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Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T02:14:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-09-01 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad We investigated the particular organization of Guardiola's F.C. Barcelona during season 2009/2010, using datasets from the Spanish National League La Liga. Specifically, we constructed the corresponding pitch networks, obtained from all passes successfully performed by a team during a football match. Pitch networks are composed of nodes consisting of particular subdivisions of the field, which are connected through links whose weight ωi,j corresponds to the number of passes made from region i to region j. We performed a multi-scale analysis focused on evaluating the properties of pitch networks at different scales, from a partition of the pitch into 2 × 2 to 10 × 10 areas. For each scale, we calculated a diversity of network parameters of F.C. Barcelona and its opponents during the whole season. Next, we compared the properties of F.C. Barcelona pitch networks with the networks of its rivals. Our results show how, depending on the spatial scale, there are statistically significant differences between F.C. Barcelona and the rest of the teams of the Spanish league. These differences are particularly significant at the clustering coefficient, the network average shortest-path, and the number of nodes occupied by a team for partitions with a high number of subdivisions. UNESP-IFT ICTP-SAIFR Sao Paulo CeSiMo Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Los Andes Depto. Ingeniería Biomédica. Universidad de los Andes Complex Systems Group Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC) Laboratory of Biological Networks Center for Biomedical Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid E.S.A.D.E. Business School Departamento de Metodología F.C. Barcelona Institute of Unmanned System and Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning (OPTIMAL) Northwestern Polytechnical University UNESP-IFT ICTP-SAIFR Sao Paulo FAPESP: 2016/01343-7 FAPESP: 2017/05770-0 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: FIS2017-84151-P

Multiasistencia was an ecosystem in 2017 managing a network-based service called the “Comprehensive Claim Management Service” (CCMS). The firm offered home repair services to its 100 Corporate Clients (Financial Institutions and Insurance Companies) which attended to some 8 Million end customers, managing a network of some 6.000 Trade Professionals (SME and self-employee). The service was supported by an advanced digital platform to coordinate all actions in that ecosystem. The case shows the challenges of digitalization, namely (1) new digital entrants, (2) the Smart Home trends, (3) the digital effects on banking, and (4) the demand of personalization. Those strategic changes lead to Multiasistencia to create a Digital Hub to manage Big Data so placing students on the managerial situation to decide priorities in business model, processes, and new ways to grow.

We quantified the spatial and temporal entropy related to football teams and their players by means of a pass-based interaction. First, we calculated the spatial entropy associated to the positions of all passes made by a football team during a match, obtaining a spatial entropy ranking of Spanish teams during the 2017/2018 season. Second, we investigated how the player&rsquo, s average location in the field is related to the amount of entropy of his passes. Next, we constructed the temporal passing networks of each team and computed the deviation of their network parameters along the match. For each network parameter, we obtained the permutation entropy and the statistical complexity of its temporal fluctuations. Finally, we investigated how the permutation entropy (and statistical complexity) of the network parameters was related to the total number of passes made by a football team. Our results show that (i) spatial entropy changes according to the position of players in the field, and (ii) the organization of passing networks change during a match and its evolution can be captured measuring the permutation entropy and statistical complexity of the network parameters, allowing to identify what parameters evolve more randomly.

The application of Network Science to social systems has introduced new methodologies to analyze classical problems such as the emergence of epidemics, the arousal of cooperation between individuals or the propagation of information along social networks. More recently, the organization of football teams and their performance have been unveiled using metrics coming from Network Science, where a team is considered as a complex network whose nodes (i.e., players) interact with the aim of overcoming the opponent network. Here, we combine the use of different network metrics to extract the particular signature of the F.C. Barcelona coached by Guardiola, which has been considered one of the best teams along football history. We have first compared the network organization of Guardiola's team with their opponents along one season of the Spanish national league, identifying those metrics with statistically significant differences and relating them with the Guardiola's game. Next, we have focused on the temporal nature of football passing networks and calculated the evolution of all network properties along a match, instead of considering their average. In this way, we are able to identify those network metrics that enhance the probability of scoring/receiving a goal, showing that not all teams behave in the same way and how the organization Guardiola's F.C. Barcelona is different from the rest, including its clustering coefficient, shortest-path length, largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix, algebraic connectivity and centrality distribution., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures

In a deep financial crisis in Spain, Banco Sabadell won a competitive bid to acquire Banco CAM for the price of €1. The President of Banco Sabadell Josep Oliu announced at a press conference on the 8 December 2012 that BCAM, a similar size to its acquirer, must be integrated in less than 1 year. Banco Sabadell management expected €331 million in synergies from 2012 to 2014. The case focuses on Miquel Montes, the new CEO in Banco CAM, and his team; Federico Rodriguez, new Chief Operations Officer; and Carles Abarca, new Chief Information Officer. Banco Sabadell had developed a cloud computing architecture never tested before in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Despite Sabadell management's strong and proven experience of M&As, there were risks associated with the benefits. Students need to understand both in order to understand how to plan in such situations.

The management of sensor nodes on the sea floor represents an important challenge due to the high difficulties associated to the deployment and recovering of untethered instruments on the seafloor. These difficulties are not only related to the management of the instruments themselves but also related to the valuable information that can be lost. Ambient sound and interferences, maritime traffic, marine mammals behavior, oceanographic data are all among this critical information suitable to be registered. The fact of part of these information being missed, represent a void gap in the spatio-temporal identification phenomena analysis. For reducing the risk of losing information and with the aim of providing a feasible and low cost systems for recovering information from seafloor, a hybrid glider vehicle equipped with acoustic and laser optical communications is proposed. Preliminary studies as well as experimental results of optical/acoustic communications integrated in the hybrid glider Alba14 as data mule are presented.

The case, ‘Santander Acquires Abbey: The Jack Project’, applies a general strategic management focus to an analysis of the ‘Jack Project’, the Spanish banking group's IT centric project to acquire Abbey. The case focuses on José María Fuster, chief information officer (CIO) and his perspective in leveraging IT to integrate Abbey. The following issues are explored: (1) the value of IT; (2) the generation of synergies in M&A; and (3) the prioritisation of IT-related options comparing two different realities. At the end of the case, students will examine how Partenón, Grupo Santander's core IT system, leveraged this acquisition and made an impact on the bank's long-term market position.

This paper proposes the concept of Orchestrating Smart Business Networks (SBN) as a managerial function that shapes structural dynamics for innovation. On the basis of commitment, as one way to exert power, and dynamic capacities, the suggested managerial function can develop a path of efficiency towards innovation by managing the SBN's structural dynamics, the network boundaries and digital platforms. The network's centripetal and centrifugal forces are used as the units of analysis, and this managerial function is then tested with empirical results obtained from a case study.

Commercial Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are in general very complex and expensive machines. Because of this reason, planning long term multi-agent surveys at sea based on the deployment of a substantial number of such kind of vehicles, become a difficult task and, in general, non a realistic or feasible possibility. With the aim of providing a low-cost platform based on open source technology and software, the project Alba initiated its path in 2012. This project try to close the gap between commercial AUV features and researchers needs. It is very frequent the situation when scientists do not require the high capabilities that commercial vehicles provide. This concept opens the window for planning persistent multi agent surveys, in a way that not excessive cost for the equipment is needed. This paper progresses in the idea on the feasibility of this kind of vehicles, advancing in the development of a second prototype of the low cost AUV Alba-13. The purpose of this second prototype is its validation as a sampling platform. Water samples are stored in basic commercial syringes. This configuration provides two important advantages: keep the containers sterile until its placement on the sampler holding and low cost and easy replacement. The first part of this paper is devoted to explain the process of the design and construction of an unit of the AUV ALBA 13, done by students [1] from the `Design and Materials' and `Marine Technology' Faculty and departments of NTNU along the year 2013.

Communications between two autonomous vehicles has been always an important challenge, especially when one of the vehicles is intended for conducting submerged navigation most of its operational time. Underwater communications become in that case the one most common and feasible way for allowing data trasfering underneath the sea surface. Considering low cost of the final vehicle as one of the main features in the concept of this project, a low power low-cost acoustic modem initially intended for environmental sensor applications has been adopted. With the purpose of increasing at maximum the energy reservoir, this modem includes among others, self-wake capabilities and directional transmission. The present work continues in the validation of this acoustic device for application in Underwater Unmanned Vehicles (UUV) in multivehicle configurations. Different solutions for solving the problems associated to the difficulty of conducting robust and reliable data transfering by using this device are presented.

The coordination between a fleet of ocean automatic vehicles is an interesting area of research. The communication between an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle AUV and in-shore stations is a difficult question. Satellite communications are expensive; they provides only a limited bandwidth and the link is not always guaranteed when it is needed. High speed communications are difficult from underwater vehicles since their antennas are affected by the sea surface conditions when they are on the surface, especially when rough sea conditions are present. Using a Surface Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) in the proximity of the AUV as a coordination station between a Command Center (CC) in shore and the AUV fleet will be an advantage for reaching a good guaranteed link between shore and the individual vehicles. The constraint of avoiding costly satellite communications on AUVs leads to the consideration of using commercial inexpensive communication systems based on UMTS and WIFI protocols, together with inexpensive acoustic underwater devices for range and bearing control and basic communications. In order to be useful for the mission the previously mentioned surface vehicle faces the challenge of operating in a wide range of weather conditions. In this paper a solution is proposed by considering a dual system composed by a SAV and a fleet of AUV in tandem navigation strategy. In order to avoid vehicle damage, malfunction or lose of communication between shore and AUVs, robust and fault tolerant dual system propulsion and a multiple communication platform ASV is proposed.

AUVs are self-propelled and able to navigate at an acceptable speed, but they need an electric motor and batteries that are limited in autonomy. Multivehicle fleet deployment can provide an adequate platform for conducting long term surveillance. Unexpected event detection can be more easily conducted if a set of vehicles in idle mode are expecting the occurrence of this event. Long term and high persistence are very interesting characteristics that a collaborative fleet of different vehicles can provide. However, the problem is the high cost of such kind of vehicles. The possibility of performing adequate tasks by using low cost underwater vehicle could multiply the number of agents in the area and therefore, providing high persistence and wide survey area capabilities. This paper progresses in the definition of the requirements needed to be applied on these kind of vehicles considering the low cost of construction and operation as one of the main goals. A more technological advanced and better equipped ASV as communication and coordination station in the area in combination with a fleet of robust Low Cost AUVs in collaborative schema seems to be an interesting platform for providing good results.

The challenge of extending the autonomy in AUV deployments is one of the most important issues in oceanographic research today. The possibility of maintaining a team of AUV under deployment in a defined area of interest for a long period could provide an additional source of information [8]. All this data in combination with the measures provided by buoys and sea gliders used for slow motion and long range operations will be very valuable. A group of low cost AUV's in alternative automatic switching system navigation-charging operation, could allow a kind of continuous surveying operation. This work is the continuation of the ideas that some of the authors previously presented in the AUV 2010 conference at MBARI [8]. At this conference was proposed the great interest for researching oceanic processes on two areas near Cartagena, Spain: cape Tiñoso and the Mar Menor a shallow coastal lagoon. Both areas require a different research structure configuration because of their opposite characteristics. The Mar Menor is a shallow salty lagoon 20 miles long with 7 m of maximum depth and particular features. This lagoon seems to present a sort of oceanic behavior and can be compared with the major oceans but a minor scale. The second area considered is cape Tiñoso, a very deep area in the Mediterranean Sea where the presence of a self-break provides an interesting potential for the research of the effect of upwelling currents., This work has been partly supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education under projects number TIN2011-28435-C03-01 and CTM2011-29691-C02-01.

In this paper we present the preliminary results of the study on possible future banking business models in the presence of social networks. We use grounded theory and scenarios in uncertainty to propose them. This paper is the result of a two-year project among academic institutions in Spain and USA, Banco Sabadell the 5th bank in Spain, and IBM (Banking Sector and Research).

This work considers the re-design of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in which an innovative, neurobiological inspired sensorization control system is being implemented. Hardware architecture and sensorization control software are being developed to allow autonomous navigation procedures for submarine vehicles. After the refurbishment of the vehicle and the update of its control system, the ROV is able to load CTD sensors, chlorophyll, turbidity, optical dissolved oxygen (YSI V6600 sonde) and nitrate analyzer (SUNA) together with ADCP, side scan sonar and video camera, in a flexible configuration to provide a water quality monitoring platform with mapping capabilitiesi.

An experiment with different AUVs was carried out in the Mar Menor Coastal Lagoon from October 31 to November 5 in order to measure and assess the influence of the water from the Mar Menor on the adjacent area of the Mediterranean. This was carried out as a result of the meeting held between several institutions from the Iberian Peninsula and EEUU (see Vilanova Marine Science/Robotics Meeting 2010). The experiment was to launch several AUVs at the same time in different zones of the Mediterranean and Mar Menor lagoon. AUVs took salinity data trying to do a coordinated mission during two operative days (November 3 and November 5). Others days of the experiment were used to the vehicle's preparation and error correction (November 2 and November 4). This paper presents the steps followed in preparation and operative days with the set of AUVs. This paper presents also the salinity results obtained during these missions.