David Buján Carballal news

The H2020 AURORAL project represented in the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI)

The H2020 AURORAL project was represented at the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI) held in Belfast, UK, from November 27th to November 29th, 2024. The UCAmI Conference focuses on advancing Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies and applications, emphasizing environmental sensing, processing, and integration to improve quality of life, particularly in domains such as healthcare, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), and smart environments.

Oihane Gómez Carmona presented there the paper “Tailoring Digital Middleware for Rural Needs: Insights from User Feedback Analysis” authored by herself, David Buján-Carballal, Diego Casado-Mansilla, and Diego López-de-Ipiña. This work, part of the Internet of Everything track, examines the challenges with middleware technologies like AURORAL for digitalizing rural areas, emphasizing user feedback and user-centered design to overcome barriers and enhance usability, ultimately fostering inclusive and sustainable rural digital transformation.

DEUSTO organises the AURORAL General Meeting

On October 25th and 26th, the University of Deusto hosted the second in-presence General Meeting for the H2020 AURORAL project. The assembly brought together over 25 European consortium partners, showcasing the University’s ongoing commitment to societal betterment—particularly in reducing the digital divide in rural regions and fostering their advancement.

This AURORAL General Meeting served as a pivotal juncture in the project’s progress, fostering a collaborative environment for more than 50 participants. During two full days, this encounter facilitated productive dialogues, knowledge exchange, and strategic planning, all aimed at addressing the project towards its ambitious objectives for the future.

The AURORAL project is dedicated to enhancing connectivity and establishing a digital ecosystem of smart objects and interoperable service platforms, aiming to stimulate dynamic rural ecosystems and promote innovation, applications, and services. With the goal of driving economic growth, addressing societal challenges, and narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural areas, AURORAL focuses on maximising the potential of rural regions through increased connectivity and digitization. The project showcases its digital environment via cost-effective, flexible cross-domain applications in large-scale pilots across seven European regions.

The University of Deusto represented AURORAL in the Inter-OSS workshop within the IoT Conference 2021

In November, the researcher Diego Casado Mansilla from the University of Deusto and the MORELab Research group took part in the 2021 Interoperability and Open Source Solutions Workshop (Inter-OSS 2021) introducing the AURORAL project.

This workshop, event co-located with the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2021), focuses on providing a forum for exchanging experiences, best practices, and ideas to build the know-how around the ongoing unsolved issues and gaps around the topics on interoperability, architectural principles, and standardisation efforts. Professor Casado presented the talk entitled “AURORAL: Boosting the interoperability of isolated data and services in rural areas across Europe'' disseminating the AURORAL proposal to bring the interoperability gap of smart object platforms and to improve the digitalisation within rural areas.

Besides having the opportunity to spread the commitment of AURORAL to overcoming the digital division between rural and urban areas, this workshop also provoked an open discussion for scientific progress, industrial standards evaluation and showcase practical experiences.

City4Age has been highlighted in the European Commission Digital Single Market Newsletter as a successful project story

The City4Age project has been highlighted in the European Commission Digital Single Market Newsletter as a successful project story. The European funded City4Age project aims to make cities more age-friendly. It will create innovative ICT tools and services for early detection of risks related to frailty and of Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI). The services will be tested in several European cities, as well as in Singapore.

City4Age receives the Deusto Research Social Impact Label

The City4Age project has received the Deusto Research Social Impact Label. The Deusto Research Social Impact Label recognizes research projects that demonstrate a potential social impact through:

its transformative action and potential social impact for people, entities, the environment or society in general;
its involvement, at different levels, with non-academic agents;
its contribution, from the scientific or study scope, and / or the application linked to themes of transformation, welfare, development and social justice.

Congratulations to the City4Age team.

Assistance to the Deep Learn summer school

Last week (17-21 of July), Bilbao had the pleasure of being host for theInternational Deep Learning Summer School. Five researchers of the group attended this event - Aitor Almeida, Gorka Azkune, Aritz Bilbao, Adrián Núñez and David Buján- and were able to meet with well known researchers in the Deep Learning field such as Li Deng, Michael Mozer and Marc’Aurelio Ranzato.

City4Age pilot sites videos

Check out the videos describing the project pilot sites on the City4Age YouTube channel.

David Buján, the new MORELab's PhD

On January 25th, 2016, MORElab's member David Buján Carballal has been honored with the PhD recognition. His dissertation, entitled "Nuevas capacidades en el descubrimiento de recursos grid basadas en tecnologías semánticas" was advisored by Dr. JosuKa Díaz Labrador and Dr. Oscar Corcho García.

The VIVA panel was formed by these examiners:

Dr. José Emilio Labra Gayo (president), Universidad de Oviedo (UniOvi)
Dra. María de los Santos Pérez Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Dr. Juan Manuel Picatza Atxa, Universidad del País Vasco (EHU-UPV)
Dr. Joseba K. Abaitua Odriozola, Universidad de Deusto (UD)
Dr. Unai Aguilera Irazabal (secretary), Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech)

Zorionak David!

Open Data Day 2015

On February 20, MORElab research group and the "Diploma in Data Analysis, Research and Communication" organized the Open Data Day within the University of Deusto in Donostia/San Sebastián. For the third consecutive year, this event has been celebrated in conjunction with the International Open Data Hackathon. The meeting began with the talks by Imanol Argüeso (Open Data Euskadi), Leire Bardají (EuroHelp Consulting), Jorge Campanillas (Iurismática Abogados) and Iñaki Pariente de Prada (Basque Data Protection Authority). After the talks and throughout the day, the participants worked in these three workgroups:

Photos and videos of the meeting are available:

Open Data Hack Day - Bilbao 2014

On February 21, MORElab organised the third edition of the Open Data Day in Bilbao, at Deusto's University.

The event began with three welcoming talks:

The work done by Euskomedia Fundazioa towards opening and sharing Basque culture, by Iñaki Arrieta
Democracy empowered by open data and digestible data, by Braulio Gómez Fortes (Deusto Social Barometer)
Experience of Bilbao's City Council on Open Data, by Iñigo Robredo (CIMUBISA)

The hackathon started with the presentation of the initiatives described at our wiki, to join people on different working groups:

Visualization and publication as Linked Open Data of the Spanish Government's doctoral thesis dissertations database teseo.
Interactive maps showing historical events.
Linked Data tutorial based on Open Data Euskadi.
Basque chapter of DBpedia template mapping
Visualization and homogeneization of Deusto's Social Barometer data.

The results of the hackathon are reviewed in the event's webpage, and the code is available on GitHub.

We hope to repeat the great experience next year.

ForoTech 2013

A week of engineering and technology exhibition was hosted in University of Deusto last month, from 12^th untill 19^th. During the event many innovative prototypes and product samples were presented by the participant companies and research entities. The event was visited by students, professors, entrepreneurs, researchers and by the general public.

The exhibition was stuffed by modern and classical technologies, innovative products and futuristic equipments. An electronic car, a wireless glove, a smart clock and a robotic arm were just a few of the successes of the event. In one small stand there was a 3D printer quietly building a CAD model layer-by-layer, from bottom to up. The passing by visitors were amazed by the simplicity yet effective way of transforming a 3D computer model to a physical object. Todays technological trends are the rapid prototyping machines, the 3D printers, and in the nearest future they can change our world. With these printers in mind the Third Industrial Revolution isnt so far behind.

What kind of new technologies and surprises can bring the second edition of ForoTech in 2014? Well have to wait and see.

http://forotech.deusto.es/

Results Open Data Hack Day 2013

The last February 22, the local event of International Open Data Day has been celebrated at University of Deusto, organized by DeustoTech - Internet. This day, about 30 activists have been working on three projects:

Basque chapter of DBpedia.
Mapping of restaurants from Basque Country to a standard ontology.
A mash-up involving measurements from air quality stations and data from polluting factories.

The results can be found at Bilbao Open Data Hack Day web page, with some photos of the event . Thank you to all participants! ;-)

More info: Open Data Day on Euskadi+Innova who edited a video from the event:

Open Data Hack Day 2013

DeustoTech - Internet and LinguaMedia invite you to the local event of International Open Data Hackathon, at University of Deusto. Despite of the global event is scheduled at February 23, the local event at Bilbao is going to celebrate at Friday, February 23 to enjoy the instalations of the University along all day. The agenda is still open, but you can write your proposals at Open Data Day Bilbao's (http://opendataday.deusto.es) web page. Alike, you can inscribe yourself at EventBrite (http://bodd2013.eventbrite.com/

SourcePlanet, trying to facilitate the creation of new products using Open Source

MORElab (DeustoTech-Internet) takes part in this project led by ESLE (Asociación de Empresas de Software Libre de Euskadi - Association of Open Source Companies at the Basque Country). This initiative tries to take advantage of new business models and opportunities that Open Source projects can offer, including their internationalization to maximize their visibility, thanks to a cost reduction in developments and more flexibility versus propietary solutions (the code is open and can be improved or changed as needed to create updates or new tools).

Recently, basque public administration has released their applications at OpenApps, so this Open Source directory can be a good data source to populate the metada model about Open Source companies, projects and products behind the SourcePlanet aggregation platform, where other modules will consume this Linked Open Data to get different evaluations and classifications about previous entities in order to optimize the results of users searches later.

More info in press

AppCircus in DeustoTech/Faculty of Engineering

On Monday 26 November, MORElab colaborated in the organization of the event AppCircus Bilbao that took part in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Deusto. Such event organizes a contest to choose the most innovative mobile apps. The winner receives as price a nomination to take part in the Mobile Premier Awards.
The winner was SurfSearchSpot, an app that helps you finding the best surfing spot around you in real-time. Workshops on HTML5, PayPal and Windows Phone were held right before the AppCircus competition.

Mobile Apps Competition for a Better World

Nowadays we assist to a huge increase in mobile apps. These are considered a new social phenomena. Most of us, overall engineers and computer scientists, have a last generation smart-phone in our pockets that is populated with several different apps, independently of the mobile platform (e.g. iOS, Android, Symbian or Blackberry OS). The questions that we rise (throw) are: HOW MANY OF THESE APPS ARE ACTUALLY USEFUL FOR OUR LIFES? and DO ANY OF THEM OFFER A SOCIAL CHANGE OR CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS A BETTER AND FAIRER WORLD?

If you are a creative enthusiast of mobile apps and you are concerned about conceiving a better, more sustainable and fearer world, this competition is done for you!

Get further information of this competition in this link

MORElab gets into the LOD Cloud

Due to the efforts made offering our data as Linked Data, Morelab is going to be into the next update of the Linking Open Data cloud diagram. Actually, Morelab offers Linked Data about its members and publications. All the information about Morelab's dataset can be found at the Data Hub.

MORElab at International Open Data Day

Morelab's members have been at the International Open Data Hackaton celebrated in Madrid, an event that aimed to structure and publish goverment data as Linked Data. At this event, data about traffic fines and environmental sensors from Biscai was treated. The Hackaton was organizated by Red Linked Data España and was celebrated at El Site. A report of the Hackaton can be found at Somos Malasaña.

INNPACTO 2011

DeustoTech-INTERNET has obtained three new research grants under the INNPACTO 2011 research call promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science. The three projects funded are: ADAPTA. Adecuación, validación e integración de datos abiertos por gobiernos y empresas IPT-2011-0949-430000 (led by TREELOGIC), Migración Avanzada hacia el Cloud mCLOUD IPT-2011-1558-430000 (led by Informática Gesfor) and Social Awareness Based Emergency Situation Solver SABESS IPT-2011-1052-390000 (led by TREELOGIC).

Flexeo project started

The project "Flexeo: Flexible Sensing and Operation Architecture" has been approved by the Regional Government of Biscay.

Fundación Deusto and ESI - European Software Institute collaborate in Flexeo in order to design a flexible technological architecture for integrating sensor networks and remote operation of devices and equipment into organizational business processes, through state-of-the-art technologies.