Virgilio Gilart Iglesias

University of Alicante | UA · Computer Sciences and Computation

Currently, the teaching of construction project management in the architectural technologist degree at the University of Alicante follows a theoretical-practical approach. In general, students are initially exposed to trade technologies through traditional theoretical sessions. Subsequently, practical sessions integrate case studies derived from th...

The present study aimed to analyze the external load put on elite male handball players during the 2020 European Championship differentiated by playing positions. A system based on three phases was designed: 1) information capture of game events through sensor networks, LPS system and WebScraping techniques; 2) information processing based on Big D...

Handball is one of the most popular team sports and requires the correct analysis of players’ physical condition for its development, especially in women´s handball. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyse for the first time the competitive demands of professional handball players during the EHF Championship 2020, using the innovative Local...

ABSTRACT: The physical demands of intermittent sports require a preparation based, by definition, on high-intensity actions and variable recovery periods. Innovative local positioning systems make it possible to track players during matches and collect their distance, speed, and acceleration data. The purpose of this study was to describe the worst...

The exponential increase in construction costs and the demands of clients highlight the need to improve the efficiency of the construction process. This chapter presents a management model that integrates different paradigms and technologies from the field of construction management such as Lean Construction, with emerging technologies associated w...

Social awareness towards maintaining urban accessibility is a growing concern in modern societies. This consciousness opens up necessary research fields in regard to the possibilities of new technologies to provide innovative methods for monitoring and preserving the accessibility of urban areas. Because of that, the present research focuses on the...

Objective Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease that causes airflow limitation to the lungs and has a high morbidity around the world. The objective of this study was to evaluate how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied for the management of the disease, analyzing the objectives that are raised, the algorithms that are...

There is a wide range of regulations on universal accessibility, but our cities are still inaccessible in many cases. Most accessibility problems in cities occur in consolidated areas that were developed prior to the development of current accessibility regulations. This leads to consider the importance of focusing more effort on managing the impro...

The development of Information Society and Communications Technologies provide new opportunities to monitor and improve the accessibility of modern cities. The concepts of smart and ubiquitous cities make use of processing, sensorization and communications technologies to provide knowledge and intelligence to the city. Knowing this information as u...

Recent developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have led to new and innovative ways to face the challenges of modern societies. We could even say that a revolution is taking place the world over as a consequence of the new capabilities of provided by technology. Blockchain are one of these new disruptive technologies emergin...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Like any chronic disease, the clinical process of COPD affects the patient’s life. Currently, clinical processes are inefficient, causing a loss of quality of life for patients and a high economic increase in the costs...

There is a growing social awareness about accessibility. The accessibility in cities and public spaces has become in an important issue in official agendas due to recent European directives. There are several studies on the way to improve accessibility in cities but they do not offer the possibility of view if solutions applied are valid over time....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the unexpected consequences in the operation of urban environments. Prediction within the urban planning process often presents difficulties and unintended consequences. It is not enough to develop a good project. Unexpected consequences are possible because of the environment. The authors argue that th...

Nowadays, in many countries, stress is becoming a problem that increasingly affects the health of people. Suffering stress continuously can lead to serious behavioral disorders such as anxiety or depression. Every person, in his daily routine, can face many factors which can contribute to increase his stress level. This paper describes a flexible a...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an emergency procedure that can save the life of a person, which combines manual chest compressions on the sternum and insufflations. The depth of the compressions and the cadence at which they are performed are two key factors for the effectiveness of the technique. This study presents a novel support system for ca...

Missing data is a common problem in clinical datasets due to the large amount of information generated that must be handled, mostly in places where data is entered manually by staff or patients or when sensors or devices for data collection are faulty or damaged. In this work we compare different supervised learning algorithms with an incomplete ch...

Internet of Things is a promising paradigm for designing context-aware systems. The information provided can be used for understanding the environment and providing intelligent services to the citizen. There are several studies on the information acquisition of Smart Cities. This work is focused on citizens’ traceability technologies and the data s...

Occupational stress has become a problem that increasingly affects the health of workers. Suffering stress continuously can lead to more serious behavioural disorders such as anxiety or depression. Our work focuses in the proposal of a system which can monitor the stress thanks to subjective information from the workers and objective data from the...

Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and clinical processes. For this reason, i...

The present work discusses the possibilities offered by the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies with the aim of designing a system to dynamically obtain knowledge of accessibility issues in urban environments. This system is facilitated by technology to analyse the urban user experience and movement accessibility, which enabling...

The main causes of building defects are errors in the design and the construction phases. These causes related to construction are mainly due to the general lack of control of construction work and represent approximately 75% of the anomalies. In particular, one of the main causes of such anomalies, which end in building defects, is the lack of con...

Crohn's disease is a chronic pathology belonging to the group of inflammatory bowel diseases. Patients suffering from Crohn's disease must be supervised by a medical specialist for the rest of their lives; furthermore, each patient has its own characteristics and is affected by the disease in a different way, so health recommendations and treatment...

Hypertension is a chronic disease affecting eight out of ten over 65 years. Current medical systems focus on the monitoring of the hypertensive patient and, in some cases, on the diagnosis, making the doctor-patient communication more direct. However, these systems have a rigid structure that does not adapt neither to the patient’s real needs nor t...

Monitoring chronic patients represent one of the main challenges in healthcare and information technologies. Knowledge-based and decision support systems seek to facilitate the adherence of physicians to treatments and guidelines, while improving self-management and empowerment of patients. In this work, a knowledge-based clinical decision support...

Despite the improvisations of current urban accessibility regulations and their application in urban systems, it is a fact that our cities are not accessible. Both, the assessment of the effectiveness of urban accessibility and its maintenance over time are issues that require a more consistent approach. In order to address these aspects, it is nec...

The environment of Higher Education and of society in general is going through very important changes today. The international quality rankings are an expression of the new competitive context of the universities. The searching for organizational excellence has as its base the development and updating of management within the processes, to be more...

Hypertension affects eight out of ten adult population over 65 years. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical process and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes it necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and the clinical proces...

Hypertension is a common and dangerous condition, which is the most important preventable cause of stroke and heart disease. Long-term conditions result in a reduced quality of life that can be improved through self-management and empowerment of patients using information technologies. Current support systems include self-management and empowerment...

Crohn’s disease belongs to the group of inflammatory bowel diseases. The current process of disease management has significant weaknesses that cause high cost for health systems and a significant loss of quality of life for the patient. This paper shows a new approach to redesign process for the management of Crohn’s disease based on Business Proce...

The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is quite established in enterprise environments as a pattern for software integration. However, traditional industrial architecture based on a vertical hierarchy is still used in old manufacturing organizations, making it difficult to reach the new requirements in industrial automation. There are works relate...

Recent technological progress has enabled the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to new applications possible with the aim to improve citizens' quality of life. This idea has been significantly increasing in political agendas as well as in the public services. The concepts of Smart-city or Sustainable-city are possible thank...

Information technologies (IT) currently represent 2% of CO2 emissions. In recent years, a wide variety of IT solutions have been proposed, focused on increasing the energy efficiency of network data centers. Monitoring is one of the fundamental pillars of these systems, providing the information necessary for adequate decision making. However, toda...

Improving citizens' quality of life is one of the main goals of Smart Cities development. Accessibility of urban public spaces absolutely determines the living conditions for people. Technology provides new opportunities of autonomy for an increasing group of inhabitants with specific disabilities. This work proposes an urban model for improving ac...

The sustainability strategy in urban spaces arises from reflecting on how to achieve a more habitable city and is materialized in a series of sustainable transformations aimed at humanizing different environments so that they can be used and enjoyed by everyone without exception and regardless of their ability. Modern communication technologies all...

The earth is experiencing the adverse effect of climate change. In response to growing global warming issues and the constant increase of energy prices, house-builders and housing manufacturers today are becoming more responsive to the delivery of net zero energy and carbon dioxide emission sustainable homes than ever. Within this context, the sust...

Information Technology and Communications (ICT) is presented as the main element in order to achieve more efficient and sustainable city resource management, while making sure that the needs of the citizens to improve their quality of life are satisfied. A key element will be the creation of new systems that allow the acquisition of context informa...

A Mass Customisation model is discussed as a competitive positioning strategy in the marketplace adding value to the customer's end-use. It includes the user as part of the construction process responding to the customer's demands and wishes. To the present day, almost all proposals for Mass Customisation have been focused on the design phase and s...

Integration is currently a key factor in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), especially because of the ever increasing service demands originating from the ITS industry and ITS users. The current ITS landscape is made up of multiple technologies that are tightly coupled, and its interoperability is extremely low, which limits ITS services gen...

In this paper, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches are analyzed given that represent both emerging and key role for Intelligent Transportations Systems (ITS). However, It is worth noting that WSN and SOA approaches have begun to be applied into ITS separately and day by day these approaches tend to be c...

In manufacturing organizations is difficult to reach the requirements of the new business models (agile and dynamic adaptation to changes) due to technological and conceptual constraints between elements located at different levels of the organization, which prevents the integration of business and manufacturing processes. In this paper, a new indu...

In this paper, we introduce a system on chip designed to run a particular Web service (WS) in an application-specific integrated circuit. The system has been designed devoid of processor and software and conceived as a hardware pattern for a trouble-free design of network services offered as WS in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Therefore, t...

The use of alert correlation methods in Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems (DIDS) has become an important process to address some of the current problems in this area. However, the efficiency obtained is far from optimal results. This paper presents a novel approach based on the integration of multiple correlation methods by using the neural n...

This paper presents a proposal enabling the modelling of manufacturing processes independently of the structure and composition of the industrial plant where these processes will ultimately be implemented. The rationale for the proposal is in the incorporation of knowledge, supported by ontologies regarding manufacturing processes, industrial machi...

In this paper we have presented an energy management system for the ICT infrastructures designed to saving the energy consumption. This system is totally complementary with others approaches oriented to the energy saving and is enough flexible to adapt to different scenarios. One of the most relevant aspects of this system consists of providing the...

The maturity of IT, in conjunction with certain modern theories about Business Processes Management (BPM), has propitiated an appropriate scenario for meeting the needs of new business models, which are increasingly centred on mass customization. Integration solutions provided within the framework of manufacturing organisations have opened up a wid...

This paper proposes a process management system that enables new dynamic manufacturing models to be implemented. This system facilitates the automation of process modelling, thus reducing the workload for process engineers. To this end, it focuses on the incorporation of knowledge in the definition of the processes and services involved. The docume...

In this paper we present a service approach based on the use of embedded network devices for the energy management of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures. The service is completely compatible with other strategies in order to achieve an efficient management for saving energy. These devices are very small, with low consump...

This paper proposes a management system for industrial production elements based on a multi-agent system which introduces a set of methods, models and architectures designed to provide a framework for specifying, implementing and establishing maintenance systems within the global business model. The main contribution of this proposal is that, as we...

Resumen. En este artículo presentamos una plataforma diseñada e implementada para la gestión práctica de la maquinaria industrial, la cual proporciona mediante una organización orientada a servicios los procesos de autogestión y administración proactiva de la maquinaria industrial. Esta plataforma permite establecer diversas relaciones con los serv...

Resumen. La robótica actualmente se encuentra presente en multitud de escenarios y con aplicaciones diversas, lo cual ha impulsado a los investigadores y desarrolladores a buscar sistemas de control genéricos que permitan centrar sus esfuerzos en la inteligencia del robot y no en la lógica de control, obteniéndose como resultado técnicas de muy div...

In this paper, we present a platform designed and implemented for the practical management of industrial machinery, which provides through an organization orientated to services the processes of selfmanagement and proactive management of industrial machinery. This platform allows to establish several relationships with the services offered by the m...

The amount of IT devices and services incorporated in the industrial environment has led to the need to design mechanisms that will ensure its correct operation and minimise stoppage times. This paper proposes a system based on service-oriented architectures that allows the correct operation and monitoring of the applications and services running i...

In this paper we present an approach based on the use of embedded network devices for the deployment of small network services suitable for IT management in industrial and manufacturing environments. The novelty of the proposal resides in the fact that allows to unfold IT services that can be deployed without the need for specialized IT staff since...

This paper proposes a system for management of industrial production elements inspired by the techniques employed in the management of the current and complex ICT infrastructures on which business models are based and which are having considerable success. The main result of applying these techniques is that, at the same time as providing an adequa...

In this paper is proposed a service model for the industrial machinery which provides a design pattern which details, classifies and organises the services that ideally the machine should possess in order to facilitate its self-management and proactive management of the business logic for which it is responsible. This pattern also establishes those...

At present, with the expansion of information technologies at the industry, it is vital to implant proactive, self-managed systems that ensure continuous operation and, therefore, business continuity. This article proposes a regeneration system for industrial production elements that transfers the concept of high availability to the manufacturing l...

In this paper we present an approach based on the use of embedded network devices for the deployment of small network services, such as DHCP, BOOTP, filters or very specific proxies. The novelty of the proposal resides in the very reduced size of the devices, in that every device is specialized in a certain network function, and specially designed...

This article proposes a multiagent system for industrial production elements that transfers the concept of fault tolerance to the manufacturing levels of the organisation, acting automatically under open protocols when there is degradation or failure of any of the components, ensuring that normal operation is resumed within a delimited time. The ma...

In the present paper we propose a method that permits visualization of manufacturing devices from a functional perspective. The aim of this method is to raise the abstraction level of manufacturing devices from the lower levels of production to the enterprise level of the business model. The target of this new approach is to integrate in a transpar...

The more the information technologies begin to be incorporated into the industrial productive fabric, the more complex it becomes to organise them. It is vital to implant proactive, self-managed systems that ensure continuous operation and, therefore, business continuity. This article proposes a regeneration system for industrial production element...

This paper presents an approach for designing robots and robotic systems based on the application of models, architectures, techniques and tools that have contributed valid solutions in other areas, such as e-business. Before applying these solutions, the physical elements that make up a robotic system are subjected to a normalization process in or...

In this paper we present an embedded device able to manage the remote boot of network nodes by means of Wake on LAN (WoL) through Internet and wide area network, presenting it as a Web service. The service is known as WoLI and comprises a network device, a group of embedded software applications in that device and an application protocol known as W...

In this paper we present an approach based on the use of embedded network devices for the deployment of small network services, such as DHCP, BOOTP, filters or very specific proxies. The novelty of the proposal resides in the very reduced size of the devices, in that every device is specialized in a certain network function, and specially designed...

In the last years, the maturity reached by the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has led us to an scenario which is suitable for facing the new business models, arisen as a consequence of the adoption of the Internet as the basic development infrastructure: strengthen of relationships between organizations and also between each orga...

A medida que las tecnologías de la información van calando en el tejido productivo industrial, tanto más compleja se vuelve su organización. Es imprescindible introducir sistemas de gestión proactivos y autogestionados que aseguren su funcionamiento continuado y, en consecuencia, la continuidad en el negocio. En este artículo se propone un sistema...