Predicting copper price is essential for making decisions that can affect companies and governments dependent on the copper mining industry. Copper prices follow a time series that is nonlinear and non-stationary, and that ...

Microservice-based systems promote agility and rapid business development. Some features, such as fast time-to-market, scalability and optimal response times, have encouraged stakeholders to get more involved in the ...

The influence maximization problem (IMP) is one of the most important topics in social network analysis. It consists of finding the smallest seed of users that maximizes the influence spread in a social network. The main ...

The scarcity of the planet's water resources is a concern of several international entities and governments. Smart solutions for water quality monitoring are gaining prominence with advances in communication technology. ...

Osteoporosis and associated fragility fractures are still a societal problem. Several quantitative ultrasound approaches have been proposed to overcome limitations of the current gold standard DXA. Bi Directional Axial ...

Cortical bone is a complex multiscale medium and its study is of importance for clinical fracture prevention. In particular, cortical attenuation is known to be linked with shock energy absorption and ability to resist ...

Cooperative game theory considers simple games and influence games as essential classes of games. A simple game can be viewed as a model of voting systems in which a single alternative, such as a bill or an amendment, is ...

In this article we propose S2C, a strategy-to-code method ological approach to integrate organisational, business process, and information system modelling levels to support strategic alignment in software development. ...

Model-driven development aims to produce software from computation-independent and platform-independent models that capture domain knowledge. A key knowledge area is business strategy, which impacts the strategic division ...

Context. Business strategy and intentional factors that drive the information systems development and evolution have been addressed by several conceptual modelling initiatives, mostly from goal modelling and enterprise ...