Cookies Policy
The website need some cookies and similar means to function. If you permit us, we will use those means to collect data on your visits for aggregated statistics to improve our service. Find out More
Accept Reject
  • Menu
Publications

2025

Será o ChatGPT um bom divulgador científico em cosmetologia? Um estudo linguístico sobre textos de divulgação científica - Is ChatGPT a good popular science disseminator in cosmetology? A linguistic study on popular science texts

Authors
Pacheco, AF; Guimarães, N; Torres, A; Silvano, P; Almeida, I;

Publication
Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística

Abstract
O género textual de divulgação científica é fundamental para a disseminação do conhecimento científico de forma acessível e compreensível junto do público não especializado, apresentando estrutura e características diferentes das dos artigos científicos (e.g., Garces-Conejos & Sanchez-Macarro, 1998; Zamboni, 1998). Os estudos sobre as propriedades linguísticas do texto de divulgação científica em português europeu não abundam, sendo a exceção o projeto Promoção da Literacia Científica (Gonçalves & Jorge, 2018). Por outro lado, no âmbito da produção de conteúdo, os grandes modelos de linguagem (LLM), nomeadamente os modelos GPT da OpenAI, ganharam, em pouco tempo, atenção generalizada do público. Sendo recentes, a avaliação da qualidade linguística dos textos produzidos é ainda muito reduzida. Tendo estas premissas em consideração, o presente estudo tem como objetivo avaliar a qualidade linguística das respostas geradas pelo ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) no domínio da cosmetologia, no que respeita às categorias de produtos cosméticos, ingredientes, segurança e eficácia e regulamentação, visando identificar padrões que permitam compreender as diferenças e/ou semelhanças entre o conteúdo gerado pelo LLM e aquele produzido por especialistas humanos no Portal infoCosméticos. Para isso, foram selecionadas vinte questões previamente respondidas e publicadas no portal e, posteriormente, criados quatro prompts distintos com diferentes graus de complexidade, que deram origem a oitenta respostas geradas pelo ChatGPT. As respostas foram, de seguida, analisadas, de acordo com os resultados conduzidos por uma grelha de avaliação linguística composta por 11 perguntas. A análise produziu resultados de diferentes tipos: em termos globais, as respostas escritas pelos especialistas produzem resultados ligeiramente superiores às do ChatGPT; quanto à coesão interfrásica, constatou-se que os textos produzidos por especialistas usam um número reduzido de conectores, contrastando com o uso recorrentemente de marcadores discursivos nos textos do ChatGPT; verifica-se o uso de jargão científico não explicado e uma macroestrutura com ausência do parágrafo da conclusão, nos textos publicados no portal; os textos gerados pelo ChatGPT apresentam uma frequência elevada de repetições e/ou tautologias.

2025

The Impact of Daylight Saving Time on Energy Consumption: A Comprehensive Analysis Across European Countries

Authors
Fidalgo, JNM; Ferreira, J; Leitão, S;

Publication

Abstract

2025

Barrett's paradox of cooperation in the case of quasi-linear utilities

Authors
Accinelli, E; Afsar, A; Martins, F; Martins, J; Oliveira, BMPM; Oviedo, J; Pinto, AA; Quintas, L;

Publication
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES

Abstract
This paper fits in the theory of international agreements by studying the success of stable coalitions of agents seeking the preservation of a public good. Extending Baliga and Maskin, we consider a model of N homogeneous agents with quasi-linear utilities of the form u(j) (r(j); r) = r(alpha) - r(j), where r is the aggregate contribution and the exponent alpha is the elasticity of the gross utility. When the value of the elasticity alpha increases in its natural range (0, 1), we prove the following five main results in the formation of stable coalitions: (i) the gap of cooperation, characterized as the ratio of the welfare of the grand coalition to the welfare of the competitive singleton coalition grows to infinity, which we interpret as a measure of the urge or need to save the public good; (ii) the size of stable coalitions increases from 1 up to N; (iii) the ratio of the welfare of stable coalitions to the welfare of the competitive singleton coalition grows to infinity; (iv) the ratio of the welfare of stable coalitions to the welfare of the grand coalition decreases (a lot), up to when the number of members of the stable coalition is approximately N/e and after that it increases (a lot); and (v) the growth of stable coalitions occurs with a much greater loss of the coalition members when compared with free-riders. Result (v) has two major drawbacks: (a) A priori, it is difficult to convince agents to be members of the stable coalition and (b) together with results (i) and (iv), it explains and leads to the pessimistic Barrett's paradox of cooperation, even in a case not much considered in the literature: The ratio of the welfare of the stable coalitions against the welfare of the grand coalition is small, even in the extreme case where there are few (or a single) free-riders and the gap of cooperation is large. Optimistically, result (iii) shows that stable coalitions do much better than the competitive singleton coalition. Furthermore, result (ii) proves that the paradox of cooperation is resolved for larger values of.. so that the grand coalition is stabilized.

2025

Collaborative fault tolerance for cyber-physical systems: The detection stage

Authors
Piardi, L; de Oliveira, AS; Costa, P; Leitao, P;

Publication
COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY

Abstract
In the era of Industry 4.0, fault tolerance is essential for maintaining the robustness and resilience of industrial systems facing unforeseen or undesirable disturbances. Current methodologies for fault tolerance stages namely, detection, diagnosis, and recovery, do not correspond with the accelerated technological evolution pace over the past two decades. Driven by the advent of digital technologies such as Internet of Things, cloud and edge computing, and artificial intelligence, associated with enhanced computational processing and communication capabilities, local or monolithic centralized fault tolerance methodologies are out of sync with contemporary and future systems. Consequently, these methodologies are limited in achieving the maximum benefits enabled by the integration of these technologies, such as accuracy and performance improvements. Accordingly, in this paper, a collaborative fault tolerance methodology for cyber-physical systems, named Collaborative Fault * (CF*), is proposed. The proposed methodology takes advantage of the inherent data analysis and communication capabilities of cyber-physical components. The proposed methodology is based on multi-agent system principles, where key components are self-fault tolerant, and adopts collaborative and distributed intelligence behavior when necessary to improve its fault tolerance capabilities. Experiments were conducted focusing on the fault detection stage for temperature and humidity sensors in warehouse racks. The experimental results confirmed the accuracy and performance improvements under CF* compared with the local methodology and competitiveness when compared with a centralized approach.

2025

Preface

Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, M; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M;

Publication
CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Abstract
[No abstract available]

2025

Annual Hourly E-Mobility Modelling and Assessment in Climate Neutral Positive Energy Districts

Authors
Schneider, S; Baptista, J;

Publication
2025 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2025 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)

Abstract
This paper presents a full-year hourly district emobility model and its integration into a Positive Energy District simulation and assessment model including building operation, use and embodied energy and emissions. The aim of this work is to model the operation and energy flexibility potential of an EV fleet in a district through mono- and bi-directional charging and enable its assessment in terms of self-utilization of local and volatile regional RES surpluses. Results of example residential, office, school and supermarket use cases show an increase in self-utilization of local PV of up to 30% due to EV inclusion, even if PV installation size exceeds legal building code requirements by a factor of two to four. Bi-Directional charging can cut annual grid electricity by up to 30% but require an increase in battery full equivalent cycles of 20%. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

  • 54
  • 4353