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    Dataset Generation and Study of Deepfake Techniques
    (Springer, 2023) Falcón López, Sergio Adrián; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Pastor Vargas, Rafael
    The 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.
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    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, Rafael
    The 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 world
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    Anomaly Detection in Smart Rural IoT Systems
    (Springer, 2025-06) Fernández Morales, Enrique; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Vidal Balboa, Pedro; Sarraipa, Joao
    The main contribution of this work is based on the presentation of new AI models for the detection of attacks, within IoT systems using an extensive and complete dataset. In this context, we evaluate not only the performance of the models in terms of detection of attacks, but also their resource consumption, such as the time needed to analyze a sample, the consumption of computing cycles to analyze a sample, as well as the hard disk usage to store the AI models. Its application is oriented to the context of IoT systems in rural environments, where devices deployed in these environments usually have strong restrictions on these resources. Our results indicate that the OPTIMIST-LSTM model offers the best balance between accuracy and generalization, whereas XAI-IoT stands out for its computational efficiency, making them the most suitable for implementation in IoT infrastructures with limited resources.
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    Assessing Feature Selection Techniques for AI-based IoT Network Intrusion Detection
    (Springer, 2025-06) García Merino, José Carlos; Tobarra Abad, María de los Llanos; Robles Gómez, Antonio; Pastor Vargas, Rafael; Vidal Balboa, Pedro; Dionisio Rocha, André; Jardim Gonçalves, Ricardo
    The widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in rural areas has led to qualitative leaps in fields such as agriculture, livestock farming, and transportation, giving rise to the concept of Smart Rural. However, Smart Rural IoT ecosystems are often vulnerable to cyberattacks. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) based intrusion detection systems offer an effective solution to protect these environments, IoT devices are typically constrained in terms of memory and computation capabilities, making it essential to optimise the computational burden of AI models. This work explores different feature selection techniques to develop compact and fast Random Forest models for anomaly detection in IoT environments. The obtained results demonstrate that appropriate feature selection can reduce model size and inference time by at least 45% and 8%, respectively, without compromising predictive performance.
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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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    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, Roberto
    This 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.
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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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    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.
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    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, Roberto
    Our 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 literature