El projecte haurà de permetre la definició i la construcció d’una eina de suport a les decisions metodològiques dels mestres, que els hi proposi itineraris formatius amb els materials (activitats generadores d’aprenentatge) que s’hauran categoritzat i etiquetat en funció de la seves característiques en relació a com s’aprenen i que s’adaptaran a les característiques i condicionants de cada alumne.
El sistema, a més, permetrà l’autorregulació de l’aprenentatge per part dels alumnes, gràcies a eines que fomentin i estimulin la metacognició. D’aquesta manera, mitjançant un canvi tecnològic, es possibilita un canvi de paradigma metodològic a dues bandes: El professorat podrà atendre molt millor les diferències individuals de l’alumnat i els alumnes podran assumir el control del seu procés d’aprenentatge.
Per una altra banda el projecte pretén combatre l’alt percentatge de fracàs escolar i d’abandonament dels estudis obligatoris, gràcies, precisament a l’alta adaptabilitat dels continguts a les necessitats educatives específiques de cada perfil d’alumne.
Per últim, pretén compensar la fractura digital amb l’ús de les TIC, afavorint la seva incorporació a l’aula, integrant-les en la quotidianitat.

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Self-* systems, where * stands for a number of properties such as self-organisation, self-configuration, self-diagnose or self-repair, are systems capable of managing themselves. They provide the most convenient alternative for software development in open, unstructured and dynamic environments. These are the characteristics of a new surge of emerging application domains composed with a wealth of devices and software and human agents. These applications require the effective coordination among participants to achieve their global and individual goals. Furthermore, coordination mechanisms have to be adapted over time to continue being effective under environmental changes.
Virtual worlds (VW) are interactive, computer generated 3D environments where participants come together for a variety of self and group determined purposes. They are a successful technology to integrate humans in computer systems.
The main aim of this project is to apply multi-agent technologies to the engineering of self-* systems composed of software and/or human agents, while paying special attention to those that are to be virtually embedded. We propose to achieve that aim by fulfilling the following three objectives:

1. To design new computational models and algorithms for their application to the achievement of coordination in self-* systems.

2. To develop a simulation environment to test virtually-embedded self-* systems.

3. To construct three proof-of-concept prototypes that illustrate the algorithms and technologies created in the project.

The IIIA is in charge of producing a document on the state of the art and prospective developments of dispute resolution technologies for a "white book" on mediation that has been commissioned by the Justice Department of the Catalan Government. 

The objective of the White Book on Mediation is to produce and in-depth study of mediation and dispute resolution mechanisms that might be an alternative to customary judiciary mechanisms, in Catalonia. The production of the white book is led by the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and in addition to the IIIA, twelve entities of the catalonian government are involved plus the Carles Pi i Sunyer foundation, the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

The main objective of this project is to explore the emergent scientific space generated
by the intersection of three different paradigms dedicated to the study of
self-organizing mechanisms in social systems: prehistoric etno-anthropology and
social anthropology, experimental economics, and multiagent systems.

The project aims to study the mechanisms of self-organization in societies where it does
not exist a centralized control mechanism and where the institutional level is
almost inexistent.

We will study the mechanisms in charge of self-organization and distributed
social control (as it is the case of reputation) that generate social norms in
human societies and that can be easily applicable to virtual environments,
either entirely populated by artificial entities (autonomous agents) or virtual
societies, where both humans and virtual agents coexist.

The work developed should serve as a guide to treat similar research topics
where the behaviour of a group of individuals responds to the individual
adoption of certain social conventions. This research can lead to three
different and complementary paths: (i) a theoretical work where different
social coordination mechanisms are identified by using the models and
simulations suggested in this project; (ii) an instrumental work where the methodology
and tools developed under this project are refined to build a technological
corpus for social scientists; (iii) and finally, the application of several
mechanisms for social coordination and the technological corpus in virtual
communities as the integration of web services, ubiquitous and pervasive
computing applications, and the online gaming applications.

The Liquid Publications Project is a Framework Program 7 (FP7) funded research project in the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) – OPEN series. This introduction to the project is intended to describe what we’re trying to accomplish in a more publicly accessible form. In the following sections we’ll cover the Liquid Publications Project’s motivation, objectives, potential benefits, challenges, and research plans.

Motivation

The production of scientific knowledge in the form of conference papers, journal articles, and textbooks has failed to keep pace with advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The World-Wide Web and other advances in computer technologies have had noticeable effect on the ways scientific activity is conducted, but little effect on the ways scientific knowledge is produced, disseminated, evaluated, and consumed.

The Liquid Publications Project is based on the primary intuition that the evolution and use of scientific knowledge objects is similar to the evolution and use of open-source software. Both scientific knowledge and open-source software are complex, malleable, artistic creations of the human mind that evolve in multiple directions through collaboration. Further, just as computer software has become de-coupled from specific computer hardware, scientific knowledge has become de-coupled from the specific physical aspects of a scientific field through storage, manipulation, simulation, and recombination in electronic form.

While scientific collaborations and collaboration technologies have advanced, the collaborative evaluation of scientific knowledge has not. Scientific communities continue to evaluate scientific knowledge using essentially the same peer-review techniques used 100 years ago.

Project Objectives and Benefits

This project will explore how ICT and lessons from the software engineering and social web communities can be applied to provoke a radical paradigm shift shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, evaluated, and maintained. This new paradigm will transform a scientific publication from a static artifact to a Liquid Publication that can take multiple forms, that evolves continuously, and is enriched by multiple sources. The expected benefits of this transformation are:

• Earlier and greater circulation of innovative ideas, hence, more effective dissemination.

• Collaborative research efforts built on previous knowledge.

• Optimization of the time researchers spend creating, assessing and disseminating knowledge while improving the quality of the paper selection processes for conferences and journals.

• Rationalization of credit attribution processes based on social networks, team and community work, collaborative problem solving, social reputation, and distribution of knowledge.

• Delivery of innovative products and services for publishers that add value to their traditional businesses.

Research Challenges

Achieving program objectives and realizing the benefits presents both technical and social research challenges. Technical challenges include how to identify a model for scientific knowledge creation and dissemination that encourages early release of results, facilitates collaboration, assigns credit fairly, and simplifies dissemination; how to model and structure digital objects that embody a variety of evolutionary and collaborative knowledge creation processes; and how to identify social, low-effort, and continuous quality assessment methods. The primary social challenge is to gain support from the scientific community who will have to depart from the current publication selection models and embrace a radical change in the way scientific contributions are created, managed, and evaluated.

Research Plan

We aim to overcome the research challenges and achieve the project objectives by modeling the three main interacting components: Scientific Knowledge Objects, People, and Processes.

Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKO for short) embody the digital aspects of a traditional scientific paper, plus the evolutionary, social, collaborative, composable, and evolving nature of scientific knowledge creation processes. Defining, implementing, and testing SKOs will form the basis of the research.

People are the agents involved in the scientific knowledge processes, playing various cooperating and competing roles. Investigating roles and role interations will be a primary research activity of the project.

Processes govern the creation, evaluation, and evolution of SKOs and, hence, manage their lifecycle. These processes include modification, evolution, management (for example: access, intellectual property concerns, or legal aspects), and assessment.

In summary, this project will examine the complex web of interactions between SKOs, people, roles, and processes.

BROKAPITAL es un proyecto de base tecnológico que busca contribuir a la innovación y mejora de los procesos de interacción y negociación entre emprendedores de base tecnológica e inversores, principalmente de capital riesgo. El propósito es poner a disposición de los agentes que participan en estos procesos todo el poder del actual estado del arte de la ingeniería del conocimiento para minimizar los casos de pérdida de oportunidades por ambas partes.