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    • A communication infrastructure to ease the development of mobile collaborative applications 

      Rodríguez-Covili, Juan Francisco; Ochoa, Sergio; Pino, José; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Medina Medina, Esunly; Royo Vallés, María Dolores (2011)
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      Mobile workers doing loosely coupled activities typically perform on demand collaboration in the physical workplace. Communication services available in such work scenarios are uncertain, therefore mobile collaborative ...
    • A Jacobi-based algorithm for computing symmetric eigenvalues and eigenvectors in a two-dimensional mesh 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Valero García, Miguel; González Colás, Antonio María (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998)
      Conference report
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      The paper proposes an algorithm for computing symmetric eigenvalues and eigenvectors that uses a one-sided Jacobi approach and is targeted to a multicomputer in which nodes can be arranged as a two-dimensional mesh with ...
    • A methodology for user-oriented scalability analysis 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Valero García, Miguel; González Colás, Antonio María; Marí, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1997)
      Conference report
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      Scalability analysis provides information about the effectiveness of increasing the number of resources of a parallel system. Several methods have been proposed which use different approaches to provide this information. ...
    • A methodology for user-oriented scalability analysis. 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Valero García, Miguel; González Colás, Antonio María; Mari Vila, Carme (IEEE, 1997-07-14)
      Conference report
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      Scalability analysis provides information about the effectiveness of increasing the number of resources of a parallel system. Several methods have been proposed which use different approaches to provide this information. ...
    • Active yellow pages: a pipelined resource management architecture for wide-area network computing 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Díaz de Cerio Ripalda, Luis Manuel; Kapadia, Nirav H.; Fortes, José Antonio Bautista (IEEE, 2001-07-08)
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      This paper describes a novel, pipelined resource management architecture for computational grids. The design is based on two key realizations. One is that resource management involves a sequence of tasks that is best ...
    • Building Real-World Ad-Hoc Networks to Support Mobile Collaborative Applications: Lessons Learned 

      Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Ochoa, Sergio; Pino, José; Medina Medina, Esunly; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Neyem, Andres (Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009-09)
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      Mobile collaboration is required in several work scenarios, i.e. education, healthcare, business and disaster relief. The features and capabilities of the communication infrastructure used by mobile collaborative ...
    • CoSP: a collaborative sensing platform for mobile applications 

      Medina Medina, Esunly; López Nuevo, David Andrés; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Ochoa, Sergio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Smartphones are powerful sensing devices that can help us capture not only information from the environment, but also the users' activities. Based on that information, mobile systems can identify the user's behavioural ...
    • Decentralized vs. centralized economic coordination of resource allocation in grids 

      Eymann, Torsten; Reinicke, Michael; Ardáiz Villanueva, Óscar; Artigas Vidal, Pau; Díaz de Cerio Ripalda, Luis Manuel; Freitag, Fèlix; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Sanjeevan, Kanapathipillai (Springer Verlag, 2003-02-13)
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      Application layer networks are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual computers, like in Grid or Peer-to-Peer ...
    • Group Prediction in Collaborative Learning 

      Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Medina Medina, Esunly; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Juárez, Juan Pablo (2010)
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      We propose an approach for predicting group formations, to address the problem of automating the incorporation of group awareness into CSCL applications. Contextual information can enable the construction of applications ...
    • HLMP API: A software library to support the development of mobile collaborative applications 

      Rodríguez-Covili, Juan Francisco; Ochoa, Sergio; Pino, José; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Medina Medina, Esunly; Royo Vallés, María Dolores (2010-05-24)
      Conference report
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      Mobile collaborative applications are usually deployed in work scenarios where the existence of fixed communication infrastructure is hard to predict. For that reason, these applications use Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) ...
    • Jacobi orderings for multi-port hypercubes 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; González Colás, Antonio María; Valero García, Miguel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998)
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      The communication cost plays a key role in the performance of many parallel algorithms. In the particular case of the one-sided Jacobi method for symmetric eigenvalue and eigenvector computation the communication cost of ...
    • Jacobi orderings for multi-port hypercubes. 

      Royo Vallés, María Dolores; González Colás, Antonio María; Valero García, Miguel (IEEE, 1998-03)
      Conference report
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      The communication cost plays a key role in the performance of many parallel algorithms. In the particular case of the one-sided Jacobi method for symmetric eigenvalue and eigenvector computation the communication cost of ...
    • Mobile access to the services in Ambient Networks 

      Reyes Muñoz, María Angélica; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Homar, Carlos (2008-08-23)
      Conference report
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      Ambient Networks will enable mobile terminals to communicate in an environments populated by several networks, devices, services and artefacts in a transparent way to the final user. In these scenarios, one way ...
    • Mobile Autonomous Sensing Unit (MASU): a framework that supports distributed pervasive data sensing 

      Medina Medina, Esunly; López Nuevo, David Andrés; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Ochoa, Sergio; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Santos, Rodrigo (2016-07)
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      Pervasive data sensing is a major issue that transverses various research areas and application domains. It allows identifying people’s behaviour and patterns without overwhelming the monitored persons. Although there are ...
    • OIoT: a platform to manage opportunistic IoT communities 

      López Nuevo, David Andrés; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Medina Medina, Esunly; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
      Conference report
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      Opportunistic Internet of Things (IoT) extends the concept of opportunistic networking combining human users carrying mobile devices and smart things. It explores the relationships between humans and the opportunistic ...
    • OLSRp: predicting control information to achieve scalability in OLSR ad hoc networks 

      Medina Medina, Esunly; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Molina Clemente, Carlos; Royo Vallés, María Dolores (2010)
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      Scalability is a key design challenge that routing protocols for ad hoc networks must properly address to maintain the network performance when the number of nodes increases. We focus on this issue by reducing the amount ...
    • El Puzle i l'aprenentatge de la programació 

      Valero García, Miguel; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Canto Rodrigo, Pablo del; Gallardo, Antonia; Gallego, Isabel; Hidalgo, Rubén; López, Juan; López, José Manuel; Tristancho Martínez, Joshua; Medina, Esunly; Meseguer, Roc; Mochón Duro, Francisco; Mora Serrano, Javier; Pastor, Enric; Reyes, Angélica; Rodríguez, Eva; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Royo, Pablo; Salamí San Juan, Esther; Sanjeevan, Kanapathipillai; Santamaría, Eduard (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2014-04-24)
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      Es descriu una experiència formalitzada d’aprenentatge cooperatiu mitjançant la utilització de la metodologia del puzle. Concretament, s’utilitza el puzle com una eina de suport en una assignatura organitzada d’acord amb ...
    • Sortir del Laberint : un joc per pensar 

      López Nuevo, David Andrés; Royo Vallés, María Dolores (2014-02-24)
      Working paper
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      “Sortir del Laberint” és un joc tipus puzzle, l’objectiu principal del qual és aconseguir que el jugador pugui sortir d’un laberint amb el mínim nombre de passes i el més ràpid possible.
    • Supporting context-aware collaborative learning through automatic group formation 

      Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Medina Medina, Esunly; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Damian-Reyes, Pedro; Favela Vara, Jesús (2010)
      Conference report
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      Collaborative learning is based on groups of students working together with traditional and computer-based tools or applications. We have found that to make these supporting applications more effective we need to address ...
    • The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 09): a report 

      Callaghan, Victor; Kameas, Achilles; Royo Vallés, María Dolores; Reyes Muñoz, María Angélica; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (2009)
      Review
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      The development of intelligent environments is considered an important step towards the realization of the ambient intelligence vision. Intelligent environments are technologically augmented everyday spaces, which intuitively ...