List of participants

OTRI-UCM: Research Knowledge Transfer Office

The main objectives of the Research Knowledge Transfer Office are: the creation, updating and fostering of the Complutense University's scientific and technological research portfolio; to identify both the transferable results generated by University researchers and the potential R&D requirements of companies to establish contractual relationships between the University and business; to advise researchers on the formulation of research contracts and R&D project proposals and on writing and applying for patents, both at national and international level; to advise businesses on how to find solutions for their technological needs and to offer information on financial assistance for the creation of R&D projects in Spain and Europe.

Dual-band radiation detector

Two researchers of the University Complutense of Madrid and have developed an optical device for the simultaneous detection of two well-separated bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, as e.g. terahertz and infrared bands or far infrared and visible. The device may work as an individual dual band detector or as a pixel element in an focal plane array detector.
The technology proposed enables the simultaneous detection of electromagnetic radiation in two bands by coupling an antenna to the low-frequency detector. This one acts simultaneously as an antenna for one wavelength and as a lense for the other.
Its main applications lie in defence, engineering and biomedicine.
As advantages: robustness due to the use of both sides of a single substrate and esay adaption to the detection needs

We are looking for companies working in the fields of optoelectronics for industrial inspection, biomedicine, defense or aerospatial, interested in the licensing of the patent.
We offer the licensing of the patent and collaboration in the remaining steps leading to industrial production.

Design, testing and characterization tasks can be carried out at the UCM facilities. Fabrication can be contracted in external laboratories. The different tasks performed by the UCM could be transferred to the company when industrial production starts.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Printing
  • ] Digitalising
  • ] IT Security
  • ] High-performance computing
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Digital content

Educational applications of 3D games

Games are a special kind of simulations with entertainment as goal. If a learning tool can be disguised as a game, then we get the motivation that the learning process requires. Our goal is to explore the power of simulations in game disguise as learning-by-doing environments. From all possible domains, and due to our previous experience, we are applying these ideas to teaching programming related technologies and abilities such as object-oriented programming and object-oriented frameworks.
The vision relies on previous and ongoing research on: case-based reasoning, knowledge representation, framework documentation, and natural language generation. The first incarnation of this vision is Javy, an adventure where the player has to free a country from the tyranny, by solving quizzes that resembles the inner workings of the java virtual machine.

The R&D group seeks for industrial partners interested on developing computer-based educational tools. These can be medium sized companies with an emphasis on research from the IT world, or companies from the computer game industry interested on new applications of their technology.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Social software
  • ] IT services
  • ] Digital content

e-Adventure: platform for developing educational games and simulations

The platform is aiming to facilitate the integration of educational games and game-like simulations in educational processes in general and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) in particular. It is being developed with three main objectives:
•Reduction of the development costs for educational games
•Incorporation of education-specific features in game development tools
•Integration of the resulting games with existing courseware in Virtual Learning Environments
The core of the project is the educational game engine, that runs games defined using the language. Authors can use the graphical editor to create the games or directly access the human-readable source documents that describe the adventures using XML markup. With , any person can write an educational point & click adventure game

What are we looking for:

We wish to promote the use of the tools developed as part of the project.

The group is looking for collaborations with SME or enterprises that want to create innovative educational content using simulations and games. These simulations and games are very easy to translate to a different language and have a high maintainability.
Specially suited for industries and sector with a high degree of procedural knowledge (medicine, labor risk, defence, etc).

Keywords:

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Virtualisation
  • ] Open source
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Social software
  • ] Digital content
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile applications

Responsible

Model for creating Digital Documentation Centres

A group of researchers of the Dep. of Biblioteconomy and Documentation at Complutense University of Madrid offers an information management service following the more advanced documentation techniques. The process includes the digitalization of the client’s documentation on a controlled environment for the creation of his own Digital Documentation Centre.
The service is focused to enterprises related to the Information and Documentation, since they usually have big documental files. Therefore, they work mainly with documents in paper format (newspaper and magazine), photograph, video and audio. The working methodology includes, basically, the selection and analysis of the documents, their digitalization and their organization in databases accessible for the staff of the enterprise.

Companies that need to be advised to manage their huge documentation and we introduce them into digitalization and documentation techniques for an efficient management ot their accumulated documents.
These companies can offer their results to the interested public and researchers through Publidocnet website. It offers an space to publish on the Internet the databases with the digitalized information. In this way, the visibility of your enterprise or of the media is guaranteed. And researchers interested in Communication Media can access to this information for free.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Digitalising
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Data Warehouse
  • ] Business applications
  • ] Digital content

PubliEventos: Advertising and Events on Internet

Publieventos offers a new way to create and launch advertising on Internet for the client service. The offer combines a mix between the creativity of advertising students, together with the experience of a team of advertising researchers and professors of the Complutense University of Madrid and the more advanced technological resources to make available to the client (enterprises, institutions, etc.) a great qualified advertising service.
PubliEventos also provides to the client PubliDocNet resort, an advertising documentation reference site on the Internet.

Clients needing a new way for their advertising and looking for with a great creativity and very qualified exclusive formats. PubliEventos was born guaranteed by the securuty that provides the experience acquired with PubliDocNet, that will serve as a support and showcase to clients and students.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] CRM
  • ] Business applications
  • ] Business consultancy
  • ] Digital content

Real time systems visual development environment

A group of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid has elaborated a system to develop complex real time embedded software by visual modelling and with automatic code generation. Based on real time object oriented methodology this system is intrinsically object oriented, specific for real time systems and C++ code can be generated. It also has a graphic debugger of the developed software.
The fact that the system has been developed for low cost applications is a big advantage, which makes it commercially competitive. The versatility of the product is other important advantage since there are currently adapted versions for RTKernel, RTAI and QNX for hard real time, and W32 for soft real time.

The software may be used by any industry or research organization developing or wanting to develope real time software. With this system it can be achieved a great improvement in developing time and, also, a greater confident in the developed real time software.

We provide the software, except for the operative system, the required training and technical assistance.
The cost would be those arising from the training and technical assistance

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] High-performance computing
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Business applications
  • ] IT services

Integration Systems for Logistic Management and Optimization

A research group has developed a system for the optimization and management of distribution, storage and transportation logistic networks.
The system allows operational, strategic and tactical planning. It is a general system that that admits the adaptation to different industrial needs. It integrates in a unique system the different levels of analysis of storage and transportation networks.
The system has four working levels for the logistic management of a production and transportation network: Strategic level, Tactic level, Operational level and Control level.
It contemplates the main transportation methods: Road, Railway, Shipping and Pipelines.
They offer commercial agreement with technical assistance

Commercial agreements with enterprises that want to develope a new product distribution or to improve its own flow of goods.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Company network systems
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] ERP
  • ] CRM
  • ] Business Intelligence

SODAS 2.5: Symbolic Official Data Analysis System

The purpose of SODAS is to extend the standard tools of statistics and data mining to more complex data types: intervals, set of values, probability distributions, hierarchical relations, etc, that is, concepts modelled by symbolic objects. Allows the construction of symbolic data from relational database or directly through editing. Includes various tools for visualizing symbolic objects and the results of symbolic data analysis.
SODAS offers user-friendly dissemination of statistical data by means of symbolic objects. SODAS is oriented to big volume of data, to obtain summarised descriptions of subgroups by symbolic data, which are analysed and visualised.

ITC Enterprises needing new techniques in the treatment of very big data base including a new methodology and a support tool in their portofolio solution.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] BPM
  • ] ERP
  • ] CRM
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Data Warehouse
  • ] IT services

Dynamic forecast

A R&D group from Complutense University of Madrid has developed a methodology to model the uncertainty through dynamic predictions over time of any event subject to uncertainty. This event may be the flow down of a river in avenue regime, the demand for material to a warehouse, and so on.
The technology is capable of being applied to other contexts with a minimum previous work.
This technology allows a better parametric modelling of problems, to represent by probabilities the information on parameters and to make predictions using probability distributions. Provides solutions to incorporate information from the experts. Provides automatically a quality control.

We look for different collaboration projects with companies that need to make temporary forecast and are interested in investing for the fitting of the model. This collaboratioin will include:
• Study of the predicting problem of the client and determination of the way the Kalman filter can be applied to each particular problem.
• Development of the model and adjusting their elements to the historical data to make predictions in real time.
• Development of the computer program applied to the client's needs.
• Training of staff of the company for the better utilization of the program and its adaptation to new situations.
• Assistance, after the transfer process for the resolution of problems, both theoretical and practical, that can appear.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Company network systems
  • ] High-performance computing
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] BPM
  • ] ERP
  • ] Business applications
  • ] IT services
  • ] Business consultancy

Software Agents

The Software Agents research group at the Universidad Complutense Madrid offers support for the development of software agent-based applications. Software agents technology integrates results from different fields: artificial intelligence, distributed systems, and object-oriented techniques. We have applied this technology for service personalization, knowledge management, mobile services, ambient assisted living, and social simulation, among others.

We are looking for partners from ICT area interested in implementing this technology and related applications.
This technology is useful for all companies that offer e-business services, independently of the area or nationality. Companies that develop activities of seeking and spreading information are excellent targets to apply this technology.
This application is developed within limits of Internet and for this reason the costs of the new equipment and the training are significantly low.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] BPM
  • ] ERP
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Business applications
  • ] IT services
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile marketing
  • ] Mobile Internet
  • ] Mobile office
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Mobility and wireless

iTest: a web application for learner-directed assessment (and self-assessment)

iTest is a web application that, in a few words, allows instructors to configure exams and students to take them. It distinguishes two types of users and hence student and teacher interfaces have been implemented. A teacher user may define a syllabus of the course, work with questions, manage exams, register his students, view the grade of any student, and analyse statistics. A student user can take exams previously configured by the teacher of the course, and also review the taken exams online which is crucial for self-assessment.
The tool automatically grades the tests showing the score on the screen to the student taking the exam immediately after finishing.

iTest could be of interest for companies, manufacturers and institutions of any country and size, including educative centres, calculation centres at universities and private companies related to information technologies. The cost of acquisition or implementing the iTest by a company/institution would be negotiable depending on the necessities and the collaborative frame established.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Infrastructure software
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Data Warehouse
  • ] IT services

Magnetic signature system for document authentication

The Group of Magnetic Devices has invented a system to authenticate documents based on the magnetic signature of a set of magnetic nanowires. The signature is determined by the material of the wires (magnetic, non-magnetic or an alloy), their distribution in the document, and the common direction of the magnetic anisotropy.
The control over the composition of the wires and its distribution in the membrane increases the number of available signatures.
The relative orientation of the wires and the document, together with the higher surface density, enhance signal detectability.
Fabrication costs are lower as compared with magnetic signature systems, because of the reduction in the quantity of magnetic material used and the easier production process.

Being a cheap and easy technique, we believe this technology could be of interest to companies of any size in the field of security systems, or companies who produce nanoparticles or nanowires for various applications.
The viability of the detection system has been tested on a laboratory prototype. Companies interested would have to get involved in the remaining process before reaching commercialization status

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Processing Hardware
  • ] IT Security

Rigorous evaluation of embedded and real-time systems

The Testing and Performance Evaluation research group of the UCM studies rigorous techniques to carry on testing and performance evaluation activities. These techniques should be transferred to adequate real systems. In particular, the group would like to apply them to everyday devices.
Quality assurance by using rigorous testing techniques is a protection activity. Its main goal is to detect errors during the initial development stages in order to avoid that these errors are either propagated to ulterior stages or that they become faults of the developed system. Our technologies put an emphasis on temporal aspects that are usually overlooked and produce an increase of the revision and mantenance costs of systems.

The research group is looking forward to collaborate with companies producing these devices and that are interested in the application of rigorous techniques to improve the quality of these devices.
The group will collaborate with developers of systems where temporal properties play an important role. Specific examples of this type of systems are appliances and certain devices embedded in automoviles. The cost associated with the integration of this tecnology could be very limited since the technology might be implemented by the same team that it is currently in charge of testing and quality assurance activities.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] IT Security
  • ] Infrastructure software
  • ] High-performance computing
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] BPM
  • ] ERP

CGTel: mobile application for phones group spending control

A R&D group at Complutense University of Madrid has developed CGTel. It is a mobile tool, developed under Android operating system, designed for mass use. The main objective of CGTel is to calculate cumulative spending by one terminal and the total cost of a mobile group of partners in an interest group.
CGTel will run even when different companies supply telephone service.
CGTel will provide: monthly accruing cost of the group and of a each device and will recommend the use of that company with best prices in every momemnt.

The group seeks to work with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and companies with their own creative development of multimedia applications and services for these terminals who are interested in offering a new application on their portfolio.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Social software
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Operators
  • ] Mobile devices
  • ] Mobile marketing
  • ] Mobile office
  • ] Mobile applications

SocialSport: a sport social network for mobile devices

SocialSport is a social network developed by a university R&D group. It is a social network which is accessible from both the traditional PC and any mobile device with Web based technology. The target of this network is fans of a sport, supported by the network, although the user type will be configured individually or as a group (a sport team). Canceled matches will disappear as unforeseen events of the team members will be solved quickly and conveniently from your mobile phone or any device with Internet access:
- An incomplete team may be supplemented by searching for the missing players.
- A player may be offered to be part of an incomplete team.
- A full team can offer to compete with other teams interested in class (search for opposing teams).

The group seeks to work with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and companies with their own creative development of multimedia applications and services for these terminals who are interested in offering a new application on their portfolio.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Social software
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile devices
  • ] Mobile marketing
  • ] Mobile Internet
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Mobility and wireless

Shop & Go: mobile application for route optimization in supermarkets

Shop & Go is a mobile tool, developed under Android operating system. The main objective of Shop & Go is the generation of an optimal route for completing the purchase in large supermarkets. This application also has added value related features that make the tool interesting both from the standpoint of the end user and the supplier company.
Shop & Go is based on the adaptation of route optimization algorithms to the particular case of maps of supermarkets.

The group seeks to work with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and companies with their own creative development of multimedia applications and services for these terminals who are interested in offering a new application on their portfolio.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] CRM
  • ] Business applications
  • ] Mobile applications
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile devices
  • ] e-commerce
  • ] Mobile Internet
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Mobility and wireless

Recycla.me: recognition and recycling system of materials supported by a mobile application

Recycla.me is a mobile tool, developed under the Android operating system. The main objective is to help a user to properly recycle any type of package that could be potentially assigned an encryption code, like a bar type or a bidi type.
Taking a photograph of the product code the phone collects and analyzes data associated with the code.
Recycla.me gives real-time information about all materials contained in the product and tells us how we should properly recycle the product even if you have to separate it into parts.

The group seeks to work with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and companies with their own creative development of multimedia applications and services for these terminals who are interested in offering a new application on their portfolio.

• Infrastructures and Systems
  • ] Digitalising
• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] Business Intelligence
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Social software
  • ] IT services
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile devices
  • ] Mobile applications

LocalyZA: The best way to locate and be located at major events

LocalyZA is a mobile tool developed under Android operating system. The main objective of LocalyZA is the location of people at big events: concerts, conventions, fairs, etc….
LocalyZA gives real-time information about which attendees are in the personal contact list (gmail mobile address book and contacts) of any participant. This system has a central server that stores a card for each participant entering the event and location constraints expressed by him/her. Once inside the room the participant can view on his/her mobile phone business the other participants’ cards, classified in the following categories: bussines, friends, others,..
The sending system adds a two-way interview request that can be accepted, rejected or ignored by the receiving participant

The group seeks to work with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and companies with their own creative development of multimedia applications and services for these terminals who are interested in offering a new application on their portfolio.

• Tools and Solutions for Business
  • ] CRM
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Social software
• Internet and Telecommunications
  • ] Mobile devices
  • ] Mobile marketing
  • ] Mobile office
  • ] Mobile applications
  • ] Mobility and wireless