Jesus Ibanez-M'Conde

• University of the Basque Country

In this paper we review the concept of organism analysing the main ideas related to it in the context of present biological theories. The discussion is focused and developed according to four key issues: individuality, organisation, autonomy and reproduction. Once these basic connections are established, a spectrum of possible entities that fall un...

En los últimos años se ha generalizado el uso de plataformas de aprendizaje online como complemento a las clases presenciales. Estos entornos son utilizados para facilitar la comunicación con los estudiantes y poner a su disposición material para seguir las asignaturas, o profundizar en ellas, entregar trabajos, abrir foros de dudas, debates, etc....

We present a programming approach to teach the reduction technique in a computing engineering degree's Computability Theory course. It is based in a computing formalism that allows the students to analyze, construct and transform programs as normal data in a simple way. Reduction can then be tackled in a constructive manner, so that the students be...

We present a practical and up-to-date proposal to teach formal languages. It takes advantage of frequent use of regular-expressions to specify entry data forms in different contexts and, particularly, in three-layer web applications. Compared to more classical approaches our method improves significantly the acquainting of students with the immedia...

An experimental method is developed to evaluate the possibility of spontaneous emergence of self-reproducing patterns from a quasi-random configuration. In order to achieve viability to the emerging patterns and to their components a robust transition table is designed. Genetic reproduction is compared with self-inspection based reproduction in ord...

Computer security is a relatively new subject in computer science curricula. We notice this in a moderate academic incidence or in an incomplete syllabus in most of the computer science teaching. The main goal of this article is to share the two years academic experience of the authors in this matter. The article makes a proposal for a first comput...

Dans les annees 40 et 50, J. von Neumann a developpe un modele d'automate autoreproducteur destine a l'elaboration de machines de construction ayant des capacites comparables a celles des organismes vivants, dans la mesure ou elles peuvent construire d'autres machines au moins aussi complexes qu'elles. Dans cet article, les As. comparent la strateg...

In this work we analyze different existing cellular automata capable of reproducing, and conclude that reproduction in those models is attained as a fixed point of the more general operation of construction, instead of being founded as a higher level specialized mechanism. Thus reproduction becomes a very unstable property and this fact is an obsta...

Resumen La estrategia fundamental que ha presidido el diseño docente de la asignatura Seguridad Informática en la Facultad de Informática de San Sebastián ha consistido en apoyarse en sus favorables características para la experimenta-ción docente con el objeto de realizar una apuesta decidida en favor del diseño de alterna-tivas metodológicas a lo...