Alejandro Pazos Sierra

Alejandro Pazos Sierra is a professor at University of A Coruña (Spain). He is currently the director of the Department of Information Technologies and Communications at University of A Coruña. He received the MS degree in Medicine from University of Santiago de Compostela in 1987. He received the PhD degree in computer science from University Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1989 and the PhD degree in medicine from University Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1996. He has worked with several research groups such as: “Visualization and Usability Laboratory College of Computing” in Georgia Institute of Technology, “Decision Systems Group” at Harvard Medical School, “Section on Medical Informatics” at Stanford University, “Artificial Neural Networks Laboratory” at Computer Science Faculty of the University Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), etc. He found and is currently the director of “Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems Laboratory” in the Faculty of Computer Science at A Coruña University. His current research interests include artificial neural network, medical image, evolutionary computation, adaptive systems, control medical systems and telemedicine. Dr. Pazos is author of more than 40 published papers and is a member of the IEEE and several honour societies, including ACM, International Neural Network Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Internet Society, etc.

Publications

Improving Ontology Alignment through Genetic Algorithms
Improving Ontology Alignment through Genetic Algorithms
José Manuel Vázquez Naya, Marcos Martínez Romero, Javier Pereira Loureiro, Cristian R. Munteanu, Alejandro Pazos Sierra. © 2010. 20 pages.
Ontology alignment is recognized as a fundamental process to achieve an adequate interoperability between people or systems that use different, overlapping ontologies to...
Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications
Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications
Ana B. Porto Pazos, Alejandro Pazos Sierra, Washington Buño Buceta. © 2009. 460 pages.
As science continues to advance, researchers are continually gaining new insights into the way living beings behave and function, and into the composition of the smallest...
Recent Methodology in Connectionist Systems
Recent Methodology in Connectionist Systems
Ana B. Porto Pazos, Alberto Alvarellos González, Alejandro Pazos Sierra. © 2009. 13 pages.
The Artificial NeuroGlial Networks, which try to imitate the neuroglial brain networks, appeared in order to process the information by means of artificial systems based on...
Ontology Alignment Overview
Ontology Alignment Overview
José Manuel Vázquez Naya, Marcos Martínez Romero, Javier Pereira Loureiro, Alejandro Pazos Sierra. © 2009. 7 pages.
At present, ontologies are considered to be an appropriate solution to the problem of heterogeneity in data, since ontological methods make it possible to reach a common...