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Nayibe S Sánchez León, Melissa Rivera Guzmán, Angie L. Moreno Vargas, Mónica Díaz Molina

ABSTRACTThe evolution in technology led to a new trend in the development of software, from desktop applications to mobile web environment, enabling people with different physical and cognitive conditions to access those facilities. The quality level of t... see more

Diego León, Félix Fernández, Pilar Urrutia

ABSTRACTWith the evolution of Facebook into a platform, the objective of this work was to evaluate how reliable is it to build a Facebook application for managing learning objects in social media. The paper provides a description of the design and impleme... see more

Leandro Tabares Martín, Félix Oscar Fernández Peña, Amed Abel Leiva Mederos, Jyrki Nummenmaa

ABSTRACTSQL and, more recently, SPARQL are standard languages of the software industry for retrieving data. Other studies showed that retrieving data by using a SPARQL query is much slower than the semantically equivalent SQL query. Nevertheless, some rec... see more

Jorge Silva Castillo, Jesús Estrada García

ABSTRACTThe research focused on the evaluation of the application of personal learning environments to first semester students of the Biology and Chemistry program at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo (UNACH), with respect to the development of cogni... see more

Javier Vargas, David Guevara, Franklin Mayorga, Franklin Sánchez, Daniel Díaz

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the processes involved in the creation and evaluation of a Tool for Automatic Generation of Security Infrastructure in Communications using Java. Incorporation of security services in the source code of distributed application... see more

Víctor Heredia Sandoval, Darwin Astudillo Salinas

ABSTRACTThis article presents a Fiber To The Home (FTTH), for the city of Cuenca in the province of Azuay, Ecuador. The design goal is to bring to homes an unlimited volume of information, which will be accompanied by the need that telecommunication servi... see more

Angela V. Granizo R., Alex A. Tacuri U.

ABSTRACTThe implementation of QoS policies can address various points depending on the requirements of the WLAN; for example, the allocation of bandwidth in a differentiated way, avoiding or managing congestion on the network, managing priorities accordin... see more

Carlos Martínez Bonilla, Ricardo Silva Silva, Byron Naranjo Gamboa

ABSTRACTTechnological advances and the evolution of the media, especially the Internet, facilitates the transfer of messages to and between people, in particular between people with visual disabilities. The project presented herein determined the accessib... see more

Hernán M. Domínguez L., Edgar A. Maya O., Diego H. Peluffo O., Christian M. Crisanto Ñ.

ABSTRACTThis paper illustrates the increased security risks in recent years of attacks on authentication controls, specifically passwords. Methods and techniques for violating such controls using more and more brute force attack approaches, including data... see more

Edison M. Carrión, Edgar A. Maya O., Hernán M. Domínguez L., Diego H. Peluffo O.

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a system of monitoring carbon monoxide as basis for the securization of environmental safety in a residence, based on a wireless sensor network and platform as a service in the cloud with the objective of caring for human lives... see more

Juan Fajardo-Reinoso, Darwin Astudillo Salinas, Lizandro Solano Quinde, Sara Wong

ABSTRACTDespite the availability of electrocardiographic (ECG) databases does the medical sector not yet possesses an annotated stress database. This paper introduces an annotation system using RR-time series obtained from an eight lead stress database (D... see more

Ronald Gualán, Renán Freire, Andrés Tello, Mauricio Espinoza, Víctor Saquicela

ABSTRACTLinked data adoption continues to grow in many fields at a considerable pace. However, some of the most important datasets usually remain underexploited because of two main reasons: the huge volume of the datasets and the lack of methods for autom... see more

Lissette Muñoz Guillén, José Medina Cartuche, Juan Guillermo Aungüisaca, Jaime Veintimilla Reyes

ABSTRACTThe growth of information and communication technologies associated with the needs to access immediately information generated by different sensors made the implementation and the use of communication protocols to acquire and interchange data nece... see more

Gisela C. Ruiz G., Edgar A. Maya O., Carlos A. Vásquez A., Hernán M. Domínguez L., Diego H. Peluffo O.

ABSTRACTThe present study implicates a new solution of telecommunication for IP telephony service, which is based on cloud computing, providing an option for communications at the “Universidad Técnica del Norte”. The analysis was performed, based on the I... see more

Daniela A Barragán R., Robert A Cazar, Miguel A Mendez

ABSTRACTA great number of studies have been published on the area of small molecules bound to telomeric sequences that fold on a non-cannonical DNA structure known as G-quadruplex structure. The study of these structures has been driven for its potential ... see more

Lenin Erazo G., Lourdes Illescas P., Magali Mejía P.

ABSTRACTUniversity websites have become essential in making public and private higher education institution’s management transparent and in ensuring the quality of the services they offer. To reach these goals, web portals should consider a set of desirab... see more

Wilson Pérez, Karina Abad, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Mauricio Espinoza, Víctor Saquicela

ABSTRACTThe construction of enterprise context models, a fundamental tool for the design of modern information systems, is usually a cumbersome task, largely as a consequence of the lack of communication between administrative staff and technical consulta... see more

María G. Pérez, Marco Benalcazar, Aura Conci, Carlos Fiallos

ABSTRACTMammography is considered as the gold standard examination for early detection of breast cancer. However, in the techniques of medical image analysis 3 aspects are yet an issue: noise removal, segmentation of images, and extracting the region of i... see more

Miguel Zuñiga Prieto, Lizandro Solano Quinde, Emilio Insfran, Yessenia Cabrera

ABSTRACTThe lack of standardization of the access methods and the management of resources in cloud environments hinders both, the portability of services between different cloud environments, and the agile deployment of services. In this context, it is im... see more

Valeria Haro, Wilson Pérez, Víctor Saquicela

ABSTRACTThe technological advances in hardware and software in the last years allows storing large volumes of information, which has complicated its management and exploitation. Data mining is a process to discover hidden knowledge in databases and to sup... see more

Jose Roberto Patiño Sánchez

ABSTRACT In the next years, IPv6 will inevitably replace the IPv4 protocol. Although, taking consciousness about technical details and aspects of security of the “new” protocol, the protocol is poorly applied in administrator’s networks of different Ecuad... see more

Jose Roberto Patiño Sánchez

ABSTRACTThis paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of routing protocols in IPv6 by experimental evidence, for which network topologies were designed based on the knowledge obtained in IPv4. In the tests, features were examined such as conve... see more

José Guamán Quinche, René Guamán Quinche, Hernán Torres Carrión, Roberth Figueroa Díaz

ABSTRACTWith the growth of monitoring applications in intelligent environments in the engineering, transport, communications, business, agriculture sector, and the significant reduction in the manufacturing costs of sensors, enabled the introduction of mo... see more