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2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Circuits and Systems Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Gardenias
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:30
11:30-13:30
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair: Dr. Alfonso Chacón-Rodríguez, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Evaluaton of Vector Fitting for Compact Interconnect Model Representation,
Luis Ernesto Carrera-Retana, Renato Rimolo-Donadio, and Christian Schuster,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica,
Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg TUHH, Hamburg, Germany.
High and Low-Level Features Modelling of Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks using SystemC,
Josie E. Rodríguez Condia and Wilson Javier Pérez Holguin,
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia UPTC, Sogamoso, Colombia.
A software Controlled Hardware Acceleration Architecture for Image Processing Using an Embedded Development Board,
Mauricio Paz Valverde and Jeferson González Gómez,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica.
An Embedded System for the Detection of Illegal Hunting and Logging,
Jordan Montero-Aragón, Carlos Salazar-García, Reinaldo Castro-González, Jorge Cárdenas-Reyes, Alfonso Chacón-Rodríguez,
and Pablo Alvarado-Moya,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica
Coffee Break
Special Session: Victor Grimblatt, Group Director and General Manager, Synopsys R&D Chile,
At the Dawn of Industry 4.0. Design Makes Everything Different
Lunch
Session B - Chair: José Walter Orozco, Intel Costa Rica.
13:30-14:00
Review of CMOS Circuit Architectures for Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy,
14:00-14:30 Ronny García-Ramírez, Oscar Villalta-Gutiérrez, and Renato Rimolo-Donadio,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica.
A Methodology for Integrating the Syntehsis to Logical Netlist Flow on a Full-Commercial ASIC,
14:30-15:00 Raquel Araya and Mauricio Gurdían,
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Heredia, Costa Rica.
Study of a Network Interface for an On-Chip Network Architecture based on Its Main Performance Parameters,
15:00-15:30 Byron Ojeda Báez, Darwin Alulema Flores, Marco Flores Calero, and Derlin Morocho Checa,
Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolqui, Ecuador
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Special Session: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Ram Krishnamurthy, Intel Labs,
16:00-17:00
Energy Efficient Circuit Technologies for the Sub-14nm Era: Challenges and Opportunities.
Friday, November 11th
Session C - Chair: Renato Rímolo Donadío, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
8:00-8:30
Finite Element Analysis of MEMs Flexible Pressure Sensor for Total Anke Replacement,
8:30-9:00 Marco V. Bedoya Serrano and Paola Vega Castillo,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica
A Tool for Correlating RTL Simulation Outputs with Micro-Engine Programs,
9:00-9:30 Claudio Víquez Calderón, Osvaldo Sánchez, and Diego Valverde,
Hewlett Packard Networking, Heredia, Costa Rica
Implementation of an Open Core IEEE 754-Based FPU with Non-Linear Arithmetic Support,
9:30-10:00 Adrían Cervantes, Francis López, Jeffry Quirós, Carlos Salazar-García, Carlos Meza, and Alfoncos Chacón-Rodríguez,
Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica TEC, Cartago, Costa Rica
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
Special Session: Practical Design Considerations for an All-Digital PLL in a Digital Car Radio Reception SoC.
10:30-11:30
Alexander Mora Sánchez, Ulrich Moehlmann, Peter Blinzer, Martin Ehlert,
RF CMOS Tuner IP Group, NXP Semiconductors, Hamburg, Germany
11:30-13:30
Lunch
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Industry Applications Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Hibiscus
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair:
8:00-8:40
The future of industrial electrical systems analysis at the Mexican Refineries: Requirements for
Analysis in Real Time.
Expositor: Ing. Francisco Cuauhtemoc Poujol Galvan, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, México
8:40-9:20
Automatic Reactive Power Compensation with Capacitor Banks : Analysis of Transient Insertion
and Measurement.
Expositor: Ing. Mauro Loggini, Universidad de Bologna, Italia
9:20-10:00
Design of Haptic Interface with Relative Position Feedback and Data Deployment using IoT
Modules
Expositor: Ing. Carlos Bran, Instituto para la Investigación e Innovación en Electrónica de la Universidad Don Bosco, El
Salvador
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:10
11:10-11:50
11:50-12:30
A simple tracking controller for a class of mechanical systems without velocity measurements
Expositor: Ing. Raúl Rascón Carmona, Instituto Tecnológico de Mexicali
Real-Time EEG-Based Happiness Pattern Detection for Neuromarketing Purposes
Expositor: Ing. Rodrigo López González, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Facial Expression Analysis for Neuromarketing Purposes
Expositor: Luis Ramírez Rojas, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, INTEL Corporation
12:30-13:30
Lunch
Session B - Chair:
13:30-14:10
14:10-14:50
14:50-15:30
Event-based adaptive controller with online recursive least squares model identification
Expositor: José David Rojas, Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Costa Rica
Análisis de las Causas de Falla de un Generador Eléctrico de 10.8 MW
Expositor: Ing. Raúl Fiscal Escalante, Gerencia de Uso de Energía Eléctrica, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, México
Kinematics and Jacobian Analysis of a 6UPS Stewart-Gough Platform
Expositor: Ing. Manuel Cardonak, Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:40
Application of Sub-space Identification Method (4SID) for a Non-linear liquid-level System
Expositor: Ing. Serafín Ramos Paz, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, México
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Power & Energy Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Girasol
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair:
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:40
Marva Mason, Leonardo Montealegre and Alejandro Zuniga.
Introducing Reliability Applications for Scheduled Outages in Costa Rica Using Monte Carlo Methods
Jairo Quirós-Tortós, Andrés Arguello and Gustavo Valverde.
Statistical Analysis of Residential Demand Behavior in Costa Rica: Creation of Load Profiles
Coffee Break
Juan Jorge, Richard Nuñez, Angela Cuevas, Dalvin Castillo, Wagner Then and Máximo Domínguez.
Impact of increasing electricity generation based on wind energy in the Wholesale Electricity Market of the Dominican
Republic: Generation mix and long-term marginal cost of energy
Isaac Rojas-Hernandez.
Fixed photovoltaic system optimization: azimuth, inclination and pitch case study at Liberia
Alonso De Jesús Chica Leal, Cesar Trujillo Rodriguez and Francisco Santamaria.
Comparison of Synchronization Techniques for a Grid-Tied Photovoltaic System
Lunch
Session B - Chair:
Jacqueline Llanos, Diego Ortiz-Villalba, Doris Sáez and Daniel Olivares.
Economic Dispatch for Optimal Management of Isolated Microgrids
Angie Rocio Ramos, Carlos Alberto Bernal and Herbert Enrique Rojas.
Model Comparison of Voltage-Current Relation for Ionized Soils Produced by Lightning Impulse Current
David Gachuz, Jesus Coronel and Christopher Pritchard.
Test and Analysis of Protection Behavior on Parallel Lines with mutual Coupling
David Gachuz, Jesus Coronel and Christopher Pritchard. P
Protection Scheme Simulation for Distributed Testing
Coffee Break
Friday, November 11th
Session C - Chair:
Rebeca Brenes, Andrés Arguello, Jairo Quiros-Tortos and Gustavo Valverde.
8:30-9:00
Distribution Network Element Model Parameters: Creation of Database
Luis Ivan Ruiz Flores, Francisco Cuauhtemoc Poujol Galvan and Luis Fernando Sanchez Berrelleza.
9:00-9:30 Analysis of electrical systems in the petrochemical industry in Mexico. Part 2: overcurrent coordination and arc-flash
recommendations.
Reynaldo Cortez and Norberto Flores-Guzmán.
9:30-10:00
Developing Automated Hardware-In-the-Loop Tests with RTDS for Verifying the Protective Relay Performance
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
Diego Robalino.
10:30-11:00
Power transformer demagnetization
Jorge Navarro, Leonardo Montealegre and Gustavo Gomez.
11:00 - 11:30
Introducing saturation characteristic fitting techniques for power transformers in the Costa Rican Electrical Network
Luis Gerardo Gonzalez Morales and Diego Armando Toledo.
11:30-12:00
Performance Analysis of a Battery Charger with BQ24650
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Session D - Chair:
Mario Daniel Baquedano Aguilar, Delia Graciela Colomé, Esteban D Agüero and Marcelo Gustavo Molina.
13:30-14:00
Impact of Increased Penetration of Large-Scale PV Generation on Short-Term Stability of Power Systems
Emilio Barocio, Rafael Funes, Ramon Betancourt, Jorge Ramos and Ivan Reyes.
14:00-14:30
Identification of Costly Contingencies by Transient Stability-Constrained Optimal Power Flow
Andrés Alfonso Rodríguez, Luis Eduardo Perdomo Orjuela and Francisco Santamaria Piedrahita.
14:30-15:00
Methodology for the Registration of Transient Overvoltages in Low-Voltage Networks
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:40
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Computer Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Fucsia
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair:
Juan Murillo-Morera, Christian Quesada-López, Carlos Castro-Herrera and Marcelo Jenkins.
An Empirical Evaluation of NASA-MDP Data sets using a Genetic Defect-Proneness Prediction Framework
Luis Raúl Rodríguez Oconitrillo and Alvaro de La Ossa Osegueda.
Business Intelligence Model to Support a Judge’s Decision Making about Legal Situations
Roberto Ferro, Helmer Muñoz, Ricardo Lopez and Alvaro Rincon.
Aplicación de herramientas de software libre GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) para encripción de texto plano para IoT
Coffee Break
Carlos López Grande and Ricardo Guadrón.
Computer Forensics: when crime makes use of technology
Jeferson González-Gómez, Yeiner Arias-Esquivel and Carlos Salazar-García
11:30-12:00
Real-time Vibration Analysis for Structures Fault Detection
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Session B - Chair:
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
Special Session: Electrical Transient and Analysis Program (ETAP), Ing. Luis Iván Ruiz
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:40
16:30-17:00
11:00-11:30
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Communications Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Fucsia
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:40
16:30-17:00
Friday, November 11th
Session A - Chair:
María Gabriela Vintimilla, Darwin Alulema, Derlin Morocho and Mariela Proaño.
Development and Implementation of an Application that Translates The Alphabet and The Numbers from 1 to 10 from Sign
Language to Text to Help Hearing Impaired by Android Mobile Devices
Carlos Eugenio Martínez-Cruz.
Low-Cost Internet Mesh Networks for Public Rural Schools
Rina Lopez.
Pentesting on Web Applications using Ethical –Hacking
Coffee Break
Miguel Maldonado, Darwin Alulema, Derlin Morocho and Mariela Proaño.
System for Monitoring Natural Disasters using Natural Language Processing in the Social Network Twitter
Elio Perez-Molina and Marco Munguia-Mena.
Evaluación de una red LTE-advanced utilizando para el despliegue infraestructura gubernamental en Estelí, Nicaragua
Federico Felipe-Duran, Miguel Sanchez-Meraz and Elena Acevedo-Mosqueda.
A Web Page design for monitoring electromagnetic Pollution in a Smart City
Lunch
Session B - Chair:
Coffee Break
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
B5 & Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Azalea
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair: Allan Orozco (Chair EMBS & B5 IEEE Costa Rica)
Opening ceremony
• Dr. Rolando Gittens
8:00-8:30 • Dr. Javier Sánchez Galán
• Dr. Allan Orozco
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
Invitado especial de inauguración: Keynote I, Ministro de Salud. Dr Fernando Llorca.
Design, Development and Validation of a Mobile Application for Goal Setting and Self-Monitoring of Dietary Behaviors
Christian Quesada, Mellisa Jensen, Guiselle Zúñiga, Anne Chinnock, Marcelo Jenkins.
Center for ICT Research and School of Nutrition, University of Costa Rica
From pixel to voxel in the clinical diagnosis
José Miguel Lázaro Guevara, Dirk R. Albrecht.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA USA, Universidad de San Carlos de
Guatemala.
Coffee Break
Inmobilization of gold and silver on a biocompatible porous silicone matrix to obtain hybrid nanostructures
José Vega Baudrit, Victor Solano, Yendry Corrales.
Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (CENAT), Laboratorio Nacional de Nanotecnología (LANOTEC);
Hologic Surgical Products, CR.
Optimization and Characterization of Porcine Brain Decellularized Extracelular Matrix
Reginensi D, Tulloch R, Valerio S, Jimenez L, Gittens R.
Center for Biodiversity and Drug Discovery. INDICASAT, Panamá.
Filtering of the skin portion on lung ultrasound digital images to facilitate automatic diagnostics of pneumonia
Franklin Barrientos, Avid Román González, Ronald Barrientos, Leonardo Solís, Alicia Alva, Malena Correa, Mónica Pajuelo,
Cynthia Anticona, Roberto Lavarello, Benjamín Castañeda, Richard Oberhelman, Robert H. Gilman, Mirko Zimic.
Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia – UPCH,
Laboratorio de Imágenes Médicas, Departamento de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUC.
Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - TU.
Department of International Health, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University – JH.
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Session B - Chair: Dr.Javier Sánchez
Importance of Preprocessing Methods in LC-MS Data. Case study on the Impact on the Signal of Quality Controls
measurements.
Javier E. Sánchez Galán, Juan Camilo Rojas, Armando Durant, Didio Ortiz, Dilcia Sambrano, Sara Rosero, Rolando Gittens and
Amador Goodridge.
13:30-14:00 Grupo de Investigaciones en Biotecnología, Bioinformática y Biología Sintética (GIBBS)
Centro de Producción e Investigaciones Agroindustriales (CEPIA), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá.
Center for Biodiversity & Drug Discovery, Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology
Services (INDICASAT-AIP).
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Computational Biology Systems design applied to Nanobiotechnology
Allan Orozco, José Valverde.
Escuela de Tecnologías de Salud (Universidad de Costa Rica), Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid, España. CELLERIX GENOME SA.
Development of Bioinformatics System for obtaining bacterial community in healthy
Emmanuel Varela, Allan Orozco
Programa de Maestría en Bionformática y Biología de Sistemas, Universidad de Costa Rica
Bioinformatics as a tool in forensic DNA analysis
Karla Álvarez.
Laboratorio de Bioquímica, Departamento de Ciencias Forenses, Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), Costa Rica.
Coffee Break
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Invitado especial: Keynote II, Eldon Cadwell. PhD. " Cyber-physical Robots in Fourth Technological Revolution”: Trends
and challenges”. Show with NAO Robots.
Full Professor (Cathedraticus), UCR.
Outstanding Service Award Recipient, IEOM Society, USA.
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Robotics & Cognitive Systems, University of Nevada, USA.
16:00-17:00
Dr.Sc. (in fieri) Computing Sciences, Automation & Robotics, University of Alicante, Spain.
Dr. Ed.(in fieri) Inclusive Education for People with Dissabilities, UCR.
Chair of Industrial Engineering Dept., University of Costa Rica.
Chair of Smart, Lean & Cognitive Systems Research Lab., UCR.
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
Friday, November 11th
Session C - Chair: Dr. Rolando Gittens
Metabolic Dystonia: Clinical Case Presentation (Guatemala)
Gabriel Silva
Centro de Investigaciones de las Ciencias de la Salud -CICS-, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad de San Carlos de
Guatemala -USAC
Production of farnesene from agro- industrial waste by synthetic biology
Karla Valerín-Berrocal, David García-Gómez, Giovanni Garro-Monge, Silver Ceballos- Valenciano y Karol Jiménez-Quesada.
Centro de Investigaciones en Biotecnología. Grupo de Biologia Sintética. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
Development of technology and engineering: Cases of study on the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master’s Degree
in Costa Rica.
Vanesa Mora Hernández, Federico Matarrita, José Molina Mora, Luis Rojas Matey, Eduardo Quirós, Man Sai, Edwin Báez,
Luis Ruiz, Ricardo Boza, Allan Orozco.
Programa de Ciencias Biomédicas, Maestría en Bioinformática y Biología de Sistemas. Universidad de Costa Rica.
Using a programmable network switch TCAM to find the best alignment of two DNA sequences
Diego Valverde Garro, Claudio Víquez, Calderón, Christopher Simon Yeung.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Costa Rica), HPE Networking.
Coffee Break
Invitado especial: Keynote III, Movimiento de Creadores (Tecnologías impresión 3D, fabricación digital y desarrollo de
sistemas digitales). Tomas de Camino Beck. PhD (Graduado de Universidad de Alberta y Penn State University, USA).
Auditory Imagery classification with a non-Invasive BCI.
Melissa González, Lochi Yu.
Facultad de Ingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Costa Rica.
Invitado especial: Keynote IV
Lunch
Session D - Chair: Allan Orozco/Javier Sánchez/Rolando Gittens
Expert system for the diagnosis of vertebral column diseases
Elena Acevedo, Marco Antonio Acevedo, Federico Felipe
Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. México.
Auxiliar Prototype for Physiotherapy using Kinect
Alejandra Fonseca, Darwin Alulema, Flavio Pineda, Derlin Morocho, Francisco Encalada.
Departamento de Eléctrica y Electrónica. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas, ESPE, Ecuador.
Automatic detection of pneumonia analyzing ultrasound digital images
Ronald Barrientos, Avid Roman-Gonzalez, Franklin Barrientos, Leonardo Solís, Malena Correa, Monica Pajuelo, Cynthia
Anticona, Roberto Lavarello, Benjamín Castañeda, Richard Oberhelman3, William Checkley, Robert H. Gilman, MirkoZimic.
Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia – UPCH,
Laboratorio de Imágenes Médicas, Departamento de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP.
Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - TU Department of International Health, School of Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University – JHU.
Architecture Design Ubiquitous Telemedicine Based on Arduino Mhealth 4G LTE
Yair Enrique, Rivera Julio.
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Coffee Break
Mesa Redonda: BIOCANET
16:00-17:00
Red Nacional y Centroamericana de Bioinformática y Biocomputación molecular
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
BIP Conference Track
Concapan 2016 - Anturias
Thursday, November 10th
Session A - Chair:
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
Plenary speaker: Ilya Vakser, Ph.D., Director of the Computational Biology Center, Kansas University
Structural modeling of interactome
Coffee Break
Session B: Bioinspired Modelling and Optimization
Chair: José Luis Vásquez
Jose Arturo Molina-Mora and Rodrigo Mora. Identification of cancer chemosensitivity by ODE and GMM modeling of
heterogeneous cellular response to perturbations in fluorescent sphingolipid metabolismv
Macarena Céspedes, Mónica Contreras, Joaquín Cordero, Gustavo Montoya, Karen Valverde and José David Rojas. A
comparison of bio-inspired optimization methodologies applied to the tuning of industrial controllers
Juan José Fallas-Monge, Jeffry Chavarría-Molina and Geisel Alpízar-Brenes. Combinatorial metaheuristics applied to
infectious disease models
Lunch
Session C: Pattern Recognition Approximations for Biology and Natural Science
Chair: Jorge Arroyo
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:40
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
Juan Pablo Prendas Rojas, Geovanni Figueroa Mata, Melvin Ramírez Bogantes, Carlos M Travieso Gonzalez, Ingrid Aguilar
Monge and Eduardo Herrera González. Automatic discrimination of Costa Rican stingless bees based on modified SIFT of
its winds
Rodrigo Chacón Quesada, Saul Calderon Ramirez and Francisco Siles. Improving the Temporal Segmentation in Digital
Videos using the Deceived Bilateral Filter
Saul Calderon Ramirez, Juan Carlos Cruz Naranjo, Daniel Moya Sanchez and Juan Manuel Valverde. A first glance on the
enhancement of digital cell activity videos from glioblastoma cells with nuclear staining
Coffee Break
Roundtable discussion: Perspectives about research and innovation (in, to and from Costa Rica).
(Moderator: Rodrigo Mora)
Friday, November 11th
Session D
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:30
Plenary speaker: Özgür Şahin, Ph.D., Bilkent University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ankara
(Turkey)
“Systems level analysis of drug resistance and metastasis in breast cancer”
Coffee Break
Session E: Regular track: The Intersection of Engineering and Natural Science
Chair: Andrés Segura
Arys Carrasquilla-Batista, Alfonso Chacón-Rodríguez and Milton Solorzano-Quintana. Using IoT resources to enhance the
accuracy of overdrain measurements in greenhouse horticulture
Marta Vilchez-Monge, Alejandro Truque-Barrantes and Gabriela Ortiz-Leon. Design and Construction of a Hydro-pneumatic
Mock Circulation Loop that Emulates the Systemic Circuit of the Circulatory System
Jaime Cascante-Vindas, Francisco Siles, Antonio Diez and Miguel Vicente Andrés. Manufacturing of All-Fiber Q-Switch Lasers
for Supercontinuum Generation
Lunch
Session F : Regular track: Advances in Biological and Bioinspired Computation
Chair: Juan Crespo
13:30-14:00
Edwin Baez, Francisco Siles and Rodrigo Mora. A biocomputational application for the automated construction of large14:00-14:30 scale metabolic models from transcriptomic data
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Mansai Acón, Francisco Siles and Rodrigo Mora. A biocomputational platform for the automated construction of large-scale
14:30-15:00 mathematical models of miRNA-transcription factor networks for studies on gene dosage compensation
Rodrigo Mora and Jose Arturo Molina-Mora. Characterization of heterogeneous response to chemotherapy by perturbation15:00-15:30 based modeling of fluorescent sphingolipid metabolism in cancer cell subpopulations
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:40
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
Coffee Break
Fast track: Preliminary and promisory results by young costarican researchers.
(Moderator: Francisco Siles)
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
CONCAPAN TV
Concapan 2016 - Orquídeas
Thursday, November 10th
Ing Esteban Jiménez, IBM
Presidente de la comisión de Seguridad Informáitica CPIC
8:00-8:40 Introducción a las criptodivisas y la economía abierta
Roger Gonzáles, Andrés Arguello, Jairo Quirós-Tortós y Gustavo Valverde
8:40-9:20 Statistical Analysis of Residential Harmonic Spectrum in Costa Rica
Ing. Alberto Leer, MBA
9:20-10:00 estrategias en la carrera profesional con un análisis de las posibilidades en el sector público, privado, como profesional
liberal y como empresario
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
Ing. Bernardo Méndez.
10:40-11:20 Ventajas de ser Miembro Activo de IEEE.
Dra. Patricia Guzmán
11:20-12:00 Entendiendo el significado de Liderazgo en IEEE
Ing. Marcelo Bobadilla.
12:00-12:40 Emprendimiento, una forma de desarrollarse profesionalmente
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Jose Carranza-Rojas and Erick Mata-Montero.
13:30-14:10 On the Significance of Leaf Sides in Automatic Leaf-based Plant Species Identification
Christian Quesada-López, Juan De Dios Murillo, Carlos Castro-Herrera and Marcelo Jenkins.
14:10-14:50 COSMIC Base Functional Components in Functional Size Based Effort Estimation Models
Majid Bayani, Rebeca Gamboa, Yesica Alpizar and Oscar Ramirez.
14:50-15:30 Radio Communication Range Effects on a Flat Wireless Sensor Network Performance
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Marcelo Fabián Agüero.
16:00-16:40 Experiencias de Proyectos de Acción Humanitaria en Argentina.
Allan Orozco, José Valverde.
Bioinformatics and computational biology systems design applied to Nanobiotechnology
16:40-17:20 Escuela de Tecnologías de Salud (Universidad de Costa Rica), Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid, España. CELLERIX GENOME SA.
Friday, November 11th
8:00-8:40
8:40-9:20
9:20-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:40-11:20
11:20-12:00
12:00-12:40
12:30-13:30
Javier E. Sánchez Galán, Juan Camilo Rojas, Armando Durant, Didio Ortiz, Dilcia Sambrano, Sara Rosero, Rolando Gittens and
Amador Goodridge.
Importance of Preprocessing Methods in LC-MS Data. Case study on the Impact on the Signal of Quality Controls
measurements.
Grupo de Investigaciones en Biotecnología, Bioinformática y Biología Sintética (GIBBS) Centro de Producción e
Investigaciones Agroindustriales (CEPIA), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá. Center for Biodiversity & Drug Discovery,
Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services (INDICASAT-AIP).
Se anunciará
Manuel Cadona.
Sugar Crystals Characteriztion for Quality Control Inspection Using Digital Image Processing
Coffee Break
Ing. Ismael López.
Tema por Definir.
Ing. Claudio Muñoz Vivas
La Ingeniería vista desde el mundo de las Ventas
Ing. Erick Chinchilla Vargas, YP Chair Sección Costa Rica.
Tema por definir
Lunch
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Juan Carlos Coto Ulate, Francisco Siles and Rodrigo Mora Rodríguez.
13:30-14:10 Biocomputing Platform Module for Cancer Genomics and Chemotherapy
Kemly Camacho
14:10-14:50 Proyecto TIC-as
Mónica Hidalgo.
14:50-15:30 Atracción de mujeres hacia ingenierías: Caso MenTe en Acción
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Monika Estrada and Ronny Ramirez.
16:00-16:40 The Power of Diversity
Aicha Evans Corporate Vicepresident and General Manager of the Communications and Devices Group.
16:40-17:20 Succeeding in the Arena
Leadership through Victory and Defeat
6/11/2016
2016 IEEE CONCAPAN XXXVI
Women in Engineering SUMMIT
Concapan 2016 - Orquídeas
Wednesday, November 9th
Recibimiento
8:00-8:30 WIE Core Team
Bienvenida por WIE Global
8:30-8:50 Nita Patel & Keyana Tenant/ Anamaria Morales
Charla: Liderazgo Técnico y la Ingeniería en Sistemas
8:50-9:40 Jeannette Benavides
Charla: Liderazgo Femenino en Centroamérica: Barreras y Oportunidades
9:40-10:30 Susan Clancy (INCAE)
Café/Actividad de Network
10:30-11:00 Ronny Ramirez/Gaby Saenz
Charla: Empatía y escucha activa como herramientas para desarrollar el Liderazgo
11:00-11:50 Cristina Miranda
Motivación de programa de Innovación Social
11:50-12:20 Meizel Leiva
Almuerzo de Network
12:20-13:50 Table Leaders/Natalia Araya
Panel con Academia/Industria/Gobierno
13:50-15:20 Maria Alejandra Lopez (ZEPOL), Eunice Lobo (INGRAMMICRO), Paola Vega (ITCR), Leonora de Lemos (UCR/CFIA)
Café/Actividad de Network
15:20-15:50 Ronny Ramirez/Gaby Saenz
Charla: Diversidad en Desarrollo de productos: Una perspectiva de Carrera
15:50-16:40 Delia Grenville (Intel)
Cierre por WIE Costa Rica
16:40-17:00 Nita Patel & Keyana Tenant/Anamaria Morales
6/11/2016