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    ¿Tiene sentido una intervención rehabilitadora con internos no motivados al cambio? 

    Delgado Durán, Marc

    Treball de Fi de Grau en Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció. Curs 2012-2013/n Tutor: Antoni Forcadell Berenguer

    Effects of human-machine integration on the construction of identity 

    Ballesté, Francesc; Torras, C.

    Recent developments in social robotics, intelligent prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, and implants pose new questions as to the effects of technology on identity, society, and the future of humankind. The authors' ...

    Determinants sociodemogràfics i penals de la inserció laboral : estudi de la borsa de treball del CIRE 

    Esplugas Segú, Xènia

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

    Free Open Source Software and Dual-Use: Loophole or Dissent? 

    Foutel, Nathalie

    The Free Open Source Software (FOSS) seem far from the military field but in some cases, some technologies normally used for civilian purposes may have military applications. These products and technologies are called ...

    A Fair and Secure Cluster Formation Process for Ad Hoc Networks 

    Rifà Pous, Helena; Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi

    An efficient approach for organizing large ad hoc networks is to divide the nodes into multiple clusters and designate, for each cluster, a clusterhead which is responsible for holding intercluster control information. The ...

    Security in Online Web Learning Assessment. Providing an Effective Trustworthiness Approach to Support e-Learning Teams. 

    Miguel Moneo, Jorge; Caballé Llobet, Santi; Xhafa, Fatos; Prieto Blázquez, Josep

    Peer-reviewed

    A BRILS metaheuristic for non-smooth flow-shop problems with failure-risk costs 

    Ferrer Biosca, Albert; Guimarans, Daniel; Ramalhinho, Helena; Juan Pérez, Ángel Alejandro

    This paper analyzes a realistic variant of the Permutation Flow-Shop Problem (PFSP) by considering a non-smooth objective function that takes into account not only the traditional makespan cost but also failure-risk costs ...

    Exploring semantic description and matching technologies for enhancing the automatic composition of grid based learning services 

    Gutiérrez Carreón, Gustavo; Jorba i Esteve, Josep; Daradoumis Haralabus, Atanasi

    In the implementation of e-learning frameworks, a problem still unsolved is how to use and integrate low-level learning services to compose more complex high-level services or tools that make sense to both tutors and ...

    Extraction of relevant terms and learning outcomes from online courses 

    Guitart Hormigo, María Isabel; Conesa Caralt, Jordi; Bañeres Besora, David; Moré López, Joaquim; Duran i Cals, Jordi; Gañán Jiménez, David

    Nowadays, universities (on-site and online) have a large competition in order to attract more students. In this panorama, learning analytics can be a very useful tool since it allows instructors (and university managers) ...

    Secure dynamic MANET on-demand (SEDYMO) routing protocol 

    Rifà Pous, Helena; Herrera Joancomartí, Jordi

    This paper describes the state of the art of secure ad hoc routing protocols and presents SEDYMO, a mechanism to secure a dynamic multihop ad hoc routing protocol. The proposed solution defeats internal and external attacks ...

    A model-based approach to gamify the learning of modeling 

    Cosentino, Valerio; Gérard, Sébastien; Cabot Sagrera, Jordi

    Conceptual modeling is an essential activity in the development of any information system. But at the same time, it is a difficult one which may discourage some professionals that may be tempted to skip it altogether in ...

    Is It Possible to Predict the Manual Web Accessibility Result Using the Automatic Result? 

    Olsen, Morten Goodwin; Martínez Normand, Loïc; Casado Martínez, Carlos

    The most adequate approach for benchmarking web accessibility is manual expert evaluation supplemented by automatic analysis tools. But manual evaluation has a high cost and is impractical to be applied on large websites. ...

    Cybercrime and cybercriminals: A comprehensive study 

    Sabillon, Regner; Cano, Jeimy; Reyes, Víctor; Serra Ruiz, Jordi

    The increasing expansion and diversification in the strategies and practices of cybercrime has become a difficult obstacle in order both to understand the extent of embedded risks and to define efficient policies of ...

    An Application Framework to Systematically Develop Complex Learning Resources Based on Collaborative Knowledge Engineering 

    Gañán Jiménez, David; Caballé Llobet, Santi; Conesa Caralt, Jordi; Xhafa, Fatos

    This contribution proposes software infrastructure to support new types of learning methodologies and resources based on collaborative knowledge engineering by means of an innovative application framework called the ...

    Automatic acquisition of Named Entities for Rule-Based Machine Translation 

    Toral, Antonio; Way, Andy

    This paper proposes to enrich RBMT dictionaries with Named Entities (NEs) automatically acquired from Wikipedia. The method is applied to the Apertium English-Spanish system and its performance compared to that of Apertium ...

    Social flow in social MOOCs 

    Steels, Luc

    Flow theory is a way to explain how humans can be self-motivated and reach a state of high focus and intense, very effective learning. Usually this theory is merely descriptive but recently it has also been operationalized ...

    Energy-and Spectrum-Efficient User Association in Millimeter-Wave Backhaul Small-Cell Networks 

    Macrocells are expected to be densely overlaid by small cells (SCs) to meet increasing capacity demands. Due to their dense deployment, some SCs will not be connected directly to the core network, and thus, they may forward ...

    Determinants sociodemogràfics i penals de la inserció laboral : estudi de la borsa de treball del CIRE 

    Esplugas Segú, Xènia

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