National Projects

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.

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 2008-2011
 * Project Website: ¿?
 * Partners: It is carried out by a consortium composed of fifteen Spanish companies and twenty-five research institutions
 * GMV http://www.gmv.com/es/
 * Amper http://www.amper.es/index.cfm?lang=sp
 * Boeing http://www.boeing.com/
 * Isdefe http://www.isdefe.es/
 * Reference code: ¿?
 * Funding received: ¿?

Technology and standards used

 * Content Management Systems: Joomla
 * social networking software - Joomla social
 * Semantic Web technologies
 * Semantic learning object metadata repository Ont-Space

eCultura
eCultura Developing a Semantic Platform for the Preservation and Exploitation of Cultural Content

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 2008-2010
 * Project Website: http://ecultura.uca.es/
 * Partners:
 * Intelligent Software Components http://www.isoco.com/web/guest
 * University of Cádiz http://www.uca.es/es/
 * 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.

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.

HEDECAMA
Semantic model and data mining algorithms applied to the treatment of Breast Cancer Specialized Care Centers.

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 1-10-2011 - 31-3-2014
 * Project Website: ¿?
 * Partners: ¿?
 * Reference code: IPT-2011-1126-900000
 * Funding received: ¿?

MAVSEL
Semantic model and data mining algorithms applied to the treatment of Breast Cancer Specialized Care Centers.

Project profile

 * Full Name: Mining, Data Analysis and Visualization based on Social models in E-Learning
 * Duration: 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2012
 * Project Website: ¿?
 * Partners: The main participants of the project are:
 * Universitat Oberta de Catalunya http://www.uoc.edu/portal/castellano/
 * Universidad del País Vasco http://www.ehu.es/
 * Reference code: TIN2010-21715-C02-02
 * Funded by: Spanish Ministry of Science
 * Funding received: ¿?

Main results
Elaborate a model that provides a framework for data analysis in educational settings, informed by theories and hypothesis about the contribution of social interaction to learning.

PERSONAL-ONTO
Personalization in e-learning allows the adaptation of contents, learning strategiesand educational resources to the competencies, previous knowledge or preferences of the student. This project takes a multidisciplinary perspective for devising standards-based personalization capabilities into virtual e-learning environments, focusing on the conceptof adaptive learning itinerary, using reusable learning objects as the basis of the system and using ontologies and semantic web technologies.

Project profile

 * Full Name: Personalizing the Learning Process in Virtual Environments by means of Adaptive Formative Itineraries based on Reusable Learning Objects and Ontologies.
 * Duration: 1/10/2011 - 31/3/2014
 * Project Website: http://personal.uoc.edu/personalonto/
 * Partners: The main participant of the project is:
 * Uoc http://www.uoc.edu/portal/castellano/index5.html
 * Reference: TIN2006-15107-C02-01/02 (UOC/UAH)
 * Funding: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia

Main results

 * Modelling and establishing the pedagogical base of the concept of adaptive learning itinerary based on elementary learning units, allowing different interpretations for learning.
 * Definition of the learning object repository requirements, with the goal of achieving reuse and interoperability of content description standards.
 * Creation of an ontology allowing the definition of adaptive learning itineraries, as a result of pedagogical criteria based also on competences and activities, not only on content, according to the needs and particular features of every student.
 * Establishing criteria and tools for usage and usability evaluation of learning environments and learning contents.
 * Putting the research results into practice through a virtual university or an e-learning platform, making the conclusions publicly available as a study case.

SLROUTE
Semantic model and data mining algorithms applied to the treatment of Breast Cancer Specialized Care Centers.

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 1/10/2011 - 31/3/2014
 * Project Website:
 * Partners: ¿?
 * Reference code: FIT-350301-2007-18
 * Funding received: ¿?

Main results

 * Academic Content - To enrich teachers' knowledge of technology enhanced educational tools and International Studies content,as well as developing their intellectual skills and confidence in employing what they have learned effectively in the education of their students.
 * Development of Teacher Leadership - To cultivate long-term relationships with teacher leaders who can both model the various habits of effective International Studies education and serve as inspirational mentors to their colleagues.
 * Partnership with Low Performing Schools - To develop, support and sustain collaborative partnerships based on common goals, a mutually developed plan, shared investment and an on-going commitment to improve student performance.
 * Professional Community/ Teacher Network - To establish and sustain a productive, professional environment that will bring together International Studies and World History teachers and committed college faculty so as to foster a dialogue between them concerning K-12 education.
 * Evaluation - To assess carefully and systematically the impact of the various and aggregate program activities on teacher content knowledge, instructional practice, and professional performance.

MT4SOA
MT4SOA: Technical Management Systems with Service Oriented Architectures

Project profile

 * Full Name: Management Techniques for Services Oriented Arquitectures
 * Duration: 2008 - 2009
 * Project Website: http://www.cc.uah.es/ie/mt4SOA/
 * Reference code: CCG07-UAH/TIC-1588
 * Funding received: 16.000 €
 * Funding agency: The University of Alcalá and Community of Madrid, CCG07-UAH-TIC-158.

Main results

 * The methods for measuring functional software, especially the two most widespread international methodologies such as IFPUG and COSMIC.
 * The method for estimating the effort and time systems development-oriented software services, with a special emphasis on adapting the mathematical methods of estimation based on statistical techniques.
 * Analysis of the current methods for monitoring and metric operation projects and where appropriate, suggesting the adjustments that are necessary for use them in an optimum way in the development of systems-oriented services.
 * Metrics and development techniques specific to the technology semantic extensions of service-oriented architectures, which use ontologies and software languages associated.

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

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

Technology and standards used

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

SOCIAL NETWORK SURVEILLANCE
Social Network Surveillance (SNS) is an industrial research project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Industry in the years 2009-2011 that aims at developing new computational tools to protect children and the youth in general during their interaction in social networks and on-line messaging systems.

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 1-7-2009 - 31-12-2011
 * Project Website:
 * Partners:
 * Ximetrix Networks, project coordinator. http://www.ximetrix.com/
 * Autonomous University of Barcelona http://www.uab.es/
 * Indisys http://www.indisys.com/
 * Alianzo http://www.alianzo.com/
 * Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Industry
 * Reference code: TSI-020110-2009-374
 * Funding received: 1.326.069,00€

Main results
New security measures for social networks for children and adolescents based on machine learning and ontologies.

MAPSEL
MAPSEL is a short 1-year research project exploring new techniques and tools for mining and analyzing social data in learning technology

Project profile

 * Full Name: mining, data analysis and personalization based in social aspects of e-learning
 * Duration: 1-1-2010 - 31-12-2010
 * Project Website: http://www.cc.uah.es/ie/pawsel/
 * Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
 * Reference code: TIN2009-14164-C04-01
 * Funding received: 10.000 €

Main results
Learning usually takes place in social settings, with the direct or indirect interaction of learners with peers or tutors. A variety of data is automatically stored as learners and tutors interact between them or with different kinds of resources as learning objects in diverse technology components, including Learning Management Systems, learning object repositories, Wikis and other Web 2.0 tools and social networking sites. This enables new forms of empirical research that were difficult to conduct some years ago.

REDAOPA
REDAOPA: Thematic Network design activities and learning objects.

Project profile

 * Full Name: La Red Temática de Actividades y Objetos para el Aprendizaje
 * Duration: 2005-2006
 * Project Website: http://www.cc.uah.es/ie/projects/redaopa/
 * Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, coordinated by the University of Alcalá
 * Reference code: MEC (TSI2004-21263-E)
 * Funding received:

Main Results
REDAOPA began in 2004 with the aim to continue the multidisciplinary annual meetings that began in the symposium SPDECE ' 04, in order to advance in the investigation in the area of the education supported by the Technologies of the Information. REDAOPA was financed by the Department of Education and Science Spanish and coordinated by the University of Alcala, taking Michael-Angel Sicilia as coordinators of the network and later to Salvador Sanchez-Alonso. The thematic network ended officially with the joint conference CCITA in 2009, opening his area of action for the Latin-American community. The active members of REDAOPA joined the Latin-American Company for the Advance of the Educational Technology (SIATE), where one gives continuity to the same activities.

PAWSEL
PAWSEL: Advanced Platform for Semantic Web Services distributed processes in e-learning.

Project profile

 * Full Name: Advanced Semantic Web Service-based platform for distributed e-learning processes
 * Duration: 01/01/2006 - 01/12/2006
 * Project Website:
 * Reference code: CAM-UAH2005/046
 * Funding received: 15.000 €

METISAT
Methods and Techniques for Semantic Integration of Clinical Information by Archetypes and Terminologies

Project profile

 * Full Name: Methods and Techniques for Semantic Integration of Clinical Information by Archetypes and Terminologies
 * Duration: ¿?
 * Project Website: http://www.ieru.org/projects/metisat/methodology.html
 * Partners:
 * Comunidad de Madrid http://www.madrid.org/
 * Reference code: CCG10-UAH/TIC-5922
 * Funding received: ¿?

Main results

 * To investigate the combined use of clinical archetypes and medical terminology, both from a technical perspective and from the view point of its use and interpretation by professionals.
 * To design and develop techniques and methods to increase the effectiveness, of the use and quality of the resulting terminological annotations.

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.

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 2007 - 2009
 * Project Website:http://www.ines.org.es/suma/en/index.php
 * Partners:
 * TECSIDEL http://www.tecsidel.es/tecsidel/index.php?id=392
 * GESTIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO SA http://gecsa.com/gec2009V4/index.do
 * UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO DE VITORIA (MADRID) http://www.ufv.es/
 * Funding agency: UniversitatOberta de Catalunya
 * Reference code: PROFIT FIT-350503-2007-8
 * Funding received:

Main results
Development of a system integration of eLearning services using standards. Adaptation of OKI interfaces for semantic repositories.

Technology and standards used

 * openEHR clinical archetypes
 * ADL
 * OWL
 * SWRL

Project profile

 * Full Name: "Historia clínica inteligente para la seguridad del paciente" / "Intelligent Clinical Records for Patient Safety" (CISEP)
 * Duration: 2007-2010
 * Project Website:
 * Partners: Hospital de Fuenlabrada, Universidad de Alcalá, Intelligent Software Components S.A. (ISOCO)
 * Funding agency: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio
 * Reference code: FIT-350301-2007-18
 * Funding received: 113.200€

Main results
Development and implementation of a computer system, based on techniques of information processing and semantic modeling to provide value added services on the electronic medical record designed to improve patient safety.

ELSEM
E-Learning Systems Based on standardized Semantic Web technology

Project profile

 * Full Name:
 * Duration: 2005-2006
 * Project Website: http://www.cc.uah.es/ie/elsem/
 * Partners:
 * Funding agency:
 * Reference code: UAH-PI2005-070
 * Funding received:

Main results
The overall project objective is to advance the state of Semantic Web technology in its application to e-learning systems standardized, obtaining a LearningObjects prototipode Semantic Repository.