• Cooperative Learning Environments (C.L.): define the essential characteristics an application for a university level cooperative learning has to incorporate to support cooperative learning activities.
• Middleware: define the components of an infrastructure for distributed computation, based on the peer-to-peer and grid models, providing resource access services, security, organisation and coordination of computational processes, to enable a group of people participate on a cooperative learning activity.
• Planning, optimization and resource allocation in a distributed system with autonomous and decentralized components, based on middleware, using algorithms based on economic systems, neural networks and neuro-fuzzy systems.

Methodology:
Analysis of theories and existing systems, simulation of middleware, construction of CL environment prototypes, and evaluation with real users.

From Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (ES):

Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas, Juan Carlos Cruellas, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Manuel Medina, Roc Messeguer, Kanapa Thipillai Sanjeevan, Antonia Gallardo Gómez, Miguel Valero

From Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (ES):

Atanasi Daradoumis, Joan Manuel Marquès, Fatos Xhafa, Eugenia Santamaría, Silvia González, Jordi Álvarez

From Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid (ES):

Bartolomé Rubia, Eduardo Gómez, Guillermo Vega, José Lino, Juan Ignacio Asensio, Miguel Luis Bote, Yannis Dimitriadis

• Collaborative Learning in Grid Environments: A Case Study,
  by O. Ardaiz, L. Díaz de Cerio, R. Messeguer, K. Sanjeevan, A. Gallard.
  Workshop in Collaborative Learning; Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference; November, 12th-14th, 2003. San Sebastian, Spain. pdf (spanish).
• Distributed Systems and CSCL,
  by L. Navarro, J. M. Marqués, O. Ardaiz, F. Freitag.
  Workshop in Collaborative Learning; Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference; November, 12th-14th, 2003. San Sebastian, Spain. pdf (spanish).
• Grid Computing and Component-Based Software Engineering in CSCL,
  by M. L. Bote-Lorenzo, J. I. Asensio-Pérez, Y. A. Dimitriadis, E. Gómez-Sánchez, L. M. Vaquero-González and G. Vega-Gorgojo.
  Workshop in Collaborative Learning; Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference; November, 12th-14th, 2003. San Sebastian, Spain. pdf (spanish).
• Grid Resource Scheduler for component-based CSCL aplications,
  by M. L. Bote-Lorenzo, Y. A. Dimitriadis, E. Gómez-Sánchez, J. I. Asensio-Pérez, L. M. Vaquero-González and G. Vega-Gorgojo.
  Asignador de Recursos Grid para Aplicaciones CSCL basadas en Componentes, Actas de Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática 2003 (JITEL 2003), Gran Canaria, Septiembre de 2003. pdf (spanish).
• Grid Characteristics and Uses: a Grid Definition,
  by M. L. Bote-Lorenzo, Y. A. Dimitriadis, E. Gómez-Sánchez
  1st European Across Grids Conference February, 13th-14th, 2003.
  Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (ACROSSGRID 2003)
  February, 2003; pdf.
• ULabGrid, an infrastructure to develop distant laboratories for undergrad students over a Grid,
  by O. Ardaiz, P. Artigas, L. Díaz de Cerio, F. Freitag, R. Messeguer, L. Navarro, D. Royo.
  1st European Across Grids Conference February, 13th-14th, 2003.
  Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (ACROSSGRID 2003)
  February, 2003; pdf (145 KB).

Last update: 6/10/2003