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Publications by Benedita Malheiro

2019

Rigid wing sailboats: A state of the art survey

Authors
Silva, MF; Friebe, A; Malheiro, B; Guedes, P; Ferreira, P; Waller, M;

Publication
OCEAN ENGINEERING

Abstract
The design, development and deployment of autonomous sustainable ocean platforms for exploration and monitoring can provide researchers and decision makers with valuable data, trends and insights into the largest ecosystem on Earth. Although these outcomes can be used to prevent, identify and minimise problems, as well as to drive multiple market sectors, the design and development of such platforms remains an open challenge. In particular, energy efficiency, control and robustness are major concerns with implications for autonomy and sustainability. Rigid wingsails allow autonomous boats to navigate with increased autonomy due to lower power consumption and increased robustness as a result of mechanically simpler control compared to traditional sails. These platforms are currently the subject of deep interest, but several important research problems remain open. In order to foster dissemination and identify future trends, this paper presents a survey of the latest developments in the field of rigid wing sailboats, describing the main academic and commercial solutions both in terms of hardware and software.

2019

DataTV 2019: 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television

Authors
Foss, J; Shirley, B; Malheiro, B; Kepplinger, S; Nixon, LJB; Philipp, B; Mezaris, V; Ulisses, A;

Publication
TVX 2019: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES FOR TV AND ONLINE VIDEO

Abstract
The first international workshop on Data-driven Personalisation of Television aims to highlight the significantly growing importance of data in the support of new television content consumption experiences. This includes automatic video summarization, dynamic insertion of content into media streams and object based media broadcasting, to serve the recommendation of TV content and personalization in media delivery. The workshop has two keynote talks alongside five paper presentations and several related demos.

2020

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development: The European Project Semester Approach

Authors
Duarte, AJ; Malheiro, B; Arno, E; Perat, I; Silva, MF; Fuentes Dura, P; Guedes, P; Ferreira, P;

Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION

Abstract
Contribution: An analysis of the extent to which sustainability is present in the syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and student final reports of the three Iberian European project semester (EPS) providers, over a five-year period. Background: EPS is a one-semester capstone project framework that adopts project-based learning and multicultural, multidisciplinary teamwork. Educating engineers for sustainable development requires fostering critical and ethical thinking and a desire for equity, solidarity and preservation of natural resources, and cultural and genetic diversity. Existing engineering capstone design programs emphasize solving real world problems, hands-on training, and soft skills, but few focus on sustainability aspects of engineering design. The three Iberian EPS providers adopt project-based learning and teamwork methodologies, promoting the development of transversal skills and addressing sustainability in a multicultural and multidisciplinary background. Intended Outcomes: To show that the three Iberian EPS providers follow these recommendations and contribute to raising students' awareness of sustainable development. Application Design: The proposed sustainability learning assessment method collects evidence from syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and final reports to extract faculty and student perspectives. The sustainability-related terms collected were processed into word cloud format, allowing a simple and intuitive interpretation of students' understanding of sustainability, and in co-occurrence network format, to understand if sustainability has a pervasive or confined presence within the reports. Findings: Iberian EPS faculty and students are aware of the social, economic, and environmental impact of their projects, in terms of quality of life, social responsibility, the use of resources, and environmentally friendly technology.

2019

Learning Engineering With EPS@ISEP Developing Projects for Smart Sustainable Cities

Authors
Malheiro, B; Silva, MF; Ferreira, P; Guedes, P;

Publication
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING PEDAGOGY

Abstract
This paper presents an overview on how the European Project Semester capstone programme offered by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (EPS@ISEP) fosters learning by challenging engineering, business and product development undergraduates to address sustainability issues afflicting cities and communities nowadays. This will be done by analysing the reports and the learning journey of three multicultural and multidisciplinary EPS@ISEP teams during the design, development and test of a smart billboard, a self-oriented solar mirror and a level monitoring system for waste oil bins. These three projects were conducted within EPS@ISEP, a project-based learning framework dedicated to the development of key engineering skills, namely multidisciplinary teamwork, intercultural communication, ethical and sustainability-oriented problem-solving. The involved students contributed, not only, to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, one of UNESCO's sustainable development goals, but learnt and practiced together sustainability-driven design, while searching for an innovative solution for a smart city problem. This conclusion is supported by the analysis of the content the three project reports.

2019

Stream Recommendation using Individual Hyper-Parameters

Authors
Veloso, BM; Malheiro, B; Foss, J;

Publication
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television co-located with the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, DataTV@TVX 2019, Manchester, UK, June 5, 2019.

Abstract
Nowadays, with the widely usage of on-line stream video platforms, the number of media resources available and the volume of crowd-sourced feedback volunteered by viewers is increasing exponentially. In this scenario, the adoption of recommendation systems allows platforms to match viewers with resources. However, due to the sheer size of the data and the pace of the arriving data, there is the need to adopt stream mining algorithms to build and maintain models of the viewer preferences as well as to make timely personalised recommendations. In this paper, we propose the adoption of optimal individual hyper-parameters to build more accurate dynamic viewer models. First, we use a grid search algorithm to identify the optimal individual hyper-parameters (IHP) and, then, use these hyper-parameters to update incrementally the user model. This technique is based on an incremental learning algorithm designed for stream data. The results show that our approach outperforms previous approaches, reducing substantially the prediction errors and, thus, increasing the accuracy of the recommendations. © 2019 for this paper by its authors.

2019

Distributed Trust & Reputation Models using Blockchain Technologies for Tourism Crowdsourcing Platforms

Authors
Veloso, B; Leal, F; Malheiro, B; Moreira, F;

Publication
10TH INT CONF ON EMERGING UBIQUITOUS SYST AND PERVAS NETWORKS (EUSPN-2019) / THE 9TH INT CONF ON CURRENT AND FUTURE TRENDS OF INFORMAT AND COMMUN TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE (ICTH-2019) / AFFILIATED WORKOPS

Abstract
Crowdsourced repositories have become an increasingly important source of information for users and businesses in multiple domains. Everyday examples of tourism crowdsourcing platforms focusing on accommodation, food or travelling in general, influence consumer behaviour in modern societies. These repositories, due to their intrinsic openness, can strongly benefit from independent data quality modelling mechanisms. In this context, building trust & reputation models of contributors and storing crowdsourced data using distributed ledger technology allows not only to ascertain the quality of crowdsourced contributions, but also ensures the integrity of the built models. This paper presents a survey on distributed trust & reputation modelling using blockchain technology and, for the specific case of tourism crowdsourcing platforms, discusses the open research problems and identifies future lines of research. 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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