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Publicación A Cloud Game-based Educative Platform Architecture: the CyberScratch Project(MDPI, 2021) Utrilla, Alejandro; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Hernández Berlinches, RobertoThe employment of modern technologies is widespread in our society, so the inclusion of practical activities for education has become essential and useful at the same time. These activities are more noticeable in Engineering, in areas such as cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence, etc. Additionally, these activities acquire even more relevance with a distance education methodology, as our case is. The inclusion of these practical activities has clear advantages , such as (1) promoting critical thinking and (2) improving students’ abilities and skills for their professional careers. There are several options, such as the use of remote and virtual laboratories, virtual reality and gamebased platforms, among others. This work addresses the development of a new cloud game-based educational platform, which defines a modular and flexible architecture (using light containers). This architecture provides interactive and monitoring services and data storage in a transparent way. The platform uses gamification to integrate the game as part of the instructional process. The CyberScratch project is a particular implementation of this architecture focused on cybersecurity game-based activities. The data privacy management is a critical issue for these kinds of platforms, so the architecture is designed with this feature integrated in the platform components. To achieve this goal, we first focus on all the privacy aspects for the data generated by our cloud game-based platform, by considering the European legal context for data privacy following GDPR and ISO/IEC TR 20748-1:2016 recommendations for Learning Analytics (LA). Our second objective is to provide implementation guidelines for efficient data privacy management for our cloud game-based educative platform. All these contributions are not found in current related works. The CyberScratch project, which was approved by UNED for the year 2020, considers using the xAPI standard for data handling and services for the game editor, game engine and game monitor modules of CyberScratch. Therefore, apart from considering GDPR privacy and LA recommendations, our cloud game-based architecture covers all phases from game creation to the final users’ interactions with the game.Publicación Alf : un entorno abierto para el desarrollo de comunidades virtuales de trabajo y cursos adaptados a la educación superior(2005-02-23) Raffenne, Emmanuelle; Aguado, M.; Arroyo, D.; Cordova, M. A.; Guzmán Sánchez, José Luis; Hermira, S.; Ortíz, J.; Pesquera, A.; Morales, R.; Romojaro Gómez, Héctor; Valiente, S.; Carmona, G.; Tejedor, D.; Alejo, J. A.; García Saiz, Tomás; González Boticario, Jesús; Pastor Vargas, RafaelAlf, entorno de trabajo, comunidades virtuales, enseñanza superiorPublicación Analyzing the Users’ Acceptance of an IoT Cloud Platform using the UTAUT/TAM Model(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021) Haut, Juan M.; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Hernández Berlinches, RobertoAntonio Robles-Gómez, Llanos Tobarra, Rafael Pastor-Vargas, Roberto Hernández, Juan M. Haut; Título:; Publicación: . ISSN (https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3125497);Publicación Dataset Generation and Study of Deepfake Techniques(Springer, 2023) Falcón López, Sergio Adrián; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, RafaelThe consumption of multimedia content on the Internet has nowadays been expanded exponentially. These trends have contributed to fake news can become a very high influence in the current society. The latest techniques to influence the spread of digital false information are based on methods of generating images and videos, known as Deepfakes. This way, our research work analyzes the most widely used Deepfake content generation methods, as well as explore different conventional and advanced tools for Deepfake detection. A specific dataset has also been built that includes both fake and real multimedia contents. This dataset will allow us to verify whether the used image and video forgery detection techniques can detect manipulated multimedia content.Publicación Detection of Cerebral Ischaemia using Transfer Learning Techniques(IEEE) Antón Munárriz, Cristina; Haut, Juan M.; Paoletti, Mercedes E.; Benítez Andrades, José Alberto; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Robles Gómez, AntonioCerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke is one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity today, causing permanent disabilities. Its early detection helps reduce its effects and its mortality: time is brain. Currently, non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) continues to be the first-line diagnostic method in stroke emergencies because it is a fast, available, and cost-effective technique that makes it possible to rule out haemorrhage and focus attention on the ischemic origin, that is, due to obstruction to arterial flow. NCCT are quantified using a scoring system called ASPECTS (Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score) according to the affected brain structures. This paper aims to detect in an initial phase those CTs of patients with stroke symptoms that present early alterations in CT density using a binary classifier of CTs without and with stroke, to alert the doctor of their existence. For this, several well-known neural network architectures are implemented in the ImageNet challenges (VGG, NasNet, ResNet and DenseNet), with 3D images, covering the entire brain volume. The training results of these networks are exposed, in which different parameters are tested to obtain maximum performance, which is achieved with a DenseNet3D network that achieves an accuracy of 98% in the training set and 95% in the test setPublicación Easy Java Simulations: an Open-Source Tool to Develop Interactive Virtual Laboratories Using MATLAB/Simulink(TEMPUS Publications, The International Journal of Engineering Education: Especial issue on Matlab/Simulink in engineering education, 21, 5, 798-813, 2005, 2005-01-01) Esquembre Martínez, Francisco; Dormido Bencomo, Sebastián; Sánchez Moreno, José; Martín Villalba, Carla; Dormido Canto, Sebastián; Dormido Canto, Raquel; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Urquía Moraleda, AlfonsoPublicación Emulating and Evaluating Virtual Remote Laboratories for Cybersecurity(MDPI, 2020) Cano, Jesús; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Hernández Berlinches, RobertoOur society is nowadays evolving towards a digital era, due to the extensive use of computer technologies and their interconnection mechanisms, i.e., social networks, Internet resources, IoT services, etc. This way, new threats and vulnerabilities appear. Therefore, there is an urgent necessity of training students in the topic of cybersecurity, in which practical skills have to be acquired. In distance education, the inclusion of on-line resources for hands-on activities in its curricula is a key step in meeting that need. This work presents several contributions. First, the fundamentals of a virtual remote laboratory hosted in the cloud are detailed. This laboratory is a step forward since the laboratory combines both virtualization and cloud paradigms to dynamically create emulated environments. Second, this laboratory has also been integrated into the practical curricula of a cybersecurity subject, as an additional on-line resource. Third, the students’ traceability, in terms of their interactions with the laboratory, is also analyzed. Psychological TAM/UTAUT factors (perceived usefulness, estimated effort, social influence, attitude, ease of access) that may affect the intention of using the laboratory are analyzed. Fourth, the degree of satisfaction is analyzed with a great impact, since the mean values of these factors are most of them higher than 4 points out of 5. In addition to this, the students’ acceptance of the presented technology is exhaustively studied. Two structural equation models have been hypothesized and validated. Finally, the acceptance of the technology can be concluded as very good in order to be used in @? other Engineering contexts. In this sense, the calculated statistical values for the improved proposed model are within the expected ranges of reliability (X2 = 0.6, X2/DF = 0.3, GFI = 0.985, CIF = 0.985, RMSEA = 0) by considering the literaturePublicación EVI-LINHD, a virtual research environment for the Spanish speaking community(Oxford University Press, 2017-12) González-Blanco García, Elena; Rio Riande, Gimena del; Díez Platas, María Luisa; Olmo, Álvaro del; Urízar, Miguel; Martínez Cantón, Clara Isabel; Ros Muñoz, Salvador; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Caminero Herráez, Agustín CarlosLaboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (UNED) has developed Entorno Virtual de Investigación del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (EVI-LINHD), the first virtual research environment devoted mainly to Spanish speakers interested in digital scholarly edition. EVI-LINHD combines different open-source software for developing a complete digital project: (1) a Webbased application markup tool—TEIscribe—combined with an eXistdb solution and a TEIPublisher platform, (2) Omeka for digital libraries, and (3) WordPress for simple Web pages. All these instances are linked to a local installation of the LINDAT/Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) digital repository. LINDAT/CLARIN allows EVI-LINHD users to have their projects deposited and stored safely. Thanks to this solution, EVI-LINHD projects also improve their visibility. The specific metadata profile used in the repository is based on Dublin Core, and it is enriched with the Spanish translation of DARIAH’s Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities.Publicación Forensic Analysis Laboratory for Sport Devices: A Practical Case of Use(MDPI, 2023) Donaire Calleja, Pablo; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, RafaelAt present, the mobile device sector is experiencing significant growth. In particular, wear- 1 able devices have become a common element in society. This fact implies that users unconsciously 2 accept the constant dynamic collection of private data about their habits and behaviours. Therefore, 3 this work focuses on highlighting and analyzing some of the main issues that forensic analysts face 4 in this sector, such as the lack of standard procedures for analysis and the common use of private 5 protocols for data communication. Thus, it is almost impossible for a digital forensic specialist to 6 fully specialize in the context of wearables, such as smartwatches for sports activities. With the aim 7 of highlighting these problems, a complete forensic analysis laboratory for such sports devices is 8 described in this paper. We selected a smartwatch belonging to the Garmin Forerunner Series, due to 9 its great popularity. Through an analysis, its strengths and weaknesses in terms of data protection 10 are described. We also analyze how companies are increasingly taking personal data privacy into 11 consideration, in order to minimize unwanted information leaks. Finally, a set of initial security 12 recommendations for the use of these kinds of devices are provided to the reader.Publicación Forensic Technologies to Automate the Acquisition of Digital Evidences(IEEE, 2022) García Guerrero, David; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, RafaelThe main goal of this work is to propose the automatic acquisition of evidences in a remote way. This automated capacity becomes interesting for companies with extensive networks and/or several locations, as it allows them to delegate and centralize the acquisition task at a single point in their structure, while saving time and travel costs. This research has been carried out through the initial implementation of a virtual laboratory made up of a network and different scenarios, by including an experimentation process. The virtual network includes both the machine from which automatic acquisitions are performed and the devices from retrieving the evidence. The group of devices will be made up of various experiments. The aim is to analyze the viability of the acquisition in different scenarios, since distributed networks are not homogeneous in the real worldPublicación La influencia de la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa en la Ciberseguridad: Deepfakes(2024-06) López Delgado, Juan Luis; Pastor Vargas, RafaelLa Inteligencia Arti cial ha avanzado mucho desde su inicio en 1943, cuando se propuso el primer modelo que simulaba la actividad de una red neuronal. Desde entonces, se han llevado a cabo muchas investigaciones que han llevado a la tecnología al punto de partida del que hoy en día se encuenta y desde el que parece que puede llegar a cambiar e in uir en nuestra vida de un modo indiscutible. Cabe destacar el trabajo de Goodfellow en 2014, cuando publicó su importante trabajo sobre la Inteligencia Arti cial desde un punto de vista totalmente distinto. En la década de 1960, la Inteligencia Arti cial Generativa había comenzado a emerger con chatbots. Estos no estaban demasiado desarrollados, aunque cumplían con su función. Good-fellow publicó entonces un modelo que era capaz de poder generar imágenes, vídeos y audios sintéticos. A este modelo se le bautizó como Redes Generativas Adversarias. Las aplicaciones de este modelo demostraron posteriormente ser muy numerosas: automatización de la generación de arte para redes sociales, pancartas o infografías; canciones generadas sintéticamente o incluso vídeos vídeos sin tener si quiera que ser grabados. Sin embargo, entre las aplicaciones también se puede encontrar alguna con nes maliciosos. Esta tecnología puede permitir suplantar identidades vulnerando principios tales como la integridad o la privacidad y suponer un riesgo muy alto en la ciberseguridad. Este Trabajo de Fin de Máster tiene como objetivo enumerar estos riesgos, centrándose principalmente en los deepfakes y la tecnología que los soporta. También se enumeran otras aplicaciones en ciberseguridad.Publicación Metodología y creación de dataset de la cesta básica de la compra mediante la clasificación por IA de productos alimenticios de supermercados(2024-06) Vera Bravo, Antonio José; Pastor Vargas, RafaelLa inflación es un fenómeno económico que hace que el poder adquisitivo de la población baje y el coste de vida suba. Por lo general es algo normal, la inflación anual suele estar entorno al 2 % pero en los últimos años hemos vivido una subida muy superior a ese 2 % y, en España, haciendo especial hincapié en la lista de la compra. Esto ha hecho que muchas familias sin capacidad de ahorro tenga que recurrir a la deuda. El objetivo de este trabajo es obtener los productos de los tres principales supermercados españoles, creando un dataset actualizable donde el usuario pueda conocer cual es el precio de antemano sin tener que ir al supermercado, pudiendo saber que comprar, donde y a que precio. Este trabajo da un punto de partida para poder seguir ayudando a los consumidores a optimizar sus gastos. Crea una base sólida para continuar el trabajo, mejorando la clasificación de los productos o incrementando los datos del dataset, tanto la cantidad de datos de cada producto como la cantidad de fuentes de datos.Publicación Renewable Energy Remote Online Laboratories in Jordan Universities: Tools for Training Students in Jordan(Elsevier, 2020-04) Cano, Jesús; Hammad, Bashar; Al Zoubi, Abdullah; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Hernández Berlinches, Roberto; Pancorbo Castro, ManuelThe use of the concept of technology-enhanced learning is a design already applied in developed countries and incorporated as an active part of their educational models and curricular development. This is even more relevant in the case of eLearning, where these technologies correspond to remote / virtual laboratories. They are very useful in the fields of Science and Engineering. According to this, the current work shows the incorporation of this type of technology to traditional curricular schemes, with the aim of improving the effectiveness of learning. Another objective is to build reusable infrastructures among Universities, supported with public and private government resources. Specifically, this paper shows the development, implementation, and integration of remote renewable energy laboratories in Jordan, and how they have been used within the director plan of the Jordanian government for the promotion of renewable energies in that country. This plan includes not only the design of remote laboratories but also their integration into a curricular model. This integration is done at the level of online learning courses and pilot experiences in the development of these types of learning technologies. In a distance methodology environment, the instructors must design the course structure keeping in mind that students are online, but not face-to-face in the classroom. Additionally, they have to propose adapted resources (remote laboratories, guidelines, etc.) and content. The paper focuses on the incorporation of remote/virtual laboratories, showing how these labs were developed/integrated into online courses. To validate the incorporation of this type of resources in an environment usually not online, a set of surveys was designed to support a technology evaluation methodology (TAM, Technology Acceptance Model). This evaluation allows knowing the degree of satisfaction of the technology (remote and virtual laboratories as resources) using a structured experimental method (SEM, Structural Equation Models). As a result of the application of this experimental method, the calculated statistical data indicate that the use of remote and virtual laboratories improves the perception and use of virtual environments at a distance. Also, it can be indicated that these laboratories are presented as an essential resource to improve the quality of online teaching in engineering courses.Publicación Researchers’ perceptions of DH trends and topics in the English and Spanish-speaking community. DayofDH data as a case study(Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University (Cracovia), 2016-07-22) González-Blanco García, Elena; Rio Riande, Gimena del; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Ros Muñoz, Salvador; Hernández Berlinches, Roberto; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Caminero Herráez, Agustín Carlos; Pastor Vargas, RafaelPublicación SiCoDeF² Net: Siamese Convolution Deconvolution Feature Fusion Network for One-Shot Classification(IEEE, 2021) Kumar Roy, Swalpa; Kar, Purbayan; Paoletti, Mercedes E.; Haut, Juan M.; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Robles Gómez, AntonioNowadays, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for face recognition exhibit a performance comparable to human ability in the presence of the appropriate amount of labelled training data. However, training CNNs remains as an arduous task due to the lack of training samples. To overcome this drawback, applications demand one-shot learning to improve the obtained performances over traditional machine learning approaches by learning representative information about data categories from few training samples. In this context, Siamese convolutional network ( SiConvNet ) provides an interesting deep architecture to tackle the data limitation. In this regard, applying the convolution operation on real world images by using the trainable correlative Gaussian kernel adds correlations to the output images, which hinder the recognition process due to the blurring effects introduced by the convolution kernel application. As a result the pixel-wise and channel-wise correlations or redundancies could appear in both single and multiple feature maps obtained by a hidden layer. In this sense, convolution-based models fail to generalize the feature representation because of both the strong correlations presence in neighboring pixels and the channel-wise high redundancies between different channels of the feature maps, which hamper the effective training. Deconvolution operation helps to overcome the shortcomings that limit the conventional SiConvNet performance, learning successfully correlation-free features representation. In this paper, a simple but efficient Siamese convolution deconvolution feature fusion network ( SiCoDeF 2 Net ) is proposed to learn the invariant and discriminative complementary features generated from both the (i) sub-convolution (SCoNet) and (ii) sub deconvolutional (SDeNet) networks using a concatenation operation which significantly improves the one-shot unconstrained facial recognition task. Extensive experiments performed on several widely used benchmarks, provide promising results, where the proposed SiCoDeF 2 Net model significantly outperforms the current state-of-art in terms of classification accuracy, F1, precision and recall. The code will be available on: https://github.com/purbayankar/SiCoDeF2Net .Publicación Smart Contracts for Managing the Chain-of-Custody of Digital Evidence: A Practical Case of Study(MDPI, 2023) Santamaría, Pablo; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Robles Gómez, AntonioThe digital revolution is renewing many aspects of our lives, which is also a challenge in judicial processes, such as the Chain-of-Custody (CoC) process of any electronic evidence. A CoC management system must be designed to guarantee them to maintain its integrity in court. This issue is essential for digital evidence’s admissibility and probative value. This work has built and validated a real prototype to manage the CoC process of any digital evidence. Our technological solution follows a process model that separates the evidence registry and any evidence itself for scalability purposes. It includes the development of an open-source smart contract under Quorum, a version of Ethereum oriented to private business environments. The significant findings of our analysis have been: (1) Blockchain networks can become a solution, where integrity, privacy and traceability must be guaranteed between untrustworthy parties; and (2) the necessity of promoting the standardization of CoC smart contracts with a secure, simple process logic. Consequently, these contracts should be deployed in consortium environments, where reliable, independent third parties validate the transactions without having to know their content.Publicación Students’ Acceptance and Tracking of a New Container-Based Virtual Laboratory(MDPI, 2020) Cano, Jesús; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Hernández Berlinches, Roberto; Duque Fernández, AndrésPresently, the ever-increasing use of new technologies helps people to acquire additional skills for developing an applied critical thinking in many contexts of our society. When it comes to education, and more particularly in any Engineering subject, practical learning scenarios are key to achieve a set of competencies and applied skills. In our particular case, the cybersecurity topic with a distance education methodology is considered and a new remote virtual laboratory based on containers will be presented and evaluated in this work. The laboratory is based on the Linux Docker virtualization technology, which allows us to create consistent realistic scenarios with lower configuration requirements for the students. The laboratory is comparatively evaluated with our previous environment, LoT@UNED, from both the points of view of the students’ acceptance with a set of UTAUT models, and their behavior regarding evaluation items, time distribution, and content resources. All data was obtained from students’ surveys and platform registers. The main conclusion of this work is that the proposed laboratory obtains a very high acceptance from the students, in terms of several different indicators (perceived usefulness, estimated effort, social influence, attitude, ease of access, and intention of use). Neither the use of the virtual platform nor the distance methodology employed affect the intention to use the technology proposed in this workPublicación Teaching cloud computing using Web of Things devices(IEEE, 2018) Carrillo, J. Cano; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Romero Hortelano, Miguel; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Hernández Berlinches, RobertoThis work deals with the teaching of the innovative technology, named cloud computing, using the Web of Things (WoT) platform model based on web services. These services are designed and programmed by the students to handle embedded hardware devices (things) on Internet. The course is carried out within a makerspace where our students can take advantage of valuable on-line tools which are available in a collaborative learning environment. The introduction of these innovative technological elements improves the students' interest and engagement leading to achieve better learning results.Publicación The Three-Tank System: A Remote and Virtual Control Laboratory using Easy Java Simulations(2005-01-01) Vargas Oyarzun, Héctor; Dormido Bencomo, Sebastián; Duro Carralero, Natividad; Dormido Canto, Raquel; Sánchez Moreno, José; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Dormido Canto, Sebastián