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Big Data method to predict covid patient outcomes with 90% accuracy
The Lucentia research group, from the University of Alicante, is developing the project 'Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Solution to improve the diagnosis and medical care of those affected by COVID-19', in collaboration with several hospitals in the Valencian Community. Through the project, the aim is to predict the evolution of infected patients so [...]
Interactive comic pilot test
The aim of this tool is to provide consumers practical advices to help them to identify reliable websites and assess the safety of children's products (toys, childcare articles, children's clothing, etc.) offered by the various online sales platforms. QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE PILOT TEST OF THE INTERACTIVE COMIC e-COM 4 CHILDRENCUESTIONARIO PARA LA PRUEBA [...]
Juan C. Trujillo wins the 2019 ER Fellow Award
Juan Carlos Trujillo, professor at the University of Alicante in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems and founding partner of Lucentia LAB - a company located in Torre Juana – Open Space Technology has been awarded the ER Fellow 2019 Award. The ER Fellows Award is an honor given to selected individuals [...]
Presentation of e-COM 4 CHILDREN training materials in Prague
The first multiplier event of the project was held on 18 June, where the e-COM 4 CHILDREN training materials were presented and the challenges of e-commerce of children’s products faced by businesses, consumer organisations and consumer authorities were presented. The Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) highlighted the importance of building consumer trust when it comes […]
New training on e-commerce for safe children’s products
Progress at the fourth project meeting at the University of Alicante (Spain) On 28 January 2019, the fourth meeting of the transnational project e- COM 4 CHILDREN took place at the University of Alicante. The consortium, led by AIJU, made progress on the structure of the interactive COMIC that will help consumers to identify [...]
New training on e-commerce for safe children’s products
e-COM 4 CHILDREN is a transnational project, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, which aims to develop ICT open educational resources on e-commerce of safe children's products, such as toys, children's furniture or childcare articles. This training will be complementary to other formal training on digital marketing, with the main target group [...]
Third meeting of the e-COM 4 CHILDREN project partners on 3 October in Italy.
On 3 October, we met at the Università Pollitecnica delle Marche in Ancona (Italy) to make further progress in the production of training materials on e-commerce of safe children’s products and to initiate the development of the interactive comic, which is aimed at consumers and is intended as the first practical guide to online shopping […]
Training activity at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona (Italy).
A short joint training activity for staff of the project partners took place from 3 to 6 July 2018. The main objective of this meeting was to exchange knowledge between the partners in order to address the challenges faced by staff from industry, consumer associations and consumer authorities when dealing with e-commerce of safe children’s […]
Walt Disney also uses Big Data
Walt Disney, one of the world’s largest and most highly valued companies according to the prestigious Forbes magazine, has developed a Big Data system for the collection and analysis of visitor activity data at its theme parks, which has so far been implemented at its Orlando park in Florida. Every year 100 million people visit […]
Big pharma companies bet on BIG DATA partnership
This week, 3 different initiatives have emerged in the pharmaceutical industry to share their information. The most ambitious one has been the Data Sphere Project, which was announced a few days ago, where clinical diagnostic data will be shared for cancer research. Right now the number of datasets is small, but there is already a […]
Second edition of the Workshop Modelling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD 2014)
It is now announced the Call for Papers for the second edition of the International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data (MoBiD 2014), which includes topics such as Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Conceptual modeling approaches for Big Data, integration with Hadoop and MapReduce, Data Mining on Big Data, Smart Cities, etc… This […]
Seventh iStar Workshop (2014)
The Call for Papers for the Seventh International i* Workshop on target modelling using i*, GRL, Tropos and other related frameworks is now open. This year the workshop will be held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE ’14). The Workshop will be held on 16-17 June 2014. Contributions […]
Google launches an observatory to strengthen the digital economy
The technology firm Google, the consulting firm Analistas Financieros Internacionales (AFI) and the Institute of Economics of the University of Alicante have created the Observatory for the Analysis and Economic Development of the Internet. The new forum, which will be directed by university professor and former rector Andrés Pedreño, aims to study the impact of […]
It’s official: Turing Machine is the biggest innovation
Funny how we love making lists and ranks the best of whatever. It seems the very essence of humanity, even the Hellenes chose the 7 wonders of the old world . There are more judicious and scientific using indicators contrasted such as the ranking of universities , tennis players, the most touristic countries or the top […]
Turing Year
ALAIN TURING This year, 2012, is the year of Turing, the year of computer science. The Sociedad Científica Informática de España, and on its behalf the President Francisco Tirado, is pleased to invite you to the opening ceremony of the Turing Year to be held on Wednesday 27th June at 12:30 h in the Paraninfo […]
Lucentia BI Suite 1.5
Lucentia BI Suite is the tool developed by the research group Lucentia for developing data warehouses and business intelligence processes . This tool consists of a series of extensions that makes possible the design of every part of a business intelligence application in an integrated manner . Lucentia BI Suite implements a development process led […]