Plenary Lecture
Complex Systems Modeling
Professsor Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede
Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz
University of the Basque Country
Spain
E-mail: jm.lopez@ehu.es
Abstract: Complex systems modeling is still an open field where more efforts are needed. There are clasic techniques that have shown to be valid when dealing with simple systems, but have clear limitations when capturing the behaviour of complex ones. So, now some artificial intelligence based modeling techniques have chance to show their capabilities. Robotics is a field where complex behaviours takes place, even more when the aim of the application is the autonomous learning of a group of robots is involved. In this lecture we are going to review some methods for autonomous learning and for modeling the knowledge acquired by the previous methods, especifically to deal with complex groups of robots.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede received the M.Sc. degree in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in 2012, both in Computer Engineering at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. He got 3 investigation grants and from 2000 to 2004 he worked at an Industrial Informatics company. Since 2004 he is working at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. His current position is Assoc. Prof. with the Systems Engineering and Automatic Control Department at the University College of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Since 2010 he is the Coordinator of the Bachelor in Industrial Electronic Engineering and Automatics degree of the Basque Country University. He also is advisor at the National Distance Education University of Spain. His teaching areas are Electronics and Computer Science, and he was the Coordinator of two granted Projects in Educational Innovation. He has participated in Erasmus actions (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) and has been investigator in 24 competitive projects. He is coauthor of more than 160 papers, more than 25 in the field of Educational Innovation and the remaining in specific research areas: he has more than 25 ISI JCR publications, more than 25 other journals and more than 90 chapters and conferences. He as belonged to more than 10 organizing committees of several international conferences and to more than 15 scientific committees. His research interests are robotics and computational intelligence techniques applied to different areas.