Projects

This is the list of ongoing and past projects at IE. The list is in (approximate) chronological order, more recent first.

Social Network Surveillance (SNS)
Project Social Network Surveillance (SNS) aimed at devising tools for the protection of children and youth in social networks and on-line messaging systems, by using computational techniques and Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques.

MAPSEL
MAPSEL (mining, data analysis and personalization based in social aspects of e-learning) is a short 1-year research project exploring new techniques and tools for mining and analyzing social data in learning technology, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ref. TIN2009-14164-C04-01).

Information on the project can be found here.

MARIA
The project aims at studying and developing new techniques for analysis and measurement of electronic resource and information access features like those involved in the creation, management and evolution processes as well as those related with quality aspects.

Electronic resources and information access include learning objects, ontologies and other kind of knowledge organizations, metadata, etc.

Technology and standards used

 * Semantic Web technology: OWL, HP Jena.
 * Metrics and measurement standards.
 * Learning technology standards: IEEE LOM.

Project profile

 * Duration: 2009.
 * Funding agency: Comunidad de Madrid + University of Alcala.
 * Reference code: CCG08-UAH/TIC-4178.
 * Funding received: 18.000 EUR.

Integra
The INTEGRA project aims at advancing the state of the art in technologies for migration management. It is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

It is carried out by a consortium composed of fifteen Spanish companies (including GMV, Amper, Boeing and Isdefe, among others) and twenty-five research institutions, in the period 2008-2011.

IE is one of the participants in the consortium, working closely with Amper in technologies for C4ISR.

e-Culture
Project E-CULTURA (e-culture) aims at developing base semantic technology for cultural or heritage institutions that want to expose their resources using advanced search interfaces, Web 2.0 features and to be prepared for using them with standardized learning technology.

Technology and standards used

 * Semantic Web technology: OWL, HP Jena.
 * Web 2.0 tools: MediaWiki.
 * Existing schemas as CIDOC CRM.
 * Learning technology standards: IEEE LOM, IMS LD.

Project profile

 * Duration: 2008-2010.
 * Partners: Intelligent Software Components, University of Alcalá and University of Cádiz.
 * Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce.
 * Reference code: TSI-020501-2008-53
 * Funding received: 447.772 EUR (of a total project budget of 979.235 EUR).
 * Funding received by IE: 129.887 EUR.

Main results
TBC

SUMA
SUMA (Service Integration via Standards) aims to develop a system integrating e-learning services through well-known standards, allowing a seamsless implementation of new tools and services in order to meet the current needs of both academic and business domains.

IE participates in SUMA with the development of OKI Repository interfaces for semantic learning object metadata repositories.

The results of the project are hosted at eduforge's project repository.

MT4SOA
The aim of the mt4SOA project is that of developing new approaches to the quantitative management of the processes involved in the management, development and operation of the software-oriented services.

Technology and standards used

 * Web services and semantic Web technologies
 * Metrics and measurement standards

Project profile

 * Duration: 2008-2009.
 * Funding agency: The University of Alcalá and Community of Madrid, CCG07-UAH-TIC-158.
 * Reference code: CCG07-UAH-TIC-1588
 * Funding received: 16,000 EUR

Main results

 * Sicilia, M.A., Rodriguez, D., Exploring Cohesion, Flexibility, Communication Overhead and Distribution for Web Services Interfaces in Computational Science, Workshop on Software Engineering for Large Scale Computing, International Conference in Computational Science, LNCS 5103 Vol III, pp. 368-377, 23-25 June, 2008, Krakow, Poland


 * Rodriguez, D., Sicilia, M.A., The Impact of the Qualitative Characteristics of Online Product Reviews: An empirical Assessment using Readability Tests, Emerging Technologies and Information Systems for the Knowledge Society First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings, LNCS Volume 5288, pp.423- 432

Organic.Edunet
Project Organic.Edunet aims to facilitate access, usage and exploitation of digital educational content related to Organic Agriculture and Agroecology.

Technology and standards used

 * Semantic Web technology: OWL, HP Jena.
 * Online portfolio management tools: Confolio
 * Repository tools: SCAM and LOM-R
 * Content Management Systems: Joomla
 * Learning technology standards: IEEE LOM.

Project profile

 * Duration: 2007-2010.
 * Project Website: http://www.organic-edunet.eu/
 * Partners: 15 contractor organizations from 10 countries.
 * Funding agency: Eropean Union (e-Content plus programme).
 * Reference: ECP-2006-EDU-410012
 * Funding received: 2.400.000 EUR (of a total project budget of 4.800.000 EUR).
 * Funding received by IE: 250.000 EUR.

Main results

 * Educational scenarios
 * OA&AE Ontology
 * Organic.Edunet portal architecture
 * Annotation tool
 * others to come...