DICOMA final review22/07/2014
Andrés El-Fakdi and Roberto Petite, members of the eXiT research group, took part in the final review meeting of the project DICOMA. The meeting took place at the premises of INDRA, the project coordinator, in Madrid on 15-17 July. Disaster Control Management is an ITEA2-labelled project (10031) which aims to provide decision makers with effective tools to deal with natural disasters...
GILAB book on Information Theory for Image Processing published18/07/2014
Morgan & Clay Publishers, a prestigious scientific publisher, has released a book on information theory applied to image processing authored by several members of the GILAB research group. Miquel Feixas, Anton Bardera, Jaume Rigau and Mateu Sbert in collaboration with Qing Xu, a researcher at Tianjin University, China, are the authors of the book "Information Theory Tools for Image...
MICELAB at 6WCSCM 201417/07/2014
Ningsu Luo, senior researcher at MICELAB, took part at the '6th World Congress on Structural Control and Monitoring'. The event took place in Barcelona on 15 - 17 July. Luo ran and chaired two special sessions on 'Structural control and monitoring of wind turbines'.
IIiA researchers attend IDIBGI's 2014 Scientific Conference15/07/2014
IDIBGI, a public research centre in the field of biomedicine based in Girona, held its annual scientific conference in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on 11 July. Some of the 70 researchers attending the event were members of the Institute of Informatics and Applications. The IIiA has a long track record of successful collaboration with Idibgi in the field of IT applied to medicine.
LISSA article wins award14/07/2014
An article on LISSA, the serious game developed by GILAB to teach and learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills, has won the best article award at CTLT 2014. The Global Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology was hosted by Asia Pacific International Academy and took place in Singapore on 9 - 11 July. The winning article, entitled "LISSA: A Serious Game to Learn Automated...
Ramon Fabregat at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana08/07/2014
Ramon Fabregat, co-director of the BCDS research group, conducted a research stay at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in Bogota, Columbia, on 1 - 4 July. Fabregat is an international advisor for ASHIY, a research project carried out by PUJ in the field of personalised learning, and took part in some of its meetings. ASHIY seeks to develop an agent-based platform which provides smart,...
Miguel Camelo at ICDCS 201404/07/2014
Miguel Camelo, researcher at the BCDS research group, took part at ICDCS 2014, the 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. The event took place in Madrid on 30 June - 3 July. Camelo gave the paper "Caylet-Graph-based Data Centres and Space Requirements of a Routing Scheme Using Automata" at the 4th International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf...
MICELAB takes part at JARCA 201403/07/2014
The IIiA's MICELAB research group took part at the 16 Conference on Qualitative Systems and their Applications to Diagnose, Robotics and Ambient Intelligence (JARCA'2014). The event, run by the Universidad de Sevilla, took place in Rota, Cadiz on 22 -28 June. Josep Vehí, director of MICELAB, and Remei Calm, member of the group, gave the paper "Incorporating biomedical knowledge...