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Cesar Mauri, Agusti Solanas, Toni Granollers, Narcís Parés, Joan Bagés, Mabel García

IV Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Tecnologías de Apoyo a la Discapacidad, 35-43

Description: El presente artículo describe las estrategias y tecnologías utilizadas para proveer a personas con parálisis cerebral en grados moderados y severos de unas actividades lúdicas y creativas diseñadas a la medida de sus potencialidades. Estas actividades se basan en sistemas interactivos de visión artificial y generación de gráficos y sonidos en tiempo real. El bienestar conseguido con estas actividades parte de conseguir un importante grado de autonomía en su realización gracias a las tecnologías utilizadas, las cuales no requieren la mediación de un cuidador o educador para ayudar a los usuarios a realizarlas.

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Francesc Sebé, Agusti Solanas

Proceedings of Joint UNECE/Eurostat work session on statistical data confidentiality,

Description: p-Sensitive k-anonymity is a sophistication of k-anonymity requiring that there be at least p different values for each confidential attribute within the records sharing a combination of key attributes. Like for k-anonymity, the computational approach originally proposed to achieve this property is based on generalization and suppression; this has several data utility problems, such as turning numerical key attributes into categorical, injecting new categories, injecting missing data, etc. We present and evaluate two heuristics for p-sensitive k-anonymity which, being based on microaggregation, overcome most of such drawbacks, while offering a smooth information loss increase as p and k grow.

Carlos E Jiménez, Francisco Falcone, Agusti Solanas, Héctor Puyosa, Saleem Zoughbi, Federico González

Handbook of Research on Democratic Strategies and Citizen-Centered E-Government Services, 1

Description: The advent of Smart Cities is one of the greatest challenges and field of opportunities in the goal to achieve sustainable, comfortable, and socially responsible living environments. A large number of factors, spanning from government/administration/citizen interaction models, heterogeneous communication network, interoperability, or security determine the capabilities and functionalities that can be deployed. In this chapter, different factors in the implementation and adoption of E-Government within Smart City scenarios are described. The authors include the Interoperability Principle as a part of the Open Government concept and link this concept with the Smart Cities view. Then, they describe a new model of public organization that they call “Intelligent,” characterized by the “Smart Government,” and they propose a matrix with the elements of this model. Then, the authors analyze the technical and infrastructure dimensions of the matrix.

Agusti Solanas, Enrique Romero, Sergio Gómez, Josep M. Sopena, Rene Alquézar, Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Artificial Intelligence Research and Development 131 (CCIA), 41

Description: This paper presents a new feature selection method and an outliers detection algorithm. The presented method is based on using a genetic algorithm combined with a problem-specific-designed neural network. The dimensional reduction and the outliers detection makes the resulting dataset more suitable for training neural networks. A comparative analysis between different kind of proposed criteria to select the features is reported. A number of experimental results have been carried out to demonstrate the usefulness of the presented technique.

Agusti Solanas

Communications of the ACM 52 (11), 6-7