Several software solutions have been developed for the healthcare area. In this area, we high light the area of physical exercise that has received great attention from World Health Organization for helping decreasing ...

Energy consumption is a big challenge in SoC (System-on-a-Chip) design. Depending on the project requirements, to guarantee a better accuracy in power estimation, it might be necessary to estimate the power consumption of ...

Thanks to the widely diffusion of smartphones with GPS devices natively embedded, the task of tracking object locations, such as people or vehicles, is more feasible nowadays, fostering new research opportunities. Among ...

The use of virtual learning environments is becoming more frequent, and often the data that are generated in these environments are not properly exploited, which makes it difficult to generate quality indicators of training ...

In programming education, the development of students’ programming skills through practical programming assignments is a fundamental activity. In order to succeed in those assignments, instructors need to provide guidance, ...

Geo-Social Networks (GSNs) are a type of collaborative systems with geolocated information as their shared content. This specific content allows the linking between real and virtual worlds. Nowadays, the popularization of ...

Model-based testing is a testing approach that relies on the existence of abstract models of an application to generate, execute and evaluate tests. Test case generation plays an important role in model-based testing. Since ...

Question and Answer (Q&A) sites have the goal of solving participant’s problems by provid- ing tools for them to collaboratively create answers to posed questions and build a repository of searchable knowledge. More than ...

In introductory programming courses it is common to ask students to solve exercises that require code as solution. When evaluating a code, a teacher or student often compare how that solution relates to other codes. This ...

We can nd many examples of Real-time Systems (RTS) in critical applications such as patient monitoring, air tra c control and others. A failure in this kind of system can be catastrophic. For example, it can harm human ...