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A benchmark for end-user structured data exploration and search user interfaces
(Elsevier, 2020)During the years, it has been possible to assess significant improvements in the computational efficiency of Semantic Web search and exploration systems. However, it has been much harder to assess how well different semantic ... -
A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of different insulation materials for buildings in the continental Mediterranean climate
(Elsevier, 2020)The construction industry is one of the less sustainable activities on the planet, constituting 40% of the total energy demand and approximately 44% of the total material use and the generation of 40-50% of the global ... -
A correlation of the convective heat transfer coefficient between an air flow and a phase change material plate
(Elsevier, 2013)This paper provides a new correlation to determine the heat transfer coefficient between an air flow and a plate made of phase change material (PCM). This correlation was built for the simulation of heat storage units ... -
A Design Process for Exhibiting Design Choices and Trade-offs in (potentially) Conflicting User Interface Guidelines
(Springer Verlag, 2012)In the last decades a huge amount of knowledge about user interface design has been gathered in the form of guidelines. Quite often, guidelines are compiled according to user interface properties (e.g. usability, ... -
A distributed argumentation algorithm for mining consistent opinions in weighted Twitter discussions
(Springer, 2019)Twitter is one of the most powerful social media platforms, reflecting both support and contrary opinions among people who use it. In a recent work, we developed an argumentative approach for analyzing the major opinions ... -
A framework for the optimal integration of solar assisted district heating in different urban sized communities: A robust machine learning approach incorporating global sensitivity analysis
(Elsevier, 2020)A promising pathway towards sustainable transaction to clean energy production lies in the adoption of solar assisted district heating systems (SDHS). However, SDHS technical barriers during their design and operation ... -
A Fully Scalable and Distributed Architecture for Video-on-Demand
(Springer Verlag, 2001)In spite of the attractiveness of Video-on-demand (VoD) services, their implantation to the present has not been as widespread as could have been desired due to centralized VoD systems have a limited streaming capacity ... -
A Green Strategy for Federated and Heterogeneous Clouds with Communicating Workloads
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-07)Providers of cloud environments must tackle the challenge of configuring their system to provide maximal performance while minimizing the cost of resources used. However, at the same time, they must guarantee an SLA ... -
A Hybrid Approach for Modelling Early Prototype Evaluation Under User-Centred Design Through Association Rules
(Springer Verlag, 2007)One of the main activities in User Centred Design (UCD) is prototype evaluation, which is traditionally performed by means of an Evaluation Stage that looks for the redefinition of the prototype requirements, involving ... -
A logic programming framework for possibilistic argumentation: formalization and logical properties
(Elsevier, 2008)In the last decade defeasible argumentation frameworks have evolved to become a sound setting to formalize commonsense, qualitative reasoning. The logic programming paradigm has shown to be particularly useful for ... -
A Max-SAT Solver with Lazy Data Structures
(Springer Verlag, 2004)We present a new branch and bound algorithm for Max-SAT which incorporates original lazy data structures, a new variable selection heuristics and a lower bound of better quality. We provide experimental evidence that ... -
A methodology for developing Distributed Generation scenarios in urban areas using geographical information systems
(Inderscience, 2008)The implementation of Distributed Generation (DG) may lead to increased pollutant emissions that adversely affect air quality. This work presents a systematic methodology to characterise DG installation in urban basins. ... -
A mobile robot agent for gas leak source detection
(Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014)This paper presents an autonomous agent for gas leak source detec-tion. The main objective of the robot is to estimate the localization of the gas leak source in an indoor environment without any human intervention. The ... -
A MOF-Compliant Approach to Software Quality Modeling
(Springer Verlag, 2005)Software quality is a many-faceted concept that depends on the kind of artifact to be measured, the context where measurement takes place, the quality framework used, and others. Furthermore, there is a great deal of ... -
A New Task Graph Model for Mapping Message Passing Applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007)The exploitation of parallelism in a message passing platform implies a previous modeling phase of the parallel application as a task graph, which properly reflects its temporal behavior. In this paper, we analyze the ... -
A novel numerical methodology for modelling simple vapour compression refrigeration system
(Elsevier, 2017)The extended use of cooling and refrigeration systems in industrial, building and transport sectors may have a negative impact on the climate change and ozone depletion. Thus, important aspects related to these systems, ... -
A Pipeline-Based Approach for Mapping Message-Passing Applications with an Input Data Stream
(Springer Verlag, 2004)Pipeline applications simultaneously execute different instances from an input data set. Performance parameters for such applications are latency (the time taken to process an individual data set) and throughput (the ... -
A Platform for Object-Action Semantic Web Interaction
(Springer Verlag, 2008)Semantic Web applications tests show that their usability is seriously compromised. This motivates the exploration of alternative interaction paradigms, different from the "traditional" Web or desktop applications ones. ... -
A production planning model considering uncertain demand using two-stage stochastic programming in a fresh vegetable supply chain context
(SpringerOpen, 2016-06-22)Production planning models are achieving more interest for being used in the primary sector of the economy. The proposed model relies on the formulation of a location model representing a set of farms susceptible of being ... -
A proposal for automatic fruit harvesting by combining a low cost stereovision camera and a robotic arm
(MDPI, 2014)This paper proposes the development of an automatic fruit harvesting system by combining a low cost stereovision camera and a robotic arm placed in the gripper tool. The stereovision camera is used to estimate the size, ...