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substantial change in the usage patterns of the Internet in the last years. Its most important advantage, compared to client/server computing, is making the direct collaboration among users possible, with no need for intervenient third-party administered servers. P2P networks allow users to share computing resources through the Internet, even for those hosts hidden behind firewalls and NATs. Actually, this apparently new term is the reintroduction of a model used at the very beginning of…

neurais biologicamente realistas. x ABSTRACT The use of computer clusters for simulations of biologically realistic neural networks promises to be a solution to support recent studies in this field, which are based on nervous cell models with increasing levels of realism and complexity that demand large processing power to be implemented. The objective of this work is to test and evaluate the performance of the cluster of the Laboratório de Sistemas Neurais (SisNe) in…

New companies embrace the idea of automation for your plants, but the deployment of a system is still expensive for small investors. The main objective of this work is to create a complete automation system that offers low cost of deployment and easy modification in order to allow full user control over the system. The construction of this system encompasses knowledge grounded in open source systems and the creation of field controllers based on microcontrollers, which enable the…

Curitiba PR Abstract The recent evolution of the virtual machines’ technology allowed their large-scale adoption in production systems. Currently, the main use of virtual machines has been the servers’ consolidation, aiming at reducing hardware, software, and management costs of the installed computing infrastructure. However, in the recent years, several research works showed many possibilities of using virtual machines in the systems security area. This work presents the fundamental…

da Universidade Federal da Bahia Nídia Lubisco, Sônia Vieira e Isnaia Santana, recorda-me como me ajudou a escrever papers, relatórios e tese, o livro Form and Style, de William G. Campbell e Stephen V.Ballou, no meu doutoramento em Educação, na The Pennsylvania State University. Usei também o famoso A Manual of Style da Universidade de Chicago. São livros ferramentas indispensáveis para autores, editores, orientadores, digitadores de dissertações e teses e impressores. Gostaria de…

colegas da Universidade Federal da Bahia Nídia Lubisco, Sônia Vieira e Isnaia Santana, recorda-me como me ajudou a escrever papers, relatórios e tese, o livro Form and Style, de William G. Campbell e Stephen V.Ballou, no meu doutoramento em Educação, na The Pennsylvania State University. Usei também o famoso A Manual of Style da Universidade de Chicago. São livros ferramentas indispensáveis para autores, editores, orientadores, digitadores de dissertações e teses e impressores. Gostaria…

da Universidade Federal da Bahia Nídia Lubisco, Sônia Vieira e Isnaia Santana, recorda-me como me ajudou a escrever papers, relatórios e tese, o livro Form and Style, de William G. Campbell e Stephen V.Ballou, no meu doutoramento em Educação, na The Pennsylvania State University. Usei também o famoso A Manual of Style da Universidade de Chicago. São livros ferramentas indispensáveis para autores, editores, orientadores, digitadores de dissertações e teses e impressores. Gostaria de…

município tomar decisões antecipadas e potenciar a resolução dos problemas. De acordo com o UCL (2012), “cities are becoming smart not only in terms of the way we can automate routine functions serving individual persons, buildings, traffic systems but in ways that enable us to monitor, understand, analyse and plan the city to improve the efficiency, equity and quality of life for its citizens in real life”. Os principais pilares das iniciativas de cidades inteligentes centram-se…

jogam a culpa na indústria do petróleo. Protótipos Protótipo desenvolvido pelo MIT Media Lab (carro elétrico dobrável) Pesquisadores do MIT Media Lab apresentaram um protótipo de carro compacto e ecologicamente correto, durante a Media Evolution’s The Conference – evento ocorrido na Suécia nos dias 24 e 25 de agosto. O veículo, batizado de CityCar, possui motor elétrico e pode transportar dois passageiros. Contudo, os destaques do protótipo ficam para o seu deslocamento em…

The Art of Game Design This page intentionally left blank The Art of Game Design A Book of Lenses Jesse Schell Carnegie Mellon University AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is an imprint of Elsevier Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is an imprint of Elsevier. 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA This book is printed on acid-free paper. ©…