The need to recommend resources in many different application domains and to develop solutions focused on recommender systems (RS) components reuse create an interesting scenario for the adoption of Software Ecosystem (SECO) perspective. In this way, ...

The Brazilian Electronic Government Accessibility Model, the e-MAG, propose a set of recommendations to support the implementation of digital accessibility. However, it does not have specific recommendations for mobile applications digital ...

All organizations perform process to reach their business objectives, aiming to get competitive advantage, improving them by means of innovation and redesign activities. Some approaches, like Social BPM, argue that own clients can contribute with the ...

Fast-changing business environments have become enterprise information systems more heterogeneous and complex. This extreme uncertainty leads to continuous development and integration of architecturally relevant components developed in parallel. In this ...

Specifying systems adhering to stakeholders' goals is a topic of great research interest. This scenario becomes even more challenging when it is expected that systems will be able to adapt in a timely manner to the situations experienced by them in ...

Person identification is an important factor for information systems. Emerging technologies for security such as biometric identification based on EEG signals, although promising, still require extensive research and further refinement before applied in ...

Section 404 of the SOX Act requires companies to certify to the effectiveness of their internal control over financial reporting. After investigating this context considering the scope of Database Security (DB), it was verified that the related works ...

Currently, social networks has been used for its users, and exploited by mechanisms of quality measurement systems and recommendation of products and services. The Recommendation Systems (SR) have used the data of the social networks and in parallel ...

Among the agricultural crops used for human consumption, 75% depends on pollination. As the principal pollinating agent, bees are essential for the food production for humans and the ecosystems sustainability. However, a combination of habitat ...

Human Activity Recognition (RAH) aims to classify the activities performed by a user collecting data from heterogeneous sensors. The RAH allows the monitoring of user actions, offering services in the area of medical care, in the accompaniment of the ...

Investing in the stock market is a complex process due to its high volatility caused by factors as exchange rates, political events, inflation and the market history. To support investor's decisions, the prediction of future stock price and economic ...

In relation to alarming rates of feminicide and hospitalization of women due to domestic / familial / conjugal violence in Brazil and the high level of naturalization of violence by society, we see the need for mechanisms to address this phenomenon ...

Over the years, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) have respectively become common models for application delivery and cloud data delivery. However, the heterogeneity of these services makes it difficult to automate this process. ...

According to estimates from the Federal Government, 200,000 people disappear from their homes every year in Brazil. In 2002, Brazilian national network for identification and location of missing children and adolescents established four important goals ...

Elaborating an useful questionnaire represents an important task for descriptive research. Poorly elaborated questions can lead to answers with meaningless brased or naive interpretations. Therefore, it may be interesting to reuse, partially or totally, ...

Business Process Management (BPM) has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Many organizations have been adapting their business to a process-centered view since they started noticing its potential to reduce costs, improve productivity ...

Conversational agents for natural language interaction, in general, face some challenges in providing content to support the responses requested by users. Usually of the content of the responses is manually defined, which is not an adequate solution. ...

In this article, based on of open legislative data mining, we propose a methodology to create a model capable of indicating which characteristics have a positive or negative impact on the approval of a bill by the Chamber of Deputies. Added to the ...

In general, software enterprises adopting Error Reporting Management Systems during the production/testing process. The types of information and a large amount of data stored in these systems leads to challenges related to the efficiency of error ...

Software-intensive information systems can be aggregated to form Systems-of-Information Systems (SoIS) and provide novel functionalities to achieve high-level goals, also known as missions. Missions represent an important concern in this context since ...