German Urrego

University of Antioquia | UdeA · Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas

Cause-effect modelling, product-based analysis, and linguistic-based knowledge representation are concepts widely used in different engineering branches and offer ample ways for transdisciplinary engineering developments. An engineering solution consists of a tangible or intangible object able to satisfy specific requirements. The development of en...

Process concept gathers agents’ action and interaction on objects and their associated knowledge, belonging to one of several domains, supported on Transdisciplinary Engineering concepts. An engineering solution is a tangible or intangible object able to satisfy the solution requirements. A solution incorporates knowledge and develops capacities an...

The creation and application of processes and resources realized by Engineering show important results in the exploitation of natural resources and in industry. Essentially, Engineering has been developed to satisfy the requirements of social agents but not to intervene in society itself. Artifacts produced by Engineering are used by society, but t...

Although important advances have been made to improve the requirements elicitation process, this problem is still a challenging research topic for the Requirements Engineering community. Motivated by this fact, we propose the CREAS method (Creative Requirements Elicitation Assisted by Scenarios), an approach for requirements elicitation that levera...

Social Integration and Regionalization are two of six axes considered in the Minerva Academic Model (MAM) proposed by the "Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla" (BUAP). This innovative collaborative academic model is a product of internal collective elaborations, considering the own previous experiences with the academic Fenix project, and int...

The present work explores the value creation and co-creation like a system. The work proposes a co-creation model with systemic archetypes that allow the capture and measure of both potential and dynamic value. According to Service Dominant Logic, value creation in a collaborative way is based on the customer's experience, value in exchange and val...

La ingeniería de líneas de productos se ha convertido en un área altamente explotada para lograr un nivel de reúso importante en el desarrollo de aplicaciones. En el medio es posible encontrar diferentes herramientas que brindan opciones para modelar líneas de productos y realizar configuraciones de éstas con el fin de obtener productos que satisfa...

C. Lecciones aprendidas y agenda de trabajo académico-industrial para mejorar la gestión de la reutilización y la variabilidad en la ingeniería de software colombiana. Hacia la aplicación de la reutilización y la variabilidad en la industria del software en Colombia (memorias del primer foro REVASOFT), pp. 74–76, Cali-Colombia, ISBN 978-3-540-71436...

La ingeniería de líneas de productos se enfoca en la producción de familias de productos, reutilizando los elementos comunes que los productos comparten, permitiendo reducir el tiempo de desarrollo y los costos de producción. Sin embargo, para garantizar estas ventajas, es necesario contar con un proceso de ingeniería de lineas de productos de alta...

The context concept defines the space of agents' actions and interactions working on tangible and intangible objects and their associated knowledge, in order to satisfy individual and collective purposes. In this space appears the problems and then the solutions are placed. The definition of processes as the application of a context on a domain, gi...

Currently value creation is not an exclusive aspect of the company; the clients co-creator role has taken preponderance due to the contribution of co-creation models, which demonstrate its utility empirically but does not take into account value construction with a systemic approach. The present work proposes a co-creation model through systemic ar...

Human Centered Computing is a novel paradigm to process context information of human being's environment in which computers are invisible to the subject, providing tools and services depending on the context of each individual. An increasing interest is growing regarding embedded computers since they offer advantages related to portability, dedicat...

The present work proposes a measuring model of the co-created value through the system dynamics and fuzzy logic. In order to identify the variables the co-creation systemic archetype is used and it allows the value elements capture arising from clients' experiences in a case study of a telecommunications company that provides the 4G LTE service. Cl...

Ideas emerge in the less imagined scenarios, and it is mandatory to have a set of tools which ease their incorporation without time/place/access medium constraints, in order to maximize opportunities and avoid losing worthy contributions that become in incomes for innovations processes in companies or any other institution interested in actively in...

The increasing interest in developing solutions for applications, such as industrial automation, body sensor networks, natural risks management and prevention; without the need of a wired media has encouraged the development of a low data rate and low power consumption wireless communication systems, commonly known as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)...

The achievement of competences is a good expression of the pertinence and efficacy of education programs in the different intervention fields. Social responsibility demands joint endeavors of interested agents, in procuring the sustainability. The creation of social awareness and compromise on the introduction of sustainability in social, economic,...

The systematic development and improvement of products is directly related to the quality and management of the involved knowledge. In general, this knowledge is neither organized into specific categories nor treated and represented systematically and consistently. The classification and management of knowledge in terms of two categories: context k...

En este texto se exponen algunos temas discutidos durante la realización de la segunda versión del Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingeniería de Requisitos y Pruebas de Software LACREST 2013, llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, entre el 4 y el 6 de diciembre del 2013, el cual fue organizado por la Corporación Universitaria Remington con...

The idea of a temporal sequence of phenomena, present in the process concept, is a challenge for the concurrent engineering (CE) development. There, inherent concepts as overlap, interaction, and iteration of activities are not jet enough treated. It misses new methodologies and models leading to concurrent processes. For replacing sequential proce...

Open innovation is the current tendency used by companies in order to get new ideas and accomplish services/products developments. Social networks web 2.0 arise as an attractive alternative to provide simple and powerful mechanisms in which users, customers, providers and other stakeholders can communicate their ideas in a natural way. In this pape...

In this paper, a baseline architecture of a method for the interaction among stakeholders in open innovation processes is proposed, integrating collaborative features of electronic social networks and the properties of ubiquitous environments, leveraging access everywhere and everytime. In order to propose this architecture, the layers an relations...

The management of products innovation projects faces the adoption of a product innovation chain and the ways to develop its processes. There are many approaches for managing the processes and these approaches may be applied in any phases of the innovation chain. That means that each phase may applies one process management approach with independenc...

RESUMEN Los métodos usados actualmente para definir la personalidad de un individuo están compuestos por un conjunto de preguntas que son analizadas por un especia-lista, y de acuerdo con unos parámetros establecidos se genera el diagnóstico. Este procedimiento incorpora subjetividad, y potencia la aparición de errores. Buscando evitar el sesgo en...

The System Definition Phase, modelled in terms of Context Objective, gathers the basic knowledge for the system development. This knowledge is incorporated in the Structure of Domain Services and Object (SDSO) and in the Solution Use Context Model (SUCM). A pattern of Agent Intervention, extended and instantiated with highest categories of the SDS...

The Structure of Domain Services and Objects (SDSO) and the Solution Use Context Model (SUCM) summarize the knowledge collected in the System Definition Phase. This knowledge is expressed in system context objectives adjusted from organizational and social contexts. An Agent Intervention extended Pattern is, in turn, instantiated with the highest c...

In this paper, the context and domain models, as an instrument to facilitate the knowledge transition between the definition phase and the analysis phase, and to serve as a basis to the requirements obtainment is presented. This contribution was obtained from a research project of building methodologies ubiquitous environments, within the macro pro...

In this paper, the context and domain models, as an instrument to facilitate the knowledge transition between the definition phase and the analysis phase, and to serve as a basis to the requirements obtainment is presented. This contribution was obtained from a research project of building methodologies ubiquitous environments, within the macro pro...

This paper searches to model and use the knowledge of the system definition phase for defining testing models of agents’ requirements and system functionalities. Context objective concept and a Model of Solution Use Context were used. The former as a model of system definition phase and the latter aiding to find agents’ requirements and system func...

The model proposed in this paper for constructing engineering curricula begins with problems identification in social context, which claim for the existence of a training program. Knowledge required for curricula elaboration comes from four sources: the first one, encloses the philosophical, pedagogical, epistemological, and psychological foundatio...

RESUMEN Los conceptos ontológicos se suelen acercar más a la ingeniería del conocimiento, por lo que los ingenieros del software no los suelen aplicar para resolver problemas de su área. Es necesario que los ingenieros de software se apropien de las ontologías, pues éstas proporcionan un vocabulario común, que podría contribuir en la solución de pr...

This paper presents an approach to construct the study plans of engineering programs from problems identifed in social context. A model of four human training dimension: to be, to know, to do and to cooperate, is used, aiming to define the curricular thematic units. This model leads the multidisciplinary and concurrent engineering practice.

This work adds the determination of competences to the model for constructing the curriculum of engineering programs, from problems identifed in social and organizational context. The competences achievment is oriented by a model of four training dimension: to be, to know, to do and to cooperate, aiming to support the multidisciplinary and concurre...

In this paper a model of requirements for supporting the construction of embedded systems is presented. Currently, the methodologies of Engineering of Requirements, in this field, do not let continuity in their development process, since they have a strong orientation to design stage and a weaker emphasis on the analysis stage. Furthermore, such me...

We consider seven knowledge components that constitute the pillars for building a document-based organizational memory for engineering curriculum design: epistemology, pedagogy, Philosophy, universal knowledge, internal academic knowledge, external academic knowledge and extra-academic knowledge. We present domain ontology for guiding access to, an...

An ontology of civil engineering services is created by combining knowledge of the phases of the life cycle of an engineering design product, the steps in the phases in an engineering service and the technical, technological, scientific, social, economic, organizational and legal aspects associated with an engineering service. The documents contain...

En informática las ontologías son utilizadas esencialmentepara clasificar e indexar información, para filtrar las solicitudes de los usuarios, para facilitar los diálogos hombre-máquina y para inferir información relevante de las necesidades de los usuarios. Este trabajo introduce las Estructuras de Servicios y de Objetos del Dominio como una aprox...