The high rate of growth and variety of information available on the Internet can overwhelm users, not leading them to the best decisions. In this context, social recommender systems play an important role on helping users ...

Through technological advances, society has moved toward the "always connected" paradigm. Growing varieties of devices are becoming able to connect to a network, capture information around them, and send and receive ...

This thesis explored aspects that can help balance the level of user control and system autonomy for intelligent privacy agents in the context of the Internet of Things. This proposed balance could be reached considering ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the emerging technologies in the area of information technology. The use of this technology provides an improvement to the population by providing better transportation ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects devices that are commonly used in people's daily lives - such as cell phones, televisions, coffee makers, refrigerators, beds, sensors, and more - so that they automatically communicate ...

As incertezas trazidas por ambientes dinâmicos e velozes exigem que as empresas tenham a capacidade de analisar massivamente dados pessoais, de preferência em tempo real, para prever e antecipar cenários de negócios, a fim ...