Sea-level rise is a problem increasingly affecting coastal areas worldwide. The existence of
free and open-source models to estimate the sea-level impact can contribute to improve …

Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by
their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide web, where users can …

The burgeoning capabilities of Web browsers to exploit full-featured devices can turn the
huge pool of social connected users into a powerful network of processing assets. HTML5 …

Sea-level rise is a problem increasingly affecting coastal areas worldwide. The existence of
free and open-source models to estimate the sea-level impact can contribute to improve …

A species diagnostic character in instar and juvenile Scylla spp. allows for more focused use
of resources in farms, enhanced research in wild populations and improved culture practices …

Volunteer computing is a distributed computing model in which individuals in possession of
computing resources volunteer to provide them to a project. Owing to the availability of …

Volunteer computing allows individuals, who have access to computing resources that are
currently idle, to allocate them to perform useful work. This paradigm has existed since a …

I also wish to thank my supervisor Dr. Cristina Bernardes to make me grow as a scientist and
as a person, being a great example of scientific rigor and wisdom. To Dr. Sandra Fernández …

Volunteer computing is a distributed computing model in which individuals in possession of
computing resources volunteer to provide them to a project. Owing to the availability of …

Browser based distributed systems constitute a promising field which has been subject to
exploration for scientific and commercial usage. We inspect an array of such projects and …