1. Doctor in Engineering - Systems and Computing - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2022

2. Master of Science in Computer Science - Mississippi State University, Starkville - Mississippi, USA, 2003

3. Systems Engineering - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá - 1999

Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Alignment

Software Engineering

Requirements Engineering, Testing, Quality, Component-Based Development

Intelligent Systems

Evolutionary Computing, Multi-Agent Systems

Software development

Programming (Structured and Object Oriented), Algorithm Analysis

Doctoral Thesis 

• Goal modeling for the strategic alignment of business and IT https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/81557 

Participation in Projects - SIDRE (2004-2007)

• Ontologies - Ontology evolution model for business knowledge management. Financing: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA, Project Start Date: 08/01/2006, Project End Date: 03/31/2007

• Ontology of software components for SMEs. Funding: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA, Project Start Date: 08/02/2003, Project End Date: 07/29/2005 - (https://sophia.javeriana.edu.co/~ragonzalez/pics/ontologia.html)

• 3. AGS-AOPOA: Agents for the management of servers using the development methodology oriented to AOPOA Agents. Financing: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA, ETB, Colciencias, Project Start Date: 02/25/2005, Project End Date: 12/24/2005

Participation in Projects -  ISTAR (2006 – current)

• METAEXTRACTOR - Semi-automatic extraction of metadata from structured data sources: An agent-based approach and data mining. Financing: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA. Project Start Date: 01/16/2012, Project End Date: 07/15/2013

• Tangible Software - Metaphors and didactic support activities to the teaching-learning process of fundamental concepts of programming and algorithm execution. Financing: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA, Project Start Date: 08/01/2008, Project End Date: 04/30/2009

Software Products 

Project: MetaExtractor

METAEXTRACTOR, Year of Creation 2013, Book - Volume: 13-40-101, Item Registration Date: 21-Nov-2013, Description: it is a program that allows the extraction of quality metadata, content, capacity and structure from structural data sources, distributed and heterogeneous. It is useful as a source of metadata in mediation systems.

Books

• M. E. Torres, L. C. Zorro, C. Loaiza, R. A. González, and M. P. Amórtegui, Ingeniería de Requerimientos, 1st Edition. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2017, https://www.javeriana.edu.co/editorial/libros/ingenieria- requerimientos.

Book chapter

• Páez Rafael, Uribe Yolima, Torres Miguel. “Internal Security On An IDS Based On Agents” International journal of Network security and its applications (IJNSA). Septiembre 2013, Volume 5. Number 4, ISSN 2231-5403 ISBN 978-1-921987-13- 7 DOI 105121/csit.2013.3501- 10.5121/csit.2013.3540 (http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/91616506/internal-security-ids- based- agents http://airccse.org/journal/nsa/5413nsa10.pdf)

• Alexandra Pomares, Miguel Torres, Ontology-Based Applications for Enterprise Systems and Knowledge Management, Chapter 7: Knowledge Management Processes Supported by Ontology Technologies, Editors: Mohammad Nazir Ahmad, Robert M. Colomb and Mohd Syazwan Abdullah, Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), 1st Edition, August 2012, ISBN 978-1-4666- 1993-7 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4666-1994- 4 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4666- 1995-1 (print & perpetual access) (http://www.igi- global.com/book/ontology- based- applications-enterprise-systems/64885)

• Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Basadas en Sistemas Multiagentes, Capítulo 3: Metodologías POA, Editores Académicos: Enrique González, César Bustacara, Editorial Javeriana, 1er Edición, 2007, ISBN: 978-958-683-871-4

Journals

• G. Restrepo-Espinel, M. E. Torres Moreno, and J. Aponte-Melo, “Business-IT Alignment Maturity Diagnosis of a Health Organization using Luftman’s SAM Model”, Ing. Inv., vol. 44, no. 2, p. e101231, May 2024. https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/101231 

• Caro-Duque, S., López-Fernández, N., Morales-Cardenas, C., Villate-Obando, N., & Torres-Moreno, M. E. (2023). Hablemos – aplicación móvil para pacientes con problemas de salud mental. Revista Colombiana De Computación, 24(2), 12–28. https://doi.org/10.29375/25392115.4422

• M. E. Torres-Moreno and J. H. Aponte-Melo, “Assessing Business-IT Alignment Maturity at a Colombian University,” JCIT, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1–22, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.4018/JCIT.20211001.oa8. https://www.igi-global.com/article/assessing-business-it-alignment-maturity-at-a-colombian-university/279864

• A. B. Perez, V. P. Pertuz, and M. E. Torres, “Análisis de la ciencia, tecnología e innovación desde la actividad de los observatorios en Colombia y Venezuela,” Revista ESPACIOS, vol. 38, no. 32, Jul. 2017, http://www.revistaespacios.com/a17v38n32/17383224.html.

• Recomendaciones para Desarrollar Software Internacionalizado, Payan Gomez Ricardo, Barbosa Julian, Torres Moreno Miguel, Revista Avances en Sistemas e Informatica,  Vol. 8, Nro. 2, ISS 1657-7663, 2011. (http://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/avances/article/view/26725 http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/28838/)

• Análisis de requerimientos usando BPMN, Molina Juan Carlos, Torres Miguel, Revista Colombiana de Computación, Vol. 1, Nro. 11, pp. 85-97, ISSN 1657- 2831,2011 (http://revistas.unab.edu.co/index.php?journal=rcc&page=article&op=viewArticle&path%5B%5D=1255)

• Improvement to Geometric Linearization of gpICA Algorithm By Compensation and Multiple Points, Torres Erika, Ulloa Paula, Gaona Andrés, Torres Miguel, Science and Engineering Support Society - International Journal of  Future Generation Communication and Networking, ISSN: 2233- 7857, pp. 1-9, 2009.

• AOPOA Study Case: Agents for Server Management Using the AOPOA Agent Oriented Development Methodology, RODRIGUEZ Julian, TORRES Miguel, BUSTACARA Cesar, GONZALEZ Enrique. CLEI2007 Conferencia Latinoaméricana de Informática, San José- Costa Rica, Octubre 2007. ISBN 978-9968-9678-9-1. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244698106_AOPOA_Study_Case_Agents_for_Server_Management_Using_the_AOPOA_Agent_Oriented_Development_Methodology)

• La Metodología AOPOA Torres Miguel, Rodriguez Julian, Gonzalez Enrique,La Metodología AOPOA, Revista Avances en Sistemas e Informática,Vol. 4,Nro. 2,Septiembre de 2007, ISSN: 1657-7663.

• Ontologies as the Backbone of Knowledge Management Processes Alexandra Pomares, Miguel Torres, En procedimientos de WORLDCOMP'07, Las Vegas - Nevada USA. Junio 25- 28 de 2007, ISBN 1601-3205 (http://www.informatik.uni- trier.de/~ley/db/conf/csreaEEE/csreaEEE2007.html#QuimbayaM07)

• Issues in Component-Based Development: Towards Specification with ADLs, Rafael Gonzalez, Miguel Torres, Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Volume 4 - Number 5 - 2006, ISSN: 1690-4524 (Available at : http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Contents.asp?var=&Previous=ISS5463)

• Análisis Empírico Del Efecto Del Tamaño De La Información De Entrada En el Desempeño de Herramientas de Compresión Sin Pérdida – Miguel Torres, Germán Flórez,Ingeniería y Universidad – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana ISSN 0123-2126, Vol. 8 No. 1, Enero-Julio de 2004 pp. 69-90. (http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/iyu/issue/view/Volumen%208%2C%20n%C3%BAmero%201)

• An Automated Tool For Software Requirement Refinement And Pathfinder Networks Generation, Technical Report MSU – 030922, Miguel Torres, Rayford Vaughn, Mississippi State University, Department of Computer Science, 2003. (https://sophia.javeriana.edu.co/~metorres/Materias/Publicaciones/TEchnical%20Report%20ALL.pdf)

Conferences

• M. E. Torres Moreno y J. H. Aponte Melo, “IDENTIFICANDO BRECHAS ENTRE LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y EL NEGOCIO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN DESDE LA LITERATURA Y LA PRÁCTICA”, en Memorias- 19 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Palacio de convenciones de la Habana - Cuba, 2018.

• J.Murcia, M. Torres, "Guía para la Integración de Métodos Formales de Ingeniería de Requerimientos en Procesos de Desarrollo Ágil", Latin American Software Engineering Symposium "LASES 2015", Bogotá, Colombia, 19 - 20 de Noviembre de 2015.

• Alexandra Pomares Quimbaya, Miguel Eduardo Torres Moreno, Fabián Roldán: MetaExtractor: A System for Metadata Extraction from Structured Data Sources. CD- ARES 2013: 84-99 (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642- 40511-2_7)

• Páez Rafael, Uribe Yolima, Torres Miguel. “Agent Security Techniques, Deployment and Evaluation on an Intrusion Detection System”. ISSN: 2231-5403. Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Applications. (ICCSEA-2013). May 24~26, 2013. Delhi, India (http://coneco2009.com/iccsea_ps1.html)

• Ingeniería de Requerimientos Aplicada a la Creación de Empresa de Base Tecnológica. – Caso de Estudio Plan de Negocios Banco Santander, Colombia, Barrera Luisa, Silva Camilo, Torres Miguel, 5to Congreso Colombiano de Computación, 2009, ISBN 978-958- 8387-40-6 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239938589_Ingenieria_de_Requerimientos_Aplicada_a_la_Creacion_de_Empresa_de_Base_Tecnologica_- _Caso_de_Estudio_Plan_de_Negocios_Banco_Santander_Colombia)

• Rafael Páez, Miguel Torres. “Laocoonte: An agent based intrusion detection system”. International symposium on Collaborative Technologies and systems, COLSEC09, IEEE. PRINT ISBN: 978-1-4244-4584-4, E-ISBN: 978-1-4244-4586-8. INSPEC Accession Number: 10702624. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CTS.2009.5067484. May 18-22, 2009. Pag. 217-224 Baltimore, Maryland- EEUU. (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5067484 ) 

• Técnicas de Levantamiento de Requerimientos con Innovación, Aristizaval Nicolas, Torres Miguel, 4to Congreso Colombiano de Computación, 2009, ISBN 978-958- 8166-43-8 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244724135_Tecnicas_de_Levantamiento_de_Requerimientos_con_Innovacion)

• Query Routing Process for Adapted Information Retrieval using Agents, Angela Carrillo Ramos, Jérôme Gensel, Marlène Villanova-Oliver, Hervé Martin, Miguel Torres Moreno, XXXIV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, Santa Fe, Argentina, Septiembre 8- 12, 2008, pp. 11-20, ISBN 978-950-9770-02-7. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236793625_Query_Routing_Process_for_Adapted_Information_Retrieval_using_Agents)

• Query Routing in nomadic environments with PUMAS, CARRILLO RAMOS, Angela, VILLANOVA-OLIVER, Marlène, GENSEL, Jérôme, MARTIN, Hervé, TORRES, Miguel. In Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WebIST 2008), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, ISBN: 978-989- 8111-27-2 , Pages: 125 - 130, Volume 2, Mayo 4-7, 2008. (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0001513401250130)

• Metodología de Pruebas para Sistemas Multi-Agentes (SMA) integrada a AOPOA, Oscar L. Garavito G, Juan D. Ocampo I,Miguel E. Torres M, III Congreso Colombiano de Computación, Medellín, Abril 23-25 de 2008, ISBN: ISBN : 978-958- 8256-85-6 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244696001_Metodologia_de_Pruebas_para_Sistemas_Multi-Agentes_SMA_integrada_a_AOPOA)

• ONTOLOGY AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, Torres Moreno, Miguel Eduardo - Pomares Quimbaya, Alexandra, CARS & FOF 07 - The 23rd ISPE International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics & Factories of the Future - ISBN : 978-958-978- 597-3, Agosto-07

• AOPOA Organizational Approach for Agent Oriented Programming Enrique Gonzalez, Miguel Torres en Procedimientos de 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS2006, May 2006, Paphos - Cyprus.

• Critical Issues in Component-Based Development Rafael Gonzalez, Miguel Torres en Procedimientos de The International Conference On Computer, Communication and Control Technologies. CCCT’05.Austin, Texas, Julio 2005. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228938865_Critical_Issues_in_Component- Based_Development)

• Software Requirements And Its Application In The Reengineering Process, Miguel Torres, Rayford Vaughn, en Procedimientos de The International Conference On Computer, Communication and Control Technologies.CCCT’03.Orlando, Florida, Julio 2003, ISBN 9806560051. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244686236_Software_Requirements_And_Its_Application_In_The_Reengineering_Process)

• Attacking a High Performance Computer Cluster, Miguel Torres, Rayford Vaughn, Susan Bridges, German Florez and Zhen Liu. Presentado en Procedimientos de the 15th Annual Canadian Information Technology Security Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, Mayo 2003. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244688942_Attacking_a_High_Performance_Computer_Cluster)