The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
To cope with society’s demand for transparency and corruption prevention, the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) has carried out a number of actions, including: aw...
Rommel N. Carvalho, Kathryn B. Laskey, Paulo Cesar...
We present a novel approach for classifying documents that combines different pieces of evidence (e.g., textual features of documents, links, and citations) transparently, through...
Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr., Marco Cristo, Ma...
We present an approach in which the semantics of an XML language is defined by means of a transformation from an XML document model (an XML schema) to an application specific mode...
Traditional desktop search engines only support keyword based search that needs exact keyword matching to find resources. However, users generally have a vague picture of what is...