Edgar Batista

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• PhD
• Researcher at Universitat Rovira i Virgili

The ageing process is a multifaceted phenomenon that affects individuals’ physical, cognitive, and psychological well-being over time. To promote healthy ageing, in the mid-2010s, the World Health Organisation introduced the concept of intrinsic capacity (IC) as the set of physical and mental capacities of an individual. These capacities, categoris...

Smart classrooms are the next frontier in education to accelerate and improve both teaching and learning processes. These environments integrate sensors, ubiquitous computing systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, and high-speed data networks to create more cognitive, effective, interactive, and adaptive learning settings. Among other ap...

As society experiences accelerated ageing, understanding the complex biological processes of human ageing, which are affected by a large number of variables and factors, becomes increasingly crucial. Artificial intelligence (AI) presents a promising avenue for ageing research, offering the ability to detect patterns, make accurate predictions, and...

Complex electronic systems comprise heterogeneous components operating concurrently to achieve complex goals. Electronic systems (like everything else) can fail. Hence, having resiliency in mind, components must adapt to changing circumstances to meet their goals. In this context, multi-agent systems (MAS) offer a flexible approach to managing comp...

The financial sector has suffered a groundbreaking transformation with the advent of cryptocurrencies, shifting from centralised to decentralised schemes. Hardware wallets play an essential role in storing cryptocurrencies securely. However, these electronic devices generally have limited resources that open the door to attacks. In this article, we...

Context-aware classrooms augment traditional classrooms with unprecedented sensing and communication capabilities to monitor and analyse large amounts of contextual data. Enriching classrooms with these data opens up new opportunities to enhance the learning experience in education centres. However, implementing and deploying context-aware classroo...

Smart classrooms are physical learning spaces that, using data from the environment, students and teachers, are able to provide timely and valuable information to improve teaching and learning processes and foster decision-making. In this article, we provide an overview of how artificial intelligence techniques are being used to gain insights into...

Smart transportation systems are an integral part of the smart cities of tomorrow. With the proliferation of miniaturised sensors, IoT devices and 5G communication technologies, plenty of opportunities are yet to be developed to make transport systems more convenient, from the user side, and more cost-efficient and sustainable from the service prov...

Smart classrooms augment traditional classrooms with sensors, IoT devices and data networks, and have become a promising arena for context-awareness studies. The collection of contextual data opens the door to numerous applications like environmental sensing, one of the most demanded abilities to face the COVID-19 emergency. To this end, this artic...

6G promises to revolutionise not only the way we understand wireless communications but all the interactions, services and daily activities that are built upon. The increase in device density and data rates combined with the reduction of energy needs and latency open the door to ground-breaking opportunities in multiple domains. In particular, smar...

Digital evidence underpin the majority of crimes as their analysis is an integral part of almost every criminal investigation. Even if we temporarily disregard the numerous challenges in the collection and analysis of digital evidence, the exchange of the evidence among the different stakeholders has many thorny issues. Of specific interest are cro...

Intelligent transportation systems will play a key role in the smart cities of the future. In particular, railway transportation is gaining attention as a promising solution to cope with the mobility challenges in large urban areas. Thanks to the miniaturisation of sensors and the deployment of fast data networks, the railway industry is being augm...

The proper exploitation of vast amounts of event data by means of process mining techniques enables the discovery, monitoring and improvement of business processes, allowing organizations to develop more efficient business intelligence systems. However, event data often contain personal and/or confidential information that, unless properly managed,...

The management of health data, from their gathering to their analysis, arises a number of challenging issues due to their highly confidential nature. In particular, this dissertation contributes to several security and privacy challenges within the smart health paradigm. More concretely, we firstly develop some contributions to context-aware enviro...

Digital evidence underpin the majority of crimes as their analysis is an integral part of almost every criminal investigation. Even if we temporarily disregard the numerous challenges in the collection and analysis of digital evidence, the exchange of the evidence among the different stakeholders has many thorny issues. Of specific interest are cro...

The advances in the miniaturisation of electronic devices and the deployment of cheaper and faster data networks have propelled environments augmented with contextual and real-time information, such as smart homes and smart cities. These context-aware environments have opened the door to numerous opportunities for providing added-value, accurate an...

Critically ill patients that stay in Intensive Care Units (ICU) for long periods suffer from Post-Intensive Care Syndrome or ICU Acquired Weakness, whose effects can decrease patients' quality of life for years. To prevent such issues and aiming at shortening intensive care treatments, Early Mobilisation (EM) has been proposed as an encouraging tec...

Featured Application This article recalls the concept of cognitive city and provides a timely review of the state of the art in the field of information security and privacy for cognitive cities, understood as artificial-intelligence-augmented smart cities. Also, it suggests several research lines that are going to be relevant in the years ahead, t...

Process Mining is a set of techniques that aim at discovering, monitoring and improving real processes by using logs of events created and stored by corporate information systems. The growing use of information and communication technologies and the imminent wide deployment of the Internet of Things enable the massive collection of events, which ar...

Ubiquitous computing systems are commonplace. They have opened the door to great benefits for society as a whole. However, they have to be used with care, otherwise they can cause serious risks for their users. In this chapter, we analyze the privacy risks of ubiquitous computing systems from a new individual-centred perspective based on five priva...

Rail transportation is evolving in order to provide enhanced user experience, with the aid of enabling context aware environments, in order to provide multiple services, such as passenger information, entertainment, guidance/assistance or location-based marketing. Wireless systems play a key role in such service provision. In this work, wireless ch...

The healthcare sector is rapidly changing to incorporate new technologies Antoni that enable the collection of unprecedented amounts of data. New paradigms such as mobile and smart healthcare are founded on these new technologies, such as the IoT, and the data they collect are no longer only medical but, instead, they refer to contextual informatio...

Smart cities have sensors and communication infrastructures that provide humongous amounts of data. People can extend this infrastructure, acting as independent, mobile sensors through their smartphones, enabling opportunistic sensing. This information provides locality and timeliness of measurements that would otherwise be unavailable. Researchers...

In this article, we explain in detail the internal structures and databases of a smart health application. Moreover, we describe how to generate a statistically sound synthetic dataset using real-world medical data.

Instrumentos: Prototipo real de valoración del dolor neonatal Instrumentos: Prototipo real de valoración del dolor neonatal Enferm. anest.-reanim. ter. dolor (Internet) Vol. RESUMEN Introducción y objetivos: Diseñar un sistema inteligente y automático para la valorar el dolor en neonatos ingresados en las unidades de cuidados intensivos (UCIN). Mét...

Planning the deployment of antennas in complex environments is a difficult task that requires the analysis of each specific scenario. In many cases, real measurements are taken so as to map signal strengths, interferences, and so on. However, taking real measurements is very time consuming and becomes impractical in complex, large scenarios. With t...

Smart cities are equipped with sensors and communications infrastructures that can provide lots of data. In addition, citizens might use their smartphones to share information with the city and with other users. With the aim to use the infrastructure of smart cities to improve the quality of life of citizens and their healthcare system, the concept...

The SIMPATIC project (acronym for Intelligent System for the Private and Autonomous Surveillance based on Information and Communication Technologies, in Catalan) addresses the building of a monitoring system for people affected with Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI). It consists of a mobile app running on the patient's smartphone and a server that a...

Wandering and disorientation are problems usually suffered by people with dementia. Automatically detecting these mobility patterns is a complex task that has captured the attention of the research community for a long time. Several research projects have been devoted to the analysis of those patterns and their relation with Alzheimer and other cog...

Population pyramids have rapidly changed their shape worldwide. Specially in industrialised countries, where a steady ageing process is taking place. Due to the ageing of the population, age-related illnesses such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia are becoming commonplace and healthcare systems struggle to improve the quality of life...