Vol. 9 No. 4 (2021): Thematic Edition: Exact Sciences and Engineering | International Conference on Digital Transformation - International Cooperation, multiculturalism, collaborative work and more inclusive, sustainable and resilient environments

The Journal of the Research Unit of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém is scheduled for 2021 with four publications (regular numbers) dedicated to research work carried out in the four scientific areas that make up this Research Unit: Natural Sciences and the Environment, Exact Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities and also the scientific area of Life and Health Sciences.

This publication corresponds to the present Volume 9, number 4 of 2021 of the Journal, is dedicated to the scientific field of Exact Sciences and Engineering and is composed of 10 articles. The Editorial Board of this number is composed of Professors João Samartinho and Cláudio Barradas from the School of Management and Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém.

The Editor

Filipe Madeira

EDITORIAL

The International Conference on Digital Transformation - International Cooperation, multiculturalism, collaborative work and more inclusive, sustainable and resilient environments was held in the Auditorium of the School of Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém on 17th December 2021.

The current pandemic state, which will begin in the first quarter of 2020, has forced industries and organizations to have the ability to adapt to the successive and long confinements that have forced them to seek alternative ways to maintain their activity, which also included the need to intensify their digital transformation plan associated with distance working models where collaborative work, inclusive, sustainable and resilient environments are associated with multiculturalism and internationalization that characterize the current global organizations... complex and constantly changing. 

The international conference "Digital Transformation - International cooperation, multiculturalism, collaborative work and more inclusive, sustainable and resilient environments" incorporated this current global context and aimed to create a privileged meeting point for sharing, dissemination and discussion of topics of interest and practices in the field of digital transformation in a time of pandemic.

The conference took place on 17 December 2021 and was broadcast in real time, from the Colibri/Zoom session, on the Facebook page of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém and in person at the ESGTS Auditorium, with a total number of nearly sixty participants.

Participating in the event were authors from three Continents (European, African and American); two Research Centres, CIAC - Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação - Universidade do Algarve with the involvement in the organization of its Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion Centre of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém; CIEQV - Quality of Life Research Centre based at the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém; Universities from the three Continents, the University of Santiago - Cape Verde, the University of Brasília - Brazil, the Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaza in Mozambique, the University of Évora and the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém. Papers were also accepted from the Universities of Extremadura - Spain, the Federal University of Alagoas - Brazil and the company Crivosoft, Lda.

A set of ten papers with affiliates from the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, the Polytechnic Institute of Gaza, the University of Brasilia, the University of Santiago, the University of Extremadura, the Federal University of Alagoa, the University of Évora and the company Crivosoft, Lda were presented at the conference. These papers, subject to the requirements and scientific criteria for publication of the journal of UI_IPSantarém, are presented in the present issue, in a publication dedicated to Exact Sciences and Engineering that represents the fourth and final issue of Volume 9 (2021).

The opening session of the conference was attended by the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, the Director of the Research Unit of IPSantarém and the Pro-President for Internationalization and Cooperation of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém.

The first session entitled "International cooperation, multiculturalism, collaborative work and resilience" addressed the themes "Assessment of learning in a synchronous B-learning model: the case of Universidade de Santiago", Universidade de Santiago (Cape Verde); "Quality of Life in Mandatory Telework (e-QVT): diagnosis of managers in the Brazilian public sector. Universidade de Brasília (Brazil); and "Ensino Online - Caso do Instituto Superior Politécnico de Gaza".  Higher Polytechnic Institute of Gaza (Mozambique).

Session I ended with the presentation, made by the teachers/facilitators of the challenges, partners, teams and results of the 2nd Edition of the Co-creation Project / Co-creation Portugal Initiative - Link Me Up of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (Portugal).

The second session, entitled "Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence", had as guest speaker Prof. Dr. David Mendes from the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém who presented the topic "Digital Transformation (DT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI in DT allows giants to profile us, and our fellow humans, and why we are not protecting ourselves even with the tools to do so (RGPD) ? Do we not want to ?".

This was followed by a panel of thematic presentations, composed of seven articles that portrayed the theme of the conference, divided between digital transformation associated with talent management, distance learning models and methodologies (inbound learning), artificial intelligence that incorporated aspects such as machine learning, cybersecurity, among others.

The closing session was attended by the sub-coordinator of the Scientific Domain of Exact Sciences and Engineering of UI_IPSantarém and the Vice-President of the Digital Literacy and Social Inclusion Hub of IPSantarém (CIAC)

The themes of the papers, with their authors and according to the order of presentation at the conference are described below:

Session I - International cooperation, multiculturalism, collaborative work and resilience

Moderator: Paulo Resende Silva - University of Évora (Portugal)

Luís Rodrigues; Marisa Lopes; Lamine Tavares. "Assessment of learning in a B-learning synchronous model: the case of Universidade de Santiago". University of Santiago (Cape Verde)

Maria Júlia Pantoja; Miriam Oliveira; Laize Andrade. "Quality of Life in Mandatory Telework (e-QVT): diagnosis of managers in the Brazilian public sector". University of Brasília (Brazil)

Rogério Romão; Celina Maibeze; Ricardo Mulango. "Online Education - Case of the Polytechnic Higher Institute of Gaza".  Instituto Superior Politécnico de Gaza (Mozambique)

Facilitators 2nd Edition Co-creation / Co-creation Portugal Initiative - Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (Portugal)

Session II - Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Moderator: Luís Cláudio Barradas - Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (Portugal)

Invited speaker: David Mendes. "Digital Transformation (TD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI in TD allows giants to profile us, and our fellow humans, and why are we not protecting ourselves even with the tools to do so (RGPD)? Do we not want to?".  Polytechnic Institute of Santarém

Authors Panel - Thematic Presentations

Rodrigues, A.; Rhodes, B.; Cambinda, D.; Lourenço, P.; Mota, R. & Aires, T. Classification of Handwritten. ESGTS IPSantarém

Marques, A. The "Am Triangle" meta-dataset for experiments with Supervised Machine Learning. ESGTS IPSantarém

Amorim, R. & Madeira, F. Towrd to na Education 4.0 - Powered Teaching Model for Higher Education. Federal University of Alagoas

Moreira, A.; Marques, A.; Modesto, C.; Nobre, N.; Silva, R. T. R. & Oliveira, W. Natural language processing applied to artificial intelligence. ESGTS IPSantarém

Rubio, G. The use of AI for cybersecurity. ESGTS IPSantarém

Patrícia, P & Lima, V. Inbound Learning: a new teaching methodology. Crivosoft, Lda

Firmino, M. L. & Silva, P. F. "The challenge of talent management in the context of the ongoing digital transformation. An analysis of companies in Alentejo". ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon

Editorial Team:

Cláudio Barradas and João Samartinho