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Curriculum

Education

• Doctoral thesis.- Bayesian networks Inference: Advanced algorithms for triangulation and partial abduction.
  Thesis supervisors: José Antonio Gámez (UCLM) and Serafín Moral (UGR).
  Oral Defence: 21 November 2005. European Doctorate.
  Download pdf file here.

• Advanced studies certificate
  July 2002.

• MSc in Computer Science.
  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
  July 2000

• Doctorate program of the Computer Science Department of UCLM.
  "ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES"
  Biennium 2000/2002
   

Languages

• English:
  • Participation in the program "Aprende inglés en tu campus" (Learning English in your campus) organised by UCLM. Advanced level. June 2005.
  • Aptitude Certificate from the Official School of Languages (EOI), 1995.
  • First Certificate, June 1998.
• French:
  • Aptitude Certificate from the Official School of Languages (EOI), 2000.

Scholarships

• Participation in the Socrates program as student: development of the final project for the MSc at Aalborg University (February-July 2000).
• Introduction of research grant by CSIC in the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) at Barcelona (September-October 2000).

Stays

• Post-doctoral stay at the Computer Science department of Monash University , Australia for collaborating with Ann Nicholson, Kevin Korb and their research team in the study and development of causality discovery techniques by means of Bayesian newtorks and machine learning + data mining techniques. Besides, participation in some practical applications and projects carried out by this rean. (February-April 2008)
• PhD student fellow visitor in the department of Computer Science in Aalborg University, Denmark for a collaboration with Olav Bangsø and Finn V. Jensen in order to study OOBNs and develop a new inference method for them. (February-July 2003)
• PhD student fellow visitor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Granada, within the research group UTAI (Uncertainty Treatment in Artificial Intelligence), with the purpose of getting an insight about abduction in Bayesian networks and its implementation with the leading and guide of Serafín Moral. (October 2003)

Events organisation

• Member of the organising committee of the Jornadas de Técnicas de Minería de Datos (Symposium on Data Mining), including the XV Escuela de Verano de Informática.  Albacete, 11-13 July 2005.
  

• Member of the organising committee of the XII Escuela de Verano de Informática. Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos e Institutos de Investigación: Una Apuesta Innovadora. (Science parks and Research Institutes: an innovative bet). Albacete, 10-12 July 2002.
  
  
• Member of the organising committee of the first european workshop on PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS (PGM'02)
  6-8 November 2002, Cuenca, Spain

Positions

• Research grant at Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - CSIC (2000)
• Teaching Assistant (profesor ayudante) at the department of Computer Science - UCLM (2000-2002)
• Teaching Assistant (profesor asociado) at the department of Computer Science - UCLM, level 1 (2002-2003), level 2 (2003-2005), level 3 (2005-2007)
• Assistant Professor (profesor contratado doctor) the department of Computing Systems - UCLM (2008)

Academical responsibilities

• Academical secretary of the department of Computing Systems, since 2006.
• Students Vicerrectorate representative during year 2006/2007.
• Member of different commisions and boards within the department and Faculty.

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Teaching

• Years 2007/2008 and 2008/2009:
  • Data Mining
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Intelligent Systems Applied to Internet (Doctorate program)
• Year 2006/2007:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • File Systems
  • Intelligent Systems Applied to Internet (Doctorate program)
• Years 2005/2006, 2004/2005 and 2003/2004:
  • Data Base
  • File Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
• Years 2002/2003, 2001/2002 and 2000/2001:
  • Data Base
  • File Systems

• Participation as student: Course on University Teaching, organized by the Educational Quality Unit (Unidad de Innovación y Calidad Educativa - UICE), belonging to the corresponding Vicerectorate (Convergencia Europea y Ordenación Académica).
  250 hours. Dates: 10/01/2007 until 10/09/2007
• Visit to Aalborg University - Denmark in order to study their “Project-based Larning system” used in this university since it was created. Official Visit. Dates: 4/11/2005–14/11/2005
• Director of innovation teaching project Intelligent Systems , years 2006/2007 and 2007/2008, also included in the official program of the Unidad de Innovación y Calidad Educativa (UICE).
• Participation as student in short seminars (5 hours):
  • Development of student assessment based on abilities/competences
  • Problem-based learning
  • Teaching experiences meeting

• Title: Evolutionary desing of controllers for the Robocode game.
  Student: Steven FACHUS
• Title: Study, development and programming of techniques for communication between Robocup players
  Student: Arnold OKE
• Title: Recognition of elements using image processing in Robocode AIBOs.
  Student: Faten SOLTANI

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Publications     2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Updated list

• "Learning Linguistic Fuzzy Rules by using estimation of distribution algorithm as the search engine in the COR methodology" (book chapter in: Towards a new evolutionary computation. Advances in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms), M. Julia Flores & José A. Gámez & José M. Puerta. Studies In Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp 259-280 (ISBN 3-540-29006-0).

• "Abductive inference in Bayesian networks: finding a partition of the explanation space", M. Julia Flores, José A. Gámez and Serafín Moral. Eighth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU'05, LNAI - Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 3571, pp 63-75, Springer Verlag, 2005.

• "Breeding Value Classification In Manchego Sheep: A Study Of Attribute Selection And Construction", M. Julia Flores and José A. Gámez. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence. (9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems – KES’05), LNAI - Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 3682, pp 1338-1346, Springer-Verlag, 2005.

• "Incremental Compilation Of Bayesian Networks in practice", M. Julia Flores, José A. Gámez and Kristian G. Olesen.  4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Design and ApplicationsSDA'04 - 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Design and Applications (ISDA'04), pp. 843-848, Budapest, August 2004.

• "UMDAt: a Univariate EDA in Continuous Domains Based on the Triangular and TSP Distributions", M. Julia Flores, José A. Gámez and José M. Puerta. 10th International Conference in Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based systems - IPMU 2004. Perugia, Italy Julio 2004. pp 781-788.

• "Plug & Play Object Oriented Bayesian networks" (capítulo del libro: Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence), Olav Bangsø, M. Julia Flores y Finn V. Jensen. LNAI - Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol.3040 pp. 457-467, Springer-Verlag April 2004.

• "Incremental Compilation Of Bayesian Networks", M. Julia Flores, José A. Gámez and Kristian G. Olesen. 19th Conference In Uncertainty In Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2003), pp. 233-240, Mexico, August 2003.

• "Triangulation of Bayesian networks by re-triangulation", M. Julia Flores & José A. Gámez. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, IJIS, February 2003, pp. 153- 154.

• "Applicability of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms to the Fuzzy Rule Learning problem: A preliminary study", M. Julia Flores & José A. Gámez. 4th International Conference On Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS'02. Ciudad Real, April 2002. Vol 1. pp 350-357.
  

• "Triangulación de redes Bayesianas mediante retriangulación", M. Julia Flores & José A. Gámez. IX Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial CAEPIA-TTIA 2001. Gijón, Noviembre 2001. Vol. II. pp 1135-1145.
  
  
• "Incremental compilation of a Bayesian network". Technical Report of the Computer Science Department. DIAB-01-04-15.

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Research

• Member of the research group (DATA MINING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS), research lab belonging to Albacete Research Institute of Informatics I3A (Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete).

• Interest in Probabilistic Expert Systems, especially Bayesian networks.
  
  

• Member of the Spanish Association for Artifiial Intelligence AEPIA, which belongs to the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence ECCAI.

• ALGRA (Adaptative Learning of probabilistic GRAphical models in data mining and automatic personalisation)
  Coordinated project with the University of Almería (Data Analysis research group) and the University of Granada (UTAI).
  Supporting institution: Spanish CICYT Department (TIN2004-06204-C03-03)
  From: December 2004 To: December 2007
  Project Manager:  José Antonio Gámez.

• LiODist (New approaches to the study of distributed metaheuristics with applications to data mining problems)
  Regional research project.
  Supporting institution: Spanish JCCM-Consejería de Ciencia y Tecnología (PBI05-022)
  From: June 2005 to December 2007
  Project Manager:  José Miguel Puerta.

• ELVIRA II: Applications of Probabilistic Graphical Models. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology MCYT (TIC1501-2973-C05-05). From December 2001  to December 2004.
• LiO : Combinatory optimization and search techniques programming library. Applications to machine learning. Spanish JCCM-Consejería de Ciencia y Tecnología and UCLM (PBC02-02). From January 2002 to November 2005.
   

Other links

• Coordinator for the Erasmus/Socrates agreement 11.3/36 (UCLM - Computer Science Degree) with Université de Nantes - PolytechNantes, in Nantes, France.
• Coordinator for the Erasmus/Socrates agreement 11.3/05 (UCLM - Computer Science Degree) with Radbound University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Contact

María Julia Flores Gallego Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Campus Universitario s/n. Albacete. 02071. SPAIN.

Office 0.C.15 Tlfno: +34 967 59 92 00 Ext: 2438 (+34 967599284) Fax: +34 967 59 92 24

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Last update: 09/09/2008