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Although many courses in computer science and software engineering require students to work on practical assignments, these are usually toy projects that do not come close to real professional developments. As such, recent graduates often fail to meet industry expectations when they first enter the workforce. In view of the gap between graduates’ skills and industry expectations, several institutions have resorted to integrating open-source software development as part of their programs. In this pilot study, we report on the results of the contributions of eleven students to the FIWARE open-source project as part of their final year project. Our findings suggest that both teachers and students have a positive perception towards contributing to the FIWARE open-source initiative and that students increased their knowledge of technologies valued by the industry. We also found that this kind of project requires an additional initial effort for the students as well as for the instructor to monitor their progress. Consequently, it is important that the instructors have previous experience in FIWARE, as many of the students need help during the process.
Javier Conde; Sonsoles López-Pernas; Alejandro Pozo; Andres Munoz-Arcentales; Gabriel Huecas; Álvaro Alonso. Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study. Electronics 2021, 10, 1523 .
AMA StyleJavier Conde, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Alejandro Pozo, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Gabriel Huecas, Álvaro Alonso. Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study. Electronics. 2021; 10 (13):1523.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJavier Conde; Sonsoles López-Pernas; Alejandro Pozo; Andres Munoz-Arcentales; Gabriel Huecas; Álvaro Alonso. 2021. "Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study." Electronics 10, no. 13: 1523.
To provide web services adapted to the users’ functional capabilities, diversity must be considered from the conceptualization and design phases of the services’ development. In previous work, we proposed a model that allows the provisioning of adapted interfaces based on users’ identity and their functional attributes to facilitate this task for software designers and developers. However, these identities and attributes are self-declared by the users, which may impact reliability and usability. In this work, we propose an extension of our model to resolve these deficiencies by delegating the identity and attributes’ provision to external certified entities. The European electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) regulation established a solution to ensure the cross-border mutual recognition of Electronic Identification (eID) mechanisms among the European Member States. This research aims to provide an extension of this regulation mentioned above (eIDAS) to support functional attributes and connect our previously proposed model to this extended eIDAS network. Thanks to this proposal, web services can guarantee adapted and personalized interfaces while improving the functionalities offered without any previous configuration by users and, in a reliable way, since the functional attributes belong to the users’ official eID. As the attribute set provided by eIDAS nodes only contains citizens’ personal and legal ones, we also propose a mechanism to connect the eIDAS network to external attribute providers that could extend the eIDAS profile of users with their functional attributes. We deployed a pilot to validate the proposed model consisting of an identity provider, an eIDAS node supporting the extended reference code, and an attribute provider supporting functional attributes. We also designed and implemented a simple service that supports eID authentication and serves adapted interfaces based on the retrieved extended eIDAS profile. Finally, we developed an experience for getting feedback from a set of real users with different functional capabilities. According to the results, we concluded that the generalized adoption of the proposed solution in the European digital web services will significantly improve their accessibility in terms of ease of use and adaptability to users’ capacities.
Lourdes Marco; Alejandro Pozo; Gabriel Huecas; Juan Quemada; Álvaro Alonso. User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 3980 .
AMA StyleLourdes Marco, Alejandro Pozo, Gabriel Huecas, Juan Quemada, Álvaro Alonso. User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18 (8):3980.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLourdes Marco; Alejandro Pozo; Gabriel Huecas; Juan Quemada; Álvaro Alonso. 2021. "User-Adapted Web Services by Extending the eIDAS Specification with Functional Attributes." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 8: 3980.
In recent years, a new business paradigm has emerged which revolves around effectively extracting value from data. In this scope, providing a secure ecosystem for data sharing that ensures data governance and traceability is of paramount importance as it holds the potential to create new applications and services. Protecting data goes beyond restricting who can access what resource (covered by identity and Access Control): it becomes necessary to control how data are treated once accessed, which is known as data Usage Control. Data Usage Control provides a common and trustful security framework to guarantee the compliance with data governance rules and responsible use of organizations’ data by third-party entities, easing and ensuring secure data sharing in ecosystems such as Smart Cities and Industry 4.0. In this article, we present an implementation of a previously published architecture for enabling access and Usage Control in data-sharing ecosystems among multiple organizations using the FIWARE European open source platform. Additionally, we validate this implementation through a real use case in the food industry. We conclude that the proposed model, implemented using FIWARE components, provides a flexible and powerful architecture to manage Usage Control in data-sharing ecosystems.
Andres Munoz-Arcentales; Sonsoles López-Pernas; Alejandro Pozo; Álvaro Alonso; Joaquín Salvachúa; Gabriel Huecas. Data Usage and Access Control in Industrial Data Spaces: Implementation Using FIWARE. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3885 .
AMA StyleAndres Munoz-Arcentales, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Alejandro Pozo, Álvaro Alonso, Joaquín Salvachúa, Gabriel Huecas. Data Usage and Access Control in Industrial Data Spaces: Implementation Using FIWARE. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3885.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndres Munoz-Arcentales; Sonsoles López-Pernas; Alejandro Pozo; Álvaro Alonso; Joaquín Salvachúa; Gabriel Huecas. 2020. "Data Usage and Access Control in Industrial Data Spaces: Implementation Using FIWARE." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3885.
The following document explores the viability of the usage of consumer-grade, ARM-based single board computers as a power saving alternative to the traditional monolithic x64-full-server based approach.By taking advantage of several capabilities provided by such devices, such as low cost, low power consumption and low on-time, the authors finally propose a scalable, energy-efficient, ARM-based cloud infrastructure.To that end, we start analyzing the current offerings in terms of capabilities, net cost, processing power and power consumption, comparing them with the relevant server-oriented offerings.We subsequently explore the adequacy of several metrics to model on-budget raw data processing, considering full-system wattage under nominal usage conditions.The low initial investment and long-term affordability of this approach results in quite a relevant case of application to Edge Cloud computing scenarios.
Pedro Verdugo; Joaquín Salvachúa; Gabriel Huecas. A Study on the Energetic Viability of Single Board Computers for Cloud Computing Scenarios. Proceedings XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica - JITEL2017 2017, 176 -181.
AMA StylePedro Verdugo, Joaquín Salvachúa, Gabriel Huecas. A Study on the Energetic Viability of Single Board Computers for Cloud Computing Scenarios. Proceedings XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica - JITEL2017. 2017; ():176-181.
Chicago/Turabian StylePedro Verdugo; Joaquín Salvachúa; Gabriel Huecas. 2017. "A Study on the Energetic Viability of Single Board Computers for Cloud Computing Scenarios." Proceedings XIII Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica - JITEL2017 , no. : 176-181.
Resumen En el entorno tecnosocial actual la importancia de ofrecer contenidos personalizados a los usuarios de las diferentes plataformas sociales existentes, que se ajusten a sus necesidades en cada momento, es un factor clave para el éxito de las mismas. Los sistemas recomendadores juegan un papel crucial, pero en muchos casos su nivel de personalización es escaso o demasiado generalista. Se analizan dos aspectos claves para la evolución de estos sistemas: la proactividad y la contextualización. Se propone un modelo teórico de referencia para la creación de sistemas de recomendación proactivos basados en información contextual, y se comprueba su viabilidad en dos escenarios reales donde han sido implementados con éxito: el bancario y el de las redes personales de aprendizaje. Finalmente se destacan líneas de actuación futuras siguiendo las aportaciones expuestas con especial atención a su aplicación en entornos educativos.
Daniel Gallego-Vico; Antonio Fumero-Reverón; Gabriel Huecas Fernandez-Toribio. Proactividad y contextualización: futuro del diseño de sistemas recomendadores. El Profesional de la información 2013, 22, 19 -25.
AMA StyleDaniel Gallego-Vico, Antonio Fumero-Reverón, Gabriel Huecas Fernandez-Toribio. Proactividad y contextualización: futuro del diseño de sistemas recomendadores. El Profesional de la información. 2013; 22 (1):19-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaniel Gallego-Vico; Antonio Fumero-Reverón; Gabriel Huecas Fernandez-Toribio. 2013. "Proactividad y contextualización: futuro del diseño de sistemas recomendadores." El Profesional de la información 22, no. 1: 19-25.