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Organisation and Management

IIiA 2007 in figures

Financing Human resources

Research Groups
Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (eXiT) Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG) Modelling, Identification and Control Engineering Laboratory (MICELab) Computer Vision and Robotics (Vicorob) Laboratory of Graphics and Image (GILab) Agents Research Laboratory (ARLab)

Public-Funded Research Projects

EC (European Commission) financed projects International funding Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce Catalan Government - CERTAP PVPC Catalan Government XARTAP Institute of Biomedical Investigation of Girona (IDIBGI)

Technology Transfer
Patents

Education
Master Programs < European Joint Master in Environmental Process Control Engineering (EPCE) < Joint Masters in Computing < Master in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering < VIBOT - Erasmus Mundus Masters in Vision & Robotics PhD Programs < Doctorate of the Official Postgraduate Programme in Technology < PhD Thesis 2007 < Diploma of Advanced Studies 2007

Publications

Books or Book Chapters Publications in Journals Publications in Conferences

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History and Objectives

History
The Institute of Informatics and Applications (IIiA) is a research institute of the University of Girona created in 1996. IIiA is highly active in research, both basic and industry-oriented, as well as in technology transfer actions. The IIiA currently has more than 140 members, including over 50 doctors. Researchers run their activities in different fields such as computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, telecommunications, automatics, control engineering, and artificial intelligence. They are members of three departments of the University of Girona: the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automatics, and the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics.

Objectives
The main purpose of the IIiA is to acquire an international reputation in its scientific and technical activity. This reputation has its basis in the conception, design and implementation of R&D projects and technology transfer contracts. These activities produce innovative results in all their phases, both in scientific and engineering terms. Moreover, the Institute aims at contributing to the economic development and growth of its region industrial context in the Information Technologies sector. The IIiA specific objectives are: To promote research activities, technology transfer and specialized teaching in the fields of Information Technologies and its applications. To foster and coordinate interdisciplinary projects using the different areas of expertise of the institute members. To encourage the development of pre-competitive projects and its materialization in technology innovation contracts. To motivate the participation of the University of Girona in consortiums that focus on research lines close to the ones of its members. The Institute acts as the representative of the University in such consortiums.

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Organisation and Management

Organisation
7 research groups are joined together in the IIiA framework: Agents Research Laboratory (ARLab) Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) Computer Vision and Robotics (Vicorob) Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (eXiT) Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG) Laboratory of Graphics and Imaging (GIlab) Modelling, Identification and Control Engineering Laboratory (MICELab)

Management
The Council is the most important management body and it is composed of all the academic staff of the Institute. The Director is the head of the Institute. It is elected after an open selection process. An Executive Commission represents the council and gives advice to the Director in government tasks. It is formed by the Director, the head of each research group, the academic secretary and the research manager. The Research Manager is responsible for the internal operation of the Institute. The Academic Secretary is in charge of writing the minutes of the Council and Executive Commission meetings and write certificates of the agreements reached on them. Director: Dr. Josep Veh Head of ARLab: Dr. Josep Llus de la Rosa Head of BCDS: Dr. Josep Llus Marzo Head of eXiT: Dr. Joaquim Melndez Head of GGG: Prof. Dr. Xavier Pueyo / Dr. Joan Antoni Sellars Head of GILab: Prof. Dr. Mateu Sbert Head of MICE: Dr. Josep Veh Head of Vicorob: Dr. Jordi Freixenet Technical Secretary: Mr. Xavier Manyer Research Manager: Ms. Denisa Gibovic Academic Secretary: Dr. Marc Carreras The Secretariat of the Institute provides administrative support to the Institute Members. Assistants: Ms. Rosa Teixidor, Ms.Montserrat Bragulat

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IIiA 2007 in figures

Financing
The Research and Development as well as the Technology Transfer projects in 2007 were financed by the sources presented in figure 1. Important to mention are R&D projects financed by the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) with 41%. The Technology Transfer projects were financed by 18% out of contracts with private companies and/or public bodies and by 3% out of public financed technology transfer projects. Furthermore it is important to mention that in 2007 IIiA received important grants for human resources (young researchers), which made 24% of the total financing. Figure 2 presents the total revenues in 2007 taking into account the revenues from each source of financing and the total revenue in 2007.
figure 1: Sources of financing IIiA 2007

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Human resources
Table 1 shows the total number of academic staff of the IIiA as well as their academic qualifications and gender. Apart of this academic staff presented in table 1, the IIiA occupies granted academic staff as presented in table 2 for 2007.

table 1: Academic staff IIiA 2007

Personnel total 2007 IIiA

Total Academic University Professors Doctors Graduated

Number full time

55 4 35 16

Number part time

38 0 8 30

Total
93 4 43 46

Male
87 4 40 43

Female
6 0 3 3

table 2: Granted academic staff

2007
Grant (Generalitat) Grant BR (UdG) Grant FPI (MCYT) Grant FPU (MEC) Ramon y Cajal ICREA TOTAL

Full time
4 4 1 2 4 1 16

Female
1 1 2 1 5

Male
3 4 1 1 2 11

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Research Groups
Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems

Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS)

The BCDS group (ref. GRCT40) is active in two main research areas: Broadband Network Control and Management and Distributed Systems. The group has led several long-term governmental projects involving other universities and companies like Internet Service Providers and Public Health Institutions. These projects, along with the basic research performed on the group, bring many publications and contributions on international journals, symposiums and conferences. BCDS carries out its research within the Institute of Informatics and Applications at the University of Girona, and it is also part of the DURSI consolidated research group AEDS (ref. SGR-00296). level parallel extraction and utilization mechanism in distributed environments based in clustering and using speculation techniques. Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems. Open and Distance Learning: different approaches to support open learning process by means of artificial intelligence techniques. - Adaptive Models for Distance Learning - Dynamic Adaptive Hypermedia Systems

Industrial partners
Aegis Security, Intercom Telemtica Girona, CEMA, FEM, GRN.

Research lines and application domains

Control and Management of Quality of Service (QoS) networks: protection scheme selection and routing and network resource usage improvements. Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Network Management: flexible tools for automatic decision taking and corrective actions. Optimization Techniques (Ant Colony Opt., Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms, Linear Programming, etc). Connection Admission Control Mechanisms forelastic (TCP) traffic: network schemes that guarantee minimum throughput, isolation between flows and per-flow state reduction of signalling and processing. Dynamic Resource Allocation and Load Balancing. Charging for Multicast QoS Services: a rational cost allocation/recovery tool. Multi-level ([G]MPLS & optical) Routing and Protection mechanisms. Metro Ethernet: Control and Scalability issues. Distributed Processing and Parallelism (Grids): thread-

Website link
http://bcds.udg.edu

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Enginyeria de Control i Sistemes Intelligents

Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (eXiT)

The activity of the group is mainly devoted to study and develop new methods to cope with actual and future necessities of process monitoring and supervision. Main activity is focused on the efficient exploitation of data based on data mining and knowledge discovery principles: Blast Furnaces: On line monitoring of Pressures. Moulding: Off line assessment of moulds (ageing and abnormal behaviours) based on injection pressures and temperatures. Data Mining in medical Diagnosis and Prognosis: data mining principles to analyse historical clinical data of patients with obesity and cancer dysfunctions. Agent Market Based Mechanisms for Distributed Systems: Scheduling and Optimisation of Waste Water Treatment plants based on auctions. Multi-agent robot control: Multi-agent resource coordination for controlling an autonomous robot (Pioneer).

Research lines and application domains

Multivariate Statistical Process Control. Agent Based Systems for Distributed Scheduling and Resource Allocation. Power Quality Monitoring of Electrical Distribution Systems. Data Mining for medical Diagnosis and Prognosis. Research results obtained in these lines are tested in challenging domains involving third party collaborators to identify real breakthrough achievements. Power Quality Monitoring: Automatic diagnosis of sags and fault location in distribution networks. Batch Process Monitoring: Statistical monitoring of waste water treatment plants with Sequential Batch reactors. Off Line Monitoring of ARIANE flights: Identification of abnormal flights from the analysis of sensor registers during the flights.

Industrial partners
Endesa Distribucin, Aiges de Girona, Iberespacio, Plastiasite, ASCAMM, Hutchinson Palamos, Corus (UK), Hospital Josep Trueta.

Website link
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Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG)

Subgroups
Physically Based Modelling and Rendering (PBMR) Computational Geometry In 1993 began the Computer Graphics research at the Universitat de Girona with the study of problems related to image synthesis software. Since then, this research has evolved in different directions including a special interest on Computational Geometry leading in 2007 to the Geometry and Graphics Group (GGG). - Good Illumination Problems - Surface Simplification - Multivisibility and "good" visibility - GPU in Computational Geometry - Spacio-temporal data bases - Quality of meshes

Industrial partners
Parc Cientfic i Tecnolgic de la Universitat de Girona, Hella, Espacio Solar.

Research lines and Applications

Physically Based Modelling and Rendering (PBMR) - Natural lighting - Real time reflections and refractions (Real time light interaction) - Inverse lighting - Surface details and Natural phenomena - Complex light sources - High dynamic range images Computational Geometry - Partial Matching Problems - Multivisibility on terrains - Voronoi diagrams - Quality mesh generation

Website link
http://iiia.udg.edu/GGG/

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Modelling, Identification and Control Engineering

Modelling, Identification and Control Engineering Laboratory (MICELab)

MICELab is a multidisciplinary team composed of experienced researchers from the control engineering field with expertise in systems and control theory, modelling and control of biomedical systems, uncertain dynamical systems, robust and predictive control and decision support systems.

Application fields
Biomedical applications - Artificial Pancreas. - Closed loop glucose control in critically ill patients. - Insulin dosage-aid systems. Civil & Mechanical Engineering - Mechatronics. - Structural control. - Structural Health monitoring. Robotics - Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (AUVs). - Mobile robots. Computer Graphics - New rendering algorithms based on MIA.

Research areas
Control Engineering - Robust and non-linear control. - Fault detection and diagnostics of uncertain dynamic systems. - Structural health monitoring. Biomedical Engineering - Modelling and control in type 1 diabetes. - Development of glycemic predictive models. - Technologies for metabolic control. Interval Analysis - Theoretical development of Modal Interval Analysis(MIA). - Interval simulation. - Applications of intervals to systems and control.

Industrial and stategic partners

Medtronic diabetes (CA, USA), Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta, Hospital Parc Taul, CITCEA, TWI (Cambridge, UK), Alstom (Grenoble, France), ESPA group.

Website link: http://mice.udg.es/

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VICOROB
Visi per Computador i Robtica

Computer Vision and Robotics (Vicorob)

The Computer Vision and Robotics research group is formed by more than 40 researchers (18 doctors, 16 with permanent contract; 20 PhD students among others). VICOROB develops computer vision and image processing systems with applications such as object detection and description, image segmentation, texture recognition, mosaicing, and tracking of mobile objects. One of the main application areas is the quality control of industrial products. Other fields of application are biomedicine, multimedia and security-related systems. The computer vision systems are also the main source of information of the robots developed by the group. For instance, ICTINEU is an underwater robot made by VICOROB, used for underwater exploration, navigation and map building, and can be controlled in both tele-operated and autonomous way. Furthermore people from VICOROB have created three spin-offs companies (AQSENSE, DSET and CORONIS COMPUTING) and collaborate with different hospitals working in melanoma, prostate, and breast cancer research. Analysis of underwater imaging and mosaicing, 3D dense reconstruction, map building, optical and acoustical data fusion, imaging polarimetry. Analysis of image content, segmentation and description, colour and texture, 3D reconstruction of deformable objects. Image processing in real time and mobile robotics. 3D Imaging.

Research Labs
Underwater Robotics Lab. Underwater Vision Lab. Real-Time Hardware Lab. 3D Perception Lab. Image Analysis Lab.

Collaborations with companies

Kontrelmec, Factis, Optimus, D+T Electrnica, AQSense, DSET, Frit Ravich, ADParts, CEMGREF, etc.

Research lines and Applications

Underwater Robotics: architectures of control, learning, navigation, and mapbuilding. ROVs and AUVs. Analysis of Medical Imaging.

Website link
http://vicorob.udg.edu

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Laboratory of Graphics and Image (GILab)

The research of GIlab is driven by the application to computer graphics and scientific visualization of powerful information theory and Monte Carlo concepts and techniques. GIlab responds to the demand of the industrial sector in different areas such as computer games and medicine. Viewpoint selection and object recognition research is applied to obtain viewpoint quality measures, mesh information and saliency, and shape descriptors to calculate the similarity between objects of large databases. Computational aesthetics research joins together different fields such as computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the arts. In particular, we investigate informational aesthetic measures to quantify order, complexity and information in images, paintings, and sculptures.

Research Lines and Applications

Global illumination research is focused on algorithms for the illumination of virtual environments. This research is applied to videogames, animation, interior and lighting design, and architectural environments. Videogames research is centred on improving the graphic realism for games as well as its application to virtual reality and simulation systems, and virtual settings for movies and broadcasting. Medical imaging research, in collaboration with medical staff from the main Catalan public hospitals, investigates efficient solutions for the technical and clinical problems in the field of medical imaging, developing new tools to support diagnosis. Scientific visualization research is focused on the visualization and simplification techniques to explore 3D medical, molecular, and financial data, amongst others.

Industrial partners
AIJU, Brainstorm, T-Systems Iberia, Digital Legends, Infowerk, Saber Interactive, GiDoc, IDI and IRTA.

Website link
http://gilab.udg.edu

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Agents Research Lab (ARLab)

Agents Research Lab is concerned with the development and analysis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and control architectures for both agents and multiagent systems. The origin of our group is the application of Artificial Intelligence to control and supervision. In these issues, the group has obtained successful results in the development of physical agents. Currently, we are exploiting the particular properties of physical agents to personalised agents. This involves research on multi-agent architectures for user modelling and recommender systems, trust mechanisms for agent collaboration, integration information frameworks and social networks. The transfer of research results proceeds over the laboratory of transfer (TLab) of the centre EASY of the IT network of CIDEM, and especially over the created spin-offs: Agents Inspired Technologies (2000), Catalan Research Centre One (2005) and Strategic Attention Management (2007).

Industrial partners
Municipality of Terrassa, La Caixa, Metalquimia, Manter, CRIC, emagister, Transports Pujol & Pujol S.L, PSM-Carlson Marketing Group, Manter, Byrom.plc, Catalan Research Center One.

Website link
http://eia.udg.edu/arlab/

Research lines and Applications

Research Information Agents and Agent-based e-Commerce. Current research technologies: Case Based Reasoning, Recommender Systems, Personalisation, Adaptation, Consensus and Trust. Research on Physical Agents. The aim is to include the dynamical response of the agent's physical body when committing and deciding as an individual and to study physically heterogeneous multi-agent systems in order to benefit from properties of heterogeneity.

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Public-Funded Research Projects

EC (European Comission) financed projects
MRTN-CT-2006-036186- FREESUBNET
Project Type: Marie Curie RTN Duration: 48 Months Start: November 2006 Budget: 195.695 UdG Partners: University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM, CEA - FRANCE, CNR Robot - ITALY, CNRS - FRANCE, Cybernetix FRANCE, Hellenice Centre for Maritime Reserach - GREECE, Heriot Watt University - UNITED KINGDOM, IFREMER - FRANCE, IST - PORTUGAL, JRC - ITALY, NTNU - NORWAY, University of Hannover - GERMANY, University of Craiova - ROMANIA, University de Girona - SPAIN, University of Azores - PORTUGAL Coordinator: Prof. Philip Alan Wilson (U. of Southampton) Coordinator UdG: Pere Ridao UdG Team: Pere Ridao, Rafel Garca

FREESUBNET - A European research network on key technologies for intervention autonomous underwater vehicles. There are many
unresolved scientific questions and equally many major strategic economic and social development needs from an exploration of the seas around Europe. There is a pressing need for the development of advanced technologies to explore and exploit in a consistent and better manner the vastness of the oceans of the world. Intervention Autonomous Underwater vehicles (I-AUV) have shown their potential for the acquisition of marine data at extremely large scales and for the direct intervention in underwater structures without the need for constant human interaction and supervision. Part of the technology required for their development has proven to be feasible. An increased effort is now needed to further the advances already made in the technology and to make the results more accessible to a wider range of commercial and scientific end users. To this end it is necessary to create a critical mass of young researchers capable of bridging the gap between marine technology and science. To achieve this FREESUBnet will first explore a set of applications with intervention requirements thus allowing the focus of the research to be in the fields of Marine Science, Inspection of Wrecks & Archaeology, assessment of Energy systems and multi-disciplinary applications in Marine Science. In this context, the network will study novel concepts of IAUV' leading to the identification and the development of the technologies needed to fulfil these tasks. The techniques for navigation, autonomous underwater telemanipulation, vehicle control and mission management technologies, will be further explored and developed to close the gap between state-of-the art IAUV technology and its applications. FREESUBnet aims to meet its goals by establishing an international network of technology developers as well as being inter-sectorial and deliver the technology to end-users from different and diverse disciplines.

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IST-5-012990- ONE
Project Type: STREP of IST-6FP Duration: 30 Months Start: September 2006 Budget: 2.026.724 (154.775 UdG) Partners: Create-NET- Italy, Soluta.Net Est Europa Srl - Romania, Istituto Trentino di Cultura - Italy, Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland, Universitat St. Gallen - Switzerland, Service Management International Limited - UK, Universitat de Girona - Spain, Coopservice S. Coop. P.A. - Italy Coordinator: Prof. Imrich Chalamatac (Create-NET) Coordinator UdG: Josep Llus de la Rosa (UdG) UdG Team: Josep Lluis de la Rosa, Miquel Montaner, Patricia Gaona

ONE - Open Negotiation Environment. The ONE project is a STREP project funded by the European Commission under the DG-INFSO that is geared towards SMEs in order to provide them with a trusted, secure and free of charge technological environment in which they are able to create tactical and strategic alliances; for the ultimate goal of pursuing business opportunities and growth. To keep up with the competition in digital markets SMEs have the need of developing alliances and collaborating together in order to provide joint services and also to address large tenders.
ONE will be achieved through a set of technology components which can be tailored to the needs of a specific organization; conforming to its business requirements and adapting to its every requirement. The project will deliver an open source platform for negotiation, driven by innovative business models and technologies; it will be implemented mainly as an integration of innovative research component, delivered within the project, and existing with off-the-shelf technology using already standardized information models. It will extend and leverage more general purpose digital ecosystem architecture. There will be a general architectural framework developed for negotiation, allowing the adaptation of the platform to many different industry sectors. ONE will provide a negotiation mechanism that is reusable in different application and service domains providing a great level of flexibility and allowing users for example to create negotiation processes also for other goals like for example qualification or certification processes. The ONE platform will actively support the human negotiators by exploiting automatic learning techniques applied to the goal of learning the best negotiation strategies in a multi-agent environment. Optimized strategy would be suggested through a learning process based on the observation of user behaviour, other partners actions as perceived by the user and concurrent running negotiations. The ONE negotiation environment will support technical and non-technical users in specifying strategies and rules for negotiating terms of service delivery. It will provide a distributed and peer-to-peer platform for fully automated execution of negotiations based on knowledge sharing and self-learning.

IST-2-004363- Game Tools

Project Type: STREP of IST-FP6 Duration: 33 Months Start: September 2004 Budget: 1.649.863 (245.100 UdG) Partners: University of Girona (UdG) - Spain, University Jaume I (UJI) - Spain, Vienna Institute of Technology (VUT) - Austria, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) - Hungary, Technical University of Valencia (UPV) - Spain, Universite de Limoges (Unilim) - France, Asociacin de investigacin de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines (AIJU) - Spain, PGM Trading - Austria, Sektor4 - Denmark, Digital Legends Entertainment - Spain, Infowerk Softwareentwicklungs - Austria, Gedas Iberia - Spain Coordinator: Mateu Sbert (UdG) Project Management Office: Jordi Palau and Denisa Gibovic (UdG) UdG Team: Mateu Sbert, Miquel Feixas, Francesc Castro, lex Mndez, Roel Martnez, Lszl Neumann, Jaume Rigau, Jordi Palau, Francesc Gonzlez, Ismael Garca, Nicolau Sunyer

Advanced Tools for Developing Highly Realistic Computer Games (Game Tools). GameTools is a strategic project funded by the European
Commission coordinated by the University of Girona. It will create next generation real time 3D libraries for Geometry, Visibility and Global Illumination for the PC platform using the OGRE 3D engine, with an extension to consoles PS2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360 through the use of Shark3D engine. Geometry The GTP GeometryLib supplies a Multiresolution LOD (Level of Detail) solution which addresses the shortcomings of previous approaches by giving developers access to a complete package of solid technology which supplies A fast image based simplification algorithm to efficiently create high quality MLODs without human intervention. Multiresolution triangle strip generation taking into account topology and texture of the base model. A memory & runtime efficient compressed multiresolution mesh format that contains triangle strip information, avoiding the need for costly on-the-fly tristrip generation. A new multiresolution model specially fitted for plants allowing for an incredible amount of close up detail for e.g. leaves, while at the same time supplying simplified representations for the fast rendering of objects which are further away.

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Visibility In computer graphics, Visibility deals with the problem of rendering faster by rendering only the objects of the scene that can be seen. Existing solutions along that line employed in modern day 3D/game-engines are mostly based either on Portals or on Quake style PVS (potentially visible set). While these approaches have been successfully employed in commercial products for years, they nonetheless have considerable drawbacks The GTP VisibilityLib overcomes these problems with a 2-phase strategy: A solution which supplies precalculated visibility based on modern visibility research, also suited for outdoor scenes. A solution which efficiently employs modern day graphic hardware to deliver on-the-fly visibility with minimal overhead. Illumination Global Illumination is the field of computer graphics that deals with physically correct illumination. Usually this is associated with stochastic ray tracing solutions taking hours to calculate a single picture. The GTP IlluminationLib brings physically correct rendering to the domain of realtime graphics. Effects that will be possible include: Soft Shadow/Lighteffects, Dynamic Lightsources, Indirect Illumination, Reflections, Realtime Radiosity, High-Quality Materials (Metal...), Cloud Rendering.

MRTN-CT-2004-505026- Momarnet
Project Type: Marie Curie RTN Duration: 48 Months Start: September 2004 Budget: 2.618.044 (178.421 UdG) Partners: Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris - France, Instituto do Mar, Univ. Aores - Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa - Portugal, Stockholm University - Sweden, Max Plank Institute for Marine Microbiology - Germany, Institute Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Italy, National Oceanography Centre - United Kingdom, Cardiff University - United Kingdom, University of Wales - United Kingdom, University of Girona - Spain, Vrije Universiteit Brussels - Belgium, U. de Bretagne Occidentale - France, U. Pierre et Marie Curie - France, Institut Franais de Recherche pour lExploration de la Mer - France Coordinator: Mathilde Cannat (IPGP) Coordinator UdG: Rafael Garca UdG Team: Rafel Garca, Pere Ridao, Olivier Delaunoy

MOMARET. The MOMARnet Marie Curie Research Training Network aims at strengthening the European approach to deep seafloor observatory
science and technology, by reinforcing the links between fourteen European laboratories in eight countries, by training a multidisciplinary group of young researchers, and by producing new science and preparing for new seagoing cruises and seafloor experiments. MOMARnet has two broad research targets: Understanding the dynamics of slow-spreading ridge hydrothermal vents and their plumbing system (depth of seawater circulation, heat sources, feedback between volcanic, hydrothermal and seismic events) Understanding deep-seafloor hydrothermal ecosystems, including their distribution, role and variety of organisms, life cycles, effects of changes in the hydrothermal outflow (temperature, flow rate, chemistry, etc.) MOMARnet science will contribute to the implementation of the MOMAR (MOnitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) international project of setting up a multidisciplinary sea-floor observatory for monitoring hydrothermal vent environments along the Mid-Atlantic ridge close to the Azores archipelago. The University of Girona team will develop a semiautomatic software that will produce well navigate mosaics of seafloor images, and establish a data bank of processed seafloor images for the MOMAR hydrothermal sites. These data will be key to manage future MOMAR-related experiments. PhD student will develop software to combine navigation data, images of the ocean floor, seafloor bathymetry and acoustic imagery. Mosaicing techniques (existing and developed within this project) will be applied to build a geo-referenced image mosaic of the Lucky Strike hydrothermal site. This mosaicing software will be developed in a flexible manner, so as to be expanded and applied to 3D-vision systems, video imagery, and high-resolution acoustic systems used on current ROVs and AUVs, and to other configurations that may be used in seafloor surveys in the future.

225997-CP-1-2005-1-FR-ERASMUS-TNPP
Project Type: EU Duration: 36 Months

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Start: October 2005 Partners: Please see http://www.eie-surveyor.org/partners.htm Coordinator: Jean-Marc THIRIET (Universit Henri Poincar Nancy, France) UdG coordinator: Josep Llus Marzo

EIE- Surveyor Thematic Network: Reference point for electrical and information engineering in Europe. EIE-Surveyor is an ERASMUS thematic network which is funded by the European Commission for a three-year period (October 2005-September 2008). Launched as an answer to a call for propositions from the European Commission, the aims of the project are globally to reflect and make concrete propositions for the problem of mobility of students, readability of contents, and recognition of diploma.
The project is organised as four main tasks, each responsible for an outcome of the project, together with the corresponding activities and dissemination strategy. The coordination between the tasks and the global dissemination strategy is ensured thanks to the managing team of the project. Acting as a reference point for Electrical and Information Engineering in Europe, this project has been proposed and is achieved under the aegis of the EAEEIE (European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, www.eaeeie.org). Objectives: Reflection on generic competences and subject-specific competences in Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE) Implementation of quality assessment methodologies on some educational resources available in EIE Reflection and proposition of a methodology for accreditation, in order to enhance comparability and common certification procedures Proposition of a census of the existing curricula in EIE in Europe, the multinational degrees, and the situation of the implementation of the Bologna-process in EIE, at the bachelor, master and PhD levels Target groups: Professional engineering associations, Life Long Learning institutions Students, teachers and learners Accreditation boards Main activities: Application of the TUNING methodology to EIE, to identify competences Observatory on the degrees available in EIE in Europe, and state of the implementation of the Bologna-process Quality assessment of some resources in EIE available through internet Analysis of existing accreditation procedures, proposition of a methodology Expected outputs: Update of the monograph on the degrees and international degrees available in EIE in Europe Guidelines for contents as generic competences and subject-specific competences in EIE Guideline for a proposition for an accreditation methodology, together with a census on existing accreditation boards and methodology Mediatheque of selected pedagogical resources available in EIE, with a quality assessment

EU COST 293
Project Type: EU Duration: 48 Months Start: October 2004 Budget: 40.000 /year Partners: For a listing of the 42 participating institutions see People > Institutions at http://www.cost293.org Coordinator: Arie Koster (University of Warwick, UK) UdG coordinator: Josep Llus Marzo

COST Action 293: Graphs and algorithms in communication networks (GRAAL). The main objective of this Action is to elaborate global and solid advances in the design of communication networks by letting experts and researchers with strong mathematical background meet peers specialized in communication networks, and share their mutual experience by forming a multidisciplinary scientific co-operation community.
More precisely, it is intended that scientists performing fundamental research in specific mathematical disciplines including in particular discrete mathematics, algorithmics, mathematical optimisation, and distributed computing will help solving problems proposed by scientists involved in practical research in the area of communication networks, covering broadband packet network design, backbone optical network design, multi-layer networks design, as well as wireless and ad-hoc networks design. The discussion space will benefit to both scientific communities focusing on theoretical and practical research. On one hand, practical researchers will benefit from high-level theoretical and formal approaches to design comprehensive and efficient algorithmic-based solutions, as an essential complement to ad-hoc or heuristics-based solutions. As an example, the most recent advances in the design of efficient broadband and backbone networks were achieved by merging linear optimization methods/tools with graph theoretic ones. Thus practice-oriented researchers will learn how to use theoretical results to solve practical problems and improve existing solutions. For a detailed description see What is GRAAL? at http://www.cost293.org/

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International funding
2007/R2
Project Type: Royal Society International Joint Projects Duration: 12 Months Start: January 2007 Budget: 9920 Partners: University of London (Queen Mary College), University of Girona Coordinator: Josep Lluis Marzo UdG Team: Josep Lluis Marzo, Pere Vil, Lluis Fbrega, Eusebi Calle

Intelligent Connection Management for Automatically Switched Optical Networks. The main aim is to perform an initial exploration of resource provisioning within an optical network, given non-stationary and uncertain traffic demand profiles. In the first year the project will undertake a requirements capture. After this, a review of the state of the art will be carried out to prepare a basic resource management framework, capitalizing on the particular experiences of the institutions involved. In the second year a rigorous testing regime will be devised together with the selection of suitable comparative performance metrics. Onto this framework various Routing and Wavelength Assignment and Redeployment algorithms can be subsequently evaluated by each institution and results shared. Throughout this time, regular visits will allow for in-depth collaboration supplemented by web-conferences.

Ministry of Education and Science (MEC)

TIN2007-68066-C04-01
Coordinator: Mateu Sbert UdG Team: Miquel Feixas Feixas, Francesc Castro Villegas, Roel Elfego Martnez Ramrez, Jaume Rigau Vilalta, Esteban Fermn Del Acebo Pea, Alexandre Brusi Terrades, David Lloret Vilallonga, Meritxell Estebanell Minguell, Pere Cornell Canals, Josefina Ferrs Font, Eullia Guiu Puget, lex Mndez Feliu, Francisco Gonzlez Garca, Ismael Garca Fernndez, Niculau Sunyer Ferrer Partners: Budget: 175.000 Duration: 36 Months Project Type: MEC Start: October 2007

Intelligent Content for virtual reality applications (CONTIENE) - technics of viewpoint and global ilumination. This project addresses the creation of
intelligent content for multimedia and virtual reality applications. As observed by Roberto Cencione, the explosion in the availability of networked multimedia content brings about problems of scale, usability and democratisation of the tool chain that need to be addressed. Also, the proliferation of data that has been produced by devices is in need of interpretation and integration and they create novel demands on knowledge representation and reasoning. We target here this problem by introducing on the one hand intelligent tools that are able to produce and present the information to the user in a more clever (creating both adaptable and adaptive multimodal interfaces), and somehow aesthetical way, and on the other hand by borrowing from computer game technology and advanced hardware, that allow for faster and interactive tools. Application areas targeted are computer games, simulation, animation, broadcasting, GIS. Examples of applications aimed at are automatic multiple light positioning for virtual scenes, intelligent search of 3D objects for game setting, best viewpoint for scene and object exploration taking user perceived preferences into account, editing tools for virtual scene automatic content creation such as landscapes, buildings, for easier selection of camera and light positioning in an animation by offering the editor an unprecedented choice of light and camera paths. We envisage also interactive, memory efficient and visually realistic display of both artificial single 3D objects (manufactured objects, characters, etc.) and complex natural environments (trees, forest, landscape etc.), as well as software tools for userfriendly edition of material and lighting properties for this kind of scenarios, with emphasis on immediate realistic visual feedback.

TIN2007-67982-C02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2007

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Budget: 191.180 Partners: UPC, University of Girona - Spain Coordinator: Antoni Sellars (UdG) UdG Team: Immaculada Boada Oliveras, Narcs Coll Arnau, Jordi Regincs Isern, Mara Ethel Guerrieri, Santiago Dez Donoso, Antoni Bardera Reig, Ferran Prados Castro, David Fguls Massot, Albert Rovira Brugus, Josep Soler Mas, Marta Fort Casadevall, Narcs Madern Leandro, Teresa Paradinas Salsn, Marc Ruiz Altisent

Modelling, visualization, animation and analysis of highly complex 3D environments in interactive virtual reality systems. In aiming
to extend the virtual reality experience to ever larger models and scenes, innovative, efficient and scalable solutions are required in many fronts to make it possible. This project intends to push the frontiers of this technology in ways that will allow users to experiment virtual immersion in scenes of previously unmanageable complexity, whilst providing means to bring that experience to more mundane environments and budgets. To this end, we propose to work on several fronts. On one side, we propose to expand the current state of the art in real time rendering to allow for the rendering of more detailed complex scenes, while incorporating techniques of physically-based animation and the simulation of crowds that interact with the environment and the user to increase the impression of realism and autonomous existence of the virtual worlds. On a second front, we purport to facilitate the construction of immersed interfaces that will allow for a richer, seamless and intuitive navigation of the virtual environments. Yet other two aspects of the problem - at opposed ends of the pipeline - are tackled in two specific packages devoted to the development of new and flexible VR devices, and to the processing of geometry to make it amenable to be manipulated efficiently in these systems. Finally, we intend to evaluate the results by developing and thoroughly testing demonstration packages built on the technologies developed, in the areas of medical applications, in cultural heritage and evaluation of emergency situations (for example evacuation of large public places). In a complementary line of research, the same tools developed to deal with extremely complex scenes, including out-of-core handling, will be adapted to a related application scenario: the navigation of very high density medical data. In this area, we will also adapt and apply the GPUdriven techniques for realtime visualisation to the rendering of volume models. Also we intend to continue researching the application of information theory to give efficient solution of registration, segmentation problems and to try inasmuch as possible to achieve automatic generation of transference functions to generate images of fused models. Finally, we will study the representation and analysis of terrains through Triangulated Irregular Networks (TIN) obtained from irregularly-sampled terrain points.

TIN2007-67120
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2007 Budget: 96.800 Partners: University of Girona - Spain Coordinator: Francesc Xavier Pueyo UdG Team: Ignacio Martn Campos, Gustavo Ariel Patow, Sergio Gonzalo Besuievsky Glikberg, Albert Mas Baixeras, Carles Bosch Geli, Pau Estalella Fernndez, Joan Surrell Saur

CALBaD. Computer Aided Light Based Design.The project consists of a central body (Illumination simulation) formed by three main blocks,
which is oriented to the design (CAD) of active (luminaries, luminaries distribution) or passive illumination systems and elements (windows, skylights). The results of the three blocks from this central body will be applied to environments, which will be generated in the urban modelling block, and will take advantage of the techniques developed in the Interactive visualization block. Urban modelling. Generation of complex urban and architectural environments with GPU-based solutions. The generation of those environments will be not only interactive, but also will be based on a parametric description that allows a procedural design. Illumination Simulation. Usage of the light transport simulation and its interaction with the environment (surfaces and volumes) in different ways: Artificial Illumination. Creation and development of inverse reflector design software tools that will allow improvements in the production process and the optimization of its luminous efficiency. Natural Illumination. Development of efficient physically based and evaluation techniques of the natural illumination that will enable its usage in architectural and urban design projects. Assisted Illumination. Development of software tools for illumination design from images of the environment to illuminate, or from definitions of desired illumination perceptual objectives. Interactive Visualization. Design and development of solutions, based on the exploitation of the advantages of modern GPUs, for the treatment of complex illumination systems and for obtaining high quality images, in a resolution and distance-independent manner.

TEC2006-27633-E
Project Type: MEC Duration: 12 Months Start: January 2007

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Budget: 10.000 Partners: (CTTC) Centre de Transferencia Tecnolgica de Catalunya, RedIRIS, Universidad de Alcal, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha (Albacete), Universitat de Girona, Universidad de Jaen, Universidad de Malaga, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Vigo, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Universidad Politcnica de Cartagena, Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Universidad de Extremadura, Universidad Ramn Llull Coordinator: Josep Llus Marzo Lzaro UdG Team: Josep Llus Marzo Lzaro, Teodor Jov Lagunas, Ramn Fabregat Gesa, Pere Vil Talleda, Eusebi Calle Ortega, Llus Fbrega Soler, Antonio Bueno Delgado, Anna Urra Fbregas, Liliana Carrillo Flrez, Fernando Solano Donado, Juan Segovia, Joan Puiggal Allepuz, David V.H. Mrida, Luis Fernando Caro

Thematic network on the management of IP networks oriented to virtual circuits. This Thematic Network (TN) helps to keep in
contact and facilitate collaborations between the research teams that work in the field of virtual circuit-based communication networks, using in particular the MPLS (Multiprotocol Lavel Switching) and GMPLS (Generalized MPLS) protocols. This TN is the continuation of a previous 1-year TN: "Red Temtica de Gestin de Redes IP Orientadas a Circuitos Virtuales" (TEC200421061-E). An additional 7-member research group has joined (URL) and new actions have been planned. The TN is open to new partners. It has grown from 6 research groups (30 researchers in total) in 2003 to the current 19 research groups and more than one hundred researchers.

PET20006_90822
Project Type: MEC - Petri Duration: 24 Months Start: January 2007 Budget: 71.257 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, Town Hall Terrassa UdG Team: Josep Llus de la Rosa

ISAC Web 2.0: Extension of Cooperative Open Source for Systems of Virtual Citizen Care. iSAC 2.0 is a project designed to expand and
upgrade the capacity and quality of care to the public in local governments of any size, with the help of new scientific knowledge in intelligent agents and wikis, along with the application of modern technologies of Information and Communication on the Internet and search engines. This project will explode especially small and medium-sized municipalities, which citizenship approach with all kinds of questions and doubts, usually not restricted to the local level. Which innovations are included? Understand the citizen when he/she uses its own language (extension multilanguage eSAC) Understand the citizen when he/she speaks in colloquial language, or does not use the correct words usually used by public administration Identify his/her claim albeit misspellings, semantics, language, grammar, typographical, etc. Service for citizen in any application, even when his/her questions transcend the responsibility of the directed administration If the person who makes the claim is identified (using the digital ID, an advanced electronic signature, and so on.), the response can be customized depending on the information that it is available, which will increase greatly the efficiency of care. The intelligent agents will enable us to understand citizens, to know better not only their expectations, habits, culture, needs, interests, but also how they live and what can be useful for their daily life.

PET2006_0833 - 2A
Project Type: MEC - Petri Duration: 24 Months Start: January 2007 Budget: 53.354 Partners: University og Girona - Spain, PSM S.A. UdG Team: Josep Llus de la Rosa

Motor of a 3A System of Customer Loyalty. It is the research and transference of kalman filter and its application to behavior forecast based on dynamic models of customers and their consumption pattern. This is applied to relational marketing programs for customers in what is called the 3A system (Alarms, Analysis, and Actions).

TEC2006-03883
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months

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Start: October 2006 Budget: 90.750 Partners: University of Girona, University of Extremadura, Universidad del Norte (Colombia), University of London, Technical University of Denmark Coordinator: Josep Llus Marzo UdG Team: Josep Llus Marzo, Teodor Jov, Pere Vil, Llus Fbrega, Antonio Bueno, Eusebi Calle, Joan Puggal, Snia Oliveras, Anna Urra, Luis Fernando Caro, Fernando Solano, Jeimy Vlez

Multilayer Mechanisms for Resource allocation and Restorable Routing in GMPLS- based core networks (M2R3). Internet Protocol
(IP) networks currently operate over a semi-static transport infrastructure, where the management is concentrated within the IP layer. With the introduction of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), an intermediate circuit-switching communication layer is added together with its corresponding management plane. Moreover, the development of optical technologies such as Dense-Wave Division Multiplexing (D-WDM), supporting wavelength switching, etc., allow new multilayer networks to be constructed with an unprecedented degree of freedom and flexibility. Nevertheless, the management of such multilayer networks is more complex and presents potential instabilities. The complexity of the evaluation of the percentage that should be applied at each management layer, i.e. IP, MPLS or optical, presents a significant challenge. We denote as activation degree such percentage which will depend on multiple conditions such as: the topology of the network, types of traffic, the load of the network and the desired degree of protection. The main objectives of the M2R3 project are the investigation of the following components: quality of service routing mechanisms, routing with protection and a dynamic resource management. They must be developed and configured according to the required activation degree. The project will provide novel tools that will enable network operators to suitably manage their networks in a holistic manner, allowing the various technologies to operate in concert rather than inefficiently or even in conflict with each other. To the best of our knowledge, the approach we present to resolve this complex management challenge has not been undertaken in other proposals.

DPI2006-09370
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2006 Budget: 72.600 Partners: University of Girona Coordinator: Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: Joaquim Melndez, Josep Xargay, Sergio Herraiz, Carles Pous, Josep Dellonder, Bianca Innocenti

Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Distribution Networks Based on Cases and Models. The project proposes a case based reasoning (CBR)
strategy to diagnose electric faults. Cases will be built from disturbances, collected by power quality monitoring instruments (events) located at substations, and register reporting all the action performed in the network gathered in the network control centre. Setting dependences between waveform attributes and its causes will be used in the definition of cases. Disturbance propagation models and feature extraction strategies will be analysed in order to represent cases consistently. This analysis will be also useful in the definition of Retrieval, Reuse, Revision and Retain tasks needed to build the CBR cycle. The Case Based Diagnosis system will be improved in the location step by the integration of a module to estimate the distance to faults in the distribution network. This module will be based in the estimation of the impedance during the fault and the use of algorithmic techniques, involving the model of the line, to estimate an equivalent fault distance. The combination of this estimated distance and origin from retrieved cases in presence of a new disturbance will enhance the diagnostic. Finally, an extension of cases to sequences of them is proposed to predict catastrophic faults. The recognition of a disturbance as part of a one of these sequences will be interpreted as a symptom to predict a possible fault.

PTR1995-1020-OP
Project Type: MEC Duration: 12 Months Start: July 2006 Budget: 57.380 Funding: 100% Partners: University og Girona, Endesa UdG Team: Joaquim Melndez, Sergio Herraiz, Carles Pous

Development of a prototype to assist fault location in distribution networks. This project aims at developing a prototype tool to assist fault location in distribution networks using the companys existent knowledge about network and perturbation logs (wave shapes and events) as well as operations and actuations on the network registered in the control centre.

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Two main aspects in the monitoring of the power quality are expected to be improved: Analysis of disturbances propagation, conciliating the incidence logs (from network control centre) with the disturbances registered in different locations of the network (using quality registers) Location of faults occurred in the distribution. A systematic analysis of waveforms of disturbances using algorithmic methods of fault location will allow reducing current location times. The final purpose is to characterize and systematically evaluate perturbations in the distribution network using previous logs and its reutilization to perform a fast location and diagnosis of the network distribution faults. Fault location consists in finding an accurate estimation of the zone in which the fault has occurred, using the measures of the waveform of the registered event and the network topology.

TIN2005-08945-C06-03
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 47.600 Partners: Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia - Spain, University of Girona - Spain, Technical University of Valencia - Spain, University of Castilla la Mancha - Spain, University of Granada - Spain, University Carlos III of Madrid - Spain Coordinator: Jess Gonzlez Boticario (UNED) UdG coordinator: Ramon Fabregat UdG Team: Ramn Fabregat Gesa, Eusebi Calle Ortega, Montse Tesouro Cid, David Vctor Hugo Mrida, Csar Augusto Mantilla Navarro, Joan Puiggal Allepuz, Pau Sanz Helln, Liliana Mara Carrillo Flrez, Clara Ins Pea de Carrillo, Carlos Arteaga Rivero

Adaptation based on machine learning, user modelling and planning for complex user-oriented tasks (AdaptaPlan). This project
has two main objectives. On one side, to analyze the capability of automatically solve tasks that need the integration of planning, machine learning and interaction with different agents (human or software) to ubiquitously and dynamically adapt to the evolving needs of the context. Thus, we have defined a set of scientific goals related to user modelling, machine learning, planning, multi-agent systems, and ubiquitous computing. On the other side, we would like to benefit from the two-fold experience of the project researchers, both as users and developers, in a specific application domain: university education. In this domain, tools that integrate previous techniques are strongly needed. This applied objective consists in the design and development of an architecture that provides services to both students and lecturers in the new education tasks that are defined by the European Space for Higher Education.

DPI-2005-08668-C03-02 (CHIMPFA)
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 71.400 Partners: University of Girona, Technical University of Catalonia (CoDaLab), Technical University of Catalonia (CITCEA) Coordinator: Jos Rodellar Coordinator UdG: Ningsu Luo UdG Team: Ningsu Luo, Joaquim Armengol, Ins Ferrer, Miquel Compte, Rodolfo Villamizar, Sandra M. Castillo, Jorge E. Florez

Analysis, identification and control of mechatronic systems with hysteresis and friction. Application to piezoelectric and magnetorheological actuators. Hysteresis and friction are nonlinearities encountered in various systems in science and engineering areas. This project deals with
mechatronic systems equipped with actuators based on smart materials, in particular piezoelectric and magnetorheological. These actuators are particularly useful in high performance control applications, due to their high precision and fast response. These advantages can only be

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exploited through a fine constructive process and if appropriate theoretical tools are available. Indeed, these actuators have a complex dynamics with presence of nonlinearities, hysteresis and friction being the most significant. Due to the high performance required in closed loop, these actuators are prone to the uncertainties in the models and in the operation conditions. Thus it is essential to have appropriate analytical tools for the study and robust identification of their dynamic models. Moreover, the design of controllers needs the use of advanced nonlinear control theories to be able to guarantee rigorously the narrow specifications in terms of stability, precision and robustness. This project follows three complementary research directions: Development of new theoretical tools for dynamic analysis, robust identification and control of systems with hysteresis and friction Construction of prototypes of piezoelectric and magnetorheological actuators integrated in mechatronic systems Experimental validation in these systems of the developed methods and algorithms The project will consider two problems: micropositioning control and vibration reduction, which have special practical interest nowadays in areas as automotive industry, mechanics, aeronautics, aerospace and civil engineering, as well as in nanotechnologies.

TIN2004-08065-C2-02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 146.000 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, Technical University of Catalonia - Spain Coordinator: Antoni Sellars (UdG) UdG Team: Joan Antoni Sellars Chiva, Francesc Xavier Pueyo Sndez, Jordi Regincs Isern, Inmaculada Boada Oliveras, Narcs Coll Arnau, Mara Ethel Guerrieri, Yago Dez Donoso, Marta Fort Masdevall, Narcs Madern Leandro, David Fguls Massot, Miquel Bofill Arasa, Antoni Bardera Reig, Albert Rovira Brugus, Jos Suy Franch, Josep Soler Mas, Jos Antonio Mndez Mndez, Isabel Pelez Hernndez

Advanced interfaces for the transparent interaction with high complexity models in virtual reality environments. The development
of effective user interfaces for virtual reality environments must face different challenges. Not only must one evolve new paradigms that are adequate in those environments, but they must also be minimally invasive (not to spoil the immersion illusion), and they must rely on an adequate support from the underlying models and model-handling functions, so that the maximum complexity of usable scenes is not seriously limited. This project aims at pushing further the state of the art, developing new techniques at the modelling level (to allow handling models like the most complex currently available, which are too long to fit in memory for a reasonably configured workstation). It also aims at perfecting the state of the art concerning the interfaces themselves, developing specific techniques adapted to the interaction in those media, and especially for remote collaboration. Moreover, the results will be tested developing specific prototypes to verify the usability of the proposed techniques from the point of view of experts in three application areas, chosen amongst those that may benefit the most from the expected results.

TIN2004-07672-C03-01
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 138.400 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, University of Granada - Spain, University of Zaragoza - Spain Coordinator: Ignacio Martn (UdG) UdG Team: Gonzalo Besuievsky, Xavier Pueyo, Lszl Neumann, Gustavo Ariel Patow, Joan Surrell, Marc Massot, Mateu Villaret, Pau Estalella, Carles Bosch, Ramn Pramo, Juan Roberto Jimnez

Algorithms and Graphical Interfaces for Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Lighting Simulation. This project is aimed at making the most of the experience and knowledge in the field of global illumination acquired in previous projects by the participant research groups. The goal is to design and develop graphics interfaces applied to sustainable lighting design. In previous projects, the participant groups have gone more deeply into the development of global illumination algorithms and tools, and they have applied that to solve different problems. Our proposal aims at applying that knowledge to the improvement of lighting design at different levels: from interior lighting design to urban environments. In order to develop usable prototypes it is very important to move away from the simplifications that are usually assumed in global illumination computations. These simplifications usually lead to unacceptable results that cannot be used in real-world applications.
The project deals with the problem of simultaneous and efficient use of artificial and natural light in a way that the tools developed allow for an optimum use of natural light resources, and at the same time, to improve the luminaire design process to optimize its performance. This will bring benefits in energy savings and light pollution reduction. Another important issue is the use of optical properties captured from realworld materials that are used in the simulations. This is the only way to guarantee the usability of the results. There are two main aspects to consider: the collection of real-world data from measurements, and the efficient representation of this data. Finally, due to the high computational cost of most of the techniques proposed, the project also deals with the use of parallel processing and super-computing technologies.

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CTM2004-04205
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 166.550 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, Institut de Physique du Globe CNRS - France, University of Miami - USA Coordinator: Rafael Garca (UdG) UdG Team: Rafael Garca, Xavier Cuf, Llus Pacheco, Ferran Chic, Jordi Ferrer, Mart Fbregas, Antonio Martorano, Tudor Nicosevici, Carles Matabosch, Xavier Muoz

Development of a Modular System to Build Georeferenced Photo-mosaics of the Ocean Floor. In this project we propose the development of new algorithms and techniques for the automatic construction of ocean floor photomosaics. Photo-mosaics allow the geological analysis of ocean floor morphology and hydrothermalism of selected areas. Likewise, underwater photo-mosaics provide high quality images of specific areas for the study of biological communities.
The works which have been carried out up to now in the field of automatic construction of photo-mosaics have been limited to processing planar environments, while most of the regions of interest for the scientific community are located in areas with 3-dimentional relief. For this reason, research and development of new algorithms is a must to enable simultaneous photo-mosaicking and estimation of underwater 3D relief. On the other hand, none of the systems described in the literature is able to automatically build large-scale photo-mosaics, due to the accumulated drift as the mosaic increases its size. In this project we propose to develop new sensor fusion strategies to take advantage of all the information available from the on-board sensors to automatically build bigger and more reliable photo-mosaics. Finally, the proposed system should be modular and flexible, to adapt to a wide diversity of underwater vehicles equipped with various types of sensors. Such a system will allow the analysis of the temporal evolution of both existing ecosystems and morphology of the underwater terrain.

TIN2004-07451-C03-01
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 131.790 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, University Jaume I - Spain, AIJU Coordinator: Mateu Sbert (UdG) UdG Team: Mateu Sbert, Miquel Feixas, Jaume Rigau, Esteban del Acebo, Francesc Castro, Roel Martnez, Pere Pau Vzquez, lex Mndez Feliu, Jordi Cat

Improvement and Application of the Game Technology in Virtual Reality and web contents. Cutting-edge technology in the field of Computer Graphics is currently found in 3D engines for computer games. This is due to the successful combination of research conducted by universities with the traditional techniques used in the digital games sector. While this technology was first developed for computer games, it is expanding its scope of application to include other sectors which are less developed as far as realistic rendering is concerned. Virtual Reality and 3D web content are the sectors which show the greatest interest in incorporating the new technologies. Therefore the purpose of this project is twofold: To continue the research on computer games technologies carried out in the project TIC2001-2416 and to apply the new technologies to the fields of Virtual Reality and 3D web content.
The objectives of the project are: Improve videogame technologies in the fields of illumination and geometry Extend videogames technology to Virtual Reality and 3D Web Transfer scientific results to industry

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INSULAID-2 - DPI2007-66728-C02-02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2007 Budget: 206.063 Partners: Technical University of Valencia (UPV), University of California Santa Barbara, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute Coordinator: Josep Veh UdG Team: Joaquim Armengol, Rodolfo Villamizar Meja, Luis Eduardo Mjica, Pau Herrero Vias, Remei Calm

Closed loop glucose control in diabetes mellitus 1 and critically ill patients. (INSULAID-2) In the 1990s, it was proved that any improvement
in glucose control, leads to a reduction of the risk to develop the chronic complications associated with diabetes. For this reason, euglycaemia has been established as the control objective for patients with diabetes mellitus 1 (DM1). On the other hand, critically ill patients in the ICU are subject to a great morbidity and mortality. The latest advances in the knowledge of the pathophysiology of these patients demonstrate how hyperglycaemia may contribute to their clinical evolution. There exists literature that suggests the importance of achieving euglycaemia in these patients by means of insulin perfusions to reduce mortality. There is thus a great social and economic interest in efficient glucose control. It is expected that in four to five years the technology required for an automatic glucose control system will be available, as currently continuous glucose monitoring is a limiting factor. The development of efficient glucose control algorithms, as well as good models of the glucoregulatory system and their validation by means of therapeutic criteria, is thus of great importance. In this project the following global objectives are addressed: (1) the implementation of a clinical study for the collection of experimental data to advance the development of models and their therapeutic validation; (2) the development of advanced control algorithms for closed-loop glucose control in DM1 and critically ill patients. Interval and set-based techniques will be applied to address the problem of intra- and interpatient variability. Finally, the use of counter-regulatory control signals such as glucagon or glucose, additionally to insulin, will be explored.

INSULAID - DPI2004-07167-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 85.000 Partners: Technical University of Valencia, University of California Santa Barbara, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute Coordinator: Jorge Bondia (UPV) Coordinator UdG: Josep Veh UdG Team: Miguel ngel Sainz, Arcadi Guitart, Pau Herrero, Ral Fernndez, Jian Wan, Gabriela Caldern, Lambert Jorba

Development of a glucemic prediction and insulin dosage-aid system for patients with diabetes mellitus I (INSULAID). Diabetes mellitus type I is a chronic disease of great individual and social impact which affects a great number of people. It produces important damages in organs like eyes, kidney, heart, etc. leading to blindness, renal insufficiency, heart attack, etc, as well as a significant reduction in life expectancy. These facts are directly related to the glucose levels in blood. The glucemic control in normality levels is the main objective of the treatment for diabetes mellitus I.
The development of glucemic predictive models will allow a better metabolic control and, thus, reduce the complications of the disease. The metabolic model of the glucose due to Cobelli is nowadays widely validated in clinic experiences. This model is non-linear and with more than 30 parameters to identify. The objectives of this project are the parametric identification of this model for particular patients and the development of a training and simulation system for guaranteed prediction of patients glucemia. Based on it, an insulin dosage-aid system will also be developed. With these two systems the quality of life and life expectancy of the patient will be increased. For it, techniques for the resolution of constraint satisfaction problems in continuous domains will be used. These ones have experimented great advances due to the interval methods and combination with programming and optimisation techniques.

DiSQobolo - DPI2006-15476-C02-02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2006 Budget: 86.394 Coordinator: Joaquim Armengol Llobet UdG Team: Remei Calm, Luis Eduardo Mjica, Esteban Reinaldo Gelso, Maira Alejandra Garca

Automated fault detection, diagnosis and tolerance in uncertain systems and distributed systems. (DiSQobolo) Fault detection,
diagnosis and tolerance in systems allow maintaining the process in a high level of production and reliability. The present techniques show problems when they are applied to uncertain and distributed systems. For this reason, they are being researched in a very active way to develope new techniques.

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The most important objectives of this project are to decrease the high false positive and false negative rates, to improve the computational efficency of fault detection and diagnosis and to automate the identification of components that are the cause of the failures. These problems for the uncertain systems can be treated using the classical diagnosis approaches: the FDI (Fault Detection and Isolation) community, whose foundations are based on engineering disciplines, such as control theory and statistical decision making, and the DX (Diagnosis) community, whose foundations are derived from the fields of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and bridging the methodologies of the FDI and DX Communities (Bridge). Firstly the project proposes this last approach to automate fault diagnosis in these systems. The Research Group in Girona has developed the SQualTrack tool for the fault detection of these systems and this project proposes its extension for diagnosis with techniques derived from modal interval analysis. We consider that it is important the coordination with the Quivir (Sevilla and Huelva University) Group that is also studying these same systems using constraint satisfaction techniques, guaranteed methods and data-mining techniques. Especially, the last techniques can work without the knowledge of the model and can deal with the empiric data (data-based diagnosis). These techniques are being validated in real systems. In distributed systems, firstly this project addresses the general problems associated with automatic determination of the allocation of sensors to improve the diagnosticability of the distributed systems. Secondly we will develop a framework for self-diagnosis of distributed systems where we take into account the persistency of the different models and different improvements based on clustering and distributed constraint satisfaction techniques.

Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce

DPI2007-66796-C03-02 (AquaVision)
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2007 Budget: 110.000 Partners: Universitat de Girona, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Universidad Miguel Hernandez Coordinator: Joaquim Salvi UdG Team: Xavier Cuf Sol, Xavier Llad Bardera, Josep Forest Collado, Llus Pacheco Valls, Antoni Martorano Gomis, Emili Hernndez Bes, Carles Matabosch Gerons

Vision Systems for computer cartography and underwater aquaculture. In this project we propose the development of new algorithms and techniques for the automatic construction of marine floor three-dimensional mosaics. Three-dimensional mosaics allow the acquisition of the marine floor cartography of selected areas of interest with applications in seashore resource management, environment affectation surveys and aquiculture, since they provide geo-referenced and high quality detailed images to analyse the evolution of the areas of interest.
The works carried out up to now are focused on the automatic construction of photo-mosaics, which are limited to 2D scenarios or assuming a light three-dimensional structure that is approximated to a plane. In contrast, the areas of interest for both the scientific community and the submarine prospecting enterprises are located in areas with a major 3D structure. Besides, it is necessary to determine the motion of the marine wildlife and flora to perceive it apart from the marine floor, allowing the construction of precise mosaics and supplying the processed images for further study of such marine wildlife and flora, which is indeed a very interesting field for both aquiculture and environment affectation enterprises. Finally, none of the systems described in the literature is able to automatically build large-scale three-dimensional mosaics due to the accumulated drift in the registration. In this project, we propose to develop optical/acoustical data fusion to construct bigger and more reliable three-dimensional mosaics, allowing the analysis of the temporal evolution of marine ecosystems as well as the marine floor morphology. The AQUAVISION project takes advantage of the acoustic data network developed in the integrated project, which aims to localize roughly the vehicle once submerged as well as to transmit the video and data through the acoustic link. This fact improves the hydrodynamics and control of the vehicle since it is not necessary to carry cables during the mission, especially in standard seashore areas which arise 200m depth. Moreover, the project takes advantage of the underwater vehicles and the underwater research centre available in the Universitat de Girona.

DPI2005-08922-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 76.400 Partners: University of Girona (Lequia Group) - Spain, University of Girona (ExIT Group) - Spain Coordinator: Maria Dolors Balaguer (Lequia) Project Manager UdG: Joan Colomer (ExIT) UdG Team: Carles Pous, Daniel Alexandre Macaya, Fco. Ignacio Gamero, Montse Rubio, Magda Liliana Ruiz

Development of an Intelligent Control System applied to a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) for the removal of Organic Matter, Nitrogen and Phosphorous. This project is focused on the improvement of the control system applied to sequenced batch reactors developed
in the project DPI2002-04579. The promising results obtained in the previous project allow to consider the development of a more ambitious control system to improve the overall process performance and adapt it according to the influent water characteristics. On the one hand, the research into the operating conditions will be extended to cover the simultaneous elimination of Organic Matter, Nitrogen and Phosphorous. In this way, the necessary knowledge about the relationship between trends of on-line variables and changes in the process will be obtained. Then, from this knowledge, a control system to optimize the duration of each stage will be implemented by means of an on-line detection of critical points. On the other hand, an Intelligent Control Module will be developed and implemented to diagnose the evolution of each batch and to optimize the schedule in order to minimize the effect of the influent water variability.

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DPI2005-09001-C03-01 (Airsub)
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 158.000 Partners: University of Girona, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Universitat de les Illes Balears Coordinator: Joan Batlle Coordinator UdG: Pere Ridao UdG Team: Joan Batlle, Pere Ridao, Marc Carreras, David Ribas, Andrs El-Fakdi, Elisabet Batlle, Narcs Falgueras, Josep Cortada, Jos Luis Muoz, Ferran Girons, Elibol Armagan, Antonio Tiano

AIRSUB - Underwater Robotics Industrial Applications. This project proposes the design and development of the necessary technologies for the adaptation of the prototypes of the low-cost underwater vehicles GARBI-ROV, GARBI-AUV, URIS and RAO II for their use in shallow waters. First, in collaboration with industry, a catalogue of industrial applications -feasible for low-cost underwater vehicles- will be created. For each and every of these missions, the adequate scenario will be established, as well as a mission preliminary schedule. Next, the project will be focused in 3 industrial applications:
Dam inspection of hydroelectric plants Underwater cable and pipe inspection Inspection of harbours Every one of these applications will be leaded by one of the 3 subprojects and associated to a market-leader company in its field, and will end with a practical demonstration. For dam inspection we propose the use of an AUV which could scan the dam wall at the same time it acquires a video, registering its state. This video will be processed off-line to build a georeferenced photo-mosaic, which will allow the company engineers to gain a global view of the condition of the dam. Analysing this mosaic, successive inspections can be scheduled to evaluate selected areas with higher resolution, as well as studying its temporal evolution. This inspection technique will be applied both to the grilles of intake and the penstock gallery. Cable and pipe inspection will be carried out using an AUV that will first submerge and detect the cable. Then, the robot will be guided by means of the automatic visual tracking system. Along the mission, the AUV will acquire, in a first phase of the project, a large set of images that will be processed offline (building of mosaics, analysis of an expert, etc.). In a second phase the AUV will filter the acquired images, keeping those images which show defects of the cable/pipe and annotating their localization. In this way, the company engineers can concentrate in the suspicious areas along the inspected section of the cable/pipe. Finally, for the inspection of the breakwaters walls of harbours a ROV will be used. This robot will acquire images which will be used to build a georeferenced mosaic. Fuzzy techniques will be used to localize faults and anomalies in the moles, such as their temporal degradation.

TIN2004-06354-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 72.000 Partners: University of Girona - Spain, Technical University of Valencia - Spain Coordinator: Federico Barber (UPV) Coordinator UdG: Beatriz Lpez UdG Team: Beatriz Lpez, Santiago Esteva, Josep M. Hument, Orlando Contreras, Silvia Surez, Christian Quintero, Miquel Montaner, Ddac Busquets, Bianca Innocenti

Developing Distributed Computing Techniques for Scheduling. Application to Transport Problems. This project aims at the development of distributed computing techniques and multi-agent systems for the resolution of constraint satisfaction and optimisation problems (CSP, COP), these techniques particularly guided towards planning and scheduling processes. So that, it is a coordinated project in which two research groups work together with complementary experience on: (i) CSP techniques, distributed CSP, planning and scheduling and (ii) distributed and open frameworks, multi-agent systems and coordination mechanisms. Furthermore, the integration of planning and scheduling processes is considered in the CSP framework. The scientific-technique objectives are very relevant and important allowing us to manage problem typologies in which traditional techniques are not appropriate. Additionally, in the research project it is sought to apply and evaluate the developed techniques in evaluation environments broadly contrasted in the scientific community and, mainly, with two concrete and real frameworks based on rail transport and intercity transport in which it is maintained respective agreements of collaboration.
The main objectives of the project are: Development of scheduling techniques that integrate algorithms from operational research, topological methods and intelligent techniques oriented towards the efficient treatment of complex scheduling problems. Extend the applicability of constraint satisfaction techniques with both multi-agent techniques and distributed approaches of satisfaction problems. Development of an integrated architecture for planning and scheduling. Application of the architectures and techniques in real environments (train infrastructure planning, crew scheduling for road transport) as well as in scientific benchmarks (Pacifica).

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DPI2004-07167-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 85.000 Partners: Technical University of Valencia - Spain, University of Girona - Spain Coordinator: Jorge Bonda (UPV) Coordinator UdG: Josep Veh UdG Team: Miguel Angel Sainz, Arcadi Guitart, Pau Herrero, Ral Fernndez, Jian Wan, Gabriela Caldern, Lambert Jorba

Development of a glucemic prediction and insulin dosage-aid system for patients with diabetes mellitus I (INSULAID). Diabetes
mellitus type I is a chronic disease of great individual and social impact which affects a great number of people. It produces important damages in organs like eyes, kidney, heart, etc. leading to blindness, renal insufficiency, heart attack, etc, as well as a significant reduction in life expectancy. These facts are directly related to the glucose levels in blood. The glucemic control in normality levels is the main objective of the treatment for diabetes mellitus I. The development of glucemic predictive models will allow a better metabolic control and, thus, reduce the complications of the disease. The metabolic model of the glucose due to Cobelli is nowadays widely validated in clinic experiences. This model is non-linear and with more than 30 parameters to identify. The objectives of this project are the parametric identification of this model for particular patients and the development of a training and simulation system for guaranteed prediction of patients glucemia. Based on it, an insulin dosage-aid system will also be developed. With these two systems the quality of life and life expectancy of the patient will be increased. For it, techniques for the resolution of constraint satisfaction problems in continuous domains will be used. These ones have experimented great advances due to the interval methods and combination with programming and optimisation techniques.

Catalan Government - CERTAP PVPC

Project Type: CeRTAP (Generalitat de Catalunya) Duration: 36 Months Start: April 2005 Budget: 321.275,37 (64.920 ) Partners: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Girona Graphics Group (University of Girona - UdG), VICOROB (University of Girona - UdG), CIM Centre Coordinator: Pere Brunet (UPC) Coordinator UdG: Gonzalo Besuievsky UdG Team: Xavier Pueyo, Gonzalo Besuievsky, Albert Mas

Virtual Prototyping for Architectural Projects. The main goal of this project is the design and development of a system for fast virtual prototyping models in order to provide helpful tools for architects and building designers in early phase of a project. The system has the following features:
Automatic architectural recognition symbols and vectorization of freehand 2D drawing floor plans Automatic generation of 3D models from 2D floor plans It allows edition for basic installation as light sources and furniture with texture edition Fast lighting visualisation for both natural and artificial light sources Analysis and inspection of the generated prototype in lower-cost virtual reality platforms: stereoscopic workbench or standard computer with 3D immersive devices Interactive re-edition of the model openings with natural lighting visualization Navigation and inspection tools for remote collaborative work The whole system is integrated in a single application and it is designed in a way that could be integrated within any standard CAD architectural platform as a complement for fast virtual prototyping and validation designs

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Catalan Government CERTAP PVPC

Project Type: CeRTAP (Generalitat de Catalunya) Duration: 36 Months Start: April 2005 Budget: 321.275,37 (64.920 ) Partners: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Girona Graphics Group (University of Girona - UdG), VICOROB (University of Girona - UdG), CIM Centre Coordinator: Pere Brunet (UPC) Coordinator UdG: Xavier Cuf UdG Team: Xavier Cuf, Joan Mart, Arnau Oliver, Tudor Nicosevici, Elisabet Batlle

Virtual Prototyping for Architectural Projects. The aim of the Project is to create a tool for helping the professionals of building design and architects. The base of the work is the experience of the different research groups that belongs to CERTAP in topics such us computer vision, vectorial designs generation from hand made layouts, computer assisted design, illumination and generation of realistic images and virtual reality. As we said before, the final objective of the project has been to obtain an immersive tool for supporting the professionals in the design of buildings. The opinion of the professionals had been considered in all the steps of the development of the project. The main characteristics of the developed tool are:
2D sketch generation and the 3D model from hand made layouts. At this step, it is necessary tot take into account buildings with different levels, stairs and different kinds of ceilings. Realistic Illumination with ambient simulation (using radiosity), using simulation of natural and artificial light. The application offers the possibility to visualize the digital model surrounded by images belonging to the reality. Analysis and inspection of virtual prototypes generated by the system in low cost virtual reality platforms (stereoscopic table) or using standard computers equipped with 3D immersive devices. Tools of remote working that allow the cooperative inspection and analysis between different teams working, using stereoscopic tables, in different locations. The work developed by the VICOROB research group of the UdG has been: The architect provides the application with a hand-made sketch, and then the application generates a full 3D model of the building. Once the 3D model has been generated, the professional has the option to add texture and simulate illumination (natural and artificial), being able to obtain realistic renderings. On the one hand, the results can be used by the architects to observe and adjust different aspects of the building at pre-project stage and, on the other hand, to help the architects interact with the customers. This task includes a sub-application that allows recovering the texture from an object of interest that appears in a real scene. This real texture could be projected over virtual surfaces belonging to the model (walls, roofs ) using the adequate scale.

Catalan Government - XARTAP

Project Type: Generalitat de Catalunya Duration: 24 Months Start: January 2006 Budget: 37.724 Partners: Centre CIM, Centre Internacional de Mtodes Numrics en Enginyeria, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Centre Visi per Computador, Universitat de Girona, Consell Superior dInvestigacions Cientfiques Coordinator: Centre CIM Coordinator UdG: Xavier Cuf UdG Team: Marc Carreras, Javi Cobos, Franois Chung, Jordi Ferrer, Jordi Freixenet, Josep Forest, Rafael Garca, Xavier Llad, Joan Mart, Robert Mart, Marta Peracaula, Pere Ridao, Joaquim Salvi

Reference network in Advanced Production Techniques. The main objective of the task carried out by VICOROB Research Group in this
project is developing a set of prototypes of Identification and Positioning Systems. The final result of the project will be the development of different solutions that allow identifying the different parts that constitute an industrial kit, and obtaining the position and orientation with enough accuracy to allow picking these parts using a manipulator or grasping system. Usually, the different parts arrive all together to the inspection point in a disordered bunch, and some parts can present different kinds of deficiencies. Recognition System: different computer vision algorithms will be developed to identify the different parts that can appear at the inspection point. This system will be able to extract geometric information from the images and compare it to the corresponding CAD models in order to determine whether the part is faulty or not, or if the visual information obtained is adequate or more additional images are required. Position and Orientation of the parts: a robust computer vision algorithm will be developed to determine position and orientation of the previously recognized part referred to a determined reference frame.

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Institut of Biomedical Investigation of Girona (IDIBGI)

Project Type: IdIBGi Duration: 1,5 years Start: January 2007 Budget: 9.000 Coordinator: Dr. Carles Pous UdG Team: eXiT

Family history as a risk model for breast cancer. Breast cancer is one of the illnesses that have more impact in the woman mortality in
developed countries. So, it is very important for the medical community to have a model that is able to predict the probability that a patient has to develop a breast cancer. During last years, the scientific community has demonstrated that family history has a great influence on breast cancer. According to several research publications, a woman with cancer antecedents increases her probability of developing this illness. There are several models that can be found in the literature, but little has been done incorporating family history in the model. The main goal of the project is to obtain a model that incorporates family history information to predict the risk of breast cancer for an individual patient. Family history will be considered as an attribute in a Case-Based Reasoning system, an Artificial Intelligence method that uses information on previous cases to solve the new ones. The database used in the project was created in 2001 at the Sant Pau Hospital from Barcelona. It collects data from 2001 to the present days, and it consists of 307 families, 704 individuals, compressing both, healthy and cancer affected people. The data can be divided in 3 different blocs: the first group is related to epidemiological data, that is, clinical and genetic data; the second group contains ovarian neoplasy information and the third, breast neoplasy. The family history is stored in files that contain the genealogical trees of the individuals, showing the relationship between the patient and their relatives, and if they are affected or not. The project is being supervised by a medical team from the Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdiBGi). The first step of the project was to clean and prepare the data, since the database provided has plenty of empty fields and corrupted data. Concerning to the diagnosis method, the different cycles of the Case-Based reasoning system have to be defined. That is, which similarity functions are more appropriate, how to deal with numeric and categorical data, how the attributes have to be weighted, how many similar cases should be extracted, and so on. In order to introduce the family history information, a method is proposed to codify this information in a type of mathematical function that is able to resume how a family has been affected by breast cancer. A means of comparing these functions have to be also provided. Among other results representation, ROC curves will be used to evaluate how the Case-Based Reasoning system is performing when classifying patients. The output of the project will be a software platform for the medical team. This project is the first step towards a platform that, from medical data and family history, will provide the probability that a particular patient has to develop a breast cancer, with certain confidence index. The platform has to be flexible to enable the parameters adjustment of the Case-Based Reasoning system, but at the same time, it has to be simple enough to be manipulated by the medical team, since they will have to tune the parameters of the system according to medical criteria. For example, from the ROC curves observation, the medical team should select the threshold that produces the desired compromise between the number of False positives and True Positives for their case.
Case structure

Family History

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Monitors
Project Type: IdIBGi Duration: 12 months Start: March 2007 Budget: 57.142 Partners: Institut dInvestigaci Biomdica de Girona, Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta Coordinator: Winston Garca-Gabn UdG Team: Winston Garca-Gabn, Darine Zambrano, Miguel Sainz

Erroneous therapeutic measures in continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS). Glucose level in blood is of great importance for
health and a bad glucose control can induce severe complications. A clear example is diabetes, which is a chronic disease with a large individual and social impact and an important prevalence (according to the OMS, there are 170 million diabetics in the world, and this figure is expected to rise up to 366 million in 2030). In Spain, there are currently 2.5 million diabetics, a 10% of which are type 1 and, among the 6.3% and the 7.4% of health expenses, of an estimated 2500 M per year, are due to complications with diabetes caused by a bad glucose control. There is, therefore, a great social and economical interest in an efficient glucose control. In the latest years, technology has evolved in the development of glucose monitors and continuous insulin bombs. Despite nowadays the lack of the required precision in continuous glucose sensors is a limiting factor to close the control loop, it is expected that in a few years this technology can be available. Thereby, the development of efficient glucose controllers for DM1 and critical patients is of great importance.

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Crtics
Project Type: IdIBGi Duration: 12 months Start: September 2006 Budget: 19.952 Partners: Institut dInvestigaci Biomdica de Girona, Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta Coordinator: Josep Veh UdG Team: Remei Calm, Joaquim Armengol, Sandra Castillo, Alexandra Oliveros, Winston Garca-Gabn, Darine Zambrano, Miguel Sainz

Critical ill patient glycemia control: algorithm development and clinical trials protocol definition. Critically ill patients at the Intensive Care Units (ICU) are subject to a great morbidity and mortality. Last advances in the knowledge of the pathophysiology of these patients demonstrate how hyperglycaemia may contribute, directly or indirectly on their clinical evolution. There exists literature [Pittas04, VanderBerghe04] which suggests the importance of maintaining euglycaemia in these patients by means of insulin perfusions to reduce mortality. However, so far it has not been possible to demonstrate in an absolute and irrefutable manner if glucose normalization contributes to a better clinical evolution of these patients, given the impossibility of normalizing glucose levels, even in studies specially designed for that purpose. A recent study [DIGAMI97, Hirsch04, Malmberg05] has failed in the assay to demonstrate the improvement of mortality in acute coronary patients by means of endogenous insulin treatment due to the fact that glucose control improvement was not possible with respect to the control group. This illustrates the difficulties found by professionals in the daily clinical practice to achieve control goals even in a controlled ambient as the hospital, with controlled meals and mealtime and absence of factors such as physical exercise.
Currently, higher insulin levels (140 mg/dl) are being considered in order to avoid risks of severe hypoglycemia.

Glicemia
Project Type: IdIBGi Duration: 12 months Start: November 2006 Budget: 66.041,80 Partners: Institut dInvestigaci Biomdica de Girona, Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta Coordinator: Josep Veh UdG Team: Miguel Angel Sainz, Winston Garca-Gabn, Pau Herrero, Csar Palerm, Sandra Castillo

Identification of prediction models of the glucoregulatory system for type 1 Diabetes Mellitus patients. The main goal of this project is identify and validate prediction models of the glucoregulatory system individually. That is, a simple model, though personal, will exist for each individual, and this will facilitate the prediction of the glucose variation of this person in few hours after food ingestion. This project is framed in the glycemia control of diabetes type 1 which the UdG has been pursuing for the last 3 years in collaboration with the UPV and Dr Ricarts group, from the IdIBGI.
In this project it is foreseen to obtain a model used for the prediction and also for clinical trials, after three years of collaboration with the IdBGI and Hospital Josep Trueta, having already accepted our clinical essays protocol. The identification and validation of these models is not as simple as it may seem due to several problems like: Inter and intraindividuals variability, very complex models (simplified models must be defined in order to allow a more precise prediction), difficulties to collect samples every three minutes for 3 days of testing, current CGMS are too imprecise. Knowledge of the effect of a meal in patients glycaemia needs further research, being a especially relevant perturbation in any glucose control system. A better knowledge of this effect will yield, from the control point of view, better performance by using feed forward schemes. Thus, improvement of currently available models is addressed, including gastric emptying, digestion and intestinal absorption of carbohydrates. Since it is not possible to measure exogenous glucose flow, these models will be validated from postprandial glucose experimental data obtained in Objective 1. Estimation of nutritional contents of a meal from qualitative descriptions will also be addressed. As a counterpart, the benefits directly obtained with these models are clear: Better glucose metabolic control, detection of hyper and hypo glycemia as well as reduction of severe disease consequences for critical ill patients.

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Technology Transfer
Innovative solutions for enterprises
Agents Research Laboratory (ArLab) Statistical control of parameters in a production process Quality supervision systems: qualitative representation of trends in a process, qualitative analysis of situations Study of prediction models to recognise the demand of market ISAC: conceptual design, FAQs elaboration, adaptation of the technological product, application of the service Software for optimization of production process Costumer segmentation programs Low cost industrial supervision products Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) Telemedicine: easy applications for online rehabilitation and diagnosis Telemonitorization: easy application for communicating with handicapped people Computer Graphics and Image (GiLab) Medical images Scientific visualization Architecture Entertainment: digital cinema, digital TV, animation, simulation, videogames, virtual reality Computer Vision and Robotics (VICOROB) Reconstruction of three-dimensional information of objects from systems of vision Visual Maps from multiple images Processing and analysis of images with applications in the medical area Underwater Robotics Industrial Computer Science: automation, communications, industrial robotics, intelligent perception and embedded systems Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (EXIT) Assigning providers to consumers Development of strategies for intelligent process monitoring (fault detection and diagnosis) Automatic diagnosis of sags and fault location in distribution networks Statistical monitoring of waste water treatment plants On-line monitoring of pressures to predict instabilities Off-line assessment of moulds Medical diagnosis Geometry and Computer Graphics (GGG) Lamps design: car lights and conventional lamps Design of architecture and urban structures to use more natural light instead of artificial light Images for simulators Entertainment: videogames, virtual reality Computational geometry Modelling, Indentification and Control Engineering (MICELab) Industrial process supervision and control Damage assessment in structures Mechatronics and mechatronic systems Process control engineering Biomedical engineering

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Some examples of contracts with enterprises

Contract Iberespacio
Project Type: Contract Iberespacio Duration: 6 months Start: Feb 2007 Budget: 5.985 Coordinator: Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: EXIT

Fault detection and diagnosis of ARIANE flights. After each Ariane mission, data flight analysis is intended to prevent not only the upcoming
failures but also even the slightest drop of launcher performances. In this work, the benefits of using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to achieve this goal have been evaluated. PCA method has confirmed, in a simple example, its capacity for fault detection and location. It is shown that this tool allows a more obvious detection of singularities. It also supports the choice of the minimum set of sensors of calculated data to be evaluated in the systematic analysis. Principal Component Analysis has been tested and compared against other fault detection and diagnosis principles with excellent results.

Contract ENDESA DISTRIBUTION

Project Type: Contract ENDESA DISTRIBUCION Duration: 1 year Start: December 2007 Budget: 21.800 Coordinator: Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: EXIT

Power quality monitoring and improvements of fault location in distribution networks. Data mining principles are being used in this
project to assist power quality monitoring under different perspectives. Automatic analysis of sags based on extraction of significant attributes has been applied to discriminate between normal and abnormal situations and determine the origin of disturbances upstream or downstream of the measuring point. Waveforms of voltages and currents have been used to estimate the location of faults in the distribution system. Registers are provided by power quality monitors and automatically processed by the developed software to estimate the faulty point. A topological analysis of the network is made to estimate the faulty point based on a consistency test between the impedance measured and the theoretical impedance of line at each node. Finally sequences of disturbances are analysed together to predict possible fault situations. Visual representation of sequences of disturbances has been merged with data mining principles with this purpose.

Contract CITY HALL TERRASSA

Project Type: City Hall Terrassa Budget: 64.500 Participants: City Hall Terrassa, City Hall Girona, Agents Inspired, University of Girona Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

iSAC Sistem for Citizen Services. iSAC is the Information & Referral System in the web. This system is quite unique in Europe, as the
single open source system that is able to understand open questions of citizens, and find the precise answer inside public administrations.

Contract STRATEGIC ATTENTION MANAGEMENT S.L.

Project Type: Contract Strategic Attention Management S.L. Budget: 11500 Participants: City HallTerrassa, City Hall Girona, Agents Inspired, University of Girona Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

Technological Development of technology in open source search engines QA for ISAC. This is about POP2.0, the core engine for
searching natural language queries inside I&R databases.

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CONTRACT Consell Comarcal del Pla de lEstany

Project Type: Contract Consell Comarcal del Pla de lEstany Budget: 282.000 Participants: University of Girona, Consell Comarcal del Pla de lEstany Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

Development of open management through DTT. This is the development of the open administration through TV, using the TDT technology. This is called T-Administration, and research is about improving usability for I&R systems, synergically with iSAC.

Contract CITY HALL GIRONA

Project Type: Contract City Hall Girona Duration: Start: Budget: 60.000 Participants: University of Girona, City Hall Girona Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

Collaboration between the University of Girona and the Girona City Council to involve citizens in the new European map of citizen advice. This contract is for developing innovation in e-government and public local administrations in general, especially in IT intensive
applications.

Contract Centre de Transferncia de Tecnologia S.L.

Project Type: Contract Centre de Transferncia de Tecnologia S.L. Budget: 25.000 Participants: University of Girona, Centre de Transferncia de Tecnlogia S.L. Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

CRAFT E-BREAD, CRAFT E-COMP. Application of intelligent agents to the design and optimization of equipment to process bread and composites. This is the development of agent software for the optimization of machine design for bread industry and for composites
design simulation.

Contract PSM (Carlson Group)

Project Type: Contract PSM (Carlson Group) Budget: 62.000 Participants: University of Girona, PSM (Carlson Group) Coordinator: Josep Llus de la Rosa UdG Team: ArLab

Application of artifical intelligence techniques to the generation of customized industrial alarms and to the building of customers loyalty. Contracts related to the development of artificial intelligence and control engineering software for marketing applications, empowering
loyalty programs.

Patents
Inventors: Carles Matabosch Gerons, Josep Forest Collado, Jordi Fita Mas, Llus Mag Carceller, Joaquim Salvi Mas. Title: Method and system for aligning three-dimensional surfaces. Number of apllication: EP 07114260.8 Date of priority: 13/08/07 Entity holder: AQSENSE S.L. Exploiting enterprises: AQSENSE S.L. Type of proteccin of the patent: European Short description: The present invention relates to a method for aligning a three-dimensional surface representing a real object and a threedimensional reference surface. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for aligning an analyzed surface and a reference surface, each surface being represented by a cloud of points, so that the Euclidean motion between the two clouds of points is determined. In order to improve the registration accuracy, point-to-plane distance is used. The invention also relates to a system for aligning a three-dimensional surface representing a real object and a three-dimensional reference surface suitable for carrying out such a method. The invention may be used in three-dimensional quality control.

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Education
Master Programs
European Joint Master in Environmental Process Control Engineering (EPCE)
The programme offers integrated, high quality postgraduate education and training through the use of best-practices modules and offers specialisation in centres of research excellence in the partner universities. The curriculum which contains a substantial degree of project and research work will hopefully produce highly competent engineers in the area of control of environmental processes. The curriculum offers avenues for specialization according to the capabilities and career needs of the students. The training offered will provide students with the skills and competencies that are indispensable in high profile jobs in the environmental sector. Apart from showing a capability to carry out technicalindustrial development, collaborative management and planning tasks, the graduates will be qualified to act successfully at an international environment due to their cross-cultural and cross institutional experience. More information at http://master-epce.eu/joomla/

Master in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering

This master offers two specialisation branches; one in control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (ECSI) and another in Computer Vision and Robotics (VCR) and enables students to follow their career at the doctorate program. In the second academic year, master students will have the opportunity to make their stay at other universities or research centres receiving the highly qualified personal supervision of their research and/or to get the traineeships in the leading industrial companies collaborating with the master program. More information at http://eia.udg.es/master-imagis

VIBOT - Erasmus Mundus Masters in Vision & Robotics

The European master on Computer Vision and Robotics (VIBOT) meets the present needs of industry for quality control and automation of industrial processes as well as in the field of health with the ever increasing importance of medical imagery in all its forms. The key techniques are computer vision and robotics. This Masters programme will provide, through the proposed European formation, an unrivalled knowledge in computer vision and robotics applied to industrial problems and medical imagery. Moreover, the students will have also acquired mobility, broadmindedness and the language skills which constitute, in an age of globalization, a major asset for finding research work either in a public laboratory or in a private company. More information at http://www.vibot.org

Joint Masters in Computing

The Master program aims at providing a solid background in Computing for qualified professionals that must able take high responsible positions in industry or start research activities in theoretical or practical aspects of Computing. The Master also offers the opportunity to focus on one of its specializations: Algorithmics and Programming Information Systems Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Graphic Interaction The student can select between achieving a generic education on several subjects or focus on one of the specializations. More information at http://ima.udg.edu/MasterComputacio

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PhD Programs
Doctorate of the Official Postgraduate Programme in Technology
The doctoral studies of the Official Postgraduate Programme in Technology aim to train researchers in the lines of research in technology at the University of Girona, following these general objectives: High quality advanced training. The creation and dissemination of new knowledge, both in basic and applied research. The stimulation of research along technological lines. More information at http://www.udg.edu/Elsestudis/ Doctorats/fitxadoctorat/tabid/6754/codi/9/lang/1/anya cad/2007/language/en-US/Default.aspx

PhD Tesis 2007

Anna Bosch Image classification for large number of object categories Universitat de Girona. 25th of September 2007. Advisors: Andrew Zisserman and Xavier Muoz Marc Bigas Integraci 3D de detectors de pxels hbrids. Universitat de Girona. 16th of March 2007. Advisors: Enric Cabruja and Josep Forest Carles Bosch Realistic Image Synthesis of Surface Scratches and Grooves PhD. Thesis. Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Universit de Limoges, October 2007. Advisors: Xavier Pueyo and Djamchid Ghazanfarpour Christian Giovanni Quintero Introspection on control-grounded capabilities. An agentinspired aprroach for control. Universitat de Girona. 2007. Director: Josep Llus de la Rosa and Josep Veh Jian Wan Computationally Reliable Approaches of Contractive MPC for Discrete-time Systems. Universitat de Girona. May 2007. Advisors: Josep Veh and Ningsu Luo Carles Matabosch 3D hand-held sensor for large surface registration. Universitat de Girona. 26th of June 2007. Director: Joaquim Salvi and David Fofi Arnau Oliver Automatic mass segmentation in mammographic images. Universitat de Girona. 11th of July 2007. Advisor: Jordi Freixenet

Diploma of Advanced Studies 2007

Elisabet Batlle Summarizing image/surface registration for 6DOF robot/camera pose estimation. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, June 2007. Tutor: Joaquim Salvi. Llus Pacheco Mobile robot model - based control strategies using monocular perception techniques. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, June 2007. Tutor: Xavier Cuf and Ningsu Luo. Maryna Kudzinava Feature-based matching of Underwater Images. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, October 2007. Tutor: Rafael Garca and Joan Mart. Narcs Palomeras Mission control system for an AUV. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, June 2007. Tutor: Pere Ridao and Marc Carreras. Ricard Prados Image blending techniques and their application in underwater mosaicing. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, October 2007. Tutor: Rafael Garca and Lszl Neumann. Sandra Milena Castillo Estimacin de parmetros intervalares para la deteccin de fallos. D.E.A. Universitat de Girona, June 2007. Tutor: Joaquim Armengol.

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Publications
Books or Book Chapters
Bayona D., Melndez J., Olguin G. Analysis of Common Cause Failure in Redundant Control Systems Using Fault Trees. Published in the book Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Cecilio Angulo, Luis God, Netherlands, IOS Press (Frointiers in AI), Vol 163, 2007, 408-415, ISBN: 978-1-58603-798-7. Calm R, Garca-Jaramillo M, Veh J, Bondia J, Tarn C, Garca-Gabn W. Simulacin Intervalar del Metabolismo de la Glucosa en Pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1. Proceedings of the IX Jornadas de Automatizacin del Razonamiento Cualitativo y Aplicaciones (JARCA 2007) (ISBN: 978-84-8458-231-1), pp: 71-75. 2007. Castillo SM, Gelso ER, Calm R, Armengol J. Estimacin de Parmetros Intervalares para la Deteccin Robusta de Fallos. Proceedings of the IX Jornadas de Automatizacin del Razonamiento Cualitativo y Aplicaciones (JARCA 2007) (ISBN: 978-84-8458-2311), pp: 71-75. 2007. de la Rosa i Esteva, Josep Llus and de los Llanos Tena, Maria. Scholar Agent: Auctions Mechanisms for Efficient Publication Selection on Congresses and Journals. ISSN 0922-6389, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Volume 163, pp: 120-129, 2007. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58603-798-7, Cecilio Angulo, Llus Godo (eds), St. Juli de Lria. de la Rosa i Esteva, Josep Llus, Mollet Ricardo, Montaner Miquel, Ruiz Daniel, and Muoz Vctor. Kalman Filters to Generate Customer Behavior Alarms, ISSN 09226389, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Volume 163, pp: 416-425, 2007. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58603-798-7, Cecilio Angulo, Llus Godo (eds), St. Juli de Lria. del Acebo Esteve, Hormazbal Nicols, and de la Rosa Josep Llus. Appraisal Variance Estimatino in the ART Testbed using Fuzzy Corrective Contextual Filters, ISSN 09226389, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Volume 163, pp: 104-111, 2007. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58603-798-7, Cecilio Angulo, Llus Godo (eds), St. Juli de Lria. Fbregas, Mart, Corominas, Enric, Villar, Esperana, Saurina, Carme. Educaci Superior i treball a catalunya: Anlisi dels factors d'Inserci Laboral. Barcelona, Agncia per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya, 2007, Capitol 3 El mercat laboral qualificat i la qualitat de l'ocupaci, ISBN: 378.014.54(467.1). Khosravi, Toni Martinez, Joaquim Melendez, Joan Colomer and Jorge Sanchez. Integrating a feature selection algorithm for classification of voltage sags originated in transmission and distribution networks. Published in the book Artificial Intelligence. Research and Development, Cecilio Angulo, Luis God, Netherlands, IOS Press (Frointiers in AI), Vol 163, 2007, 376-383, ISBN: 978-1-58603-798-7. Khosravi A. Melendez J., Colomer J., Snchez J. Classification of Electric Sags by Means of MPCA. Published in the book Advances of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Systems, Ying LIU, Aixin SUN, Han Tong LOH, Wen Feng LU, Ee-Peng LIM, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-78296-4. Khosravi A. Melendez J., Colomer J. Classification of Voltage Sags Based on MPCA Models. Published in the book Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Mart et al, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer, Vol 4477, 2007, 362-369, ISBN: 978-3-540-72846-7. Lopardo Gabriel Alejandro, Hormazbal Nicols, and de la Rosa J. Ll. A Monitor for Digital Ecosystems, ISSN 0922-6389, Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Volume 163, pp: 77-86, October 2007. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-58603-798-7, Cecilio Angulo, Llus Godo (eds), St. Juli de Lria. Lpez, B., Fernndez, S., Bajo, J., Corchado, J.M., Fuentetaja, R., Gonzalez, M., Isern, D., Jimnez, S., Valls, A. Cognitive abilities in agents. Published in the book Issues in Multi-Agent Systems - The AgentCities. ES Experience, Antonio Moreno and Juan Pavn, Germany, Birkhauser, 2007, 59-85, ISBN: 3764385421. Lpez Arjona Antonio Manuel, Montaner Rigal Miquel, de la Rosa i Esteva Josep Llus, Rovira i Regs Maria Merc. POP2.0: A search engine for public information services in local government, ISSN 0922-6389, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Volume 163, pp: 255-262, 2007. IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58603798-7, Cecilio Angulo, Llus Godo (eds), St. Juli de Lria. Mart, Joan, Bened, Josep Maria, Mendona, Anna Maria and Serrat, Joan. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, 2007, 625. Muntaner-Perich E., de la Rosa J.Ll.. Using Dynamic Electronic Institutions to Enable Digital Business Ecosystems, ISSN, LNCS Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II, Springer Verlag, Volume 4386, pp: 259- 273, 2007. Murillo, J., Muoz, V., Lopez, B, Busquets, D. Dynamic configurable auctions for coordinating industrial waste discharges. Published in the book Multiagent System Technologies, Paolo Petta, Jrg P. Mller, Matthias Klusch, Michael Georgeff, Germany, Springer (LNCS), 2007, 109-120, ISBN: 978-3-540-74948-6. Murillo, J., Lpez, B. An efficient estimation function for the crew scheduling problem. Published in the book Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Cecilio Angulo, Luis God, Netherlands, IOS Press (Frointiers in AI), 2007, 978-1-58603-798-7, ISBN: 3764385421. Pacheco L, Luo. N Mobile robot local predictive control using a visual perception horizon. Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control Systems (ISBN 978-88-9019282-1). 217-225. International Society for Advanced Research, 2007. Pacheco LL and Luo N. Trajectory planning with a control horizon based on a narrow local grid perception: A practical approach for WMR with monocular visual data. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, London, Springer, 2007, 99-106. Qing Xu, Mateu Sbert, Lianping Xing, Jianfeng Zhang. A Novel Adaptive Sampling by Tsallis Entropy. CGIV 2007: 5-10. Ridao, P.; Carreras, M.; Hernandez, E.; Palomeras, N. Underwater telerobotics for collaborative research 2007, Proceedings, Part II, Springer 2007, 657. Sccsi, Lszl , Szirmay-Kalos, Lszl, Sbert, Mateu. ShaderX 6: Advanced Rendering. Editor(s): Wolfgang Engel, Charles River Media, 2007. Szirmay-Kalos, Lszl, Szcsi, Lszl, Sbert, Mateu. GPU-based Techniques for Global Illumination Effects. Editorial: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007. Veh J, Armengol J, Ortega JA (Eds.). IX Congress of Automatization of Qualitative Reasoning and Applications: Qualitative Systems and Diagnosis. (2007) Dept. of Publications U. de Girona (ISBN: 978-84-8458-231-1). Yezid Donoso, Ramon Fabregat. Multi-objective Optimization in Computer Networks Using Metaheuristics. Published at Auerbach Pub. February 2007 Y. Donoso, R. Fabregat. Network Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms in Multicast Transmission. Published at Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications. October 2007 Zapateiro M, Luo N. Neural network modelling of magnetorheological dampers. Artificial Intelligence Research and Development (ISBN: 978-1-58603-798-7). 351-358. The Netherlands: IOS Press, 2007.

Publications in Journals
Aciar Silvana, Royo Marcelo, de la Rosa Josep Llus, and Serrarlos Christian. Increasing effectiveness in e-commerce: recommendations applying intelligent agents. International Journal of Business and Systems Research (IJBSR), ISSN (Online): 1751-2018 - ISSN (Print): 1751-200X, Inderscience Publishers, Volume 1, pp: 26-40, in press (2007). Aciar Silvana, Zhang Debbie, Simoff Simeon, Debenham John. Informed Recommender: A Recommender System That Bases Recommendations on Consumer Product Reviews. IEEE Magazine in Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, issue 3, pp: 39-47, May-June 2007, ISSN 1541-1672, May-June 2007. Baldiris Silvia M., Moreno German D., Fabregat Ramon, Guarn Ivn A., Llamosa Ricardo, Fraile Juan A. Garca. "Extensiones en SHABOO: Sistema Hipermedia Adaptativo para la Enseanza de la Programacin Orientada a Objetos", Published at Sexta Edicin Revista Enlace Informtico - Universidad del Cauca. ISSN 1692-374X. December 2007. Bardera, Anton, Feixas, Miquel, Boada, Imma, Rigau, Jaume, Sbert, Mateu. RegistrationBased Segmentation Using the Information Bottleneck Method. Lecture Notes in Computational Science (IbPRIA07), Volume 2, pp: 130-137, 2007.

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Bosch, Anna, Muoz, Xavi and Freixenet, Jordi. Segmentation and description of natural outdoor scenes. Image and Vision Computing, 2007, Volume 25, Nr 8, 727-740. Bosch, Anna, Muoz, Xavier and Marti, Robert. Which is the best way to organize/classify images by content?. Image and Vision Computing, 2007, Volume 25, Nr 6, 778-791. Bose P., Coll Huratdo N.F. and Sellars J.A. A General Online Approximation Algorithm for Embedded Plane Graphs with Applications. International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Volume 17, Issue 6, pp 529-554, 2007. Caldern G, Armengol J, Veh J, Gelso E. Dynamic Diagnosis Based on Interval Analytical Redundancy Relations and Signs of the Symptoms. AI COMMUNICATIONS (ISSN: 0921-7126), 20(1): 39-47. 2007, IOS Press. Camacho O, Rojas R, Garca-Gabn W. Some Long Time Delay Sliding Mode Control Approaches. ISA Transactions (ISSN: 0019-0578), 46(2): 95-105. 2007, Elsevier Science Inc. Carreras, Marc, Yuh,Junku, Batlle, Joan and Ridao, Pere. Application of SONQL for real-time learning of robot behaviours. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2007, Volume 5, Nr 8, 628-642. Carreras, Marc, Palomeras, Narcs, Ridao, Pere and Ribas, David. Design of a Mission Control System for an AUV. International Journal of Control, 2007, Volume 80, Nr 7, 9931007. Carrillo C., de la Rosa J. Ll., and Canals A. Towards a Knowledge Economy. International Journal of Community Currency Research, ISSN 1325-9547, Volume 11, pp: 84-97, 2007. Castro, Francesc, Patow, Gustavo, Sbert, Mateu, Halton, John H. Fast GPU-based reuse of paths in radiosity. Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Volume 13, Nr 4, pp: 253-273, 2007. Castro, F.; Patow, G.; Sbert, M.; Halton, J. H. Fast GPU-based reuse of paths in radiosity. Monte Carlo Methods and Applications,Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Cover date: November 20, Pages: 253-273 (2007). Csar Barta, Joaquim Melndez, Joan Colomer. Off line Diagnosis of Ariane flights using PCA. Space Technology (Lister Editors), 2007, Volume 27, Nr 2, In press. Cobos Carlos, Nio Miguel, Mendoza Martha, Fabregat Ramon and Gomez Luis. "Learning Management System Based on SCORM, Agents and Mining", Published at WISE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4831 Springer 2007, ISBN 9783-540-76992-7. pp. 298-309. Nancy (France). 3-7. December 2007. Coll N., Fort M., Madern N. and Sellars J.A. Multi-visibility maps of triangulated terrains. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp 1115-11134, 2007. de la Rosa J. Ll., and Szymansky B. K., Selecting Scientific Papers for Publication via Citation Auctions. IEEE Magazine in Intelligent Systems ISSN 1541-1672, Volume 22, n. 6, pp: 16-20, November/Desember 2007. de la Rosa Josep Llus, and Muoz Israel. Learning and Adaptation in Physical Heterogeneous Teams of Robots. Journal of Physical Agents ISSN: 1888-0258, Volume 1, pp: 9-18, September 2007. de la Rosa Josep Llus, Figueras Albert, Quintero Christian, Ramon Josep Antoni, Ibarra Salvador, and Esteva Santiago. Outline of Modification Systems. STUDIES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ISSN: 1860-949X, Springer Verlag, Volume 57, pp: 231-24, June 2007. Del Bue, Alessio, Llad, Xavier and Agapito, Lourdes. Segmentation of Rigid Motion from Non-rigid 2D Trajectories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4477, 491-498. Diez Y., Sellars J. Antoni. Efficient Colored Point Set Matching Under Noise. ICCSA 2007, Lecture Notes on Computational Science 4705, pp. 26-40, Springer-Verlag, 2007. Fbrega Llus, Jov Teodor, Vil Pere, Marzo Josep Llus. A guaranteed minimum throughput service for TCP flows using measurement-based admission control", Published at International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), vol. 20, no. 1, pg. 43-63, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, ISSN 1074-5351. January 2007. Flrez J, Sbert M, Sainz MA, Veh J. Guaranteed Adaptive Antialiasing using Interval Arithmetic. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (ISSN: 0302-9743), 4488: 166-169. 2007, Springer Berlin. Freixenet, Jordi, Oliver, Arnau, Llad, Xavier and Mart, Robert. Mass Eigendetection and the Benefits of Introducing Breast Density Information. International Journal of Computed Aided Radiology and Surgery, 2007, Volume 2, Nr 1, 332-334. Gelso E, Castillo SM, Armengol J. Diagnosis based on Interval Analytical Redundancy Relations and Signs of the Symptoms. IFAC International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS07). May 2007, Alacant (Spain). Gleason, Arthur, Lirman, Diego, Williams, Dana, Gracias, Nuno, Gintert, Brooke, Madjidi Hussein, Reid, Pam, Boynton, Chris, Negahdaripour, Shahriar, Miller, Margaret and Kramer, Phil. Documenting hurricane impacts on coral reefs using two-dimensional video-mosaic technology. Marine Ecology, 2007, Volume 28, Nr 2, 54-258. Huerta M. K., Hesselbach X., Fabregat R., Padilla J. J. Ravelo O. "Reduccin de Congestin MPLS Mediante Tcnicas de Optimizacin de Flujos en la Red", Published at IEEE Latin America Transactions. Volume 5, Issue 5, Page(s):352 - 359. September 2007. Innocenti, Bianca, Lpez, Beatriz and Salvi, Joaquim. A multi-agent architecture with cooperative fuzzy control for a mobile robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2007, Volume 55, Nr 12, 881-891. Jia L, Luo N, Yuan JQ. A model based estimation of the profit function for the continuous

fermentation of bakers yeast. Chemical Engineering and Processing (ISSN: 02552701). Elsevier Science Switzerland. Lirman, Diego, Gracias, Nuno, Gintert, Brooke, Gleason, Arthur, Reid, Pam, Negahdaripour, Shahriar, and Kramer, Phil. Development and application of a videomosaic survey technology to document the status of coral reef communities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2007, Volume 125, Nr 1, 59-73. Llanos David, Staroswiecki Marcel, Colomer Joan, Melndez Joaquim. Transmisin Delays in Residual Computation. IET Control Theory & Applications (former IEE Proc. Control Theory & Applications), 2007, Volume 1, Nr 5, 1471-1476 Lopez, B., Innocenti, B., Busquets, D. A Multiagent System to Support Ambulance Coordination of Urgent Medical Transportation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2007 (to appear). Mart, Robert, Mart, Joan, Freixenet, Jordi, Vilanova, Joan Carles and Barcel, Joaquim. Optimally Discriminant Moments for Speckle Detection in Real B-Scan Images. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4478, 242 249. Marti, Robert, Arnau, Oliver, Raba, David and Freixenet Jordi. Breast skin-line segmentation using contour growing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4478, 564-571. Mart, Robert, Mart, Joan, Freixenet, Jordi, Vilanova, Joan Carles and Barcel, Joaquim. Robust Speckle Detection in Ultrasound Images. Evaluation Aspects. The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2007,Volume 6356, 63560P-1 63560P-11. Marzo Jose L., Calle Eusebi, Vil Pere, Urra Anna. "Performance evaluation of minimum interference routing in network scenarios with protection requirements", Published at VOL 30/16. Pp 3161-3168. Computer Communication, ISSN 0140-3664. Elsevier. November 2007. Michalowski, M., Sabanovic, S., DiSalvo, C., Busquets, D., Hiatt, L., Melchior, N., Simmons, R. Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays social tag at AAAI 2005. Autonomous Robots, 2007, Volume 22, Nr 4, 385-397. Mora JJ, Melendez J., Carrillo G.. Comparison of impedance based fault location methods for power distribution systems, Electric Power Systems Research (Elsevier), 2007, In press (Available on line 20 July 2007). Muntaner-Perich E., de la Rosa J.Ll.. Towards a Formalisation of Dynamic Electronic Institutions, ISSN, LNCS Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III, Springer Verlag, Volume 4870, pp: 97-109, 2007. Pan X., Gillies M., Sezgin T. M., Loscos C. Expressing Complex Mental States Through Facial Expressions - Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Lecture notes in computer science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 4738, pp 745-746, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-74888-5. Pacheco, LLus, Cuf, Xavi and Cobos, Javier. Constrained Monocular Obstacle Perception with Just One Frame. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4477, 611-619. Pacheco, Lluis and Luo, Ningsu. Mobile Robot Local Predictive Control Using a Visual Perception Horizon. International journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Conputing, 2007, Volume 2, 73-81. Pacheco, Llus and Luo, Ningsu. Mobile Robot Local Predictive Control under Perception Constraints.International journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Conputing, 2007, Volume 4, 40-48. Patow, G.; Pueyo, X. and Vinacua, A. User-Guided Inverse Reflector Design. Computers & Graphics, Volume 31, Issue 3, June 2007, Pages 501-515 Elsevier. Netherlands. Prados, Ferran, Boada, Imma, Feixas, Miquel, Prats, A., Blasco, G, Pedraza, S., Puig, J. DTIWeb: A,Web-based Framework for DTI data Visualization and Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCSA07), 2007. Raba, David, Peracaula, Marta, Mart, Robert and Mart, Joan. On the Detection of Regions-of-Interest in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4477, 129 136. Ribas, David, Ridao, Pere, Neira, Jos and Tards, Joan Domingo. Line extraction from mechanically scanned imaging sonar. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4477, 322-329. Rigau, Jaume, Feixas, Miquel, Sbert, Mateu. A generalised mutual-information-based oracle for hierarchical radiosity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCS07), pp: 105-113, 2007. Obaidat Mohammad, Marzo Jose L. "Advances in Communication Networking", Accepted at Guest Editorial. Special Issue. Computer Communications 30 (2007) 29952999. ISSN 0140-3664. Elsevier. November 2007. Oliver, Arnau, Llad, Xavier, Mart, Joan, Mart, Robert and Freixenet, Jordi. False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection using Two-Dimensional PCA. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4478, 154 161. Oliver, Arnau, Llad, Xavier, Freixenet, Jordi and Mart, Joan. False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection using Local Binary Patterns. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4791, 286-293. Orghidan, Radu, Mouaddib, El Mustapha, Salvi, Joaquim, JJ Serrano. Catadioptric Single Shot Rangefinder for Textured Map Building in Robot Navigation. IET Computer Vision, 2007, Volume 1, Nr 2, 43-53. Pacheco L, Luo N, Ferrer J. Mobile robot local predictive control under perception constraints. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FACTORY AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND

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SOFT COMPUTING (ISSN: 1828-6984). Pp 273-281. 2007, International Society for Advanced Research. Salvi, Joaquim, Matabosch, Carles, Fofi, David and Forest, Josep. A Review of Recent Range Image Registration Methods with Accuracy Evaluation. Image and Vision Computing, 2007, Volume 25, Nr 5, 578-596. Shmilovici A., Bakir G.H., Figueras A., de la Rosa J.L.. On the Simplification of an Examples Based Controller with Support Vector Machines. Control and Intelligent Systems. Acta Press (Indexed by the American Mathematical Society - Mathematical Reviews, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Compendex (Engineering Information), FIZ Karlsruhe and INSPEC), ISSN: 1480-1752, Volume 35, pp: 55-61, 2007. Solano Fernando, Caro L F., de Oliveira Jaudelice C., Fabregat Ramon, Marzo Jose Luis. "G+: Enhanced Traffic Grooming in WDM Mesh Networks using Lighttours", Published at IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. ISSN 0733-8716, Vol 25, num. 5, pp 1034-1047. June 2007. Tesouro Montse and Puiggal Juan. "The computer helps in the acquisition of educational knowledge.", Published at Interactive Educational Multimedia, 14 (April 2008),pp102115. May 2007. Umenhoffer Tams, Patow Gustavo, Szirmay-Kalos Lszl. Robust Multiple Specular Reflections and Refractions. GPU Gems 3. Chapter 17. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007, (ISBN 978-0321515261), pp. 387-408. Trias, Dani, Garcia, Rafael, Costa, Josep, Blanco, Norbert and Hurtado, Jorge Eduardo. Quality control of CFRPs by means of digital image processing and statistical point pattern analysis. Composites Science and Technology, 2007, Volume 67, Nr 11-12, 2438-2446. Urra Anna, Calle Eusebi, Marzo Jose L., Vila Pere. "An Enhanced Dynamic Multilayer Routing for Networks with Protection Requirements", Published at Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 9, Number 4, December 2007. December 2007. Xu, Qing, Sbert, Mateu, Feixas, Miquel, Zhang, Jianfeng. AM-GM Difference Based Adaptive Sampling for Monte Carlo Global Illumination. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCSA07), Volume 2, 2007. Xu, Qing, Sbert, Mateu. A new way to reusing paths. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCSA07), Volume 2, pp: 741-750, 2007. Zambrano D, Garca-Gabn W, Camacho EF. A Heuristic Predictive Logic Controller Applied to Hybrid Solar Air Conditioning Plant. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (ISSN: 0302-9743), 4413: 793-796. 2007, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. Zapateiro M, Luo N. Parametric and non-parametric characterization of the dynamics of a shear-mode magnetorheological damper. JOURNAL OF VIBROENGINEERING (ISSN: 1392-8716), 9: 14-18. 2007, Fondai Lithuania.

pyramid kernel. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, The Netherlands (Amsterdam). Bosch Carles, Patow Gustavo. Real Time Scratches and Grooves. XVII Congreso Espaol de Informtica Grfica (CEIG '07), Zaragoza, Spain, September 2007. Bueno A, Vil P., Fabregat R. Multicast Extension of Unicast Charging for QoS Services", Published at Fourth European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks - European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN'07) Tolouse, France. February 2007. Bueno A., Guadall C, Marzo J L, Harle D. "TRiEM: An application for MS TeleRehabilitation", Published at First International Conference of E-medical Systems. October 2007. Caldern-Espinoza G, Rodrguez-Martnez A, Armengol J, Veh J, Sainz MA. Heat Rate Supervision of Fossil Power Plant by Modal Interval Analysis. 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE 07). Jul 2007, Glasgow (Scotland). Caldern-Espinoza Gabriela, Armengol Joaquim, Veh Josep, Gelso Esteban R. Dynamic diagnosis based on interval analytical redundancy relations and signs of the symptoms. AI Communications, May 1, 2007, Vol. 20, 39 47 (0.469). Calle Eusebi, Marzo Jose L., Urra Anna, Vil Pere. "Suitability of Minimum Interference Routing Schemes with Protection", Published at DRCN 2007, La Rochelle, France. October 2007. Calm R, Garca-Jaramillo M, Veh J, Bondia J, Tarn C, Garca-Gabn W. Prediction of Glucose Excursions under Uncertain Parameters and Food Intake in Intensive Insulin Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Aug 2007, Lyon (France). Calm R, Garca-Jaramillo M, Bondia J, Veh J, Tarn C, Garca-Gabn W. Prediction of postprandial glucose under uncertainty in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a comparison of Interval Methods and Monte Carlo Simulation. Meeting of the Spanish Systems Biology Network (REBS). Nov 2007, Murcia. Calm R, Garca-Jaramillo M, Veh J, Bondia J, Tarn C, Garca-Gabn W. Simulacin Intervalar del Metabolismo de la Glucosa en Pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus tipo I. IX Jornadas de Automatizacin del Razonamiento Cualitativo y Aplicaciones (JARCA 07). Jun 2007, Lloret de Mar. Camacho Oscar, Rubn Rojas, Garca-Gabn Winston. Some Long Time Delay Sliding Mode Control Approaches. ISA Transactions, 2007 (0.300). Castell, P., Sbert, M., Chover, M., Feixas, M. Viewpoint Entropy-Driven Simplification, WSCG 2007, FULL Papers proceedings, ISBN 978-80-86943-01-5. Plzen (Czech Republic), February 2007. Castillo SM, Gelso ER, Calm R, Armengol J. Estimacin de Parmetros Intervalares para la Deteccin Robusta de Fallos. IX Jornadas de Automatizacin del Razonamiento Cualitativo y Aplicaciones (JARCA 07). Jun 2007, Lloret de Mar. Castillo SM, Gelso ER, Armengol J. Modelos con Incertidumbre: Identificacin de parmetros intervalares y simulacin usando cuantificadores. I Simposio en Modelado y Simulacin de Sistemas Dinmicos (SIMOSI07) en el II Congreso Espaol de Informtica (CEDI). Sep 2007, Zaragoza. de la Rosa Josep Llus, Figueras Albert, Quintero Christian, Ramon Josep Antoni, Ibarra Salvador, and Esteva Santiago. Outline of Modification Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag. ISSN: 1860-949X, 2007, Vol. 57, 55 69 (1.415). de la Rosa Josep Ll. and Szymanski Boleslaw K., Citation Auctions as a Method to Improve Selection of Scientific Papers, 2nd IEEE International Conference on DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENENT (ICDIM07) ISBN: 1-4244-1476-8, pp: 479-486, October 29 31, 2007, Lyon, FRANCE. de la Rosa Josep Lluis and Szymanski Boleslaw K., Citation Auctions as a Method to Improve Selection and Presentation of Scientific Papers, 2nd International Conference on Persuasive Technology, 27-28 April 2007, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California del Acebo Esteve, Hormazbal Nicols, and de la Rosa Josep Llus, Beyond Trust. Fuzzy Contextual Corrective Filters for Reliability Assessment in MAS. Application to the ART Testbed, Conference & ART Competition, Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), May 14-18, 2007, Hawaii, the USA. Del Bue Alessio, Llad Xavier and Agapito Lourdes. Segmentation of Rigid Motion from Non-rigid 2D Trajectories. In Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain (Girona). Deniz Dervis Z., Marzo Jose L., Stefanova Sylvia, Thiriet Jean-Marc. "Cataloguing and Quality Assessment of Some Resources in EIE Available Through the Internet", Published at 18th EAEEIE Annual Conference, Innovation in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE). Prague, July 2007. July 2007. El-Fakdi Andrs, Carreras Marc and Ridao Pere. Direct gradient-based reinforcment learning for robot behaviour learning. Informatics in control automation and robotics II, Portugal. Fernandez Giangreco Jos M., Vila Pere, Calle Eusebi, Marzo Jose L. "Design of Virtual Topologies using the Elitist Team of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms", Published at International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). ISBN # 1-56555-317-9. San Diego. July 2007. Ferrer Jordi, Elibol Armagan, Delaunoy Olivier, Gracias Nuno and Garcia Rafael. LargeArea Photo-Mosaics Using Global Alignment and Navigation Data. MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference Vancouver, Canada (Vancouver).

Publications in Conferences
Baldiris Silvia, Fabregat Ramn, Santos Olga. "Modeling Competencies upon dotLRN", Published at OpenACS and LRN Spring Conference. Vienna. April 2007. Baldiris Silvia, Santos Olga, Barrera Carmen, Velez Jeimy, Boticario Jess G. and Fabregat Ramon. "Linking educational specifications and standards for dynamic modelling in ADAPTAPlan", Published at International Workshop on Representation models and Techniques for Improving e-Learning: Bringing Context into Web-based Education. Roskilde University, Denmark, 20-24. August 2007. Baldiris Silvia, Santos Olga C., Boticario Jess G., Fabregat Ramn. "Modelado de cursos mediante el uso intensivo de estndares educativos para dar soporte a adaptaciones dinmicas", Published at Simposio Nacional de Tecnologas de la Informacin y las Comunicaciones en la Educacin (SINTICE 2007). Zaragoza (Espaa). 11-14. September 2007. Baldiris Silvia M., Santos Olga C., Fabregat G Ramn, Boticario Jesus G.. "Modelado de Competencias en Ambientes Virtuales de Aprendizaje", Published at 3 Congreso Internacional sobre el Enfoque Basado en Competencias: Diseo Curricular por Competencias y Gestin de la Calidad del Aprendizaje. October 2007. Baldiris Navarro Silvia Margarita, Vlez Ramos Jeimy Beatriz, Fabregat Gesa Ramn. "Tendencias en la Investigacin acerca de los Sistemas de Gestin de Aprendizajes", Published at CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL: COMPETENCIAS, CICLOS PROPEDUTICOS Y APRENDIZAJE VIRTUAL. November 2007. Batlle Elisabeth, Matabosch Carles and Salvi Joaquim. Summarizing Image/Surface Registration for 6DoF Robot/Camera Pose Estimation. 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain (Girona). Batlle Elisabeth, Matabosch Carles, and Salvi Joaquim. Overview of 3D Registration Techniques Including Loop Minimization for the Complete Acquisition of Large Manufactured Parts and Complex Environments. IEEE/SPIE 8th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, France (Le Creusot) Bondia J, Garca-Gabn W, Veh J, Tarn C, Calm R. Online Detection of Therapeutically Wrong Measurements of Continous Glucose Monitors Using Support Vector Machines. Diabetes Technology Meeting. Sep 2007, San Francisco (USA). Bondia J, Tarn C, Calm R, Garca-Jaramillo M, Veh J, Garca-Gabn W. Prediccin de glucemia en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 ante incertidumbre. I Simposio en Modelado y Simulacin de Sistemas Dinmicos (SIMOSI07) en el II Congreso Espaol de Informtica (CEDI). Sep 2007, Zaragoza. Bosch Anna, Zisserman Andrew, Muoz Xavier. Image classification using random forests and ferns. International Conference on Computer Vision, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) Bosch Anna, Zisserman Andrew, Muoz Xavier. Representing shape with a spatial

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Ferrer Jordi, Gracias Nuno, Delaunoy Olivier and Garcia Rafael. Creating Large and Accurate Mosaics of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. International Workshop on Marine Technology Vilanova i la Geltr, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Flrez J., Sbert Mateu, Sainz M. A., Veh Josep. Guaranteed Adaptive Antialiasing using Interval. Arithmetic Lectures Notes in Computer Science, International Conference on Computational Science - Sixth International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, Beijing (China), May 27, 2007. Fort M., Sellars J.A.. Generalized Higher-Order Voronoi Diagrams on Polyhedral Surfaces. Proc. 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Wales, UK, pp 74-83, 2007. Freixenet Jordi, Marzo Jose L, Soler Josep. "Experiencias en un plan piloto de adaptacin al EEES: Hoja de ruta para coordinadores", Published at Actas de las XIII Jornadas de Enseanza Universitaria de la Informtica (JENUI 2007), pp 57-64. Teruel. July 2007. Freixenet Jordi, Oliver Arnau, Llad Xavier, Mart Robert and Mart Joan. Mass Eigendetection and the Benefits of Introducing Breast Density Information. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Germany (Berlin). Freixenet Jordi, Marzo Jose L, Soler Josep. Experiencias en un plan piloto de adaptacin al EEES: Hoja de ruta para coordinadores. Actas de las XIII Jornadas de Enseanza Universitaria de la Informtica (JENUI 2007), Spain (Teruel). Garca-Gabn W, Dorado F, Bordons C. Comparative analysis of sliding mode and Volterra model predictive controllers applied to a benchmark CSTR non-minimum phase reactor. European Control Conference (ECC07). Jul 2007, Kos (Greece). Garca-Jaramillo M, Ruiz M, Colomer J, Melndez J. Multiway Principal Component Analysis and Case Base Reasoning methodology for abnormal situation detection in a Nutrient Removing SBR. European Control Conference (ECC07). Jul 2007, Kos (Greece). Garca Guillem de Marina, Ribas David and Ridao Pere. A global localization system for structured environments using an imaging sonar. IFAC Conference on Control in Marine Systems, Croacia (Bol). Garcia I., Patow G., Sbert M., and Szirmay-Kalos L. Multi-layered indirect texturing for tree rendering. Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2007, D. Ebert, S. Mrillou (Eds). Garca Oscar, Veh Josep, Campos e Matos Jose, Abel Hernndez Antnio & Casas Joan Ramon. Structural Assessment Under Uncertain Parameters Via Interval Analysis. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Article in Press), Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science (FEMTEC 2006), 2007. Gelso E, Castillo SM, Armengol J. Robust fault detection using consistency techniques for uncertainty handling. IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing (WISP'07). Oct 2007, Alcal de Henares, Madrid (Spain). Gelso ER, Castillo SM, Armengol J. Construyendo una Plataforma para Deteccin y Diagnosis de Sistemas Dinmicos Basada en Anlisis Intervalar Modal y Redundancia Analtica. IX Jornadas de Automatizacin del Razonamiento Cualitativo y Aplicaciones (JARCA 07). Jun 2007, Lloret de Mar. Gonzlez Francisco, Feixas Miquel and Sbert Mateu. View-based Shape Similarity using Mutual Information Spheres. Eurographics'07 Short Paper, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 3-7, 2007. Gonzlez Francisco, Sbert Mateu and Feixas Miquel. An Information-Theoretic Ambient Occlusion. International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging. Banff (Canada), 2007. Gonzlez Gustavo, de la Rosa Josep Llus, Montaner Miquel, Delfn Sonia, Embedding Emotional Context in Recommender Systems, IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Web Personalisation Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI'07), Istambul, Turkey, April 16-20, 2007. Harle D., Albarrak S., Urra A., Calle E., Marzo J. L.. "Service Level Agreement Framework for Differentiated Survivability in GMPLS-based IP-over-Optical Networks", Published at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) proceedings, ISBN 1-4244-0353-7, Glasgow (UK). June 2007. Herrero P, Palerm C, Dassau E, Zisser H, Jovanovic L A. Glucose Absortion Model Library of Mixed Meals for in silico Evaluation of Artificial Beta Cell Control Algorithms. Diabetes Technology Meeting. Sep 2007, San Francisco (USA). Ibarra S., Quintero C., Ramn J. A., de la Rosa J. Ll., Castn J. A., PAULA: Multiagent Architecture for Coordination of Intelligent Agent Systems, The European Control Conference, ECC07, Conference, Julio 2-5, 2007, Kos, Greece. Jia Horgan Jonathan, Toal Daniel, Ridao Pere and Garcia Rafael. Real-time vision based AUV navigation system using a complementary sensor suite. IFAC Conf. on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS'07), Croatia (Bol). Khosravi A, Armengol J, Gelso E. An Interval Intelligent-based Approach for Fault Detection and Modelling. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZIEEE). Jul 2007, London (England). Khosravi A, Armengol J. A Hybrid Method for Fault Detection and Modeling using Modal Intervals and ANFIS. American Control Conference (ACC07). Jul 2007, New York City (USA). Kudzinava Marina, Garcia Rafael and Mart Joan. Feature-based Matching of Underwater Images. International Workshop on Marine Technology Vilanova i la Geltr, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Luo N, Rodellar J, Ikhourane F, Zapateiro M. Modelling, identification and control of

mechatronic systems equipped with smart actuators. World Forum on Smart Material and Structures Technology. May 2007, Chongqing and Naijing (China). L., Luo N., Yuan J.Q. A model based estimation of the profit function for the continuous fermentation of baker's yeast. Chemical Engineering and Processing, Nov 2007, 1215 1222 Luo N, Villamizar R, Veh J. Backstepping Control of Nonlinear Building Structures with Hysteretic and Frictional Dynamics. European Control Conference (ECC07). Jul 2007, Kos (Greece). Llad Xavier, Oliver Arnau, Mart Joan and Freixenet Jordi. "Dealing with false positive reduction in mammographic mass detection. Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), United Kingdom (Aberystwyth). Mart Robert, Mart Joan, Freixenet Jordi, Vilanova Joan Carles and Barcel Joaquim. Robust Speckle Detection in Ultrasound Images. Evaluation Aspects. SPIE Quality Control by Artificial Vision, France (Le Creusot). Mart Robert, Oliver Arnau, Raba David and Freixenet Jordi. Breast skin-line segmentation using contour growing. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain (Girona). Marzo J L., Caro L F., Solano F, de Oliveira J., Fabregat R. "Operational Cost Reduction in WDM Networks using Lighttours (invited)", Published at International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) proceedings. ISBN 1-4244-1249-8. IEEE catalog # 07EX1796C. July 2007. Mrida D., Baldiris S., Fabregat R., Velez J., Huerva D. "A User Model that incorporates characteristics of Access Devices in MAS-SHAAD", Published at UM'07- Workshop Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A). 24. June 2007. Moeller Briggite, Garcia Rafael and Posch Stefan. Towards Objective Quality Assessment of Image Registration Results. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Spain (Barcelona). Molinier Thierry, Fofi David, Gorria Patrick and Salvi Joaquim. Detection of Surfaces for Projection texture. IEEE/SPIE 8th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, France (Le Creusot). Molinier Thierry, Fofi David, Gorria Patrick and Salvi Joaquim. Projection de Texture sur des Objects 3D Rels. GRETSI2007, Colloque du Groupe de Recherche sur le Traitement du Signal et des Images, France (Troyes). Molinier Thierry, Fofi David, Gorria Patrick and Salvi Joaquim. Automatic texture mapping on real 3D model. IEEE Int. Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, PROCAMS 2007, in conjunction with Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, USA (Minnesota). Mujica Luis Eduardo, Veh Josep and Rodellar Jos. A Case Based Reasoning approach for Damage Assessment in Smart Structures. III ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials. Jul. 2007, Gdansk (Poland). Muntaner Perich Eduard, de la Rosa Josep Llus, Towards a Formalisation of Dynamic Electronic Institutions, The AAMAS'07 Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems (COIN'07), May 14-18, 2007, Hawaii, the USA. Nicosevici Tudor, Garcia Rafael, Negahdaripour Shahriar, Kudzinava Marina and Ferrer Jordi. Identification of Suitable Interest Points Using Geometric Photometric Cues in Motion Video for Efficient 3-D Environmental Modeling. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Italy (Rome). Nicosevici Tudor, Garcia Rafael and Gracias Nuno. Identification of geometrically consistent interest points for 3D scene reconstruction. International Workshop on Marine Technology Vilanova i la Geltr, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Oliver Arnau, Llad Xavier, Freixenet Jordi and Mart Joan. A False Positive Reduction in Mammographic Mass Detection using Local Binary Patterns. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Austrialia (Brisbane). Oliver Arnau, Llad Xavier, Mart Robert, Freixenet Jordi and Zwiggelaar Reyer. Classifying Mammograms using Texture Information. In Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, Wales (Aberystwyth). Oliver Arnau, Llad Xaxier, Mart Joan, Mart Robert and Freixenet Jordi. False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection using Two-Dimensional PCA. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain (Girona). Oliveros A, Veh J, Gutirrez A, Garca-Gabn W. Closed Loop Glycemic Control For Critically Ill Patients: Feasibility Study and Experimental Design. 4th IEEE International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors. Aug 2007, Cambridge (England). Oliveros A, Veh J, Gutirrez A, Garca-Gabn W. Closed Loop Glycemic Control for Critically Ill Patients: Feasibility Study and Experimental Design. ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference. Jun 2007, Keystone, Colorado (USA). Oliveros A, Veh J, Gutirrez A, Garca-Gabn W. Control en Lazo Cerrado para Nivel de Glucosa en Pacientes Crticos: Estudio Previo y Propuesta de Protocolo en Ensayos Crticos. XXVIII Jornadas de Automtica. Sep 2007, Huelva. Pacheco Ll., Luo N. Mobile robot local predictive control using a visual perception horizon. Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control Systems 2007, 217 - 225. Pacheco Ll., Luo N. Trajectory planning with control horizon based on narrow local occupancy grid perception. Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences, 2007. Pacheco LLuis and Luo N. Predictive control by local visual data. 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2007). May 2007, Angers (France).

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Pacheco LLuis and Luo N. Trajectory planning with control horizon based on narrow local occupancy grid perception. 6th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control. Jun 2007, Bukowy Sworek (Poland). Palomeras Narcs, Ridao Pere, Carreras Marc. Defining a Mission Control Language. Congrs Internacional sobre Tecnologia Marina, 2007, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Palomeras Narcs, Ridao Pere, Carreras Marc, Batlle Joan. A Mission Control Language for AUVs. Control Applications in Marine Systems, 2007, Italy. Peracaula Marta, Freixenet Jordi, Mart Joan, Mart Josep and Paredes Josep Maria. Faint compact object detection in wide field interferometric radio images using a hybrid method based on local thresholding and wavelet decomposition. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII, ASP, United Kingdom (London). Peracaula Marta, Freixenet Jordi, Mart Joan, Mart Robert and Paredes Josep Maria. Faint compact object detection in wide field interferometric radio images using a hybrid method based on local thresholding and wavelet decomposition. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVII, United Kingdom (London). Prados Ricard, Neumann Lazlo, Cuf Xavi and Garcia Rafael. Visually Pleasant Blending Techniques in Underwater Mosaicing. International Workshop on Marine Technology Vilanova i la Geltr, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Puiggali Joan, Jov Teo, Segovia Juan, Marzo Josep Llus. "Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization Architecture for Computer Clusters", Published at 2007 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2007). May 2007. Quintero M. Christian G., Ibarra M.Salvador, De la Rosa Josep Ll. and Veh Jose. Introspection on Control-grounded Capabilities. A Task Allocation Case Study in Robot Soccer. International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2007) May 2007, Angers (France). Quintero M.Christian G., Busquets Ddac, de la Rosa Josep Ll. and Veh Josep, Introspection on Control-grounded Capabilities. Relevance in Task Allocation Problem. The European Control Conference ECC07, Jul 2007, Kos, Greece. Raba David, Peracaula Marta, Mart Robert and Marti Joan. On the detection of regions-of-interest in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA'07), Spain (Girona). Ribas David, Palomeras Narcs, Ridao Pere, Carreras Marc and Hernandez Emili. ICTINEU AUV wins the first sauc-e competition. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Italia (Roma). Ribas David, Ridao Pere, Neira Jos and Tards Juan Domingo. A method for extracting lines and their uncertainty from acoustic underwater images. 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, France (Toulouse) Ribas David, Ridao Pere, Tards Juan Domingo and Neira Jos. Underwater SLAM in a marina environment. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, EUA (San Diego). Ribas David, Ridao Pere, Neira Jos and Tards Juan Domingo. Underwater SLAM for manmade environments. Workshop internacional sobre tecnologa marina, MARTECH 07, Spain (Vilanova i la Geltr). Ribas David, Ridao Pere, Neira Jos, Tardos and Domingo Joan. Line extraction from mechanically scanned imaging sonar. 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Spain (Girona). Ridao Pere, Carreras Marc, Hernandez Emili and Palomeras Narcs. Underwater Telerobotics for Collaborative Research. Advances in Tele-robotics. Rigau Jaume, Feixas Miquel, Sbert Mateu. Conceptualizing Birkhoff's Aesthetic Measure Using Shannon Entropy and Kolmogorov Complexity, Computational Aesthetics 2007: 105-112. Rodellar J, Veh J, Mujica LE. Experimental Applications of a Case Based Reasoning Method for Structural Damage Assessment. World Forum on Smart Material and Structures Technology. May 2007, Chongqing and Naijing (China). Ruiz Ordez Ronald Uriel, de la Rosa Josep Llus, Guzmn Obando Javier, Strategy Recommender Agents (ALEX) - the Methodology, Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), May 14-18, 2007, Hawaii, the USA. Santos Olga C., Baldiris Silvia, Velez Jeimy, Boticario Jess G., Fabregat Ramn. "Dynamic Support in ADAPTAPlan: ADA+", Published at Conferencia de la Asociacin Espaola para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA). Salamanca. 12-16. November 2007. Sbert Mateu, Feixas Miquel, Rigau Jaume, Chover Miguel, Viola Ivan. Applications of Information Theory to Computer Graphics, Eurographics Tutorial, 2007. Solano F., Van Caenegem R., Colle D., Marzo J., Fabregat R.. "Label Merging in AllOptical Label Swapping Networks", Published at VI Workshop in G/MPLS networks. April 2007. Solano F, Van Caenegem R, Colle D, Pickavet M, Marzo J L, Fabregat R (Invited). "Routing and Label Stacking in All-Optical Label", Published at Networks and Optical Communications (NOC) proceedings, ISBN: 978-91-633-0869-7. Stockholm. June 2007. Soler Josep, Boada Imma, Prados Ferran, Poch Jordi, Fabregat Ramon. "An Automatic Correction Tool for Relational Algebra Queries", Accepted at International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2007). Malaysia, 26-29 August 2007. Surez B.Silvia A., Quintero M.Christian G., de la Rosa Josep Lluis, Improving Tasks Allocation and Coordination in a Rescue Scenario, The European Control Conference ECC07, Conference, Julio 2-5, 2007, Kos, Greece.

Urra Anna, Calle Eusebi, Marzo Jose L., Vila Pere. "Incorporating Protection Mechanisms in the Dynamic Multi-Layer Routing Schemes", Published at Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Next Generation Internet, NETWORKING 2007, Atlanta, GA, US. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4479, pp. 786-796. May 2007. Vlez Jeimy, Fabregat Ramon, Gonzlez Gustavo. "Entornos de Aprendizaje Virtual Adaptativos soportados por Mquinas de Soporte Vectorial", Accepted at Congreso Internacional de Inteligencia Computacional (CIIC 2007). Bogot. 5-7. September 2007. Vlez J., Fabregat R., Gonzalez G., Arteaga C. "Servicios Ofrecidos en Entornos de Aprendizaje Virtual a partir de un Modelo de Usuario Integral", Accepted at Simposio Nacional de Tecnologas de la Informacin y las Comunicaciones en la Educacin (SINTICE 2007), Zaragoza (Espaa). 11-14. September 2007. Vlez J., Fabregat R. "SMAW: Sistema Multiagente para la Adaptacin de contenido Web", Published at Reunin Nacional de Facultades de Ingeniera. Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). October 2007. Wong K. Y., Thyvetil M. A., Machaira A., Loscos C.. Density distribution and local behaviour for realistic crowd simulation. IADIS International Computer Graphics and Visualization, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007. Zambrano Darine, Garca-Gabn Winston, Camacho Eduardo F. A Heuristic Predictive logic Controller applied to hybrid solar air conditioning plant. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Apr 2007. Zapateiro M, Luo N. Experimental Identification of a shear-mode MR damper and numerical evaluation of hysterectic models. 21st Biennal Conference on Mechanical Vision and Noise. Sep 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA). Zapateiro M, Luo N, Dyke SJ, Taylor E. Modeling and identification of a class of MR fluid foam damper. III ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials. Jul 2007, Gdansk (Poland). Zapateiro M, Taylor E, Dyke SK, Luo N. Modeling and identification of hysteretic dynamics of a MR actuator for its application to semiactive control of flexible structures. SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring. Mar 2007, San Diego (USA). Zapateiro M, Luo N. MR dampers for seismic protection: design, modeling and identification. 3r Congreso Nacional de Ingeniera Ssmica. May 2007, Girona. Zapateiro M, Luo N. Neural network modeling of a magnetorheological damper. Congrs Internacional de lAssociaci dIntel.ligncia Artificial (International Congress of the Association of Artificial Intelligence). Oct 2007, Sant Juli de Lria (Andorra). Zapateiro M, Luo N. Parametric and non-parametric characterization of the dynamics of a shear-mode magnetorheological damper. 3rd International Conference on Mechatronic Systems and Material. Sep 2007, Kaunas (Lithuania).

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