Conferences

17th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI2018, Guadalajara, Mexico. October 28- Nov 3.
Title: Method of generating contexts based on Self-adaptive differential Particle Swarm using local topology for multimodal optimization in the case of Multigranulation.
Authors from UC and UCLV. Authors: Dianne Arias Alvarez (UC), Yaima Filiberto Cabrera (UC) and Rafael Bello Pérez (UCLV)
Title: Fuzzy design of nearest prototype classifier.
Authors: Yanela Rodríguez Alvarez (UC), Rafael Bello Pérez (UClv), Yailé Caballero Mota (UC), Yaima Filiberto Cabrera (UC), Yumilka Fernández Hernández (UC), Mabel Frias Dominguez (UC).
In this case the project paid the registration fee of the papers and the participation of one author (Yaima Filiberto from UC).

23rd Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2018, Madrid, Spain. November 19-22.
Title: Color features extraction and classification of digital images of erythrocytes infected by plasmodium berghei.
Authors: Juan V. Lorenzo-Ginori (UCLV), Lyanett Chinea-Valdés (UCLV), Rubén Orozco-Morales (UCLV), Niurka Mollineda-Diogo (UCLV), Sergio Sifontes-Rodríguez (UCLV) and Alfredo Meneses-Marcel (UCLV). In this case the project paid the registration fee.
Title: Generalized multitarget linear regression with output dependence estimation Authors from UCI and UCLV.
Authors: Hector Gonzales (UCI), Carlos Morell (UCLV).
In this case the project paid the registration fee, and UCI and Project 3 supported the participation of one author (Hector Gonzales from UCI) to the conference.
The project paid the registration fee for the participation of Richar Sosa in the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Workshop hold at University of Hasselt Nov 29-30, 2018.
Also, the following paper was presented but without cost for the project:
Title: A solution for the team selection problem using ACO. In Eleventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence ANT18, October 29–31, 2018. Rome, Italy.
The registration fee was paid by the Flemish co-author.

The scientific conference organized by Universidad de Holguin and UCLV were supported partially by the project; in the case of UHO, Dr. Ann Nowe, Dr. Monique Snocke and Dr. Rafael Bello gave key lectures, in the case of UCLV, Dr Ann Nowe and Dr Kris Steenhaut gave key lectures.
A call was published to support at least a participation in scientific conference to be held between June 1 till December 31 2017. 8 applications were received from UCLV, UHolguin and UCamaguey. The criteria of selection include: the conferences should have an international scope, the proceedings must be published by international publishers (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) and the papers referenced in international data bases; moreover, the number of universities involved in the paper, the category of the main author (Phd students are preferred), and the requested budget and possibility co-funding.

After the analysis of the proposals by the project leaders, the following papers were selected:

Paper Title: Fuzzy Cognitive Maps reasoning with words based on triangular fuzzy
number
Authors: Mabel Frias Dominguez (UC), Yaima Filiberto (UC), Gonzalo Napoles (UH), Yadira Garcia Socarras (UC), Koen Vanhoof (UH) and Rafael Bello (UCLV)
Conference: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI2017)
Conference date: October 2017
Place: BajaCalifornia, Mexico

Paper Title: A Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Clinical Decision Making
Authors: Ivett E. Fuentes Herrera (UCLV), Beatriz Valdés Pérez (UCLV), María M. García Lorenzo (UCLV), Leticia Arco García (UCLV), Mabel M. Herrera González (UCLV) and Rolando de la C. Fuentes Morales (UCLV)
Conference: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI2017)
Conference date: October 2017
Place: BajaCalifornia, Mexico

Paper Title: A fuzzy approach for recommending problems to solve in programming online judges
Authors: Raciel Yera (UC) and Yailé Caballero (UC)
Conference: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI2017)
Conference date: October 2017
Place: Baja California, Mexico

Paper Title: An Approach to solve Classification Problems on domains with
hubness using rough sets and Nearest Prototype
Authors: Yanela Rodriguez (UC), Yaile Caballero (UC), Rafael Bello (UCLV)
Conference: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI2017)
Conference date: October 2017
Place: Baja California, Mexico

Paper Title: Extending the classic MOEAs framework for Overlapping Community Detection
Authors: Darian Horacio Grass Boada (UCLV), Rafael Bello (UCLV)
Conference: 16th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI2017)
Conference date: October 2017
Place: Baja California, Mexico

The papers presented in MICAI2017 will be published in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, indexed by Scopus. Yanela Rodriguez, from Universidad de Camaguey, attended to the MICAI2017 and presented several papers on behalf of the authors of the other papers.

Other paper partially supported is the following, in this case only the registration fee was paid by the project.

Paper Title: Classification by Nearest Neighbor and Multilayer Perceptron a New Approach based on
Fuzzy Similarity Quality Measure. A Case Study
Authors: Yaima Filiberto (UC), Mabel Frias (UC), Dianne Arias (UC), Rafael Bello (UCLV)
Conference: WEA 2017, Workshop on Engineering Applications 2017, organized by IEEE Society
Conference date: September 2017
Place: Cartagena, Colombia
The proceedings of this conference is Published by Springer-Verlag’s Communications in Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), and indexed by Scopus.

A call was published to support at least a participation in scientific conference to be held between June 1 till December 31 2016. 9 applications were received from UCLV, UCI, UHolguin and UCamaguey. The criteria of selection include: the conferences should have an international scope, the proceedings must be published by international publishers (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, etc.) and the papers referenced in international data bases; moreover, the number of universities involved in the paper, the category of the main author (Phd students are preferred), and the requested budget and possibility co-funding.

After the analysis of the proposals by the project leaders, the following papers were selected:

Paper Title: On the Upper Bound for the Time to Rendezvous in Multi‐hop Cognitive Radio Networks
Authors: Vitalio Alfonso Reguera (UCLV), Erik Ortiz Guerra (UCLV), Carlos M. G. Algora (UCLV) and (VUB), Ann Nowé (VUB) and Kris Steenhaut (VUB)
Conference: 21st IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication
Conference date: 23‐25 October 2016
Place: Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
In this case the project paid all actions related to the participation of Vitalio Alfonso in the conference, minus the registration fee.

Conference: Workshop on Engineering Applications – International Congress on Engineering WEA2016, Bogota, Colombia, 21-23 de Septiembre/2016.
Paper Title: Impact of weight initialization on Multilayer Perceptron using Fuzzy Similarity Quality Measure. Lenniet Coello (UC), Yaima Filiberto (UC), Yaile Caballero(UC) , Rafael Bello (UCLV).
Paper Title: Induction of rules based on similarity relations for imbalance datasets. A case of study. Mabel Frias (UC), Yaima Filiberto (UC), Yaile Caballero(UC) , Rafael Bello (UCLV).

In this case, only the registration fee was paid, because one co-author (Rafael Bello) was invited as key lecturer. The first paper was selected as Best paper award of the conference.

Conference: The Fourth International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration (MIKE 2016)
Dates: Nov 13, 2016 – Nov 19, 2016
Title: Meta-heuristic coefficient for indexing geometric objects in hierarchical spatial data-structures.
Authors: Gerdys Ernesto Jiménez Moya (UCI) and Jairo Rojas Delgado (UCI).
In this case, only the registration fee was paid.

A paper was presented in the international conference WEA2015 held in Bogota, Colombia, in October 2015. The authors of this paper are from University of Camaguey and UCLV; MSc. Mabel Frias, a faculty of University of Camaguey, presented the paper. This paper shows results of the collaboration between Cuban research groups. The presentation of the paper at the conference was supported fully by the VLIR project. The paper was published by IEEE Press.
Workshop on Engineering Applications – International Congress on Engineering WEA2015 (IEEE Society), Bogota, Colombia, 28-30 de Octubre/2015. Prototype Selection Based on Similarity Relations for Classification Problems.
The following papers were partially supported by the project:
A paper presented by Humberto Rodriguez in the DisCoTec 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (Grenoble, France June 2-5, 2015).
A paper presented by Marlen Perez in the IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2015) which will be held in Toronto/Canada from the next June 7-12, 2015.
These papers allow to Cuban young researchers to improve their preparation to divulgate their scientific results, to be involved in a high scientific environment during some days to know new results and trends; and to establish relations with the scientific community; this elevation of their preparation allow them to increase the role in solving Cuban problems using the ICT technologies.
Conference Sound & City, Cinema Nova, Brussels.
Title: NoiseTube, A Mobile Sensing and Community Memory System.
Authors: Humberto Rodríguez, Jesse Zaman, Kennedy Kambona, Elisa Gonzalez, Wolfgang de Meuter. 26-06-2015
Papers in conferences Interaccion 2015. XVI International Conference on HCI.
Topic: Programming Language Design
Project: A Unification of Reactive and Object Oriented programming through Actors

European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology (EvoBio 2014).
Authors from UCLV and Univ of Hasselt; published in Lectures Notes on Computer Sciences.

Key Lecture “New trends in the scientific strategic and knowledge transference in Cuba”, Dr. José Luis Garcia, MES.
Key Lecture “Experiences from 15 years of collaboration with the Belgian IT-sector”, Dr. Monique Snoeck, Belgium
Key Lecture “Staying ahead of Software Engineering Hypes”, Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter, Belgium
Participants: 32
Belgium: 5
UCLV: 9
University of Pinar del Rio (UPr): 1
University of Camaguey (UC): 1
UCI: 1
Cuban Software industry: 10 from DESOFT, DATYS, XETID, CITI, CENATAV
Ministry of Heath (MINSAP): 1
Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI): 2
Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR): 1
Ministry of Higher Education (MES): 1
Main results:
Universities acquired information about the main problems in the software industry.
Software industry acquired information about the offers from universities.
Implement systems to divulge the new results and problems to solve.
Promote a new strategy in the universities to promote the knowledge transference and acquire financial and material resources from this transference.
At this moment, at least 3 agreements have been signed between universities and companies.