Events, Networks, Trust

Organization of Scientific Meetings

2024, Co-chair at the 37th Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR'24), co-located at ECAI'24, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2021, Dagstuhl Seminar on Representing and Solving Spatial Problems (21492), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
2020, Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, on-line.
2018, Program Committee Chair at 21st Int. Conf. Catalan Association for AI (CCIA2018), Roses, Catalonia, Spain.
2018, Co-chair at the 31st Int. Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR'18), co-located at IJCAI-ECAI'18, Stockolm, Sweeden,
2017, Local Organizing Committee at 20th Int. Conf. of the Catalan Association for AI (CCIA2017), La Cava, Catalonia, Spain.
2017, Co-chair at 2nd Problem Solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning in Cognitive Systems (co-chair ProSocrates2017), Delmenhorst, HWK-IAS, Germany.
2016, Co-Chair at 1st Problem Solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning in Cognitive Systems (co-chair ProSocrates2016), Bremen, Germany.
2016, Local Organizing Commitee at 13th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (KogWis2016), Bremen, Germany.
2016, Co-Chair XVI Conference on Qualitative ARCA Systems and Applications in Diagnosis, Robotics and Ambient Intelligence (JARCA2016, co-chair), Almería, Spain.

Commissions of Trust

Program Committees

- Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI-HAI-2024, IJCAI-2019, IJCAI-ECAI-2018.
- European Conf. on Artificial Inelligence: ECAI-2024, ECAI-2023.
- Int. Conf. on Spatial Information Theory: COSIT2024, COSIT2022, COSIT2019, COSIT2017.
- Int. Conf. on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: MDAI2024, MDAI2023, MDAI2022, MDAI2021, MDAI2020, MDAI2019, MDAI2018, MDAI2017, MDAI2016.
- International Conferences by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence: CCIA-2024, CCIA-2023, CCIA-2022, CCIA-2021, CCIA-2019, CCIA2018, CCIA2017, CCIA2016, CCIA2015.
- Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning, workshop co-located with IJCAI: STRL-23, STRL-22.
- Qualitative Reasoning, workshop co-located with IJCAI: 35th QR (2022).
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AAAI-2024, AAAI-2020, AAAI-2019.
- Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: CogSci24, CogSci19, CogSci17, CogSci16.
- International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition: AIC2023, AIC2022, AIC2019.
- The Image Schema Day: ISD7 2023, ISD6 2022.
- Cognition and Ontologies' (CAOS) Workshop: CAOS IV.
- International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding:
  - SpLU-2018 co-located at Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT).
  - SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 combined with the workshop on Spatial Language Understanding & Grounded Communication for Robotics.
  - SpLU-2020.
- International Conference Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures: BDAS2017, BDAS2018
- International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies: AMBIENT2017, AMBIENT2018
- The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF2017).

Scientific Advisory Board

- 2019 – now, Review board for the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), México.
- 2017-2022, Review board at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst (DAAD), Madrid, Spain.
- 2013-2014, Review board at the Marc Esteva PhD Awards by the Catalan Association for AI (ACIA).

Editor and Reviewer in Journals

- Associate editor at Cognitive Systems Research journal, Elsevier.
- Editor of 5 special issues for JCR-indexed journals: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Cognitive Systems Research, Cognitive Computation, Pattern Recognition Letters, Logic Journal of the IGPL.
- Reviewer at JCR-indexed journals: Computers in Human Behavior Journal, Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing; IEEE Transaction on Cognitive and Developmental Systems; Advanced Robotics; Pattern Recognition Letters; Knowledge-based Systems; Robotics and Automation Journal; IEEE Transactions on Education; Journal of Universal Computer Science; International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, etc.

See my profile in Web of Science (old-Publons.com, verified reviews, etc.)

Memberships of Scientific Societies

Since 2017, Member of EuCog, the European Society of Cognitive Systems.
Since 2013, Member of CERFA, Scientific network of Spanish Researchers in Germany. Director of Bremen Quarter in 2014-2016.
Since 2014, Member of SILC, the Spatial Learning Network by the National Science Foundation (NCS) Spatial Intelligence Learning Center located at Temple University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Since 2007, Member of ACIA, the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence built by more than 10 Universities in Spain and 300 members.
2010-2014, Board member of ACIA, collaborating with the Scientist in charge: Dr. Vicenç Torra.
Since 2006, JARCA: Spanish Cooperative Research Thematic Network on Qualitative Reasoning and Applications funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and 10 Universities in Spain. Scientist in charge: Dr. Juan A. Ortega (University of Seville).
2006–2011, COMBIOMED: Cooperative Research Thematic Network on Computational Medicine funded by the Carlos III Health Institute and the Spanish Ministry of Health. Scientist in charge: Dr. Fernando Martín.