Recommender systems are designed to assist individuals to identify items of interest in a set of options. A context-aware recommender system makes recommendations by incorporating available contextual information into the ...

Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems provide powerful resources to support emergency operators (dispatchers) in their activity. However, these dispatchers can work under heavy stress, which can lead to failure to get ...

The effectiveness of the work performed during disaster relief efforts is highly dependent on the coordination of activities conducted by the first responders deployed in the affected area. Such coordination, in turn, ...

A recommender system is an information filtering technology which can be used to predict preference ratings of items (products, services, movies, etc) and/or to output a ranking of items that are likely to be of interest ...

Urban populations that live in the outskirts of major Latin American cities usually face conditions of vulnerability attached to complex environmental issues, such as the lack of sewerage, floods, pollution and soil and ...

The design of the security policy for Apostar S.A., seeks a single primary objective, which focuses on organizational awareness, regarding the protection of information and data. The initial stage of the project focuses ...

The tourism sector in Brazil has grown considerably in recent years. Despite this growth, the sector still presents several problems such as the lack of information in Portuguese and in other languages for Brazilian and ...

A coleta de dados tem se tornado uma atividade predominante nos mais diversos meios digitais, em que as redes de computadores, principalmente a Internet, são essenciais para essa fase. A fim de minimizar a complexidade ...

Nowadays, teaching English does not only involve teaching the language per se, but it also involves preparing students to question the subtleties of the language in this globalized world. In the Chilean educational system, ...