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    Vulnerability Assessment of Learning Management Systems
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-03-21) Sancristóbal Ruiz, Elio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Gil Ortego, Rosario; Meier, Russ; Saliah-Hassane, Hamadou; Castro Gil, Manuel Alonso
    This paper presents a vulnerability assessment of a class of web applications designed to serve educational coursework to online users. We describe the deployment landscape, the known vulnerabilities institutions must be aware of, and document how non-supervised deployment puts institutions at risk from cybercriminals.
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    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, Antonio
    Cerebrovascular 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 set
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    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, Rafael
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    Web of Things Platforms for Distance Learning Scenarios in Computer Science Disciplines: A Practical Approach
    (MDPI, 2019) Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Hernández Berlinches, Roberto; Cano, Jesús; López, Daniel; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6926-1311
    Problem-based learning is a widely used learning methodology in the field of technological disciplines, especially in distance education environments. In these environments, the most used tools, which provide learning scenarios, are remote and virtual laboratories. Internet of Things (IoT) devices can be used as remote or virtual laboratories. In addition to this, they can be organized/orchestrated to build remote maker spaces through the web. These types of spaces are called the Web of Things (WoT). This paper proposes the use of these types of spaces and their integration as practical activities into the curricula of technological subjects. This approach will allow us to achieve two fundamental objectives: (1) To improve the academic results (grades) of students; and (2) to increase engagement and interest of students in the studied technologies, including IoT devices. These platforms are modeled using archetypes based on different typologies and usage scenarios. In particular, these usage scenarios will implement a learning strategy for each problem to be solved. The current work shows the evolution of these archetypes and their application in the teaching of disciplines/subjects defined in computer science, such as distributed computing and cybersecurity.
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    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, Andrés
    Presently, 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 work
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    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, Antonio
    Nowadays, 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 .
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    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, Rafael
    Alf, entorno de trabajo, comunidades virtuales, enseñanza superior
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    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 Carlos
    Laboratorio 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.
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    The Three-Tank System: A Remote and Virtual Control Laboratory using Easy Java Simulations
    (2005-01-01) Vargas Oyarzún, Héctor; Dormido Bencomo, Sebastián; Duro Carralero, Natividad; Dormido Canto, Raquel; Sánchez Moreno, José; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Dormido Canto, Sebastián
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    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, Antonio
    The 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.