Prof. Alfredo Goñi
University of the Basque Country
Facultad de Informática  
Paseo Manuel de Lardizábal 1 

(20018) Donostia-San Sebastián

Spain
T: (34) 943015066
Fax: (34) 943219306
alfredo@si.ehu.es

University of the Basque Country 

The University of the Basque Country (Spain) is, the only Public University in the Basque Country Autonomous Community, and the one with the widest range educational offer, which almost reaches one hundred qualifications. In its thirty faculties and university schools, placed through the campuses of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, work, study and investigate more than 60,000 students, 3,500 lectures and a thousand professional staff. The University´s anagram, which was designed by the artist Eduardo Chillida, is joined to the motto "Eman ta zabal zazu", "Bear fruit and make it known". This is the leading principle of all the university activity.

The Interoperable Database Group at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country (http://siul02.si.ehu.es/), that participates in this proposal, has been involved in several research projects that fit in the following research issues:
 

·        Data Management Issues in Mobile Computing

·        Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Systems

·        Query Processing on Global Information Systems

·        Terminological Systems / Description Logics

At this moment we try to apply to the area of telemedicine, our background in the fields of: 1) data management (in heteregeneous, distributed, federated databases and global information systems); 2) reasoning systems like those based on KL-ONE, also known as Terminological Systems or systems based on Description Logics; and, 3) new data services for mobile computing. In particular, our main research field at the moment is ubiquitous monitoring of people, more concretely in two subareas of monitoring: assistance of elderly people and ECG monitoring of patients, focusing mainly in the data management issues related with these subareas of the telemedicine.

The members of the Interoperable Database Group at the University of the Basque Country are:

Alfredo Goñi, associate professor at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country. He has a BS degree and a PHD at Computer Science.

Arantza Illarramendi, professor at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country. She has a BS degree and a PHD at Computer Science.

Jesús Bermúdez, associate professor at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country. He has a BS degree and a PHD at Computer Science.

Jimena Rodríguez, research assistant at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country. She has a BS degree at Computer Science and currently is a PhD candidate.

Alberto Tablado, research assistant at the Computer Languages and Systems Department of the University of the Basque Country. He has a BS degree at Computer Science and currently is a PhD candidate.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Complete publications in http://siul02.si.ehu.es/)

A. Tablado, A. Illarramendi, J. Bermúdez and A. Goñi. Intelligent Monitoring of Elderly People. The 4th Annual IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2003), Birmingham (UK), April 2003.

J. Rodríguez, A. Goñi and A. Illarramendi. On-Line Management of User Heart Data to Detect Anomalous Behavior. Sent to 29th VLDB Conference (Very Large Databases), Berlin 2003

E. Mena, J.A. Royo, A. Illarramendi and A. Goñi, An Agent-based Approach for Helping Users of Hand-Held Devices to Browse Software Catalogs,  Cooperative Information Agents VI, 6th International Workshop CIA 2002, Madrid (Spain), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), ISBN 3-540-44173-5, pp. 51-65, September 2002.

Y. Villate, A. Illarramendi and E. Pitoura, Keep Your Data Safe and Available While Roaming, International Journal of Mobile Networks and Application (MONET), Special Issue on Pervasive Computing, 7(4):315-328, August 2002.

J. Rodriguez, Y. Villate, A. Goñi, A. Illarramendi and E. Mena, Data Services for Wireless Devices: from laptops to PDAs and from GSM to GPRS, Wireless Information Systems. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS 2002), Ciudad Real (Spain), ISBN. 972-98816-0-X, Qusay H. Mahmoud (ed.), ICEI Press, pp. 70-81, April 2002.

A. Goñi, A. Illarramendi, E. Mena, Y. Villate and J. Rodriguez, ANTARCTICA: A Multiagent System for Internet Data Services in a Wireless Computing Framework. Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2538), ISBN 3-540-00289-8, pp. 119-135, 2002.

E. Mena and A. Illarramendi, Ontology-Based Query Processing for Global Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-7375-8, pp. 215, 2001. June 2001.

A. Goñi and A. Illarramendi, Mobile Computing: Data Management Issues, chapter of the book "Advanced Database Technology and Design", M. Piattini and O. Díaz (ed.), Artech-House 2000.

E. Mena, V. Kashyap, A. Illarramendi and A. Sheth, Imprecise Answers on Highly Open and Distributed Environments: An Approach based on Information Loss for Multi-Ontology Based Query Processing, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), special issue Intelligent Integration of Information, 9(4):403-425, December 2000.

E. Mena, A. Illarramendi, V. Kashyap and A. Sheth, OBSERVER: An Approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies, International journal on Distributed And Parallel Databases (DAPD), ISSN 0926-8782, 8(2):223-272, April 2000.

J.M. Blanco, A. Goñi and A. Illarramendi, Mapping among Knowledge Bases and Databases: Precise definition of its syntax and semantics, Information Systems, ISSN 0306-4379, 24(4):275-301, Elsevier Science Ltd., 1999.

A. Goñi, A. Illarramendi, E. Mena and J.M. Blanco, An Optimal Cache for a Federated Database System, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), ISSN 0925-9902, 9(2):125-156, Kluwer Academic Publishers, September/October 1997.

E. Bertino and A. Illarramendi, The Integration of Heterogeneous Data Management Systems: Approaches based on the Object-Oriented paradigm, chapter of the book "Object Oriented Multidatabase Systems", O. Bukhres and E. Elmagarmid (ed.), Prentice-Hall, 1995.

J.M. Blanco, A. Illarramendi and A. Goñi, Building a Federated Database System: an approach using a Knowledge Based System, International Journal on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3(4):415-455, December 1994.

A. Illarramendi, J.M. Blanco and A. Goñi, Making the Knowledge Base Systems More Efficient: A Method to Detect Inconsistent Queries, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 6(4):634-639, August 1994.