Maite Lopez-Sanchez CV with publications


Maite López Sánchez (cv)

Scientific Publications

Contanct Information -- Education -- Present Situation -- Research Interests -- Teaching Experience
Press Collaborations -- Referee Activities -- Conference Attendance -- Other -- Personal Page -- Current and former Students

_ CONTACT INFORMATION

WAI Volume Visualization and Artificial Intelligence Research Group. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi (MAiA)
Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
C/Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 (located at Plaça Universitat campus)
08007 Barcelona

Tel.: +34 93 4037154, Fax: +34 93 4021601

e-mail: maite@@@maia.ub.es


_EDUCATION

-September 1999: Ph.D. in Computer Science entitled "Approaches to Map Generation by means of Collaborative Autonomous Robots" at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) under the supervision of Dr. Ramon López de Màntaras.

-January-June 1998: Visiting Researcher at the Robotics Laboratory from the University of Southern California USC, California (USA).

-1996: M.Sc. in Computer Science with thesis entitled: "Unknown Environment Map Generation by means of Autonomous Cooperative Robots".

-1994-1996 : Ph.D. courses requirements completed in the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Politechnical University of Catalonia, G.P.A. : 3.86

-1989-94 : B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) . Final year project concerning the design of an Environment for Qualitative-Quantitative Rule Based Expert Systems Development.


_PRESENT SITUATION

- "Profesora Titular de Universidad" (similar to Associate Professor or Tenured University Lecturer/Professor): teaching at ETIS (Technical Computer Science degree at University of Barcelona, UB)

- Member of the WAI (Volumen Visualization and Artificial Intelligence) research group

_RESEARCH INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

Coordination mechanisms in Multi-agent systems (MAS):
- MAS adaptation (wiki)
- Automatic Norm Generation in MAS (wiki)
- Machine learning techniques (Case Based Reasoning: CBR)

Arficial Intelligence techniques applied to e-commerce:
- assisted virtual institutions demo video (wiki)
- Fuzzy matching (fuzzy logic)
- Negotiation

Autonomic Electronic Institutions

Graphics & Arfificial Intelligence: volume classification data (331M) and intelligent objects

Autonomous Robot Formation Maintenance. See a presentation and a demo

Member of the AgentLink Co-ordination Action for Agent Based Computing.

Involved in the CONSOLIDER Project "Agreement Technologies" (CSD2007-0022 code).

Involved in the Spanish project "Engineering self-* Virtually-Embedded systems" (EVE) codes:TIN2009-14702-C02-01 (IIIA) and TIN2009-14702-C02-02 (UB) from 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2012 and "Robust Virtual Collaborations" (COR) code TIN2012-38876-C02-02 (UB) from 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2015.

Previously involved in the Spanish MEC Project "3D Reconstruction, classification and visualization of temporal sequences of bioimplant Micro-CT images" (MAT-2005-07244-C03-03).

Previously involved in the IST European Project: SimWeb (IST-2001-34651), Exploring Innovative eBusiness Models using Multi-Agent Simulation.

TFC in RoboCup Soccer Simulation


_TEACHING EXPERIENCE

- 2008 Related publication: Benjamin Auffarth, Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Jordi Campos, and Anna Puig "System for Automated Assistance in Correction of Programming Exercises (SAC)" to appear in proceedings of the fifth CIDUI - V International Congress of University Teaching and Innovation http://cidui.upc.edu.

- 2006-2008 Educational Innovation Project at Universitat de Barcelona entitled "e-Prog: Anàlisi, disseny, implementació i acaluació d'un entorn interactiu i col·laboratiu en la docència de les assignatures de programació" (code: 2006PID-UB/16).

- 2003-... Course Teaching for the Technical Computer Science degree at Universitat de Barcelona.

- 2001 Technical seminars at iSOCO

- 1994 Co-supervision of several final year projects on fuzzy segments.

- 1993 Undergraduate student scholarship from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) to support teaching activities.


_ PRESS COLLABORATIONS

- Eugeni Terré, Maite López "iSOCO: Components de programari intel·ligents" published at a Catalonia Research Journal: Catalunya Recerca num.2, April 2003

- Maite López Sánchez, "Agentes : la nueva Ola" published at Base Informática, ALI technical journal dedicated to Intelligent Agents, num.37,May 2001

- Maite López Sánchez, Agentes en Internet: 24 horas a nuestro servicio published by Nov@tec: new technologies supplement of the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, page 17, June 21 2000


_ REFEREE ACTIVITIES

- The Computer Journal (Oxford Journals) journal link

- NCA: Neural Computing and Applications (Springer)

- JASS: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

- EAAI: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence journal link .

- IJCAI'13: 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2013 . Beijing, China, August 3rd-9th, 2013.

- CAEPIA'13: XV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2013:. Madrid, September 17th-20th, 2013.

- EPIA'13: XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013:. Angra do Heroismo (Portugal), September 9th-12th, 2013.

- IAT'12: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2012: . Macau, China, December 4th-7th, 2012. IAT 2011: . Lyon, France, August 22-27th, 2011. IAT 2009: . Milan, Italy. Sept 15-18th, 2009.

- PRIMA: International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA2012. Malaysia. 3rd-7th September. 2012.

- ISA: IADIS Intelligent Systems and Agents 2012. ISA2012, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2012.

- ATT: Agents in Traffic and Transportation ATT2012. Valencia, June 5th. 2012.

- IPMU: International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU 2012 . Catania, Italy, July 9-13th, 2012.

- IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2011 . Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22nd, 2011.

- WAT@CAEPIA: Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial CAEPIA 2011 . Tenerife, Spain, November 7-11th, 2011.

- AITS: Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems, to be held at the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA). 2011.

- EUMAS: European Conference Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS 2010 .Paris, December 2010.

- Informacion Tecnologica (Ed.: Centro de Información Tecnológica de La Serena-Chile). Review distinguished with a "Certificado de evaluación destacada" in 2010.

- Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-09). Budapest, Hungary. May 10-15 2009.

- Special track on "Agreement Technologies" within the framework of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). Honolulu, USA,8th-12th March, 2009

- COIN@Durham'07: Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems (COIN), Durham UK, September 2007.

- ISA'07: Intelligent Systems and Agents 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007.

- AAAI'06: The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, July 2006.

- AAMAS 04 : Third international joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sistems held at New York. July 2004.

- Autonomous Robots journal. Kluwer Academic Publishers

- AAMAS 03 : Second international joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sistems hold at Melbourne. July 2003.

- AAMAS 02 : First international joint conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sistems hold at Bologna. July 2002.

- Agents 2000 : Fourth International Conference Autonomous Agents hold at Barcelona June 2000

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_CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

- May 2013: Attendance to the Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'13). Saint Paul (Minnesota, USA). 6th-10th May 2013.

- June 2012: Attendance to the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS'12. June 4-8 2012. Valencia (Spain).

- October 2011: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA'11. October 26th-28nd 2011. Lleida ( Spain).

- July 2011: Local organisation and attendance to the twenty-second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI'11 July 16-22, 2011. Barcelona (Spain).

- May 2011: Attendance to the Tenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS'11. May 2-6 2011. Taipei (Taiwan).

- October 2010: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA'10. October 20th-22nd 2010. L'Espluga de Francolí (Tarragona, Spain).

- May 2010: Attendance to the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS'10. May 10-14 2010. Toronto (Canada).

- December 2009: Attendance to the 7th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems EUMAS 2009. December 17th-18th 2009. Ayia Napa (Cyprus).

- December 2009: Attendance to the Workshop on Norms from the Working Group 2 of the Agreement Technologies COST Action (IC0801). December 15th-16th 2009. Ayia Napa (Cyprus).

- November 2009: Attendance to the Tenth Engineering Societies in the Agents World ESAW'09. November 18th-20th. Utrecht (The Netherlands).

- October 2009: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA'09. October 21st-23rd. Cardona (Spain).

- May 2009: Attendance to the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. May 10-15th. Budapest (Hungary)

- March 2009: Attendance to the 24th Annual ACM Symposiun on Applied Computing. March 9-12nd. Honolulu, Hawaii (USA)

- October 2008: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA'08. October 22th-24th. Sant Martí d'Empúries (Spain).

- May 2008: Attendance to the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. May 12-16. Estoril (Portugal)

- October 2007: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA'07. October 25th-26th. Andorra

- October 2007: Attendance to the European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS'07. October 1st-6th. Dresden (Germany). Attendance to the associated workshop Multi-Agents for modelling Complex Systems (MA4CS'07) held on October 4th, at the same location: Dresden (Germany).

- February 2007: Attendance to the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Februay 12-14th, Innsbruck (Austria).

- September 2006: Attendance to ESAW'06: 7th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World VII. September 6th-8th. Dublin (Ireland).

- August 2006: Attendance to ECAI, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. August 28th-September 1st, Riva del Garda (Italy). Attendance to the associated workshop Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN) held on August 28th, at the same location: Riva del Garda (Italy).

- August 2006 : Attendance to ICINCO'06 International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation & Robotics. August 1st-5th, Setubal (Portugal).

- October 2004: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA. October 21st-22nd, Barcelona (Spain)

- September 2004: Attendance to the 4th International Conference on Web Delivering of Music WEDELMUSIC 2004, September 13th-14th, Barcelona (Spain)

- August 2004: Attendance to the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 24-27th, Valencia (Spain)

- August 2004: Attendance to the Workshop on Applications of Software Agents in Engineering. August 23rd, Valencia (Spain)

- October 2003: Attendance to the XIV Congreso de Factores y entornos de progreso, 16 October 2003, Barcelona (Spain)

- May 2003: Attendance to the AI Problem Solving Seminar, 28-30 May 2003, Barcelona (Spain).

- November 2002: Attendance to the I Workshop on Planning, Scheduling and Temporal Reasoning, 12 November 2002, Sevilla (Spain)

- February 2001: Attendance to the SAP e-business forum, 21-22 February 2001, Barcelona (Spain).

- November 2000: Attendance to the Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies, 22-23 November 2000, Luxembourg.

- November 2000: Attendance to FITEC International Fair of Emergent Technologies, Business and Science. 27-30 November 2000, Barcelona (Spain)

- November 2000: Attendance to the Workshop for Researchers and R&D Directors. November 27, Barcelona (Spain).

- October 2000: Attendance to the CCIA2000 Conference, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona (Spain).

- September 2000: Attendance to SEID2000 Conference, Ourense (Spain)

- September 1999: Attendance to the EUSFLAT-ESTYLF Joint Conference, Palma (Spain).

- July 1999: Attendance to the EASSS'99 First European Agent Systems Summer School, Utrecht (The Netherlands).

- October 1998: Attendance to the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA, Tarragona, (Spain).

- August 1998: Attendance to ECAI'98: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Brighton (UK).

- July 1998: Partial attendance to The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences RoboCup-98, Paris (France).

- September 1997: Attendance to Jornades d'Intel.ligència Artificial de l'ACIA, Lleida (Spain).

- August 1997: Attendance to EWLR-6: 6th European Workshop on Learning Robots, Brighton (UK).

- July 1997: Attendance to FuzzIEEE'97: Sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Barcelona (Spain).

- September 1995: Attendance to ICAR'95: Seventh International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Sant Feliu de Guixols (Spain).

- June-July 1995: Attendance to the Sixth Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI'95). Perros-Guirec (France). Organized by European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).


_OTHER ACTIVITIES

- ICE courses:
   - February 2010: "Jornada de seguiment de l'inici dels graus d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques"
   - February 2008: "Jornada de debat: passat, pressent i futur dels ensenyaments de la Facultat de Matemàtiques" (participació com a ponent)
   - January 2008: "Tècniques de control i prevenció de l'estrès (curs 18h presencials)"
   - June-July 2007: "Jornada de Moodle: curs semipresencial"
   - May 2007: "Introducció a l'aplicatiu de plans docents del GRA@D"
   - June 2006: "Convergència del Pla Docent a l'Espai Europeu d'Educació Superior"
   - June 2006:"Taller per a l'orientació a l'Espaci Europeu d'Educació Superior (EEES) dels estudis d'ETIS"
   - January 2006:"Jornada per a professorat novell de la UB"

- 2013 Program Committee (PC) member for the twelfth international conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6th-10th, 2013. AAMAS 2013

- 2012 Program Committee (PC) member for the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'12),Valencia 2012.

- 2011 Local organisation of IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2011 . Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22nd, 2011.

- 2010 Program Comittee (PC) member of the III Workshop on Agreement Technologies WAT 2010 held in Iberamia 2010.

- 2010 Presentation entitled ""Peer review" como medida de calidad en la comunidad científica" within a professional event devoted to Quality in SW projects (title: "Oficina CIO: Herramientas para la gestión de la calidad") organised in Barcelona on April the 22nd 2010 by Birchman group and JustInMind.

- 2010-2011 Program Comittee (PC) member of the Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems COIN@AAMAS10 and COIN@AAMAS'11 held in AAMAS.

- 2010 Program Committee (PC) member of the workshop on Coordination in Complex Software Intensive Systems (COCOSS-2010) held in Krakow, Poland. February 15-18 2010.

- 2009 Program Committee (PC) member for the Workshop on Agreement Technologies (WAT) at the Spanish conference of AI (CAEPIA) 2009. Sevilla. October 9th 2009

- 2009 Program Committee (PC) member for the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary, from May 10th to 15th 2009.

- 2008 Program Committee (PC) member of the special track on "Agreement Technologies" within the framework of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) in Honolulu, USA, from March 8th to March 12th 2009.

- 2007-08-10-11 Scientific Committee member of several editions of the ISA: IADIS International Conference Intelligent Systems and Agents, ISA07, ISA08 ISA10 ISA11

- 2005-06-07-08-09-10-11-12 Scientific Committee member of several editions of the Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence CCIA05, CCIA06, CCIA07,CCIA08 CCIA09, CCIA10, CCIA11, CCIA12

- Gen 2001- Dec. 2003 Research Manager at iSOCOLab (innovation department at iSOCO http://www.isoco.com/)

- Gen 2003 - Dec 2003 involved in (iSOCO's researcher in charge of) the IST European Project: SimWeb, Exploring Innovative eBusiness Models using Multi-Agent Simulation.

- 13-14 Nov 2003 Participation in the seminar and round table "Ready4Growth" dedicated to e-content entrepreneurs and organized by 'Barcelona Activa' and 'oneLondon business initiatives for an inclusive capital'.

- Sept 2000 - Febr 2003 involved in the IST European Project: IBROW, An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the Wold Wide Web.

- May 2002: Attendance to the course "Workshop de Ventas" provided by BOSEL (Human Resources Consultants)

- May-June 2001: Attendance to the course “Técnicas de Comunicación para optimizar la capacidad de persuadir” provided by BOSEL (Human Resources Consultants)

- May 2001: Robotics Seminar at the Jaume I University, Castelló (Spain).

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