Balanced scorecard to improve strategic management control at School of Mines and Energy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

We studied the situation in Spanish public universities regarding the use of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), as an instrument of control and strategic management. Also, we studied its application to the School of Mines and Energy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The main advantage of the BSC is that improves the organizational structure of the workplace and the achievement of the objectives that ensure long-term success. First we review the strategy for success used in the Spanish educational system and specifically in the Spanish public universities. Then using the BSC and applying the main strategic lines for the successful management of the School of Mines and Energy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The strategic lines affect all the college groups and the success of the BSC tool is to increase communication between the faculties, personal auxiliary, students and society in general that make up the university. First we performed a SWOT analysis (DAFO in Spanish) there are proposed different perspectives that focus the long-term strategic objectives. The BSC is designed based on the strategic objectives that set the direction through using indicators and initiatives, the goals are achieved up to the programmed schedule. In the perspective of teaching, objectives are set to update facilities and increase partnerships with other universities and businesses, encouraging ongoing training of staff and improved coordination and internal communication. The internal process perspective aims at improving the marketing, the promotion of the international dimension of the school through strategic alliances, better mobility for students and professors and improved teaching and research quality results. It continues with improving the image of the school between customer?s perspective, the quality perceived by students and the loyalty of the teaching staff by retaining talent. Finally, the financial perspective which should contain costs without harming the quality, improving the employability of students and achieve relevant jobs at teaching and research through international measurement standards.

El cuadro de mando integral : modelo estratégico para el éxito en la gestión en las universidades públicas españolas y su aplicación en la ETSI Minas de la UPM

Este proyecto analiza la situación actual de la estrategia de éxito en las universidades públicas españolas y la utilización del modelo de Cuadro de Mando Integral para optimizarla e implantarla de forma efectiva en la ETSI de Minas de Madrid. En primer lugar se analiza la estrategia para el éxito utilizada en el sistema educativo español y en concreto en las universidades públicas españolas. Posteriormente y a través del Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI) se establecen las principales líneas estratégicas para el éxito de la gestión estratégica en las universidades españolas y particularmente en la ETSI. Minas. En este sentido, el CMI se diseña en función de la planificación estratégica que prevalezca en cada momento identificando una serie de indicadores e iniciativas para su implantación de forma efectiva y satisfactoria. ABSTRACT This project analyzes the current situation of the successful strategy of the Public Spanish Universities and the utilization of The Balanced Scorecard to optimize it and apply it in the ETSI de Minas de Madrid successfully. The development of this project starts with the analysis of the strategy used in the Spanish Education System focusing in the Public Spanish Universities. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is developed and the main strategic lines for the Public Spanish University are established focusing on the ETSI. Minas de Madrid. The BSC is designed following the institution strategy management, identifying a list of indicators and initiatives to implement the strategy successfully

Implantación de metodologías de planificación estratégica en la universidad, identificación de indicadores y medición de activos intangibles

Después del largo camino recorrido esta última década en la implantación de los programas de calidad en el sistema universitario español, se mantiene cierta incertidumbre sobre el grado de influencia de dichos programas en la toma de decisiones. En ese contexto se ha diseñado un estudio prospectivo, mediante la aplicación de la técnica de investigación social Delphi, con objeto de evaluar el grado de implantación de la metodología del Cuadro de Mando Integral (Balanced Scorecard) en las universidades de la Comunidad de Madrid, así como averiguar la opinión del grupo de expertos sobre la posibilidad de condensación de los indicadores y sobre la medición de activos intangibles. En la comunicación propuesta se incluirá un análisis de las conclusiones obtenidas.

Cloud Computing Service for Managing Large Medical Image Data-Sets Using Balanced Collaborative Agents

Managing large medical image collections is an increasingly demanding important issue in many hospitals and other medical settings. A huge amount of this information is daily generated, which requires robust and agile systems. In this paper we present a distributed multi-agent system capable of managing very large medical image datasets. In this approach, agents extract low-level information from images and store them in a data structure implemented in a relational database. The data structure can also store semantic information related to images and particular regions. A distinctive aspect of our work is that a single image can be divided so that the resultant sub-images can be stored and managed separately by different agents to improve performance in data accessing and processing. The system also offers the possibility of applying some region-based operations and filters on images, facilitating image classification. These operations can be performed directly on data structures in the database.

A Balanced Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering Similarity Measure.

Collaborative filtering recommender systems contribute to alleviating the problem of information overload that exists on the Internet as a result of the mass use of Web 2.0 applications. The use of an adequate similarity measure becomes a determining factor in the quality of the prediction and recommendation results of the recommender system, as well as in its performance. In this paper, we present a memory-based collaborative filtering similarity measure that provides extremely high-quality and balanced results; these results are complemented with a low processing time (high performance), similar to the one required to execute traditional similarity metrics. The experiments have been carried out on the MovieLens and Netflix databases, using a representative set of information retrieval quality measures.

New PV self-orientating roof based on a balanced movement

New PV self-orientating roof based on a balanced movement

Sistema único de cuadro de mandos

La creación de un sistema único de Cuadro de Mandos forma parte de la medición del desempeño del uso de la TI en una Organización. Para poder realizar dicho cuadro, he estudiado los conceptos de: BSC (Balance Scorecard). Literatura Americana sobre la gestión del desempeño. Información de la corriente francesa de “Management”.La sencillez comunicativa del BSC lo hace apropiado para entender los conceptos de medida del desempeño en las Organizaciones, teniendo especial cuidado en no simplificar en exceso la elección de los conceptos a medir, con lo que se obtendría un dato rápido pero no sería real, ni útil porque nadie confiaría en el Cuadro. Por ello hay que evitar obtener rápidamente algo parecido a un indicador, que sea o inútil, o peor aún, contraproducente. Por ello, un proceso cuidadoso y reiterado, en el cual se va logrando alcanzar el conocimiento compartido sobre los objetivos reales buscado, no los manifestados inicialmente, ni los comprendidos inicialmente por los equipos de trabajo, es esencial. En el caso de la medición del desempeño esto es, más que esencial, crítico, ya que la solución habitual de implantar un producto con una colección de indicadores “fusilados” de las anteriores implantaciones del mismo paquete efectuadas por el proveedor, suele acabar resultando inútil: ni todas las empresas, incluso del mismo sector, son iguales, ni todos los directores son iguales, ni todos los gerentes son iguales. Por ello, usar un modelo “café para todos” es una pérdida de tiempo y dinero. Este trabajo muestra el camino de obtención del Cuadro, resaltando mis experiencias, los hallazgos concretos y los resultados obtenidos.

Sophisticated security verification on routing repaired balanced cell-based dual-rail logic against side channel analysis

Conventional dual-rail precharge logic suffers from difficult implementations of dual-rail structure for obtaining strict compensation between the counterpart rails. As a light-weight and high-speed dual-rail style, balanced cell-based dual-rail logic (BCDL) uses synchronised compound gates with global precharge signal to provide high resistance against differential power or electromagnetic analyses. BCDL can be realised from generic field programmable gate array (FPGA) design flows with constraints. However, routings still exist as concerns because of the deficient flexibility on routing control, which unfavourably results in bias between complementary nets in security-sensitive parts. In this article, based on a routing repair technique, novel verifications towards routing effect are presented. An 8 bit simplified advanced encryption processing (AES)-co-processor is executed that is constructed on block random access memory (RAM)-based BCDL in Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. Since imbalanced routing are major defects in BCDL, the authors can rule out other influences and fairly quantify the security variants. A series of asymptotic correlation electromagnetic (EM) analyses are launched towards a group of circuits with consecutive routing schemes to be able to verify routing impact on side channel analyses. After repairing the non-identical routings, Mutual information analyses are executed to further validate the concrete security increase obtained from identical routing pairs in BCDL.

Voltage limitation analysis in strain-balanced InAs/GaAsN quantum dot solar cells applied to the intermediate band concept

Several attempts have been carried out to manufacture intermediate band solar cells (IBSC) by means of quantum dot (QD) superlattices. This novel photovoltaic concept allows the collection of a wider range of the sunlight spectrum in order to provide higher cell photocurrent while maintaining the open-circuit voltage (VOC) of the cell. In this work, we analyze InAs/GaAsN QD-IBSCs. In these cells, the dilute nitrogen in the barrier plays an important role for the strain-balance (SB) of the QD layer region that would otherwise create dislocations under the effect of the accumulated strain. The introduction of GaAsN SB layers allows increasing the light absorption in the QD region by multi-stacking more than 100 QD layers. The photo-generated current density (JL) versus VOC was measured under varied concentrated light intensity and temperature. We found that the VOC of the cell at 20 K is limited by the bandgap of the GaAsN barriers, which has important consequences regarding IBSC bandgap engineering that are also discussed in this work.

Jovian Capture of a Spacecraft with a Self-Balanced Electrodynamic Bare Tether

This paper proposes and analyzes the use of a nonrotating tethered system for a direct capture in Jovian orbit using the electrodynamic force generated along the cable. A detailed dynamical model is developed showing a strong gravitational and electrodynamic coupling between the center of mass and the attitude motions. This paper shows the feasibility of a direct capture in Jovian orbit of a rigid tethered system preventing the tether from rotating. Additional mechanical–thermal requirements are explored, and preliminary operational limits are defined to complete the maneuver. In particular, to ensure that the system remains nonrotating, a nominal attitude profile for a self-balanced electrodynamic tether is proposed, as well as a simple feedback control.

The Balanced Cross-Layer Design Routing Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fuzzy Logic

Recently, the cross-layer design for the wireless sensor network communication protocol has become more and more important and popular. Considering the disadvantages of the traditional cross-layer routing algorithms, in this paper we propose a new fuzzy logic-based routing algorithm, named the Balanced Cross-layer Fuzzy Logic (BCFL) routing algorithm. In BCFL, we use the cross-layer parameters’ dispersion as the fuzzy logic inference system inputs. Moreover, we give each cross-layer parameter a dynamic weight according the value of the dispersion. For getting a balanced solution, the parameter whose dispersion is large will have small weight, and vice versa. In order to compare it with the traditional cross-layer routing algorithms, BCFL is evaluated through extensive simulations. The simulation results show that the new routing algorithm can handle the multiple constraints without increasing the complexity of the algorithm and can achieve the most balanced performance on selecting the next hop relay node. Moreover, the Balanced Cross-layer Fuzzy Logic routing algorithm can adapt to the dynamic changing of the network conditions and topology effectively.