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The aim of this paper is to present the application of a methodology that seeks facilitating the teaching about the selection of international markets, focused on firm internationalization. The existing literature that validates this type of approach for decision-making is analyzed, identifying the general factors that have influence on the selection of new export markets. Then a new economic factor is proposed with a series of sub-factors to be analyzed, such as country risk, consumer price index, GDP per capita and the unemployment rate. The analytic hierarchy process technique was developed in order to rank the judgments made by ten chemical companies for each of the previously established dimensions. The results suggest that factors such as costs, logistics, trade barriers, economics, and environment and culture are taken into account, in this order of importance, for the exportation of chemical products from Colombia; while the most attractive markets for this case are the United States, Honduras and Ecuador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to demonstrate the capabilities that the Universidad del Cauca in Colombia (UNICAUCA), a public national institution of Higher Education, would have to become, in the medium term, an entrepreneurial university within the framework of an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation. Relevant scientific literature is explored, legal references related to the subject are analyzed, and information is obtained from a census applied to the 64 research groups recognized by the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of COLCIENCIAS in 2017. Results suggest, among other relevant considerations, that 89% of them, because of their profile and abilities, would be able to develop or be part of Spin Off technology-based projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the vehicular mobility in 3 specific points of the municipalities of Riohacha and Maicao, La Guajira Colombia. Variables of vehicular flow such as queue arrival times, density, permanence, infractions and other implicit ones were used. Observation and description processes are carried out over four continuous months in critical hours; the flow variables that affected the selected points, causes and effects were identified and described, which are represented using influence diagrams. The whole process was simulated, using high performance software such as PTV Vissim 8 and Vensim PLE. It is recognized that the vehicular mobility in the studied points, the congested genres due to the high frequency of vehicles that transit and that the current traffic regulations are something that don't help enough to improve the flow. In addition to infractions, accidents and situations of intolerance, toxicity is generated in the environment by the emission of CO2 by vehicles waiting at each critical point, matters to which authorities still do not pay attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the study presented in this paper is to verify the value of the merging between Enterprise Architecture and Process Simulation before making significant changes in the structure of one of the macro processes of the General Comptroller of the Republic of Colombia. The Audit Process was identified as a key for the fulfillment of the mission of the organization. A modeling and simulation tool based on the BPSim standard (Business Process Simulation) was used to guarantee an evolution of the model. The modeling and simulation achieved a logical organization of the process studied and reached the appropriate dimensions for the scope of the activity of the architecture. Based on the results, it is concluded that the construction of a Business Architecture merged with Process Simulation, generates the possibility of creating scenarios for different combinations of data, and guarantee adequate transformation from a current model to an objective model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the implementation of an optimum academic agenda to solve the problem of scheduling a school day in Colombia. This is done by taking into account not only the appropriate assignment of rooms and professors but considering the cognitive rhythms of the students as the most relevant factor in the optimization. The Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm, NSGA-II is proposed as a solution method. The results show a higher efficiency of the algorithm when compared to other algorithms applied to the same problem and evaluated in the same form. At the experimental level the methodology shows a reduction in academic mortality rates in the groups where the methodology was implemented compared to groups that did not considered the cognitive rhythms of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]