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CETINIA initiates a preferred cooperation with the CitAI Research Centre at City, University of London

CETINIA announces its cooperation with the Artificial Intelligence Research Centre, CitAI, based at City, Univeristy of London. CitAI specialises in the intersection between the development of novel AI techniques, Explainable AI (XAI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with a keen interest in the legal, ethical and social impact of AI. The aim is to promote the international academic collaboration in the area of Artificial Intelligence between the two institutions, through the exchange of materials in research, publications, and academic information; the exchange of faculty and research scholars; the exchange of students; common work and mutual support in research projects; as well as joint publications in scientific journals and presentations on conferences, respectively. 

CETINIA contributes to the workshop on Ethical and Trustworthy AI organised by the Ramón Areces Foundation

CETINIA members contributed to the workshop "Ethical and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence", held on January 30th, 2024, at the Ramón Areces Foundation. The event preceeded a keynote presentation by Ramón López de Mántaras, research professor (emeritus) at IIIA-CSIC, bringing together experts from various national AI research centres. CETINIA researcher Joaquín Ariras introduced the centre, and gave a conference on "value-ware systems", linking this new AI paradigm to work on logic programming and explainability. Additional resources: Ws programme

CETINIA members organise URJC's Summer School on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

CETINIA sponsored the summer course "Human-centred Artificial Intelligence: How to avoid the Turing Trap?". The school discussed not only the technical but also the ethical and legal challenges that we face in the design and use of artificial intelligences (including Chat-GPT). To this end, on June 26 and 27, experts in computer science and Artificial Intelligence, and in disciplines as diverse as decision sciences, philosophy and ethics, law, and art, met at the URJC headquarters in the Hospital San Carlos de Aranjuez. Ibán García del Blanco, MEP and member of the special committee on AI that is processing the bill to regulate the development of Artificial Intelligence in the EU had a (virtual) intervention during the closing ceremony. Additional resources: foto, chatGPT interview (in Spanish), press release (in Spanish).

CETINIA members receive the Award for the Best URJC Patent in the Campus of International Excellence "Smart Energy" - 2022

The patent " Method for coordinating fleets for event assistance in dynamic environments" (Patent number: ES2445465) receives the award for the best URJC patent at the Campus of International Excellence "Smart Energy" - 2022. The award, endowed with 2000 euros, is the result of the work carried out by the High-Performance Research Group in Artificial Intelligence, integrated into CETINIA. 

CETINIA signs a collaboration agreement with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of CSIC

University Rey Juan Carlos, through CETINIA, and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), through its Institut d'Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial (IIIA), have agreed to strengthen their existing collaboration in R&D&i in Artificial Intelligence. The agreement fosters and promotes the joint execution of cooperation and development projects and studies; the organization of training and exchange programs for researchers and technical personnel; the development of outreach and innovation programs; collaboration for the organization of conferences, seminars, and other events; as well as reciprocal advice, mutual support and exchange of information in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

CETINIA presents at the Smart Energy Congress & EXPO

Members of CETINIA present the Agrobots project at the congress "Digital innovation at the service of energy competitiveness" (SEC 2022), which gives specialized companies and institutions the opportunity to offer innovative solutions to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. In this context, CETINIA is strengthening its collaboration with URJC’s Campus of Excellence in Smart Energy (CEI).

Collaboration agreements signed with various Spanish regional AI Research Institutes

University Rey Juan Carlos, through CETINIA, will strengthen its R&D&i activities in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science by means of collaboration agreements with research institutes from various Spanish autonomous regions. In particular, CETINIA will entail preferred collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIR) of Castilla-León, the Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN), and the Andalusian Research Institute for Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI).

CETINIA joins the European CLAIRE network

CETINIA has become member of the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE). The objective of CLAIRE is to strengthen European excellence in research and innovation in Artificial Intelligence. It is a bottom-up initiative of the European Artificial Intelligence research community that aims for "brand recognition" similar to CERN.

Members of CETINIA receive the award for the best article at the Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 20/21)

The work  Modelling Administrative Discretion Using Goal-Directed Answer Set Programming has received the best paper award at the XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 20/21). The award, endowed with 300 Euros, arises from the collaboration of researchers from the School of Computing (ETSII) and the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (FCJS), within the Artificial Intelligence Research Group (GIA) attached to CETINIA.

Press releases in this regard have been published on the pages of the URJC and FCJS.

CETINIA adapts its bylaws to the new regulation of Research Centres at URJC

CETINIA has adapted its bylaws to the Regulation of Research Centres of University Rey Juan Carlos (approved by agreement of the Governing Council of University Rey Juan Carlos dated June 7, 2019, and published in the Official Gazette of the Region of Madrid, of July 22, 2019). The new bylaws of CETINIA are publicly available on the Centre's website.

CETINIA members give the inaugural conference of the PAAMS'20 international congress

CETINIA members give the inaugural conference of the  8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS-2020) scheduled for L'Aquila (Italy), and which will finally be held online from October 7 to 9 2020, due to COVID-19. The conference is also part of the program including  BLOCKCHAIN, DCAI, DECON, ISAmI, MIS4TEL and PACBB conferences.

CETINIA co-organizes the 10th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation in Stockholm 

CETINIA participates in the organizing committee of the  10th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT'18) as part of the ECAI/IJCAI, AAMAS and ICML conferences, which will be held from July 13 to 19, 2018 in Stockholm (Sweden).

CETINIA co-organizes the Special Session on Social Modeling of Ambient Intelligence in Large Facilities (SMAILF) at DCAI 2018

CETINIA members participate in the organizing commitee of the Special Session on Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence in Large Facilities (SMAILF) at the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) held between the 20th and 22nd of June 2018 in Toledo (Spain).

CETINIA co-organizes the Workshop on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents (SCIA) at PAAMS 2018

CETINIA members participate in the organizing commitee of the Workshop on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents (SCIA) at the 16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-agents Systems (PAAMS'18) held between the 20th and 22nd of June 2018 in Toledo (Spain).

Members of CETINIA organize the III Conference on Social Modeling of Environmental Intelligence Applied to Large Installations

The conference is part of the set of activities of the R&D Program “Social Modeling of Environmental Intelligence Applied to Large Installations “Modelado Social de Inteligencia Ambiental Aplicado a Grandes Instalaciones" (MOSI-AGIL-CM, P2013/ICE-3019), financed by the Community of Madrid and in which the CETINIA members act as a coordinator. The conference will be on October 24, 2017 at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Móstoles). [Read more]

CETINIA participates in the organization of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

CETINIA members participate in the organisation of two thematic tracks of the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2017) to be held between the 5th and 8th of September 2017, at Porto, Portugal.

In particular, CETINIA co-organises the thematic tracks on Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS@EPIA2017) and Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (MASTA@EPIA2017).

CETINIA co-organizes the 9th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2017) at CISTI'2017

CETINIA members participate in the organizing commitee of the 9th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2017) at the 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, to be held between the 21th and 24th of June 2017, at Lisbon, Portugal.

Members of CETINIA organize the II Conference on Social Modeling of Environmental Intelligence Applied to Large Installations

The conference is part of the set of activities of the R&D Program “Social Modeling of Environmental Intelligence Applied to Large Installations" - “Modelado Social de Inteligencia Ambiental Aplicado a Grandes Instalaciones (MOSI-AGIL-CM, P2013/ICE-3019), financed by the Community of Madrid and in which the CETINIA members act as a coordinator. It will take place on November 11, 2016 at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Móstoles). [Read more]

CETINIA co-organizes the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation

CETINIA participates in the organizing committee of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation (ATSS-2016) as part of the  ITSC-2016, which will be held from November 1 to 4, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

CETINIA co-organizes the 9th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation in New York

CETINIA participates in the organizing committee of the 9th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT'16) as part of IJCAI-2016, which will be held from July 9 to 15, 2016 in New York (USA).

CETINIA co-organizes the 8th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2016) in CISTI'2016

CETINIA participates in the organizing committee of the  8th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2016) in CISTI'2016, which will be held from June 15 to 18, 2016 in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain).