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2004/2005
Doctorando: Enrique Romero Merino
Título: LEARNING WITH FEED-FORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS: THREE
SCHEMES TO DEAL WITH THE BIAS/VARIANCE TRADE-OFF
Directores: René Alquezar Mancho y Joseph Maria Sopena Sisquella
Publicaciones:

Journals

• 2008 Romero, E. and Sopena, J. M., "Performing Feature Selection with Multi-
Layer Perceptrons" , IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 19 (3), 431-441,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "Heuristics for the Selection of Weights in
Sequential Feed-forward Neural Networks: An Experimental Study" ,
Neurocomputing, 70 (16-18), 2735-2743, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Romero, E. and Toppo, D., "Comparing Support Vector Machines and
Feed-forward Neural Networks with Similar Hidden-layer Weights" , IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks, 18 (3), 959-963, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2006 Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "A Sequential Algorithm for Feed-forward
Neural Networks with Optimal Coefficients and Interacting Frequencies" ,
Neurocomputing, 69 (13-15), 1540-1552, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2004 Romero, E., Màrquez, L. and Carreras, X., "Margin Maximization with
Feed-forward Neural Networks: A Comparative Study with SVM and
AdaBoost" , Neurocomputing, 57, 313-344, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2004 Sopena, J. M. and Romero, E., "Redes Neuronales y Métodos
Estadísticos Clásicos en el Diagnóstico Médico: La Importancia de las
Variables Irrelevantes (in Spanish)" , Medicina Clínica, 122 (9), 336-338,
editorial. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2003 Selva, A., Romero, E., Sopena, J. M., Mijares, T., Solans, R., Labrador,
M. and Vilardell, M., "Reply to Linder et al. (2003)" , Arthritis and Rheumatism,
48 (4), 1169-1170. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2002 Selva, A., Mijares, T., Solans, R., Labrador, M., Romero, E., Sopena, J.
M. and Vilardell, M., "The Neural Network as a Predictor of Cancer in Patients
with Inflammatory Myopathies" , Arthritis and Rheumatism, 46 (9), 2547-2548.
[BibTeX Entry]

Book Chapters

• 2008 Romero, E., Valdés, J. J. and Barton, A. J., "Neural Network Based Visual
Data Mining for Cancer Data" , Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Rabuñal,
J.R., Dorado, J. and Pazos, A., IDEA Group Inc., to appear. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2008 Giraldo, B., Arizmendi, C., Romero, E., Alquézar, R., Caminal, P. and
Benito, S., "Patients on Weaning Trials Classified with Neural Networks and
Feature Selection" , Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems,
Wickramasinghe, N. and Geisler, E., IDEA Group Inc., to appear. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 2004 Alquézar, R., Belanche, L., Nebot, A., Romero, E. and Vellido, A.,
"Investigación actual del grupo SOCO: Metodologías híbridas de Soft
Computing (in Spanish)" , Tendencias de la Minería de Datos en España,
 Giráldez, R. and Riquelme, J. C. and Aguilar-Ruiz, J. S., Red Española de
Minería de Datos, 193-204. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2004 Carreras, X., Màrquez, L. and Romero, E., "Máquinas de Vectores
Soporte (in Spanish)" , Introducción a la Minería de Datos, Hernández, J. and
Ramírez and M. J. and Ferri, C., Pearson Prentice Hall, 353-382. [BibTeX
Entry]

Conferences

• 2008 Romero, E., Julià-Sapé, M. and Vellido, A., "DSS-oriented Exploration of a

Multi-centre Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Brain Tumour Dataset Through
Visualization" , European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, accepted
for presentation. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Muro, P., Amador, J. A., Romero, E. and Sopena, J. M., "Eating Habits in
a Spanish Adolescent Sample Analysed by Neural Networks" , General Meeting
of the European Council on Eating Disorders, 28-28. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Romero, E., Barrio, I. and Belanche, L., "Incremental and Decremental
Learning for Linear Support Vector Machines" , International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4668), 209-218,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Barrio, I., Romero, E. and Belanche, L., "Selection of Basis Functions
Guided by the L2 Soft Margin" , International Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4668), 421-430, [Download].
[BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Barrio, I., Romero, E. and Belanche, L., "Extended Linear Models with
Gaussian Prior on the Parameters and Adaptive Expansion Vectors" ,
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 4668), 431-440, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Barrio, I., Romero, E. and Belanche, L., "Search Strategies Guided by the
Evidence for the Selection of Basis Functions in Regression" , International
Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1132-1137, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Valdés, J. J., Romero, E. and González, R., "Data and Knowledge
Visualization with Virtual Reality Spaces, Neural Networks and Rough Sets:
Application to Geophysical Prospecting" , International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks, 1060-1065, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2007 Romero, E., Valdés, J. J. and Barton, A. J., "Neural Network Based Virtual
Reality Spaces for Visual Data Mining of Cancer Data: An Unsupervised
Perspective" , International Work-conference on Artificial Neural Networks
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4507), 1020-1027, [Download]. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 2006 Romero, E. and Toppo, D., "Comparing Support Vector Machines and
Feed-forward Neural Networks with Similar Parameters" , 7th International
Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 4224), 90-98. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2006 Giraldo, B., Arizmendi, C., Romero, E., Alquézar, R., Caminal, P., Benito,
S. and Ballesteros, D., "Clasificación de Pacientes en Proceso de Extubación
mediante Redes Neuronales y Selección de Características (in Spanish)" ,
XXIV Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica,
281-284. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2006 Giraldo, B., Arizmendi, C., Romero, E., Alquézar, R., Caminal, P., Benito,
S. and Ballesteros, D., "Patients on Weaning Trials from Mechanical Ventilation
Classified with Neural Networks and Feature Selection" , IEEE International
Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2195-2198,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2006 Barrio, I., Romero, E. and Belanche, L., "On the Selection of Hidden
Neurons with Heuristic Search Strategies for Approximation" , European
Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, vol. 1, 389-394, [Download]. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 2005 Solanas, A., Romero, E., Gómez, S., Sopena, J.M., Alquézar, R. and
Domingo-Ferrer, J., "Feature Selection and Outliers Detection with Genetic
Algorithms and Neural Networks" , Eighth Catalan Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 41-48. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2005 Romero, E., "Selection of Weights for Sequential Feed-forward Neural
Networks: An Experimental Study" , International Work-conference on Artificial
Neural Networks (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3512), 225-232,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2005 Romero, E. and Sopena, J.M., "An Experimental Study of Several
Decision Issues for Feature Selection with Multi-Layer Perceptrons" ,
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 3, 1965-1970,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2004 Grau, C., Sopena, J. M., Díaz, R., Romero, E., Ramos, P. J., Fuentemilla,
L., Marco, J. and Gual, A., "Redes Neuronales Artificiales Aplicadas a Distinguir
entre Hijos de Alcohólicos y Controles a partir de Potenciales Evocados (in
Spanish)" , IV Congreso Español de Psicofisiología, vol. 1, 51-52. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 2004 Romero, E., Carreras, X. and Màrquez, L., "Exploiting Diversity of Margin-
based Classifiers" , International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 1,
419-424, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2003 Armadans, I., Pol, E., Sopena, J. M. and Romero, E., "Actividad de Ocio
Turístico y Personas Mayores: Análisis de Diferencias Psicosociales entre
viajeros y no viajeros (in Spanish)" , Congreso Nacional de Psicología Social,
published in journal Encuentros en Psicología Social, 1 (3), 33-39. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 2003 Romero, E., Sopena, J. M., Navarrete, G. and Alquézar, R., "Feature
Selection Forcing Overtraining May Help to Improve Performance" ,
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 3, 2181-2186,
[Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2002 Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "A New Incremental Method for Function
Approximation using Feed-forward Neural Networks" , International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 2, 1968-1973, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2002 Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "Maximizing the Margin with Feed-forward
Neural Networks" , International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, vol. 1,
743-748, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 2001 Mijares, T., Selva, A., Romero, E., Sopena, J. M., Solans, R., Labrador,
M., Bosch, J. A. and Vilardell, M., "Predicción de Neoplasia y Muerte en
Pacientes con Miopatía Inflamatoria Idiopática mediante Redes Neuronales (in
Spanish)" , 9è Congrés Català-Balear de Medicina Interna, 60-60. [BibTeX
Entry]
• 1999 Sopena, J. M., Sanz, E., Ramos, P., Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "?
`Puede el aleteo de una mariposa causar que una pareja se divorcie? Un
estudio del riesgo de divorcio mediante redes neuronales y selección de
atributos (in Spanish)" , Second Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
86-92. [BibTeX Entry]
• 1999 Sopena, J. M., Romero, E. and Alquézar, R., "Neural Networks with
Periodic and Monotonic Activation Functions: A Comparative Study in
Classification Problems" , 9th International Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks, vol. 1, 323-328, [Download]. [BibTeX Entry]
• 1997 Sopena, J. M., Romero, E., López, J. and Díaz, C., "Redes Neuronales
con Funciones Periódicas y Funciones Monótonas: Un Estudio Comparativo en
 Problemas de Clasificación (in Spanish)" , Jornades d'Intel·ligència Artificial
(ACIA), 92-102. [BibTeX Entry]

Ph.D. Theses

• 2004 Romero, E., "Learning with Feed-forward Neural Networks: Three

Schemes to Deal with the Bias/Variance Trade-off" , Departament de
Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Spain, codirected by Alquézar, R. (UPC) and Sopena, J.M. (UB), [Download].
[BibTeX Entry]

Doctorando: Jesús Marín Sánchez

Título: Algoritmos Macroevolutivos: desde la simulación hasta el modelo
estocástico
Director: Ricard V. Solé
Publicaciones:

Tree Decomposition with Function Filtering by M. Sanchez, J. Larrosa & P. Meseguer .

In Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming CP2005. Sitges, 2005. pdf

Improving Tree Decomposition Methods With Function Filtering. by M. Sanchez, J.

Larrosa, P. Meseguer. Poster In International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IJCAI 2005 . Edinburgh, UK, 2005. pdf

Improving the Applicability of Adaptive Consistency: Preliminary Results. by M.

Sanchez, P. Meseguer & J. Larrosa. Poster Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming CP2004. Toronto, Canada, 2004. pdf

Using constraints with memory to implement variable elimination by M. Sanchez, P.

Meseguer & J. Larrosa. In Proceedigns of the European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence - ECAI-2004. Valencia, Spain, 2004. pdf

Current approaches for solving overconstrained problems by P. Meseguer, Bouhmala,

T. Bouzoubaa, M. Irgens, M. Sánchez Constraints Journal vol. 8, num. 1, 9-39, 2003.

Pseudo-tree search with soft constraints by J. Larrosa, P. Meseguer & M. Sanchez

In European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI2002. Lyon, France. pdf

Opportunistic Specialization in Russian Doll Search by P. Meseguer, M. Sánchez , G.

Verfaillie Proceedings of Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP02,
LNCS 2470, Ed. P. van Hentenryck. 264-279, 2002. pdf

Specializing Russian Doll Search by P. Meseguer, M. Sánchez Proceedings of

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP01, LNCS 2239,Ed. T. Walsh,
464-478, 2001. pdf

Lower Bounds for Non-binary Constraint Optimization. by P. Meseguer, J. Larrosa, M.

SánchezProceedings ofPrinciples and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP01,
LNCS 2239, Ed. T. Walsh, 317-331, 2001. pdf

A tree-based Russian Doll Search by Pedro Meseguer and Marti Sanchez

in Workshop on Soft Constraints CP 2000 and also CCIA pdf
Doctorando: Jordi Daudé Ventura
Título: ENLACE DE JERARQUIAS USANDO EL ETIQUETADO POR RELAJACION
Directores: Lluís Padró Cirera y German Rigau Claramunt
Publicaciones:

Jordi Daudé and Lluís Padró and German Rigau. Making Wordnet Mappings Robust
Proceedings of the 19th Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del
Lenguage Natural, SEPLN, Universidad Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Madrid,
Spain. 2003.

Jordi Daudé and Lluís Padró and German Rigau. Validation and Tuning of Wordnet
Mapping Techniques Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'03), Borovets, Bulgaria. 2003.

Jordi Daudé and Lluís Padró and German Rigau. A Complete WN1.5 to WN1.6
Mapping. NAACL Workshop 'WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications,
Extensions and Customizations' (NAACL'2001)., Pittsburg, PA, USA. 2001.

Jordi Daudé and Lluís Padró and German Rigau. Mapping WordNets Using Structural
Information. 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL'2000)., Hong Kong. 2000.

Jordi Daudé and Lluís Padró and German Rigau. Mapping Multilingual Hierarchies
Using Relaxation Labeling. Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC'99)., Maryland, US. 1999.

2005/2006
Doctorando: Xavier Carreras Pérez
Título: LEARNING AND INFERENCE IN PHRASE RECOGNITION:A FILTERING-
RANKING ARCHITECTURE USING PERCEPTRON
Director: Lluís Màrquez Villodre
Publicaciones:
JOURNALS :

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Jorge Castro.

"Filtering-Ranking Perceptron Learning for Partial Parsing"
Machine Learning Journal, Special Issue on Learning in Speech and Language
Technologies, to appear, 2005

Enrique Romero, Lluís Márquez and Xavier Carreras.

"Margin maximization with feed-forward neural networks: a comparative study with
SVM and AdaBoost"
Neurocomputing, 57(C):313-344, 2004.

Montse Arévalo, Xavier Carreras, Lluís Márquez, Toni Martí, Lluís Padró and Maria
José Simon.
"A Proposal for Wide-Coverage Spanish Named Entity Recognition."
SEPLN Journal "Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural", Vol. 28. May 2002.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES :

Enrique Romero, Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Exploiting Diversity of Margin-based Classifiers"
In Proceedings of the 2004 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
(IJCNN). Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.

Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 Shared Task: Semantic Role Labeling"
In Proceedings of 8th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2004). Boston, MA USA. May 2004.

Xavier Carreras Lluís Màrquez and Grzegorz Chrupala.

"Hierarchical Recognition of Propositional Arguments with Perceptrons"
In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2004). Boston, MA USA. May 2004.

Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Online Learning via Global Feedback for Phrase Recognition"
In Proceedings of NIPS-2003. Vancouver, Canada. December 2003.

Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Phrase Recognition by Filtering and Ranking with Perceptrons"
In Proceedings of RANLP-2003. Borovets, Bulgaria. September 2003.

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Lluís Padró.

"A Simple Named Entity Extractor Using AdaBoost."
In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2003). Edmonton, Canada. June 2003.

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Lluís Padró.

"Learning a Perceptron-Based Named Entity Chunker via Online Recognition
Feedback"
In Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2003). Edmonton, Canada. June 2003.

Lluís Màrquez, Adrià de Gispert, Xavier Carreras and Lluís Padró.

"Low-cost Named Entity Classification for Catalan: Exploiting Multilingual Resources
and Unlabeled Data"
In Proceedings of the 1st ACL Workshop on Multilingual and Mixed-language Named
Entity Recognition: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Models (MulNER'03). Sapporo,
Japan. July 2003.

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Lluís Padró.

"Named Entity Recognition For Catalan Using Spanish Resources"
In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL'03). Budapest, Hungary. April 2003.

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Lluís Padró.

"Named Entity Extraction Using AdaBoost"
In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2002). Taipei, Taiwan. September 2002.
Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez, Vasin Punyakanok and Dan Roth.
"Learning and Inference for Clause Identification"
In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02).
Helsinki, Finland. August 2002.

Xavier Carreras, Lluís Màrquez and Lluís Padró.

"Wide-Coverage Spanish Named Entity Extraction"
In Proceedings of the VIII Conferencia Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial,
IBERAMIA'02. Sevilla, Spain. November 2002.

Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Boosting Trees for Clause Splitting"
In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL-2001). Toulouse, France. 2001.

Xavier Carreras and Lluís Màrquez.

"Boosting Trees for Anti-Spam Email Filtering"
In Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP'01). Tzigov
Chark, Bulgaria. 2001.

Doctorando: Iván López Arévalo

Título: REDESIGN SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR COMPLEX TECHNICAL
PROCESSES
Directores: Arantza Aldea Corrales i René Bañeres-Alcántara
Publicaciones:
<<< Revistas >>>
1. Redesign Support Framework for Complex Technical Processes. PhD Summary
I. López-Arévalo. AI Communications. ISSN 0921-7126. En imprenta.

2. Generation of Process Alternatives using Abstract Models and Case-Based

Reasoning
I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea, A. Rodríguez-Martínez,
and L. Jiménez. Computers & Chemical Engineering. ISSN 0098-1354. En
imprenta. Recibido el 11 Diciembre 2005; revisado el 16 Agosto 2006;
aceptado el 18 Agosto 2006. Disponible online desde el 25 Septiembre de
2006.

3. A hierarchical approach for the redesign of chemical processes

I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara, A. Aldea, and A. Rodríguez-Martínez
Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems. ISSN 0219-1377. Springer. En
imprenta.

4. The application of ontologies in the retrofit of chemical processes

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea
Revista Mexicana De Ingeniería Química. Academia Mexicana de Investigación
y Docencia en Ingeniería Química. ISSN 1665-2738. Vol 3 (2004) pags.
39-53.

5. Multi-model knowledge representation in the retrofit of processes

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea
Computers & Chemical Engineering. Elsevier ISSN: 0098-1354. Vol. 28 (2004)
pags. 781–788.
<<< Congresos, Conferencias, Simposiums y Workshops >>>
1. Redesign Framework by using Hierarchical Models
I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez,
and A. Aldea. 2nd MONET Workshop on Model-Based Systems. 19th
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, UK,
July 2005.

2. Redesign Support Framework based on Hierarchical Multiple Models

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez,
and A. Aldea. 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. Edinburgh, UK, August 2005.

3. Generation of process alternatives using case-based reasoning

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara, L. Jiménez,
and A. Aldea. 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. Glasgow, UK,
July 2005.

4. Ontologías: Desarrollo y Aplicación en Ingeniería Química

I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
XXV Encuentro de la Academia Mexicana de Investigación y docencia en
Ingeniería Química. Ref. PRO-30. Puerto Vallarta, México, Mayo 2004.

5. Intelligent identification of process sections during the redesign of

processes
R. Bañares-Alcántara, I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, and A. Aldea.
Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI'04).
Mexico City. April 2004. Ponencia Magistral.

6. Towards the Automatic Identification of Process Sections during the

Redesign of Petroleum and Chemical Processes
I. López-Arévalo, A. Rodríguez-Martínez, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
2nd Workshop on Intelligent Computing in the Petroleum Industry, 18th
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 56-61.
Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.

7. Automatic Hierarchical Abstraction Tool for the Retrofit of Processes

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
4th European Congress in Chemical Engineering, Computer Aided Modelling,
Simulation & Optimisation. ISBN 84-88233-31-0. Granada, Spain, September
2003.

8. A Multi-Modelling Approach for the Retrofit of Processes

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
13th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-13).
Elsevier pp. 269-274, ISSN 1570-7946 (Series), Lappeenranta, Finland, June
2003.

9. Retrofit Approach for Developing Sustainable Chemical Processes

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
13th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry in Europe, Hamburg, Germany, April 2003.

19. Integrated Framework for the Retrofit of Processes

A. Rodríguez-Martínez, I. López-Arévalo, R. Bañares-Alcántara and A. Aldea.
9o. Congreso Mediterráneo de Ingeniería Química (COMIEQ’02), Posters
Communication Report, pp. 81, Barcelona, Spain, Diciembre 2002.

11. Modelado Múltiple en el Rediseño de Procesos Químicos

Ivan López-Arévalo, Arantza Aldea y René Bañares-Alcántara
8a. Conferencia Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial (IBERAMIA 2002),
Open Discussion Track Proceedings, pp. 21-30, Sevilla, España, Noviembre
2002.

12. Uso de HYSYS en la Abstracción y Retrofit de Procesos

Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, René Bañares-Alcántara, Ivan López-Arévalo y
Arantza Aldea. 1r. Encuentro Universitario sobre Simulación de Procesos y
Aplicaciones Hysys, Valencia, España, Julio 2001.

<<< Reportes de Investigación >>>

1. Sistemas basados en modelos en diseño. Ivan López-Arévalo y Arantza
Aldea. Report de recerca DEIM-RR-03-001, Febrero 2003. Universitat Rovira
i Virgili.

2. Razonamiento Funcional. Ivan López-Arévalo y Arantza Aldea. Report de

recerca DEIM-RR-03-002, Febrero 2003. Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

3. Razonamiento Analógico. Ivan López-Arévalo y Arantza Aldea. Report de

recerca DEIM-RR-03-003, Febrero 2003. Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Doctorando: Josep Maria Pujol Serra

Título: STRUCTURE IN ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES
Directores: Ramon Sangüesa Solé y Jordi Delgado Pin
Publicaciones:

 Pujol, J.M. "Structure in Artificial Societies". Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation, Universitat

Politècnica de Catalunya (2006), [PDF] [Abstract]

 Pujol, J.M., Béjar, J. and Delgado, J. "Clustering Algorithm for Determining

Community Structure in Large Networks".Physical Review E 74 (2007):016107 [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Flache, A., Delgado, J. and Sangüesa, R. "How can Social Networks
ever become Complex? Modeling the Emergence of Complex Networks from Local
Social Exchanges". Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 8(4) (2005)
[HTML/PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Delgado, J., Sangüesa, R., and Flache, A. "The Role of Clustering on
the Emergence of Efficient Social Conventions". Proceedings of the 19th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-05, (Edinburgh, Scotland), July 2005,
pp 965-970, ISBN: 0-938075-93-4. [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Flache, A., Delgado, J. and Sangüesa, R. "The Emergence of

Complex Networks through Local Optimization". In Proceedings of the XVI European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI-04 (López de Mántaras,R. and Saitta,L.
eds.,Valencia, Spain), pp. 48 - 52, IOS Press 2004. [PDF]

 Willmott, S., Pujol, J.M. and Cortés, U. "On Exploiting Agent Technology in the
design of Peer-to-Peer Applications". In Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (Moro,
G., Bergamaschi, S. and Aberer, K. eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Springer Verlag (2005), pp 98 - 107, ISBN: 3-540-29755-3. [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Flache, A., Delgado, J. and Sangüesa, R. "The Emergence of

Complex Exchange Networks". Accepted at the 24th International Sunbelt Social
Network Conference (Portoroz, Slovenia), May 2004.

 Delgado, J., Pujol, J.M. and Sangüesa, R. "Emergence of Coordination in Scale-

Free Networks". In Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal 1 (2003), 131-138.
[PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. and Delgado, J. "A Ranking Algorithm Based on Graph
Topology to Generate Reputation or Relevance". In Web Intelligence (Ning Zhong,
Jiming Liu, and Yiyu Yao eds.), ch 18, pp 382-395, Springer Verlag (2003), ISBN:
3-540-44384-3. [Zipped GS]

 Pujol, J.M. "Dynamics of Social Structures in Multi-Agent Systems". DEA Thesis

Project, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya (2003) [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. and Bermúdez, J. "Porqpine: A Distributed and

Collaborative Search Engine". Poster at the The 12th International World Wide Web
Conference WWW2003, Budapest, Hungary (2003). [HTML] [Image]

 Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. and Bermúdez, J. "Porqpine: A Peer-to-Peer Search

Engine". Technical Report LSI-03-6-R., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2003).

 Sangüesa, R. and Pujol, J.M. "NetExpert: Agent-based Expertise Location by

Means of Social and Knowledge Networks." In Knowledge Management and
Organizational Memories (Rose Dieng-Kuntz and Nada Matta, eds), ch 14, pp.
159-168, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2002). ISBN: 0-7923-7659-5. [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. and Delgado, J. "Extracting Reputation in Multi Agent

System by means of Social Network Topology". Proceedings of the First International
Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS-02. Vol.
1, pp 467-474. Bologna, Italy (2002). [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. and Delgado J. "Distributed and Adaptable Ranking

Algorithm for Reputation and Relevance Extraction". Proceedings of the 5th Catalan
Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA-02, pp 205-213, Castelló de la Plana,
Spain, (2002). [PDF]

 Vázquez-Salceda, J., Mérida-Campos, C., Pujol, J.M. "Creating Agent Platforms to

host Agent-Mediated Services that share resources". Technical Report LSI-02-43-R.,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2002).

 Sangüesa, R. and Pujol, J.M. "NetExpert: A multiagent system for expertise

location". Proceedings of the Workshop on Organizational Memories and Knowledge
Management, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) , pp.
85-93 ,Seattle, USA (2001) [PDF]
  Pujol, J.M., Sangüesa, R. "Reputation Measures based on Social Networks
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Artificial Intelligence CCIA-01, pp 205-213, Barcelona, Spain (2001). [PDF]

 Pujol, J.M., Vázquez, A. and Barrio, I. "NetExpert: A Multi Agent System to Locate
Expertise Sources". Proceedings of ACAI2001 & EASS2001 Student Sessions, pp
143-151, Prague, Czech Republic (2001).

 Vázquez, A., Barrio, I. and Pujol, J.M. "The Collaboratory: A Multi-agent System to
Support Collaborative Work". Proceedings of ACAI2001 & EASS2001 Student
Sessions, pp 135-142, Prague, Czech Republic (2001).

Doctorando: Gerard Escudero Bakx

Título: MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR WORD SENSE
DISAMBIGUATION
Directores: Lluís Màrquez Villodre y German Rigau Claramunt
Publicaciones:

Publicacions docents

Articles en congresos

• G. Escudero, M. Graells, J. M. Guerrero i S. Tornil. La automatización de un

laboratorio de ingeniería química para uso docente: una plataforma
multidisciplinar para la realización de trabajos de fin de carrera e investigación.
En las XIII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática, JENUI.
Teruel, 2007.
• G. Escudero i P. Gomis. Una aproximación a la Informática Industrial para la
Ingeniería Química. En las XII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la
Informática, JENUI. Bilbao, 2006.

Material docent

• G. Escudero i P. Gomis. Col·lecció d'examens. Fonaments d'informàtica.

EUETIB, 2005.
• G. Escudero. Solució a la col·lecció d'examens. Fonaments d'informàtica.
EUETIB, 2005.
• G. Escudero i P. Gomis. Guió de pràctiques. Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB,
2005.
• G. Escudero. Traducció de pseudocodi a Delphi. Fonaments d'informàtica.
EUETIB, 2004.
• G. Escudero, J. Solà, S. Tornil i S. Velázquez. Descripció del pseudocodi.
Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB, 2003.
• G. Escudero, J. Solà, S. Tornil i S. Velázquez. Col·lecció de problemes.
Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB, 2002.
• G. Escudero, J. Solà, S. Tornil i S. Velázquez. Col·lecció de problemes resolts .
Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB, 2002.
• G. Escudero. Delphi en les pràctiques. Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB,
2002.
• G. Escudero, J. Solà, S. Tornil i S. Velázquez. Traducció de pseudocodi a
Pascal. Fonaments d'informàtica. EUETIB, 2002.
• G. Escudero. Guió de pràctiques de programació visual. Informàtica en Entorns
Industrials. EUETIB, 2006.
 • G. Escudero. Creació d'arxius d'ajuda. Informàtica en Entorns Industrials.
EUETIB, 2004.
• G. Escudero. Programació visual. Informàtica en Entorns Industrials. EUETIB,
2003.
• G. Escudero. "Human Computer Interface". Informàtica en Entorns Industrials.
EUETIB, 2003.
• G. Escudero. Guió de pràctiques de laboratori . Sistemes Multimèdia. EUETIB,
2006.
• G. Escudero. Arquitectura de la informació. Sistemes Multimèdia. EUETIB,
2003.
• G. Escudero. Guionatge Multimèdia. Sistemes Multimèdia. EUETIB, 2003.

TFCs

• M. Gumbau i A. Tomás. Informatización y control remoto de una columna de

destilación. TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2007.
• M. Fuentes i T. Zanuy. Informatització d'una columna de destil·lació. TFC de la
EUETIB (UPC). 2006.
• S. Hurtado. Desenvolupament d'un sensor de temperatura USB. TFC de la
EUETIB (UPC). 2005.
• A. Segovia. Creació d'un model 3D d'un cos. TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2005.
• X. Cano i P. Serrano. Paleta de components visuals per a control industrial.
TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2004.
• S. Aranda. Desenvolupament d'un navegador WordNet 3D usant OpenGL. TFC
de la EUETIB (UPC). 2004.
• A. Molinero i A. Morán. Lector de códigos de barras y gestión de productos.
TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2004.
• D. Agustí. Informatización de un proceso de destilación. TFC de la EUETIB
(UPC). 2003.
• N. Arranz, F. J. Pablos i C. Rubio. Informatización de un fermentador. TFC de
la EUETIB (UPC). 2003.
• J. García. Desarrollo de un buscador Web. TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2002.
• O. Cid. Component de monitorització de senyals per Delphi. TFC de la EUETIB
(UPC). 2002.
• M. A. Ramírez. Entorno Web para la elaboración de pruebas tipo test. TFC de
la EUETIB (UPC). 2002.
• J. Angulo. Servidor de gráficas vía Web. TFC de la EUETIB (UPC). 2002.

Publicacions Química Computacional

Revistes internacionals

• I. Yélamos, M. Graells, L. Puigjaner and G. Escudero. Simultaneous Fault

Diagnosis in Chemical Plants Using a MultiLabel Approach. AIChE Journal.
2007; 53(11):2871-2884.

Congresos internacionals

• Martín-Sistac, C.; Escudero, G.; Graells, M.. General Framework and Open
Prototype for Solving Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems . Proceedings
of the 2nd European Modeling and Simulation Symposium. A.G. Bruzzone,
A.Guasch, M.A. Piera and J. Rozenblit, 2006, p. 411-421.
• Yélamos, I., Escudero, G., Graells, M., Puigjaner, L.. Fault diagnosis based on
support vector machines and systematic comparison to existing approaches.
 Proceedings of the 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process
Engineering and 9th International Symposium on Process Systems
Engineering. Elsevier, Amsterdam (Ed. W. Marquardt and C. Pantelides), 2006,
p. 1209-1214.
• Gerard Escudero, Cristina Martín-Sistac and Moisès Graells. A modeling
framework for addressing the design and operation of distributed wastewater
treatment systems. X Congreso Mediterraneo de Ingeniería Química. Sociedad
Española de Quimica Industrial e Ingenieria Quimica (SEQUI), 2005.
• I. Yélamos, G. Escudero, M. Graells and L. Puigjaner. Application of support
vector machines to enhance reliable and accurate fault diagnosis in chemical
processes. X Congreso Mediterraneo de Ingeniería Química. Sociedad
Española de Quimica Industrial e Ingenieria Quimica (SEQUI), 2005.

Publicacions en "Word Sense Disambiguation"

Tesi doctoral

• G. Escudero. Machine Learning Techniques for Word Sense Disambiguation.

Dept. LSI. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Catalunya, 2006.
(presentació)

Capítols de llibres

• L. Màrquez, G. Escudero, D. Martínez and G. Rigau. Machine Learning

Methods for WSD. Chapter of the book Word Sense Disambiguation:
Algorithms, Applications, and Trends. E. Agirre and P. Edmonds, editors.
Springer, 2006.

Articles en congresos internacionals

• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. TALP System for the English Lexical
Sample Task. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on the
Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, Senseval-3.
Barcelona, Catalonia, 2004.
• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. Using LazyBoosting for Word Sense
Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on
evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems. Toulouse, France, 2001.
• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. On the Portability and Tuning of
Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Systems. In Proceedings of the joint
SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
and Very Large Corpora, EMNLP/VLC. Hong Kong, China, 2000.
• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. A Comparison between Supervised
Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 4th
Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop, CoNLL. Lisbon, Portugal,
2000.
• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. Naive Bayes and Exemplar-Based
approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation Revisited. In Proceedings of the
14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI. Berlin, Germany,
2000.
• G. Escudero, L. Màrquez and G. Rigau. Boosting Applied to Word Sense
Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Machine
Learning, ECML. Barcelona, Catalonia. 2000.
 • L. Benítez, S. Cervell, G. Escudero, M. López, G. Rigau and M. Taulé. Methods
and tools for building the Catalan WordNet. In LREC Workshop: Language
Resources for European Minority Languages. Granada, Spain, 1998.

Programari (Software)

• G. Escudero. LazyBoosting 0.1. A Machine Learning tool related to Boosting

Algorithms.
• G. Escudero and G. Rigau. Web EuroWordNet Interface 0.1. A tool to query
and develop WordNets.

Projecte de Final de Carrera

• G. Escudero. Construcció d'un entorn de desenvolupament per a WordNets.

Projecte de fi de carrera, FIB, UPC, 1998.

Revistes nacionals

• L. Villarejo, J. Atserias, G. Escudero and G. Rigau. First release of the

multilingual Central Repository of Meaning. Procesamiento del Lenguaje
Natural, 23:196-197, 1998.
• L. Benítez, S. Cervell, G. Escudero, M. López, G. Rigau y M. Taulé. Web
WordNet Interface (Un sistema para el desarrollo de WordNets a través de la
Web). Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 31:327-328, 2003.

Articles en congresos nacionals

• M. López, L. Palouzie i G. Escudero. Recursos d'enginyeria lingüística del

català: anàlisi morfològica i WordNet. Actes de la I Jornada sobre Comunicació
Mediatitzada per Ordinador en Català, CMO-Cat. Barcelona, 2001.

EuroWordNet Deliverables

• P. Vossen, L. Bloksma, S. Climent, M. A. Martí, G. Oreggioni, G. Escudero, G.

Rigau, H. Rodríguez, A. Roventini, F. Bertagna, A. Alonge, C. Peters and W.
Peters. The Restructured Core wordnets in EuroWordNet: Subset1.
EuroWordNet (LE-4003) Deliverable D014D015. University of Amsterdam.
1998.
• P. Vossen, L. Bloksma, S. Climent, M. A. Martí, M. Taulé, J. Gonzalo, I.
Chugur, M. F. Verdejo, G. Escudero, G. Rigau, H. Rodríguez, A. Alonge, F.
Bertagna, R. Marinelli, A. Roventini and L. Tarasi. EuroWordNet Subset2 for
Dutch, Spanish and Italian. EuroWordNet (LE-4003) Deliverable D027D028.
University of Amsterdam. 1998.
• P. Vossen, S. Climent, M. A. Martí, M. Taulé, J. Gonzalo, I. Chugur, M. F.
Verdejo, G. Escudero, G. Rigau, H. Rodríguez, A. Alonge, F. Bertagna, R.
Marinelli, A. Roventini and L. Tarasi. Comparison of the Final Wordnets Dutch,
Spanish and Italian. EuroWordNet (LE-4003) Deliverable D029D030. University
of Amsterdam. 1998.

Catalan WordNet Reports

• L. Benítez, G. Escudero, J. Farreras and G. Rigau. Converting the

"Enclicopèdia Catalana" MRD to a MTD. Technical Report LSI-98-3-T. Software
Department (LSI). Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Barcelona. 1998.
 • L. Benítez, G. Escudero, J. Farreras and G. Rigau. Applying Automatic
Methods for the Construction of Multilingual WordNets. Technical Report
LSI-98-4-T. Software Department (LSI). Technical University of Catalonia
(UPC). Barcelona. 1998.
• L. Benítez, G. Escudero, J. Farreras and G. Rigau. WWI 0.0: A Multilingual
WordNet Interface using the Web. Technical Manual. Technical Report
LSI-98-5-T. Software Department (LSI). Technical University of Catalonia
(UPC). Barcelona. 1998.
• L. Benítez, G. Escudero, J. Farreras and G. Rigau. WWI 0.0: A Multilingual
WordNet Interface using the Web. User Manual. Technical Report LSI-98-6-T.
Software Department (LSI). Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
Barcelona. 1998.

2006/2007
Doctorando: Enrique Miguel Hernández Jimenez
Título: UNCERTAINTY AND INDISTINGUISHABILITY. APPLICATION TO
MODELLING WITH WORDS
Director: Jordi Recasens
Publicaciones:

Book Chapters

[1] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. A general framework for induction of Decision Trees
under uncertainty. In J. Lawry, J. Shanahan, and A. Ralescu, editors, Modelling with
Words. LNAI 2873, pages 26-43. Springer, 2003.

Refereed International Journals

[2] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Indistinguishability relations in Dempster-Shafer

Theory of Evidence. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 37(3):145-187,
2004.
[3] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Generating Indistinguishability Operators from
prototypes. International Journal of General Systems, 17(12):1131-1142, 2002.
[4] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. On possibilistic and probabilistic approximations of
unrestricted Belief Functions based on the concept of Fuzzy T-Preorder.
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems,
10(2):185-200, 2002.
[5] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. A reformulation of Entropy in the presence of
Indistinguishability Operators. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 128(2):185-196, 2002.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

[6] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Modelling T-Indistinguishability in Game Theory. In

Proceedings of the XI Conference of Information Processing and Management of
Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), Paris, 2006.
[7] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Indistinguishability in Cooperative Games. In
Proceedings of the IV Conference of the European Society of Fuzzy Logic and
Technology (EUSFLAT), Barcelona, 2005.
[8] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Relaciones de Indistinguibilidad en el marco de la
 Teoría de la Evidencia. In Actas del XI Congreso sobre tecnologías y lógica fuzzy
(ESTYLF), pages 367-371, León, 2002.
[9] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Growing Decision Trees in presence of
Indistinguishability: Observational Decision Trees. In Proceedings of the II
Conference of the European Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT),
Leicester, 2001.
[10] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Entropy and Indistinguishability: Observational
Entropy. In Proceedings of the VIII Conference of Information Processing and
Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), pages 870-875,
Madrid, 2000.
[11] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. A Fuzzy Sequential Covering algorithm for the
generation of rules. In Actas del X Congreso sobre tecnologías y lógica fuzzy
(ESTYLF), pages 319-322, Sevilla, 2000.
[12] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Observational Entropy: entropy in the context of
Indistinguishability Operators. In Proceedings of the I Conference of the European
Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), pages 203-266, Palma de
Mallorca, 1999.
[13] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Un model lingüístic per la descripció de conceptes.
In Actes del I Congrés Català d'Intel.ligència Artificial (CCIA), pages 181-184,
Tarragona, 1998.
[14] E. Hernández and J. Recasens. Un modelo lingüístico para la descripción de
conceptos. In Actas del VIII Congreso sobre tecnologías y lógica fuzzy (ESTYLF),
pages 103-107, Pamplona, 1998.

Doctorando: Ismel BritoRodríguez

Título: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Director: Pedro Meseguer González
Publicaciones:
2007
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Distributed Forward Checking May Lie to Preserve
Privacy. Aceptado pero por aparecer en Recent Advances in Constraints, Lecture Note
in Artificial Intelligence. Vol 4651. 2007.
2006
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Distributed Stable Matching Problems with Ties and
Incomplete
Lists. Springer, Lecture Note in Computer Science. Volumen:4204/2006, Páginas:
675-680, 2006.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. The Distributed Stable Marriage Problem with Ties and
Incomplete Lists. Proceeding del Workshop Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
Problems (ECAI-2006). Soporte digital.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Asynchronous Backtracking Algorithms for Non-binary
DisCSP.
Proceeding del Workshop Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (ECAI-2006).
Soporte digital.
2005
Christian Bessière, Arnold Maestre, Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Asynchronous
Backtracking without Adding Links: a New Member to ABT Family. Artificial Intelligence
Special issue: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction. Volume 161, Issues 1-2. Páginas
7-24. Enero 2005.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Distributed Stable Matching Problems. Springer, Lecture
Note in
Computer Science, Volumen: 3709/2005, Páginas: 152-166, 2005.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. The Distributed Stable Marriage Problem. Proceeding del
DCR
2005 (Sixth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning).
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~am/DCR-05/Papers/DisSM_18.pdf
2004
Ismel Brito. Synchronous, Asynchronous and Hybrid Algorithms for DisCSP. Springer,
Lecture
Note in Computer Science, Volumen: 3258/2004, Página: 791, 2004.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Synchronous, Asynchronous and Hybrid Algorithms for
DisCSP. Proceeding del DCR-2004 (Fifth International Workshop on Distributed
Constraint Reasoning). http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pmodi/papers/DCR04-
Proceedings.pdf.
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. On the Evaluation of DisCSP Algorithms. Proceeding del
DCR-2004 (Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning).
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pmodi/papers/DCR04-Proceedings.pdf.
2003
Ismel Brito, Pedro Meseguer. Distributed Forward Checking. Springer, Lecture Note in
Computer Science, Volumen: 2833/2003, Páginas: 801-806, 2003.
2000
E. Ponce de León, Felipe Maldonado, Ismel Brito-Rodríguez, Augusto Ciurlizza.
Aplicación de Algoritmos Genéticos en un Problema Industrial Modelizado ATSP con
Restricciones de Tipo Comercial. X CLAIO (Congreso Latinoamericano de
Investigación de Operaciones), 4-8, Septiembre, 2000, México.
1999
E. Ponce de León, Ismel Brito, Felipe Maldonado. Algoritmo Genético con
Restricciones: una Aplicación a la Industria Textil. Memorias de la Segunda
Conferencia Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología y Desarrollo (CIMAF'99). Marzo
22-26, 1999. Habana, Cuba
1998
Ismel Brito, Eunice Ponce de León, Felipe Maldonado. Algoritmos Genéticos, la
Convergencia Temprana y un Problema Asociado al Teñido de Telas. Memorias del IX
Congreso Latino-iberoamericano de Investigación de Operaciones, pp. 144.1-144.6.
Agosto 24-31, 1998, Argentina.
1997
E. Ponce de León, Roberto Santana, Ismel Brito, Felipe Maldonado. Análisis de una
Familia de Algoritmos Genéticos para un Problema de Secuenciación en el Teñido de
Telas. Actas de Resúmenes Extendidos, Primer Encuentro Latino Iberoamericano de
Optimización, I ELIO, pp. 234-241. Noviembre 6-8. Chile.

2007/2008
Doctorando: David Sánchez Ruenes
Título: DOMAIN ONTOLOGY LEARNING FROM THE WEB
Director: Antonio Moreno Ribas
Publicaciones:
• D. Sánchez. Domain Ontology Learning from the Web (Thesis in Artificial
Intelligence).

• D. Sánchez, A. Moreno. Pattern-based automatic taxonomy learning from the

Web (AI Communcations, Vol. 21, No.1, pp. 27-48, 2008)
•
• D. Sánchez, A. Moreno. Learning non-taxonomic relationships from web
documents for domain ontology construction (Data Knowledge Engineering, Vol.
63, No. 3, pp. 600-623, 2008)
•

• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Bringing taxonomic structure to large digital libraries

(International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies , Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.
112-122, 2007).
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Semantic disambiguation of taxonomies (CCIA07).
•

• D.Sánchez, A.Rodríguez, A.Moreno. Parallel execution of complex tasks using a

distributed, robust and flexible agent platform (DESMA07).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Learning medical ontologies from the web (AIME07).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Discovering non-taxonomic relations from the web
(IDEAL 06).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. A methodology for knowledge acquisition from the web
(International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems,
Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 453-475, 2006).
•
• A.Moreno, A.Valls, D.Sánchez, D.Isern. Construcción automática de ontologías
 para la Web Semántica (CAEPIA 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. A multi-agent system for distributed ontology learning
(EUMAS 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Automatic discovery of synonyms and lexicalizations
from the Web (CCIA 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, D.Isern, A.Moreno. An agent-based knowledge acquisition platform
(CIA 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Web-scale taxonomy learning (ICML 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Web mining techniques for automatic discovery of
medical knowledge (AIME 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Development of new techniques to improve web search
(IJCAI 05).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Automatic information extraction from the Web
(Research report 05-03, DEIM, URV).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Automatic generation of taxonomies from the WWW
(PAKM 04).
•
• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Creating ontologies from web documents (CCIA 04).
•

• D.Sánchez, A.Moreno. Ontology building from the WWW (Research report

04-01, DEIM, URV).

Doctorando: Federico Heras Viaga

Título: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR MAX-SAT SOLVING
Director: Javier Larrosa
Publicaciones:

• Journals:
o Journal of Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation. 2006 and
2007 Max-SAT Evaluations: Contributed instances. Federico Heras,
Javier Larrosa, Simon de Givry and Thomas Schiex. To appear 2007.
PDF file
o Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research: MiniMaxSat: An efficient
Weighted Max-SAT solver. Federico Heras, Javier Larrosa and Albert
Oliveras. To appear 2007.
PDF file
o Artificial Intelligence, an international journal: A logical approach to
Efficient Max-SAT solving Javier Larrosa and Federico Heras and
Simon de Givry. To appear 2007.
PDF file
o Journal of Heuristics: Intelligent variable orderings and re-orderings in
DAC-based solvers for WCSP. Federico Heras and Javier Larrosa.
2006.
 Springer Link (Note that the link works only if your institution has access
to this journal)

• Conferences:
o SAT-08 Guangzhou, China: A Max-SAT inference-based pre-processing
for Maximum Clique. Federico Heras and Javier Larrosa.
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o FLAIRS-08 Coconut Grove, Florida: On Applying Unit Propagation-
Based Lower Bounds in Pseudo-Boolean Optimization. Federico Heras,
Vasco Manquinho and Joao P. Marques Silva.
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o SAT-07 Lisbon: MiniMaxSat: A new Weighted Max-SAT solver. Federico
Heras, Javier Larrosa and Albert Oliveras.
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o AAAI-06 Boston: New inference rules for efficient Max-SAT solving.
Federico Heras and Javier Larrosa.
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o IJCAI-05 Edinburgh: Resolution in Max-SAT and its relation to local
consistency in weighted CSPs. Javier Larrosa and Federico Heras.
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o IJCAI-05 Edinburgh: Existential arc consistency: getting closer to full arc
consistency in weighted CSPs. Javier Larrosa, Simon de Givry,
Federico Heras and Matthias Zytnicki.
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• Workshops:
o CP-06 Nantes (Doctoral Program): Resolution-based rules for the
Weighted Max-SAT problem. Federico Heras and Javier Larrosa.
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o CP-05 Sitges (Doctoral Program): Local Consistency in WCSPs and
Inference in Max-SAT. Javier Larrosa and Federico Heras.
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o CP-04 Toronto: Towards robust DAC-based solvers for WCSP. Federico
Heras and Javier Larrosa.
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 Technical reports and others:

• M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (Master en Inteligencia Artificial): Boosting

Systematic Search with local inference. Federico Heras.
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• Seminario FIB 2005: Una aproximación lógica para la resolución en Max-SAT
Federico Heras.
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Doctorando: Ignasi Belda Reig
Título: EVOLUTIONAY ALGORITHMS AND DE NOVO PEPTIDE DESIGN
Directores: Ernest Giralt y Francesc Xavier Llorà
Publicaciones:
 M. Teixidó, E. Zurita, M. Malakoutikhah, T. Tarrago & E. Giralt. Diketopiperazines as
a tool for the study of transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) an their potencial
use as BBB-shuttles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2007), 129, 11802-11813.
 Pujals, Silvia; Fernandez-Carneado, Jimena; Kogan, Marcelo J.; Martinez, Jean;
Cavelier, Florine; Giralt, Ernest. Replacement of a Proline with Silaproline Causes a
20-Fold Increase in the Cellular Uptake of a Pro-Rich Peptide. J. Am. Chem. Soc.
(2006), 128(26), 8479-8483
 M.J. Kogan, N.G. Bastus, R. Amigo, D. Grillo-Bosch, E. Araya, A. Turiel, A. Labarta,
E. Giralt & V.F. Puntes. Nanoparticle-Mediated Local and Remote Manipulation of
Protein Aggregation. Nano Letters, 6, 110-115 (2006)
 T.Tarragó, S.Frutos, R.A. Rodriguez-Mias & E.Giralt. Identification of traditional
Chinese medicinal plants with prolyl oligopeptidase inhibitory activity using 19F-NMR.
ChemBioChem (2006), 7(5), 827-833
 Nicolas, Ernesto; Ferrer, Cristina; Taboada, Lorena; Giralt, Ernest. Coupe du roi
bisection of proteins. Spontaneous tetramerization of two peptides that span the
sequence of the rabbit uteroglobin monomer. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (50),
17719-17733 (2005).
 Carulla, Natalia; Caddy, Gemma L.; Hall, Damien R.; Zurdo, Jesus; Gairi,
Margarida; Feliz, Miguel; Giralt, Ernest; Robinson, Carol V.; Dobson, Christopher M.
Molecular recycling within amyloid fibrils. Nature (London, United Kingdom), 436(7050),
554-558 (2005).
 J. Fernández-Carneado, M. Van Gool, V. Martos, S. Castel, P. Prados, J. de
Mendoza and E. Giralt. A new class of highly efficient, non-peptidic oligoguanidinium
vectors that selectively internalize into mitochondria. J. Am. Chem. Soc, 127, 869-874
(2005).
 Farrera-Sinfreu, Josep; Giralt, Ernest; Castel, Susanna; Albericio, Fernando; Royo,
Miriam. Cell-Penetrating cis-g-Amino-L-Proline-Derived Peptides. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
127(26), 9459-9468 (2005).
 L. Crespo, G. Sanclimens, M. Pons, E. Giralt, M. Royo, F. Albericio. Peptide and
amide-bond containing dendrimers. Chem. Rev., 105, 1663-1681 (2005).
 J. Farrera-Sinfreu, L. Zaccaro, D. Vidal, X. Salvatella, E. Giralt, M. Pons, F. Albericio
and M. Royo. A New Class of Foldamers Based on cis-gamma-Amino-L-proline1,2. J.
Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 6048-6057 (2004).
 J. Fernández-Carneado, M. J. Kogan, S. Castel and E. Giralt. Amphipathic Pro-rich
peptides derived from the N-terminal domain of g-zein as potential peptide carriers.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 1811-1814 (2004).
 X. Salvatella, M. Martinell, M. Gairí, M. G. Mateu, M. Feliz, A.D. Hamilton, J. de
Mendoza and E. Giralt. A tetraguanidinium ligand binds to the surface of the
tetramerization domain of protein P53. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 196-198 (2004).
 C. Chiva, P. Barthe, A. Codina, M. Gairí, F. Molina, C. Granier, M. Pugniere, T. Inui,
H. Nishi, Y. Nishiuchi, T. Kimura, S. Sakakibara, F. Albericio and E. Giralt. Synthesis
and NMR Structure of P41icf, a Potent Inhibitor of Human Cathepsin L. J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 125, 1508-15

Doctorando: Maria Fuentes Fort

Título: A FLEXIBLE MULTITASK SUMMARIZER FOR DOCUMENTS FROM
DIFFERENT MEDIA, DOMAIN AND LANGUAGE
Director: Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria
Publicaciones:
Publications
2007
Support Vector Machines for Query-focused Summarization trained and
evaluated on Pyramid data
Maria Fuentes, Enrique Alfonseca, Horacio Rodríguez
Proceedings of the (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.

FEMsum at DUC 2007

Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez, Daniel Ferrés
HLT-NAACL Workshop (DUC 2007).

2006
FEMsum at DUC 2006: Semantic-based approach integrated in a
Flexible Eclectic Multitask Summarizer Architecture.
Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo, Daniel Ferrés
HLT-NAACL Workshop (DUC 2006).

2005
TALP-UPC at TREC 2005: Experiments Using Voting Scheme Among
Three Hetereogeneous QA Systems.
Daniel Ferrés, Samir Kanaan, David Dominguez-Sal, Edgar Gonzàlez,
Alicia Ageno, Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez, Mihai Surdeanu, and
Jordi Turmo
(Working Notes TREC05).

QASUM-TALP at DUC 2005 Automatically Evaluated with a Pyramid

based Metric.
Maria Fuentes, Edgar Gonzàlez, Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez
HLT-EMNLP Workshop (DUC2005) [autoPan home page].

Summarizing Spontaneous Speech Using General Text Properties.

Maria Fuentes, Edgar Gonzàlez, Horacio Rodríguez, Jordi Turmo, Laura
Alonso
Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research Workshop to be held
in conjunction with RANLP, Sep 24, 2005, Borovets, Bulgary

Baseline summarization system for text including speech transcripts.

Maria Fuentes, Edgar Gonzàlez, Jordi Turmo
European Project CHIL (IP 506909) Deliverable D5.8, January 2005

2004
Resumidor de noticies en català del projecte Hermes.
Maria Fuentes, Edgar Gonzàlez, and Horacio Rodríguez
II Congrés d'Enginyeria en Llengua Catalana. (CELC'04). Andorra,
2004.
Re-using high-quality resources for continued evaluation of automated
summarization systems
Laura Alonso, Maria Fuentes, Marc Massot, Horacio Rodríguez
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Languages
Resources and Evaluation vol.III p1033-p1036 (LREC 2004), Lisbon,
Portugal
2003
 Approaches to Text Summarization: Questions and Answers. Revista
Iberoamericana de
Inteligencia Artificial (noviembre de 2003). Special Issue on Multilingual
Information Access
Laura Alonso, Irene Castellón, Salvador Climent, Maria Fuentes, Lluís
Padró, Horacio Rodríguez

Mixed Approach to Headline Extraction for DUC 2003

Maria Fuentes, Marc Massot, Horacio Rodríguez, Laura Alonso
HLT-NAACL Text Summarization Workshop and Document
Understanding Conference (DUC2003), May 31 - June 1, 2003,
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Integrating Cohesion and Coherence for Text Summarization
Laura Alonso, Maria Fuentes
Proceedings of the (EACL'03 Student Session), Budapest, Hungary.
2002
Collaborating Discourse for Text Summarisation - Best Poster Award
Laura Alonso, Maria Fuentes
Proceedings of the Seventh (ESSLLI'02 Student Session), Trento, Italy
Using cohesive properties of text for Automatic Summarization
Maria Fuentes, Horacio Rodríguez
Proceedings of the Primeras Jornadas de Tratamiento y Recuperación
de Información (JOTRI2002), Valencia, Spain
(report de recerca IMA02-02-RR HERMES) Comparative Study of
Automated Text Summarization
Laura Alonso, Irene Castellón, Salvador Climent, Maria Fuentes, Lluís
Padró, Horacio Rodríguez

Doctorando: Patrik Gildas Lambert

Título: EXPLOITING LEXICAL INFORMATION AND DISCRIMINATIVE ALIGNMENT
TRAINING IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Director: Rafael Enrique Banchs Martinez
Publicaciones:

2007

• Patrik Lambert, Rafael Banchs and Josep M. Crego. Discriminative Alignment

Training without Annotated Data for Machine Translation. In Proc. of the North
American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Human
Language Technologies Conference (NAACL-HLT), pp 85-88. Rochester, NY,
USA, April 23-25. pdf slides

2006

• José B. Mariño, Rafael Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik

Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa, Marta R. Costa-jussà. N-gram-based Machine
Translation. Computational Linguistics, 32 (4) pp. 527-549. MIT Press. link
• Rafael E. Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Patrik Lambert, José B. Mariño. A
Feasibility Study For Chinese-Spanish Statistical Machine Translation. Proc. of
the 5th Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP),
pp. 681-692. Kent Ridge, Singapore, December 13-16. pdf
• Patrik Lambert, Jesús Giménez, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Enrique Amigó, Rafael
E. Banchs, Lluís Màrquez and J.A. R. Fonollosa. Machine Translation System
Development Based on Human Likeness. Proc. of the IEEE/ACL Workshop on
 Spoken Language Technology, pp. 246-249. Palm Beach, Aruba, December
10-13. pdf
• Patrik Lambert and Rafael E. Banchs. Tuning Machine Translation Parameters
with SPSA. Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language
Translation, pp. 190-196. Kyoto, Japan, November 27-28. pdf slides
• Adrià de Gispert, Deepa Gupta, Maja Popovic, Patrik Lambert, José B. Mariño,
Marcello Federico, Hermann Ney and Rafael Banchs. Improving Statistical
Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations. Proc. of 5th Int. Conf.
on Natural Language Processing (FinTAL), pp. 368-379. Turku (Finland),
August 23-25. pdf
• Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik Lambert, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maxim
Khalilov, Rafael Banchs, José B. Mariño, José A. R. Fonollosa. N-gram-based
SMT System Enhanced with Reordering Patterns. Proc. of the HLT-NAACL
Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pp. 162-165. New York City,
USA, June 8-9. pdf
• Patrik Lambert and Rafael Banchs. Grouping Multi-word Expressions According
to Part-Of-Speech in Statistical Machine Translation. Proc. of the EACL
Workshop on Multi-Word-Expressions in a Multilingual Context, pp. 9-16.
Trento, Italy, April 3rd. pdf

2005

• Patrik Lambert, Adrià de Gispert, Rafael Banchs and José B. Mariño.

Guidelines for Word Alignment Evaluation and Manual Alignment. Language
Resources and Evaluation, 39 (4) pp. 267-285. Springer. link
• Patrik Lambert and Rafael Banchs. Data Inferred Multi-word Expressions for
Statistical Machine Translation. Proc. of Machine Translation Summit X, pp.
396-403. Phuket, Thailand. pdf
• José B. Marino, Rafael Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik
Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa and Marta R. Costa-jussà. Bilingual N-gram
Statistical Machine Translation. Proc. of Machine Translation Summit X, pp.
275-82. Phuket, Thailand. pdf
• José B. Marino, Rafael Banchs, Josep M. Crego, Adrià de Gispert, Patrik
Lambert, José A. R. Fonollosa and Marta R. Costa-jussà. Modelo estocástico
de traducción basado en N-gramas de tuplas bilingues y combinación log-lineal
de características. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, núm. 35 (SEPLN
2005), pp. 69-76. Granada, Spain. pdf

2004

• Victoria Arranz, Núria Castell, Josep M. Crego, Jesús Giménez, Adrià de

Gispert and Patrik Lambert. 2004. Bilingual Connections for Trilingual Corpora:
An XML Approach. In Proc. of the LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, May
26-28. ps
• Patrik Lambert and Núria Castell. 2004. Alignment of parallel corpora exploiting
asymmetrically aligned phrases. In Proc. of the LREC 2004 Workshop on the
Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora, pp 26-29. Lisbon,
Portugal, May 25. pdf