Smart Cities: Opening Lecture + TEDx
09/09/2013
On 20 September the University of Girona will give a significant boost to smart cities. First of all, the Girona Smart City Chair will host the opening lecture of the new masters degree in Smart Cities. The lecture, which will take place at 11 AM at the Polytechnic School, will be given by renowned people in the field: Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam), Guang-Jie Ren (IBM Almaden...
09/09/2013
On 20 September the University of Girona will give a significant boost to smart cities. First of all, the Girona Smart City Chair will host the opening lecture of the new masters degree in Smart Cities. The lecture, which will take place at 11 AM at the Polytechnic School, will be given by renowned people in the field: Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam), Guang-Jie Ren (IBM Almaden...GILAB tests new sensor to measure bridge shifting1.jpg)
09/09/2013
On September 3-6 Rubén García and Milán Magdics, researchers of GILAB, tried a new prototype sensor to remotely measure the shifting bridges undergo. They tested it on the Arosa bridge, a 2 kilometre long bridge in Galicia. The new sensor is based on a camera, markers and Augmented Reality techniques and is significantly cheaper than the ones currently available. It has been developed in...
09/09/2013
On September 3-6 Rubén García and Milán Magdics, researchers of GILAB, tried a new prototype sensor to remotely measure the shifting bridges undergo. They tested it on the Arosa bridge, a 2 kilometre long bridge in Galicia. The new sensor is based on a camera, markers and Augmented Reality techniques and is significantly cheaper than the ones currently available. It has been developed in...Miguel Camelo research stay at Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs
05/09/2013
Miguel Camelo, researcher of the BCDS research group, has spent 3 months, from June to September, at Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs in Antwerp (Belgium) carrying out R&D on geometrical routing in hyperbolic spaces. Miguel Camelo is a PhD student at the Institute of Informatics and Applications. His doctoral thesis is being supervised by Lluís Fàbrega and Pere Vilà, members of BDS.
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05/09/2013
Miguel Camelo, researcher of the BCDS research group, has spent 3 months, from June to September, at Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs in Antwerp (Belgium) carrying out R&D on geometrical routing in hyperbolic spaces. Miguel Camelo is a PhD student at the Institute of Informatics and Applications. His doctoral thesis is being supervised by Lluís Fàbrega and Pere Vilà, members of BDS.
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03/09/2013
Lluisa Marsal, researcher of the eXiT group and member of the IIiA, has been appointed as Director of the Girona Smart City Chair.
The chair is a joint collaboration between the University of Girona and the Girona City Council. The goal of the chair is to promote the application of smart IT systems to improve mobilitiy, efficiency and quality of life of cities.
03/09/2013
Lluisa Marsal, researcher of the eXiT group and member of the IIiA, has been appointed as Director of the Girona Smart City Chair.
The chair is a joint collaboration between the University of Girona and the Girona City Council. The goal of the chair is to promote the application of smart IT systems to improve mobilitiy, efficiency and quality of life of cities.Yenny Leal defends her PhD thesis
30/07/2013
On July 30th, Yenny Leal - a researcher at MICELAB, defended her PhD thesis. Her dissertation "Enfoques metodológicos para mejorar la precisión y fiabilidad de los sistemas de monitorización continua de glucosa en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 y en pacientes críticos mediante técnicas lineales y no lineales" was supervised by Dr Josep Vehí, Director of the research group, and...
30/07/2013
On July 30th, Yenny Leal - a researcher at MICELAB, defended her PhD thesis. Her dissertation "Enfoques metodológicos para mejorar la precisión y fiabilidad de los sistemas de monitorización continua de glucosa en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 y en pacientes críticos mediante técnicas lineales y no lineales" was supervised by Dr Josep Vehí, Director of the research group, and...Jordi Poch at the 'VI Simposio Internacional de Ingeniería Industrial'
24/07/2013
Jordi Poch, member of the GILAB research group, will take part in the "VI Simposio Internacional de Ingeniería Industrial: Actualidad y Nuevas Tendencias 2013". Jordi Poch is going to give the paper "Proyecto ACME: Evaluación Continuada y Mejora de la Enseñanza". ACME is an e-learning platform able to automatically correct open-ended exercises and assess the performance...
24/07/2013
Jordi Poch, member of the GILAB research group, will take part in the "VI Simposio Internacional de Ingeniería Industrial: Actualidad y Nuevas Tendencias 2013". Jordi Poch is going to give the paper "Proyecto ACME: Evaluación Continuada y Mejora de la Enseñanza". ACME is an e-learning platform able to automatically correct open-ended exercises and assess the performance...New contribution to Case-Based Reasoning
24/07/2013
Beatriz López, researcher of the eXiT group of the IIiA, has authored the book "Case-based reasoning. A Concise Introduction", which has been published by the prestigious publisher Morgan Claypool. Case-based reasoning is an AI technique instrumental to develop intelligent systems.
24/07/2013
Beatriz López, researcher of the eXiT group of the IIiA, has authored the book "Case-based reasoning. A Concise Introduction", which has been published by the prestigious publisher Morgan Claypool. Case-based reasoning is an AI technique instrumental to develop intelligent systems.ACME present in several scientific congresses
19/07/2013
ACME, the University of Girona's e-learning platform featuring automatic correction of open-ended exercises, has been presented in two scientific congresses. One paper was presented at Edulearn 2013, the International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies:
"Students' perception on a web-based e-learning tool: an empirical study", by Andrea Bikfalvi,...
19/07/2013
ACME, the University of Girona's e-learning platform featuring automatic correction of open-ended exercises, has been presented in two scientific congresses. One paper was presented at Edulearn 2013, the International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies:
"Students' perception on a web-based e-learning tool: an empirical study", by Andrea Bikfalvi,...Shmuel Zaks visits the IIiA
19/07/2013
Invited by Josep Lluís Marzo, Director of the BCDS group, Prof Shmuel Zaks from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) gave the talk "Optimization in optical networks" on July 11th. He presented some recent results for optimization problems that originate in optical networks: design and analysis of algorithms, complexity, approximability and on-line algorithms.
The...
19/07/2013
Invited by Josep Lluís Marzo, Director of the BCDS group, Prof Shmuel Zaks from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) gave the talk "Optimization in optical networks" on July 11th. He presented some recent results for optimization problems that originate in optical networks: design and analysis of algorithms, complexity, approximability and on-line algorithms.
The...3rd IIiA doctoral thesis in 2013
16/07/2013
Roger Bramon, member of the GILAB research team, defended his doctoral thesis on July 15th. His PhD dissertation, supervised by Dr Imma Boada and Dr Anton Bardera, is entitled "Multimodal visualization based on mutual information". This is the third doctoral thesis completed by members of the IIiA in 2013.
16/07/2013
Roger Bramon, member of the GILAB research team, defended his doctoral thesis on July 15th. His PhD dissertation, supervised by Dr Imma Boada and Dr Anton Bardera, is entitled "Multimodal visualization based on mutual information". This is the third doctoral thesis completed by members of the IIiA in 2013. Maria Lluïsa Marsal attends the ICCSA 2013 in Vietnam
09/07/2013
Maria-Lluïsa Marsal, member of eXiT, presented the paper "3D-VUPID: 3D Visual Urban Planning Integrated Data" written jointly with Imma Boada from the GILAB group. The proposal of this paper was to present a tool, 3D-VUPID, which integrates information, representation and visualization in urban planning activity in a common framework and to depict it in a simple, understandable...
09/07/2013
Maria-Lluïsa Marsal, member of eXiT, presented the paper "3D-VUPID: 3D Visual Urban Planning Integrated Data" written jointly with Imma Boada from the GILAB group. The proposal of this paper was to present a tool, 3D-VUPID, which integrates information, representation and visualization in urban planning activity in a common framework and to depict it in a simple, understandable...Roger Bramon at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization
05/07/2013
Roger Bramon, member of GILAB, presented the paper "An Information-Theoretic Observation Channel for Volume Visualization" at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2013. The event was held in Leipzig, Germany on June 17-21.
05/07/2013
Roger Bramon, member of GILAB, presented the paper "An Information-Theoretic Observation Channel for Volume Visualization" at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization 2013. The event was held in Leipzig, Germany on June 17-21.Pablo Gay at KU Leuven Machine Learning Group
02/07/2013
Pablo Gay, researcher of the eXiT research group, stayed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven this spring. During his 7 week stay he worked with researchers at the Machine Learning Group on the refining of new data mining algorithms to detect patterns in sequential data. His work has lead to new algorithms able to cope with sequential patterns extended with geographical and temporal...
02/07/2013
Pablo Gay, researcher of the eXiT research group, stayed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven this spring. During his 7 week stay he worked with researchers at the Machine Learning Group on the refining of new data mining algorithms to detect patterns in sequential data. His work has lead to new algorithms able to cope with sequential patterns extended with geographical and temporal...Ningsu Luo takes part in MONCONET 2013
01/07/2013
Dr. Ningsu Luo, researcher of MICELAB, took part in the MONCONET workshop held in Barcelona on June 27-28. MONCONET is a multidisciplinary research network in the field of monitorisation, damage detection and vibration control of infrastructures. Its research is applied to civil engineering (buildings, bridges), aeronautics (composite panels, aeroplane components), mechatronics and wind-power...
01/07/2013
Dr. Ningsu Luo, researcher of MICELAB, took part in the MONCONET workshop held in Barcelona on June 27-28. MONCONET is a multidisciplinary research network in the field of monitorisation, damage detection and vibration control of infrastructures. Its research is applied to civil engineering (buildings, bridges), aeronautics (composite panels, aeroplane components), mechatronics and wind-power...Anton Bardera at WFAFQI
28/06/2013
Anton Bardera, researcher at GILAB, attended the workshop on farm animal and food quality imaging (WFAFQI). The event was run by COST action FAIM in Helsinki on June 17th and it took place in the framework of the Scandinavian conference on image analysis (SCIA 2013). The goal of the workshop was to bridge the gap between food technology and computer vision and image analysis...
28/06/2013
Anton Bardera, researcher at GILAB, attended the workshop on farm animal and food quality imaging (WFAFQI). The event was run by COST action FAIM in Helsinki on June 17th and it took place in the framework of the Scandinavian conference on image analysis (SCIA 2013). The goal of the workshop was to bridge the gap between food technology and computer vision and image analysis...
