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    Educational data mining and learning analytics: differences, similarities, and time evolution 

    Calvet Liñan, Laura; Juan Pérez, Ángel Alejandro

    Technological progress in recent decades has enabled people to learn in different ways. Universities now have more educational models to choose from, i.e., b-learning and e-learning. Despite the increasing opportunities ...

    Horizontal collaboration in freight transport: concepts, benefits, and environmental challenges 

    Serrano Hernández, Adrián; Juan Pérez, Ángel Alejandro; Faulin Fajardo, Francisco Javier; Pérez Bernabeu, Elena

    Since its appearance in the 1990s, horizontal collaboration (HC) practices have revealed themselves as catalyzers for optimizing the distribution of goods in freight transport logistics. After introducing the main concepts ...

    Lossless Image Data Embedding in Plain Areas 

    Fallahpour, Mehdi; Megías Jiménez, David; Shi, Yun Q.

    This letter presents a lossless data hiding scheme for digital images which uses an edge detector to locate plain areas for embedding. The proposed method takes advantage of the well-known gradient adjacent prediction ...

    Optimization of aircraft boarding processes considering passengers' grouping characteristics 

    Carmona Budesca, Gerard; Juan Pérez, Ángel Alejandro; Fonseca Casas, Pau

    Aircraft boarding is one of the critical processes affecting the turnaround time when a plane is at an airport. In this work, the aircraft boarding problem is studied with the aim of designing a boarding strategy that ...

    Popularization through press advertisements: mobile telephony in Spain (1994-1999) 

    Fernández Ardèvol, Mireia; Ferran Boleda, Jordi

    This paper explores the combined effects of everyday life technological devices and advertisements in constituting an efficient way to scientific popularization. We, therefore, analyze mobile telephony advertisements ...

    A Biased-Randomized Algorithm for Redistribution of Perishable Food Inventories in Supermarket Chains 

    In supermarkets, perishable products need to be sold to consumers before a given deadline, after which their monetary value is significantly diminished or even completely lost. In the case of valuable products that should ...

    Seguretat vial a Sant Vicenç dels Horts : anàlisi dels accidents de trànsit del 2014 

    Blanco Correa, Ariadna

    Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2014-2015

    On complexity of branching droplets in electrical field 

    Dehshibi, Mohammad Mahdi; Cejková, Jitka; Svára, Dominik; Adamatzky, Andrew

    Decanol droplets in a thin layer of sodium decanoate with sodium chloride exhibit bifurcation branching growth due to interplay between osmotic pressure, diffusion and surface tension. We aimed to evaluate if morphology ...

    CEUR Workshop Proceedings: Preface 

    Brucker, Achim D.; Cabot Sagrera, Jordi; Sánchez-Barbudo Herrera, Adolfo

    Preface of the Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling (OCL 2016) held in Saint-Malo, France, October 2, 2016.

    Internet of things area coverage analyzer (ITHACA) for complex topographical scenarios 

    Parada Medina, Raúl; Cárdenes Tacoronte, Daniel; Monzo Sánchez, Carlos; Melià Seguí, Joan Antoni

    The number of connected devices is increasing worldwide. Not only in contexts like the Smart City, but also in rural areas, to provide advanced features like smart farming or smart logistics. Thus, wireless network ...

    Analyzing the effects of emotion management on time and self-management in computer-based learning 

    Arguedas Lafuente, Marta; Daradoumis Haralabus, Atanasi; Xhafa, Fatos

    Emotional learning involves the acquisition of skills to recognize and manage emotions, develop care and concern for others, make responsible decisions, establish positive relationships, and handle challenging situations ...

    A semi-automated system for recognizing prior knowledge 

    Moré López, Joaquim; Conesa Caralt, Jordi; Bañeres Besora, David; Junyent Manzanera, Montse

    Adaptive e-learning systems are able to automatically generate personalized learning paths from the students' profile. Generally, the student profile is updated with information about knowledge the student has acquired, ...

    Automatic prediction of facial trait judgments: Appearance vs. structural models 

    Rojas Quiñones, Mario; Masip Rodo, David; Todorov, Alexander; Vitrià Marca, Jordi

    Evaluating other individuals with respect to personality characteristics plays a crucial role in human relations and it is the focus of attention for research in diverse fields such as psychology and interactive computer ...

    Distributed PID-based scheduling for 6TiSCH networks 

    Domingo Prieto, Marc; Chang, Tengfei; Vilajosana i Guillén, Xavier; Watteyne, Thomas

    Industrial low-power networks are becoming the nexus of operational technologies and the Internet thanks to the standardization of networking layer interfaces. One of the main promoters of this shift is the IETF 6TiSCH WG, ...

    A survey of graph-modification techniques for privacy-preserving on networks 

    Casas-Roma, Jordi; Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi; Torra Reventós, Vicenç

    Recently, a huge amount of social networks have been made publicly available. In parallel, several definitions and methods have been proposed to protect users' privacy when publicly releasing these data. Some of them were ...

    An Interdomain PKI Model Based on Trust Lists 

    Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi; Rifà Pous, Helena

    The penetration of PKI technology in the market is moving slowly due to interoperability concerns. Main causes are not technical but political and social since there is no trust development model that appropriately deals ...

    Cryptographic Energy Costs are Assumable in Ad Hoc Networks 

    Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi; Rifà Pous, Helena

    Performance of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography algorithms in small devices is presented. Both temporal and energy costs are measured and compared with the basic functional costs of a device. We demonstrate that ...

    An architecture for the analysis and detection of anomalies in smart city WSNs 

    Garcia-Font, Victor; Garrigues, Carles; Rifà-Pous, Helena

    Peer-reviewed

    Attack classification schema for smart city WSNs 

    García Font, Víctor; Garrigues Olivella, Carles; Rifà Pous, Helena

    Peer-reviewed

    Editorial: At the crossroads: Lessons and challenges in computational social science 

    Borge Holthoefer, Javier; Moreno Vega, Yamir; Yasseri, Taha

    The interest of physicists in economic and social questions is not new: during the last decades, we have witnessed the emergence of what is formally called nowadays sociophysics and econophysics that can be grouped into ...