Miguel Vargas-Lombardo

• Ph.D
• Managing Director at Technological University of Panama

La ciberseguridad juega un papel vital en la protección de activos digitales y la privacidad de los individuos en la era de la información. En este contexto, la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el aprendizaje automático (ML) han emergido como herramientas poderosas para mejorar la detección y prevención de amenazas cibernéticas. Este articulo analiza...

La investigación tiene como propósito de determinar la realidad con respecto a la tasa de incidencia de los ciberataques en la Panamá en específicamente los ataques de ransomware representando un problema creciente dentro del país. Se seleccionaron aleatoriamente 34 empresas para participar en el estudio, asegurando una representación adecuada de d...

The El Valle Volcanic Complex, located in the province of Cocle, Panama, presents geological characteristics that could be linked to public health problems. This study focuses on the municipalities of San Juan de Dios, Pajonal, and Caballero, where water is consumed directly from springs (groundwater outcrops). The region has a high incidence of no...

The analysis of quality attributes is a vital phase that determines the functionalities and properties a software system must have from its conception and development, an aspect from which current systems do not escape. Let’s add the paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) to the current systems, and as a result, the requirements, and capabilities...

When developing models or frameworks in electronic health, known as eHealth, they must consider a variety of essential characteristics for their optimal functioning; however, identifying these characteristics is complicated because health processes, especially those directed at health care, are very diverse. Therefore, the objective of the research...

Background: SARS-CoV-2 is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus that was first reported in December 2019 in China and immediately spread around the world causing a pandemic, which has caused countless deaths and cases in global health. Mental health has not gone untouched by this pandemic; due to the lockdown and the vast amounts of infor...

This article presents the approach to develop a tool that allows the immediate characterization of environmental parameters. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to investigate different data extraction techniques, transformation methods and categorical data analysis. This will allow understanding of the effects of environmental variables suc...

Every day, we face an increase in cases of violence and criminality committed by organized crime groups. This generates public safety problems and deteriorates the quality of life of inhabitants. Consequently, local authorities require more specialized security equipment. One kind is surveillance devices, but the monitoring process is very costly a...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the physical health of the Central American population. Fear, anxiety and stress were normal reactions in quarantine, due to the uncertainty of the unknown, which makes it understandable that the population experienced feelings or psychological affections. Social networks were the means of communic...

Background: This study brings innovation oriented to the development of e-health services to improve the performance of healthcare and hospital care in free-living activities. Objective: This article seeks to propose an innovative mobile software that enables the contextualization of clinical data, while integrating the fundamental functionaliti...

The Remance gold mine, in Veraguas, Panama, has been widely affected by mining activity, whose last exploitation period was between 1989 and 1999, by the company Minera Remance S.A. Previous studies have reported that stream sediments are severely polluted; terrace sediments represented a serious ecological risk and stream sediments a high ecologic...

Abstract: La mina de oro de Remance está ubicada en el pueblo de Remance, distrito de San Francisco, Provincia de Veraguas República de Panamá. La mina ha sido explotada en periodos intermitentes, la última explotación minera se dio entre los años de 1989 a 1999 por la compañía minera Remance S.A. [1], a través del proceso de cianuración. Producto...

Background: A growing number of mobile applications have been designed for the chronic disease patient as the primary user. Mobile health applications for self-care have the potential to help patients living with chronic conditions such as kidney disease, and can be used to manage aspects such as the consumption of substances that are harmful to h...

For the realization of this architecture, we have chosen the paradigm of cloud computing (SaaS), oriented to the implementation of microservices, whose purpose is to provide access to a series of small services for the management and consolidation of clinical information of patients and not only what is necessary for the generation of a standard re...

The Remance gold mine, in Veraguas (central Panama), had its last mining operation in 1999, using the cyanidation process for Au separation. As a result of this activity, three waste tailings were exposed to the weather, in addition to mine dumps and the open pit mining areas. Currently the area is inhabited by peasants who develop subsistence agri...

The supply of water to populations is a basic need that has been threatened more frequently in recent years due to climate change, which renders seeking other sources of water essential. The hydrochemistry of the groundwater of the aquifer located in the UTP Tocumen was characterized by previous research to determine its possible use as a source of...

The processes of digitalization in the cloud and the provision of services from Start-up Companies not only implies changes within their internal software development, but also involves making profound changes in the way of applying new strategies and managing the service offered to companies distributed in different continents, shortening distance...

Mine tailings are a potential source of environmental pollution because they typically contain potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and the residue of chemical compounds used during extraction processes. The Remance gold mine (NW Panama) is a decommissioned mine with mining activity records dating from the 1800s and several periods of abandonment. Ver...

Predicting whether patients will experience intradialytic hypotension (IDH) during hemodialysis (HD) is not an easy task. IDH is associated with multiple risk factors, meaning that traditional statistical models are unable to find the relationships that affect it. In this context, the use of models based on machine learning (ML) can allow the disco...

Background: treating infectious diseases in elderly individuals is difficult; patient referral to emergency services often occurs, since the elderly tend to arrive at consultations with advanced, serious symptoms. Aim: it was hypothesized that anticipating an infectious disease diagnosis by a few days could significantly improve a patient's well...

Natural language processing (NLP) is a discipline of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational linguistics. NLP facilitates the user’s work and communicating with the computer, as well as to analyze unstructured data such as textual documents. In Panama, doctors in palliative care units write their diagnoses, observations and medications in te...

Mining affects the environment, particularly through the persistence of accumulation of tailings materials; this is aggravated under tropical climatic conditions, which favours the release of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) bioavailable to the local flora and fauna and supposing a risk to human health. The Remance gold mine (Panamá), exploited in...

The derelict Remance gold mine is a possible source of pollution with potentially toxic elements (PTEs). In the study area, diverse mine waste has been left behind and exposed to weather conditions, and poses risks for soil, plants and water bodies, and also for the health of local inhabitants. This study sought to perform an ecological and health...

Las herramientas de Infraestructura como código (IaC) permiten automatizar las tareas realizadas por los departamentos de IT de forma rápida y dinámica mediante el uso de lenguajes de programación de scripts, que permiten administrar, crear, manipular y distribuir múltiples recursos informáticos a gran escala dentro de una infraestructura de Cloud...

Forecasting the energy consumption of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems is important for the energy efficiency and sustainability of buildings. In fact, conventional models present limitations in these systems due to their complexity and unpredictability. To overcome this, the long short-term memory-based model is employed in this...

The aim of the present study is to assess the combined use of geotechnical and electrical geophysical methods to determine water quality and rocks mechanics in an aquifer. The aquifer studied is located in the Tocumen sector of Panamá City, located to the southeast of city, where there is a need to study the possible use of this aquifer to provide...

This article proposes a new framework for a Cloud-based eHealth platform concept focused on Cloud computing environments, since current and emerging approaches using digital clinical history increasingly demonstrate their potential in maintaining the quality of the benefits in medical care services, especially in computer-assisted clinical diagnosi...

Lean Software Development (LSD) is a set of principles and practices that seek to increase the value of the organization by improving quality and soft-ware development processes, through value flow mapping and waste removal. Because of LSD’s contributions, many organizations are interested in implementing it; however, adopting the principles and pr...

Nowadays, the application of methodologies that allow to guide the process of development of Software in the companies has become a fundamental aspect to achieve the suitable management of the processes in the projects. In view of the diversity of existing methodologies, there is a growing interest in defining strategies that allow the selection an...

INTRODUCCIÓN La minería es una actividad muy importante y necesaria para la sociedad, que debe ser desarrollada de manera responsable, ya que de no tener los cuidados necesarios sus residuos pueden ser focos latentes de contaminación al medio ambiente (García-Lorenzo et al. 2019). En Panamá la legislación ambiental es relativamente reciente (Gaceta...

The inadequate treatment of waste materials in mine tailings, the closure stage not carried out correctly, carries risks due to the residues of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) that it may contain. In Panama, environmental regulations are recent, and even so the regulations are not strictly enforced, leaving a problem for the adjacent communities....

In Panama City, the water supply sources for the population come mainly from surface waters, but in times of drought and extreme natural phenomena, the need to resort to underground sources is explored. This paper concerns an exploratory investigation with the aim of assessing the quality of groundwater in the southeastern part of the Province of P...

The corporateOjo-Gonzalez, Karina organizational structure and culture should evolve in the development of software technology as the company grow;Prosper-Heredia, Rene otherwise,Dominguez-Quintero, Luis it will present weaknesses that hinder the implementation of any software methodology.Vargas-Lombardo, Miguel In this paper, the beneficial charac...

A patient suffering from advanced chronic renal disease undergoes several dialysis sessions on different dates. Several clinical parameters are monitored during the different hours of any of these sessions. These parameters, together with the information provided by other parameters of analytical nature, can be very useful to determine the probabil...

Currently, smart buildings generate large amounts of data due to the many devices and equipment available. Hence, buildings implement building management systems (BMSs), which monitor, control, manage and analyze each of these components. However, current BMSs are incapable of managing a massive amount of data (big data) and therefore cannot extrac...

Currently there is a growing interest in the development of service-oriented software (SaaS) that meet high standards, very quickly and that guarantee customer or user satisfaction with the product. DevOps can meet the aforementioned needs and end the gap that exists between development and operation teams. However, its impact on software developme...

Con la evolución del Internet, hay una gran cantidad de información presente en la web como lo son las opiniones de los usuarios o consumidores sobre diversos contextos ya sea para expresar su conformidad o inconformidad sobre un producto o servicio recibido, así como la opinión de un artículo comprado o sobre la gestión que realiza alguna persona....

p class="0abstract"> Diabetes is a silent disease, the number of people who suffer from it increases daily, it is unfortunate that many young people develop this condition and do not know that they suffer from it. So much so that this disease is the fifth cause of death in Panama. Using software technologies applied to areas such as health every da...

This article describes the design, development and implementation of a set of microservices based on an architecture that enables detection and assisted clinical diagnosis within the field of infectious diseases of elderly patients, via a telemonitoring system. The proposed system is designed to continuously update a medical database fed with vital...

Early detection of infectious diseases is a major clinical challenge. When diagnosis comes after symptoms has a bad effect in health, but also spread a contagious approach towards other people. The proposed e-Health system supports the pre-diagnosis of these diseases. It gathers vital signs simultaneously (Electrodermal Activity, Body Temperature,...

Los edificios son uno de los principales contribuyentes al consumo de energía y los emisores de gases de efecto invernadero. Esta mejora en la eficiencia energética y la provisión de nuevos servicios debe ser sin duda respaldada por la aplicación de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) emergentes, junto con las nuevas redes de...

BACKGROUND Quite often, patients arrive to consultation when the symptoms of an infectious disease are already serious, forcing doctors to divert them to the emergency services. Particularly, the possible anticipation of the diagnosis -prognostic- for institutionalized people would lead to soften the treatment, increasing resident’s wellness and al...

En este trabajo se describe una propuesta orientada a los emergentes servicios de eHealth, para ofrecer una mejor prestación en la atención asistencial y hospitalaria. El enfoque propuesto se apoya en el desarrollo de microservicios consistentes en proporcionar una aplicación que contiene a su vez una serie de pequeños y adaptables servicios que se...

Esta investigación está enfocada en los procedimientos, mecanismos y metodologías de análisis forense digital en dispositivos móviles, con la intención de contar con un manual o metodología para el manejo de evidencias digitales en estos dispositivos. Por otra parte, trataremos las herramientas de software libre y privativas utilizadas para el anál...

In this work, the authors present two eHealth platforms that are examples of how health systems are migrating from client-server architecture to the web-based and ubiquitous paradigm. These two platforms were modeled, designed, developed and implemented with positive results. First, using ambient-assisted living and ubiquitous computing, the author...

Objectives This research presents the design and development of a software architecture using natural language processing tools and the use of an ontology of knowledge as a knowledge base. Methods The software extracts, manages and represents the knowledge of a text in natural language. A corpus of more than 200 medical domain documents from the g...

El Internet de las cosas (IoT) es la nueva tendencia de dispositivos en el mercado. Esta tecnología está siendo desarrollada por múltiples fabricantes de diversas partes del mundo para solucionar problemas específicos del día a día de las personas. Sin embargo, en la actualidad se están dando muchos casos de fallas de seguridad en dispositivos IoT,...

At present, the convergence of several areas of knowledge has led to the design and implementation of ICT systems that support the integration of heterogeneous tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), statistics and databases (BD), among others. Ontologies in computing are included in the world of AI and refer to formal representations of an ar...

The main objective of this research is to develop a framework to build automated scripts that generate the Live mode in the Distributions from Scratch. Special emphasis is placed on the methodology of the initramfs and the use of GNU packages to adequate the scripts to the needs of developers. Moreover, the purpose of this, is to demonstrate the st...

En este artículo se presentan las diferentes etapas de desarrollo para una distribución Linux adaptada a las necesidades de cómputo paralelo enfocada a un entorno académico y científico. Se hace especial énfasis en las metodologías de compilación cruzada y enjaulamiento root (Chroot Jail) utilizando código fuente de los paquetes GNU, permitiendo ad...

Hepatitis B infection and liver disease are the leading causes of cirrhosis and liver cancer in the world. The use of computer solutions applied to the medicine is increasing every day. Scientific research in areas of health, as well as the development of new technologies involving smartphones and sensors, is making possible self-management of heal...

La atención a los pacientes de cuidados paliativos en Panama es una necesidad primordial tanto para el enfermo como para sus familiares. Solo en el 2014 mas de 2600 pacientes fueron atendidos dentro del programa de cuidados paliativos. Aplicando ingeniería de software en el contexto de la salud electrónica, se ha analizado, modelado, desarrollado e...

Using ubiquitous computing and software engineering, two E-Health platforms have being designed, developed and implemented to improve the Down’s Syndrome risk estimation process and, with ambient assisted living, enhance how palliative care is being provided to the elderly patients, improving the quality of life in the country of Panama.

The use of information technology solutions has become an innovative way to treat patients in hospitals. The creation of a framework based on the development of ontology to structure information on patients with breast cancer is developed. The main aim is to find patterns of information that can be drawn after analyzing the data using text mining t...

Through engineering projects, we have integrated software engineering, geographical information systems and HL7 standard to propose a model of an eHealth management platform for Down’s syndrome screening, replicable in all the country. It will use real time sample information acquired from the local population and will geographically reference this...

Abstract– ICT could redesign the health service environment in a more representative way. Replacing structures and models centered in the patient, achieving objectives y immediate goals of active participation through the empowerment of ICT health services. I safe to promote the use of ICT in a context of health in central America could give rise t...

Nowadays when we talk about Grid computing, it is important to emphasize the importance that it is having on the development various human areas, but it is also important to mention Grid portals and the impact these are having on the development of Grid computing, at serving as support in researches using this technology. In this paper, we present...

The development of software as a service represents a great advantage for the users of cloud computing, such as users of small, medium or large organizations. All these users possess different characteristics, which must be taken into ac-count as reference for the interface development of a software product. This paper considers the element of a us...

La plataforma de trabajo Android incluye, un sistema operativo, un middleware y un conjunto de aplicaciones clave. La incorporación de servicios de acceso integrados a internet en estos dispositivos móviles, sin embargo, aumenta la exposición a los daños causados por varios tipos de malware. Este documento, muestra las más importantes partes que co...

La siguiente monografía es un compendio de información reciente sobre la tecnología CUDA de procesamiento paralelo en la GPU, para uso computacional en general, descripción de la misma, como también algunas aplicaciones.

String matching algorithms are an important piece in the network intrusion detection systems. In these systems, the chain coincidence algorithms occupy more than half the CPU process time. The GPU technology has showed in the past years to have a superior performance on these types of applications than the CPU. In this article we perform a review o...

Volunteer Computing is a low cost and easy deployable solution for scientific projects that require large amounts of computational power. Volunteer computing public access capabilities comes with several security threats to the projects, thus, this projects must be designed and focused towards security in order to be able to stand against thi...

Cloud Computing is a model that habilitates the access to a group of computer services that are offered according to the needs of the users. Also, layers have been developed in order to sectorize and manage the offered services while maintaining the interrelation between the layers by using ontologies. Referring to the above-mentioned, we suggest c...

In Latin America, public health systems that manage and warrant the health of the population lack mechanisms and technological capabilities that enable them to accept and adopt initiatives focused to guide, look after, and improve the quality of life of millions of patients with diabetes who need attention and special care. However, the proposal pr...

The patient, in his multiple facets of citizen and user of services of health, needs to acquire during, and later in his majority of age, favorable conditions of health to accentuate his quality of life and it is the responsibility of the health organizations to initiate the process of support for that patient during the process of mature life. The...

Health indicators express remarkable gaps between health systems at a world-wide level. Countries of the entire world are overflowed by the need of new strategies, methodologies and technologies to better serve the millions of patients, who demand better medical attention. The present archaic and ephemerally systematized systems widen the gap even...

Grid portals are interfaces for interconnection between Grid resources and users. Grid portals are supported by components called portlets, servlets and middleware. Frameworks, middleware and/or development toolkits are used in the design and development of grid portals; each of them presents distinctive characteristics like any existing tool for g...

Grid Computing is a platform for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale among virtual organizations. Grid uses Grid Services to access and use a set of Grid resources. Subsequently, these Grid Services need to be discovered, selected and invoked quickly and efficiently to satisfy the needs of a demanding environment such...

Health indicators express remarkable gaps in health systems at a world-wide level. Countries of all over the world are implementing new strategies, methodologies and technologies to better serve the millions of patients, who demand better medical attention. The current system, which is archaic and not very systematic, widens the gap even more than...

Nowadays Cloud Computing provides anew paradigm to organizations, offering advantages, not only for its speed but also for the opportunity of save costs when implementing new applications, by just paying for the resources you use. This article identifies the threats, risks and attacks, also identifies their causes, in addition, proposed solutions f...