Senén Barro

Prof. Senén Barro

CiTIUS, University of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain

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Academic Career Length

38Years (1989-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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19 April 2023 in International Journal of STEM Education
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LCLorena Casal-Otero
Lorena Casal-Otero
ACAlejandro Catala
Alejandro Catala
CFCarmen Fernández-Morante
Carmen Fernández-Morante
MTMaria Taboada
Maria Taboada
BCBeatriz Cebreiro-López
Beatriz Cebreiro-López
SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro
The successful irruption of AI-based technology in our daily lives has led to a growing educational, social, and political interest in training citizens in AI. Education systems now need to train students at the K-12 level to live in a society where they must interact with AI. Thus, AI literacy is a pedagogical and cognitive challenge at the K-12 level. This study aimed to understand how AI is being integrated into K-12 education worldwide. We conducted a search process following the systematic literature review method using Scopus. 179 documents were reviewed, and two broad groups of AI literacy approaches were identified, namely learning experience and theoretical perspective. The first group covered experiences in learning technical, conceptual and applied skills in a particular domain of interest. The second group revealed that significant efforts are being made to design models that frame AI literacy proposals. There were hardly any experiences that assessed whether students understood AI concepts after the learning experience. Little attention has been paid to the undesirable consequences of an indiscriminate and insufficiently thought-out application of AI. A competency framework is required to guide the didactic proposals designed by educational institutions and define a curriculum reflecting the sequence and academic continuity, which should be modular, personalized and adjusted to the conditions of the schools. Finally, AI literacy can be leveraged to enhance the learning of disciplinary core subjects by integrating AI into the teaching process of those subjects, provided the curriculum is co-designed with teachers.

17 July 2021 in Multimedia Tools and Applications
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FCFernando E. Casado
Fernando E. Casado
DLDylan Lema
Dylan Lema
MCMarcos F. Criado
Marcos F. Criado
RRRoberto Iglesias Rodríguez
Roberto Iglesias Rodríguez
CRCarlos V Regueiro
Carlos V Regueiro
SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro
Smart devices, such as smartphones, wearables, robots, and others, can collect vast amounts of data from their environment. This data is suitable for training machine learning models, which can significantly improve their behavior, and therefore, the user experience. Federated learning is a young and popular framework that allows multiple distributed devices to train deep learning models collaboratively while preserving data privacy. Nevertheless, this approach may not be optimal for scenarios where data distribution is non-identical among the participants or changes over time, causing what is known asconcept drift. Little research has yet been done in this field, but this kind of situation is quite frequent in real life and poses new challenges to both continual and federated learning. Therefore, in this work, we present a new method, called Concept-Drift-Aware Federated Averaging (CDA-FedAvg). Our proposal is an extension of the most popular federated algorithm, Federated Averaging (FedAvg), enhancing it for continual adaptation under concept drift. We empirically demonstrate the weaknesses of regular FedAvg and prove that CDA-FedAvg outperforms it in this type of scenario.

1 June 2000 in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
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Xosé A. VilaXosé A. Vila
Xosé A. Vila
YGYi Gang
Yi Gang
JPJ.M.R. Presedo
J.M.R. Presedo
Manuel Fernández-DelgadoManuel Fernández-Delgado
Manuel Fernández-Delgado
SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro
MMM. Malik
M. Malik
Presents a new TU complex detection and characterization algorithm that consists of two stages; the first is a mathematical modeling of the electrocardiographic segment after QRS complex; the second uses classic threshold comparison techniques, over the signal and its first and second derivatives, to determine the significant points of each wave. Later, both T and U waves are morphologically classified. Amongst the principal innovations of this algorithm is the inclusion of U-wave characterization and a mathematical modeling stage, that avoids many of the problems of classic techniques when there is a low signal-to-noise ratio or when wave morphology is atypical. The results of the algorithm validation with the recently appeared QT database are also shown. For T waves these results are better when compared to other existing algorithms. U-wave results cannot be contrasted with other algorithms as, to the authors' knowledge, none are available. Examples showing the causes of principal discrepancies between the authors' algorithm and the QT database annotations are also given, and some ways of attempting to improve and benefit from the proposed algorithm are suggested.

1 November 2018 in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
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MSManisha Sanjay Sirsat
Manisha Sanjay Sirsat
Eva CernadasEva Cernadas
Eva Cernadas
Manuel Fernández-DelgadoManuel Fernández-Delgado
Manuel Fernández-Delgado
SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro

3 June 2014 in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
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ASAlejandro Ramos Soto
Alejandro Ramos Soto
ABAlberto Jose Bugarin
Alberto Jose Bugarin
SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro
JTJuan Taboada
Juan Taboada
We present in this paper an application that automatically generates textual short-term weather forecasts for every municipality in Galicia (NW Spain), using the real data provided by the Galician Meteorology Agency (MeteoGalicia). This solution combines in an innovative way computing with perceptions techniques and strategies for linguistic description of data, together with a natural language generation (NLG) system. The application, which is named GALiWeather, extracts relevant information from weather forecast input data and encodes it into intermediate descriptions using linguistic variables and temporal references. These descriptions are later translated into natural language texts by the NLG system. The obtained forecast results have been thoroughly validated by an expert meteorologist from MeteoGalicia using a quality assessment methodology, which covers two key dimensions of a text: the accuracy of its content and the correctness of its form. Following this validation, GALiWeather will be released as a real service, offering custom forecasts for a wide public.

1 January 1994 in Fuzzy Sets and Systems
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SBSenén Barro
Senén Barro
RMRoque Marín
Roque Marín
JMJosé Mira
José Mira
APAlfonso R. Patón
Alfonso R. Patón