support to field activities with the integration of information collected in the field, the development of multi-criteria analysis information, monitoring all information in the exploration stage, and the automated generation of outputs. The benefits are evident at the level of operational efficiency, including tools that enable process integration and standardization of procedures, facilitate analysis and quality control and maximize performance in the acquisition, maintenance and management of registration information and expropriation (expropriation projects). Therefore, the implemented system achieves levels of robustness, comprehensiveness, openness, scalability and reliability suitable for a structural platform. The resultant solution, FBSIC, is a fit-for-purpose cadastre information system rooted in the field of railway infrastructures. FBSIC integrating nature of allows: to accomplish present needs and scale to meet future services; to collect, maintain, manage and share all information in one common platform, and transform it into knowledge; to relate with other platforms; to increase accuracy and productivity of business processes related with land property management.

Influence of Lean and Green on supply chain performance: an interpretive structural modelling model

This work aims to identify and rank a set of Lean and Green practices and supply chain performance measures on which managers should focus to achieve competitiveness and improve the performance of automotive supply chains. The identification of the contextual relationships among the suggested practices and measures, was performed through literature review. Their ranking was done by interviews with professionals from the automotive industry and academics with wide knowledge on the subject. The methodology of interpretive structural modelling (ISM) is a useful methodology to identify inter relationships among Lean and Green practices and supply chain performance measures and to support the evaluation of automotive supply chain performance. Using the ISM methodology, the variables under study were clustered according to their driving power and dependence power. The ISM methodology was proposed to be used in this work. The model intends to provide a better understanding of the variables that have more influence (driving variables), the others and those which are most influenced (dependent variables) by others. The information provided by this model is strategic for managers who can use it to identify which variables they should focus on in order to have competitive supply chains.