Fãs da literatura têm agora uma nova forma de contribuir com as vítimas das enchentes no Rio Grande do Sul. Foi lançada a coletânea "Contos urgentes: uma doação literária para o povo gaúcho", cujas vendas serão totalmente revertidas para ajudar os afetados pelas chuvas na região. A iniciativa nasceu a partir da iniciativa dos alunos do Núcleo de Estratégias e Políticas Editoriais (Nespe), instituição de ensino que oferece cursos livres e de pós-graduação online ao vivo nas áreas de criação...

No livro "1979 – O ano que ressignificou a MPB", 100 LPs da época ganham histórias escritas por artistas e jornalistas, e resgatam a memória de um ano em que a música popular brasileira falou por si só. Em forma de prosa, resenha, reportagem ou entrevista, cada autor dá o seu estilo ao seu capítulo (veja a lista de autores e discos no final). Com esse conteúdo organizado pelo jornalista Célio Albuquerque, "1979 – O ano que ressignificou a MPB" é um livro grande, que traz para leitores e le...

No começo dos anos 2000, quando o envio de SMS pelo celular ainda era novidade, dezenas de empresas disputavam o mercado de dispositivos móveis. Hoje, apesar da variedade de smartphones, tablets e aplicativos, dois nomes dominam a cena: Apple e Google — que agora ameaçam eliminar uma à outra. Na era de Androids e iPhones, as duas companhias estão em confronto não só no mercado, mas também nos tribunais e nas telas de todo o mundo.O jornalista Fred Vogelstein acompa...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 16-18, 2023.The 7 regular papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 246 submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, that include Pattern Recogniti...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during February 22–24, 2023.The 28 full papers and 42 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 157 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theory and methods and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2023, held in Rome, Italy, during November 13-15, 2023.The 9 full papers and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 166 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology development;...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2024, held in Rome, Italy, during February 24-26, 2024.The 6 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: theory and methods; and applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA 2022, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during January 17-18, 2022.The 6 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They present recent research on machine learning and artificial intelligence in real-world applications such as computer vision, information retrieval and summarization from struct...

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2024, held in Porto, Portugal during November 17–19, 2024.The 12full papers and 5 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge engineering and ontology deve...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2022, held in Valletta, Malta, during October 24–26, 2022.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development; and Knowledge ...

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 10th and 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2021 and 2022, held in February 2021 and 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conferences were held virtually. Both conferences received in total 204 submissions from which 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation in this volume. The papers span a wide range of investigation as well as development lines, which of course ...

The two-volume set CCIS 2171 and 2172 constitutes the refereed papers from the 5th INternational Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA 2024, which took place in Dijon, France, during July 10-11, 2024.The 44 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 70 submissions. They focus on topics such as deep learning and big data analytics; machine-learning and artificial intelligence, etc.