Vicente García Díaz

Using extended web technologies to develop Bluetooth multi-platform mobile applications for interact with smart things

Nowadays the classic web paradigms are being subjected to changes; every day millions of users around the world use their Smartphones to access web applications from anywhere. The World Wide Web it is one of the biggest repositories of information in the world, and that information is stored in internet servers and repositories, but today in the real world there are many other information sources such as electronic devices with communication capabilities: smart appliances and sensor networks. The Smartphones are equipped with communication hardware elements like the Bluetooth module, which allows the Smartphone to exchange information with nearby electronic devices. Every day more and more mobile applications are being developed for native platforms that use Bluetooths communication module to send and receive information from different sources. Native mobile applications use the specific platforms APIs to manage the Bluetooth communication actions (send and receive information, search for devices, etc.), however, web applications do not have technical capabilities to manage the Smartphones Bluetooth communication module and thereof cannot use that kind of information. The main objective of this research work is to design a novel framework that allows classic web applications to use information from nearby electronic devices. The proposed framework must be easy to use and able to be integrated with common web technologies. Developers can use this framework to include new information sources and data exchange procedures in an easy way. The new type of information can be merged with the web to develop or improve algorithms and web applications.

Midgar: Domain-Specific Language to Generate Smart Objects for an Internet of Things Platform

A great number of people have Smart Objects in their daily life: Smartphones, cars, tablets, computers, Smart TVs or micro-controllers. Furthermore, these objects have Internet connection. A great number of these objects have various sensors: accelerometers, GPS, pressure, light, temperature, gravity or proximity. The essence of the concept of Internet of Things is to interconnect all these heterogeneous and ubiquitous objects among them. Some Smart Cities or Smart Homes allow a part of this concept. But this has a problem, the software that an object needs to be interconnected with the IoT platform. To create this software users need to develop the application and need developer skills. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem. We propose a graphical Domain-Specific Language for creating the necessary software for interconnecting any object with an IoT platform. For this proposal we will use the IoT Midgar platform.

Progressions and Innovations in Model-Driven Software Engineering

Users increasingly demand more from their software than ever beforemore features, fewer errors, faster runtimes. To deliver the best quality products possible, software engineers are constantly in the process of employing novel tools in developing the latest software applications.Progressions and Innovations in Model-Driven Software Engineering investigates the most recent and relevant research on model-driven engineering. Within its pages, researchers and professionals in the field of software development, as well as academics and students of computer science, will find an up-to-date discussion of scientific literature on the topic, identifying opportunities and advantages, and complexities and challenges, inherent in the future of software engineering.

An intelligent Mobile Web Browser to adapt the mobile web as a function of the physical environment

Today, millions of users all over the world visit websites using their Smartphones. Mobile devices have several features that may contribute to worsen the user experience when using mobile webs, such as: small displays and virtual keyboards, poor precision to select elements using the finger as cursor. In addition, the mobile Web has a peculiar feature, is not always used in the same place or in the same situations; in many cases environmental factors can adversely affect the user experience while he is using a web application, adverse situations derived from the ambient may be different: noise pollution, an excess of light, not being able to see well the letters while walking, etc. This research presents a novel mobile Web paradigm that allows the adaptation of web applications depending on the environment. The proposed solution introduces a novel Mobile Web Browser based on the principles of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI). This Web browser uses the Smartphones hardware elements as sensors and microphones to capture the environmental information, which will be intelligently analyzed to detect events and other situations. The identified situations will be communicated to the web application, so that appropriate adaptation are made and there by improve the user experience.

Academic decision making model for higher education institutions using learning analytics

Through the processes set out by Learning Analytics, this paper describes a decision making model which supports the managers of higher education institutions at the moment of making academic decisions. In the analysis and requirements phase, the importance of creating and categorizing indicators is presented in detail, thereby facilitating the finding of hidden patterns in the educational information. Our work in this field includes the modelling and construction of software architecture in which the work of said indicators is included. Finally, the implementation of this new decision making support tool is shown as the result during a pilot test carried out in a Public University in Latin America.

A brief introduction to model-driven engineering

ABSTRACT The software crisis is a concept that has started to be used in 1968, at the first conference orga-nized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-tion (NATO) on software development. There, Edsger Dijkstra criticized that projects were not completed in compliance with the classic triple constraint of project management (scope, time and cost), since most of them do not reach the expected requirements, are delivered out of time or exceeds the expected cost. Unfortunately, the current reality is that while there have been pro-posed new methodologies aimed at solving the usual problems related to software development, there is still no reliable method to estimate the development of computer systems. This work in-troduces the Model-Driven Engineering approach that, according to the experts, will help to solve many of the problems that thousands of software development teams have daily worldwide. RESUMEN La crisis del software es un concepto que comen-zo a utilizarse en 1968, en la primera conferencia organizada por la Organizacion del Tratado del Atlantico Norte (OTAN) en el desarrollo de soft-ware. Alli, Edsger Dijkstra critico que los proyec-tos no se completaban debido a la clasica triple restriccion de la gestion de proyectos —alcance, tiempo y costo—, ya que la mayoria de ellos no alcanzaban los requisitos previstos, se entregaban fuera de plazo o superaban el costo esperado. Por desgracia, la realidad actual es que; si bien se han propuesto nuevas metodologias destinadas a la solucion de los problemas habituales relacionados con el desarrollo de software, todavia no existe un metodo fiable para estimar el desarrollo de los sis-temas informaticos. En este articulo se presenta el enfoque de Ingenieria Dirigida por Modelos que, segun los expertos, ayudara a resolver muchos de los problemas que miles de equipos de desarrollo de software tienen a diario en todo el mundo.

Kuruma: The Vehicle Automatic Data Capture for Urban Computing Collaborative Systems

Smartphones can provide coverage in large areas all around the world and with the availability of powerful operating systems they can become solid sensing infrastructures. In fact, static sensors are hard to deploy and maintain while modern mobile devices include many sensors that can be used to sense and benefit from collaborative communities. This project tries to improve urban computing by developing a framework able to create monitoring applications for mobile devices, focusing on obtaining the highest degree of interoperability between sensors. A prototype application has been developed to demonstrate the feasibility of creating multidisciplinary applications with several different approaches. The application developed consists of a Road Roughness Information System that measures smoothness and detects irregularities on the roads.

Measurement of viewer sentiment to improve the quality of television and interactive content using adaptive content

This paper describes the proposal and the results obtained by implementing an experimental model to monitor sentiment against adaptive content viewers a live TV program and using interactive television. Initially it makes an introduction to the “Login” (Login Telepacífico, sf) program. With the aim to analyze the television format that uses as experimental base to the aims of this work, immediately afterwards there is done a reference to the concepts of Interactive Television - iTV and Content adaptative in television that they are applied to the characteristics of the program “Login”. From the definitions and analysis one presents the methodological offer applied to the experimental program (“Login”) that will be object of monitoring and valuation of the feeling of the television viewers. Immediately afterwards the methodology and technologies are described used in the obtaining information product of the expressions of feeling published by the television viewers on the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp. To further explain the methodology and modeling techniques in text analysis and predictive analysis of the data collected, describing the valuation model viewer the feeling and results against the inclusion of adaptive content. At the end of the article the results of the quality of television content for eight months of tests on the “Login” program showing the results, conclusions and future works of investigation on this proposal is presented.

Handbook of Research on Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering

Vicente García Díaz is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Oviedo. He has a PhD from the University of Oviedo in computer engineering. His research interests include model-driven engineering, domain specific languages, technology for learning and entertainment, project risk management, software development processes and practices. He has graduated in Prevention of Occupational Risks and is a Certified Associate in Project Management through the Project Management Institute. Released: August 2014 An Excellent Addition to Your Library!