The measurement, monitoring, modeling and forecasting of atmospheric phenomena such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, speed, wind direction, among others, requires the installation and maintenance of a network of meteorological stations for the development of this activity. Depending on its purposes and scope, this network will be more or less sophisticated in the capture and transmission of information. The present work proposes to formulate a methodology to establish the minimum network of meteorological stations necessary for the recording of temperature, as well as the thermal zones of the Colombian territory as a function of altitude. For this purpose, first, the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm was used as a technique to calculate the similarity between time series. From the results obtained with DTW, a hierarchical grouping was developed to determine the station clusters. Finally, the thermal zones, 10 in total as a result of the clustering, were the result of selecting those stations that were within the interquartile range with respect to the altitude coordinate. From an initial network of 452 stations, an optimal network of 230 stations was arrived at. Daily historical temperature records from the network of meteorological stations managed by the Institute of Environmental Studies (IDEAM) were the input with which this methodology was implemented.

This paper presents the development and validation of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for managing procedures that are commonly used in the traceability of the coffee. For the development of the DSL, a conceptual model that is built from domain knowledge is presented. A controlled experiment is performed to verify a DSL to support traceability procedures in the production chain for coffee. The first version of this DSL, and its support and understandability are analyzed. Some principles from the Physics of Notations (PoN) approach have been used in the experimental design.

This work is framed in the domain of software engineering. Specifically, it is situated in the subdomain of user interface evaluation. The context of the same comprises the phenomenon of visual attention and its evaluation through indicators that allow evaluating the quality of these interfaces. Specifically, it presents a model for the prediction of visual attention based on saliency maps, machine learning and biometric data. Its objective is to serve as a support to promote the usability of user interfaces. Experiments carried out with the eye tracker by the Institute for Cognitive Sciences at the University of Osnabrück and the University Medical Center in Hamburg-Eppendorf, among which free visualization tasks on user interfaces such as web pages, formed the input with which the model was developed. Its general structure consists of two elements: a convolutional neural network and Guided Grad-CAM (a convolutional layer visualization method). Biometric components were used to train the network: images whose size was set as a function of the foveal radius and the user's distance from the interface. The natural units of information (nats) were used as a measure to evaluate the accuracy of the model.

This paper presents the redesign of the academic follow-up process established in the Colombia' Ministry of National Education (MEN) Guide No. 34, by the application of the Business Process Management (BPM) model, to improve its quality indicators within the Academic Management area in a public educational institution in the department of Quindío (Colombia). This case is presented as a feasible project that proposes a solution to the need to restructure the way in which academic processes are interpreted and managed within the country's public educational institutions due to the lack of specification, understanding of current processes and components. that integrate the institutional academic management. The methodology incorporates the process improvement techniques proposed by Dumas, M., et al. The redesign of the academic monitoring process, and the specification of the new key performance indicators or KPIs for each redesigned sub-process, promoted the quantification of the positive impact of the application of the BPM model in the redesign of the academic follow-up process and the improvement of its quality indicators within the field of academic management.

This paper presents the process of creating and deploying business architecture for the implementation of teleworking in emerging small and medium-sized software-development companies in Colombia, taking reference methodology as determined by the Colombian government in its White-Book on Teleworking, and utilizing the tools of Eclipse Process Framework for the creation of the said business architecture in a way that the framework can be educational and contribute in the dissemination and implementation of teleworking in Colombian companies as per the advising council on telework of the Ministry of Technology and Telecommunications (MinTIC) or by any private company that desires its use as a systematic guide in its telework implementation plan.

This paper describes the implementation and deployment of a software development process for a development unit in a recognized poultry company in the coffee region location of Colombia. This software process was formulated in compliance with the ISO 29110 standard, which serves as guidance for defining the required artifacts and tools. In addition, the IDEAL model was used as a roadmap for defining the process. This model allows us considering continuous improvement tasks over the software development projects that the company proposes for addressing business rules of the poultry sector.

[Context and motivation] The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm remains an active niche in information systems engineering and research. Given their primary role, assuring the quality of models and modelling languages is crucial. In a previous literature review, we have confirmed that there exist different conceptions on model and modelling language quality. [Question/problem] Also, many approaches tackle a narrow perspective and practitioners often feel that such practices burden them with extra effort. A wider overview of the field is needed, taking into account the constraining and pressing conditions of industrial practice. [Principal ideas/results] This paper recalls the essence of, current trends and pitfalls of modelling language quality evaluation within MDE. Some of the current unsolved issues are related to a growing system complexity, evaluating the quality of a complementary set of languages, the need to bring model transformations in the picture, etc. [Contribution] Through this evaluation work, we define a research agenda that reveals the main challenges in modelling language quality evaluation in the context of MDE.

The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) research must manage a diversity of conceptions despite the global truth about the use of conceptual models as one way for representing and managing the development of complex information systems. Due to this diversity of conceptions and the multiple MDE compliance interpretations, a pletora of definitions about quality in models are emerging, each one tackling specific dimensions involved in MDE projects. In order to explore a consensus about quality in models and model-driven contexts an identification of the previous proposals for quality in models is needed. The main contribution of this work is the identification of representative trends about quality definition in MDE, and therefore, exposing the implications of the multiple quality interpretations as consequence of the diversity in MDE compliance works.

In this paper we propose the use of multi-view modeling approaches for managing the integration of conceptual artifacts.We propose the integration of behavioral and contextual approaches driven by aspects and models, in order to standardize and integrate behaviors derived from security requirements and functional specifications. Our goal is to build generic aspectual behaviors derived from security specifications and integrate them into models of business process workflows, using the Separation of Concerns principles. A Context is defined in terms of functional features and standards of the underlying services referenced by models. We use a multiple-view approach for modeling a concern derived from security specifications; posteriorly this concern is woven into a business process workflow, using aspectual composition principles, without mayor modifications to workflow itself.

Software engineering education has been recognized as an important challenge in computer science undergraduate programs. Instruction in such area requires not only to deliver theoretical knowledge, but also to perform practical experiences that allow students to assimilate and apply such knowledge.