This dissertation studies the possibility of artificial agents to access and make use of some type of morality. Based on the philosophy of Heidegger and Searle, we look for the paths that led science to the conception of ...

The walking in street act in a big city can be extremely normal for a citizen. However, many people, that for natural or accidental reasons, have no more a vision capacity. In these cases, something that would be simple ...

After a strong growth in the last two decades the market of the higher education goes through a period of stagnation, being necessary, in this context, the retention of the academics that already are part of its base of ...

The general objective of this course completion work is to develop a chatbot that is able to answer the most frequently asked questions about sales orders from a particular industry of the metalworking sector. The developed ...

This project creates an automated chess player that, through computer vision and automation, can detect the opponent's moves and respond with their own moves autonomously on a physical board. To this end, a board was built, ...

The internet of things (IoT) is an emerging technology and is characterized as a new paradigm that aims to integrate several technologies and communication solutions with applications in many different domains, such as: ...

With the recent emergence of Big Data the amount of data being generated on a daily basis has never been greater. In order to extract knowledge from this data Machine Learning plays a key role, due to its ability to learn ...