Recent developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have opened up a plethora of opportunities to extract pertinent information in settings where data overload is a critical issue. In this work, we address the hi...
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In recent years, UAVs have been increasingly used in urban environments due to agility in movement, simplicity in mechanics, low price, and ability to access locations that are difficult or impossible to reach by huma...
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In recent years, UAVs have been increasingly used in urban environments due to agility in movement, simplicity in mechanics, low price, and ability to access locations that are difficult or impossible to reach by humans. A significant number of drones are expected to fly in the urban sky shortly. The profitable nature of commercial UAVs/drone applications in urban space will imply a high density of drones;therefore, avoiding mid-air collisions will be critical for the safe operation of the UAVs. In Europe, U-space services are being created to guarantee the safe operations of UAVs in urban Very Low Level (VLL) airspace. To avoid collisions, U-space considers a separation minima (i.e., the minimum safe distance between UAVs) surrounding each UAV. Thus, violating the separation minima, which might be caused by abnormal conditions (e.g., bad weather conditions), failure conditions (e.g., GPS failure in UAVs), or unreliable behavior of the system (e.g., inaccurate GPS positioning data or erratic position estimation by flight controller), could potentially result in conflicts that require immediate mitigation measures to avoid mid-air collisions. Failure prediction is a promising method for preventing separation minima violations in U-space services. However, in order to have effective failure prediction, the lead time, which is the time between the activation of a fault and its manifestation in a system as a failure, must account for both the prediction step and the subsequent mitigation actions. This paper aims to evaluate the lead time in UAV systems in the presence of positioning-related issues (as being critical for the safe operation of UAVs) from a U-space perspective. We used fault injection to inject 18 different types of faults (or emulating failures) in 28 different UAV missions. The results show that the lead time for 17 types of faults injected is at least 14 seconds (in some cases, no failure occurred). Thus, U-space has at least 14 seconds to predict and m
The cloud-to-edge continuum paradigm has permeated various application domains, including critical urban-city safety systems. In these contexts, anomalies can compromise public safety, for example, by disrupting the c...
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The design of cable-stayed bridges requires the determination of several design variables’ values. Civil engineers usually perform this task by hand as an iteration of steps that stops when the engineer is happy with...
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Paquete, LuísSilva, SaraUniversity of Coimbra
CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems LASI The University of Coimbra Department of Informatics Engineering Coimbra60106440 Portugal LASIGE
Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa Lisboa60106051 Portugal
In today’s data-driven world, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have emerged as a powerful tool with significant implications for marketing strategies. This article presents a systematic literature review focused ...
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Worldviews play a central role in M&S providing the basic constructs to describe simulation models. Three main worldviews have been defined: event scheduling, activity scanning, and process interaction (PI). The l...
This paper assesses the supportive role of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in Information Technology (IT) Governance. The result is a conceptual framework emerging from design science research conducted in...
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Several mating restriction techniques have been implemented in Evolutionary Algorithms to promote diversity. From similarity-based selection to niche preservation, the general goal is to avoid premature convergence by...
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Several mating restriction techniques have been implemented in Evolutionary Algorithms to promote diversity. From similarity-based selection to niche preservation, the general goal is to avoid premature convergence by not having fitness pressure as the single evolutionary force. In a way, such methods can resemble the mechanisms involved in Sexual Selection, although generally assuming a simplified approach. Recently, a selection method called mating Preferences as Ideal Mating Partners (PIMP) has been applied to GP, providing promising results both in performance and diversity maintenance. The method mimics Mate Choice through the unbounded evolution of personal preferences rather than having a single set of rules to shape parent selection. As such, PIMP allows ideal mate representations to evolve freely, thus potentially taking advantage of Sexual Selection as a dynamic secondary force to fitness pressure. However, it is still unclear how mating preferences affect the overall population and how dependent they are on set-up choices. In this work, we tracked the evolution of individual preferences through different mutation types, searching for patterns and evidence of self-reinforcement. Results suggest that mating preferences do not stand on their own, relying on subtree mutation to avoid convergence to single-node trees. Nevertheless, they consistently promote smaller and more balanced solutions depth-wise than a standard tournament selection, reducing the impact of bloat. Furthermore, when coupled with subtree mutation it also results in more solution diversity with statistically significant results.
After learning the basic features of a programming language, such as expressions and control statements, novice programmers need to combine these features to solve programming questions. Some of these combined code sn...
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