Publications 2012
Distributed Data and Information Fusion in Visual Sensor Networks
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Federico Castanedo, Juan Gomez-Romero, Miguel A. Patricio, Jesus García, Jose M. Molina. “Distributed Data and Information Fusion in Visual Sensor Networks”. Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations. CRC Press. Nov 2012.
Abstract: With the recent proliferation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), cloud computing technologies, and distributed-interconnected systems, distributed fusion is taking on a larger role in a variety of applications—from environmental monitoring and crisis management to intelligent buildings and defense. Drawing on the work of leading experts around the world, Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations examines the state of the art of data fusion in a distributed sensing, communications, and computing environment. Get Insight into Designing and Implementing Data Fusion in a Distributed Network Addressing the entirety of information fusion, the contributors cover everything from signal and image processing, through estimation, to situation awareness. In particular, the work offers a timely look at the issues and solutions involving fusion within a distributed network enterprise. These include critical design problems, such as how to maintain a pedigree of agents or nodes that receive information, provide their contribution to the dataset, and pass to other network components. The book also tackles dynamic data sharing within a network-centric enterprise, distributed fusion effects on state estimation, graph-theoretic methods to optimize fusion performance, human engineering factors, and computer ontologies for higher levels of situation assessment. A comprehensive introduction to this emerging field and its challenges, the book explores how data fusion can be used within grid, distributed, and cloud computing architectures. Bringing together both theoretical and applied research perspectives, this is a valuable reference for fusion researchers and practitioners. It offers guidance and insight for those working on the complex issues of designing and implementing distributed, decentralized information fusion.
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E-learning platform for Integrated Management of Documents based on Automatic Digitalization
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Ana B. Lago Vilariño and Iván Pretel García. E-learning platform for Integrated Management of Documents based on Automatic Digitalization. On IEEE-RITA: Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje AUG. 2012 VOL. 7 Number 3 ISSN: 932-8540
Abstract: Despite the advances in computing, traditional paper is still widely used in learning and knowledge work. Most current learning technologies do not account for this paper-centric practice and focus on a complete digitization of learning contents, activities, and communication. This paper presents an e-learning platform that combines work with printed and digital documents. It integrates pen-and-paper-based interaction techniques that enable users to manage their digitized documents. Moreover, this platform integrates different e-learning platforms providing a single intuitive interface to management them. Finally, a case study of the use of the platform in university education is presented.
Keywords: Learning management system; digital pen; Moodle; Google
Mobile Interaction Capturing System in Real Environments
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Iván Pretel García and Ana B. Lago Vilariño. Mobile Interaction Capturing System in Real Environments. On Computer Technology and Application AUG. 2012 VOL. 3 Number 8 ISSN: 1934-7332
Abstract: Mobile applications are being used in a great range of fields and application areas. As a result, many research fields have focused on the study and improvement of such devices. The current Smartphones are the best example of the research and the evolution of these technologies. Moreover, the software design and development is progressively more focused on the user; finding and developing new mobile interaction models. In order to do so, knowing what kind of problems the users could have is vital to enhance a bad interaction design. Unfortunately, a good software quality evaluation takes more time than the companies can invest. The contribution revealed in this work is a new approach to quality testing methodology focused on mobile interactions and their context in use where external capturing tools, such as cameras, are suppressed and the evaluation environments are the same as the user will use the application. By this approach, the interactions can be captured without changing the context and consequently, the data will be more accurate, enabling the evaluation of the quality-in-use in real environments.
Keywords: Human computer interaction; quality in use; mobile services; context-awareness.
Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence
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José Bravo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Francisco Moya. Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 7656, pp. 1-523, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5, December 2012.
Abstract: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2012, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in December 2012. The 70 research papers were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The main focus of this book has been to explore how Ambient Intelligence can contribute towards smarter but still more sustainable environments. Beyond sustainable computing the proceedings also include research work describing progress on other key research topics for AmI such as human environment mobile-mediated (through NFC or AR) interaction, artificial intelligence techniques to foster user- and context-aware environment adaptation, future internet trends such as social networks analysis, linked data or crowd-sourcing applied to AmI, internet-connected object ecosystems collaborating to give place to smarter environments.
Keywords: Distributed Computing; human-robot natural interaction; Middleware; social network analysis; virtual worlds.
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Lightweight User Access Control in Energy-Constrained Wireless Network Services
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J. A. M. Naranjo, Pablo Orduña, Aitor Gómez-Goiri, Diego López-de-Ipiña, L. G. Casado. Lightweight User Access Control in Energy-Constrained Wireless Network Services. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Inteligence (UCAmI'12). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2012, pp 298-305. ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5. December, 2012 - Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Abstract: This work introduces a novel access control solution for infrastructures composed of highly constrained devices which provide users with services. Low energy consumption is a key point in this kind of scenarios given that devices usually run on batteries and are unattended for long periods of time. Our proposal achieves privacy, authentication, semantic security, low energy and computational demand and device compromise impact limitation on a simple manner. The access control provided is based on user identity and time intervals. We discuss these properties and compare our proposal to previous related work.
Keywords: Access Control, Wireless Network Services, Internet of Things, Sustainability.
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Situation-Driven Development: A Methodology for the Development of Context-Aware Systems
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David Martin, Diego López de Ipiña, Carlos Lamsfus, Aurkene Alzua. Situation-Driven Development: A Methodology for the Development of Context-Aware Systems. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Inteligence (UCAmI'12). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2012, pp 298-305. ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5. December, 2012 - Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Abstract: Several toolkits have been proposed in order to ease the development of context-aware systems, providing high-level programming interfaces to manage context data. One of the main tasks in the development of such systems is the definition of user situations that have to be identified by the system in order to adapt its behaviour. These situations are best defined by domain experts, but usually they do not have programming skills. Apart from that, there is a lack of methodologies to guide the development process. This paper presents a methodology based on the definition of situations that is designed to involve domain experts in the development process. This way, they can support programmers in the definition of the required situations. Also, a web-based platform has been implemented in order to manage context data without any programming skills. This way, domain experts can also configure the situations to be detected by the system.
Keywords: Context-Awareness; End-User Programming; Mobile Services.
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Social Network Analysis Applied to Recommendation Systems: Alleviating the Cold-User Problem
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Eduardo Castillejo, Aitor Almeida, Diego López-de-Ipiña. Social Network Analysis Applied to Recommendation Systems: Alleviating the Cold-User Problem. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Inteligence (UCAmI'12). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2012, pp 298-305. ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5. December, 2012 - Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Abstract: Recommender systems have increased their impact in the Internet due to the unmanageable amount of items that users can find in the Web. This way, many algorithms have emerged filtering those items which best fit into users’ tastes. Nevertheless, these systems suffer from the same shortcoming: the lack of new user data to recommend any item based on their tastes. Social relationships gathered from social networks and intelligent environments become a challenging opportunity to retrieve data from users based on their relationships, and social network analysis provides the demanded techniques to accomplish this objective. In this paper we present a methodology which uses users’ social network data to generate first recommendations, alleviating the cold-user limitation. Besides, we demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the cold-user problem applying our solution to a recommendation system environment.
Keywords: Recommender Systems; Social Network Analysis; Cold-user.
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LinkedQR: Improving Tourism Experience through Linked Data and QR Codes
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Mikel Emaldi, Jon Lázaro, Xabier Laiseca, Diego López-de-Ipiña. LinkedQR: Improving Tourism Experience through Linked Data and QR Codes. Proceedings of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence - 6th International Conference (UCAmI 2012), LNCS 7656. . Editors: José Bravo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Francisco Moya. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35376-5, pp. 371-378, December 2012.
Abstract: Since Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced the best practices to publish semantic data through the Web, Linked Data principles have been introduced into a wide variety of application domains. This usage of Linked Data eases the enrichment of offered data in a grade that the semantic data that not applies the Linked Data principles never would achieve. In this paper, we present LinkedQR1 , a tool to improve the collaboration between QR codes and Linked Data; and a case study based on the tourism sector located into an art gallery.
Keywords: QR Codes; Linked Data; Semantic Web; Cultural Heritage.
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A New Approach to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases Based on SCORE Charts through Reasoning Methods and Mobile Monitoring
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Jesús Fontecha, David Ausín, Federico Castanedo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Ramón Hervás, José Bravo. A New Approach to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases Based on SCORE Charts through Reasoning Methods and Mobile Monitoring of the book Ambient Assisted Living and Home Care. . Editors: José Bravo, Ramón Hervás, Marcela Rodríguez. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35394-9, LNCS 7657, pp. 329-337, December 2012.
Abstract: Nowadays, vital signs monitoring with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is possible through Bluetooth-enabled biometric devices. In this paper, we propose a system to monitor the risk of cardiovascular diseases in Ambient Assisted Living environments through blood pressure monitoring and other clinical factors, using mobile devices and reasoning techniques based on the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation Project (SCORE) charts. Mobile applications for patients and doctors, and a reasoning engine based on SWRL rules have been developed.
Keywords: Mobile Monitoring; Ambient Assisted Living; CVD Risk; Blood Pressure; Reasoning.
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TURAMBAR: An Approach to Deal with Uncertainty in Semantic Environments
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David Ausín, Federico Castanedo, Diego López-de-Ipiña. TURAMBAR: An Approach to Deal with Uncertainty in Semantic Environments of the book Ambient Assisted Living and Home Care. . Editors: José Bravo, Ramón Hervás, Marcela Rodríguez. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35394-9, LNCS 7657, pp. 17-24, December 2012. Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain
Abstract: Research community has shown a great interest in OWL on tologies as a context modeling tool for semantic environments. OWL ontologies are characterized by its expressive power and are based on description logics. However, they have limitations when dealing with uncertainty and vagueness knowledge. To overcome these caveats, some approaches have been proposed. This work presents a novel approach to deal with uncertainty in semantic environments, called TURAMBAR.
Keywords: Reasoners, OWL, Bayesian networks, Uncertainty.
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