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  1. Similarity measures have application in many scenarios of digital image processing. The correntropy is a robust and relatively new similarity measure that recently has been employed in various engineering appl...

    Authors: Aluisio I Rêgo Fontes, Samuel Xavier-de-Souza, Adrião D Dória Neto and Luiz Felipe de Queiroz Silveira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:18
  2. There are several application scenarios that can take advantage from the efficient processing of similarity operations in complex data types, such as multimedia data. Among them, it is possible to mention the ...

    Authors: Jessica Andressa de Souza, Humberto Luiz Razente and Maria Camila N Barioni
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:17
  3. In this work, we consider the graph sandwich decision problem for property Π, introduced by Golumbic, Kaplan and Shamir: given two graphs G1=(V,E1) and G2=(V,E2), the question is to know whether there exists a gr...

    Authors: Fernanda Couto, Luerbio Faria and Sulamita Klein
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:16
  4. BioTextRetriever is a Web-based search tool for retrieving relevant literature in Molecular Biology and related domains from MEDLINE. The core of BioTextRetriever is the dynamic construction of a classifier ca...

    Authors: Célia Talma Gonçalves, Rui Camacho and Eugénio Oliveira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:13
  5. Traditional data classification techniques usually divide the data space into sub-spaces, each representing a class. Such a division is carried out considering only physical attributes of the training data (e....

    Authors: Murillo G Carneiro, João LG Rosa, Alneu A Lopes and Liang Zhao
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:14
  6. Term extraction is highly relevant as it is the basis for several tasks, such as the building of dictionaries, taxonomies, and ontologies, as well as the translation and organization of text data.

    Authors: Merley da Silva Conrado, Ariani Di Felippo, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo and Solange Oliveira Rezende
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:12
  7. In this paper, we report the results of an action research conducted to design a communication device to help a non-verbal child develop language skills. Participatory design (PD) is frequently regarded as a c...

    Authors: Luciana Correia Lima de Faria Borges, Lucia Vilela Leite Filgueiras, Cristiano Maciel and Vinicius Carvalho Pereira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:10
  8. Due to the constant demand for new information and timely updates of services and content in order to satisfy the user’s needs, web site automation has emerged as a solution to automate several personalization...

    Authors: Marcos Aurélio Domingues, Carlos Soares, Alípio Mário Jorge and Solange Oliveira Rezende
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:11
  9. The determination of an order for integration and testing of aspects and classes is a difficult optimization problem. This order should be associated to a minimal possible stubbing cost. To determine such orde...

    Authors: Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção, Thelma Elita Colanzi, Silvia Regina Vergilio and Aurora Trinidad Ramirez Pozo
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:9
  10. The use of electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies have been advocated as an efficient way to reduce the intermittency of renewable energy sources in smart grids. However, operating on V...

    Authors: Gabriel de O Ramos, Juan C Burguillo and Ana LC Bazzan
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:8
  11. There are substantial benefits to be gained from ranking optimization in several information retrieval and recommendation systems. However, the analysis of ranking evaluation functions (REFs), which play a maj...

    Authors: Sergio F da Silva, Letricia PS Avalhais, Marcos A Batista, Celia AZ Barcelos and Agma JM Traina
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:7
  12. Parallel computing is a powerful way to reduce computation time and to improve the quality of solutions of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). At first, parallel EAs (PEAs) ran on very expensive and not easily avai...

    Authors: Mônica S Pais, Igor S Peretta, Keiji Yamanaka and Edmilson R Pinto
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:6
  13. Question-and-answer (Q&A) sites have shown to be a valuable resource for helping people to solve their everyday problems. These sites currently enable a large number of contributors to exchange expertise by di...

    Authors: Adabriand Furtado, Nigini Oliveira and Nazareno Andrade
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:5
  14. Web applications have become increasingly vulnerable and exposed to malicious attacks that could affect essential properties of information systems such as confidentiality, integrity, or availability. To cope ...

    Authors: Rim Akrout, Eric Alata, Mohamed Kaaniche and Vincent Nicomette
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:4
  15. Reorganization of rows and columns of a matrix does not modify data but may ease or impair visual analysis of data similarities in this structure, according to Gestalt spatial proximity laws. However, there ar...

    Authors: Celmar Guimarães da Silva, Marivaldo Felipe de Melo, Felipi de Paula e Silva and João Meidanis
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:3
  16. The manual creation of new Internet- and IT-based applications is currently a limiting factor in enabling new and innovative services to be quickly available. We advocate that semi-automated service creation t...

    Authors: Ernani Azevêdo, Carlos Kamienski, Ramide Dantas, Börje Ohlman and Djamel Sadok
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:2
  17. Self-adaptive systems are software-intensive systems endowed with the ability to respond to a variety of changes that may occur in their environment, goals, or the system itself by adapting their structure and...

    Authors: Javier Cámara, Rogério de Lemos, Nuno Laranjeiro, Rafael Ventura and Marco Vieira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2014 20:1
  18. Authors: Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:122
  19. Microalgae are unicellular organisms that have different shapes, sizes and structures. Classifying these microalgae manually can be an expensive task, because thousands of microalgae can be found in even a sma...

    Authors: Paulo Drews- Jr., Rafael G. Colares, Pablo Machado, Matheus de Faria, Amália Detoni and Virgínia Tavano
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:121
  20. An automatic music transcriber is a device that detects, without human interference, the musical gestures required to play a particular piece. Many techniques have been proposed to solve the problem of automat...

    Authors: Tiago Fernandes Tavares, Jayme Garcia Arnal Barbedo, Romis Attux and Amauri Lopes
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:118
  21. As computer programs become increasingly complex, techniques for ensuring trustworthiness of information manipulated by them become critical. In this work, we use the Coq proof assistant to formalise a

    Authors: Rodrigo Ribeiro, Lucília Figueiredo and Carlos Camarão
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:119
  22. Authors: Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:120
  23. Agile software development methods have been increasingly adopted worldwide and became one of the mainstream software development approaches. Agile methods have also had an impact on software engineering educa...

    Authors: Claudia de O. Melo, Viviane Santos, Eduardo Katayama, Hugo Corbucci, Rafael Prikladnicki, Alfredo Goldman and Fabio Kon
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:114
  24. Computing and communication systems have improved our way of life, but have also contributed to an increased data exposure and, consequently, to identity theft. A possible way to overcome this issue is by the ...

    Authors: Paulo Henrique Pisani and Ana Carolina Lorena
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:117
  25. The task of Relation Extraction is one of the main challenges in Natural Language Processing. We present a review of the state-of-the-art for Relation Extraction in free texts, addressing the progress and diff...

    Authors: Sandra Collovini de Abreu, Tiago Luis Bonamigo and Renata Vieira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:116
  26. Wireless local area networks have become vastly popular, and IEEE 802.11 is the chosen standard for almost all wireless devices. This standard specifies several modulation and channel coding techniques that mu...

    Authors: Luciano J. Chaves, Edmundo R. M. Madeira and Islene C. Garcia
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:113
  27. BitTorrent currently contributes a significant amount of inter-ISP traffic. This has motivated research and development to explore caching and locality-aware neighbor selection mechanisms for costly traffic re...

    Authors: Lesandro Ponciano, Nazareno Andrade and Francisco Brasileiro
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:112
  28. This paper proposes an incremental, structural and contextual validation method for Nested Context Language (NCL) documents. As part of the proposed method, we define a declarative metalanguage to ensure low c...

    Authors: Rodrigo Costa Mesquita Santos, José Rios Cerqueira Neto, Carlos de Salles Soares Neto and Mário Meireles Teixeira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:110
  29. Authors: Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:111
  30. Due to the growing interest in social networks, link prediction has received significant attention. Link prediction is mostly based on graph-based features, with some recent approaches focusing on domain seman...

    Authors: José Eduardo Ochoa Luna, Kate Revoredo and Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:108
  31. Software organizations have increased their interest in software process improvement (SPI). Nowadays, there are several frameworks that support SPI implementation. Some of them, such as CMMI (Capability Maturi...

    Authors: Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Ricardo de Almeida Falbo and Ana Regina Rocha
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:106
  32. Algorithms for constraint set satisfiability and simplification of Haskell type class constraints are used during type inference in order to allow the inference of more accurate types and to detect ambiguity. ...

    Authors: Rodrigo Ribeiro, Carlos Camarão and Lucília Figueiredo
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:107
  33. Many literature papers evaluate solutions in wireless sensor networks by simulation experiments. However, little attention is given to the adequacy of the simulator propagation models to the environment in whi...

    Authors: Afonso D. Ribas, Antonio R. Carvalho Jr., Carlos M. S. Figueiredo and Eduardo F. Nakamura
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:105
  34. The Brazilian symposium on computer networks and distributed systems (SBRC) reached its 30th edition as the paramount scientific event in the area of computer networks and distributed systems in Brazil. Faced ...

    Authors: Guilherme Maia, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Daniel L. Guidoni, Fernanda S.H. Souza, Thiago H. Silva, Jussara M. Almeida and Antonio A. F. Loureiro
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:109
  35. The fast growth in the consumer digital photography industry during the past decade has led to the acquisition and storage of large personal and public digital collections containing photos with different qual...

    Authors: Claudio S. V. C. Cavalcanti, Herman Martins Gomes and José Eustáquio Rangel De Queiroz
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:102
  36. Embedded systems are increasingly present in many electronic devices and is often related to critical applications. Therefore, the need for a well planned and executed testing procedure is even higher. We inte...

    Authors: Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Marcio Eduardo Delamaro and Jose Carlos Maldonado
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:104
  37. This paper discusses ambiguity in the context of languages that support context-dependent overloading, such as Haskell. A type system for a Haskell-like programming language that supports context-dependent ove...

    Authors: Rodrigo Ribeiro and Carlos Camarão
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:103
  38. This paper discusses the challenges of executing a long-term application on a computational grid, which generates the climatology of the atmospheric numerical model BRAMS (Brazilian development on Regional Atmosp...

    Authors: Eugenio Sper de Almeida, Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho and Airam Jonatas Preto
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:99
  39. The Hajós’ Theorem (Wiss Z Martin Luther Univ Math-Natur Reihe, 10, pp 116–117, 1961) shows a necessary and sufficient condition for the chromatic number of a given graph http://static-content.springer.com/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs13173-012-0098-y/13173_2012_Article_98_TeX2GIF_IEq1.gif ...

    Authors: J. Araujo and C. Linhares Sales
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2013 19:98
  40. Volume visualization has numerous applications that benefit different knowledge domains, such as biology, medicine, meteorology, oceanography, geology, among others. With the continuous advances of technology,...

    Authors: Marcos Vinicius Mussel Cirne and Hélio Pedrini
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2012 19:97
  41. As in many other natural language processing (NLP) fields, the use of statistical methods is now part of mainstream natural language generation (NLG). In the development of systems of this kind, however, there...

    Authors: Eder Miranda de Novais and Ivandré Paraboni
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2012 19:95
  42. Various operations related to Quality of Service (QoS) management in communication networks require the clients/users to specify the quality level of the network service. The current QoS proposals adopt a fixe...

    Authors: José Cé Júnior, Achilles C. Prudêncio, Roberto Willrich and Madalena P. da Silva
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2012 19:94
  43. This paper addresses the problem of grapheme to phoneme conversion to create a pronunciation dictionary from a vocabulary of the most frequent words in European Portuguese. A system based on a mixed approach f...

    Authors: Arlindo Veiga, Sara Candeias and Fernando Perdigão
    Citation: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2012 19:88