The main goal of this PhD thesis is to propose and implement a methodology for the construction of programs based on the SCOOP model, and for modular reasoning about their correct...
In our work the focus is on emergent behaviour in large groups of stock market participants. We do not assume that market participants take rational investment decisions based on f...
We propose a lightweight traffic admission control scheme based on on-line monitoring which ensures multimedia services quality both intra-domain and end-to-end. The AC strategy i...
Solange Rito Lima, Paulo Carvalho, Alexandre Santo...
This paper explores unexpected results that lie at the intersection of two common themes in the KDD community: large datasets and the goal of building compact models. Experiments ...
Classification is an important problem in data mining. Given a database of records, each with a class label, a classifier generates a concise and meaningful description for each c...