Advances in Computing

Advances in Computing deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. It publishes regular papers and special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers.

Ezequiel López-Rubio

Editorial Board Member of Advances in Computing

Professor, University of MáLaga, Spain

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Image Processing, Computer Vision

Education

2008-2010M.ScSocial and Cultural Anthropology, National University of Distance Education, Spain
2002Ph.DThe University of Málaga
1994-1999M.ScComputer Engineering, University of Málaga, Spain

Experience

2000Associate Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Membership

Member of the research group Inteligencia Computacional y Análisis de Imágenes (Computational Intelligence and Image Procesing)
Member of the interuniversity network Sistemas Neuronales Artificiales y Neurodifusos, y sus Aplicaciones (Artificial Neural and Neurofuzzy Systems, and their Applications)
Member of the interuniversity network Andalusian Network of Intelligent Systems Technologies
Member of the Andalusian Institute of Image Processing (Instituto Andaluz de Procesamiento de Imágenes, IAPI)
Member of the Institute of Biomedicine Málaga (Instituto de Biomedicina de Málaga, IBIMA)

Publications: Journals

[1]  Paper entitled Invariant Pattern Identification by Self-Organizing Networks, published in the international journal Pattern Recognition Letters, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 34 among 72 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 155 among 332. The Impact Factor is 0.552.
[2]  Paper entitled Expansive and Competitive Learning for Vector Quantization, published in the international journal Neural Processing Letters, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 55 among 74 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 261 among 338. The Impact Factor is 0.317.
[3]  Paper entitled Self-Organizing Dynamic Graphs, published in the international journal Neural Processing Letters, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 55 among 74 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 261 among 338. The Impact Factor is 0.317.
[4]  Paper entitled Detección de esqueletos de caracteres mediante una red neuronal competitiva basada en segmentos, published in the international journal Inteligencia Artificial, Revista Iberoamericana de I.A.
[5]  Paper entitled A four-stage system for blind color image segmentation, published in the international journal Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 71 among 77 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 320 among 345. The Impact Factor is 0.192.
[6]  Paper entitled New Learning Rules for the ASSOM Network, published in the international journal Neural Computing & Applications, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 62 among 77 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 254 among 345. The Impact Factor is 0.449.
[7]  Paper entitled A Principal Components Analysis Self-Organizing Map, published in the international journal Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 20 among 78 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 58 among 347. The Impact Factor is 1.736.
[8]  Paper entitled Principal Components Analysis Competitive Learning, published in the international journal Neural Computation, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 12 among 78 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 35 among 347. The Impact Factor is 2.364.
[9]  Paper entitled Soft clustering for nonparametric probability density function estimation, published in the international journal Pattern Recognition Letters, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 40 among 94 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 128 among 394. The Impact Factor is 1.559.
[10]  Paper entitled Dynamic Competitive Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis, published in the international journal International Journal of Neural Systems, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 12 among 102 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 31 among 426. The Impact Factor is 2.988.
[11]  Paper entitled Probabilistic PCA self-organizing maps, published in the international journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 16 among 102 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 37 among 426. The Impact Factor is 2.889.
[12]  Paper entitled Multivariate Student-t self-organizing maps, published in the international journal Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 37 among 102 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 105 among 426. The Impact Factor is 1.879.
[13]  Paper entitled Automatic Model Selection by Cross-Validation for Probabilistic PCA, published in the international journal Neural Processing Letters, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 70 among 102 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 251 among 426. The Impact Factor is 1.015.
[14]  Paper entitled Robust location and spread measures for nonparametric probability density function estimation, published in the international journal International Journal of Neural Systems, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 12 among 102 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 31 among 426. The Impact Factor is 2.988.
[15]  Paper entitled Restoration of images corrupted by Gaussian and uniform impulsive noise, published in the international journal Pattern Recognition, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 16 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 41 among 445. The Impact Factor is 2.607.
[16]  Paper entitled Probabilistic self-organizing maps for continuous data, published in the international journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 15 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 39 among 445. The Impact Factor is 2.624.
[17]  aper entitled Probabilistic self-organizing maps for qualitative data, published in the international journal Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 32 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the year the paper was published). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 80 among 445. The Impact Factor is 1.955.
[18]  Paper entitled Stochastic approximation for background modelling, published in the international journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Engineering section, Electrical & Electronic subsection, in the position 26 among 247 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Engineering journals it is ranked as 83 among 887. The Impact Factor is 2.404.
[19]  Paper entitled Kernel regression based feature extraction for 3D MR image denoising, published in the international journal Medical Image Analysis, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Interdisciplinary Applications subsection, in the position 1 among 97 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 80 among 445. The Impact Factor is 4.248.
[20]  Paper entitled Dynamic topology learning with the Probabilistic Self-Organizing Graph, published in the international journal Neurocomputing, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 50 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 160 among 445. The Impact Factor is 1.429.
[21]  Paper entitled Stochastic Approximation Learning for Mixtures of Multivariate Elliptical Distributions, published in the international journal Neurocomputing, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 50 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 160 among 445. The Impact Factor is 1.429.
[22]  Paper entitled Growing Hierarchical Probabilistic Self-Organizing Graphs, published in the international journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 15 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 39 among 445. The Impact Factor is 2.624.
[23]  Paper entitled Foreground detection in video sequences with probabilistic self-organizing maps, published in the international journal International Journal of Neural Systems, which appears in the Journal Citation Reports, Computer Science section, Artificial Intelligence subsection, in the position 6 among 108 sorted by Impact Factor (in the last JCR). In the classification of all Computer Science journals it is ranked as 9 among 445. The Impact Factor is 4.237.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Paper entitled Pattern recognition by self-organizing networks, published in the proceedings of the Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes, SNRFAI 99 (National Symposium on shape recognition and image analysis), held in Bilbao (Spain) from 12 to 14 May 1999.
[2]  Communication entitled Reconocimiento de objetos por autoorganización (Object recognition by self-organization), presented in the Jornadas Biología y Cognición (Biology and Cognition Workshop), held in Málaga (November 1999).
[3]  Paper entitled Red neuronal competitiva no supervisada basada en espículas (Competitive neural network based on spicules), published in the proceedings of the I Simposio de Inteligencia Computacional, SICO'2005 (I Computational Intelligence Symposium), held in Granada from 13 to 16 September 2005. Organized by the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
[4]  Paper entitled Reducción de ruido impulsivo en secuencias de vídeo en color de resonancia magnética (Impulse noise reduction in magnetic resonance color video sequences), published in the proceedings of the XV Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación, CACIC'2009 (XV Argentine Conference on Computer Science), held in Jujuy (Argentina) from 5 to 9 October 2009. Organized by the Nacional University of Jujuy (Argentina).
[5]  Paper entitled Expansive Competitive Learning for Colour Image Compression, published in the proceedings of the international conference Neural Computation 2000 (NC2000), held in Berlin (Germany) from 23 to 26 May 2000.
[6]  Paper entitled A Robust Two-Stage System for Image Segmentation, published in the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000), held in Barcelona (Spain) from 3 to 8 September 2000.
[7]  Paper entitled Las Nuevas Tecnologías y el Subdesarrollo, published in the proceedings of the I International conference on Technology, Ethics and Future, held in Barcelona (Spain) from 16 to 17 November 2000.
[8]  Paper entitled Self-Organizing Dynamic Graphs, published in the proceedings of the 2001 WSES International Conference on Neural Networks and Applications (NNA'01). This conference was held from 11 to 15 February 2001 in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife, Spain), and it was organized by the World Scientific and Engineering Society (WSES). This contribution has been also published as a book chapter.
[9]  Paper entitled A Four-Stage System for Blind Colour Image Segmentation, published in the proceedings of the international conference Engineering of Intelligent Systems 2002 (EIS 2002). This conference was held in Málaga from 24 to 27 September 2002, and it was organized by the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organizations (NAISO).
[10]  Paper entitled Efficient Learning Rules for the ASSOM Network, published in the proceedings of the international conference Engineering of Intelligent Systems 2002 (EIS 2002). This conference was held in Málaga from 24 to 27 September 2002, and it was organized by the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organizations (NAISO).
[11]  Paper entitled Character Skeletonization by a Segment Based Neural Network, published in the proceedings of the international conference Engineering of Intelligent Systems 2002 (EIS 2002). This conference was held in Málaga from 24 to 27 September 2002, and it was organized by the Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organizations (NAISO).
[12]  Paper entitled Colour Image Compression with Self-Organizing Dynamic Graphs, published in the proceedings of the international conference Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2002 (AIA 2002). This conference was held in Málaga from 9 to 12 September 2002, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[13]  Paper entitled Input Space Division by Local PCA for Classification with Multilayer Perceptrons, published in the proceedings of the international conference Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2003 (AIA 2003). This conference was held in Málaga from 8 to 10 September 2003, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[14]  Paper entitled Invariant Detection of Symmetric Objects by Subpixel Edge Localization, published in the proceedings of the international conference Artificial Intelligence and Applications 2003 (AIA 2003). This conference was held in Málaga from 8 to 10 September 2003, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[15]  Paper entitled Skeleton Construction for Shape Description Using Unsupervised Learning, published in the proceedings of the international conference International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks 2003 (EANN 2003). This conference was held in Torremolinos (Málaga, Spain) from 8 to 10 September 2003, and it was organized by the University of Málaga.
[16]  Paper entitled Dynamic Selection of Model Parameters in Principal Components Analysis Neural Networks, published in the proceedings of the international conference 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004). This conference was held in Valencia (Spain) from 22 to 27 August 2004, and it was organized by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).
[17]  Paper entitled Competitive Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis Neural Networks, published in the proceedings of the international conference 8th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2004). This conference was held in Marbella (Málaga, Spain) from 1 to 3 September 2004, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[18]  Paper entitled A new online learning rule for Competitive Principal Components Analysis neural networks, published in the proceedings of the international conference 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2005). This conference was held in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) from 12 to 14 September 2005, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[19]  Paper entitled Dynamic Competitive Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis Neural Network, published in the proceedings of the international conference 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2005). This conference was held in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) from 12 to 14 September 2005, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[20]  Paper entitled Competitive Networks of Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis Neurons, published in the proceedings of the international conference 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2005). This conference was held in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) from 12 to 14 September 2005, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[21]  Paper entitled Global-Local Learning Strategies in Probabilistic Principal Components Analysis, published in the proceedings of the international conference 10th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2006). This conference was held in Palma de Mallorca from 28 to 30 August 2006, and it was organized by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
[22]  Paper entitled Spicules-based competitive neural network, published in the proceedings of the international conference 15th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2007). This conference was held in Bruges (Belgium) from 25 to 27 April 2007, and it was organized by the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, among others.
[23]  Paper entitled GA-based Feature Selection Approach in Biometric Hand Systems, published in the proceedings of the international conference 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011). This conference was held in San José (California, USA) from 31 July to 5 August 2011, and it was organized by the International Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Chapter entitled Self-Organizing Dynamic Graphs in the book Advances in Neural Networks and Applications, pp. 24-28. N. Mastorakis (Ed). World Scientific and Engineering Society Press. Athens (Greece). ISBN: 960-8052-26-2. Year: 2001.
[2]  Chapter entitled Procesos cognitivos en Inteligencia Artificial in the book Neuropsicología cognitiva: algunos problemas actuales, pp. 111-150. J. A. Mora (Ed). Ediciones Aljibe. Málaga, Spain. ISBN: 84-9700-034-X. Year: 2001.
[3]  Chapter entitled Feature Selection of Hand Biometrical Traits based on Computational Intelligence in the book Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security. Springer, in press.