Research Report 2006

Research Report 2006
UdG
Content
1. History and Objectives 2. Organisation and Management 3. Research Groups 4. Public-Funded Projects 4.1. GameTools - Advanced Tools for Developing Highly Realistic Computer Games 4.2. MOMARnet - Marie Curie Research Training Network - Monitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 4.3. FREESUBNET - European Research network on key technologies for intervention autonomous un derwater vehicles 4.4. ONE - Open Negotiation Envirnoment 4.5. Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Distribution Networks Based on Cases and Models 4.6. Automated fault detection, diagnosis and tolerance in uncertain systems and distributed systems 4.7. Multilayer Mechanisms for Resource allocation and Restorable Routing in GMPLS-based core net works 4.8. NetMould. Efficient technology integration of the mould in knowldege based networks 4.9. Development of a prototype to assist fault location in distribution networks 4.10. Reference network in Advanced Production Techniques 4.11. Analysis, identification and control of mechatronic systems with hysteresis and friction. Application to piezoelectric and magnetorheological actuators 4.12. AIRSUB - Underwater Robotics Industrial Application 4.13. Virtual Prototyping for Architectural Projects 4.14. Developing Distributed Computing Techniques for Scheduling. Application to Transport Problems 4.15. Interfaces avanzadas para la interaccin transparente con modelos altamente complejos en entor nos de realidad virtual 4.16. AdaptaPlan - Adaptation based on machine learning, user modelling and planning for complex useroriented tasks 4.17. Improvement and Application of the Game Technology in Virtual Reality and web contents 4.18. Algorithms and Graphical Interfaces for Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Lighting Simulation 4.19. INSULAID - Development of a glucemic prediction and insulin dosage-aid system for patients with diabetes mellitus 4.20. Development of an Intelligent Control System applied to a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) for the removal of Organic Matter, Nitrogen and Phosphorous 4.21. Development of a Modular System to Build Georeferenced Photo-mosaics of the Ocean Floor 4.22. Management of circuit-switched IP networks (R-MPLS) 5. Technology Transfer 5.1. Endesa 5.2. Optimus 6. Education 7. Competition 8. Publications
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1. History and Objectives

History
The research Institute for Informatics and Applied Matematics (IIiA) from University of Girona was created in 1996. It currently has more than 120 members, including 45 doctors. The researchers run their activities in different fields such as computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, telecomunications, automatics, control engineering, and artificial intelligence. They are members of two departments from the University of Girona: the Department of Electronics, Computer Engineering and Automatics and the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics.
Objectives
The main purpose of the IIiA is to acquire an international reputation in its scientific and technical activity. This reputation has its basis in the conception, design and implementation of R&D projects and technology transfer contracts. These activities produce innovative results in all their phases, both in scientific and engineering terms. Moreover, the Institute aims at contributing to the economic generation and growth of its region industrial context in the Information Technologies sector. The IIiA specific objectives are: To promote research activities, technology transfer and specialized teaching in the fields of Information Technologies and its applications. To foster and coordinate interdisciplinary projects using the different areas of expertise of the institute members. To encourage the development of pre-competitive projects and its materialization in technology innovation contracts. To motivate the participation of the University of Girona in consortiums that focus in research lines close to the ones of its members. The Institute acts as the representative of the University in such consortiums.
2. Organization and Management

Organization
The IIiA comprises 5 research groups: Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (eXiT) Girona Graphics Group (GGG) Modal Intervals and Control Engineering (MICE) Computer Vision and Robotics (Vicorob)
Management
The Council is the most important management organ, and it is composed by all the academic staff of the Institute. The Director is the head of the Institute. It is elected after an open selection process. An Executive Commission represents the council and gives advice to the Director in government tasks. It is formed by the Director, the head of each research group, the academic secretary and the research manager. The Research Manager is responsible for the internal operation of the Institute. The Academic Secretary is in charge of writing the minutes of the Council and Executive Commission meetings and write certificates of the agreements reached on them. Director: Dr. Josep Veh Head of BCDS: Dr. Josep Lluis Marzo Head of eXiT: Dr. Joaquim Melendez Head of GGG: Prof. Xavier Pueyo Head of MICE: Dr. Josep Veh Head of Vicorob: Dr. Joan Mart Research Manager: Mr. Jordi Palau Academic Secretary: Dr. Marc Carreras The Secretariat of the Institute provides administrative support to the Institute Members. Ms. Rosa Teixidor Ms. Maria Brugu
3. Research Groups
Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS)
The BCDS group (ref. GRCT40) is active in two main research lines: broadband networks management and control and distributed systems. The group has led several long-term governmental projects involving other universities and companies like Internet Service Providers and Public Health Institutions. These projects, along with the basic research performed on the group, bring about many publications and contributions on international journals, symposiums and conferences. BCDS os part of the DURSI consolidated research group AEDS (ref. SGR-00296). The following are BCDS current research topics: Broadband Network Control and Management Control and Management of Quality of Service (QoS) networks Multi-Agent Systems in Distributed Network Management Interdomain Management and Virtual Private Networks Optimization Techniques (Ant Colony Opt., Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms, Linear Programming, etc) Connection Admission Control Mechanisms for elastic (TCP) traffic. Dynamic Resource Allocation and Load Balancing. Charging for Multicast QoS Services Multi-level ([G]MPLS & optical) Routing and Protection mechanisms Distributed Applications Distributed Processing and Parallelism (Grids) Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Multi-Agent Systems Open and Distance Learning Adaptive Models for Collaborative Distance Learning Dynamic Adaptive Hypermedia Systems BCDS website: http://bcds.udg.es
Control Engineering and Intelligent Systems

This group is divided in two different research groups: eXiT and ARLab. eXiT is a research group (GRCT 41) of the Universitat de Girona integrated by professors and phD. students of the Departament d'Electrnica Informtica i Automtica . The research activity is developed in the Institut d'Informtica i Aplicacions . The eXiT teaching capacity is developed in the IT Doctoral program (Dept. EIA / IGSOC).
eXiT group develops an active research in the field of process supervision with emphasis in the integration of methods and techniques to assess process behaviour from measurements and experience reuse based on the following main points: Case Based Diagnosis: Adaptation of Case Based Reasoning (CBR) methodology into the domain of dynamic process with emphasis on diagnosis. Definition of similarity criteria between signals. Reuse of past experiences. Multivariate statistical process control: adaptation of these formalisms to model, fault detection and diagnosis of batch process. Qualitative representation of trends: definition, formalization and development of numeric to qualitative interfaces. Representation of signals as sequences of episodes necessary to deal with knowledge based approaches. Knowledge discovering in data bases for situation assessment. This research is clearly domain dependent. Nowadays, the activity is developed in the following domains: Chemical and petrochemical process Waste water treatment plants Electric Distribution System (Power Quality) Electronic Circuits Other recent research interest is in the field of Remote and Virtual laboratories. This is motivated by the necessity of testing and comparing experiences in shared configurable process and the teaching activity of the group. eXiT website: http://exit.udg.es Agents Research Lab is a research group (GRCT 69) that is concerned with the development and analysis of AI techniques and control architectures for both agents and multiagent systems. The origin of our group is the application of Artificial Intelligence to control and supervision. In these issues, the group has obtained successful results in the development of physical agents. Such agents have specific properties provided that they have a body that interact with the environment and need to adapt their behaviour to the new circumstances they encounter. Currently, we are exploiting these particular properties of physical agents to personalised agents. This involves, research on multi-agent architectures for user modelling and recommender systems, trust mechanisms for agent collaboration, integration information frameworks and social networks. The group collaborates in innovation projects in the industry within the EASY Center (CIDEM/X-IT network). ARLab website: http://eia.udg.es/arl
Girona Graphics Group (GGG)

The GGG began its research activity at 1993 with the study of problems related to the realistic images generation software. Since then, the GGG has extended the focus of its work dealing with several aspects of visualization from both scientific and technological point of view. Thus, actually the GGG develops his research in: Realistic rendering Scientific visualization Computional geometry Appearance and perception Virtual Reality In these research lines, the GGG deals with problems related to interactive graphic and visualization fundamentals,
as well as with applications of diverse types : Medical imaging Public lighting Lighting design Luminaries design Driving simulation Interactive games GGG website: http://iiia.udg.es/GGG
Modal Intervals and Control Engineering (MICE)

The imprecision and the uncertainty of complex systems can be represented in many cases by interval models. The core of our research is to develop methods and tools based on interval analysis to deal with this kind of systems. Research areas: Theoretic development of Modal Interval Analysis Management of interval uncertainties Interval Simulation Linear interval systems Development of tools for interval computations Modal Interval Libraries Minimax and optimization algorithms Quantified Set Inversion Application of interval Methods to Systems and Control Robust control analysis and design CACSD for Robust Control Model-based Predictive Control Model-based fault detection and diagnosis Application Fields: Process Engineering Systems Chemical/Petrochemical manufacturing processes Civil & Mechanical Engineering Structural Control Structural Health monitoring Robotics
Mobile Robots Biomedical applications Development of glucemic predictive models Insulin dosage-aid systems Computer Graphics New rendering algorithms based on MIA
MICE website: http://mice.udg.es
Computer Vision and Robotics (Vicorob)

The Computer vision and robotics group develops real time computer vision and image processing systems with applications such as object, pattern, color and shape recognition and tracking of mobile objects. One of the main application areas is the control quality of industrial products. Other fields of application are biomedicine and security-related systems. The computer vision systems are also the main source of information of the robots developed by the group. Some of them aim to improve the autonomy and mobility of disabled people, while others are autonomous and teleoperated vehicles with industrial and research applications. For instance, GARB is an underwater robot developed in collaboration with the UPC. GARB is used to take long underwater observations and to collect samples in a teleoperated way. The autonomous and teleoperated robots have transport, industrial and security-related applications. The following are VICOROBs research laboratories: Underwater Robotics Lab Underwater Vision Lab Real-Time Hardware Lab 3D Perception Lab Image Analysis Lab GGG website: http://vicorob.udg.es
4. Public Funded Projects
IST-2-004363 GameTools
Project Type: STREP of IST-6FP Duration: 33 Months Start: September 2004 Volume: 59 person-month (420 Total) Budget: 1.649.863 (245.100 UdG) Funding: 100% from IST Partners: University of Girona (UdG) - Spain University Jaume I (UJI) - Spain Vienna Institute of Technology (VUT) - Austria Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) - Hungary Technical University of Valencia (UPV) - Spain Universite de Limoges (Unilim) - France Asociacin de investigacin de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines (AIJU) - Spain PGM Trading - Austria Sektor4 - Denmark Digital Legends Entertainment - Spain Infowerk Softwareentwicklungs - Austria Gedas Iberia - Spain Coordinator: Mateu Sbert (UdG) Project Management Office: Jordi Palau (UdG) and Denisa Gibovic (UdG) UdG Team: Mateu Sbert Miquel Feixas Francesc Castro lex Mndez Roel Martnez Lszl Neumann Jaume Rigau Jordi Palau Francesc Gonzlez Ismael Garca Nicolau Sunyer
Advanced Tools for Developing Highly Realistic Computer Games (GameTools)

GameTools is a strategic project funded by the European Commission coordinated by the University of Girona. It will create next generation real time 3D libraries for Geometry, Visibility and Global Illumination for the PC platform using the OGRE 3D engine, with an extension to consoles PS2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360 through the use of Shark3D engine
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. Geometry The GTP GeometryLib supplies a Multiresolution LOD (Level of Detail) Solution which addresses the shortcomings of previous approaches by giving developers access to a complete package of solid technology which supplies A fast image based simplification algorithm to efficiently create high quality MLODs without human intervention. Multiresolution triangle strip generation taking into account topology and texture of the base model. A memory & runtime efficient compressed multiresolution mesh format that contains triangle strip information, avoiding the need for costly on-the-fly tristrip generation. A new multiresolution model specially fitted for plants allowing for an incredible amount of close up detail for e.g. leaves, while at the same time supplying simplified representations for the fast rendering of objects which are further away. Visibility In computer graphics, Visibility deals with the problem of rendering faster by rendering only the objects of the scene that can be seen. Existing solutions along that line employed in modern day 3D/game-engines are mostly based either on Portals or on Quake style PVS (potentially visible set). While these approaches have been successfully employed in commercial products for years, they nonetheless have considerable drawbacks The GTP VisibilityLib overcomes these problems with a 2-phase strategy: A solution which supplies precalculated visibility based on modern visibility research, also suited for outdoor scenes. A solution which efficiently employs modern day graphic hardware to deliver on-the-fly visibility with minimal overhead. Illumination Global Illumination is the field of computer graphics that deals with physically correct illumination. Usually this is associated with stochastic raytracing solutions taking hours to calculate a single picture. The GTP IlluminationLib brings physically correct rendering to the domain of realtime graphics. Effects that will be possible include: Soft Shadow/Lighteffects Dynamic Lightsources Indirect Illumination Reflections Realtime Radiosity High-Quality Materials (Metal,...) Cloud Rendering
allowing for previously unseen levels of realism in 3D/game applications.
MRTN-CT-2004-505026 - Momarnet
Project Type: Marie Curie RTN Duration: 48 Months Start: September 2004 Budget: 2.618.044 (178.421 UdG) Funding: 100% Partners: Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris - France Instituto do Mar, Univ. Aores - Portugal Universidade de Lisboa - Portugal Stockholm University - Sweden Max Plank Institute for Marine Microbiology - Germany Institute Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - Italy National Oceanography Centre - United Kingdom Cardiff University - United Kingdom University of Whales - United Kingdom University of Girona - Spain Vrije Universiteit Brussels - Belgium U. de Bretagne Occidentale - France U. Pierre et Marie Curie - France Institut Franais de Recherche pour lExploration de la Mer - France Coordinator: Mathilde Cannat (IPGP) Project Manager: Rafael Garca (UdG) UdG Team: Rafel Garca Pere Ridao Olivier Delaunoy
MOMARNET
The MOMARnet Marie Curie Research Training Network aims at strengthening the European approach to deep seafloor observatory science and technology, by reinforcing the links between fourteen European laboratories in eight countries, by training a multidiciplinary group of young researchers, and by producing new science and preparing for new seagoing cruises and seafloor experiments. MOMARnet has two broad research targets: Understanding the dynamics of slow-spreading ridge hydrothermal vents and their plumbing system (depth of seawater circulation, heat sources, feedback between volcanic, hydrothermal and seismic events) Understanding deep-seafloor hydrothermal ecosystems, including their distribution, role and variety of organisms, life cycles, effects of changes in the hydrothermal outflow (temperature, flowrate, chemistry, etc.)
MOMARnet science will contribute to the implementation of the MOMAR (MOnitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) international project of setting up a multidiciplinary sea-floor observatory for monitoring hydrothermal vent environments along the Mid-Atlantic ridge close to the Azores archipelago. The University of Girona team will develop a semiautomatic software that will produce well navigated mosaics of seafloor images, and establish a data bank of processed seafloor images for the MOMAR hydrothermal sites. These data will be key to manage future MOMAR-related experiments. PhD student will develop software to combine navigation data, images of the ocean floor, seafloor bathymetry and acoustic imagery. Mosaicing techniques (existing and developed within this project) will be applied to build a geo-referenced image mosaic of the Lucky Strike hydrothermal site. This mosaicing software will be developed in a flexible manner, so as to be expanded and applied to 3D-vision systems, video imagery, and high-resolution acoustic systems used on current ROVs and AUVs, and to other configurations that may be used in seafloor surveys in the future
MRTN-CT-2006-036186 FREESUBNET Project Type: Marie Curie RTN Duration: 48 Months Start: November 2006 Budget: 195.695 UdG Funding: 100% Partners: University of Southampton - UNITED KINGDOM CEA - FRANCE CNR Robot - ITALY CNRS - FRANCE Cybernetix FRANCE Hellenice Centre for Maritime reserach - GREECE Heriot Watt University - UNITED KINGDOM IFREMER - FRANCE IST - PORTUGAL JRC - ITALY NTNU - NORWAY University of Hannover - GERMANY University of Craiova - ROMANIA University de Girona - SPAIN University of Azores - PORTUGAL Coordinator: Prof. Philip Alan Wilson (U. of Southampton) Project Manager UdG: Pere Ridao (UdG) UdG Team: Pere Ridao Rafel Garca
FREESUBNET - A European research network on key technologies for intervention autonomous underwater vehicles
There are many unresolved scientific questions and equally many major strategic economic and social development needs from an exploration of the seas around Europe. There is a pressing need for the development of advanced technologies to explore and exploit in a consistent and better manner the vastness of the oceans of the world. Intervention Autonomous Underwater vehicles (I-AUV) have shown their potential for the acquisition of marine data at extremely large scales and for the direct intervention in underwater structures without the need for constant human interaction and supervision. Part of the technology required for their development has proven to be feasible. An increased effort is now needed to further the advances already made in the technology and to make the results more accessible to a wider range of commercial and scientific end users. To this end it is necessary to create a critical mass of young researchers capable of bridging the gap between marine technology and science.
To achieve this FREESUBnet will first explore a set of applications with intervention requirements thus allowing the focus of the research to be in the fields of Marine Science, Inspection of Wrecks & Archaeology, assessment of Energy systems and multi-disciplinary applications in Marine Science. In this context, the network will study novel concepts of IAUV' leading to the identification and the development of the technologies needed to fulfil these tasks. The techniques for navigation, autonomous underwater telemanipulation, vehicle control and mission management technologies, will be further explored and developed to close the gap between state-of-the art IAUV technology and its applications. FREESUBnet aims to meet its goals by establishing an international network of technology developers as well as being inter-sectorial and deliver the technology to end-users from different and diverse disciplines.
IST-5-012990 - ONE
Project Type: STREP of IST-6FP Duration: 30 Months Start: September 2006 Budget: 2.026.724 (154.775 UdG) Budget: 27 person-month Funding: 100% from IST Partners: Create-NET- Italy Soluta.Net Est Europa Srl - Romania Istituto Trentino di Cultura - Italy Waterford Institute of Technology - Ireland Universitat St. Gallen - Switzerland Service Management International Limited - UK Universitat de Girona - Spain Coopservice S. Coop. P.A. - Italy Coordinator: Prof. Imrich Chalamatac (Create-NET) Project Manager UdG: Josep Lluis de la Rosa (UdG) UdG Team: Josep Lluis de la Rosa Miquel Montaner Patricia Gaona
ONE - Open Negotiation Environment

The ONE project is a STREP project funded by the European Commission under the DG-INFSO that is geared towards SMEs in order to provide them with a trusted, secure and free of charge technological environment in which they are able to create tactical and strategic alliances; for the ultimate goal of pursuing business opportunities and growth. The project allows organizations to create contract agreements in order to supply complex, integrated services as a virtual organization (or coalition). To keep up with the competition in digital markets SMEs have the need of developing alliances and collaborating together in order to provide joint services and also to address large tenders. ONE is structured into a coherent set of activities with a balanced mix of: Research on economic, societal and user aspects Research and development of enabling technologies and methods (driven by the above) Research and development of enabling technologies and methods (driven by the sdfasdf Trials and evaluation activities.
ONE will be achieved through a set of technology components which can be tailored to the needs of a specific organization; conforming to its business requirements and adapting to its every requirement. The project will deliver an open source platform for negotiation, driven by innovative business models and technologies; it will be implemented mainly as an integration of innovative research component, delivered within the project, and existing with off-the-shelf technology using already standardized information models. It will extend and leverage a more general purpose digital ecosystem architecture. There will be a general architectural framework developed for negotiation, allowing the adaptation of the platform to many different industry sectors. Meta-modeling (through adoption of Model Driven Architecture ) is the approach that will be followed to achieve the desired high level of abstraction, reuse and code generation. While the P2P architecture will be based on existing open source technology, ONE will do produce innovative technologies in all the layers above. ONE will provide a negotiation mechanism that is reusable in different application and service domains providing a great level of flexibility and allowing users for example to create negotiation processes also for other goals like for example qualification or certification processes. The ONE platform will actively support the human negotiators by exploiting automatic learning techniques applied to the goal of learning the best negotiation strategies in a multi-agent environment. Optimized strategy would be suggested through a learning process based on the observation of user behavior, other partners actions as perceived by the user and concurrent running negotiations. ONE supports a model of collaboration and trust based on the idea of "collaborative multi-agent systems", where agents can work and learn with other trusted agents and develop collaborative learning schemes. We will develop models of information and knowledge sharing, taking into account privacy concerns, based on a model of multiple agent clusters, characterized by different levels of trust. The policy learning algorithms will be based on the observation and storage of real interactions between the user and the negotiation service and between the user and other players (Trust), as these are performed in the Negotiation Execution Environment. The ONE negotiation environment will support technical and non-technical users in specifying strategies and rules for negotiating terms of service delivery. It will provide a distributed and peer-to-peer platform for fully automated execution of negotiations based on knowledge sharing and self-learning.
DPI2006-09370
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2006 Budget: 72.600 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona Coordinator: Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: Joaquim Melndez Josep Xargay Sergio Herraiz Carles Pous Josep Dellonder Bianca Innocenti
Fault Diagnosis of Electrical Distribution Networks Based on Cases and Models

The project proposes a case based reasoning (CBR) strategy to diagnose electric faults. Cases will be built from disturbances, collected by power quality monitoring instruments (events) located at substations, and register reporting all the action performed in the network gathered in the network control center. Setting dependences between waveform attributes and its causes will be used in the definition of cases. Disturbance propagation models and feature extraction strategies will be analysed in order to represent cases consistently. This analysis will be also useful in the definition of Retrieval, Reuse, Revision and Retain tasks needed to build the CBR cycle. The Case Based Diagnosis system will be improved in the location step by the integration of a module to estimate the distance to faults in the distribution network. This module will be based in the estimation of the impedance during the fault and the use of algorithmic techniques, involving the model of the line, to estimate an equivalent fault distance. The combination of this estimated distance and origin from retrieved cases in presence of a new disturbance will enhance the diagnostic. Finally, an extension of cases to sequences of them is proposed to predict catastrophic faults. The recognition of a disturbance as part of a one of these sequences will be interpreted as a symptom to predict a possible fault.
DPI2006-15476-C02-02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2006 Budget: 86.394 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona Project Manager UdG: Joaquim Armengol UdG Team: Joaquim Armengol Remei Calm Luis Eduardo Mjica Esteban Gelso Maira Alejandra Garca
AUTOMATED FAULT DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TOLERANCE IN UNCERTAIN AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Fault detection, diagnosis and tolerance in systems allow maintaining the process in a high level of production and reliability. The present techniques show problems when they are applied to uncertain and distributed systems. For this reason, they are being researched in a very active way to develope new techniques.The most important objectives of this project are to decrease the high false positive and false negative rates, to improve the computacional efficency of fault detection and diagnosis and to automate the identification of components that are the cause of the failures. These problems for the uncertain systems can be treated using the classical diagnosis approaches: the FDI (Fault Detection and Isolation) community, whose foundations are based on engineering disciplines, such as control theory and statistical decision making, and the DX (Diagnosis) community, whose foundations are derived from the fields of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and bridging the methodologies of the FDI and DX Communities (Bridge). Firstly the project proposes this last approach to automate fault diagnosis in these systems. The Research Group in Girona has developed the SQualTrack tool for the fault detection of these systems and this project proposes its extension for diagnosis with techniques derived from modal interval analysis. We consider that it is important the coordination with the Quivir (Sevilla and Huelva University) Group that is also studying these same systems using constraint satisfaction techniques, guaranteed methods and data-mining techniques. Especially, the last techniques can work without the knowledge of the model and can deal with the empiric data (data-based diagnosis). These techniques are being validated in real systems. In distributed systems, firstly this project addresses the general problems associated with automatic determination of the allocation of sensors to improve the diagnosticability of the distributed systems. Secondly we will develop a framework for self-diagnosis of distributed systems where we take into account the persistency of the different models and different improvements based on clustering and distributed constraint satisfaction techniques. Finally, we consider that the dependability and fault tolerance are important in the systems. So, we propose the modelling of realiability and security properties and the identification of the faults in the monitoring systems. We will develop different algorithms that take this information and automatically obtain the fault diagnosis and choose recovery actions using planning and replanning. It can hopefully provide a foundation for building realistic automatic dependability and tolerance systems.
TEC2006-03883
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: October 2006 Budget: 90.750 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona University of Extremadura Universidad del Norte (Colombia) University of London Technical University of Denmark Coordinator: Josep Lluis Marzo UdG Team: Josep Lluis Marzo Teodor Jov Pere Vil Lluis Fbrega Antonio Bueno Eusebi Calle Joan Puggal Snia Oliveras Anna Urra Luis Fernando Caro Fernando Solano Jeimy Vlez
Multilayer Mechanisms for Resource allocation and Restorable Routing in GMPLS-based core networks (M2R3)
nternet Protocol (IP) networks currently operate over a semi-static transport infrastructure, where the management is concentrated within the IP layer. With the introduction of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), an intermediate circuit-switching communication layer is added together with its corresponding management plane. Moreover, the development of optical technologies such as Dense-Wave Division Multiplexing (D-WDM), supporting wavelength switching, etc., allow new multilayer networks to be constructed with an unprecedented degree of freedom and flexibility. Nevertheless, the management of such multilayer networks is more complex and presents potential instabilities. The complexity of the evaluation of the percentage that should be applied at each management layer, i.e. IP, MPLS or optical, presents a significant challenge. We denote as activation degree such percentage which will depend on multiple conditions such as: the topology of the network, types of traffic, the load of the network and the desired degree of protection. The main objectives of the M2R3 project are the investigation of the following components: quality of service routing mechanisms, routing with protection and a dynamic resource management. They must be developed and configured according to the required activation degree. The project will provide novel tools that will enable network operators to suitably manage their networks in a holistic manner, allowing the various technologies to operate in concert rather than inefficiently or even in conflict with each other. To the best of our knowledge, the approach we present to resolve this complex management challenge has not been undertaken in other proposals.
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CIT-020600-2005-39
Project Type: PROFIT Duration: 12 Months Start: July 2005 Budget: 122.984 (32.067 UdG) Funding: 47.600 (16.000 UdG) Partners: Plastiasite S.A. University of Girona Fundacin ASCAMM Eleda-Cumsa Sogefi Filtration S.A. Coordinator: Ricard Jimnez (Plastiasite) Project Manager UdG: Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: Joaquim Melndez Joan Colomer
NetMould. Efficient technology integration of the mould in knowledge based networks

This projects aim was to elaborate a viability study of a system that retains the know-how of a traditional industrial sector in a high technology level such as plastic injection companies (mould builders, parts designers or plastic injection plants), which is going through difficulties due to the relocation process. Netmould demonstrated that it is feasible to develop a solution to provide the sector with a technology that has an added value directly incorporable to moulds and its environment (the plant or laboratory). The key is to shift the viewpoint to a mould-centric vision that transforms the currently passive tools into network enabled elements with intelligent knowledge embedded. The results of the project show that this emerging technology assures a competitive advantage (reduction in production time and errors), a quality enhancement (thanks to preventive diagnosis enhanced by sharing the information on-line) and an increase in usability (process monitoring, remote control). The tasks of the UdG team have been oriented to improve the diagnosticability of moulds using statistical techniques. Multiway Principal Component Analysis has been used to model injection of plastic pieces and those models have been exploited to detect and diagnose abnormalities in future injections.
PTR1995-1020-OP
Project Type: MEC Duration: 12 Months Start: July 2006 Budget: 57.380 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona Endesa UdG Team: JoaquimMelndez Sergio Herraiz Carles Pous
Development of a prototype to assist fault location in distribution networks

This project aims at developing a prototype tool to assist fault location in distribution networks using the companys existent knowledge about network and perturbation logs (wave shapes and events) as well as operations and actuations on the network registered in the control center. Two main aspects in the monitorization of the power quality are expected to be improved: Analysis of disturbances propagation, conciliating the incidence logs (from network control center) with the disturbances registered in different locations of the network (using quality registers)
Location of faults occurred in the distribution. A systematic analysis of waveforms of disturbances using algorithmic methods of fault location will allow reducing current location times. The final purpose is to characterize and systematically evaluate perturbations in the distribution network using previous logs and its reutilization to perform a fast location and diagnosis of the network distribution faults. Fault location consists in finding an accurate estimation of the zone in which the fault has occurred, using the measures of the waveform of the registered event and the network topology.
XARTAP
Project Type: Generalitat de Catalunya Duration: 24 Months Start: January 2006 Budget: 37.724. Funding: 100% Partners: Centre CIM Centre Internacional de Mtodes Numrics en Enginyeria Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya Centre Visi per Computador Universitat de Girona Consell Superior dInvestigacions Cientfiques Coordinator: Centre CIM Project Manager UdG: Xavier Cuf UdG Team: Marc Carreras Javi Cobos Franois Chung Jordi Ferrer Jordi Freixenet Josep Forest Rafael Garcia Xavier Llad Joan Mart Robert Mart Marta Peracaula Pere Ridao Joaquim Salvi.
Reference network in Advanced Production Techniques

The main objective of the task carried out by VICOROB Research Group in this project is developing a set of prototypes of Identification and Positioning Systems. The final result of the project will be the development of different solutions that allow identifying the different parts that constitute an industrial kit, and obtaining the position and orientation with enough accuracy to allow picking these parts using a manipulator or grasping system. Usually, the different parts arrive all together to the inspection point in a disordered bunch, and some parts can present different kinds of deficiencies. Recognition System: different computer vision algorithms will be developed to identify the different parts that can appear at the inspection point. This system will be able to extract geometric information from the images and compare it to the corresponding CAD models in order to determine whether the part is faulty or not, or if the visual information obtained is adequate or more additional images are required. Position and Orientation of the parts: a robust computer vision algorithm will be developed to determine position and orientation of the previously recognized part referred to a determined reference frame.
DPI-2005-08668-C03-02 (CHIMPFA)
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 31, 2005 Budget: 71.400 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona Technical University of Catalonia (CoDaLab) Technical University of Catalonia (CITCEA) Coordinator: Jose Rodellar Project Manager UdG: Ningsu Luo UdG Team: Ningsu Luo Joaquim Armengol Ins Ferrer Miquel Compte Rodolfo Villamizar Sandra M. Castillo Jorge E. Florez
ANALYSIS, IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS WITH HYSTERESIS AND FRICTION. APPLICATION TO PIEZOELECTRIC AND MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ACTUATORS
Hysteresis and friction are nonlinearities encountered in various systems in science and engineering areas. This project deals with mechatronic systems equipped with actuators based on smart materials, in particular piezoelectric and magnetorheological. These actuators are particularly useful in high performance control applications, due to their high precision and fast response. These advantages can only be exploited through a fine constructive process and if appropriate theoretical tools are available. Indeed, these actuators have a complex dynamics with presence of nonlinearities, hysteresis and friction being the most significant. Due to the high performance required in closed loop, these actuators are prone to the uncertainties in the models and in the operation conditions. Thus it is essential to have appropriate analytical tools for the study and robust identification of their dynamic models. Moreover, the design of controllers needs the use of advanced nonlinear control theories to be able to guarantee rigorously the narrow specifications in terms of stability, precision and robustness. This project follows three complementary research directions: Development of new theoretical tools for dynamic analysis, robust identification and control of systems with hysteresis and friction; Construction of prototypes of piezoelectric and magnetorheological actuators integrated in mechatronic systems; Experimental validation in these systems of the developed methods and algorithms. The project will consider two problems: micropositioning control and vibration reduction, which have special practical interest nowadays in areas as automotive industry, mechanics, aeronautics, aerospace and civil engineering, as well as in nanotechnologies.
DPI2005-09001-C03-01 (Airsub)
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 31, 2005 Budget: 158.000 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Universitat de les Illes Balears Coordinator: Joan Batlle Project Manager UdG: Pere Ridao UdG Team: Joan Batlle Pere Ridao Marc Carreras David Ribas Andres El-Fakdi Elisabet Batlle Narcs Falgueras Josep Cortada Jos Luis Muoz Ferran Girones Elibol Armagan Antonio Tiano
AIRSUB - Underwater Robotics Industrial Applications

This project proposes the design and development of the necessary technologies for the adaptation of the prototypes of the low-cost underwater vehicles GARBI-ROV, GARBI-AUV , URIS and RAO II for their use in shallow waters. First, in collaboration with industry, a catalogue of industrial applications -feasible for low-cost underwater vehicles- will be created. For each and every of these missions, the adequate scenario will be established, as well as a mission preliminary schedule. Next, the project will be focused in 3 industrial applications: Dam inspection of hydroelectric plants Underwater cable and pipe inspection Inspection of harbours.
Every one of these applications will be leaded by one of the 3 subprojects, will be associated to a market-leader company in its field, and will end with a practical demonstration. For dam inspection we propose the use of an AUV which could scan the dam wall at the same time it acquires a video, registering its state. This video will be processed off-line to build a georeferenced photo-mosaic, which will allow the company engineers to gain a global view of the condition of the dam. Analysing this mosaic, successive inspections can be scheduled to evaluate selected areas with higher resolution, as well as studying its temporal evolution. This inspection technique will be applied both to both the grilles of intake and the penstock gallery. Cable and pipe inspection will be carried out using an AUV that will first submerge and detect the cable. Then, the robot will be guided by means of the automatic visual tracking system. Along the mission, the AUV will acquire, in a first phase of the project, a large set of images that will be processed offline (building of mosaics, analysis of an expert, etc.). In a second phase the AUV will filter the acquired images, keeping those images which show defects of the cable/pipe and annotating their localization. In this way, the company engineers can concentrate in the suspicious areas along the inspected section of the cable/pipe. Finally, for the inspection of the breakwaters walls of harbours a ROV will be used. This robot will acquire images which will be used to build a georeferenced mosaic. Fuzzy techniques will be used to localize faults and anomalies in the moles, such as their temporal degradation.
CERTAP - PVPC
Project Type: CeRTAP (Generalitat de Catalunya) Duration: 36 Months Start: April 1, 2005 Budget: 321.275,37 (64.920 ) Funding: 100% Partners: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Girona Graphics Group (University of Girona - UdG) VICOROB (University of Girona - UdG) CIM Centre Coordinator: Pere Brunet (UPC) Project Manager UdG (GGG): Gonzalo Besuievsky UdG Team: Xavier Pueyo Gonzalo Besuievsky Albert Mas
Virtual Prototyping for Architectural Projects

The main goal of this project is the design and development of a system for fast virtual prototyping models in order to provide helpful tools for architects and building designers in early phase of a project. The system has the following features: Automatic architectural recognition symbols and vectorization of freehand 2D drawing floorplans Automatic generation of 3D models from 2D floorplans It allows edition for basic installation as light sources and furniture with texture edition Fast lighting visualisation for both natural and artificial light sources Analysis and inspection of the generated prototype in lower-cost virtual reality platforms: stereoscopic workbench or standard computer with 3D immersive devices Interactive re-edition of the model openings with natural lighting visualization Navigation and inspection tools for remote collaborative work The whole system is integrated in a single application and it is designed in a way that could be integrated within any standard CAD architectural platform as a complement for fast virtual prototyping and validation designs.
CERTAP - PVPC
Project Type: CeRTAP (Generalitat de Catalunya) Duration: 36 Months Start: April 1, 2005 Budget: 321.275,37 (64.920 ) Funding: 100% Partners: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Girona Graphics Group (University of Girona - UdG) VICOROB (University of Girona - UdG) CIM Centre Coordinator: Pere Brunet (UPC) Project Manager UdG (VICOROB): Xavier Cuf UdG Team: Xavier Cuf Joan Mart Arnau Oliver Tudor Nicosevici Elisabet Batlle
Virtual Prototyping for Architectural Projects

The aim of the Project is to create a tool for helping the professionals of building design and architects. The base of the work is the experience of the different research groups that belongs to CERTAP in topics such us computer vision, vectorial designs generation from hand made layouts, computer assisted design, illumination and generation of realistic images and virtual reality. As we said before, the final objective of the project has been to obtain an immersive tool for supporting the professionals the design of buildings. The opinion of the professionals had been considered in all the steps of the development of the project. The main characteristics of the developed tool are: 2D sketch generation and the 3D model from hand made layouts. At this step, it is necessary tot take into account buildings with different levels, stairs and different kinds of ceilings. Realistic Illumination with ambient simulation (using radiosity), using simulation of natural and artificial light. The application offers the possibility to visualize the digital model surrounded by images belonging to the reality. Analysis and inspection of virtual prototypes generated by the system in low cost virtual reality platforms (stereoscopic table) or using standard computers equipped with 3D immersive devices. Tools of remote working that allows the cooperative inspection and analysis between different teams
working, using stereoscopic tables, in different locations. The work developed by the VICOROB research group of the UdG has been: The architect provides the application with a hand-made sketch, and then the application generates a full 3D model of the building. Once the 3D model has been generated, the professional has the option to add texture and simulate illumination (natural and artificial), being able to obtain realistic renderings. On the one hand, the results can be used by the architects to observe and adjust different aspects of the building at pre-project stage and, on the other hand, to help the architects interact with the customers. This task includes a sub-application that allows recovering the texture from an object of interest that appears in a real scene. This real texture could be projected over virtual surfaces belonging to the model (walls, roofs, ) using the adequate scale.
TIN2004-06354-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 72.000 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona - Spain Technical University of Valencia - Spain Coordinator: Federico Barber (UPV) Project Manager UdG: Beatriz Lpez UdG Team: Beatriz Lpez Santiago Esteva Josep M. Hument Orlando Contreras Silvia Surez Christian Quintero Miquel Montaner Didac Busquets Bianca Innocenti
Developing Distributed Computing Techniques for Scheduling. Application to Transport Problems

This project aims at the development of distributed computing techniques and multi-agent systems for the resolution of constraint satisfaction and optimisation problems (CSP, COP), these techniques particularly guided towards planning and scheduling processes. So that, it is a coordinated project in which two research groups work together with complementary experience on: (i) CSP techniques, distributed CSP, planning and scheduling and (ii) distributed and open frameworks, multi-agent systems and coordination mechanisms. Furthermore, the integration of planning and scheduling processes is considered in the CSP framework. The scientific-technique objectives are very relevant and important allowing us to manage problem typologies in which traditional techniques are not appropriate. Additionally, in the research project it is sought to apply and evaluate the developed techniques in evaluation environments broadly contrasted in the scientific community and, mainly, with two concrete and real frameworks based on rail transport and intercity transport in which it is maintained respective agreements of collaboration. The main objectives of the project are: Development of scheduling techniques that integrate algorithms from operational research, topological methods and intelligent techniques oriented towards the efficient treatment of complex scheduling problems. Extend the applicability of constraint satisfaction techniques with both multi-agent techniques and distributed approaches of satisfaction problems. Development of an integrated architecture for planning and scheduling. Application of the architectures and techniques in real environments (train infrastructure planning, crew scheduling for road transport) as well as in scientific benchmarks (Pacifica).
TIN2004-08065-C02-02
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 146.000 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona - Spain Technical University of Catalonia - Spain Coordinator: Antoni Sellars (UdG) UdG Team: Joan Antoni Sellars Chiva Francesc Xavier Pueyo Sndez Jordi Regincs Isern Inmaculada Boada Oliveras Narcs Coll Arnau Maria Ethel Guerrrieri Yago Diez Donoso Marta Fort Masdevall Narcs Madern Leandro David Fguls Massot Miquel Bofill Arasa Antoni Bardera Reig Albert Rovira Brugus Jos Suy Franch Josep Soler Mas Jos Antonio Mndez Mndez Isabel Pelez Hernndez
Interfaces avanzadas para la interaccin transparente con modelos altamente complejos en entornos de realidad virtual
The development of effective user interfaces for virtual reality environments must face different challenges. Not only must one evolve new paradigms that are adequate in those environments, but they must also be minimally invasive (not to spoil the immersion illusion), and they must rely on an adequate support from the underlying models and model-handling functions, so that the maximum complexity of usable scenes is not seriously limited. This project aims at pushing further the state of the art, developing new techniques at the modelling level (to allow handling models like the most complex currently available, which are too long to fit in memory for a reasonably configured workstation). It also aims at perfecting the state of the art concerning the interfaces themselves, developing specific techniques adapted to the interaction in those media, and especially for remote collaboration. Moreover, the results will be tested developing specific prototypes to verify the usability of the proposed techniques from the point of view of experts in three application areas, chosen amongst those that may benefit the most from the expected results.,
TIN2005-08945-C06-03
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 47.600 Funding: 100% Partners: Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia - Spain University of Girona - Spain Technical University of Valencia - Spain University of Castilla la Mancha - Spain University of Granada - Spain University Carlos III of Madrid - Spain Coordinator: Jesus Gonzalez Boticario (UNED) Project Manager UdG: Ramon Fabregat UdG Team: Ramn Fabregat Gesa Eusebi Calle Ortega Montse Tesouro Cid David Victor Hugo Mrida Cesar Augusto Mantilla Navarro Joan Puiggali Allepuz Pau Sanz Hellin Liliana Mara Carrillo Florez Clara Ins Pea de Carrillo Carlos Arteaga Rivero
Adaptation based on machine learning, user modelling and planning for complex user-oriented tasks (AdaptaPlan)
This project has two main objectives. On one side, to analyze the capability of automatically solve tasks that need the integration of planning, machine learning and interaction with different agents (human or software) to ubiquitously and dynamically adapt to the evolving needs of the context. Thus, we have defined a set of scientific goals related to user modelling, machine learning, planning, multi-agent systems, and ubiquitous computing. On the other side, we would like to benefit from the two-fold experience of the project researchers, both as users and developers, in a specific application domain: university education. In this domain, tools that integrate previous techniques are strongly needed. This applied objective consists in the design and development of an architecture that provides services to both students and lecturers in the new education tasks that are defined by the European Space for Higher Education.
TIN2004-07451-C03-01
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 131.790 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona - Spain University Jaume I - Spain AIJU Coordinator: Mateu Sbert (UdG) UdG Team: Mateu Sbert Miquel Feixas Jaume Rigau Esteban del Acebo Francesc Castro Roel Martnez Pere Pau Vazquez Alex Mndez Jordi Cat
Improvement and Application of the Game Technology in Virtual Reality and web contents
Cutting-edge technology in the field of Computer Graphics is currently found in 3D engines for computer games. This is due to the successful combination of research conducted by universities with the traditional techniques used in the digital games sector. While this technology was first developed for computer games, it is expanding its scope of application to include other sectors which are less developed as far as realistic rendering is concerned. Virtual Reality and 3D web content are the sectors which show the greatest interest in incorporating the new technologies. Therefore the purpose of this project is twofold: To continue the research on computer games technologies carried out in the project TIC2001-2416 and to apply the new technologies to the fields of Virtual Reality and 3D web content. The objectives of the project are: Improve videogame technologies in the fields of illumination and geometry Extend videogames technology to Virtual Reality and 3D Web Transfer scientific results to industry
TIN2004-07672-C03-01
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 138.400 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona - Spain University of Granada - Spain University of Zaragoza - Spain Coordinator: Ignacio Martin (UdG) UdG Team: Gonzalo Besuievsky Xavier Pueyo Laszlo Neumann Gustavo Ariel Patow Joan Surrell Marc Massot Mateu Villaret Pau Estalella Carles Bosch Ramn Pramo Juan Roberto Jimenez
Algorithms and Graphical Interfaces for Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Lighting Simulation
This project is aimed at making the most of the experience and knowledge in the field of global illumination acquired in previous projects by the participant research groups. The goal is to design and develop graphics interfaces applied to sustainable lighting design. In previous projects, the participant groups have gone more deeply into the development of global illumination algorithms and tools, and they have applied that to solve different problems. Our proposal aims at applying that knowledge to the improvement of lighting design at different levels: from interior lighting design to urban environments. In order to develop usable prototypes it is very important to move away from the simplifications that are usually assumed in global illumination computations. These simplifications usually lead to unacceptable results that cannot be used in real-world applications. The project deals with the problem of simultaneous and efficient use of artificial and natural light in a way that the tools developed allow for a optimum use of natural light resources, and at the same time, to improve the luminaire design process to optimize its performance. This will bring benefits in energy savings and light pollution reduction. Another important issue is the use of optical properties captured from real-world materials that are used in the simulations. This is the only way to guarantee the usability of the results. There are two main aspects to consider: the collection of real-world data from measurements, and the efficient representation of this data. Finally, due to the high computational cost of most of the techniques proposed, the project also deals with the use of parallel processing and super-computing technologies.
DPI2004-07167-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 85.000 Funding: 100% Partners: Technical University of Valencia - Spain University of Girona - Spain Coordinator: Jorge Bonda (UPV) Project Manager UdG: Josep Veh (UdG) UdG Team: Miguel Angel Sainz Arcadi Guitart Pau Herrero Ral Fernndez Jian Wan Gabriela Caldern Lambert Jorba
Development of a glucemic prediction and insulin dosage-aid system for patients with diabetes mellitus I (INSULAID)
Diabetes mellitus type I is a chronic disease of great individual and social impact which affects a great number of people. It produces important damages in organs like eyes, kidney, heart, etc. leading to blindness, renal insufficiency, heart attack, etc, as well as a significant reduction in life expectancy. These facts are directly related to the glucose levels in blood. The glucemic control in normality levels is the main objective of the treatment for diabetes mellitus I. The development of glucemic predictive models will allow a better metabolic control and, thus, reduce the complications of the disease. The metabolic model of the glucose due to Cobelli is nowadays widely validated in clinic experiences. This model is non-linear and with more than 30 parameters to identify. The objectives of this project are the parametric identification of this model for particular patients and the development of a training and simulation system for guaranteed prediction of patients glucemia. Based on it, an insulin dosage-aid system will also be developed. With these two systems the quality of life and life expectancy of the patient will be increased. For it, techniques for the resolution of constraint satisfaction problems in continuous domains will be used. These ones have experimented great advances due to the interval methods and combination with programming and optimisation techniques.
DPI2005-08922-C02-02
Project Type: MCYT Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2005 Budget: 76.400 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona (Lequia Group) - Spain University of Girona (ExIT Group) - Spain Coordinator: Maria Dolors Balaguer (Lequia) Project Manager UdG: Joan Colomer (ExIT) UdG Team: Carles Pous Daniel Alexandre Macaya Fco. Ignacio Gamero Montse Rubio Magda Liliana Ruiz
Development of an Intelligent Control System applied to a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) for the removal of Organic Matter, Nitrogen and Phosphorous
.This project is focused on the improvement of the control system applied to sequenced batch reactors developed in the project DPI2002-04579. The promising results obtained in the previous project allow to consider the development of a more ambitious control system to improve the overall process performance and adapt it according to the influent water characteristics. On the one hand, the research into the operating conditions will be extended to cover the simultaneous elimination of Organic Matter, Nitrogen and Phosphorous. In this way, the necessary knowledge about the relationship between trends of on-line variables and changes in the process will be obtained. Then, from this knowledge, a control system to optimize the duration of each stage will be implemented by means of an on-line detection of critical points. On the other hand, an Intelligent Control Module will be developed and implemented to diagnose the evolution of each batch and to optimize the schedule in order to minimize the effect of the influent water variability.
CTM2004-04205
Project Type: MEC Duration: 36 Months Start: December 2004 Budget: 166.550 Funding: 100% Partners: University of Girona - Spain Institut de Physique du Globe CNRS - France University of Miami - USA Coordinator: Rafael Garcia (UdG) UdG Team: Rafael Garcia Xavier Cuf Lluis Pacheco Ferran Chic Jordi Ferrer Mart Fbregas Antonio Martorano Tudor Nicosevici Carles Matabosch Xavier Muoz
Development of a Modular System to Build Georeferenced Photo-mosaics of the Ocean Floor

In this project we propose the development new algorithms and techniques for the automatic construction of ocean floor photomosaics. Photo-mosaics allow the geological analysis of ocean floor morphology and hydrothermalism of selected areas. Likewise, underwater photo-mosaics provide high quality images of specific areas for the study of biological communities. The works which have been carried out up to now in the field of automatic construction of photo-mosaics have been limited to processing planar environments, while most of the regions of interest for the scientific community are located in areas with 3-dimentional relief. For this reason, research and development of new algorithms is a must to enable simultaneous photo-mosaicking and estimation of underwater 3D relief. On the other hand, none of systems described in the literature is able to automatically build large-scale photo-mosaics, due to the accumulated drift as the mosaic increases its size. In this project we propose to develop new sensor fusion strategies to take advantage of all the information available from the on-board sensors to automatically build bigger and more reliable photo-mosaics. Finally, the proposed system should be modular and flexible, to adapt to a wide diversity of underwater vehicles equipped with various types of sensors. Such a system will allow the analysis of the temporal evolution of both existing ecosystems and morphology of the underwater terrain.
2003/XT/0037 R-GMPLS
Project Type: Thematic Network Funding: Generalitat de Catalunya Partners: University of Girona - Spain CTTC - Spain UPC- CCABA - Spain UPC - TSC - Spain Universidad de Mlaga - Spain Universidad de Extremadura - Spain UPC - Telemtica - Spain Univ. Castilla la Mancha - Spain UPM - Spain Coordinator: Jose Luis Marzo (UdG) UdG Team: Teodor Jov Ramon Fabregat Pere Vil Eusebi Calle
Management of circuit-switched IP networks (R-MPLS)

The Thematic Network Management of circuit-switched IP networks, partially funded by the Catalan Government, started on January 1 2003. The aim of this project is to integrate research on GMPLS/MPLS done in Spanish research organizations. The project organizes the Workship MPLS networks annually.
5. Technology Transfer projects
Endesa
Project Type: Technology Transfer Duration: 12 Months Start: February 2005 Budget: 21.810 Partners: Endesa Distribucin Electrica SA Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Melndez UdG Team: Joaquim Melndez Joan Colomer Francisco Gamero Sergio Herraiz
Electrical fault localisation and Disturbances Propagation Analysis

Electrical fault localisation Objective: The objective of this project is to delimit the location where fault has occurred by means of analysing the wave shape of the event registered in the substation and using the additional information about the distribution network obtained from the company. Tasks: Elaboration of an updated state-of-the-art about the algorithmic methods currently used to locate faults using single end measurements in substations. Implementation and test of the methods using real data. Tuning of the modules and final validation. Development of an executable prototype to be used in a PC environment on the substation. Disturbances propagation analysis Objective: The objective here is to extract knowledge from the voltage sags and to associate their characteristics (shape, length, depth) to the information from the network control centre (MV/HV origin, protections, causes, handling, etc.) in order to diagnose similar situations. Tasks: Development of an automatic tool to conciliate the registered incidences in the control centre and the perturbations registered in electrical substations. Exploitation of the conciliated information in order to extract knowledge about causes and origins of the voltage sags: correlation event/incidences. Determination of the MV/HV characteristics and their relation to their location and the different types of protection using the characteristics of the events.
Optimus
Project Type: Technology Transfer Duration: 9 Months Start: July 2005 Budget: 13.320 Partners: Optimus Coordinator: Pere Ridao UdG Team: Pere Ridao Andres El-Fakdi Natalia Hurts Joan Massich Narcs Palomeras
Implementation of a method to detect faults in loudspeaker lines

The main objective of this contract has been the study and implementation of a method to detect faults in loudspeaker lines. This method has been based in the addition of certain frequencies to the reproduced sound so that they can be recovered a posteriori. This way it is possible to identify problems within the line. In the first stage of the project we have carried out a theoretic analysis of the viability of such method using the signal processing tools included in Matlab. In the second stage we have used a commercial DSP together with its programming environment in order to evaluate its viability to face the problem. We have designed and build the hardware modules needed by the system, developing a module for analogical-digital conversion and a module for input/output that have been both integrated in the evaluation board. Finally we have implemented different software modules to run the application, that perform different tasks such as generate, send, recover and filtrate signals, as well as calculations to determine variations in line load.
6. Education
Masters Programs
Master in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering The Masters in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering aims to respond to the growing demand in this area for specialists capable of dealing with and participating in Research, Development and Innovation (R+D+I) projects in the production and service sectors. This masters programme offers state of the art training in the following areas: computer vision, robotics, control engineering, communications and intelligent systems. Training in these areas leads to the acquisition of techniques and methods and their application to solve current problems in applied fields such as medical image interpretation, efficient data retrieval in process supervision, quality control through artificial vision, applying AI techniques to decision making, the creation and management of distributed applications, communication network management, etc. This masters program has been selected by the Catalan and Spanish Governments to be official and consequently it is included in the official catalogue of both governments to start next September 2006. This master offers two specialisation branch; one in control Engineering and Intelligent Systems (ECSI) and another in Computer Vision and Robotics (VCR) and allows students following their career at the doctorate program. In the second academic year, master students will have the opportunity to make their stay at other universities or research centres receiving the highly qualified personal supervision of their research and/or to get the traineeships in the leading industrial companies collaborating with the master program. More information at http://eia.udg.es/master-imagis VIBOT - Erasmus Mundus Masters in VIsion and roBOTics The European master on Computer Vision and Robotics (VIBOT) meets the present needs of industry for quality control and automation of industrial processes as well as in the field of health with the ever increasing importance of medical imagery in all its forms.The key techniques are computer vision and robotics. Current research in all these domains is today particularly dynamic and the results obtained by the teams of researchers worldwide find fast outlets in industry, where the needs are increasingly important. This is relevant to a wide range of sectors, as for example the car industry, the agro-alimentary field or the domain of health, with the active development of e-Health solutions. The continued evolution of this research sector requires adapted and extremely specialized formations. Through strong links in established research collaborations, our respective laboratories decided to combine their international experience and expertise in order to propose a new high level, international study programme running over four semesters. The formation intends to be at excellence level. It will benefit from the complementarities and synergies of our laboratories. Starting from a comprehensive coverage of the perequisites in the field of digital imagery and basic image processing, the students will cover at specialized level all subjects of artificial vision applied to robotics and medical imagery, as well 3D vision.
This Masters programme will provide, through the proposed European formation, an unrivalled knowledge in computer vision and robotics applied to industrial problems and medical imagery. Moreover, the students will have also acquired a mobility, a broadmindedness and the language skills which constitute, in an age of globalization, a major asset for finding research work either in a public laboratory or in a private company. The VIBOT is a collaboration between the Universit de Bourgogne (Le Creusot, France), the Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). More information at http://www.vibot.org Master in Computing Information Technology is one the major driving forces of modern civilization. The professionals in many areas of science and technology are expected to be proficient in various disciplines of the information technologies, thus guaranteeing efficiency and confidence in their work. The Master program aims at providing a solid background in Computing for qualified professionals that must able take high responsability positions in industry or start research activities in theoretical or practical aspects of Computing. The Master also offers the opportunity to focus on one of its specializations: Algorithmics and Programming Information Systems Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Graphic Interaction The student can select between achieving a generic education on several subjects or focus on one of the specializations. The students completing the master will be competent for: Professional jobs that take strategic decisions, requiring a high capacity of analysis and the resolution of complex problems Creating and transferring research-based knowledge in the professional world Starting an academic career in research, by entering a PhD program More information at http://postgrau.lsi.upc.edu/?cmd=msc_intro
PhD Programs
PhD Program in Information Technology This PhD program provides scientific training for engineers and graduates within a specialized profile of research in information technologies: artificial intelligence, electronic commerce, communications, computer vision, automatic control, expert supervision and industrial robotics. This research corresponds to work carried out by research groups from the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Automatic Control at the University of Girona.
More information at http://eia.udg.es/doctorat PhD in Software In general, the Software program addresses research areas related to the analysis, design and use of software. This means, in particular, research areas such as: computer-aided geometric design, virtual reality and synthesis of realistic images, information systems and databases, software engineering, programming methodology, theoretical computer science, analysis and design of algorithms and bioinformatics. In order to focus scientific and methodological skills on specific topics, the programme has a structure based around four core areas (corresponding to the four research sections of the Department): Algorithms and Complexity, Logic and Programming, Computer Graphics, and Information Systems. Each consists of a set of courses and seminars and offers supervised research projects within the corresponding research area. More information at http://ima.udg.es/Doctorat
PhD Thesis
Jaume Rigau, Information-Theoretic Refinement Criteria for Image Synthesis. Supervisors: Miquel Feixas and Mateu Sbert. December 2006. Luis Eduardo Mujica, A hybrid approach of Knowledge-Based Reasoning to Structural Assessment. Supervisor: Josep Veh. June 2006. Radu Oighidam, Catadioptric Stereo based on Structured Light Projection. Supervisor: Joaquim Salvi and El Mustapha Mouaddib. July 2006. Joan Jos Mora Flrez, Localizacin de faltas en sistemas de distribucin de energa elctrica usando mtodos basados en el modelo y mtodos basados en el conocimiento. Supervisors: Joan Colomer, Joaquim Melndez and Gilberto Carrillo. December 2006. Anna Urra, Multi-Layer Survivability: Routing Schemes for GMPLS-based Networks. Supervisors: Josep L. Marzo and Eusebi Calle. December 2006. Pau Herrero, Quantified Real Constraint Solving Using Modal Intervals With Applications to Control. Supervisor: Josep Veh and Luc Jaulin. December 2006.
Diploma of Advanced Studies

Fernando Solano, . Supervisor: . Date: July 18, 2006. Ronadl Uriel Ruiz Ordoez, . Supervisor: Josep Lluis de la Rosa. Date:July 18, 2006. Esteve del Acebo Pea, . Supervisor: . Date: October 16, 2006. Armagan Elibol, . Supervisor: . Date: October 16, 2006. Esteban Reinaldo Gelso, . Supervisor: . Date: October 16, 2006. Salvador Ibarra Martnez, . Supervisor: Josep Lluis de la Rosa. Date: October 16, 2006. Eduard Montaner, . Supervisor: Josep Lluis de la Rosa. Date: October 16, 2006.
7. Competition
SAUC-E Team
SAUC-E is the acronym for Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge - Europe. SAUC-E is a competition for European students to foment the investigation and development in underwater technology. At the moment, there are 8 teams already inscribed in the competition: University of Bath International University Bremen University of Girona University of Glasgow Heriot-Watt University University of Leicester University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis Southampton University As the first event of its kind was held in the UK 2006, the Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge Europe (SAUC-E) proved a huge success. Seven university teams competed at the state-of-the-art underwater stage at Pinewood Studios (www.pinewoodshepperton.com) with vehicles they had designed and built themselves. For more information visit the official homepage: http://www.dstl.gov.uk/news_events/competitions/sauce
X. Publications
Books or Book Chapters
Lpez, B., Melndez, J., Radeva, P. and Vitri, J. Artificial Intelligence Research and Develpment, IOS Press (Serie:Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications), 2005, ISBN: 1-58603-560-6 Gonzlez, G., Lpez, B., Angulo, C. and de la Rosa J.LL. Acquiring Unobtrusive Relevance Feedback through Eye-Tracking in Ambient Recommender Systems. Published in the book Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, 2005, ISBN: 1-58603-5606 B. Lpez, J.Melndez. Inteligencia Artificial en los planes de estudio de informtica e industriales. Una perspectiva desde el rea de ISA. Published in the book DocenWeb: Red Temtica de Docencia en Control mediante Web. 2005, ISBN: 84-689-3386-4 Vinyoles M., Melndez J., Herraiz S., Snchez J., Castro M. Location of phase to ground and phase to phase faults in a power distribution system. Published in the book 9 Congreso Hispano-Luso de Ingeniera Elctrica (9CHLIE), 2005, ISBN: 84-609-5231-2 Herraiz S., Melndez J., Colomer J., Vinyoles M., Snchez J., Castro M. Power quality monitoring in distribution systems. Published in the book 9 Congreso Hispano-Luso de Ingeniera Elctrica (9CHLIE), 2005, ISBN: 84-609-5231-2 Vinyoles M., Melndez J., Herraiz S., Snchez J., Castro M. Electric fault location methods implemented on an electric distribution network. Published in International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'05), 2005, ISBN: 84-609-3234-6 Ruiz M.L., Colomer J., Melendez. Combinaron of Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods and classification strategies for situation assessment of batch processes. Published in the book III Taller de Mineria e Datos y Aprendizaje (TAMIDA2005) dentro del CEDI05 (congreso Espaol de Informatica), 2005, ISBN: 84-9732-449-8 Lpez, B. , Urra, P., and Abell, X. Multi-agent resource allocation for road passenger transportation. Published in the book IV Workshop Internacional Sobre Aplicaciones Prcticas de Agentes y Sistemas Multiagente (IWPAAMS), 2005, ISBN: 84-9773-222-7 Lpez, B. , Melndez, J., Surez, S. Ontology for Integrating Heterogeneous Tools for Supervision, Fault Detection and Diagnosis. Published in the book Second Internacional Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2005, ISBN: 972-8865-29-5 B. Lpez, M. Montaner, J.L. de la Rosa. Utilizacin de un Simulador de Ftbol como Plataforma de Prcticas de Inteligencia Artificial. Published in the book SImposio Nacional de Docencia en la Informtica (SINDI), 2005, ISBN: 84-9732-443-9 Teran, MF, Colomer, J, Melndez J, Colprim J. Supervised Fuzzy Control of Dissolved Oxygen in a SBR Pilot Plant. Published in the book Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. Frontiers in in Artificial intelligence and Applications, 2005, ISBN: 1-58603560-6 Gonzlez, G., Angulo, C, Lpez, B. and de la Rosa, J. LL. Smart User Models for Ambient Recommender Systems. Published in the book Proceedings of the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and (Everyday) Life (Amilife), 2005, ISBN: 84-609-6632-1 Josep Llus de la Rosa, Albert Figueras, Christian Quintero, Josep Antoni Ramon, and Salvador Ibarra. Computer Methods and Systems, 2005, ISBN: 83-916420-3-8 G. Gonzlez, C. Angulo, B. Lpez, J.L. de la Rosa. Ambient Intelligence and (Everyday) Life, 2005, ISBN: ISBN 84- 609-6632-1 Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Studies about the Atomic Capabilities Concept for Linear Control Systems in Physical Multi-Agent Environments. Published in the book Proceedings 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2005, ISBN: 0-7803-9355-4 Christian G. Quintero M., Salvador Ibarra M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Exploring the Physical Agents' Behaviours to Improve Collective Decisions in Multi-agent Environments. Published in the book Actas VI Workshop en Agentes Fsicos. Congreso Espaol de Informtica 2005, ISBN: 84-9732-450-1 Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Self-Knowledge based on the Atomic Capabiliites Concept. A Perspective to Achieve Sure Commitments amomg Physical Agents. Published in the book Proceedings 2005 International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2005, ISBN: 972-8865-30-9 S.Aciar, J. Guzman-Obando, J.LL. de la Rosa and J. Lpez Herrera. Estableciendo una medida de Trust para seleccionar fuentes de informacin relevantes para recomendar. Published in the book Actas Cuarto Congreso de Cmputo AGeComp-UAEM, 2005, ISBN: 968-878-250-0 S. Aciar , J. Lpez Herrera y J.LL. De la Rosa. SMA para la bsqueda inteligente de informacin para recomendar. Published in the book Actas del Simposio de Inteligencia Computacional, SICO2005 (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, (SC), 2005, ISBN: 84-9732-444-7 Josep Veh, Jorge Bonda. El anlisis de intervalos en Espaa: desarrollos, herramientas y aplicaciones 2005, ISBN: 84-934349-1-4 Veh Josep, Ferrer Ins, Sainz Miguel A. Aplicaciones del anlisis intervalar al control robusto. Published in the book El anlisis de intervalos en Espaa: desarrollos, herramientas y aplicaciones, 2005, ISBN: 84-934349-1-4 Joaquim Armengol, Pau Herrero, Miguel ngel Sainz. Deteccin de fallos en procesos reales (Proyecto CHEM) . Published in the book El anlisis de intervalos en Espaa: desarrollos, herramientas y aplicaciones, 2005, ISBN: 84-934349-1-4 Gabriela Caldern, Pedro J. Abad, Arantza Aldea, Joaquim Armengol. Diagnstico de fallos. Published in the book El anlisis de intervalos en Espaa: desarrollos, herramientas y aplicaciones, 2005, ISBN: 84-934349-1-4 Joaquim Armengol, Vicen Puig, Joseba Quevedo, Teresa Escobet. Simulacin intervalar y su aplicacin a la deteccin robusta de fallos en sistemas dinmicos con incertidumbre paramtrica. Published in the book El anlisis de intervalos en Espaa: desarrollos, herramientas y aplicaciones, 2005, ISBN: 84-934349-1-4 Luis Eduardo Mujica, Josep Veh and Jos Rodellar. A hybrid system combining Self Organizing Maps with Case Based Reasoning in Structural Assessment in Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. Published in the book Frontiers in in Artificial intelligence and Applications, 2005, ISBN: I-58603-560-6 Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa, Josep Veh. Control Inteligente en Agentes Fsicos. Una Propuesta basada en Capacidades Atmicas. Simposio Espaol sobre Control Inteligente, 2005, ISBN: 84-689-2599-3 Luis Eduardo Mujica, Josep Veh and Jos Rodellar. Deteccin de impactos mediante Razonamiento Basado en Conocimiento: Aplicacin a una seccin de ala de avin. Published in the book Actas de SAICA 2005 Seminario de Aplicaciones Industriales de Control Avanzado, 2005, ISBN: 84-362-5179-2 Christian G. Quintero M., Salvador Ibarra M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Exploring the Physical Agents Behaviours to Improve Collective Decisions in Multi-agent Environments. Published in the book Congreso Espaol de Informtica, CEDI 2005, ISBN: 84-9732-450-1 Josep Ll. de la Rosa, ALbert Figueras, Christian G. Quintero M., Josep A. Ramn and Salvador Ibarra. Outline of Modifications Systems Computer Methods and Systems. 2005, ISBN: 83-916420-3-8 Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Self-Knowledge based on the Atomic Capabilities Concept. A Perspective to Achieve Sure Commitments among Physical Agents. Published in the book 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2005, ISBN: 972-8865-30-9 Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. Studies about the Atomic Capabilities Concept for Linear Control Systems in Physical Multi-Agent Environments. Published in the book 6th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation. IEEE Catalog Number: 05EX1153, 2005, ISBN: 0-78039355-4 Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom, 2005, ISBN: 0-7863-9414-3 D. Pinto, B. Barn, R. Fabregat. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Aplications, 2005, ISBN: 1-58603-560-6 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, B. Barn, Y. Donoso, J.L. Marzo. Proceedings of CCIA 2005, 2005, ISBN: 1-58603-560-6 Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. Proceedings of Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2005, ISBN: 0-7803-9439-9 Yezid Donoso, Alfredo Prez, Carlos Ardila, Ramn Fabregat. GESTS International Transactions on Computer Science Engineering, 2005, ISBN: 89-953729-5-8 F. J. Rodrguez, A. M. Domnguez, J. L. Gonzlez, J.L. Marzo and A. Gazo. Proceedings of Jornadas de Ingeniera Telemtica, 2005, ISBN: 84-8408-346-2 Llus Fbrega, Teodor Jov, Pere Vil, Jos Marzo. Proceedings of 2005 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2005, ISBN: 1-56555-300-4 A. Urra, E. Calle, J. L. Marzo, P. Vila. Proceedings of 2005 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2005, ISBN: 156555-300-4 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, Y. Donoso, J.L. Marzo. Proceedings of Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2005, ISBN: 0-7695-2373-0 Anna Urra, Jose L. Marzo, Mateu Sbert, Eusebi Calle. Proceedings of Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2005, ISBN: 0-7695-2373-0 Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. Proceedings of Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2005, ISBN: 0-7695-2373-0
Y. Donoso, R. Fabregat, F. Solano, JL. Marzo, B. Baran. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005, ISBN: 0-7803-8939-5 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, Y. Donoso, J.L. Marzo. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005, ISBN: 0-7803-8939-5 Pere Vil, Jos L. Marzo, Eusebi Calle, Llus Fbrega. Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE Int. Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), ISBN: 0-7803-9088-1 J. Pags, F. Chaumette, C. Collewet, J. Salvi. Visual Servoing by means of Structured Light Plane-to-plane Positioning, INRIA Research Report 5579, 2005 Andres El-Fakdi, Marc Carreras, Pere Ridao. Direct Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning for Robot Behavior Learning. Published in the book ICINCO 2005, Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2005, ISBN: 972-8865-30-9
Andres El-Fakdi, Marc Carreras, N. Palomeras, Pere Ridao. Autonomous underwater vehicle control using reinforcement learning policy search methods. Published in the book IEEE Conference Proceedings Oceans 2005 Europe, 2005, ISBN: 0-7803-91039 E. Batlle, P. Ridao and N. Palomeras. A Survey of Graphical Simulators for UUV development. Published in the book Proceedings of the IARP International Workshop on Underwater Robotics, IWUR2005, ISBN: 88-8492-345-X Andres El-Fakdi, Marc Carreras, N. Palomeras. Direct Policy Search Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control. Publised in the book Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, 2005, ISBN: 1-58603-560-6 Andres El-Fakdi, Marc Carreras, Pere Ridao, E. Hernandez. Studying the feasibility of policy reinforcement learning methods for autonomous agents. Published in the book Actas del VI Workshop en Agentes Fsicos, WAF 2005, ISBN: 84-609-6891-X
Publications in Journals
Sainz L., Pedra J., Herraiz S. "Capacitor and shunt filter influence in the electric system harmonic response". IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2005, Volume 20, Pg. 15221531 Herraiz S., Sainz L., Corcoles F., Pedra J. "A unified and simple model for uncontrolled rectifiers". Electric Power Systems Research, 2005, Volume 74, Pg. 331-340 Fabregas, M., Lopez, B. and Masana, J. "How Bee-like Agents Support Cultural Heritage". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005, Volume 3807 Puig S., Corominas LL., Vives M., Balaguer M. Colprim J., Colomer J. "Development and Implementation of a Real-Time Control System for Nitrogen Removal Using OUR and ORP as End Points". Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2005, Volume 44, Pg. 3367-3373 M. Ambastha, D. Busquets, R. Lopez de Montaras and C. Sierra. "Evolving a multiagent system for landmark-based robot navigation". International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2005, Volume 20, Pg. 523-539 Melendez J, Colomer J, Herraiz S. "Calidad de Onda en el Servicio elctrico. Causas y efectos de las perturbaciones que afectan la calidad de la electricidad". Automatica e Instrumentacion, 2005, Volume 1, Pg. 92-98 Lopez,B., Innocenti, B., Aciar, S. and Cuevas, I. "A Multi-Agent System to Support Ambulance Coordination in Time-Critical Patient Treatment". Anales de las 34 Jornadas Argentinas de Informatica e Investigacion Operativa (ISSN 1666 1141), 2005, Pg. 43-58 E. D'Agostino, A. Casali, R. Corti, A. Torres, M. Siracusa, B. Lopez. "Sistema de Apoyo al Aprendizaje Diagnostico Utilizando Perfiles de Usuario: EndoDiagII". Anales de las 34 Jornadas Argentinas de Informatica e Investigacion Operativa (ISSN 1666 1141), 2005, Pg. 15-28 Teran, MF, Colomer, J, Melendez J, Colprim J. "Supervised Fuzzy Control of Dissolved Oxygen in a SBR Pilot Plant". Artificial Intelligence Research and development. Frontiers in in Artificial intelligence and Applications, 2005, Pg. 281-288 G. Gonzalez, B. Lopez, C. Angulo, J.L. de la Rosa. "Acquiring Unobtrusive Relevance Feedback through Eye-Tracking in Ambient Recommender Systems". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series Book, 2005, Pg. 181-188 J. Guzman, G. Gonzalez, J. L. de la Rosa, J. A. Caston. "Modelling the Human Values Scale in Recommender Systems: A First Approach". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series Book, 2005, Volume 131, Pg. 405-412 S. Aciar, J. Lopez Herrera and J.LL. de la Rosa. "Integrating Information Sources for Recommender Systems". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series Book, 2005, Volume 131, Pg. 421-428 Eduard Muntaner Perich, Josep Lluis de la Rosa. "Towards Dynamic Electronic Institutions: from Agent Coalitions to Agent Institutions". NASA Workshop on Radical Agents Computation WRAC'05 (to appear in LNCS 3825), 2005 A. Shmilovici, A. Figueras, J.L. de la Rosa. "Measuring Progress On the Simplification of an Examples Based Controller with Support Vector". Control and Intelligent Systems, 2005 Patow, Gustavo; Pueyo, Xavier. "A Survey of Inverse Surface Design From Light Transport Behavior Specification". Computer Graphics Forum, 2005, Volume 24, Pg. 773-789 Szirmay-Kalos, Laszlo; Sbert, Mateu; Ummenhoffer, Tamas. "Real-Time Multiple Scattering in Participating Media with Illumination Networks". "Rendering Techniques 05, ACM Siggraph Press", 2005 Szirmay-Kalos, Laszlo; Antal, Gyorgy; Sbert, Mateu. "Go with Winners Strategy in PathTracing". Journal of WSCG, 2005, Pg. 49-56 Regincos Isern, Jordi; Serin, Francisco. "Computer Graphics in Spain". Computer & Graphics, 2005 Cerezo, E.; Perez, F.; Pueyo, X.; Serin, F.J.; Sillion, F. "A Survey on Participating Media Rendering Techniques". The Visual Computer 21, 2005, Pg. 303-328 Jimenez-Perez, J.R.; Pueyo, X. "Interactive Rendering og Globally Illuminated Scenes Including Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Participating Media". The Visual Computer 21, 2005, Pg. 449-462 Diaz, J.M.; Hurtado, F.; Lopez, M.; Sellares, J.A. "Optimal Projections onto Grids and Finite Resolution Images". Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2005, Volume 16, Pg. 233-249 Luis Eduardo Mujica, Josep Vehi, Jose Rodellar, Przemyslaw Kolakowski. "A hybrid approach of knowledge-based reasoning for structural assessment". Smart Materials and Structures, 2005, Pg. 1554 - 1562 Przemyslaw Kolakowski, Luis E. Mujica, Josep Vehi. "Comparison of Two Software Tools for Damage Identification: Gradient-based vs. Case-based Approach". Key Engineering Materials, 2005, Volume 293, Pg. 103-110 Pau Herrero, Miguel A. Sainz, Josep Vehi, Luc Jaulin. "Quantified Set Inversion Algorithm with Applications to Control". Reliable Computing, Volume 11, Pg. 369 - 382 Luis Eduardo Mujica, Josep Vehi and Jose Rodellar. "A hybrid system combining Self Organizing Maps with Case Based Reasoning in Structural Assessment". Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. Frontiers in in Artificial intelligence and Applications, 2005, Volume 131, Pg. 173 - 180 Lluis Fabrega, Teodor Jove, Pere Vila, Jose Marzo. "A packet class-based scheme for providing throughput guarantees to TCP flows". Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations & Management (IPOM) 2005, ISSN 0302-9743, LNCS 3751, Pg. 76-87 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, J.L. Marzo. "Full Label Space Reduction in MPLS Networks: Asymmetric Merged Tunneling". IEEE Communication Letters, 2005, Volume 9, Pg. 1021 - 1023 Jose L. Marzo, Pere Vila, Santiago Cots, Eusebi Calle. "Distributed Architecture for Dynamic Resource Management". China Communications Magazine (ISSN: 1672 - 6626), 2005, Volume 2, Pg. 61-72 E.Calle, J.L. Marzo, A.Urra, P.Vila, S.Cots. "Encaminamiento con calidad de servicio y proteccin en redes GMPLS sobre WDM". Boletin de RedIRIS (ISSN: 1139 - 207X), 2005, Pg. 48-51 Pere Vila. "Gestio dinamica i restauracio de camins virtuals en xarxes de banda ampla basat en agents de software distribuits". Boletin de ACIA (ISSN: 1577-1989), 2005, Pg. 17 - 18 J. Pages, J. Salvi. "Coded Light Projection Techniques for 3D Reconstruction". Journal sur l'enseignement des sciences et technologies de l'information et des systemes, 2005, Volume 4 J. Pages, J. Salvi, J. Forest. "Optimized De Bruijn Patterns for One-Shot Shape Acquisition". Image and Vision Computing, 2005, Volume 23, Pg. 707-720 V. Ila, R. Garcia, X. Cufi, J. Batlle. "Interest Point Characterisation through Textural Analysis for Rejection of Bad Correspondences". Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005, Volume 26, Pg. 1587-1596 R. Garcia, X. Cufi, R. Prados, A. Elibol, J. Ferrer, M. Villanueva, T. Nicosevici. "Georeferenced Photo-Mosaicing of the Seafloor". Instrumentation Viewpoint, 2005, Pg. 45-47 Llado, Xavier, Petrou, Maria, Marti, Joan. "Surface Texture Recognition by Surface Rendering". Journal of Optical Engineering, 2005, Volume 44, Pg. 1-16 M. Carreras, J. Yuh, J. Batlle, P. Ridao. "A Behavior-based Scheme Using Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles". IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2005, Volume 3, Pg. 416-427 Pere Ridao, Marc Carreras, Joan Batlle. "AIRSUB: Autonomous Robot for Dam Inspection". Instrumentation viewpoint, ISSN : 1697-2562, 2005, Volume 4, Pg. 26-27
Publications in Conferences
Gonzlez, G., Lpez, B., Angulo, C. and de la Rosa J.LL; "Acquiring Unobtrusive Relevance Feedback through Eye-Tracking in Ambient Recommender Systems". VIII Congres Catla de IA David Llanos; Joan Colomer; Joaquim Melendez; Marcel Staroswiecki; "Influence of network delays in residual computation". 16th IFAC World Congress C. Pous, J. Colomer, J. Melndez. "Improving Fault Dictionary Techniques with Artificial Intelligence Methods for Linear Electronic Analog Circuits Diagnosis". 11th International Mixed-Signals Testing Workshop IMSTW'05 Vinyoles M., Melndez J., Herraiz S., Snchez J., Castro M. "Location of phase to ground and phase to phase faults in a power distribution system". 9 Congreso Hispano-Luso de Ingeniera Elctrica (9CHLIE) Herraiz S., Melndez J., Colomer J., Vinyoles M., Snchez J., Castro M. "Power quality monitoring in distribution systems". 9 Congreso Hispano-Luso de Ingeniera Elctrica (9CHLIE) Vinyoles M., Melndez J., Herraiz S., Snchez J., Castro M. "Electric fault location methods implemented on an electric distribution network". International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'05) Ruiz M.L., Colomer J., Melendez.,. "Combinaron of Statistical Process Control (SPC) methods and classification strategies for situation assessment of batch processes". III Taller de Mineria e Datos y Aprendizaje (TAMIDA2005) dentro del CEDI05 (congreso Espaol de Informatica) Lopez, B. "Recommender agents on the Internet". VII Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Lpez, B. , Urra, P., and Abell, X. "Multi-agent resource allocation for road passenger transportation". IV Workshop Internacional Sobre Aplicaciones Prcticas de Agentes y Sistemas Multiagente (IWPAAMS) Lpez, B. Aciar, S., Innocenti, B. and Cuevas, I. "How Multi-agent Systems Support Acute Stroke Emergency Treatment". IJCAI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care Lpez, B. , Melndez, J., Surez, S. "Ontology for Integrating Heterogeneous Tools for Supervision, Fault Detection and Diagnosis". Second Internacional Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) Fbregas, M., Lpez, B. and Masana, J. "How Bee-like Agents Support Cultural Heritage". Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA), at the fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems Gonzlez, G., Angulo, C, Lpez, B. and de la Rosa, J. LL. "Smart User Models". Workshop on Decentralized, Agent Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling (DASUM 2005) organized in conjunction with 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2005) Gonzlez, G., Lpez, B. and de la Rosa, J. LL. "Smart A Multi-agent Smart User Model for Cross-domain Recommender Systems". Workshop Beyond Personalization In conjunction with the 2005 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'05). Lpez,B., Innocenti, B., Aciar, S. and Cuevas, I. "A Multi-Agent System to Support Ambulance Coordination in Time-Critical Patient Treatment". 7 Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial (ASAI) E. DAgostino, A. Casali, R. Corti, A. Torres, M. Siracusa, B. Lpez. "Sistema de Apoyo al Aprendizaje Diagnstico Utilizando Perfiles de Usuario". VIII Simposio argentino de Informtica y Salud (SIS) B. Lpez, M. Montaner, J.L. de la Rosa. "Utilizacin de un Simulador de Ftbol como Plataforma de Prcticas de Inteligencia Artificial". SImposio Nacional de Docencia en la Informtica (SINDI) Teran, MF, Colomer, J, Melndez J, Colprim J. "Supervised Fuzzy Control of Dissolved Oxygen in a SBR Pilot Plant". CCIA'05 Rubio M., Ruiz M., Teran F., Arroyo F., Colomer J. and Colprim J. "Fuzzy control of dissolved oxygen and on-line OUR estimation in a SBR pilot plant". The 2nd IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA2005) Puig S., Corominas Ll., Colomer J., Balaguer M.D. and Colprim J. "On-line Oxygen Uptake Rate as a new tool for monitoring and controlling the SBR process,". PUIG S., COROMINAS LL., TRAORE A., COLOMER J., BALAGUER M.D., COLPRIM J. "AN ON-LINE OPTIMIZATION OF A SBR CYCLE FOR CARBON AND NITROGEN REMOVAL BASED ON ON-LINE PH AND OUR". 2ND IWA CONFERENCE ON INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROL AND AUTOMATION FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM (ICA 2005) Surez, S., Collins, J., Lpez, B. "Improving Rescue Operations in Disasters". The 24rd Annual Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG) Gonzlez, G., Angulo, C, Lpez, B. and de la Rosa, J. LL. "Smart User Models for Ambient Recommender Systems". Proceedings of the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and (Everyday) Life (Amilife) JJ. Mora, G Carrillo, J. Melndez. "A generic architecture for hybrid intelligent systems A fault location proposal to assess power service indexes". Third International Symposium on Power Quality, SICEL 2005 B. Lpez, P. Urra. "Decentralized resource allocation for road pasenger transportation". Workshop sobre planificacin, Scheduling y Razonamiento Temporal (asociado a CAEPIA) JJ. Mora, G Carrillo, J. Melndez. "A generic architecture for hybrid intelligent systems A fault location proposal to assess power service indexes". Third International Symposium on Power Quality, SICEL 2005 J. Guzmn, G. Gonzlez, J. L. de la Rosa, J. A. Castn. "Modelacin de la Escala de Valores Humanos a partir de los Smart User Models". 4a Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Ciberntica e Informtica (CISCI 2005). Ruiz Ordez Ronald Uriel; de la Rosa y Esteva, Josep Lluis, Ardila Soto, Victor Manuel; Guzmn Obando, Javier. "Fuzzificacin del Balanced Scorecard y Mapas Estratgicos para que los Ordenadores Entiendan las Estrategias Empresariales". International Business Information Management Conference (5th IBIMA) Javier Guzmn-Obando, Gustavo Gonzlez, Josep Llus de la Rosa, Silvana V. Aciar, Ronald U. Ruiz, and Jos A. Castn. "An approach to the Human Values Scale from Smart User Model". International Business Information Management Conference (5th IBIMA) Silvana Vanesa Aciar, Josefina Lpez Herrera, Josep Lluis de la Rosa, Javier Guzmn Obando and Ronald Uriel Ruiz. "Selection Information Sources Based on the Trust of Similar Sources". International Business Information Management Conference (5th IBIMA) Ruiz Ordez Ronald Uriel; de la Rosa y Esteva Josep Lluis, Ardila Soto, Victor Manuel; Guzmn Obando, Javier. "Translation of Fuzzy Systems in Strategic Maps to improve the Management". Technological Innovation, Congress, cultural Aspects and Globalization Javier Guzmn-Obando, Gustavo Gonzlez, Josep Llus de la Rosa, Silvana V. Aciar, Ronald U. Ruiz y Jos A. Castn. "Una aproximacin de la escala de valores humanos a partir de los Smart User Models". Cuarto Congreso de Computo de la Academia Nacional de Computo Ruiz Ordez Ronald Uriel; de la Rosa i Esteva Josep Lluis, Guzmn Obando Javier. "Implementacin de Mapas Estratgicos en Sistemas Difusos para mejorar la Direccin Empresarial.". I Congreso Espaol de Informtica (Cedi 2005) Simposio de Lgica Difusa. Ruiz Ordez, Ronald Uriel; de la Rosa i Esteva, Josep Lluis; Ardila Soto, Vctor Ardila. "Mquinas que Entienden los Cuadros de Mandos Integrales en la Direccin Empresarial". 4 Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Ciberntica e Informtica (CISCI 2005) Ruiz Ordez Ronald Uriel, de la Rosa y Esteva Josep Lluis, Ardila Soto Victor Ardila. "Estrategias empresariales con Inteligencia Artificial.". X congreso Nacional de Internet, telecomunicaciones y S. de informacin. S. Aciar , J. Lpez Herrera, and J.LL. de la Rosa. "Identifying Information from Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Sources for Recommender Systems". Fourth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2005) Salvador Ibarra M., Christian G. Quintero M., Josep A. Ramn, Josep Ll. de la Rosa, A. Figueras. "Generacin y Gestin de Diversidad Dinmica en Agentes Fsicos". XXVI JornadasEspaolas de Automtica Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa, Josep Veh. "Control Inteligente en Agentes Fsicos. Una Propuesta basada en Capacidades Atmicas". I Simposio Espaol sobre Control Inteligente G. Gonzlez, C. Angulo, B. Lpez, J.L. de la Rosa. "Smart User Models". 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05). G. Gonzlez, B. Lpez, J.L. de la Rosa. "A Multi-agent Smart User Model for Cross-domain Recommender Systems". Beyond Personalization 2005 P.Castell, M.Chover, M.Sbert, M.Feixas Pas. "Tcnicas para calcular la Entropa Dependiente de la Vista de una Escena 3D". XV Congreso Espaol de Informtica Grfica Jimnez, J.R.; Myszkowski, K.; Pueyo, X. "Interactive Rendering in Dynamic Participating media Using Selective Photon Tracing.". Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG) 2005 Bardera, A.; Feixas, M.; Boada, I.; Sbert, M. "Medical Image Registration Based on Random Line Sampling". 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Luis Eduardo Mujica, Josep Veh, Wieslaw Staszewski and Keith Worden. "Impact Damage Detection In Aircraft Composites Using Knowledge-Based Reasoning Structural Health Monitoring 2005. Advanced and Challenges for Implementation.". 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring Pau Herrero, Luc Jaulin, Josep Veh, Miguel A. Sainz. "Inner and outer approximation of the polar diagram of a sailboat". Interval analysis, constraint propagation, applications (IntCP05) Josep Ll. de la Rosa, ALbert Figueras, Christian G. Quintero M., Josep A. Ramn and Salvador Ibarra. "Outline of Modifications Systems Computer Methods and Systems.". Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. "Self-Knowledge based on the Atomic Capabilities Concept. A Perspective to Achieve Sure Commitments among Physical Agents". 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Christian G. Quintero M., Josep Ll. de la Rosa and Josep Veh. "Studies about the Atomic Capabilities Concept for Linear Control Systems in Physical Multi-Agent Environments". 6th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation Belarmino Pulido, Esteban Gelso. "Viabilidad de una tcnica de compilacin de dependencias para diagnosis basada en modelos en tareas de supervisin". CAEPIA'05, XI Conferencia de la Asociacin Espaola para la Inteligencia Artificial Jorge Flrez, Pau Herrero, Miguel A. Sainz and Josep Vehi. "Visualization of Implicit Surfaces using Quantified Set Inversion". IntCP 2005 Interval Analysis, Constraint Propagation D. Pinto, B. Barn, R. Fabregat. "Multi-Objective Multicast Routing based on Ant Colony Optimization". CCIA 2005 Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. "Enhanced Multi-Layer Protection in Multi-Service GMPLS Networks". IEEE Globecom Llus Fbrega, Teodor Jov, Pere Vil, Jos Marzo. "A packet class-based scheme for providing throughput guarantees to TCP flows". IPOM 05 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, B. Barn, Y. Donoso, J.L. Marzo. "Solving the GMM-model with a MOEA". CCIA 2005 Liliana Carrillo, Carles Guadall, Jos L. Marzo, Gianni Di Caro, Frederick Ducatelle, Luca M. Gambardella. "Differentiated quality of service scheme based on the use of multi-classes of ant-like mobile agents". CoNEXT 2005 Y. Donoso, R. Fabregat, F. Solano, J.L. Marzo, B. Baran. "GMM-model for Dynamic Multicast Groups using a probabilistic BFS Algorithm". IPOM 05 F. Solano, R. Fabregat, J.L. Marzo. "A Fast Algorithm based on the MPLS Label Stack for the Label Space Reduction Problem". IPOM 05 Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. "Partial Disjoint Path for Multi-layer Protection in GMPLS networks". Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) X. Hesselbach, R. Fabregat, B. Baran, Y. Donoso, F. Solano, M. Huerta. "Hashing based traffic partitioning in a multicast-multipath MPLS network model". IFIP/ACM Latin America Networking Conference 2005 (LANC 2005) R. Fabregat, Y. Donoso, B. Barn, F. Solano, J.L. Marzo. "Multi-objective optimization scheme for multicast flows". IFIP/ACM Latin America Networking Conference 2005 (LANC 2005 F. J. Rodrguez, A. M. Domnguez, J. L. Gonzlez, J.L. Marzo and A. Gazo. "OpenSimMPLS". Jornadas de Ingeniera Telemtica, JITEL 2005 Llus Fbrega, Teodor Jov, Pere Vil, Jos Marzo. "A scheme for a guaranteed minimum throughput service based on packet classes". International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'05) A. Urra, E. Calle, J. L. Marzo, P. Vila. "Minimum Interference Routing Adding Shared Segment Protection in GMPLS-based Networks". International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems F. Solano, R. Fabregat, Y. Donoso, J.L. Marzo. "A Label Space Reduction Algorithm for P2MP LSPs using Asymmetric Tunnels". Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Anna Urra, Jose L. Marzo, Mateu Sbert, Eusebi Calle. "Estimation of the Probability of Congestion using Monte Carlo Method in OPS Networks". Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) Anna Urra, Eusebi Calle, Jose L. Marzo. "Enhanced Protection using Shared Segment Backups in a Multiservice GMPLS-based Networks". Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) B. Barn, R. Fabregat, Y. Donoso, F. Solano, J.L. Marzo. "Generalized Multiobjective Multitree model solution using MOEA". 6th WSEAS Int.Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING (EC '05). Y. Donoso, R. Fabregat, F. Solano, JL. Marzo, B. Baran. "Generalized Multiobjective Multitree model for Dynamic Multicast Groups". IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005
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