Overview

Ref. TIC2003-09288-C02-00. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

December 2003 - 2006

 

The main goal of this project is to develop a low-cost multiuser collaborative platform for advanced training in settings like Architecture, Medicine or scientific simulation. The platform will extend an existing Collaborative Virtual Environment (MOVE) in order to provide advanced interaction and visualization with immersive virtual reality 3D devices like Head Mounted Displays, gloves and stereoscopic projection systems. We will also experiment with augmented reality systems in mobile scenarios in order to generate improved training contents for the selected disciplines.The second goal of this project  is focused on educational  content generation and distribution. In this point, we will extend the collaborative platform in order to create a distributed content repository. This repository will be constructed on top of a decoupled architecture using hybrid centralized / replicated /federated peer to peer systems. Furthermore, the system will permit a hierarchical access to distributed contents located in  diferent knowledge repositories through content brokers and mediators. We will also integrate collaboration tools in the content’s life cycle in order to promote knowledge communities around educational content hierarchies.The project aims to be inter-disciplinary, because it comprises computer scientists and researchers from settings like pedagogy, architecture and medicine. Obviously, computer scientists will focus on system development and the rest will work on content generation and interaction with the PLANET environment.

 

 

 

News

(28-05-07) - PlanetRV becomes a SourceForge.net project


(27-07-06) - PlanetSim becomes a SourceForge.net project


(31-07-05) - Released SNAP v1.0.0 RC1


(29-07-05) - Released PlanetSim Release 3.0 Candidate


(11-11-04) - Released Bunshin v 1.1

 

(08-11-04) - Uploaded DERMI v1.2 Alpha 2

 

(29-10-04) - Released PlanetDR Beta Version 2

 

(25-10-04) - Released Bunshin Release Version 1.0

 

(08-10-04) - Uploaded DERMI Release Version 1.2 Alpha1

 

(01-10-04) - Uploaded PlanetDR Release Version 1.0 Beta.

 

(21-09-04) - PlanetSim presentation at SEM 2004 (Software Engineering and Middleware)

 

(10-09-04) - UNFOLD meeting in Barcelona

 

(12-07-04) - Planet plenary meeting in Barcelona

 

 

People

Partner 1 - URV

 

Pedro García López, full-time professor in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Contact <pedro.garcia@urv.net>

 

Carles Pairot Gavaldà, PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Contact <carles.pairot@urv.net>

 

Marc Sanchez, PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Rubén Mondéjar Andreu, PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Jordi Pujol Ahulló, PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Albert Fernandez, PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Tomas Sempere, full-time professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

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•Maria Rosa Fenoll, full-time professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Maria Ferré, full-time professor in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Toni Figueroa, research collaborator, at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Javier Legarreta, director of the SRE (Servei de Recursos Educatius) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

•Andreu Marti, technician at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Angel Pío, full-time professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Helio Tejedor Navarro, Graduated M. Sc. Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Oscar Barrios Torrero, M. Sc. Computer Science Student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Marcel Arrufat Arias, M. Sc. Computer Science Student in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

UCAM

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Jesus Egea, full-time professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia in Murcia, Spain.

 

•Francisco Arcas, full-time professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia in Murcia, Spain.

 

UGR

 

Jose Antonio Fernandez, full-time professor in the Department of Architecture at Universidad de Granada, Spain.

 

Lucía González, architect and collaborator in the Department of Architecture at Universidad de Granada, Spain.

 

UIB

 

Santos Urbina, full-time professor in the Department of Pedagogy at Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain.

 

 

Partner 2 - UPF

 

Josep Blat, full-time professor in the Departament of Technology de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Daniel Soto, full-time professor in the Departament of Technology de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.


 Jesús Ibáñez, researcher in the Departament of Technology de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Rocío García, researcher in the Departament of Technology de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

Toni Navarrete, researcher in the Departament of Technology de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

 

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Publications

 

URV

2006

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Damon: a Decentralized Aspect Middleware Built on top of a Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. Accepted for publication on Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006). Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2006). Portland (Oregon), USA, November 2006.

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Jordi Pujol, Pedro Garcia, Carles Pairot. Sistemas multi-agente en entornos p2p. Departament d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques. Technical Report DEIM-RR-06-002, June 2006

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Enabling a Wide-Area Service Oriented Architecture through p2pWeb Model. Accepted on the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2006). Manchester, United Kingdom, June 2006. Workshop's Best Paper and Presentation Award.

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Tracking the evolution of Collaborative Virtual Environments. Upgrade Vol. VII, issue no. 2 "Visual Environments", April 2006. ISSN 1684-5285.

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, Carles Pairot y Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. La evolución de los Entornos Virtuales Colaborativos. Novatica. No. 180, Monografía "Entornos visuales", Abril 2006. ISSN 0211-2124

 

2005

  • Marc Sanchez, Pedro García López, Antonio Gómez Skarmeta, Cyclone: A Novel Methodology For Constructing Secure Multipath Overlays. Accepted for publication on IEEE Internet Computing.

  • Rubén Mondéjar, Pedro García, and Carles Pairot. Bunshin: DHT para aplicaciones distribuidas. XIII Jornadas de Concurrencia y Sistemas Distribuidos (JCSD). I Congreso Español de Informática (CEDI 2005). Granada, Spain, September 2005, pp. 111-117.  ISBN: 84-609-6891-X. [translation]

  • Marc Sanchez, Pedro García López, Antonio Gómez Skarmeta. Cyclone: a    Novel Design Schema for Hierarchical DHTs. Proceedings of the 5h IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. Konstanz, Germany. August-September 2005, pp. 49 -56. ISBN: 0-7695-2376-5. Acceptance Rate: 30%

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Rubén Mondéjar, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Building Wide-Area Collaborative Applications on top of Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays. In Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2005). Linkoping, Sweden, June 2005.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Rubén Mondéjar, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. p2pCM: A Structured Peer-to-Peer Grid Component Model. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science. 2nd International Workshop on Active and Programmable Grid Architectures and Components. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 3516. Atlanta, USA, May 2005. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-26044-7.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Robert Rallo, Josep Blat, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. The Planet Project: Collaborative Educational Content Repositories on Structured Peer-to-Peer Grids. Accepted for publication on Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005). Second International Workshop on Collaborative and Learning Applications of Grid Technology and Grid Education (CLAG + Grid.edu 2005). Cardiff, United Kingdom, May 2005. Acceptance Rate: 50%.

  • Pedro García, Carles Pairot, Rubén Mondéjar, Jordi Pujol, Helio Tejedor, and Robert Rallo. PlanetSim: A New Overlay Network Simulation Framework. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 3437. Software Engineering and Middleware, SEM 2004, Linz, Austria. Revised Selected Papers. March 2005, pp. 123-137. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-25328-9.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, and Rubén Mondéjar. Towards New Load-balancing Schemes for Structured Peer-to-Peer Grids. Future Generation Computer Systems - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications. Vol. 21, January 2005, pp. 125-133. ISSN: 0167-739X.

  • Alberto Fernández, Sergio Gómez. Portfolio selection using neural networks. Accepted on Journal of Computers & Operations Research 2005.

  • Pedro García. Antoni Tur, Helio Tejedor. Estudio de patentabilidad sobre el entorno PLANET-RV. Aceptado por la Comisión de Transferencia de Tecnología de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

  • Marc Sanchez, Pedro García, López. Antonio Gómez Skarmeta. Cyclone:    Binary Equivalence Relationship-Based Routing on Structured Peer to-Peer overlays. Submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.

  • Toni Tur Costa. Estudio y evaluación de dispositivos de realidad virtual y aumentada. Report de Recerca en el Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y  Matemáticas. Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

 

2004

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Rubén Mondéjar, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Object Middleware for Wide-Area Collaborative Application Development. Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. Vol. 8, No. 24, Winter 2004, pp. 55-65. ISSN: 1137-3601.

  • Marc Sanchez Artigas. Secure Threats  for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks. ENext Content Distribution Networks Workshop. Eurecom Institute.

  • Pedro García, Carles Pairot, Rubén Mondéjar, Jordi Pujol, Helio Tejedor, and Robert Rallo. PlanetSim: A New Overlay Network Simulation Framework. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004). Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2004). Linz, Austria, September 2004. ISBN: 3-902457-02-3. Acceptance Rate: 34%.

  • Pablo Orozco, Juan I. Asensio, Pedro García, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, and Carles Pairot, A Decoupled Architecture for Action-Oriented Coordination and Awareness Management in CSCL/W Frameworks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 3198. Xth International Workshop on Groupware: Design, Implementation and Use, CRIWG 2004. San Carlos, Costa Rica, September 2004. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-23016-5. Acceptance Rate: 42%.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, and Rubén Mondéjar, Achieving Load Balancing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Grids. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Volume 3038. 4th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004). 1st International Workshop on Active and Programmable Grid Architectures and Components (APGAC 2004). Kraków, Poland. June 2004, pp. 98-105. ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 3-540-22116-6.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, Dermi: A New Distributed Hash Table-based Middleware Framework. IEEE Internet Computing. Vol 8, No. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 74-84. ISSN: 1089-7801.

  • Carles Pairot, Pedro García, and Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, DERMI: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Event-Based Object Middleware. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004). Tokyo, Japan. March 2004, pp. 236 - 243. ISSN: 1063-6927. ISBN: 0-7695-2086-3. Acceptance Rate: 17.7%.

  • Maria Ferré, Anna Puig, Dani Tost.  A framework for fusion methods and rendering techniques of multimodal volume data.  Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. Vol 15, May 2004. ISSN 1546-4261

  • Maria Ferré, Anna Puig, Dani Tost. Using a classification tree to speed up rendering od hybrid surface and volume models. Vol 12, February 2004. ISSN 1213-6972.

  • Maria Ferré, Anna Puig, Dani Tost. A fast hierarchical traversal strategy for multimodal visualization. In  "Visualization and Data Analysis 2004", edited by Robert F. Erbacher, Philip C. Chen, Jonathan C. Roberts, Matti T. Gröhn, Katy Börner, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 5295,ISSN 0277-786X.

  • Jesús Ibáñez Martínez, An Intelligent Guide for Virtual Environments with Fuzzy Queries and Flexible Management of Stories. PhD Thesis, July 2004, Universidad de Murcia.

 

2003

 

UPF

  • David Griffiths, Josep Blat, Rocio Garcia, Sergio Sayago.: La aportación de IMS Learning Design a la creación de recursos pedagógicos reutilizables. I Simposio Pluridisciplinar sobre Diseño, Evaluación y Descripción de Contenidos Educativos Reutilizables. Guadalajara, October 20-22, 2004.

  • Rocío García, Josep Blat, David Griffiths, Sergio Sayago, Juanjo Martínez, Francisco Casado: Supporting usability and reusability based on eLearning standards; IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Environments, ICALT 2004, Joensuu (Finland), 2004. ISBN: 0-7695-2181-9

  • Rocío García, Josep Blat, David Griffiths, Sergio Sayago, Juanjo Martínez, Francisco Casado: Limitations of some eLearning standards for supporting learning, International Conference of Interactive Computer-Aided Learning, ICL 2004 (in cooperation with ACM-Austrian Chapter, and supported by IEEE Education Society), Villach (Austria), 2004. ISBN: 3-89958-089-3

  • Sayago, Sergio; Blat, Josep: About the accessibility of PDAs and accessible technologies for the elderly. Convivio web-zine first issue. October, 2004.

  • Sayago, Sergio; Martínez, Juanjo; García, Rocio; Blat, Josep; Griffiths, Dai.: Diseño y evaluación de una aplicación sencilla de e-Learning. INTERACCIÓN 2004, V Congreso Internacional Interacción Persona-Ordenador, 3-7 May, Lleida (Espanya). ISBN: 84-609-1266-3.

  • Carlos Delgado-Mata, Jesús Ibáñez (Eds): Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents; CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 97, 2004. ISSN: 1613-0073.

  • Jesús Ibáñez, Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, Josep Blat: Querying virtual worlds. A fuzzy approach. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2972, pp. 59-68. 2004. ISSN: 0302-9743.          

  • Jesús Ibáñez, Carlos Delgado-Mata, Ruth Aylett, Rocío Ruiz-Rodarte: Don't you escape! I'll tell you my story; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2972, pp. 49-58. 2004. ISSN: 0302-9743.        

  • Sayago, Sergio; Blat, Josep.: Evaluación preliminar de las WCAG 1.0 basada en el diseño de un sitio web sencillo para personas de la tercera edad. Jornadas de Accesibilidad y Nuevas Tecnologías. Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao). December, 2004. ISBN: 84-9726-219-0

  • Toni Navarrete, Josep Blat, Maurici Ruiz. Semantic Interoperability of Field-based Thematic Geographic Information. In Proceedings of  the 15th International  Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004). IEEE Computer Society Press. 2004