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The application of intelligent systems in industrial environments is still restricted, although autonomous systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been under development for over 50 years and spreading into several areas since the last decade. Such integration goes against cultural and technical factors found on the shop floor and its project is often challenging. Classical industrial systems make use of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which centralise control by using a simple and low-level language. Automated planning solutions use a formal language called planning domain definition language (PDDL) to address specific problems, with predefined initial and target scenarios. Such feature seems to be interesting in some cases, since the generic domain models cannot predict all possible scenarios in a domain. Therefore, the applicability of intelligent systems in industrial cases is directly linked to the development of applications that allow integrating different languages, thus ensuring the access to PLCs and analysing specific situations. The current paper presents an application that integrates automated planning solution and PLCs as well as analyses such integrations' functionality. Preliminary results are shown by using object process control (OPC) and TCP/IP client/server approaches. A comparison with classical approaches was presented for a specific case study.

The object of this research is the perception of terrorist threat in São Paulo, in the context of the Olympic Games Rio 2016. The objectives of the research were to characterize the population's perception of the terrorist threat and to assess the effectiveness of the government's program of sensitization against terrorist threats designed to improve resilience during the Olympic Games. Over the course of six months, from February to July 2016, the author joined the program team and participated in the training of 4,287 ( four thousand two hundred and eighty-seven) professionals in the tourism, public security and defense sectors. The research adopts the case study method and the database is made up of 1,109 (one thousand one hundred and nine) research forms. Based on (13) thirteen characteristics of terrorism extracted from the works of Alex Schmid, David Rapoport and Martha Crenshaw, the researcher investigates the perception of terrorist threat in the sample group, resulting in the following elements: fanaticism and / or religious extremism (85 , 57%); physical and / or psychological violence (62.23%); intimidation, fear and uncertainty (60.90%); political objectives (55.37%); use of social networks (53.22%); planning (51.79%); strategy (50.77%); isolated individuals (45.04%); non-state groups (37.56%); advertising (36.34%); randomly selected victims (35.41%); clandestinely (33.98%); tactical action (17.60%). As for the government's program to raise awareness against terrorist threats, the results indicate a 34.31% (thirty-four point thirty-one percent) increase in the perception of the conclusive students of the course, indicating the effectiveness of the instrument.

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