Abstract: Tendo tido responsabilidades na avaliação docente que decorreu em 2013 e aproximando-se novo ciclo (se bem que com nova legislação e regulamentação) tentarei partilhar alguma da experiência que recolhi.

About the presenter: Docente do DI

Abstract: In this talk I will present two research contexts for Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation to study complex human and natural systems (CHANS). The contexts are the Pest Control Management in Azorean Islands and the Sustainable Resource Management in Azorean sea. These contexts are interesting because they simulate real contexts, comprise great amounts of data and, foremost, address the interaction between human decision-making and the environment. Along the talk will be presented a brief description of each one of these contexts, their goals and the different possible research threads associated to each one of these contexts.

About the presenter: Universidade dos Açores / LabMAg

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Abstract: Connected TV is an advanced broadcasting technology that provides a better experience in terms of picture and sound quality and enables interactive capabilities, while extending the reach of content by enabling access to Internet’s multimedia content. As this technology becomes common it is paramount that these new features are accessible by all. In this talk I will show the ongoing work I have been doing on my PhD regarding the evaluation of the current state of the accessibility on TVs. In the end we will engage on a brainstorm session about the next step to enhance blind users interaction.

About the presenter: Ph.D. student

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Abstract: In this Smalltalk I will present you the motivation and goals of my thesis, the current work and a brief brainstorm session. My thesis addresses the suitability of Skin interaction when used by persons with different levels of visual impairment. I will also present a sEMG gesture recognizer and the initial results of an user experiment. Finally I want to engage in a brainstorm with the audience in order to discuss possible paths on how to study and observe blind users reaction and behaviour with skin interaction systems and the capacity of mapping various interaction elements on their body.

About the presenter: Ph.D. student / researcher at LaSIGE HCIM

Abstract: In this smalltalk, I will present a new static analysis method to detect web application vulnerabilities, as well the DEKANT mechanism that implements that method. Inspired in natural language processing (NLP), I use a sequence model — a Hidden Markov Model – to learn to characterize vulnerabilities based on a set of source code slices with its elements annotated as vulnerable or not. This knowledge takes into consideration the order in which the code elements appear in the slices, relating them. My goal is to collect opinions about the method and cases not covered by it to improve this work.

Abstract: Discussão de iniciativas em curso e outras possibilidades para melhorar a captação de novos alunos nas licenciaturas em informática da FCUL.

Abstract: In this smalltalk I’ll explain the importance of modelling risk perception by using agent based model methodology. In what concerns risk, perception is a critical step that occurs before decision making process and influences the way in how we decide under uncertainty conditions. The relevance of perception is so important that we need to distinguish perceived risk from effective risk. Tax evasion is an excellent case study to tackled this problem.

About the presenter: Nuno Trindade Magessi, Ph.D. student / researcher @ LabMAg working in collaboration with Luis Antunes. My research interests are Risk, Artificial and Neuro economics.

Abstract: A major part of deadlock detection is the maintenance of the concurrency constraints between tasks and blocking operations (e.g., barriers). Since barriers are collective operations, their analysis requires information distributed among various tasks. To improve the scalability of distributed deadlock detection, we propose an alternative representation that is oblivious of the status of the barrier operation—a global property—and instead considers the local impact of each task in the global ordering of barrier synchronisation.

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