Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

About: Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México is a education organization based out in Mexico City, Mexico. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Population. The organization has 1098 authors who have published 2532 publications receiving 39083 citations. The organization is also known as: Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico & Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology.

Considering the growth of the software services industry in Mexico

Abstract: This article proposes a combination of actions and decisions that companies from the Mexico's software services industry can carry out internally to obtain a sustainable competitive level in the national and international markets. An attitudinal survey was carried out as primary research based on a questionnaire administered to companies throughout the country. The results obtained highlight diverse aspects that appear to be restricting the companies' competitiveness. Some of the most important aspects are (a) lack of specialization, (b) the absence of strategy regarding the schema with which they sell the services, (c) the diversity of prices for each kind of service, and (d) the generalized absence of mechanisms for measuring and evaluating the companies' performance. After a prospective analysis, the article points out that the efforts that are carried out to achieve efficiency, flexibility, innovation, and superior assets will be useful for attaining the desired competitiveness in any of three foreseen scenarios. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Study that describes what the companies believe they are doing (which does not imply that they are really doing it).

"Financial Inclusion Index: Proposal Of A Multidimensional Measure For Mexico "

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is introducing an index that allows for a general overview of Mexico’s municipalities in terms of financial inclusion. The index is calculated using principal component analysis on variables related to the measurement of the levels of access and usage of financial services, financial education, consumer protection and social development. Subsequently, all municipalities are ranked by an estimated degree of inclusion performing hierarchical cluster analysis. Results show that 36% of Mexico’s municipalities possess a high level of financial inclusion while 29% the lowest. Municipalities with higher income and better education benefit from the services that financial institutions offer, yet millions are still excluded from the financial system.

A simple and general test for white noise

Abstract: This article considers testing that a time series is uncorrelated when it possibly exhibits some form of dependence. Contrary to the currently employed tests that require selecting arbitrary user-chosen numbers to compute the associated tests statistics, we consider a test statistic that is very simple to use because it does not require any user chosen number and because its asymptotic null distribution is standard under general weak dependent conditions, and hence, asymptotic critical values are readily available. We consider the case of testing that the raw data is white noise, and also consider the case of applying the test to the residuals of an ARMA model. Finally, we also study finite sample performance

Measuring Concentration While Programming with Low-Cost BCI Devices: Differences Between Debugging and Creativity Tasks

Abstract: Computing devices have become a primary working tool for many professional roles, among them software programmers. In order to enable a more productive interaction between computers and humans for programming purposes it is important to acquire an awareness of human attention/concentration levels. In this work we report on a controlled experiment to determine if a low-cost BCI (Brain Computer Interface) device is capable of classifying whether a user is fully concentrated while programming, during three typical tasks: creativity (writing code), systematic (documenting the code) and debugging (improving or modifying the code to make it work). This study employs EEG (Electroencephalogram) signals, to measure an individual’s concentration levels. The chosen BCI device is NeuroSky’s Mindwave due to its availability in the market and low cost. The three tasks described are performed in a physical and digital form. A statistically significant difference between debugging and creativity tasks is revealed in our experiments, in both physical and digital tests. This is a good lead for following experiments to focus on these two areas. Systematic tasks might not bring good results due to their nature.