IDAL member José D. Martín is coorganizing the workshop on Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare 2013 DMBIH2013 (http://dampa.cdm.depaul.edu/events/DMBIH13/index.html) in the framework of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu) that will be held next December in Dallas (TX, USA). The workshop is coorganized with members from the German company Fresenius Medical Care, and the American universities of Yale, Oakland and DePaul. Contributions on this interesting topic are welcome.
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IDAL is participating in the project entitled “Smart tools for the Prescription of orthopaedic Insoles and Footwear (SMARTPIF)”, that will officially start next May, 1st. SMARTPIF was proposed in the FP7 within a call focused on research for SMEs, being very recently approved and signed by the European Comission. The duration of the project is two years, and our partners in this adventure will be the Spanish companies “Unidad de Pie Diabético S.L.” (project’s coordinator) and “Alu Group, S. L.”, the British company “Biomech Tecnologies International Limited”, the Italian company “Eurosuole SPA”, the Luxembourg company “Lion Systems”, the Spanish technological institute “Instituto Tecnológico del Calzado y Conexas”, the British “University of Salford” and the Italian “Università Politecnica delle Marche”.
DAL is about to start the holidays. In the hot summer of Spain, IDAL members have enjoyed a meal that means the beginning of holidays and Summer, and the end of the academic year. See you in September with batteries fully charged!
IDAL members José M. Martínez and Pablo Escandell attended during the end of April to the 20 th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, that was held in Brugge (Belgium) between 25 and 27 April. They presented two papers entitled “Extended visualization method for classification trees” and “Regularized committee of extreme learning machine for regression problems “. The meeting was a success, and Brugge was a superb scenario for the conference.
José D. Martín was co-organizer of a special session, and together with Héctor Ruiz (IDAL collaborator) presented a paper entitled “Constructing similarity networks using the Fisher information metric”.
IDAL members were recently visiting Prof. Manuel Domínguez González, from the area of Automatic Control (AAC) of theInstitute of Automatic Control and Manufacturing (IAF), at the University of Leon. In the same visit had a meeting also with Prof. Ignacio Díaz, from the Automatic Area at Univesity of Oviedo. The meeting was about new Machine Learning techniques applied to energetic efficiency.
The Universitat de València representing IDAL, the Valencian Conselleria de Sanitat and the company Nephrocare E-Services Spain (subsidiary of the German multinational Medical Care) have signed an agreement to develop a computer system which will improve patients’ assistance and diagnosis –especially for those suffering from kidney diseases. This computer system, which will reduce health expenditure at the same time, will include algorithms provided by our institution.
Among other, the following figures have been present in the agreement signing: the Universitat’s Principal, Esteban Morcillo; the Valencian ministers for health and education, Luis Rosado and María José Catalá; the general director on Fresenius Medical Care Spain, Ricardo Arias; the Vice-Principal for Research, Pedro Carrasco; and the Parc Científic’s director, Antonio Raga.
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Prof. Emilio Soria has received this week the credentials of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology that enables him to promote to the position of Full Professor, the highest position in the Spanish universities. Spanish Government review and scores your research curricula in order to obtain this credentials. IDAL truly congratulates its colleague Emilio Soria.
Rafael Magdalena has became Head of the department of Electronic Engineering at the Universty of Valencia. From November 1st 2011, and dureing three years, our colleague will be the manager of the department, and will be focused in administrative tasks. Another IDAL member, Joan Vila, has joined him as Department secretary.
Prof. Joan Vila has obtained today a new position at the Electronics Enginnering Dpt. in the School of the Engineering. IDAL members want to congratulate Mr. Vila for this achievement.
Last July the 22nd, former IDAL member Héctor Ruíz presented his proposal for the transfer from M. Phil to PhD at the School of Computing and Mathemicatical Sciences of the Liverpool John Moores University. Héctor’s work was entitlted “A Fisher information approach to non-parametric statistics and network theory” and has been supervised by Prof. Paulo Lisboa (LJMU), former IDAL visiting researcher Dr. Ian H. Jarman and IDAL member José D. Martín.
Héctor defended his work in a nice presentation and discussion that concluded successfully. IDAL congratulates Héctor for his good work and wishes him the best of the lucks for the remainder of his PhD work.