A Virtual Programming Lab for Moodle with automatic assessment and anti-plagiarism features

[EN] This paper describes VPL, a Virtual Programming Lab module for Moodle, developed at the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and released for free uses under GNU/GPL license. For the students, it is a simple development environment with auto evaluation capabilities. For the instructors, it is a students' work management system, with features to facilitate the preparation of assignments, manage the submissions, check for plagiarism, and do assessments with the aid of powerful and flexible assessment tools based on program testing, all of that being independent of the programming language used for the assignments and taken into account critical security issues.

Wildfire prevention and management in a 3D virtual environment

[EN] This paper describes a wildfire forecasting application based on a 3D virtual environment and a fire simulation engine. A new open source framework is presented for the development of 3D graphics applications over large geographic areas offering high performance 3D visualization and powerful interaction tools for the Geographic Information Systems community. The application includes a remote module that allows simultaneous connection of several users for monitoring a real wildfire event. The user is enabled to simulate and visualize a wildfire spreading on the terrain under conditions of spatial information on topography and fuels along with weather and wind files.

Simulador virtual de técnicas de endoscopia rígida para formación sanitaria

[ES] En este proyecto se trata el proceso de análisis y desarrollo llevado a cabo con el objetivo de construir un prototipo funcional de simulador virtual de endoscopia rígida monocanal orientado a la histeroscopia. Para el desarrollo del prototipo se toma como base el entorno ESQUI, un entorno de simulación virtual médica de código libre. Este entorno provee una librería, basada a su vez en la conocida librería gráfica VTK(Visual ToolKit), cuyo propósito es poner a disposición del programador toda la algoritmia necesaria para construir una simulación médica virtual. En este proyecto, esta librería se depuró y amplió para mejorar el soporte a las técnicas de endoscopia rígida que se persiguen simular. Por otro lado se emplea el Simball 4D, un dispositivo de interfaz humana de la empresa G-coder Systems, para capturar la interacción del usuario emulando la morfología y dinámica de un endoscopio rígido. Todos estos elementos se conectan con una interfaz gráfica sencilla, intuitiva y práctica soportada por wxWidgets y utilizando Python como lenguaje de scripting. Finalmente, se analiza el prototipo resultante y se proponen una serie de líneas futuras de cara a la aplicación didáctica del mismo, tanto en relación a los objetivos conceptuales del prototipo como a los aspectos específicos del entorno ESQUI.

Duality in complex stochastic boolean systems

[EN]Many different complex systems depend on a large number n of mutually independent random Boolean variables. The most useful representation for these systems –usually called complex stochastic Boolean systems (CSBSs)– is the intrinsic order graph. This is a directed graph on 2n vertices, corresponding to the 2n binary n-tuples (u1, . . . , un) ∈ {0, 1} n of 0s and 1s. In this paper, different duality properties of the intrinsic order graph are rigorously analyzed in detail. The results can be applied to many CSBSs arising from any scientific, technical or social area…