José Martín Molina Espinosa

• Doctor en Computación
• Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey

Energy models play a crucial role in the domain of energy policy by serving as essential instruments for decision-making. However, a significant limitation of numerous bottom-up energy models (BUEMs) is their empirical design, which hinders their ability to effectively inform policy design. This study presents a structured framework that can be use...

In this article we show how to facilitate the development of mathematical skills using 3D surface visualization tools and virtual environments in an online, project-based learning context. The “Lumen” software is presented, which is an ad-hoc solution, designed and developed to visualize and combine mathematical surfaces in 3D, based on their assoc...

This document presents a systematic review of Multimodal Human–Computer Interaction. It shows how different types of interaction technologies (virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality, force and vibration feedback devices (haptics), and tracking) are used in different domains (concepts, medicine, physics, human factors/user experience design, tra...

When building country-wide electricity sector models the number of variables to consider, as well as careful design to consider sustainable energy issues restrictions, poses a considerable technological execution and visualisation challenge, even more so when such models must be executed in real-time to support evidence-based decision-making proces...

This work addresses the need to have a remote immersive multi-sensory virtual environment in which people can come together to make collaborative decisions remotely in real-time, allowing decision-makers to feel as if they were in a Decision-Making Center in person, but with the advantages offered by multi-sensory, immersive, remote, collaborative...

Bottom-up energy models are considered essential tools to support policy design of electricity end-use efficiency. However, in the literature, no study analyzes their contribution to support policy design of electricity end-use efficiency, the modeling techniques used to build them, and the policy instruments supported by them. This systematic revi...

Technological progress and its rapid evolution have positively affected the industrial sector and different productive/service sectors. One of the service-sectors that have benefited the most has been Education. In this sector, the implementation of current and emerging technologies combined with innovative pedagogical procedures and best practices...

Most socio-technological Systems are complex and have many variables interconnected, which makes them hard to predict and more important to control. Moreover, in many cases it is required to choose a plan of action that would bring some consequences and/or rewards. Under those circumstances it is important to make a decision based on the system’s v...

Nowadays, it is observed that native digital students demand the use of innovative learning methods, as well as the use of specialized technological equipment that can positively influence their professional training, but at the same time it is observed that there is still a deficit not only in the commitment and interest of students to learn, but...

Through the years, the education sector has been influenced by the evolution of technology and the global, regional and local social dynamics. Therefore, today, teaching and learning methods include the use of emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs), advanced tools and innovative facilities. Also, teaching and learning methods ar...

Nowadays, there is a tendency to provide products not only with high sensing and smart capacities and capabilities but also with high sustainable impact considering social, economic and environmental factors. Therefore, companies must offer products that can be competitive in the market and solve social problems through the use of emerging technolo...

Open Innovation is not a new concept and it is been actively used by different entities to cope with new challenges posed by the evolving society in business, science and education. However, for this last one seems to be poor documentation about how higher education institutions are dealing with it. It is evident that universities are applying conc...

There are different channels to communicate the results of a scientific research; however, several research communities state that the Open Access (OA) is the future of academic publishing. These Open Access Platforms have adopted OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative-the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) as a standard for communication and interoperab...

Today, the new generation of students are learning in diverse ways. Thus, they are taking advantage of the modern technological devices, information provided mainly by the Internet and the use of current Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Therefore, learning methods and infrastructures need to evolve in order to consider these techn...

Essential to the notion of the Web is the idea of an open community: anyone can contribute their ideas to the whole. This openness, the size and dynamism of the community impose challenges on the development of resource discovery applications for educational or research activities. On the other hand, there have been many efforts to organize and str...

This paper defines the Smart x Sensing reference model (S2-RM) as a model that fulfills the requirements, characteristics and processes of a Manufacturing Collaborative Network to face the challenge of a digital economy. All the attributes have been formalized using Unified Modeling Language (UML). The S2-RM allows a complete description using the...

As in many countries that are experiencing the ageing of their populations, the objective for scientists and health professionals should be to improve quality of life for senior citizens. In countries such as Mexico, the challenge is harder since a good number of elders are unable to access proper health care due to poverty and/or other social cond...

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to computational resources which together with pay-per-use business models, enable application providers seamlessly scaling their services. Cloud computing infrastructures allow creating a variable number of virtual machine instances depending on the application demands. An attractive capability for Softwar...

This paper introduces a mobile learning environment based on micro-learning. The micro-learning model presented is an extension to the ontological model defined at the University: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México, México - for mobile learning resources classification and management. The micro-learning model proposed is based on a W...

Distributed collaborative applications are characterized by supporting groups’ collaborative activities. This kind of applications is branded by physically distributed user groups, who cooperate by interactions and are gathered in work sessions. The effective result of collaboration in a session is the production of simultaneous and concurrent acti...

Mapping workflow (WF) modeling with real-life business process management has become key problem on today's service-based economy. Such real time delivery would give them a competitive lead, and is considered an asset on most scenarios. For the most part, small and medium sized businesses lack the resources to achieve this goal. We propose that a f...

On the realm of knowledge transfer for enterprise incubation and corporate transformation, it is often desirable and relevant to offer distance, online, consulting. The preferred vehicle for achieving this goal is the World Wide Web, mostly a portal or Web service. However, an assessment process of this type generally becomes impersonal and is quit...

This paper considers Distributed Collaboration Sessions (DCS) where distributed users interact through multi-component communicating applications. The paper develops a formal framework that identifies the dependency relationships and the associated coordination rules that should be considered in controlling and managing the interactions between the...

This paper presents a coordination model allowing managers to define coordination policies in collaborative sessions. Our model allows different collaboration sites to be managed by maintaining consistency of the distributed management actions at the user and collaborative tool levels. The model manages multi-tools and multi-users collaborations se...

This paper defines a coordination model allowing different collaboration modalities to be managed by maintaining consistency of the distributed management actions at the user and collaborative tool levels. The model was achieved to manage multi-tools and multi-user collaboration sessions during the DSE project for design review activities in space...

This paper presents a role-based cooperative session scheduling system and its application to the cooperation scenario of the DSE project for design review activities in the space domain. Our approach allows generic group definition. In contrast to identity-based group definition we use a role-based approach, allowing exceptions due to changes of i...

Product Data Management (PDM) is an increasingly important technology for engineering and manufacturing enterprises. The information technology that supports Product Data Management requires standards in order to allow interoperability between systems and the sharing of product information between organizations. Two important sources of standards i...

This paper describes the Session management protocol designed in conformance to the design activity requirements as specified for Space Scenario activities formalized within the European project Distributed Systems Engineering (DSE 2000). The Session Management is deployed using Unified Modeling Language allowing its implementation by object orient...

Résumé La coordination est une fonction principale des systèmes logiciels où différents composants doivent coopérer afin d'atteindre un but commun. Les systèmes de gestion Workflow (WFMS) sont les principaux exemples où la coordination joue un rôle indispensable. Dans cet article, on présente un Environnement de Description de Procédures basé sur l...