The University of Malaga was founded in 1972. It has about 40.000 students and 2000 lecturers distributed in around 50 different faculties and schools including the School of Computer Engineering that was created in 1987 and has about 2500 students.

The research group ”Investigación y Aplicaciones en Inteligencia Artificial (IA)2” is composed of 26 full time researchers and led by Prof. Ricardo Conejo. The research lines of the group cover many aspect of AI, including diagnosis and design problems applied to Civil Engineering, Machine Learning, User Modelling, Intelligent Tutorial Systems, Social and Virtual Communities and Data Mining. The group has published more than 50 scientific papers in the last 10 years and has participated in research projects supported by the EU, DG XXII (COMMET, FORCE, LEONARDO), and by the Spanish National Research Ministry (MCYT).

Our research group has wide experience in the area of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery (KD). We have developed different machine learning algorithms and we have used them, in concurrence with other well known algorithms, to perform data mining task in real problems (breast cancer, mental diseases, insurance companies, etc.). Thus, some concepts that were not really clear (or even unknown) could be understood by the experts.

RESEARCHERS

Beatriz Barros

Beatriz Barros received her PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, in June 1999 from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  with a thesis on the automatic analysis of the collaborative processes. As an associate professor of the UNED  (National Distance Education University) she was involved in European projects such as Divilab, Coldex, and finally in the network excellence Kaleidoscope. In 2006 she joined the University of Malaga, as a member of the IAIA research group.

Now, her reserach work concentrates on  the following fields: collaborative learning, virtual communities, social web, curricular management and scienciomentris. She is the main researcher of  two regional projects: Patio  (patio.lcc.uma.es), and SICA2 (sicaresearch.es) of the Ministry for Economy, Innovation and Science in Andalucía  (Consejería de  Economía, Innovación y Ciencia)

Beatriz is the coordinator of SiSOB.

Ricardo Conejo

Ricardo Conejo (PhD) is a full professor in the Languages and Computer Science Department at the University of Málaga. He has  considerable experience in European Projects of 5FP and 6FP.

Eduardo Guzmán

Eduardo Guzmán (PhD) is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Languages  Department at the University of Málaga. He received his PhD with honours in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Málaga in 2005. His research interests include user modelling, intelligent learning environments, adaptive systems and web engineering and technologies.

Ana Rodríguez Rey

Ana Rodríguez Rey is a PhD student of Journalism at the University of Seville. She has participated in several regional and national research projects. Ana is in charge of implementing SiSOB dissemination strategy.

Daniel López González

Daniel López González graduated from Computer Management at the Complutense University in Madrid. He has broad experience as a software developer and works with multiple programming languages and technologies.

Raúl Fidalgo-Merino

Raúl Fidalgo-Merino (PhD) received the MSc degree in computer science from the Universidad de Málaga, Spain, in 2003 and the PhD degree in software engineering and artificial intelligence from the same university in 2008. He has been a research assistant at the Universidad de Málaga since 2004. His research interests include mining time-changing data streams for classification and regression, knowledge discovery in databases and, social network analysis, among others.

Isabel Cabello

Isabel Cabello Master degree in English Philology, studied in the University of Sevilla. She has large experience on teaching English language to different levels ages and degrees. She also has worked as translator in several important documents like the 4th Andalusian Research Development and Innovation Plan (PAIDI) and many others.

José Luis González

José Luis González Computer Systems Engineering and Software Engineering at Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has broad experience as software developer and works with multiple programming languages oriented to mobility, especially Android and iOS systems.

FORMER MEMBERS

Martina Bryla

Martyna Bryla holds an MA in English Philology from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland and an MA in English Studies from the University of Málaga in Spain. Martyna provides administrative support to SiSOB, and translates/proofreads posts, articles and deliverables written by the project members.