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Design of a Disaster Recovery Plan based on the NIST 800-34 standard and the PMBOK framework for an ecuadorian insurance company
Get PDFThis document summarizes the design of a disaster recovery plan in the technology area for an insurance company in Ecuador. The first section sets out the legal, technical and project management frameworks; which are: the Codification of Insurance of Ecuador, the standard of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 800-34 and the management framework of the Project Management Institute, respectively. In the second section, the critical infrastructure and its recovery strategies are determined based on the processes of high criticality in impact analysis. As a result of the project management, the work breakdown structure, the risk matrix and the cost analysis are delivered; which will be important for the company to approve the execution of the project
An Approach for identifying Crops Types using UAV Images in the Ecuadorian Sierra
Get PDFSpectral signature analysis allows identification of the different types of terrestrial objects and characterizes behaviour of different kinds of vegetation. In Ecuador usually phenological analysis (state of vegetal growing) and crop type are based on acquired manually information. This does not allow taking agile decisions over crops management. The advantages for using UAV images propose a significant change to the current methodologies. This paper presented a correlation study of crop spectral signature using multispectral images from a UAV. Ecuadorian Sierra was the study zone to differentiate the types of crops in an agricultural field. The Inception algorithm of Tensorflow was chosen to generate a crop layer and to predict the crop type with the closest possible approximation from an image
Strategic Scanning and innovative design: fuel the C/K method through Strategic Scanning information
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to study the role of StrategicScanning in innovation processes. We seek to answer the followingquestion: how can Strategic Scanning feed an innovative designactivity? We mobilized the C-K theory which models the logic ofcreation in companies and the method of the same name. Based ona case study of 65 participants, we conducted a Strategic Scanningstudy to feed an innovative C-K design approach. The results showthat Strategic Scanning helps to provide knowledge in a C-Kprocess. It helps either to build the knowledge base of noviceparticipants, or to validate the existing knowledge of expertparticipants. The Strategic Scanning activity also makes it possibleto start the first disjunction mechanism C→K from the C0concept.
 
Design and simulation of prototype to get a soccer player’s heart rate using a wireless network
Get PDFThe goal of this project is the implementation of a simulation that gets the vital information of a soccer player’s body through Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). With this objective in mind, several programming language environments are compared with each other. This simulation only has one sample to follow according to the proposal. Therefore, the challenge is to create a new simulation sample and other platforms to compare the accuracy and delay between communications. WBANs are not conceived to carry large amounts of data, according to the WSN (wireless sensor network) concept. This entails a problem when designing applications for this kind of networks. Lastly, in respects to the results that will be presented. The results will be about which one simulation is better or what differences lay between the different environments of development
Exploratory Data Analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information: case study in the Manuela Sáenz administrative zone of Quito
Get PDFTechnological development during the first decade of this century provoked a boom of user-generated, web-shared media. In geography, such trend is called Volunteered Geographic Information; OpenStreetMap (OSM) is its most famed project. While several research has been made about OSM -particularly, concerning its quality-, none of such has been made in Ecuador in despite that, indeed, there has been mapping in this country. This paper proposes an Exploratory Data Analysis as first approach to understanding the features of OSM. Study area is the Manuela Sáenz administrative zone of Quito. Free GIS and programming software were used, while applying non-graphic and graphic methods. Results are displayed in several plots and phenomena are discussed, regarding number of keys and nodes, area condition, and building, highway and source keys. The paper concludes identifying OSM aspects for further research
Verification of the emergence in an architecture for multi-robot systems (AMEB)
Get PDFThis article analyzes the emerging behavior of a multi-robot system managed by an architecture structured in three layers: the first provides local support to the robot, manages its processes of action, perception and communication, as well as its behavioral aspect, which considers the reactive, cognitive and social aspects of the robot. In addition, it introduces an affective component that influences its behavior and the way it relates to the environment and to the other individuals in the system, based on an emotional model that takes into account fourArticle history:Received 12 September 2018Accepted 08 November 2018A Gil, pertenece al Laboratorio de Prototipos en la Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira y a Tepuy R+D Group. Artificial Intelligence Software Development. Mérida, Venezuela (email: [email protected])basic emotions. The second provides support to the collective processes of the system, based on the concept of emerging coordination. The latter is responsible for knowledge management and learning processes, both individually and collectively, in the system. In this article the metrics are defined to verify the emergency in the system, by means of the use of a method of verification of emergent behaviors based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Towards a new paradigm in university scientific research from a feminist epistemology, a creative, critical and ethical spirit, and knowledge as a common good
Get PDFUniversities, especially public universities, represent one of the most important institutions from which to induce transformation and social progress capable of overcoming the current challenges of humanity. This is not only a consequence of its educational role in values and ethical principles, but also, and this is what constitutes the object of study of this article, for its role in the creation of knowledge.This knowledge, as it will be exposed, should be open to the diversity of thought and cosmovisions and founded, among others, from three pillars such as: 1) a feminist epistemology, 2) the recovery of a creative, critical and ethical spirit, and 3) the conception of knowledge, in itself, as a common good, making possible the search for interpretations, alternatives and solutions to human problems beyond the hegemonic epistemological framework.After the bibliographic review that will offer an approach to the main contributions in the field of critical thinking and epistemologies, the study of the three proposed pillars on which a new epistemological paradigm for Universities could begin will be addressed
Remote Sensing in the Design of Urban Planning Strategies, Case Study Urban Heat Island of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador
Get PDFThis study analyzed the urban heat island (UHI)of the Metropolitan District of Quito with the calculation ofsurface temperature of multispectral Landsat 7 ETM andLandsat 8 OLI/TIRS. With these imagens were calculatedindices of vegetation NDVI and constructions NDBI, andare established the relationship of these variables withArticle history:Received 26 Februeary 2018Accepted 28 May 2018Este trabajo fue apoyado por la Universidad Internacional SEK, Facultad deCiencias Naturales y Ambientales.Diana Paola Baño Saltos, Autor Jr. pertenece a la Universidad InternacionalSEK del Ecuadortemperature surface through application of the correlationlinear of Pearson. The results indicate that heat islands aremore pronounced towards rural areas where there is acombined land use between horizontal construction,industries and equipment, compared to urban areas wherethere is prevalence of vertical developments. The NDVIvegetation index presents an inverse correlation withsurface temperature and the rate of constructions, directcorrelation, while surface temperatures obtained fromLandsat 7 and 8 Landsat images are not comparable. Ingeneral, characterization of urban heat islands is bestexplained through the analysis of the relationship betweensurface temperature and land use
Polarity of opinions about a public person in Ecuador
Get PDFThe present investigation is the study of opinion miningtechniques, focused on obtaining information from a public figurein Ecuador, determining signs of polarity for your management ina positive, negative or neutral way, a result that will allow saidcharacter public to make decisions about their actions based on animage of service to the community. The extraction of opinions insocial networks and techniques based on Human LanguageTechnologies enabled the interpretation of polarized data byspecifying parameters of relevance to the resulting opinion focusedon decision making, processing that adapts to the newcommunication formats achieving the interpretation andassessment of opinion. Social networks was the platform for thecapture of texts by means of an API, which after the processing ofthe natural language obtained results of indications of thepopularity of the character
Assisted Muscular Rehabilitation
Get PDFIn the market, there are very sophisticatedbiofeedback tools, such as those developed by meyerPT [1] orBiometric Ltd. [2], which provide information to the patientthrough tones and allows the generation of records and show datain real time. However, the cost of these tools makes difficult theaccess to them. This problem is what make the patients apply tothe expertise of a specialist and a qualitative valuation. For thisreason, this project focused on developing a friendly userbiofeedback interface created in MATLAB, which brings valuableinformation about muscular signals generated by the human bodyto avoid the subjectivity that may exist in the traditional method,reaching better results in less time thanks to the continuemonitoring and data recorders. The interface shows visualindicators, which are used to feedback the patient, in order topresent the execution of the muscular exercises at a certain forceintensity, analyses the muscular fatigue during the training andcreate a data record to identify the evolution of the muscleaccording to the developing of the therapy sessions