FERREIRA , Afonso

From innovation triggered by user virtual communities to remote surgery and new financial instruments, the creative power of individuals is being fostered at proportions previously unseen. The main driver enabling such a pace of innovation, scientific progress, and user adoption is the Digital Revolution. One consequence is that...

Wireless technologies and the deployment of mobile and nomadic services are driving the emergence of complex ad-hoc networks, that have a highly dynamic behavior. Modeling such dynamics, and creating a reference model on which results could be compared and reproduced was stated as a fundamental issue by a recent NSF workshop on networking. In...

A revolução digital é o principal motor do atual ritmo acelerado do progresso científico e da inovação. O poder criativo e a produtividade tecnológica dos indivíduos estão sendo ativados em proporções antes desconhecidas, produzindo ininterruptamente novos produtos e processos, em quase todas as áreas do conhecimento humano. O Information...

New technologies and the deployment of mobile and nomadic services are driving the emergence of complex communications networks, that have a highly dynamic behavior. This naturally engenders new route-discovery problems under changing conditions over these networks. Unfortunately, the temporal variations in the network topology are hard to be...

Multi-, inter-, trans- disciplinary research has gained a lot of interest and investment during the past two decades as a result of the realization that many of today's challenges are resistant to traditional research approaches and require cross-fertilization between different disciplines and integrated knowledge from heterogeneous sources....

New technologies and the deployment of mobile and nomadic services are driving the emergence of complex communications networks, that have a highly dynamic behavior. Modeling such dynamics, and designing algorithms that take it into account, received considerable attention recently. In this note, we discuss a formal generalization of dynamic...