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Biography

Sebastian Ventura was born in Cordoba (Spain) in 1966. He received his BSc and PhD degrees in sciences from the University of Cordoba in 1989 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, University of Cordoba, Deputy Director at the Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), and Head of the "Knowledge Discovery and Intelligent Systems" Research Laboratory at the DaSCI institute. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 international publications. He has also edited several special issues in scientific journals and books in their fields of interest. He has also coordinated about fifteen research projects supported by the Spanish and Andalusian governments, the European Union and other entities. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, computational intelligence, and applications.

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Córdoba: Córdoba, Andalucia, ES

2016-04-14 to present | Full Professor (Computer Science and Numerical Analysis)
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University of Cordoba: Cordoba, Andalucia, ES

1998-09-14 to 2016-04-13 | Associate Professor (Computer Science and Numerical Analysis)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Polytechnic University of Madrid: Madrid, ES

1996 to 1997 | Master of Advanced Studies in Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence)
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University of Cordoba: Cordoba, ES

1993 to 1996 | Ph.D. in Sciences
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University of Cordoba: Cordoba, ES

1984 to 1989 | B.Sc. in Chemistry
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Professional activities (4)

Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, US

Senior Member
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Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Intelligence: Granada, Jaén and Cordoba, Andalusia, ES

2021-06-24 to present | Deputy Director
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Virginia Commonwealth University: Richmond, Virginia, US

2007 to present | Affiliated Professor (Computer Science)
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IEEE: New York, NY, US

2007 to present | Senior Member
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Funding (5)

Mejorando la Experiencia del Usuario de Ciencia de Datos con Inteligencia Computacional (INTENSE)

2021-09 to 2024-08 | Grant
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Madrid, ES)
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PID2020-115832GB-I00

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MANPREDIC: Mantenimiento predictivo de plataformas terrestres

2019-10 to 2021-10 | Contract
Ministry of Defense (Madrid, ES)
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EMERging trends in Data analysis (EMERalD)

2018-01 to 2020-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
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TIN2017-83445-P

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More Flexible Representations in Data Mining

2015-01 to 2017-12 | Grant
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Madrid, ES)
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TIN2014-55252-P

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New Problems in Knowledge Discovery: A Genetic Programming Approach

2012-01 to 2014-12 | Grant
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
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TIN2011-22408

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Works (50 of 135)

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Facing Up Fare War: Generating Competitive Price Models With Gene Expression Programming

IEEE Access
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Marco Antonio Barron; Jose Maria Luna; Sebastian Ventura
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Reducing the Label Space a Predefined Ratio for a More Efficient Multilabel Classification

IEEE Access
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose M. Moyano; Jose M. Luna; Sebastian Ventura
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Data mining in predictive maintenance systems: A taxonomy and systematic review

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
2022-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Aurora Esteban; Amelia Zafra; Sebastián Ventura
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An ensemble-based convolutional neural network model powered by a genetic algorithm for melanoma diagnosis

Neural Computing and Applications
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Eduardo Pérez; Sebastián Ventura
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Course Recommendation based on Sequences: An Evolutionary Search of Emerging Sequential Patterns

Cognitive Computation
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Twijri; José María Luna; Francisco Herrera; Sebastián Ventura
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Smart Operators for Inducing Colorectal Cancer Classification Trees with PonyGE2 Grammatical Evolution Python Package

2022-07-18 | Conference paper
Contributors: Jose A. Delgado-Osuna; Carlos Garcia-Martinez; Sebastian Ventura
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Modeling and predicting students’ engagement behaviors using mixture Markov models

Knowledge and Information Systems
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Rabia Maqsood; Paolo Ceravolo; Cristóbal Romero; Sebastián Ventura
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Improving the understanding of cancer in a descriptive way: An emerging pattern mining‐based approach

International Journal of Intelligent Systems
2022-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Antonio Manuel Trasierras; José María Luna; Sebastián Ventura
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Auto-adaptive Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming algorithm to build Ensembles of Multi-Label Classifiers

Information Fusion
2022-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose M. Moyano; Sebastián Ventura
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Subgroup discovery in MOOCs: a big data application for describing different types of learners

Interactive Learning Environments
2022-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: J. M. Luna; H. M. Fardoun; F. Padillo; C. Romero; S. Ventura
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Melanoma Recognition by Fusing Convolutional Blocks and Dynamic Routing between Capsules

Cancers
2021-10-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Eduardo Pérez; Sebastián Ventura
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Classification Accuracy of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Outcome: Data Mining Approach

Journal of Medical Internet Research
2021-02-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario Frias; Jose M Moyano; Antonio Rivero-Juarez; Jose M Luna; Ángela Camacho; Habib M Fardoun; Isabel Machuca; Mohamed Al-Twijri; Antonio Rivero; Sebastian Ventura
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Mining local periodic patterns in a discrete sequence

Information Sciences
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Philippe Fournier-Viger; Peng Yang; Rage Uday Kiran; Sebastian Ventura; José María Luna
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Exceptional in so Many Ways—Discovering Descriptors That Display Exceptional Behavior on Contrasting Scenarios

IEEE Access
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose Maria Luna; Mykola Pechenizkiy; Wouter Duivesteijn; Sebastian Ventura
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Extracting User-Centric Knowledge on Two Different Spaces: Concepts and Records

IEEE Access
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose Maria Luna; Philippe Fournier-Viger; Sebastian Ventura
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Fast Convergence of Competitive Spiking Neural Networks with Sample-Based Weight Initialization

2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Paolo Gabriel Cachi; Sebastián Ventura; Krzysztof Jozef Cios
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Splicing machinery dysregulation drives glioblastoma development/aggressiveness: oncogenic role of SRSF3

Brain
2020-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Antonio C Fuentes-Fayos; Mari C Vázquez-Borrego; Juan M Jiménez-Vacas; Leire Bejarano; Sergio Pedraza-Arévalo; Fernando L.-López; Cristóbal Blanco-Acevedo; Rafael Sánchez-Sánchez; Oscar Reyes; Sebastián Ventura et al.
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Combining multi-label classifiers based on projections of the output space using Evolutionary algorithms

Knowledge-Based Systems
2020-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose M. Moyano; Eva L. Gibaja; Krzysztof J. Cios; Sebastián Ventura
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Educational data mining and learning analytics: An updated survey

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
2020-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Cristobal Romero; Sebastian Ventura
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Classification Accuracy of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Outcome: Data Mining Approach (Preprint)

2020-03-18 | Other
Contributors: Mario Frias; Jose M Moyano; Antonio Rivero-Juarez; Jose M Luna; Ángela Camacho; Habib M Fardoun; Isabel Machuca; Mohamed Al-Twijri; Antonio Rivero; Sebastian Ventura
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Distributed Selection of Continuous Features in Multilabel Classification Using Mutual Information

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Jorge Gonzalez-Lopez; Sebastian Ventura; Alberto Cano
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Evaluating associative classification algorithms for Big Data

Big Data Analytics
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Francisco Padillo; José María Luna; Sebastián Ventura
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Frequent itemset mining: A 25 years review

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
2019-11 | Journal article
Contributors: José María Luna; Philippe Fournier‐Viger; Sebastián Ventura
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An evolutionary approach to build ensembles of multi-label classifiers

Information Fusion
2019-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose M. Moyano; Eva L. Gibaja; Krzysztof J. Cios; Sebastián Ventura
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WordificationMI: multi-relational data mining through multiple-instance propositionalization

Progress in Artificial Intelligence
2019-09-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Luis A. Quintero-Domínguez; Carlos Morell; Sebastián Ventura
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A Grammar-Guided Genetic Programing Algorithm for Associative Classification in Big Data

Cognitive Computation
2019-06-16 | Journal article
Contributors: F. Padillo; J. M. Luna; S. Ventura
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Distributed nearest neighbor classification for large-scale multi-label data on spark

Future Generation Computer Systems
2018-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Jorge Gonzalez-Lopez; Sebastián Ventura; Alberto Cano
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Interactive multi-objective evolutionary optimization of software architectures

Information Sciences
2018-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Aurora Ramírez; José Raúl Romero; Sebastián Ventura
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MIRSVM: Multi-instance support vector machine with bag representatives

Pattern Recognition
2018-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Gabriella Melki; Alberto Cano; Sebastián Ventura
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Evolutionary Strategy to Perform Batch-Mode Active Learning on Multi-Label Data

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
2018-07-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar Reyes; Sebastián Ventura
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OLLAWV: OnLine Learning Algorithm using Worst-Violators

Applied Soft Computing
2018-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Gabriella Melki; Vojislav Kecman; Sebastián Ventura; Alberto Cano
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Statistical comparisons of active learning strategies over multiple datasets

Knowledge-Based Systems
2018-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar Reyes; Abdulrahman H. Altalhi; Sebastián Ventura
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Effective active learning strategy for multi-label learning

Neurocomputing
2018-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar Reyes; Carlos Morell; Sebastián Ventura
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Apriori Versions Based on MapReduce for Mining Frequent Patterns on Big Data

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose Maria Luna; Francisco Padillo; Mykola Pechenizkiy; Sebastian Ventura
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Mining Context-Aware Association Rules Using Grammar-Based Genetic Programming

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose Maria Luna; Mykola Pechenizkiy; Maria Jose del Jesus; Sebastian Ventura
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Exhaustive search algorithms to mine subgroups on Big Data using Apache Spark

Progress in Artificial Intelligence
2017-06-27 | Journal article
Contributors: F. Padillo; J. M. Luna; S. Ventura
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MLDA: A tool for analyzing multi-label datasets

Knowledge-Based Systems
2017-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose M. Moyano; Eva L. Gibaja; Sebastián Ventura
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Multiple Instance Learning: Foundations and Algorithms

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Speeding-Up Association Rule Mining With Inverted Index Compression

IEEE Trans. Cybern.
2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Jose Maria Luna; Alberto Cano; Mykola Pechenizkiy; Sebastian Ventura
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An ensemble-based approach for multi-view multi-label classification

Progress in Artificial Intelligence
2016-11-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Eva L. Gibaja; Jose M. Moyano; Sebastián Ventura
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Discovering useful patterns from multiple instance data

Information Sciences
2016-08 | Journal article
Contributors: J.M. Luna; A. Cano; V. Sakalauskas; S. Ventura
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Effective lazy learning algorithm based on a data gravitation model for multi-label learning

Information Sciences
2016-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Oscar Reyes; Carlos Morell; Sebastián Ventura
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Pattern Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms

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LAIM discretization for multi-label data

Information Sciences
2016-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Alberto Cano; José María Luna; Eva L. Gibaja; Sebastián Ventura
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A Tutorial on Multilabel Learning

Acm Computing Surveys
2015 | Journal article
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Contributors: Gibaja, Eva; Ventura, Sebastian
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An approach for the evolutionary discovery of software architectures

Information Sciences
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000352037100015

Contributors: Ramirez, Aurora; Raul Romero, Jose; Ventura, Sebastian
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An evolutionary algorithm for the discovery of rare class association rules in learning management systems

Applied Intelligence
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000351110600007

Contributors: Luna, J. M.; Romero, C.; Romero, J. R.; Ventura, S.
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Multi-objective genetic programming for feature extraction and data visualization

Soft Comput
2015-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Alberto Cano; Sebastián Ventura; Krzysztof J. Cios
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Scalable extensions of the ReliefF algorithm for weighting and selecting features on the multi-label learning context

Neurocomputing
2015-08 | Journal article
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Evolutionary feature weighting to improve the performance of multi-label lazy algorithms

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Reyes, Oscar; Morell, Carlos; Ventura, Sebastian
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Peer review (4 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Applied intelligence. (1)
Review activity for Data mining and knowledge discovery. (1)
Review activity for Genetic programming and evolvable machines. (1)
Review activity for International journal of educational technology in higher education. (1)