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Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE September 1, 2010.


PERSONAL INFORMATION

LAST NAME: Cases FIRST NAME: Blanca Rosa SEX: FEMALE CITIZENSHIP: Spaniard DNI: 05262581C BIRTH DATE: 07/19/1960 BIRTH PLACE: Caracas, Venezuela HOME ADDRESS: C/ Juan Bautista Agirre nº 8 CITY: Asteasu POSTAL CODE: 20159 COUNTRY: Spain HOME PHONE:+34 943694140 MOBILE: +34 648633249 EMAIL: blancarosa.cases@ehu.es

CURRENT POSITION

POSITION: Associate Professor DEDICATION: Full time OFFICIAL NUMBER: 0526258124A0504 INSTITUTION: University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) CENTER: Faculty of Informatics. DEPARTAMENT: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos (Computer Languages and Systems). ADDRESS: Pº Manuel de Lardizabal s/n CITY: San Sebastián POSTAL CODE: 20018 COUNTRY: Spain PHONE: 34+ 943018000, 34+ 943015050


SPECIALIZATION KEYS: Complex Systems, Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Language Theory


== ACADEMIC ==

STUDIES: licensed in Mathematics, CENTER: Faculty of d Mathematics, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) DEGREE CERTIFICATION DATE: 12/17/1984. DEGREE THESIS: ”La lógica de predicados como lenguaje de programación: un estudio teórico” directed by Mario Rodríguez Artalejo, 04/17/1986.

Ph.D.: in Informatics, by the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea 01/17/1992. Ph. D. THESIS: “Aplicación del q-análisis, de la lógica Diamond y de la teoría de atractores sobre conjuntos finitos a la formalización de diccionarios de sinónimos” Ph. D. DIRECTOR: Manuel Alfonseca Moreno, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.


PREVIOUS POSITIONS

DATE POSITION INSTITUTION 1984-85 Assistant professor, Full Time (Encargado de Curso D) F. de Informática de la UPV/EHU 1985-87 Assistant professor, Full Time (Colaborador ) F. de Informática de la UPV/EHU 1987-93 Assistant professor, Full Time (Asociado) F.de Informática de la UPV/EHU 1993-96 Acting associate professor of Universitary School., Full Time (Prof. interino de Escuela Universitaria) F. de Informática de la UPV/EHU 1996-99 Associate professor of Universitary School., Full Time (Prof. titular de Escuela Universitaria) F. de Informática de la UPV/EHU 1999- Associate Professor of Faculty, Full Time (Prof. titular de Facultad) F. de Informática de la UPV/EHU



LANGUAGES OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

ENGLISH: ADVANCED CERTIFICATION B1, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED), Spain.


PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Characteristics of the fundamental cognitive process. An Epistemological Study of Analog-Digital Duality to Approximate Dynamics and Computation CODE: UPV003.230HA137/92 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: UPV/EHU DATE FROM: January of 1993 UNTIL: December of 1993 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: An Epistemological Study of Emergent Computation: Models of Emergence of Logic Processes to Approximate Dynamic and Computation in Artificial Intelligence CODE: UPV003.230-HA168/93SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: UPV/EHU DATE FROM: January of 1994 UNTIL: -December of 1994 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT:(Distributed Information Systems to study the problem of evolution in Artificial Life CODE: UPV003.230-HA160/94 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: UPV/EHU DATE FROM: January of 1995 UNTIL: Diciembre de 1995 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Study and Simulation of evolutionary systems with adaptive sensors in the context of Artificial Life CODE: PB92-0456 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: Dirección General de Ciencia y Tecnología DATE FROM: 1993 UNTIL: 1996 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: A study of the interplay between evolutionary computation procedures and the design of autonomous physical agents to develop new capabilities CODE: UPV 003.230-HA203/95 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: UPV/EHU DATE FROM: January of 1996 UNTIL: Diciembre de 1996 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Development of tools for the analysis of Artificial Life simulations CODE: UPV-141.226-EA 114/96 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: UPV/EHU DATE FROM: January of 1997 UNTIL: Diciembre 1997 DIRECTOR: Prf. Blanca Rosa Cases, Faculty of Informatics, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Complexity Science and scientific simulations: the impact of Artificial Life in some aspects of contemporary evolutionary theory. CODE: DGCYT, PB95-0502 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: DGCYT DATE FROM: January of 1997 UNTIL: December of 1999 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU


TITLE OF THE PROJECT: General grant to research groups (Subvención General a Grupos de Investigación). SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la UPV/EHU, CODE: 9/upv 00003.230-13707/2001 DATE FROM: 2001 UNTIL: 2004 DIRECTOR: Prf. Alvaro Moreno, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: General grant to research groups (Subvención General a Grupos de Investigación). SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: Vicerrectorado de Investigación de la UPV/EHU. CODE: 9/UPV 00003.230-15840/2004 DATE FROM: 2004 UNTIL: 2007 DIRECTOR: Prf. Arantza Etxeberria, Faculty of Philosophy, UPV/EHU

TITLE OF THE PROJECT: Innovation and Integration of methods for the development and quantitative management of software projects CODE: TIN2004-06689-C03 SUPPORTING INSTITUTION: CICYT DATE FROM: 13-12-2004 UNTIL: 12-12-2007 DIRECTOR: Prf. José Javier Dolado Faculty of Informatics, UPV/EHU


PUBLICATIONS

Journals and electronic publications with ISSN

Blanca Cases. Un modelo conexionista para la formalización de diccionarios de sinónimos , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Revista nº 9, January. Pág. 95-106. (1991) EE: http://www.sepln.org/revistaSEPLN/revista/9/index.html

Sergio O. Anchorena, Blanca Cases. Modeling Chaotic Series by Simple Eco-Grammar Systems with Reproduction, Death and Maturation of Agents. Grammars, vol. 6 num. 3, pp. 155-168 (2003)

EE: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n68251124147700r/

Sergio O. Anchorena, Blanca Cases. Chaotic Sequences with Eco-Grammar Systems. Complexity International, vol.10, January (2004) EE: http://www.complexity.org.au/ci/vol10/index.html

Blanca Cases, Manuel Alfonseca. Towards a proof of the decidability of the momentary stagnation of the growth function of D0L systems. Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 341 num. 1-3, pp. 247-262 (2005) 


Pablo González-Nalda, Blanca Cases. TOPOS: Spiking neural networks for temporal pattern recognition in complex real sounds. Neurocomputing 71(4-6): 721-732 (2008)


Abdelmalik Moujahid, Blanca Cases, F.J. Olasagasti. Consensus dynamics in a dolphin social network CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol-442,2 (ISSN 1613-0073) EE: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-442/


Blanca Cases, F.Javier Olasagasti, Abdelmalik Moujahid, Alicia D'Anjou . Swarm Intelligence: una aplicación a la toma de decisiones colectivas . CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol-442,6 (ISSN 1613-0073) EE: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-442/




CONFERENCES

Participation in the organization

CONFERENCE: II International Workshop on Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence: "Artificial Life: A Bridge towards a New Artificial Intelligence" PARTICIPATION: Organizing Committee PLACE AND DATE: San Sebastián, Spain., 1993

CONFERENCE: III International Workshop on Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence: "On the Role of Dynamics and Representation in Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition". PARTICIPATION: Organizing Committee PLACE AND DATE: San Sebastián, Spain., 1994

CONFERENCE: IV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence: "On the Origin of Cognition". PARTICIPATION: Organizing Committee PLACE AND DATE: San Sebastián, Spain. 1996

CONFERENCE: HAIS 2010, 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems PARTICIPATION: Program Committee , chair of session PLACE AND DATE: Palacio de Miramar, San Sebastián, Spain. 23 rd-25th June, 2010


Chapter books (ISBN) in proceedings of international conferences

AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, F.J. Olasagasti. TITLE: "Q-DIAM: A Language for Self-Organizing Task Recruiting in Social Multiagent Systems". CONFERENCE: Third IASTED International Conference On Robotics And Manufacturing PLACE AND DATE: Cancún, Méjico. Julio 1995 PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PUBLICATION: R. V. Mayorga (Ed) Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference On Robotics And Manufacturing Pag.343-348. Año: 1995. IASTED/ACTA PRESS (Anaheim, Calgary, Zurich) . pp. 343-348


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE: "From Synonymy to Self- Modifiying Automata: Q-Diam Language". CONFERENCE: DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE THEORY II. PLACE AND DATE: Magdeburgo, Alemania. Julio de 1995 PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PUBLICATION: Jürgen Dassow, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa (Eds.): Developments in Language Theory II, At the Crossroads of Mathematics, Computer Science and Biology, Magdeburg, Germany, 17-21 July 1995. World Scientific, Singapore, (1996) pp. 454-459


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Arantza Etxeberria, Pablo González. TITLE: "Modelling Evolution on Hypergraphs: a Structural Approach to Study Diversity". CONFERENCE: ICEC'96- 1996 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary Computation. PLACE AND DATE: Nagoya, Japan. 20 - 22 May 1996 PARTICIPATION: Poster, presentation. PUBLICATION: Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC '96), 1996, Nagoya University, Japan. IEEE, (1996) pp. 754-758

AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE: "Modelling Mutual Influence in Oral presentation Networks" CONFERENCE: ISAS96. International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis PLACE AND DATE: Orlando, U.S.A., julio de 1996 PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PUBLICATION: ISAS96. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Síntesis. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (1996) pp. 751-758


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE: “Computing Linear Systems of First Order Equations on Integers and Naturals by Simple Eco Grammars” CONFERENCE: MFCS '98 Satellite Workshop on Grammar Systems PLACE AND DATE: Brno, República Checa, 22-23 de Agosto de 1998 PARTICIPATION: Workshop paper, Oral presentation PUBLICATION: Alica Kelemenová (Ed.): Proceedings of the MFCS '98 Satellite Workshop on Grammar Systems, Silesian University, Institute of Computer Science, Opava, Czech Republic (1998) pp.235-266

AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Manuel Alfonseca TITLE: “Eco-Grammar Systems applied to the analysis of the dynamics of population in Artificial Worlds” CONFERENCE: International Workshop Grammar Systems 2000 PLACE AND DATE: Bad Ischl, Austria, julio de 2000 PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PUBLICATION: Rudolf Freund and Alica Kelemenová (eds.). Proceedings of the International Workshop Grammar Systems 2000. Silesian University at Opava. Institute of Computer Sciences. Czech Republic(2000), pp: 265-282

AUTHORS: Sergio Anchorena, Blanca Cases

TITLE: Eco-Grammars to Model Biological Systems: Adding Probabilities to Agents. CONFERENCE: ECAL 2001. 6th European Conference on Artificial Life PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PLACE AND DATE: Praga, República Checa, 10-14 de Septiembre de 2001 PUBLICATION: Jozef Kelemen, Petr Sosík (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2159 Springer Berlin (2001)pp. 66-75 EE: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0d9jrp2detrhpy0t/


AUTHORS: Sergio Anchorena, Blanca Cases TITLE: “Eco-grammar Systems Modelling Non-linear Chemical Phenomena” CONFERENCE: JCIS’03, 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences PARTICIPATION: Regular paper PLACE AND DATE: North Carolina, U.S.A. September (2003) PUBLICATION: Ken Chen et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences. 2003 JCIS/ Association for Intelligent Machinery, Inc. USA (2003) pp. 355-358.


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Sergio Anchorena, TITLE: “Strategy-oriented evolutionary games: Toward a grammatical model of games” CONFERENCE: 4th Workshop on the Frontiers of Evolutionary Algorithms PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PLACE AND DATE: 8-13 de Marzo de 2002 PUBLICATION: M. Grana, R. Duro, A. d’Anjou and P. P. Wang, Information processing with Evolutionary Algorithms- From Industrial Applications to Academic Speculations. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer. London (2005 ) pp. 285-304


AUTHORS: Pablo González-Nalda, Blanca Cases TITLE: “TOPOS: Generalized Braitenberg Vehicles that Recognize Complex Real Sounds as landmarks” CONFERENCE: ALIFE X PARTICIPATION: Short communication PLACE AND DATE: Bloomintong, USA., 3-7 de junio de 2006 PUBLICATION: Rocha M. et al. Artificial Life X. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. The MIT press (2006) pp. 213-219 EE: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11018



AUTHORS: Pablo González-Nalda, Blanca Cases TITLE: Topos: Spiking Neural Networks for Temporal Pattern Recognition in Complex Real Sounds CONFERENCE: CMPI-2006. 50 AÑOS DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL: Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia. PARTICIPATION: Regular paper PLACE AND DATE: Albacete, 10-14 de Julio de 2006 PUBLICATION: Fernández-Caballero, A. et al. (eds.) Una perspectiva de la Inteligencia Artificial en su 50 aniversario. Universidad de Castilla la Mancha. Pp. 243-248. Albacete (2006)

AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Carmen Hernandez, Manuel Graña, Alicia d’Anjou TITLE: On the ability of swarms to compute the 3-coloring of graphs CONFERENCE: ALIFE XI PARTICIPATION: Regular paper, Oral presentation PLACE AND DATE: Winchester, U.K., 3-7 de junio de 2006 PUBLICATION: Bullock, S., J. Noble, R. Watson, and M. A. Bedau (eds.) (2008). Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 978-0-262-75017-2 EE: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12400




AUTHORS: Manuel Graña, Blanca Cases, Carmen Hernandez, and Alicia D’Anjou TITLE: Further results on swarms solving Graph Coloring CONFERENCE: ICCSA 2010. International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications PARTICIPATION: Regular paper PLACE AND DATE: 23-26 March 2010, Fukuoka, Japan PUBLICATION: David Taniar, Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Eric Pardede, Bernady O. Apduhan (Eds.): Computational Science and Its Applications –Proceeding of ICCSA 2010, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6018 Springer 2010



AUTHORS: Manuel Graña, Carmen Hernández, Alicia D’Anjou, and Blanca Cases TITLE: Percolating Swarm Dynamics CONFERENCE: IEA/AIE 2010)

PARTICIPATION: Regular paper PLACE AND DATE: Córdoba (Spain)

PUBLICATION: N. García-Pedrajas, F. Herrera, C. Fyfe, J.M. Benitez, M. Ali (eds.) Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems: Proc. IEA/AIE 2010, Part III, LNAI 6098, pp. 538–545


Proceedings without ISBN of international conferences.

AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Manuel Alfonseca TITLE: "Application of Q-analysis, Diamond Logic and the Theory of Atractors on finite Sets to the formalization of Synonym dictionaries" CONFERENCE: VI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI'93) PLACE AND DATE: ITESM de Monterrey, Mexico, 1993 PARTICIPATION: Oral presentation. PUBLICATION: Memorias de la Sección de Tesis del VI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence.. Pág 211-216. Edición del Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. (Monterrey, Mexico.1993)


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE: "Q-Diam: A Dual Language to Representation and Dynamics of Multiagent Systems". CONFERENCE: III International Workshop on Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence: "On the Role of Dynamics and Representation in Adaptive Behaviuor and Cognition". PLACE AND DATE: Palacio de Miramar, San Sebastián, Spain. 1994 PARTICIPATION: Poster. PUBLICATION: DRABC'94. Facultad de Informática, Dpto. de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia de la UPV/EH.



Proceedings of local conferences.

CONFERENCE: IV Reunión Anual de la SEPLN PLACE AND DATE: Madrid, Spain, 1988 PARTICIPATION: Communication, roundtable


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE "Un modelo conexionista para la formalización de diccionarios de sinónimos" PARTICIPATION: Oral presentation CONFERENCE: VI Reunión Anual de la SEPLN PLACE AND DATE: San Sebastián, Spain, 1990 PUBLICATION: Referenced in journals


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Francisco Javier Olasagasti. TITLE: "Un Formalismo para la Representación de Sistemas Autoorganizativos como Herramienta para la Investigación Social". PARTICIPATION: Oral presentation CONFERENCE: V Congreso Español de Sociología "Horizontes desde la Incertidumbre". Federación Española de Sociología. PLACE AND DATE: Granada, Spain. 1995


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases TITLE: Q-agentes y sus aplicaciones: buscadores para Internet y sistemas de medición de audiencias (de T.V., Internet, Science Citation Index, etc.) evolutivos. PARTICIPATION: Oral presentation CONFERENCE: JORNADAS sobre‘COMPUTACION CON PALABRAS’

PLACE AND DATE: Santiago de Compostela, 17 y 18 de abril de 2001


AUTHORS: Blanca Cases, Pablo Gonzalez-Nalda TITLE: "Q-Diam: A Dual Language to Representation and Dynamics of Multiagent Systems". CONFERENCE: I Jornadas de Inteligencia Computacional PLACE AND DATE: 24 y 25 de octubre de 200. Torres de Arbide. San Sebastián. PARTICIPATION: Regular paper PUBLICATION: R. Moreno, M. A. Veganzones, M. T. Garcia (eds.) “A dynamical model of social agents following the mode”. pp. 322-333. UPV/EHU (2007)


DIRECTION OF Ph.D. THESIS

TITLE: Teoría de Juegos y sistemas de Eco-gramáticas en la simulación de sistemas complejos adaptativos. (Game Theory and Eco-grammar systems in the simulation of complex adaptive Systems) AUTHOR: Sergio Anchorena UNIVERSITY: UPV/EHU FACULTY: Facultad de Informática YEAR: 2002 CALIFICATION: Sobresaliente Cum Laude (Excellent Cum Laude)


TITLE: Navegación mediante Evolución de Redes Neuronales Recurrentes y Dinámicas (Navigation by means of evolution of Recurrent and Dynamics neural networks) CO-DIRECTOR: Álvaro Moreno Bergareche AUTHOR: Pablo González Nalda UNIVERSITY: UPV/EHU FACULTY: Facultad de Informática YEAR: 2008 CALIFICATION: Sobresaliente Cum Laude (Excellent Cum Laude)


CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES

Title: Software Jurídico de Estructura Relacional COMPANY: BIC - BERRILAN - CENTRO DE EMPRESAS E INNOVACIÓN TIME: 10 months, February to November of 2008 Amount: 7500 € This project gave place to the foundation of Lexinder S.L., an enterprise formed by lawyers and informatics graduated in the UPV/EHU to offer knowledge management services and artificial intelligence solutions to law firms.

TEACHING

DIRECTION OF QUALITY Ph. D. PROGRAM Co-director with Prf. Alvaro Moreno of the Interdisciplinary Program "COMPLEX SYSTEMS", receving the quality certification of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia in the biennium 1996-98. Dpts. de Lenguajes y sistemas Informáticos and Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, of the UPV/EHU.


TEACHING IN Ph.D. COURSES AND MASTER Applications of Systems Theory to Computational Linguistics. biennium 1992-1994. 2 credits. Tools for the simulation of Artificial Life. biennium 1993-95, 1995-97, 1997-99 2 credits. Q-analysis: A language for Structure. biennium 1995-97. 2 credits. Modular structures in complex networks. From 2009, 2,5 credits.

TEACHING IN DEGREE COURSES Methodology of Programming Abstract models of computation: formal language theory and computability. Artificial Intelligence


STAYS AT FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS

Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura de la Universidad de El Salvador, 1990, 32 day stay. Lectures on Functional Programming and Common Lisp..


Faculty of Mathematics of Opava University, Opava, Czech Republic, 1996. From 11 to 21 of November. Research in Eco-grammar Systems with the group of prf. Alica Kelemenová.