Jhonny Pincay Nieves

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador | PUCE · Facultad de Ingeniería

Being Scrum the agile software development framework most commonly used in the software industry, its applicability is attracting great attention to the academia. That is why this topic is quite often included in computer science and related university programs. In this article, we present a course design of a Software Engineering course where an e...

The use of information technologies in the health domain started decades ago, nevertheless there are still many issues that need to be addressed. Health Recommender Systems (HRSs) constitute a promising alternative when it comes to providing tools to assist doctors in the diagnosis of diseases, as well as to help patients with recommendations in re...

Roads and streets are more and more crowded. For delivery companies that use road transportation, this is a concerning issue as longer times spent on roads mean higher operational costs and less customer satisfaction. Nevertheless, the data captured during operation hours of their vehicles can be leveraged to address such issues. This, however, is...

This manuscript proposes a framework to design an artifact that combines traffic data of different sources, addresses their low-penetration rate and imprecision, and enables their analysis. The implemented artifact uses probe data of en-route operations of delivery vehicles and Traffic Message Channel-based records. Both datasets are fuzzified and...

This case study manuscript details the conception and implementation of an artifact that uses floating car data to forecast average speeds on a segment of a Swiss national road. To consider the spatial and temporal dependencies when performing the predictions, the studied segment was modeled as a graph and as a time series problem. Subsequently, to...

Last-mile delivery in cities, where the main problems are the traffic situation and ensuring access to customers’ homes while maintaining their privacy, poses a substantial logistical challenge. This book explores how the service area of mobility, especially last-mile delivery, can be improved and smartified. It demonstrates how a design science me...

When planning the distribution of parcels, postal services often face different problems. One of them is delivering a parcel to a customer’s home while ensuring the customer is there to receive it. Undeniably, a successful first-try delivery minimizes monetary costs and is less resource-consuming. Having a way of classifying customers according to...

Cities are not growing only in population but also in complexity. More than half of the world’s population lives in urban centers; thus, cities have become the central living space for people. Solutions then have to be developed toward benefiting the well-being of the citizens and addressing the challenges of living in complex urban environments (e...

Most logistic companies have a well-defined supply chain. In the specific case of delivery companies, the last mile, which is the transportation of parcels from a hub to the final destination, is the component of the supply chains that has the most potential to be improved. However, the last-mile delivery is challenging to optimize given the circum...

The FAR conceptual framework described in the previous chapter is the first outcome of the design research and the transdisciplinary approach followed in the development of this book. In the same sense, such a framework has to be validated and evaluated. This chapter introduces the FAR artifact, which constitutes the means to implement the concepts...

Implementing systems that can exhibit human-like and more biological capabilities (e.g., learning and summarizing information) is a current discussion topic. Having such systems could enable diverse tasks to be performed more efficiently and reliably. Some authors refer to computational intelligence as a branch of Artificial Intelligence that imple...

The final chapter of this book is devoted to summarizing the work completed and providing concluding remarks. Section 8.1 highlights the main points of the development of the different stages of this research endeavor. Then, Sect. 8.2 presents an alignment of the outcomes of the projects completed in the frame of this research work with the researc...

Traffic congestion results from an interplay of various factors impacting travel duration. Research efforts in advance travel information systems have been directed toward determining where and when a traffic anomaly occurs and how much travel time increases. Unmasking these mysteries could yield economic benefits in the form of less time spent on...

This manuscript proposes a five-step methodology that enables the mapping of perceived spatial qualities. To achieve such a goal, crowdsourcing and neural network methods were used. Crowdsourcing enables gathering data from people, and neural networks facilitate extending that knowledge to perform automatic classifications. The proposed method is t...

This research effort explores the incorporation of personality treats into user-user collaborative filtering algorithms. To explore the performance of such a method, MovieOcean, a movie recommender system that uses a questionnaire based on the Big Five model to generate personality profiles, was implemented. These personality profiles are used to p...

The enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union represents a challenge in designing reliable recommender systems due to user data collection limitations. This work proposes a method to consider GDPR data with a graph-based recommender system to tackle data sparsity and the cold-start problem by representing th...

This case study article presents details about the implementation of an artifact that uses traffic data databases to mine linguistic summaries. The linguistic summaries are obtained and validated to ease the understanding of the data and to help users to convey information quickly and effectively. Through a web application that makes use of maps an...

The rapid technological transition requires the adoptive approach to the digital conduct of public and private institutions. Countries and companies strive to integrate a balanced understanding of digital ethics and sustainability concepts from various standpoints, which results in a dispersed and uncategorized knowledge base. This work presents a...

Modernizing the state is a challenge for the administration to increase the application of information and communication technologies. Information- and knowledge-based society creates its value by gathering, processing, evaluating, and sharing digital products and services. However, citizens must not be left behind in the process of introducing web...

When planning the distribution of parcels, postal services often face different problems. One of them is delivering a parcel to a customer's home while making sure the customer is there to receive it. Undeniably, a successful first-try delivery minimizes monetary costs and is less resource-consuming. The goal of this project is to recommend deliver...

With the emergence of Human Smart Cities, the involvement and participation of citizens in city improvement projects has acquired the greatest relevance. To empower citizen participation, the implementation of co-production mechanisms that provide a balanced, equal, and transparent relationship between citizens and public sector in an evolving digi...

Dynamically developing digitization initiatives among public institutions and private companies necessitate a balanced approach to digital ethics. Several frameworks and legal regulations have been adopted to clarify and define the various ethical challenges in digital contexts. These initiatives often accentuate one of three components: data secur...

Streetwise is the first map of spatial quality of urban design of Switzerland. Streetwise measures the human perception of spatial situations and uses crowdsourcing methods for this purpose: a large number of people are shown pairs of street-level images of public space online; by clicking on an image, they each give an evaluation about the place...

Last-mile is the component of the supply chains that has the most potential to be optimized and give an advantage to retailers and delivery companies. At the same time, it is the hardest to deal with. Factors such as traffic, weather, unexpected events, or the simple fact that a customer is not at home affect directly the efficiency of the overall...

Modernizing the state is a challenge for the administration to increase the application of information and communication technologies. In information- and knowledge-based society creates its value by gathering, processing, evaluating, and sharing digital products and services. However, citizens must not be left behind in the process of introducing...

There are many perspectives and conceptions about “Smart Cities”. One thing they have in common is the enrichment of city functions through the use of information technologies. However, often smart solutions are developed following a “top-down” approach and besides, it seems that prioritizing efficiency and sustainability are not often the best way...

People living in urban areas suffer from increasing noise pollution. Local and national governments invest efforts in the development of sensor-based noise monitoring systems and long-term plans to reduce noise pollution. However, deploying such sensor-based systems on a city scale is very expensive. In this work, Jingle Jungle Maps, a tool for the...

Probe data from delivery vehicles are often not taken into account when performing traffic analysis, given the additional challenges that working with it brings. It is necessary to address the complexities introduced by the nature of the business operations such as stops and speed limits on streets. However, important insights could be obtained and...

The introduction of recommendation systems for the health sector has opened additional channels to improve the decision-making of physicians and administrators of the healthcare system. Web-based and mobile applications, social networks and virtual communities could improve these processes. The Internet provides a huge amount of information; theref...

Logistics and transportation have a significant impact in today’s world economy and are pivotal aspectsin any enterprise’s supply chain. There are major questions and challenges for industrialists and researchers when it comes to finding suitable ways to determine the factors that influence the amount of time spent on roads and how to avoid and mit...

The challenge of modernizing the state and its administration has increased, especially with regard to the application of information and communication technologies. An information- and knowledge-based society creates its value by gathering, processing, evaluating, and sharing digital products and services. However, it must be avoided that any citi...

There is a considerable variety of freely available Open Educational Resources (OERs) that can be used for training purposes. However, they are not always suitable for specific needs or ready for been used immediately, which demands a personalization process. In this article, we present a five-phases methodology used to create or personalize OERs a...

Looking for quality issues in a system can be a very demanding activity. In this article, we propose an approach based on text mining techniques to quickly identify usability and functionality drawbacks in a learning management system - LMS. The techniques were performed to 421 comments written by university students who frequently use a LMS. Resul...

Research groups in academic environments face many challenges when it comes to effectively managing the development of their projects, since they are mostly conformed by students and professors that commonly work in several projects at once. To mitigate the underlying difficulties and to improve the performance of research groups, the application o...

La investigación existente acerca del desarrollo de MOOCs, presenta diferentes áreas de investigación; desde análisis de datos, objetos de aprendizaje, análisis de videos, etc. Poca literatura existe acerca de los primeros pasos que se deben ejecutar para la creación de un MOOC, de igual manera no existen consideraciones básicas con respecto a los...

Educational resources have been around for quite some time; yet, the growing of internet and the development of information technologies have contributed to their evolution and massive distribution. The present work is in an initial state of a larger-scope project that aims to identify, classify and evaluate open educational resources (OER) useful...

In the last few years, the advent of Cloud Computing has contributed to a considerable increase of the number of service offerings from a variety of providers and every time more applications are being partially or fully deployed in the cloud. Nowadays, experts invest considerable time and effort towards taking the maximum advantage of the benefits...

This paper presents the implementation of an automatic classification system to categorize student’s answers in discussion forums according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Several works had been completed in this area, in this occasion the effectiveness of a Bayesian classifier solving this problem is analyzed alongside with the usage of text mining techniqu...