Although these researchers have developed empirical evidence of IT influence on organizational performance, it must be emphasized that there is no consensus yet about the identification of the subjacent constructs that ...

Product Service System (PSS) is an approach in which the focus is on producing and delivering value in use instead of transferring physical goods ownership. In other to design PSS, some authors have been adapting methods ...

Volunteered Geographic Information, usually known as VGI, can be a valuable source of information about the impacts of natural disasters. This work is part of a research project about flood risk management, developed ...

In this paper we present a new approach to enhance information extraction from social media that relies upon the geographical relations between twitter data and flood phenomena. We use specific geographical features like ...

One way to boost the performance of a Database Management System (DBMS) is by fetching data in advance of their use, a technique known as prefetching. However, depending on the resource being used (file, disk partition, ...

The individual's perception and understanding obtainment on events that transform an environment and their real critical contexts, is named Situational Awareness (SA). This process assists emergency management situation, ...

In a peer-to-peer network, the nodes interact with each other by sharing resources, services and information. Many applications have been developed using such networks, being a class of such applications are peer-to-peer ...