Estudo geomecânico do Túnel do Cortado na Ilha da Madeira

O presente trabalho pretende contribuir para o aprofundamento do conhecimento geológico e geotécnico das formações vulcânicas da Ilha da Madeira, com especial destaque para os parâmetros geomecânicos obtidos através de retroanálise, tendo por base as leituras em obra do Túnel do Cortado (Faial, Santana; Madeira). Assim, o trabalho incide inicialmente sobre os túneis rodoviários na Ilha, com principal atenção nas características das suas secções transversais e emboquilhamentos. Segue-se um levantamento de todos os túneis construídos entre os anos de 1990 e 2013. Uma vez terminada esta apresentação, é feita uma caracterização geológica-geotécnica dos maciços da região, com especial atenção para as zonas geotécnicas afetas ao túnel em questão. São ainda abordadas metodologias de classificações geomecânicas, de retroanálise e modelação computacional. Segue-se um processo de retroanálise através do qual foram gerados vários modelos por forma a efetuar uma análise bidimensional das secções do túnel, onde se procurou estabelecer uma relação entre as leituras de obra e os parâmetros de resistência e deformabilidade do maciço em questão. Por fim, os resultados referentes aos parâmetros de resistência obtidos através dos modelos são analisados, procedendo-se à sua comparação com outros estudos existentes para a Ilha.

Identification and analysis of business and software services : A consolidated approach

Although the benefits of service orientation are prevalent in literature, a review, analysis, and evaluation of the 30 existing service analysis approaches presented in this paper have shown that a comprehensive approach to the identification and analysis of both business and supporting software services is missing. Based on this evaluation of existing approaches and additional sources, we close this gap by proposing an integrated, consolidated approach to business and software service analysis that combines and extends the strengths of the examined methodologies.

Business and software service lifecycle management

Although the service-oriented paradigm has been well established in the technical domain for quite some time now, service governance is still considered a research gap. To ensure adequate governance, there is a necessity to manage services as first-class assets throughout the lifecycle. Now that the concept of ser-vice-orientation is also increasingly applied on the business level to structure an organisation’s capabili-ties, the problem has become an even bigger chal-lenge. This paper presents a generic business and software service lifecycle and aligns it with the com-mon management layers in organisations. Using ser-vice analysis as an example, it moreover illustrates how activities in the service lifecycle may vary on lower levels of granularity depending on the focus on business or software services.

Developing Software Agents for Data Mining : [AIMM] Agents for Improving Maintenance Management

This report demonstrates the development of: • Development of software agents for data mining • Link data mining to building model in virtual environments • Link knowledge development with building model in virtual environments • Demonstration of software agents for data mining • Populate with maintenance data

Demonstration of Software Agents Prototype System : [AIMM] Agents for Improving Maintenance Management

This report presents the demonstration of software agents prototype system for improving maintenance management [AIMM] including: • Developing and implementing a user focused approach for mining the maintenance data of buildings. This report presents the demonstration of software agents prototype system for improving maintenance management [AIMM] including: • Developing and implementing a user focused approach for mining the maintenance data of buildings. • Refining the development of a multi agent system for data mining in virtual environments (Active Worlds) by developing and implementing a filtering agent on the results obtained from applying data mining techniques on the maintenance data. • Integrating the filtering agent within the multi agents system in an interactive networked multi-user 3D virtual environment. • Populating maintenance data and discovering new rules of knowledge.

Making visible the coding process : Using qualitative data software in a post-structural study

Qualitative research methods require transparency to ensure the ‘trustworthiness’ of the data analysis. The intricate processes of organizing, coding and analyzing the data are often rendered invisible in the presentation of the research findings, which requires a ‘leap of faith’ for the reader. Computer assisted data analysis software can be used to make the research process more transparent, without sacrificing rich, interpretive analysis by the researcher. This article describes in detail how one software package was used in a poststructural study to link and code multiple forms of data to four research questions for fine-grained analysis. This description will be useful for researchers seeking to use qualitative data analysis software as an analytic tool.