Research interests
Complex Networks
- Community structure of complex networks at different resolution levels
- Mesoscales identification algorithms
- Dynamics on complex networks: epidemic spreading, routing, games, etc.
- Relationship between structure and dynamics
- Analysis of real world networks: biological networks, social networks, etc.
Neural Networks
- Feed-Forward neural networks: perceptrons, multilayer neural networks, growing architectures
- Recurrent neural networks: discrete time recurrent architectures
- Supervised learning: learning rules, back-propagation, support vector machines
- Unsupervised learning: self-supervised learning, feature maps, dimensionality reduction
- Associative memory: combinatorial optimization
- Applications: image compression, time series, financial markets, etc.
Evolutionary Computation
- Genetic, memetic and population based algorithms
- Applications: combinatorial optimization
Data Mining
- Clustering algorithms: hierarchical clustering, k-means
- Dimensionality reduction: principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling
- Soft computing for data mining
High Energy Physics
- Grid computing for LHCb (CERN)
- Application of soft-computing algorithms
Research group
Current members (URV, Tarragona + UB, Barcelona)
- Alex Arenas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Sergio Gómez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Jordi Duch (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- José A. Capitán (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Pau Erola (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Clara Granell (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Albert Díaz-Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Conrad Pérez-Vicente (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Marian Boguñá (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Former members (URV, Tarragona)
- Javier Borge-Holthoefer (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
- Alberto Fernández (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
- Sergi Lozano (ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Juan Acebrón (CEMAT, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
- Angel Rodríguez-Rozas (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Collaborators
- Yamir Moreno (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
- Alessandro Vespignani (MoBS, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and ISI, Torino, Italy)
- Sandro Meloni (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain)
- Gorka Zamora (DYCOS, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
- Nicola Perra (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
- Belkacem Serrour (LIESP, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France)
- Pablo Jensen (IXXI Complex Systems Institute, ENS Lyon, Lyon, France)
- Andrew Teschendorff (UCL Cancer Institute, London, UK)
- Santo Fortunato (Aalto University, Finland)
- Josep Maria Solanes (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Ricardo Graciani (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Lluis Garrido (Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
- Emili Elizalde (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)