Knowledge management as a sustainable, multidisciplinary and global growth engine
Dr. Fernando Machuca -  Genioux.com Corporation – United States

A modern knowledge management system supports genioux.com, a virtual free access community, making history by giving online socialization a profound sense of growth that is sustainable, multidisciplinary and global, in addition to being socially, intellectually, economically, culturally and environmentally integrated. genioux.com fosters large-scale open global creativity, founded on knowledge and integrated, multidisciplinary avant-garde tools that produce ten levels of growth ranging from those associated with the individual, family, group, organization, company and community to local, national, regional and world development.

The knowledge management system makes it possible to offer tools to:

• Stimulate meaningful socialization as open communication directed to growth through the full expression of personal and organizational voice.
• Give maximum empowerment to each member, as the unique leader (g-leader) that each person is, so that s/he exercises freely, and with the greatest possible effectiveness, this personal leadership in complete synergy with organizational leadership, as an integral person (body, mind, heart, spirit).
• Increase the productivity, competitiveness and strategic planning of g-leaders, while simultaneously improving in a significant way their capacity for innovation and execution in businesses and organizations of all types and sizes.
• Expedite the launching, growth and development of businesses.
• Foster and facilitate commercial transactions.
• Participate in the creation of knowledge and information, in accordance with the principles of knowledge management.
• Search structured knowledge and information.
• Personalize profile management, enabling effective classification of contacts into different friendship circles.

Quantum Information Circuits
Dr. Miroslav Svitek  - CVUT in Prague, República Checa

Presentation summarizes the current results in the area of information physics that is a new progressively developing field trying to introduce basic information flow into physics. New parameters like wave information flow, waveinformation/knowledge content or wave information impedance will be first defined and introduced and then  represented by wave probabilistic functions. Next, relations between newly defined parameters are given to compute information power or to build wave information circuits covering feedbacks, etc.




The new challenges of learning environments for Y generation
Dr. Sérgio Crespo - UNISINOS, Brazil

Internet, Twitter, Wifi, Orkut, Facebook, YouTube, digg, Squidoo, Flickr, Pandora, MSN, among others, are tools on the Internet and widely used by young people of Y generation. They are young people that consume a large amount of information, always use parallel processing, become more collaborative, communicative, creative, dispersive some times, and  selective. They are kids between 0 and 12 years.

We, on the other side, are the creators of these tools, but with sequential processing. The fundamental question is how to design educational environments using these new attributes of Y generation and how to combine these resources to grow  the full potential learning of this Y generation, these are hard challenges to  the Native digital people. This talk will discuss about these new obstacles for the development of new educational environments for Y generation.



Integrating Multicultural Aspects in HCI-Curricula
Dr. César Alberto Collazos - Universidad del Cauca, Colombia

In the developing of any kind of interactive and information applications, multicultural aspects, usually, have not been taked into account. Therefore, people need to adapt to the interfaces instead the opposite, interfaces adapting themselves to the user characteristics. Designing products for international users all above the world will be one of the main goals for future marketing strategies. HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) area has experimented a growth that has occurred as a result of the generalization of computer use and of problems which originate from use by people who are not specifically trained in these appliances. Despite this growth, multicultural aspects in many cases are not included in the HCI Curricula. In recent years, diverse symptoms have expounded that the Ibero-American market is growing very fast to incorporate professionals with HCI backgrounds and solid knowledge about User Centre Design methods. Indeed, these kinds of professionals are currently required when developing or localizing interactive systems in this particular scenario. In this talk, will be described the experience of starting the first HCI master in Spanish language for the wide Spanish speaking context held in the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), where it has been included specific courses including the multicultural aspects. They will orient the students to have in mind cross-cultural factors when developing international interfaces. In many cases, even it implies adapting evaluation techniques such as usability heuristics traditionally used in HCI courses.


Integral optimization of operations in oil transportation
Dr. Juan Carlos García Díaz - ECOPETROL, Colombia

Optimization of transportation in ECOPETROL S.A. is focused on management of every optimization activity performed throughout the overall transportation process; it considers – among others – the following functions: integral optimization of the transportation process, optimization of TI and control infrastructure required to support the other processes, and service optimization (includes agreements with customers and suppliers of both internal and external services).

The INTEGRAL OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSPORTATION function consolidates the optimization actions considered from the planning process to the real operation, and includes the following levels:

1. Optimization of transportation modes: deals with selecting the most convenient mode (pipeline, truck, barge) in order to satisfy transportation requirements. It considers application of linear optimizers to determine the transportation monthly plan which consists of gross volumes of products to transport in each pipeline system, truck fleet or barge fleet.
2. Scheduling optimization: after selecting transportation modes, this level considers different options for scheduling transportation and selects the best option within the time window established for service.  It considers application of simplified hydraulic simulators and linear optimizers to determine the daily batch schedule – for pipelines, and the truck and barge schedule, which optimize specified criteria.
3. Energy optimization: deals with calculating setpoints for operational parameters, so that the maximum energetic efficiency in the transportation system, can be reached. It involves the use of rigorous hydraulic dynamic simulators as well as nonlinear optimizers to find the minimum cost operating conditions.
4. Optimization of operation: corresponds to optimizing actions during the execution of operation itself, oriented towards fulfilling the daily optimized schedules defined the three previous levels; it can use hydraulic simulators as well as knowledge based systems to support pipeline operators in specific conditions which cause deviations from the optimal schedules.
   

The purpose of this talk is to show the mathematical models – based on software tools – which are being developed in ECOPETROL S.A. in order to support the above optimization levels.




Data Mining Algorithms and Implementation of Efficient Computing Tools In Petroleum and Health
Dr. Pablo Guillén - Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela

Data mining is a process of inductively analyzing data to find interesting patterns and previously unknown relationships in the data. These relationships can be translated into statistical index that are used to predict future events or to provide knowledge about interrelationships among data. Data mining in applications such as seismic, geology, bioinformatics, biomedical signals, oil and gas production, are well-known problems we are confronted with almost every day by the media. This talk begins with an overview of different data mining algorithms. Next,Mathematically accurate model are defined as a basis for simulating the particular application. Finally, it is shown simulations and implementations applied in data from petroleum and health.