Smart City Development: A Business Process-centric Conceptualisation

Smart city development has been proposed as a response to urbanisation challenges and changing citizen needs in the cities. It allows the city as a complex system of systems to be efficient and integrated, in order to work as a whole, and provide effective services to citizens through its inter-connected sector. This research attempts to conceptualise smart city, by looking at its requirements and components from a process change perspective, not a merely technology-led innovation within a city. In view of that, the research also gains benefits from the principles of smart city development such as systems thinking approach, city as a system of systems, and the necessity of systems integration. The outcome of this study emphasises the significance of considering a city as a system of systems and necessity of city systems integration and city process change for smart city development. Consequently, the research offers a city process-centric conceptualisation of smart city

Inductive logic programming applied for knowledge representation in computer music/ Programação lógica indutiva aplicada para representação do conhecimento em música computacional

 In Computer Music, the knowledge representation process is an essential element for the development of systems. Methods have been applied to provide the computer with the ability to generate conclusions based on previously established experience and definitions. In this sense, Inductive Logic Programming presents itself as a research field that incorporates concepts of Logic Programming and Machine Learning, its declarative character allows musical knowledge to be presented to non-specialist users in a naturally understandable way. The present work performs a systematic review based on approaches that use Inductive Logic Programming in the representation of musical knowledge. Questions that these studies seek to address were raised, as well as identifying characteristic aspects related to their application