Automated team selection and compliance checking in business processes

Plenty of activities in many business contexts must be performed collaboratively, e.g., in a hospital or when organising a conference. Tasks such as team composition and allocation are usually performed manually and on the ground of limited criteria such as individual skills, a.o. because adequate automatic support is missing. This paper addresses this shortcoming. We present an approach for team selection and compliance checking in business processes, which includes (i) a language for describing teams; (ii) a way to de- ne team selection conditions and policies related to team composition; and (iii) a mechanism for the automatic resolution of the team selection conditions and for team-related compliance checking based on formal ontologies.Austrian Research Funding Association (FFG) 845638 (SHAPE)Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2009-07366 (SETI)Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad TIN2012-32273 (TAPAS)Junta de Andalucía TIC-5906 (THEOS

Estrategias para transformar las prácticas docentes en el Bachillerato de Bellas Artes

La actuación docente demanda hoy una amplitud de funciones. Saber la disciplina a enseñar o ser un técnico que aplica conocimientos pedagógicos no es suficiente. Las aulas reclaman la presencia de profesionales capaces de desarrollar actividades en contextos escolares complejos y dinámicos, que desplieguen competencias específicas, relacionadas con el diagnóstico, análisis y toma de decisiones, que faciliten la intervención fundamentada en enfoques socio-constructivistas, que asuman la tarea con responsabilidad, que formen equipos con la colaboración de los pares y otros agentes sociales (Ramírez et al., 2015). El “nuevo perfil docente” implica que los maestros y profesores sean actores que dominen su materia. No basta con ser “técnicos” que posean las competencias básicas de su trabajo como educadores; también deben ser buenos “artesanos”, capaces de elaborar materiales didácticos propios, de generar recursos, de emplear efectivamente las tecnologías, de reflexionar críticamente acerca de la bibliografía y los documentos curriculares, de revisar sus prácticas y, en consecuencia, de lograr la anhelada transformación en “actores sociales” relevantes y comprometidos. Este nuevo perfil docente demanda una formación que no siempre está presente en las instituciones educativas. En este proyecto hemos puesto el foco en la gestión de estrategias que permitan el acompañamiento para concretar la esperada transformación. Por lo tanto, se considera relevante, que los docentes resignifiquen la alfabetización científica, que valoren los contenidos, que perciban el aprendizaje como la posibilidad de apropiarse de conocimientos pero también, que se comprometan en las actividades y sean auténticos protagonistas que comuniquen sus ideas, que expresen sus opiniones y fundamente sus puntos de vista

Estudio de aleaciones cobre-arsénico

Durante mucho tiempo la posición dominante en las investigaciones arqueometalúrgicas consideró como bronces sólo a las aleaciones de cobre y estaño, este último elemento en proporciones significativas. Sin embargo, las evidencias acumuladas fueron indicando que, además de esa combinación, en la antigüedad fue importante la aleación de cobre con arsénico, a la que algunos autores llamaron cobre arsenical y otros bronce arsenical. En Asia Occidental y Europa esta aleación fue regularmente producida entre aproximadamente el 3500 y el 1600 a. C., hasta ser reemplazada por el bronce estañifero (Lechtman, 1991)

Semiconducting Monolayer Materials as a Tunable Platform for Excitonic Solar Cells

The recent advent of two-dimensional monolayer materials with tunable optoelectronic properties and high carrier mobility offers renewed opportunities for efficient, ultra-thin excitonic solar cells alternative to those based on conjugated polymer and small molecule donors. Using first-principles density functional theory and many-body calculations, we demonstrate that monolayers of hexagonal BN and graphene (CBN) combined with commonly used acceptors such as PCBM fullerene or semiconducting carbon nanotubes can provide excitonic solar cells with tunable absorber gap, donor-acceptor interface band alignment, and power conversion efficiency, as well as novel device architectures. For the case of CBN-PCBM devices, we predict the limit of power conversion efficiencies to be in the 10 - 20% range depending on the CBN monolayer structure. Our results demonstrate the possibility of using monolayer materials in tunable, efficient, polymer-free thin-film solar cells in which unexplored exciton and carrier transport regimes are at play.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Using the guard-stage-milestone notation for monitoring BPMN-based processes

Business processes are usually designed by means of imperative languages to model the acceptable execution of the activities performed within a system or an organization. At the same time, declarative languages are better suited to check the conformance of the states and transitions of the modeled process with respect to its actual execution. To avoid defining models twice from scratch to cope with both the process enactment and its monitoring, this paper proposes an approach for translating BPMN process models to E-GSM ones: an extension of the Guard-Stage-Milestone artifact-centric notation. The paper also shows how a monitoring engine based on E-GSM specifications can detect anomalies during the execution of the process and classify them according to different levels of severity, that is, with respect to the impact on the outcome of the process

Case Report Eradication of Burkholderia cepacia Using Inhaled Aztreonam Lysine in Two Patients with Bronchiectasis

There are not many articles about the chronic bronchial infection/colonization in patients with underlying lung disease other than cystic fibrosis (CF), especially with non-CF bronchiectasis (NCFBQ). The prevalence of B. cepacia complex is not well known in NCFBQ. The vast majority of published clinical data on Burkholderia infection in individuals with CF is comprised of uncontrolled, anecdotal, and/or single center experiences, and no consensus has emerged regarding treatment. We present two cases diagnosed with bronchiectasis (BQ) of different etiology, with early pulmonary infection by B. cepacia complex, which was eradicated with inhaled aztreonam lysine