
Francisco Cervantes-PérezPROEDUCA Global
Francisco Cervantes-Pérez
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Francisco Cervantes-Pérez currently works at the Coordinación de Universidad Abierta y Educación a Distancia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Francisco does research in Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Neural Network. Their current project is 'Intelligent computing in Distance Education".
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Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are computational learning support systems based on the use of artificial intelligence. These systems can be used to customize educational content, learning paths, interfaces, and feedback according to learners' current capabilities. Among the learners' capabilities, it is common to address three dimensions: cogn...
En Visiones en educación sin barreras ni fronteras participaron para su elaboración más de 35 importantes y reconocidos académicos como autores provenientes de toda Iberoamérica, solo por mencionar algunas personalidades que se unieron a este libro homenaje nombraré algunos maestros como Claudio Rama, Julio Cabero, Marta Mena, Santiago Acosta, Fran...
En Visiones en educación sin barreras ni fronteras participaron para su elaboración más de 35 importantes y reconocidos académicos como autores provenientes de toda Iberoamérica, solo por mencionar algunas personalidades que se unieron a este libro homenaje nombraré algunos maestros como Claudio Rama, Julio Cabero, Marta Mena, Santiago Acosta, Fran...
In this paper we propose a theoretical model of an ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) capable of improving and updating computer-aided navigation based on Bloom’s taxonomy. For this we use the Bayesian Knowledge Tracing algorithm, performing an adaptive control of the navigation among different levels of cognition in online courses. These levels ar...
The purpose of this chapter is to present an integrated proposal that can provide the setting for a virtual academic community of practice among teachers of a Mexican online high school involved in specific projects. The design process of an initial social site called Academic-match is described, as well as its evaluation. Given the challenges rela...
En este artículo se presenta, de manera general, el Programa Estratégico de Apoyo a la Docencia (pead): “Docencia y aprendizaje en la era digital: trayectorias docentes personalizadas”, como una propuesta integral y flexible para el fortalecimiento de la práctica docente bajo los principios de equidad, inclusión y atención a la diversidad. Se parte...
Mexico’s national university (UNAM) is a public mega university with a 46-year history in open education. This article presents an analysis based on the open, online, flexible provision of technology-enhanced higher education (OOFAT) model, developed by Orr and his colleagues (2018). The aim of this analysis was to characterize UNAM’s open and dist...
IT Service Management (ITSM) is a managerial approach to deliver
value through IT services. This service-oriented world-view has required new
knowledge on processes and tools to cope with the planning, design, building,
operation, and improvement of IT services. While some decisions can be efficiently
and effectively made by a manager alone, more c...
Recently, several mathematical models have been developed to study and explain the way information is processed in the brain. The models published account for a myriad of perspectives from single neuron segments to neural networks, and lately, with the use of supercomputing facilities, to the study of whole environments of nuclei interacting for ma...
Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) are specialized IT-based systems that support some or several phases of the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational decision making process by deploying some or several intelligent mechanisms. This book pursues the following academic aims: (i) generate a compendium of quality the...
Advances on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have influenced education, and transformed the teaching-learning processes, among others aspects. It has been established that teachers' knowledge on digital media, their design and pedagogical application, is extremely relevant to improve their teaching activities. As Salinas (1997) says...
Implementing decision-making support systems (DMSS) is considered an organizationally complex and risky task that is influenced by dynamic technical and social-political issues. Consequently, DMSS implementation failures, with associated economic loses, are still reported. While several statistics-based (static) quantitative models of successful fa...
Research on learning processes has shown that students tend to learn in different ways and prefer to use different teaching resources. The understanding of learning styles can be used to identify, and implement, better teaching and learning strategies, in order to allow students to acquire new knowledge in a more effective and efficient way. In thi...
Investigaciones sobre procesos de aprendizaje han mostrado que los estudiantes tienden a aprender en diferentes maneras y que prefieren utilizar diferentes recursos de enseñanza. El entender los estilos de aprendizaje puede servir para identificar, e implantar, mejores estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje, de tal forma que los estudiantes adquier...
In this article we explore the paradigm of student-centered education. The aim is to enhance the learning of students by the self-adaptation of a Web-based educational system (WBES). The adaptive system’s behavior is achieved as a result of the decisions made by a student model (SM). The decision reveals the lecture option most suitable to teach a...
Standards and models of processes - such as ISO/lEC 9000 standard for deploying quality management systems - have been developed for international organizations to promote the utilization of best managerial and engineering practices. However, given their conceptual density, a large number of concepts, composite concepts, and interrelationships, und...
A person adds new knowledge to his/her mind, taking into account new information, additional details, better precision, synonyms, homonyms, redundancies, apparent contradictions, and inconsistencies between what he/she knows and new knowledge that he/she ...
This chapter describes and illustrates IDSSE-M, a methodology for designing and building intelligent decision support systems.
IDSSE-M follows a prototype-based evolutive approach on four main phases: project initiation, system design, system building
and evaluation, and user’s definitive acceptance. IDSSE-M is theoretically founded in Saxena’s Dec...
This article reviews the literature-based issues involved in implementing large-scale decision-making support systems (DMSSs). Unlike previous studies, this review studies holistically three types of DMSSs (model-based decision support systems, executive-oriented decision support systems, and knowledge-based decision support systems) and incorporat...
An accelerated scientific, engineering, and industrial progress in information technologies has fostered the deployment of Complex Information Technology (highly dependent) Organizational Systems (CITOS). The benefits have been so strong that CITOS have proliferated in a variety of large and midsized organizations to support various generic intra-o...
An accelerated scientific, engineering, and industrial progress in information technologies has fostered the deployment of Complex Information Technology (highly dependent) Organizational Systems (CITOS). The benefits have been so strong that CITOS have proliferated in a variety of large and midsized organizations to support various generic intra-o...
The main focus of this paper is to show the concepts, architectures, interaction techniques, and general approaches to the analysis and specification of a multiagent system for the making of intelligence and interactive decisions inside the learner's learning process. These contributions are applied in the development of an integrated system for W...
In distance learning, the intervention of an adviser is essential for coaching the students. In this modality there are no space and time restrictions: the students have control over when and how they carry out their lectures and the adviser is responsible for responding to all their questions. Often the advisers are unable to answer immediately be...
An accelerated scientific, engineering, and industrial progress in information technologies has fostered the deployment of Complex Information Technology (highly dependent) Organizational Systems (CITOS). The benefits have been so strong that CITOS have proliferated in a variety of large and midsized organizations to support various generic intra-o...
Making organizational decisions is a critical and central activity to successful operations of profit and nonprofit-based organizations (Huber, 1990; Simon, 1997). Organizational paradigm evolution from the paternalistic/political and accountability/bureaucratic organizational paradigms toward process-oriented and decisional views (Huber & McDaniel...
This article reviews the literature-based issues involved in implementing large-scale decision-making support systems (DMSSs). Unlike previous studies, this review studies holistically three types of DMSSs (model-based decision support systems, executive-oriented decision support systems, and knowledge-based decision support systems) and incorporat...
Abstract Information Systems (IS) discipline has been critiqued for being a fragmented discipline, and with little accumulative tradition. Consequently, several research frameworks have been proposed since the 1970s (Mason and Mitroff 1973; Ives, Hamilton and Davis 1980; Nolan and Wheterbe, 1980; Alter 2003) to help to organize, define and delimit...
About 25 years ago, the Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon and other top Management Science/Operations Research (MS/OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers, suggested that an integration of the two disciplines would improve the design of decision making support tools in organizations. The suggested integrated system has been called an intelli...
Design and evaluation frameworks for Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) and Intelligent DMSS (i-DMSS) have been posed in last 20 years. Useful findings to match the required general system’s capabilities with decision phases and steps in several managerial levels have been also generated. However, current status of i-DMSS capabilities suggests...
The information systems (IS) field has been recognized
as a scientific discipline since the 80’s, as indicated by:
(i) the existence of an intellectual community related with
doctoral programs and research centers around the world
that generates scientific knowledge and solves practical
problems using standard scientific procedures accepted
and reg...
About 25 years ago, the Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon and other top Management Science/Operations Research (MS/OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers, suggested that an integration of the two disciplines would improve the design of decision making support tools in organizations. The suggested integrated system has been called an intelli...
The goal of this paper is to show how Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) can be used to mimic the way human subjects estimate the quality of audio signals when distorted by changes in several parameters that affect the transmitted audio quality. To validate the approach, we carried out the subjective quality experiment for speech signals distorted b...
A new framework to identify and classify the support capabilities provided by the full range of Decision-Making Support Systems
is posed. This framework extends a previously reported framework by the same authors. The new framework adds a dimension of
user interface support capabilities to the data, information and knowledge representation and proc...
In the new economic context, based on Information and Knowledge resources, the concepts of Information Systems and Information Technology (IS&IT) are fundamental to understand the organizational and managerial process in all levels: strategic, tactic and operational. From an academic and practitioner perspective, we pose that the correct use of the...
The implementation process of Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS) is a highly complex process. Frequent implementation failures have caused the number of DMSS installed and adequately used to be far less than expected. The Theory of Factors and the Theory of Stages have been used to study this problem. Both approaches have generated a rich pictu...
The implementation process of Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS) is a highly complex process. Frequent implementation failures have caused the number of DMSS installed and adequately used to be far less than expected. The Theory of Factors and the Theory of Stages have been used to study this problem. Both approaches have generated a rich pictu...
Through experimentation and simulation scientists are able to get a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in living organisms. These mechanisms, both structural and behavioral, serve as inspiration in the modeling of neural based architectures as well as in the implementation of robotic systems. Specifically we are interested in the study...
There is a great demand to assess video quality transmitted in real time over packet networks, and to make this assessment in real time too. Quality assessmentisachieved using two types of methods: objective or subjective. Subjective methods give more reliable results than objective methods; the latter do not always correlate well with human percep...
Autonomous biological systems are very complex in their nature. Their study, through both experimentation and computation, provides a means to understand the underlying mechanisms in living systems while inspiring the development of technological applications. Experimentation, consisting of data gathering, generates predictions to be validated by e...
We analyze a model of neuronal mechanisms underlying amphibia’s prey-catching behavior, integrating hypotheses generated within different areas of Neuroscience and studying how the efficacy of visual prey-like dummies to release toad’s prey-catching actions depends on parallel distributed processes occurring at multiple levels of temporal abstracti...
Transmitting digital audio signals in real time over packet
switched networks (e.g. the Internet) has set forth the need for
developing signal processing algorithms that objectively evaluate audio
quality. So far, the best way to assess audio quality are subjective
listening tests, the most commonly used being the mean opinion score
(MOS) recommend...
Traditionally, QoS has been addressed by using network
measurements (e.g., loss rates and delays), and little attention has
been paid to the quality perceived by end-users of the applications
running over the network. Here, we address the issue of integrating
speech quality subjective scores and network parameters measurements,
for designing contro...
Through experimentation and simulation scientists are able to get
an understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms involved in
living organisms. These mechanisms, both structural and behavioral,
serve as inspiration in the modeling of neural based architectures as
well as in the implementation of robotic systems. Among these, we are
particu...
There is a great demand to assess video quality transmitted in real time over packet networks, and to make this assessment in real time too. Quality assessment is achieved using two types of methods: objective or subjective. Subjective methods give more reliable results (objective ones do not correlate well with human perception), but unfortunately...
There is a great demand to assess video quality transmitted in real time over packet networks, and to make this assessment in real time too. Quality assessment is achieved using two types of methods: objective or subjective. Subjective methods give more reliable results than objective methods; the latter do not always correlate well with human perc...
Integrated Decision-Making Support Systems (IDMSS), are specialized Computer Based Information Systems designed to support all phases of the Decision-Making Process. Full integration of stand-alone components was proposed in the early 90´s and, despite substantial reported benefits above less integrated systems, few of the fully integrated systems...
Formal models of animal sensorimotor behavior can provide effective methods for generating robotic intelligence. In this article we describe how schema-theoretic models of the praying mantis derived from behavioral and neuroscientific data can be implemented on a hexapod robot equipped with a real-time color vision system. This implementation incor...
Differential diagnosis among different types of dementia, mainly between Alzheimer (AD) and Vascular Dementia (VD), offers great difficulties due to the overlapping among the symptoms, and signs presented by patients suffering these illnesses. A differential diagnosis of AD and VD can be obtained with a 100% of confidence through the analysis of br...
As autonomous robots become more complex in their behavior, more sophisticated software architectures are required to support the ever more sophisticated robotics software. These software architectures must support complex behaviors involving adaptation and learning, implemented, in particular, by neural networks. We present in this paper a neural...
The goals of this joint U.S.-Mexico research project are threefold: to provide an understanding and means by which fielded robotic systems are not competing with other agents that are more effective at their designated task; to permit them to be successful competitors within the ecological system and capable of displacing less efficient agents; and...
In this paper, we follow an hibrid approach —a theory- experiment cycle— for the study of visuomotor coordination in amphibians (e.g., toads). We use a neural net model of the reti-no-tectal-pretectal interactions to analyze, via computer simulations and mathematical analyses, how its activation dynamics may underly prey-catching behavior. In parti...
At the Xalapa meeting, each session was followed by a lively discussion period of an hour or more which started with brief critiques of the papers by two panelists, and then opened up to a general discussion from the floor, with repeated involvement of the session’s speakers. Many viewpoints were offered, many controversies were aired, and we agree...
This book is the result of a meeting where neuroscientists and computer scientits explored the possibility of developing common ground for the study of intelligent behavior in animals and machines. Here, we analyze some of the methodological obstacles that create conflicts among the different disciplines that form Cognitive Science. Our aim is to s...
In the first part of this paper we present a study of toads’ learning capabilities during prey-catching behavior. Under our experimental paradigm, that we defined as Motor Response Inhibition (MRI), animals are repeatedly stimulated with worm-like dummies, and are allowed to display their whole prey-catching behavioral repertoire when interacting w...
Mathematical models and computer simulations have been widely used to study the spatio-temporal characteristics of the processing of information carried out by the central nervous system. When trying to show whether or not a neural model accounts for the phenomena under study, if the number of parameters whose values need to be calculated becomes l...
Among sciences there is a tendency to generate data and knowledge in one discipline without making it available to other disciplines. We discuss how Arbib’s Schema Theory represents an attempt to solve this isolation problem in Cognitive Science by providing us with a global language explaining cognitive processes at a level that can be used, and u...
The model described is an extension of a previous model of the optic tectum (Arbib & Lara, 1982; Lara, Arbib & Cromarty, 1982; Lara & Arbib, 1982) and takes into consideration anatomical, physiological and behavioral studies in anurans, as well as earlier modelling efforts (Ewert & Von Seelen, 1974; Didday, 1976). Computer simulations were conducte...
In the present paper, we propose a model of the interactions among retina, tectum and pretectum in the amphibian brain which simulates prey-predator recognition, direction invariance of prey-predator recognition as a consequence of tectal architecture, size preference and latency of response of the animal depending on its motivational state. The mo...
A mathematical model of the phenomenon of habituation as a homosynaptic depression of the amount of transmitter release is proposed. The model is based on the physiological studies of habituation in invertebrates and in the spinal cord of vertebrates, where a single synapse has been isolated and some of the physiological mechanisms of this process...
A mathematical model, using differential equations, of heterosynaptic plasticity is proposed. The model is based on physiological studies of invertebrates in which nonspecific conditioning, such as sensitization and heterosynaptic inhibition, starts to be elucidated and behavioral studies of classical and instrumental conditioning, which we postula...
A mathematical model of posttetanic potentiation is proposed. The model uses differential equations and is based upon physiological postulates of the electrical, metabolic, and neuroendocrine activities that are related to synaptic connectivity. These activities may modify some important parameters in synaptic function. In the proposed model these...
At the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM) there is a group of research interested in developing both theoretical and computational tools to facilitate the construction of intelligent agents. In this paper, we give a brief description of some of the projects under development at our Department; specifically, the design of a Multi-agent...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1985. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-234).