New publications in June and July

Several Lucentia research colleagues have recently published two articles within the framework of the BALLADEER and AETHER-UA projects Lucentia researchers have just had two publications published in June and July. Both articles, although different from each other, are part of the Balladeer and Aether-UA projects. The first paper, entitled "A Data-Driven Methodology for Guiding the Selection of Preprocessing Techniques in a Machine Learning Pipeline", was presented at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. In this #paper, Jorge García, Alejandro Maté and Juan Carlos Trujillo, propose a novel #methodology for improving the selection of #preprocessing techniques, both from the point of view of the #MachineLearning model and the characteristics of the data. The second article, entitled "Feature engineering of EEG applied to mental disorders: a systematic mapping study", has been published in the scientific journal Applied Intelligence. The authors, Sandra García, Jorge García, Miguel Ángel Teruel, Alejandro Maté and Juan Carlos Trujillo, through the review and analysis of more than 900 articles, present a #SystematicMappingStudy (SMS) focused…

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Trujillo, among Research.com’s top performers

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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Lucentia's director, Juan Carlos Trujillo, has been included in Research.com's renowned national and global ranking of the best researchers in Computer Science in 2023 Source: https://research.com/u/juan-trujillo Our director, Juan Carlos Trujillo, has recently been included in the #ranking of the best researchers in Computer Science carried out by Research.com, reaching the 109th position at national level and 7,605th position worldwide in the year 2023. As explained on their own website, this ranking makes use of different data sources for the classification of researchers, including OpenAlex and CrossRef. For this ninth edition of the ranking, the research activity of professionals based on bibliometric citations on 21 December 2022 has been analysed. Specifically, the key measure is the #H-index, which is based on publications and citation metrics of each researcher in order to classify them.

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Trujillo is recognised at the FUNDEUN New Business Ideas Awards Gala

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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Juan Carlos Trujillo and Abel García take home the Business Knowledge award at the FUNDEUN New Business Ideas Awards Gala held at the Santa Bárbara Castle in Alicante Juan Carlos Trujillo after collecting the Business Knowledge Award On the 29th of June, Alicante turned into a gala full of emotion and awards, with the celebration of the XXIX Edition of the New Business Ideas Awards of FUNDEUN (Fundación Empresa Universidad de Alicante). In addition to the entrepreneurs and innovators present, the gala was attended by Juan Carlos Trujillo, our director and co-founder of the spin-off Lucentia Lab, who took the attention and recognition of all attendees. Also present were the rector of the University of Alicante, Amparo Navarro, the mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, and other political representatives of the municipality. The event, held at the Castillo de Santa Bárbara, brought together a broad representation of the Alicante business community, highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit and capacity for #innovation in our region. The Awards Gala was attended by authorities, investors,…

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Quantum development in Artificial Intelligence

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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The University of Alicante and aQuantum agree on the creation of a research space for quantum development in Artificial Intelligence, formalised in two joint collaboration agreements Last Tuesday 21st February Lucentia Research was represented at the meeting of the University of Alicante and the company aQuantum Software Engineering, which had as purpose the formalization of the #collaboration agreement for the creation of a research space of #quantum development in #artificialintelligence. Juan Carlos Trujillo, the director of Lucentia, attended as representative of our research group. Regarding the signatories, both the rector of the University of Alicante, Amparo Navarro, and the COO of aQuantum, Guido Peterssen, were present. On the other hand, Esther Algarra, the secretary of the University of Alicante, Juan Mora, the Vice-Rector for Research, Antonio Jorge Pertusa, secretary of the University Research Institute, Mario Piattini, CRO of aQuantum and Aurelio Martínez, responsible for the application development line of aQuantum, also participated. Specifically, the two entities have been able to agree on two #collaboration agreements. Firstly, a framework agreement…

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Trujillo among the province’s 10 most influential researchers

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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The latest list of the University of Granada highlights the presence of more than 50 researchers from Alicante Alicante is among the provinces with the highest number and excellence of experts in the latest list published by the University of Granada. In total, more than 50 researchers from this province appear on the list, placing it in eleventh place in terms of the quantity and quality of its researchers. Among the prominent scientists from Alicante is Bernat Soria, professor emeritus at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH), former Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs and current researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering based on the Elche campus, who is in first place representing the province of Alicante. In addition, other scientists from Alicante, such as Josefa Mula Bru, member of the Centre for Research in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP), and Miguel Yus Astiz, professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Alicante (UA) and belonging to the Institute of Organic Synthesis, are in second and third place respectively. In…

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Trujillo slips into DIH top spot

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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Juan Carlos Trujillo climbs to the top position among Spain's best computer information systems researchers in the DIH ranking The #ranking of November 2022 of the DIH group has brought with it the leadership of Juan Carlos Trujillo. Specifically, the director of Lucentia has climbed to the first position in the field of #informationsystems in the area of #computing. Source: IHL Group The DIH group is a non-profit organisation that publishes rankings of researchers living in Spain in scientific areas such as mathematics, biology or #informatics. They update these rankings monthly and each one is based on the #H-index, the best measure of a researcher's quality. This month, Trujillo has a total of 94 publications, since 2000, with an #H-index of 21. Behind him, Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patón, with 69 publications and an #H-index of 19; Alberto Abello Gamazo, with 39 publications and an #H-index of 13; and Nuria Oliver, with 31 publications and an #H-index of 11. This is not the first time that Trujillo stands out at the…

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Elena Navarro meets with the Lucentia team

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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The UCLM professor met with the Lucentia team to establish the lines of action for the coming months within the Balladeer project On the 16th of November, we had the visit of Elena María Navarro Martínez from Lucentia Research Group. We received Navarro to agree on different points to be carried out within the research being developed in the #Balladeer project. Elena Navarro is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). In addition, she is currently an active member of the LOUISE Research Group at the UCLM. Her current research interests are requirements engineering, software architecture, model-driven development and human-computer interaction. Specifically, he has more than 20 years of experience as a teacher in software engineering, with special focus on the application of .NET technologies for the development of cloud applications. Elena Navarro on her visit to the University of Alicante Navarro is currently collaborating with Lucentia Research Group as a researcher on the #Balladeer project. It is for this reason that the researcher travelled…

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Talks on ontology and semantics

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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We received the visit of Giancarlo and Renata Guizzardi, renowned researchers from the University of Twente, focusing on their respective lectures on semantics and ontologies Lucentia RG team on the visit of Renata and Giancarlo Guizzardi Last week, from 17th to 21st October, we received at Lucentia Research Group the visit of researchers Giancarlo Guizzardi and Renata Guizzardi, both from the University of Twente (The Netherlands). During this visit, we were able to have a talk from each of the experts on #semantics and #ontologies. Giancarlo Guizzardi is a full professor at the Digital Society Institute of the University of Twente (The Netherlands), where he heads the department of #semantics, services and cybersecurity. Prior to that, he was full professor of computer science and director of the Cognitive and Conceptual Modelling (CORE) research group at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol (Italy). His main lines of research, on which he has been working for more than 25 years, are: #ontologies, #conceptual modelling and #business semantics. Giancarlo has been…

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Alicante Technology Forum 2022

Lucentia participates in the Alicante Technology Forum 2022 together with the University of Alicante and the Alicante Science Park showing the progress of the Balladeer project Lucentia RG team at the Alicante Technology Forum 2022 Last November 30th and December 1st and 2nd, different members of Lucentia could be part of the stand of the University of Alicante in the Alicante Technology Forum 2022. The #ATF2022 took place in different parts of the city of Alicante during the week of 29th November to 3rd December. This event aimed to put Alicante in the spotlight of technology thanks to the exhibitions of technological projects, conferences by technology experts, an international gaming championship, the ATF Battle Arena, and a festival of short films using mobile devices, the Alicante Smartphone Film Festival. Lucentia was present at the #ATF2022 thanks to its presence at the stand of the University of Alicante in the Alicante Bullring. During the event, different members of the group were presenting the #Balladeer project to visitors. In fact, those…

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Machine Learning applied to healthcare data

  • Post published:28 de July de 2023
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Juan Carlos Trujillo presents a Machine Learning-based model capable of predicting deaths and patients at risk due to SARS-COV-2 at the 7th Meeting of ISABIAL Researchers Juan Carlos Trujillo giving his presentation at the 7th Meeting of ISABIAL Researchers Our director, Juan Carlos Trujillo, participated this Friday, 25th November, in the "5th Clinical Research Day of the Alicante Health Department - General Hospital and 7th Meeting of Researchers of the Alicante Institute of Health and Biomedical Research", organised by #ISABIAL. This day has had different blocks of presentations, among which we highlight the group "Research in Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases", where Trujillo has intervened with the presentation of the publication "Machine learning model from a Spanish cohort for prediction of SARS-COV-2 mortality risk and critical patients". The director of Lucentia is the author of this research together with three other researchers from the group, Alejandro Reina, Alejandro Maté and José M. Barrera. In addition, the study also included the director of quality and planning of the Department of Health…

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