Mariusa Warpechowski

An ontological approach for the quality assessment of computer science conferences

Today the proliferation of the availability of the information of scientific events on the Web has created the necessity to offer a quickly access to upto-date information about the quality of these events. This requirement demands for (semi) automatic tools to speedily provide this information. The human-performed activity of the information quality evaluation is extremely time consuming and easily leads to failures. The application OntoQualis here described was motivated to support the quality evaluation of Scientific Conferences, in the Computer Science area, based on the graduated programs evaluation protocol of the Brazilian agency CAPES. The evaluation mechanism is specified in the QUALIS document specifically designed to assess journals and conferences ranking. This paper presents a brief vision of the ongoing process of domain analysis and ontology prototyping aiming to classify Scientific Conferences: the OntoQualis project. Some results of OntoQualis preliminary evaluation have shown a satisfactory classification level in comparison with CAPES-QUALIS ranking.

Sistema de Recomendação Acadêmico para Apoio a Aprendizagem

Os sistemas de recomendacao surgiram com o objetivo de auxiliar os usuarios no processo de busca na Web, indicando informacoes para o usuario com base no seu perfil. Esses sistemas sao de grande valia para o processo de aprendizagem, pois professores e alunos podem realizar buscas por conteudos educacionais mais apropriados ao seu perfil (nivel de formacao, areas de interesse, etc.). Este artigo apresenta um modelo de referencia para sistema de recomendacao, que dispensa a intervencao do usuario no momento de tracar seu perfil e utiliza tecnicas de mineracao de dados. O modelo foi implementado no prototipo “Ponto com Filtro” para verificar sua aplicabilidade.