José María Díaz Nafría

• PhD
• Head of Department at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid

The abundance of current information makes it necessary to select the highest quality documents. For this purpose, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge of information quality systems. The different dimensions of quality are analyzed, and different problems related to these dimensions are discussed. The paper groups these issues into different fa...

In recent years, simulators have emerged as powerful knowledge transfer tools in medicine, aviation, engineering, and many other industries. Simulators provide an immersive and interactive learning environment, and it allows users to gain practical experience and gain critical skills without requiring real-world resources or exposure to potential r...

IoT networks, cloud-based applications and the use of artificial intelligence models in precision agriculture present an important opportunity to increase production and optimize the use of water resources, which will allow the development of sustainable and responsible agriculture in the face of global food security. In order to provide real-time...

As we have discussed in previous works, glossaLAB project is devoted to the integration of an extensive encyclopedic corpus into a system of interdisciplinary glossaries -whose concept has been described thoroughly-. By that means, glossaLAB intends to offer a platform for the co-creation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge that re...

The main objective of this conference is for the participants to present the results obtained from the work carried out in the area of innovation with educational technology, exchanging their experiences and sharing them with the rest of the scientific and academic community.

Concepts play an important role in human culture, forming explicit and implicit conceptual spaces. The goal of this paper is to explore the structural organization of information in conceptual spaces.

The article describes the approach of applying the cybersubsidiarity model, based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, to the management of a project oriented to the setting up of a sustainable platform for interdisciplinary knowledge co-creation. The application to this project is shown as a case study for the institution of sustainable organiz...

In today’s digital age, transactions are made increasingly in the virtual universe. Some do all financial transactions online, but some do not even want to think about this possibility since the consideration is unreliable. To make online financial transactions more reliable, many technologies have already been tested. Since passwords, tokens, phys...

The glossaLAB.edu project aimed at the development, in educational contexts, of tools for conceptual clarification is described. These tools are oriented, in turn, to the creation of skills and capacities for the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge in two transdisciplinary fields: the general study of information and the general study of sys...

Pages: 95-109 Resumen: Se describe el proyecto glossaLAB.edu destinado al desarrollo, en contextos educativos, de herramientas de clarificación conceptual. Dichas herramientas se orientan, a su vez, a la creación de destrezas y capacidades de integración de conocimiento interdisciplinar en dos ámbitos transdisciplinares: el estudio general de la in...

The Second International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI 2019) aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners working in different domains in the field of informatics in order to exchange their expertise and discuss the perspectives of development and collaboration. ICAI 2019 was held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madri...

The paper makes a literary review of degrowth pedagogy. Degrowth has become one of the fundamental approaches posed to survive in a world of limited resources and to face the profound causes of the current crisis. Learning to live better with less turns out to be not a moral postulate but a vital necessity of our species. The paper analyses the cur...

The paper describes the glossaLAB international project as a contribution to confront the urgent need of knowledge integration frameworks, as required to face global challenges that overwhelm disciplinary knowledge capacity. Under this scope, glossaLAB is devised to make contributions in three main aspects of such endeavor: (i) development of a sou...

The paper departs from the general problem of knowledge integration and the basic strategies that can be adopted to confront this challenge. With the purpose of providing a sound meta-theoretical framework to facilitate knowledge conceptualization and integration, as well as assessment criteria to evaluate achievements regarding knowledge integrati...

Humankind is on the transition to a supra-system of humanity, according to which social relationships – that organise the common good – are re-organised such that global challenges are kept below the threshold of a self-inflicted breakdown. In order to succeed, three conditions are imperative: (1) Global governance needs a global conscience that or...

In the originally published version of the paper on p. 158, the name of the Author was incorrect. The name of the Author has been corrected as “Pramote Kuacharoen”. In the originally published version of the paper on p. 357, the affiliation of the Author was incorrect. The affiliation has been corrected as “Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de C...

The chapter addresses the general problem of assessing the integration of knowledge from different scientific disciplines joined in interdisciplinary settings and its specific application to the study of information. The method is based in the development of Interdisciplinary-Glossaries as tools for the elucidation of the network of concepts involv...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the Second International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2019, held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2019. The 37 full papers and one short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bioinformatics; data analysis; decis...

The paper describes the PRIMER international initiative aimed to develop interdisciplinary research capacities and skills to boost the ability to face global challenges whose complexity is beyond the reach of individual disciplines. To this end, the initiative has carried out education , research and innovation activities based on theoretical and m...

Is the structure of our digital world suited for a fair intercultural life? Intercultural life requires, first of all, a dense net of connections among people belonging to the same culture and with the components of the context in which this culture exists; secondly, a weaker but nevertheless effective network where interactions among different cul...

This project aims to develop a bicycle mobility promotion program and studies to improve urban life through intervention in urban planning and the development of intelligent territories based on bicycle lending systems with the ability to collect statistical information from mobility and other parameters of interest for sustainability and health. T...

The paper presents a general approach to assess knowledge integration as a basis to evaluate the performance of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches with respect to their knowledge integration capacity. The method is based on the development of Interdisciplinary-glossaries as tools for the elucida-tion of the conceptual networks invol...

Sustained globalization by digital technologies has dramatically increased the capacity of the capitalist environment, putting at risk the preservation of cultural and community identities, interfering with their ability to act and adapt in a sustainable way to their environments. This paper presents a sustainable management strategy for the promot...

Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido detectar y analizar los aprendizajes ubicuos adquiridos en entornos edu-cativos expandidos destinados a la «formación permanente de formadores» y cómo estos influyen en la cons-trucción de una ciudadanía consciente, crítica y comprometida. Se han analizado las «soft skills» adquiridas para el desenvolvi...

This project aims to develop a bicycle mobility promotion program and studies to improve urban life through intervention in urban planning and the development of intelligent territories based on bicycle lending systems with the ability to collect statistical information from mobility and other parameters of interest for sustainability and health. T...

The paper presents a general approach to assess knowledge integration as a basis to evaluate the performance of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches with respect to their knowledge integration capacity. The method is based on the development of Interdisciplinary-glossaries as tools for the elucidation of the conceptual networks involv...

The aim of this research is to identify and analyse the ubiquitous learning acquired though blending education settings devoted to the "lifelong training of trainers" and how these contribute to the development of a conscious, critic and engaged citizenship. Through active exploration of the learning process, the study analyses the "soft skills” ac...

In 1997, a review was published of the development of the Net (“a new social institution, an electronic commons”) pushed by the Netizens, as Michael Hauben baptised them. These were people online who “understand the value of collective work and the communal aspects of public communications”, but who at that time were already challenged by “the incr...

The very common Internet citizen has a very restricted autonomous capacity to move through the network which is becoming the ever stretching milieu where our lives take place. At the same time, the capacity to manage relevant information from ourselves and the environment we are living in offers new avenues to deal with healthcare, sustainability i...

The process of globalisation leveraged by digital technologies has dramatically increased the capacities of the capitalist milieu and its homogenisation momentum. This indeed endangers the preservation of cultural and community identities and their related capacities to act, including the capacity to sustainably adapt to their environments. Before...

After roughly 35 years of development in the theories of self-organization and related variants (chaos, self-organized criticality, and so forth), it is somewhat of a surprise that physics proper has not yet sufficiently found its entry into the ongoing quest for a precise concept of information. Already as early as in the sixties of the last centu...

The process of globalisation leveraged by digital technologies has dramatically increased the capacities of the capitalist milieu and its homogenisation momentum. This indeed endangers the preservation of cultural and community identities and their related capacities to act, including the capacity to sustainably adapt to their environments. Before...

It is needless to insist on the significant increase of the complexity we are living in. Whereas the social order arisen with modernity encompassed –at the level of the nation-states– a reduction of social complexity through cultural normalization, the new social and political order is nowadays, as a consequence of globalization, to be intercultura...

Most attempts to use the potentials of information technologies in benefit of the fulfillment of the democratic requirements from the local to the global levels are based on the power of social networks and the utilization of big-data approaches. However, both the network itself and the portliness of data processing have fundamental limitations tha...

Considering the deflation of functional reason occurred since the 1980s, particularly at the social sciences, its role is reviewed in combination with causal and intentional reasons throughout the sciences. To this end study cases from physical, biological and social sciences are used, showing that it is the articulation of the three explanatory ty...

[EN] The glossariumBITri, planned as a central activity for the interdisciplinary study of information, developed by BITrum group in cooperation with the University of Santa Elena (Ecuador), essentially aims at serving as a tool for the clarification of concepts, theories and problems concerning information. Intending to embrace the most relevant p...

p>Con objeto de redefinir el horizonte académico de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC), de modo que los profesionales y el desarrollo de tales tecnologías estén a la altura de los problemas actuales del Ecuador se acomete en primer lugar una revisión crítica de la evolución histórica de tales horizontes. Como se observa en...

During the government of Salvador Allende, Chile implemented a paradigmatic system of control and regulation of production, emerged from the need of controlling and knowing the Chilean nationalized industry concerning the needs to provide. Allende believed that the transformation pathway to socialism could be different to those that had existed, an...

The social systems developed in the context of globalisation are further more complex that those arisen within the rule-of-law of the nation–states. The local, national and international relations impose into these social systems different force fields determining the space of possibilities in which they evolve. In this situation, the decision-maki...

While the usual practice on antenna metrology supposes an intense manipulation of the radiation system in order to avoid as much as possible the environmental stochastic variables foreign to ideal radiation conditions, here we propose an algorithm of an observant procedure in which the radiant system is not manipulated at all. An optimal receptor i...

While the usual practice on antenna metrology supposes an intense manipulation of the radiation system in order to avoid as much as possible the environmental stochastic variables foreign to ideal radiation conditions, here we propose an algorithm of an observant procedure in which the radiant system is not manipulated at all. An optimal receptor i...

Insofar the interactions developed between social, technical and natural agents have been now significantly modified by the new information and communication technologies (ICT), we can speak of a new social dynamic arisen therefrom. Moreover, the central role that information takes in social life has lead us to talk about the dawn of the informatio...

In this second part of our inquiry into the emergence and evolution of meaning, the category of meaning is explored from the manifestation of reality in its corresponding level of interaction towards the interpretation of such reality (the first part deals correspondingly with an appropriate top-down approach). Based on the physical constraints of...

The category of meaning is first traced forwards starting from the origin of the Universe itself and its grounding in pre-geometry; then it is traced backwards from the sense-interactions within the world to the interpretation of the corresponding reality. Different from many former approaches in the theories of information and also in biosemiotics...

The internet is a revolution – there is no doubt and no discussion about it anymore. But is it also a revolution of a second order: a (digital) revolution that causes or at least fuels a (real world) revolution? Gutenberg’s technique newly invented in the beginning of the 15th century did so. The revolutionary ability to print books instead of copy...

The category of meaning is traced forward starting from the origin of the Universe itself as well as its very grounding in pre-geometry. Different from many former approaches in the theories of information and also in biosemiotics, we will show that the forms of meaning emerge simultaneously (alongside) with information and energy. Hence, informati...

In this first part of the paper, the category of meaning is traced starting from the origin of the Universe itself as well as its very grounding in pre-geometry (the second part deals with an appropriate bottom-up approach). In contrast to many former approaches in the theories of information and also in biosemiotics, we will show that the forms of...

Making an incursion in the forest of problems and theories of information, beyond observing a lack of mutual understanding among information theorists, we find out that information can be understood as a multifaceted reality. The variety of theories is in itself a reflection of the complex nature of information. A systematic approach to these theor...

In this second part of our inquiry into the relation between information and cognition, we delve into the physical limits of the manifestation of an arbitrary object first with independence of any observer, then considering the nature of perception. The analysis of the manifestations of an object in a homogeneous environment by means of wave phenom...

Based upon the natural limits of observation, we tackle a critical review of Dretske's approach to information, knowledge and perception. The physics of the manifestation of an arbitrary object -tackled in Part 2 as a separate article-sets forth an informational boundary stating that information cannot be enough to support our cognitive processes....

A trans-disciplinary frame is proposed, aimed at addressing the very understanding of information in all its variety. It aims at unifying perspectives and integrating techniques from different fields of knowledge and practice, searching for the most overarching account of information phenomena, a better formalization of real processes and a global...

In this second part of our inquiry into the relation between information and cognition, we delve into the physical limits of the manifestation of an arbitrary object first with independence of any observer, then considering the nature of perception. The analysis of the manifestations of an object in a homogeneous environment by means of wave phenom...

Based upon the natural limits of observation, we tackle a critical review of Dretske’s approach to information, knowledge and perception. The physics of the manifestation of an arbitrary object –tackled in Part 2 as a separate article– sets forth an informational boundary stating that information cannot be enough to support our cognitive processes....

A trans-disciplinary frame is proposed, aimed at addressing the very understanding of information in all its variety. It aims at unifying perspectives and integrating techniques from different fields of knowledge and practice, searching for the most overarching account of information phenomena, a better formalization of real processes and a global...

Different senses of security and its related assumptions, methodologies and contexts are analyzed by first reviewing the liberalistic notions of security and trust, unveiling, on the one hand, the contradictions exhibited between discourse and practice; on the other hand, the historical strategy of concentration of power behind the liberalistic doc...

Different senses of security and its related assumptions, methodologies and contexts are analyzed by first reviewing the liberalistic notions of security and trust, unveiling, on the one hand, the contradictions exhibited between discourse and practice; on the other hand, the historical strategy of concentration of power behind the liberalistic doc...

Shannon and Weaver’s Mathematical Theory of Communication and also Kotelnikov’s Theory of Optimal Reception consider that communication is best described by the well-known model of transmission, corruption and recognition of messages known as Information Theory. However, the essential significance of the semantics and pragmatics in communication is...

Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE) can be defined in a narrow or in a broad sense. In a narrow sense it focuses on the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on different cultures as well as on how specific issues are understood from different cultural traditions. In a broad sense it deals not only with intercultural issues ra...

Self-regulation (or automatic regulation) is used in systems theory and cybernetics in the sense of homeostasis (Ofeedback), namely the capacity of a system to maintain itself in a balanced situation. In this sense the term is very commonly used in psychology, though not in the meaning of "automatic regulation", but as "regulation of the self", als...

The BITrum glossary, planned as one of the first activities in the development of the BITrum project, essentially aims at serving as a tool for the clarification of concepts, theories and problems concerning information. Intending to embrace the most relevant points of view with respect to information, it is interdisciplinarily developed by a board...

Se presenta el proyecto BITrum como un marco de investigación para una comprensión interdisciplinar de la información en todos sus aspectos, procurando abarcar el máximo de puntos de vista. Fundado en 2008 en la actualidad cuenta con más de 60 miembros de una decena de nacionalidades y disciplinas diversas que van desde las telecomunicaciones a la...

Looking for an answer to the posed question, we will first go through a brief historical enquiry aiming at exploring the development of the uses given to the Latin word "information" from its Greek roots until its scientific formalisation in hands of the Mathematical Theory of Communication. Secondly and starting from the conceptual limitations of...

Looking for an answer to the posed question, we will first go through a brief historical enquiry aiming at exploring the development of the uses given to the Latin word “information” from its Greek roots until its scientific formalisation in hands of the Mathematical Theory of Communication. Secondly and starting from the conceptual limitations of...

“Fuzziness” is used as a visual metaphor of vagueness, inaccuracy, in opposition to sharpness or well-definiteness. Unlike the traditional endeavour in science and philosophy for avoiding vagueness (consider, for instance, the centrality of “clearness” and “distinction” in Descartes and by extension in modern science and philosophy), there is a gro...

At the beginning of his famous “Mathematical Theory of Communication” (MTC), Shannon removes the semantic questions from the technical task, and such exoneration seems to be commonly accepted, even for those who certainly care for ‘semantic questions’. However, the MTC communication model itself is built upon this fundamental assumption, which at t...

At the beginning of his famous “Mathematical Theory of Communication” (MTC), Shannon removes the semantic questions from the technical task, and such exoneration seems to be commonly accepted, even for those who certainly care for ‘semantic questions’. However, the MTC communication model itself is built upon this fundamental assumption, which at t...

This issue poses the question: what information really is. The reality or way of being of information is called into question. There is however an important presupposition involved in asking what information really is: we assume that information has some place or other in reality, in particular, we assume there is a cohesive and coherent account of...

La pregunta por la información cuestiona en esencia la naturaleza, la medida y las condiciones de aplicación de su contenido y de su flujo. Se trata de dotarnos de herramientas conceptuales, formales, incluso morales, capaces de refinar las nociones precientíficas vagas o metafóricas de información en todos los campos de conocimiento. El proyecto B...

ABSTRACT: While the usual practice on antenna metrology suppose an intense manipulation of the radiation system in order to avoid as much as possible the environmental stochastic variables foreign to ideal radiation conditions, here we propose an observant procedure in which the radiation system is not manipulated at all; instead the signalization...

ABSTRACT: When the human communication is more and more dependant with respect to communication technologies, the suitability of the communication model used to design the technological systems has to be put into scope. Non essential element needed to establish a proper human communication should be omitted; otherwise this technology could isolate...

ABSTRACT: Dealing with the direct electromagnetic problem, as well as with the inverse one, is of great utility to know the most direct relation between electromagnetic currents and fields. A dyadic formulation is proposed in this paper in which these both entities are related by a simple integral equation, easily adaptable for any geometry. Consid...

El objeto esencial de la tesis consiste en investigar las posibilidades de identificación de fuentes electromagnéticas a partir de la observación del campo que estas generan. Para ello la investigación se divide en tres grandes partes: en primer lugar el problema directo, es decir, la descripción del campo a partir de unas fuentes supuestamente con...

Los logros técnicos parecen seguir un ritmo trepidante, cosechando victoria tras victoria, mientras las personas no saben cómo adaptar sus vidas a la muy movediza circunstancia tecnológica. Los beneficios de los nuevos trebejos técnicos son coreados a los cuatro vientos por las agencias comerciales, hasta el punto de que el silencio que tanto agrad...

A discussion of the possibilities to reconstruct the electromagnetic sources responsible for a given radiation is held, specially for the critical case in which the phase information is not known. For the comparison between the different solution a complex radiating structure is modeled using an exact integral formulation, which is then valid for F...

Veía Platón la capacidad de conocer encarcelada en las tinieblas de un cavernoso presidio, quejábase de la lejanía y del eclipse de la realidad, pero lloraba aun más por las sombras que de las sombras se hicieran y que por triste camino descarriaran nuestro entendimiento. ¿Qué diría un Platón moderno ante la múltiple reflexión, en inacabable secuen...

El desarrollo de nuestro trabajo está orientado a conseguir la capacidad práctica de descubrir fallos en la estructura de alimentación de la antena de radar secundario sin detener su funcionamiento, ya que esto perjudica la funcionalidad de los sistemas de navegación y seguridad de los aeropuertos. Con semejante propósito se ha acudido a métodos nu...

A diagnosis system for radar array antennas, designed to operate under system operation is presented in this paper. The system is based on antenna pattern acquisition based on the asynchronous detection of secondary surveillance radar pulses and electromagnetic source reconstruction.

In this paper a new solution for the identification of radiated interference in an electronic device is drafted and a discussion of its characteristics and limits is presented. For the purpose of field transformation different solutions are considered , revelling the benefits of electromagnetic source reconstruction with respect to the others. The...

In this paper the virtues of the semi-empirical models for planification purposes are discussed. A brief overview of the many models considered under the European project COST 231 are mentioned and a comparison is included. The prediction capability of three models in a Viennes environment is compared, whose results lead to the definition of a mixe...

El anteproyecto plantea una metodología y estrategia interdisciplinar para confrontar la pregunta: ¿qué dificultades teóricas y técnicas, conceptuales y tecnológicas, impiden definir un concepto unificado de información válido tanto para cables como para organismos, tanto para antenas como para sociedades, tanto para robots como para estados mental...