Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain): The teaching staff is formed by professors of the Barcelona School of Informatics (Facultat de Informatica de Barcelona, http://www.fib.upc.edu/) of the UPC, which assures the organization and the facilities necessary to carry on the Master DMKM Professors belong to the Software department (http://www.lsi.upc.edu) and the Statistics and Operations Research department (http://www-eio.upc.es/). They perform their teaching activity on the Master of Information Technology and on the Master in Statistics and Operation Research UPC-UB ; and they actively take part in the following research groups of the UPC related to data mining topics:
- ALGGEN (Algorithmic and Genetics)
- GNOM (Numerical Optimization and Modeling)
- GREMA (Mathematical Statistics and its Applications)
- GRESA (Applied Statistics)
- LARCA (Laboratory for Relational Algorithmic, Complexity and Learning)
- LIAM (Laboratory of Information Analysis and Modelling)
- NLP (Natural Language Processing)
- SOCO (Sof Computing)
The list of participants is composed of:
- Tomàs Aluja-Banet , Associate Professor, specialist in multivariate descriptive analysis, clustering, decision trees, data fusion and consumer satisfaction indexes; coordinator of LIAM group; Representative of the UPC in the consortium;
- José Luis Balcazar-Navarro , Full professor, specialist in computational learning theory, support vector machines and data mining algorithms; member of LARCA group;
- Lluis Belanche-Muñoz , Associate Professor, specialist in neural networks, support vector machines and feature selection algorithms; member of SOCO group;
- Nuria Castell-Ariño , Associate Professor, specialist in knowledge representation, natural language processing and requirements engineering; member of NLP group;
- Jordi Castro-Perez , Associate Professor, specialist in linear and non linear programming, optimization algorithms and network optimization; member of GNOM group;
- Pedro Delicado-Useros , Associate Professor, specialist in statistical inference, nonparametric statistical modelling, multivariate analysis and bootstrap; member of GREMA group;
- Ricard Gavalda-Mestre , Full Professor, specialist in computational learning theory, information retrieval, data mining algorithms, association rules and databases; coordinator of LARCA group;
- Josep Ginebra-Molins , Full Professor, specialist in advanced statistical modellling and Bayesian statistics; member of GRESA group;
- Jan Graffelman , Associate Professor, specialist in statistical genetics, multivariate analysis and biometry; member of LIAM group;
- Javier Heredia-Cervera , Associate Professor, specialist in linear and non linear programming, optimization techniques and network optimization; member of GNOM group;
- Xavier Messeguer-Peypoch , Associate Professor, specialist in computational biology and bioinformatics, design and analysis of concurrent and parallel algorithms; supervisor of ALGGEN group;
- Narcis Nabona-Francisco , Full professor, specialist in linear and non linear programming, large scale optimization techniques and network optimization; coordinator of GNOM group;
- Lluis Padro-Cirera , Professor, specialist in statistical processing of Natural Language, machine learning, machine translation; member of NPL group;
- Horacio Rodriguez-Hontoria , Professor, specialist in statistical processing of natural language, artificial intelligence, text mining and knowledge management; coordinator of NPL group.