PhD graduate degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI), University of Granada, July 13, 2001.
Dissertation title: "Cooperative Learning for Flexible Linguistic Modeling Based on Fuzzy Rules: Interpretability and Accuracy"
Advisors: Dr. Oscar Cordón and Dr. Francisco Herrera Full manuscript (in Spanish): Download here
Contracted Researcher in the European
Project entitled "GENESYS: Fuzzy Controllers and Smart Tuning Techniques for Energy Efficiency and
Overall Performance of HVAC Systems in Buildings," February 1999 - August 2000
Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado Tipo III) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, October 2001 - June 2005
Untenured Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, July 2005 - January 2007
Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, January 2007 - October 2019
Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, October 2019 - present
Business Analytics (4th year of Computer Science) 2013-2020: resolution of real-world business problems by data mining including classification, clustering, association rules, data visualization, big data, data stream...
Artificial Intelligence (2th year of Computer Science) 2020-: AI fundamentals, knowledge representation, search, learning, AI applications.
Programming (5th year of Mathematics) 2001-2002: introduction to language C
Computer Networks (4th year of Statistics) 2001-2002: introduction to computer networks
Programming (1st year of Mathematics) 2002-2003: introduction to language C
Fuzzy Control (5th year of Electronic Engineering) 2002-2014: study and design of fuzzy logic controllers, genetic fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems, application to robot navigation...
Intelligent Control (4th year of Industrial Electronic Engineering) 2014-: fuzzy logic controllers, genetic fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems, autonomous robotics, localization, mapping, planning...
J. Casillas,Enseñanza de control difuso en Ingeniería Electrónica en la Universidad de Granada: un enfoque práctico,Proceedings of the XII Congreso Español sobre Tecnología y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF 2004), special session "Sesión especial: La enseñanza de la lógica difusa: motivaciones y acciones,"Jaén, Spain (2004) 63-71.
Teaching project: Desarrollo de herramientas docentes para la comprensión de algoritmos de optimización y búsqueda (ref. 02-02-35), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, November 2002 - February 2006. Coordinator: J. Casillas.
Teaching project: Plataforma web multidisciplinar para la gestión de asignaturas de informática en múltiples titulaciones (ref. 06-03-01), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, December 2006 - April 2009. Coordinator: S. Alonso
Teaching project: Un ITS para teoría de algoritmos (ref. 08-215), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, November 2008 - May 2010. Coordinator: J. M. Benítez
International Teaching Grants:
Developing Curricula for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (DeCAIR), Erasmus+: KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, EAC-A02-2019-CBHE. Partners: University of Jordan, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Tafila Technical University, Université Libanaise, Beirut Arab University, Università di Pisa, Università Degli Studi di Genova, Universidad de Granada, Unviersität Stuttgart, Creative Thinking Development. Period: January 15, 2021 - January 14, 2024
Francisco J. Martínez-López (June 27, 2005)
Title: "Knowledge Discovery Methodology for Consumer Behaviour Modelling by Genetic Fuzzy Systems and its Application to Internet-based Electronic Markets"
Co-advisors: Jorge Casillas and Francisco J. Martínez (University of Huelva)
"European Doctor" Mention
Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Andreu Sancho-Asensio (May 19, 2014)
Title: "Facing Online Challenges Using Learning Classifier Systems"
Co-advisors: Jorge Casillas and Elisabet Golobardes (Ramon Llull University)
"European Doctor" Mention
School of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
Mohamed Habib Kammoun (April 16, 2015)
Title: "Hybrid MultiAgent Road Traffic Management System: Assets of Ant-Hierarchical Fuzzy Behavior in System Adaptativity"
Co-advisors: Ilhem Kallel (University of Sfax), Jorge Casillas, and Adel M. Alimi (University of Sfax)
National Engineering School of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Alicia D. Benítez Yáñez (October 26, 2015)
Title: "Multiobjective Evolutionary Learning of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems and their Application in Astrophysics"
Advisor: Jorge Casillas
School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Héctor R. Velarde Bedregal (February 21, 2017)
Title: "Model for Development Effort Estimation on Engineering Tasks of Software Projects by Using Machine Learning"
Advisor: Jorge Casillas
School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Elena Ruiz Sánchez (May 7, 2021)
Title: "Learning Rules in Data Stream Mining: Algorithms and Applications"
Advisor: Jorge Casillas
School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Awards
2001 Extraordinary Prize of the University of Granada to the PhD thesis entitled "Cooperative Learning for Flexible Linguistic Modeling Based on Fuzzy Rules: Interpretability and Accuracy"
Best paper award in the 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems (IWGEFS 2008), Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, 2008:
J. Casillas, A. Orriols-Puig, E. Bernadó-Mansilla, Toward evolving consistent, complete, and compact fuzzy rule sets for classification problems, pp. 89-94
Top Cited Article 2005-2010 of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence journal to the paper R. Alcalá, J. Casillas, O. Cordón, A. González, F. Herrera, A genetic rule weighting and selection process for fuzzy control of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence 18:3
(2005) 279-296. ISSN 0952-1976. doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2004.09.007
Award of the University of Granada to Excellent Research Works (call 2012) for "Mining uncertain data with multiobjective genetic fuzzy systems to be applied in consumer behaviour modelling"
Modelado Causal mediante Extracción de Conocimiento con Sistemas Difusos Genéticos Multiobjetivo. Aplicación en Modelado del Comportamiento del Consumidor, Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de León, Spain (May, 2005)
Aprendizaje a partir de Estímulos con Sistemas Clasificadores Difusos para Robótica, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, Spain (May, 2005)
Sistemas Clasificadores Difusos estilo Michigan. Aplicaciones en Robótica y Data Mining, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags., Mexico (May, 2005)
Algoritmos Bioinspirados: Técnicas de Computación que Imitan la Naturaleza, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (March, 2007)
New Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Interpretable, Scalable, Hierarchical, and Incremental. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan (August, 2009)
Inteligencia Empresarial, XX Jornada Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (JINIS), Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa, Peru (October, 2013)
Toward association rules in data streams: new approaches with potential real-world applications, IEEE SSCI 2014, IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems, Orlando, FL (December 11, 2014)
Title: GENESYS: Fuzzy Controllers and Smart Tuning Techniques for Energy Efficiency andOverall Performance of HVAC Systems in Buildings Finance provider: European Commission JOULE-THERMIE Programme, Fourth Framework Programme, grant no. JOE-CT98-0090 Period: October 1998 - September 2000 UGR node coordinator: A. González
Title: Intelligent Data Analysisusing Fuzzy Rule Based Systems and Genetic Learning Processes Finance provider: Spanish Interministerial Commission of Science and Technology (CICYT), grant no. PB98-1319 Period: January 2000 - December 2002 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: KEEL: Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT), grant no. TIC2002-04036-C05-01 Period: November 2002 - October 2005 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Improvement of Metaheuristics by Hybridation and their Applications Finance provider: University of Granada, reference ISB 2325 Period: November 2002 - October 2003 Coordinator: O. Cordón
Title: Hybridizing Evolutionary Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization. Application to Fuzzy Rule Set Learning and Bioinformatics Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT), grant no. TIC2003-00877 Period: January 2004 - December 2006 Coordinator: O. Cordón
Title: Remote Control of Adaptive and Self-governing Mobile Robot Systems to Perform Joint Task by Beta-type Genetic Fuzzy Systems Finance provider: Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI), grant no. 26/04/P/T Period: January 2005 - December 2005 Spanish partner coordinator: J. Casillas
Title: KEEL II: Evolutionary Algorithms for Data Reduction and Extraction of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems. Diversity and Convergence in Evolutionary Algorithms. Interpretability vs Accuracy in Fuzzy Modeling Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2005-08386-C05-01 Period: December 2005 - December 2008 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: MINDAT-PLUS: Data mining for users in different application areas Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. P05-TIC-00531 Period: January 2006 - December 2008 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Mk-AprenDif: Learning Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems to Interpretability Improvement and Management of High Dimensionality and Uncertainty. Application in Marketing. Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. P07-TIC-3185 Period: January 2008 - December 2012 Coordinator: J. Casillas
Title: KEEL-CTNC: Evolutionary Learning of Fuzzy Rule Based Systems, Imbalanced Data Sets, Frequent and Interesting Pattern Mining. Data Preprocessing and Algorithm Scalability in Data Mining. Web Mining Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2008-06681-C06-01 Period: January 2009 - December 2011 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: New Challenges on the Use of Soft Computing Techniques for Data Mining Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. P10-TIC-6858 Period: March 2011 - April 2016 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Applications of Soft Computing Techniques to Data Mining. New Approaches Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2011-28488 Period: January 2012 - December 2014 Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Support Tool for Energy Efficiency pRogrammes in medical centres (STEER)
Finance provider: European Commission H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014, grant no. 645694 Period: December 2014 - November 2018
UGR node coordinator: J. Casillas
Title: Tools and Models of Data Science by Computational Intelligence. Big Data
Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), grant no. TIN2014-57251-P Period: January 2015 - December 2017
Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Big data preprocessing: tools to improve the quality of data (BigDaPTOOLS)
Finance provider: Fundación BBVA Period: July 2016 - June 2018
Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: SMART-DASCI: Models of data science and computational intelligence. Building bridges between big data and smart data
Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO), grant no. TIN2017-89517-P Period: January 2018 - December 2020
Coordinator: F. Herrera
Title: Virtual tongue to predIct the organoleptic profile of mediterranean ingredients and their effect on human homeostasis by means of an integrated computational multiphysics platform (VIRTUOUS)
Finance provider: European Commission H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019, grant no. 872181 Period: December 2019 - November 2023
UGR node coordinator: V. Martos
Title: Assessment of healthcare needs of people with chronic diseases according to social and environmental determinants using advanced data science methodologies
Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Institute of Health Carlos III Research Projects on Health, grant no. PI20/01435 Period: November 2020 - October 2023
Coordinator: J. Casillas
Journal Editorial Representation
Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer, ISSN 1864-5909 (print version), 1864-5917 (electronic version). Member of the Editorial Board since January, 2008
Evolving Systems, Springer, ISSN 1868-6478 (print version), 1868-6486 (electronic version). Member of the Editorial Board since April, 2015
B. Carse, J. Casillas, F. Gomide, Fifteen Years of Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Lessons Learnt, New Approaches, and Real-World Applications,
2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
(FUZZ-IEEE 2006), Vancouver, Canada
Membership to Research Networks, Research Groups, and Associations
Red Andaluza de Investigación en Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (RADI-AEB)
Red Española de Procedimientos Metaheurísticos (HEUR)
Red Española de Minería de Datos y Aprendizaje (MINDATOS)
Research Group on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems
(SCI2S)
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies (EUSFLAT). Treasurer of EUSFLAT from September 2007 to July 2011, member of the board since July 2011, and coordinator of the working group on Genetic Fuzzy Systems since September 2007