Courses

edX - The Analytics Edge

Length: 12 weeks, 120 hours
Institution: MITx
An applied understanding of many different analytics methods, including linear regression, logistic regression, CART, clustering, and data visualization. Implementation of these methods in R. An applied understanding of mathematical optimization and how to solve optimization models in spreadsheet software.

Data Mining with Weka

Length: 28 classes, 10 hours
Institution: The University of Waikato
An introduction to data mining using Weka. Clustering algorithms, Linear and Logistic regression, Trees, Association rules and much more.

More Data Mining with Weka

Length: 28 classes, 10 hours
Institution: The University of Waikato
An advanced course of data mining using Weka. Multimillion-instance datasets, classify text, experiment with clustering, association rules, neural networks, and much more.

Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark

Length: 5 weeks, 35 hours
Institution: UC BerkeleyX
Learn how to use Apache Spark to perform data analysis. How to use parallel programming to explore data sets. Apply Log Mining, Textual Entity Recognition and Collaborative Filtering to real world data questions.

Introducción a AngularJS: Single Page Applications con JavaScript

Length: 5 hours
Institution: Enpresa Digitala
Introduction to AngularJS framework.

Buenas prácticas en desarrollo con JavaScript

Length: 5 hours
Institution: Enpresa Digitala
Best coding practices in JavaScript.

Projects

ToT: Tourism Of Things

Duration: 2012-2015
Supported by: AVANZA R+D
Consortium members: Ezentis, Dylvian, Ferrovial, Winhotel, Prodigy Consultores, Bankoi, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,CICtourGUNE, Consorcio urbanístico Platja de Palma.
Topics: Internet of Things, Big Data, Mobile Services, Personalization  
The aim of the ToT project is to apply the concept of Smart City to the tourism sector, something completely new. The objective is the application of a wide range of services for both tourism professionals (destination management bodies and tourism companies) and tourists themselves. In short, ToT is positioned as the groundwork for tourist destination service infrastructure of the future. Implementation of the project will provide opportunities for the creation of new companies which can then use the ToT infrastructure to develop new services based on the intensive use of data and the infrastructure provided by the smart destinations themselves.

Pandora

Duration: 2014
Supported by: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Consortium members: CICtourGUNE
Topics: Big Data, Stream Reasoning, Wearable computing, Geofencing
Development of new context-aware services for wearable and mobile technologies. The aim of the project was to implement a cloud platform in order to manage large amount of data coming from mobile devices and provide mobile users with information and services according to their context.

SmarTUR: el turismo en destinos inteligentes

Duration: 2012-2014
Supported by: ETORTEK 2012, Basque Government, IE12-343
Consortium members: CICTOURGUNE, TECNALIA, VICOMTech – IK4, U.DEUSTO, FUNDACIÓN DEUSTO, M.U (MGEP), UPV (Eª Aplicada V)
Topics: Big Data, GIS, Mobility
The aim of SMARTUR is to move forward in the study of mobility as a social and technological phenomenon. In line with work carried out in previous projects, this project will coordinate and supplement technological research focused on three areas: Destinations, territory and mobility, identifying main destinations in the Basque Country; Smart Destinations, strengthening the relationship between visitor and destination; Data economy in tourism, studying ways to manage and make more efficient use of data.

KnowTour

Duration: 2011-2013
Supported by: ETORTEK 2011, Basque Government
Consortium members: CICtourGUNE, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Elhuyar Fundazioa, VICOMTech – IK4, University of Deusto Mondragon Unibertsitatea.
Topics: Open Data, Mobility Data Visualization
The knowTOUR project aims to develop data collection and analysis techniques to extend knowledge of the tourism phenomenon. The project involves using both existing and newly developed technology and tools to implement a new approach to the social phenomenon of tourism.

tourSPHERES: Incidencia de las esferas personales en espacios turísticos reales, aumentados y virtuales

Duration: 2010-2012
Supported by: ETORTEK 2010, Gobierno Vasco, IE10-290
Consortium members: CICtourGUNE, EUVE, ROBOTIKER, U.DEUSTO, UPV
Topics: Personalization
Impact of personal spheres in real, augmented and virtual tourism spaces. Tourism Sciences, Semantic Technologies – ontologies – Contextual Computing, Emotional Computing, Services Architecture, The Internet of Things, Urban Computing, Boolean Algebra, Travel & Tourism Technology, Advanced Information and Communication Services, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Tourism Resources Management, Statistics: measurement of tourism flows.

THOFU: Tecnologías del Hotel del Futuro.

Duration: 2010-2013
Supported by: Sexta Convocatoria Programa de Consorcios Estratégicos Nacionales en Investigación Técnica (CENIT) 2010, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.
Consortium members: Inerza, Andago, T Systems, SAB, Deim, Gigle, Treelogic, SyV, Sensing & Control, Fractalia, Inteliglas, Innomatica, Paradigma, Atos Origin, Daedalus, CICtourGUNE
Topics: Ambient Intelligence
Collaborative and multidisciplinary R&D project researching on new tourism concepts and on the way these concepts guide the technologies research and the development of technological concepts to give an open offer of advanced, different and exclusive services around the hotel.

tourEXP: Propuestas Turísticas Singulares en Ruta

Duration: 2010-2012
Supported by: ETORGAI 2010 - Industrial Research Integrated Projects, ER-2010/00005
Consortium members: Andago Ingeniería S.L, Araldi S.L, ATOS ORIGIN S.A., Comercio Electrónico B2B, Comversa Comunicaciones y Desarrollo, Eleka Ingeniaritza Linguistikoa, Sarein Sistemas S.L., CICtourGUNE
The goal of this project is to develop a set of technological and innovative capabilities to enhance the Basque Tourism Competitiveness.

CONTUR

Duration: 2009-2011
Supported by: AVANZA R+D
Consortium members: ANDAGO INGENIERIA, S.L., VIAJES EUROMAR S.A., ATOS Origin, Viajes Barceló, DOME Consulting, MOBILE Learning, CICtourGUNE, Robotiker- TECNALIA, CINNTA, Fundación European Software Institute, Institute of Computer Technology, University of Burgos, University of Málaga.
Development of a platform for the intelligent management of content in the area of tourism.

TourisTEK

Duration: 2009-2011
Supported by: ETORTEK 2009, Gobierno Vasco
Consortium members: CICtourGUNE, University of Deusto, Robotiker-TECNALIA, University of the Basque Country, Vicomtech-IK4, ESI-TECNALIA.
Analysis of the the transforming impact of the internet on tourism, particularly with regard to technology and mobility. This project takes an in-depth look at ubiquitous computing and contextual computing, two technological systems that may prove to be pivotal within the tourism sector in providing travellers with services and information.

mIO: Tecnologías para prestar Servicios en Movilidad en el Futuro Universo Inteligente

Duration: 2007-2011
Supported by: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, CENIT 4ª convocatoria (CENIT-2008 1019)
Consortium members: Sugar factory, Wordnet 21, Telvent, Treelogic, can, tb-solutions, at4 wireless, inabensa, iSOCO, Telefónica, CICtourGUNE
The goal of mIO! project is to make reality the range of technologies which allow providing ubiquitous services in an intelligent environment adapted to every user context, where the mobile is used as interaction mechanism with services provided by companies, or with microservices created and provided by the very mobile users.

CONTxTRAIN

Duration: 2009-2011
Supported by: AVANZA R+D
Consortium members: Traintic, G93 Telecomunicaciones, CICtourGUNE, Donostia Turismo and University of Deusto.
Fixed platform for the provision of contextualized multimedia content pertaining to railways.

imFUTOURnet

Duration: 2008-2010
Supported by: ETORTEK 2008, Gobierno Vasco
Consortium members: Fundación Elhuyar, Robotiker-TECNALIA and CICtourGUNE
The proposal coordinates the scientific-technological research on advanced search systems, semantic platform 3.0, and ubiquitous platforms accessible from any terminal.

eTourgune 2

Duration: 2007-2009
Supported by: ETORTEK 2007, Gobierno Vasco
Consortium members: CICtourGUNE, Robotiker, Labein, Vicomtech-IK4
eTourgune2 unites efforts to create a space for research in eTourism, with direct economic impact on the activities of stakeholders in the development of the Basque tourism sector. The project also expands on the complex interrelations needed to make products and services available, and on the social impact of the new mobility patterns that have profoundly changed the value chains of the different tourism subsectors.

Scientific papers

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2015

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Lamsfus, C., Martín, D., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., & Torres-Manzanera, E. (2015). Smart Tourism Destinations: An Extended Conception of Smart Cities Focusing on Human Mobility. In I. Tussyadiah & A. Inversini (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2015 (pp. 363–375). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14343-9_27
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Martín, D., Lamsfus, C., & Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2015). A cloud-based platform to develop context-aware mobile applications by domain experts. Computer Standards & Interfaces. 29 August 2015, ISSN 0920-5489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2015.08.009.
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2014

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Martín, D., Torices, O., Salas, H., Lamsfus, C., & Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2014). A Web Platform to Generate and Deliver Mobile Web Contents Without Programming Skills. In Z. Xiang & I. Tussyadiah (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014 (pp. 869–881). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03973-2_63 online slides pdf

Martín, D., Lamsfus, C., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., & Torres-Manzanera, E. (2014). Empowering End-Users to Develop Context-Aware Mobile Applications Using a Web Platform. In 2014 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2014, Barcelona, Spain, August 27-29, 2014 (pp. 139–145). IEEE. doi:10.1109/FiCloud.2014.31 online pdf

Martín, D., Rubio, A., Lamsfus, C., Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2014). Infraestructura en la nube para el desarrollo de servicios en movilidad orientados a dispositivos wearables. Journal of Tourism and Human Mobility, 3, 31–39. online

2013

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Martín, D. (2013). Plataforma web y metodología para el desarrollo de sistemas sensibles al contexto basada en la colaboración entre programadores y expertos en el dominio. University of Deusto. slides pdf 

Buján, D., Martín, D., Torices, O., López-de-Ipiña, D., Lamsfus, C., Abaitua, J., & Alzua-Sorzabal, A. (2013). Context Management Platform for Tourism Applications. Sensors, 13(7), 8060–8078. Retrieved from http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/7/8060 online pdf

Martín, D., López-de-Ipiña, D., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., Lamsfus, C., & Torres-Manzanera, E. (2013). A Methodology and a Web Platform for the Collaborative Development of Context-Aware Systems. Sensors, 13(5), 6032–6053. Retrieved from http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/5/6032 online pdf

Lamsfus, C., Xiang, Z., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., & Martín, D. (2013). Conceptualizing Context in an Intelligent Mobile Environment in Travel and Tourism. In L. Cantoni & Z. (Phil) Xiang (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013 (pp. 1–11). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36309-2_1 online pdf

Martin, D., Torices, O., Salas, H., & Gil, I. (2013). Evaluación de la usabilidad de una herramienta de creación de contenidos móviles para usuarios no programadores. Journal of Tourism and Human Mobility, 0, 41–47. online

2012

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Martín, D., Ipiña, D. L. De, Lamsfus, C., & Alzua, A. (2012). Involving tourism domain experts in the development of context-aware mobile services. e-Review of Tourism Research, 3 (ENTER 2012 short papers). pdf slides

Herrero Cárcel, German Campo, A., Gil, M., Garcia, A., Martin, D., Zugasti, I., Bilbao, S., Perez De Albeniz, I. (2012). ConTur: An Intelligent Content Management System for the Tourism Sector. In M. Fuchs, F. Ricci, & L. Cantoni (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012 (pp. 36–47). Springer Vienna. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-1142-0_4 online pdf slides

Lamsfus, C., Martin, D., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., de Ipiña, D. L. & Torres, E. (2012). Intelligent Tourism Information Consumption: A Push Semantic Rule-based System. In M. Graña, C. Toro, J. Posada, R. J. Howlett & L. C. Jain (eds.), KES (p./pp. 823-832), IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-61499-104-5 online

Buján, D., Martín, D., Torices, O., & Uriarte, A. (2012). New Approaches in Context Modelling for Tourism Applications. In J. Bravo, D. López-de-Ipiña, & F. Moya (Eds.), Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (pp. 379–386). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_53 online pdf

Lamsfus, C., Martín, D., Alzua, A., López-de-Ipiña, D., & Torres, E. (2012). Context-Based Tourism Information Filtering with a Semantic Rule Engine. Sensors, 12(5), 5273-5289. doi: 10.3390/s120505273 online pdf

Martín, D., López-de-Ipiña, D., Lamsfus, C., & Alzua, A. (2012). Situation-Driven Development: a Methodology for the Development of Context-Aware Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2012) (pp. 241-248). Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). pdf slides

Martin, D., Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., & de Ipiña, D. L. (2012). A web platform and a methodology to promote a collaborative development of context-aware systems. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) (pp. 126–133). IEEE Computer Society. online pdf slides

Martin, D., Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., & López-de-Ipiña, D. (2012). Foundations for a Platform to Develop Context-aware Systems by Domain Experts. In G. Min, Y. Wu, L. (Chris) Liu, X. Jin, S. A. Jarvis, & A. Y. Al-Dubai (Eds.), TrustCom (pp. 2029–2034). IEEE Computer Society. online pdf slides

Lamsfus, C., Alzua-Sorzabal, A., Torres-Manzanera, E., Martín, D., Ordonez, D., & Lopez de Vallejo, I. (2012). Theoretical Framework for a Tourism Internet of Things: Smart Destination. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Internet of Things (iThings).20-23 November, Besancon (France). pdf slides

2011

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Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., Martin, D., & Smithers, T. (2011). An Evaluation of a Contextual Computing Approach to Visitor Information Systems. In R. Law, M. Fuchs, & F. Ricci (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011 (pp. 179–190). Springer Vienna. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0503-0_15 online slides

Martin, D., Lamsfus, C., & Alzua, A. (2011). Mobile Context Data Management Framework. International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, 0, 73–78. doi:http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MUE.2011.24 online pdf slides

Martin, D., Alzua, A., & Lamsfus, C. (2011). A Contextual Geofencing Mobile Tourism Service. In R. Law, M. Fuchs, & F. Ricci (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011 (pp. 191–202). Springer Vienna. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0503-0_16 online pdf slides

Lamsfus, C., Martín, D., Alzua, A., López-De-Ipiña, D. (2011) Towards Context-Aware Push/Filter Information Dissemination. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2011). Riviera Maya, Mexico, December 2011. ISBN:978-84-694-9677-0. pdf

2010

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Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., Martín, D., López de Ipiña, D. (2010). Digital Broadcasting for Context-Aware Services in Tourism. 2nd Region IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications. online

Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., Martín, D., Salvador, Z. (2010). Semantic-based Contextual Computing support for Human Mobility. In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2010. Eds: Ulrike Gretze, Rob Law and Matthias Fuchs. Springer Verlag, pp. 603 – 615. ISBN-978-3-211-99406-1. ENTER Conference, Lugano (Switzerland). online

Martín, D., Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A. (2010). Automatic Context Data Life-Cycle Management Framework. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Maribor (Slovenija) online pdf

2009

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Cadenas, A., Ruiz, C., Larizgoitia, I., García-Castro, R., Lamsfus, C., Vázquez, I., González, M., Martín, D., Poveda, M. (2009). Context management in mobile environments: a semantic approach. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, information and ontologies (Heraklion, Greece, June 01 - 01, 2009). J. M. Gomez-Perez, P. Haase, M. Tilly, and P. Warren, Eds. CIAO '09. ACM, New York, NY, 1-8. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1552262.1552264.

Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., Martín, D., Salvador, Z., Usandizaga, A. Human-Centric Ontology-based Context Modelling in Tourism. (2009). International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Madeira (Portugal).

Lamsfus, C., Alzua, A., Martín, D., Salvador, Z., Usandizaga, A. (2009). Contextual Computing based Services in Tourism. 4th Mediterranean Conference in Information Systems, Athens (Greece).