Simulación de modelos orientados al individuo

Los bancos de peces es un grupo social organizado sin la presencia de un líder. Esta organización se atribuye a dos patrones de comportamiento: atracción biosocial y orientación paralela. Este sistema puede modelarse mediante la aproximación del Modelo orientado al Individuo, donde la conducta de cada individuo por separado define el comportamiento grupal de todos los individuos. El objetivo del trabajo es mejorar el rendimiento del simulador mediante una programación híbrida que aproveche las alternativas de paralelismo en el cómputo que ofrecen las recientes arquitecturas multicore en sistemas de altas prestaciones.

O fotojornalismo depois da fotografia: Modelos de configuração da cadeia produtiva do fotojornalismo em tempos de convergência digital

This research report concerns about the post-doctoral activities, conducted betweenSeptember 2010 and March 2011 at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. It comes to identify the consequences of the convergence phenomenon on photojournalism.Thus, in a more general approach, the effort is to to recovery the structural elements of the convergence concept in journalism. It aims to map, as well, the current debates about the repositioning of photographic practices linked to the news produced in a widespread adoption of digital devices in contemporary workflow. It is also specified,the analysis of photographic collectives as a result of the convergence frameworkapplied to photojournalism; the debate on ways of funding; alternatives facing thealleged crisis of press photography and, finally, proposes to create qualifying stages ofdevelopment of photojournalism in the digital age as well as the proposition of hypotheses concerning the structure of the productive routines. In addition, we present three cases to be analyzed in order to explore and verify the occurrence ofcharacteristics that may identify the object of research in the state of practice. Finally,we work in a series of conclusions, revisiting the main hypotheses. With this strategy, ispossible to define an sequence of analysis capable of addressing the characteristics present in the studied cases and other ones in future, thus, be able to affirm this stage as a step, in the continuous historical course of photojournalism.