Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz

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Contact Information

Department of Computer Science, Oxford University
Wolfson Building, Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3QD, UK

E-mail: ernesto.jimenez.ruiz [at] gmail.com

Web at Oxford University: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/

Personal Web: http://www.jimenez-ruiz.es/ernesto/


Curriculum Vitae: Updated July 2010 [pdf]
Short Curriculum Vitae (2 pages): Updated July 2010 [pdf]
Linked-in CV:     

Bio

• Novermber 2012: Gets a 4-years postdoctoral position (Research Assistant) funded by the FP7 IP project Optique in the Oxford University Computer Science Department

• June 2012: Wins 'doctoral award' from University Jaume I of Castellon (Engineering track).

• February 2011: Positively evaluated by the ANECA and AVAP as post-doctoral teaching assistant (profesor ayudante doctor)

• January 2011: Gets a 2-years postdoctoral position (Research Assistant) funded by the EPSRC project LogMap in the Oxford University Computer Science Department

• October 2010: Gets a postdoc contract at University Jaume I, and stays as a guest visitor (2 months) in the Text Mining Group at EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute)

• June 2010: Gets the doctor's degree in Computer Science (June 24): "Logic-based support for Ontology Development in Open Environments" [Tesis en Xarxa TDX]

• 2010: Teaching at University Jaume I (90 hours, 1 course).

• 2009: Research visit (3 months) to the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at Oxford University.

• 2009: Starts Teaching at University Jaume I (60 hours, 2 courses).

• 2008: Research visit (5 months) to the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at Oxford University. PhD Co-Supervisor: Bernardo Cuenca-Grau (berg [at] comlab.ox.ac.uk)

• 2007: Research visit (3 months) to the Information Management Group at University of Manchester.

• 2007: Research visit (3 months) to the Text Mining Group at EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute).

• 2006: Gets a FPI Doctoral Grant, Valencian Autonomous Government (2+2 years).

• 2006: Starts the collaboration with the company Maat GKnowledge within the objectives of the Health-e-Child project.

• 2005: Stays at the University of Concepcion (Chile) by means the EDUGI.LA II Research Grant (3 months).

• 2004: Joins Temporal Knowledge Bases Group at Universitat Jaume I and starts his PhD studies in Advanced Computer Systems. PhD Supervisor: Rafael Berlanga-Llavorí (berlanga [at] uji.es).

• 2004: BSc+MSc (5 years Spanish Engineering) in Computer Science at Universitat Jaume I.

• 2003: Stays at IAC (Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute) with a Summer Scolarship within the Technological Development Department (3 months)

Academic Services

2013

• Co-organizes the 8th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM). Collocated with ISWC 2013 workshop.
• Co-organizes the 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE). Collocated with DL 2013 workshop.
• PC Member of the Evaluation Track of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). October 2013.
• PC Member of the International Health Informatics Conference. August 2013, Beijing, China. Collocated with IJCAI
• PC Member of the 2013 International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics. October 2013.
• PC Member of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2013). September 2013.
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM)

2012

• Co-organizes the 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories (E-LKR). In conjunction with SEPLN 2012.
• Proceedings published as Volume 882 of CEUR-WS.org
• Co-organizes the Matching Large Biomedical Ontologies track within the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.
• Co-organizes the OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2012). Collocated with IJCAR 2012 Conference.
• Proceedings published as Volume 858 of CEUR-WS.org
• PC Member of the Seventh International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2012). November 2012.
• PC Member of the ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012). January 2012.

2011

• Co-organizes the 1st International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories (E-LKR). In conjunction with DEXA 2011.
• PC Member of Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge Workshop. In conjunction with K-CAP 2011.
• PC Member of Spanish Workshop on Linked Data. In conjunction with CAEPIA 2011.

Teaching Skills

Teaching-related publications

• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Dolores María Llidó Escriva, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, Olga Rajadell Rojas. Aplicación de nuevas técnicas docentes en la asignatura Sistemas Cliente-Servidor. XVII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI). 2011. ISBN: 978-84-694-5156-4.
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Dolores María Llidó Escriva, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, Olga Rajadell Rojas. Soporte a las necesidades de programación web de la asignatura Sistemas Cliente-Servidor (Projectes d'innovació educativa de la convocatòria 2009/10). Actes de la IX Jornada de Millora Educativa de l'UJI. Castellón: 27-06-2011. ISBN: 978-84-695-0300-3
• Dolores María Llidó Escriva, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz. Aplicando Aprendizaje Cooperativo Basado en Proyectos en la asignatura Sistemas Cliente/Servidor (Experiències de millora i innovació educativa de la Universitat Jaume I del curs 2008/09). Actes de la XI Jornada sobre aprenentatge cooperatiu. Castellón: 27-06-2011. ISBN: 978-84-694-4111-4

Training Programmes

• University Teacher Training Program (January 2009 – May 2010, 200 hours)
• Secondary Teacher Training Course: Speciality in Computing and Statistics. Jaume I University (November 2004 - March 2005, 200 hours).

Teaching 2012-2013

• Class tutor and Teaching assistant of the course Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Teaching 2011-2012

• Teaching assistant of the course Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Teaching 2009 - 2010

• Sistemas Cliente Servidor (Client-Server Systems) - IG39, II39, IS39 (Computer Science). 90 hours

Teaching 2008 - 2009

• Sistemas Cliente Servidor (Client-Server Systems) - IG39, II39, IS39 (Computer Science). 30 hours
• Informática Aplicada a la Gestión (Word, Access and Excel tools) - A25 (Business Administration). 30 hours

Developed Tools

• LogMap Ontology Matching Tool
• LogMap's Web Facility
• LogMap's Google code page
• Locality Module Extractor.
• ContentMap: A logiC-based ONtology inTEgratioN Tool using MAPpings.
• ContentCVS: A CVS-based Concurrent ONTology ENgineering Tool.
• ProSÉ: a Protégé plug-in for Reusing Ontologies: Safe and Économique.
• G-Protégé Ontology Management System

Developed Ontologies

• QImage Ontology: An Ontology to represent Qualitative Descriptions of Images

• Table Olives Ontology: Ontología creada siguiendo la Norma del CODEX para las Aceitunas de Mesa (CODEX STAN 66-1981). Currently only in Spanish.

Interesting Links

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group (Oxford University)
• OWL at Manchester
• Text Mining Group at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Publications

2013

• Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Christian Meilicke, Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Ian Horrocks. Evaluating Mapping Repair Systems with Large Biomedical Ontologies. In 26th International Workshop on Description Logics. [pdf]

2012

• Ernesto Jimenez Ruiz‚ Bernardo Cuenca Grau‚ Yujiao Zhou and Ian Horrocks. "Large scale Interactive Ontology Matching: Algorithms and Implementation". Accepted in the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012). doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-444. [.pdf] Related publications:
  • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks. "LogMap and LogMapLt results for OAEI 2012". In the 7th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2012). [.pdf]
• José Luis Aguirre, Kai Eckert, Jérôme Euzenat, Alfio Ferrara, Willem Robert van Hage, Laura Hollink, Christian Meilicke, Andriy Nikolov, Dominique Ritze, François Scharffe, Pavel Shvaiko, Ondřej Šváb-Zamazal, Cássia Trojahn, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Benjamin Zapilko. Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2012. In the 7th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2012). [.pdf]
• Ernesto Jimenez−Ruiz‚ Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Ian Horrocks. "Exploiting the UMLS Metathesaurus in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative". In 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories (E−LKR). CEUR−WS.org. September, 2012. [pdf]
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks. "On the Feasibility of Using OWL 2 DL Reasoners for Ontology Matching Problems". In the 1st OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2012). [.pdf]
• Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Evgeny Kharlamov and Dmitriy Zheleznyakov. "Ontology Evolution under Semantic Constraints". Accepted in 13th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Rome, Italy. June 2012. [.pdf]
• R. Berlanga, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, V. Nebot. "Exploring and linking biomedical resources through multidimensional semantic spaces. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 13(Suppl 1):S6. ISSN 1471-2105, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-S1-S6
• C. Meilicke O. Svab−Zamazal C. Trojahn E. Jimenez−Ruiz J.L. Aguirre H. Stuckenschmidt and B. Cuenca Grau. "Evaluating Ontology Matching Systems on Large‚ Multilingual and Real−world Test Cases". In ArXiv e−prints‚ 1208.3148. August, 2012.
• Jose V. Marti, Jorge Sales, Raul Marin, and Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, "Localization of Mobile Sensors and Actuators for Intervention in Low-Visibility Conditions: The ZigBee Fingerprinting Approach". International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2012, Article ID 951213, 10 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/951213

2011

• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau. LogMap: Logic-based and Scalable Ontology Matching. Accepted in the 10th International Semantic Web Confernece (ISWC 2011). [.pdf][More info]. Related publications:
  • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Antón Morant, Bernardo Cuenca Grau. "LogMap results for OAEI 2011". In the 6th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2011). [.pdf]
  • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau. "Towards more Challenging Problems for Ontology Matching Tools". In the 6th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2011). [.pdf] [poster]
  • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Yujiao Zhou "LogMap 2.0: towards logic-based, scalable and interactive ontology matching". In the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2011). [.pdf] [poster]
• E. Jiménez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, I. Horrocks, R. Berlanga. "Supporting Concurrent Ontology Development: Framework, Algorithms and Tool”. Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal, ISSN: 0169-023X, Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 146-164, 2011. [More info]
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, R. Berlanga, I. Horrocks. "Logic-based Assessment of the Compatibility of UMLS Ontology Sources". In BMC Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2011, 2(Suppl 1):S2, ISSN 1613-0073. 2010. [More info]. Poster papers have also been accepted in:
  • The Fifth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2010), Shanghai, China. November 2010. "Towards a UMLS-based silver standard for matching biomedical ontologies". Volume 689 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
  • The Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS2009). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2009. "Towards a Logic-based Assessment of the compatibility of UMLS sources". Volume 559 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• Z. Falomir, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, M. T. Escrig, L. Museros. "Describing Images using Qualitative Models and Description Logics”. In Spatial Cognition & Computation Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2011, ISSN: 1387-5868. [More info].
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, D. Rebholz-Schuhmann and Ian Lewin. Exploitation of cross-references between terminological resources within the CALBC context. 1st Intl. Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories, DEXA Workshops 2011 [doi ref].
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Dolores María Llidó Escriva, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, Olga Rajadell Rojas. Aplicación de nuevas técnicas docentes en la asignatura Sistemas Cliente-Servidor. XVII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI). 2011

2010

• R. Berlanga, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, V. Nebot and I. Sanz. FAETON: Form Analysis and Extraction Tool for ONtology construction. In International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Volume 39, Issue 4, pp. 224-233, ISSN 0952-8091, 2010. [doi ref]. This is an extended version of a workshop paper presented in the XIII Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases, October 2008.
• R. Berlanga, V. Nebot and E Jiménez-Ruiz. Semantic annotation of biomedical texts through concept retrieval. Procesamiento del Lenguage Natural. ISSN 1989-7553. Volume Num. 45. pp. 247-250. 2010.
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, R. Berlanga, D. Rebholz-Schuhmann. "First steps in the logic-based assessment of post-composed phenotypic descriptions". Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS2010). Berlin, Germany, Devember 2010. Volume 698 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• R. Berlanga, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, V. Nebot. "Building conceptual spaces for exploring and linking biomedical resources". Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS2010). Berlin, Germany, Devember 2010. Volume 698 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz. "Logic-based support for Ontology Development in Open Environments". Ph. D. thesis. Universitat Jaume I. ISBN 978-84-693-6343-0. [Tesis en Xarxa TDX]

2009

• M. Mesiti, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, I. Sanz, R. Berlanga-Llavori, P. Perlasca, G. Valentini and D. Manset. "XML-based approaches for the integration of heterogeneous bio-molecular data". Special Issue on Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex Systems Applications. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 12):S7, ISSN 1471-2105, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S12-S7. October 2009.
• A. Jimeno-Yepes, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, R. Berlanga-Llavori, D. Rebholz-Schuhmann. "Reuse of terminological resources for efficient ontological engineering in Life Sciences". Special Issue on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 10):S4, ISSN 1471-2105, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S10-S4. October 2009.
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, I. Horrocks, R. Berlanga. "Ontology Integration Using Mappings: Towards Getting the Right Logical Consequences." In the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009), Crete, Greece, June 2009. LNCS 5554, ISBN 978-3-642-02120-6, pp. 173-187. [pdf] [doi ref]. A Demo paper has also been accepted in:
  • The 14th edition of the Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases (JISBD 2009), San Sebastian, Spain. "Logic-based Ontology Integration using ContentMap". ISBN: 978-84-692-4211-7, pp. 316-319. September 2009 [paper]
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, I. Horrocks, R. Berlanga. "ContentCVS: A CVS-based Collaborative ONTology ENgineering Tool (Demo)". Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS2009). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2009. Volume 559 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca Grau, I. Horrocks, R. Berlanga. "Building Ontologies Collaboratively using ContentCVS". Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2009). Oxford, UK, July 2009. Volume 477 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• M. Mesiti, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, I. Sanz, R. Berlanga, G. Valentini, P. Perlasca and D. Manset. "Data Integration Issues and Opportunities in Biological XML Data Management". Chapter XII in Eric Pardede (ed.), "Open and Novel Issues in XML Database Applications: Future Directions and Advanced Technologies.". ISBN: 978-1-60566-308-1. Publisher IGI Global. April 2009.
• I. Sanz and E. Jimenez-Ruiz. "Ontologías en Informática". En A. Alcina, E. Valero y E. Rambla (eds.): Terminología y Sociedad del conocimiento, Peter Lang, Berna, 255-286. ISBN: 978-3-03911-593-8. [Google Books]
• A. Duque, C. Campos, E. Jiménez-Ruiz and R. Chalmeta ." An Ontological Solution to Support Interoperability in the Textile Industry". Proc. of the Second IFIP WG 5.8 International Workshop, IWEI 2009, Valencia, Spain, October 13-14, 2009. LNBIP 38. Enterprise Interoperability. ISBN 978-3-642-04749-7, pp. 38-51 .[doi ref]
• Z. Falomir Llansola, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, L. Museros Cabedo, M.T. Escrig Monferrer. "An Ontology for Qualitative Description fo Images". COSIT 2009 Workshop proceedings, Spatial and Temporal Reasoning for Ambient Intelligence Systems. Aber Wrac'h (France). September 2009.

2008

• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, B. Cuenca-Grau, U. Sattler, T. Schneider and R. Berlanga. "Safe and Economic Re-Use of Ontologies: A Logic-Based Methodology and Tool Support". In Proc. of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, June 2008. LNCS 5021, ISBN: 978-3-540-68233-2, pp. 185-199. [pdf] [report] [doi ref]. Adapted versions have also been accepted in:
  • The 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2008). Dresden, Germany, May 2008. Volume 353 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
  • The 13th edition of the Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases (JISBD 2008), Gijón, Spain. ISBN: 978-84-612-5820-8. "ProSÉ: A Protégé plugin for Reusing Ontologies, Safe and Économique". Demo Paper, pp. 449-452. [paper]
• A. Jimeno-Yepes, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, R.Berlanga, D. Rebholz-Schuhmann: Use of shared lexical resources for efficient ontological engineering. Accepted in Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS), November 2008. Volume 435 of CEUR WS Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• R. Berlanga, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, V. Nebot, D. Manset, A. Branson, T. Hauer, R. McClatchey, D. Rogulin, J. Shamdasani, S. Zillner and J. Freund. "Medical Data Integration and the Semantic Annotation of Medical Protocols". In Proceedings of 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008), Jyväskylä, Finland, 2008. IEEE CS Press, ISBN 978-0-7695-3165-6, pp. 644-649
• M. Mesiti, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, I. Sanz, R. Berlanga, G. Valentini, P. Perlasca and D. Manset. "XML-based approaches for the integration of heterogeneous Bio-molecular data". In the Network Tools and Applications in Biology Workshop, NETTAB, 2008 Workshop on Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex System Applications.
• R. Berlanga, H. Anaya-Sánchez, A. Pons-Porrata, E. Jiménez-Ruiz. Conceptual Subtopic Identification in the Medical Domain. In the 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2008). [doi ref] LNCS 5290, pp. 312-321.

2007

• A. Jimeno-Yepes, E. Jimenez-Ruiz, V. Lee, S. Gaudan, R.Berlanga, D. Rebholz-Schuhmann: Assessment of diseases named entity recognition on a corpus of annotated sentences. Presented in International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM), December 2007. Published in BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 3):S3, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S3-S3.
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Rafael Berlanga, Victoria Nebot, Ismael Sanz begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting: OntoPath: A Language for Retrieving Ontology Fragments. In Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari editors, Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 897-914, LNCS 4803, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76848-7_60, 2007
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Victoria Nebot, Rafael Berlanga, Ismael Sanz and Alfonso Rios: A Protege Plug-in-based System to Manage and Query large Domain Ontologies. 10th International Protégé Conference, July 15-18, 2007, Budapest, Hungary. 

2006

• E. Jimenez-Ruiz, R. Berlanga, I. Sanz, R. McClatchey, R. Danger, D. Manset, J. Paraire, A. Rios: The Management and Integration of Biomedical Knowledge: Application in the Health-e-Child Project (Position Paper). In OnToContent'06, 1st International Workshop on Ontology content and evaluation in Enterprise. LNCS Num. 4278. pp. 1062-1067. doi:10.1007/11915072_8, October 2006.
• Ernesto Jiménez, Rafael Berlanga, Ismael Sanz, and Roxana Danger: A Methodology for Vertical Integration over Biomedical Knowledge. In JIDBD'06, XI Spanish Conference on Software Engineering and Databases, October 2006.
• E. Jiménez-Ruiz, R. Berlanga. A View-based Methodology for Collaborative Ontology Engineering: an Approach for Complex Applications (VIMethCOE). In 1st International Workshop (WETICE workshop) on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA), June 2006. Selected "best workshop paper" based on reviews.

2005

•   E. Jiménez, R. Berlanga, I. Sanz, M. J. Aramburu, R. Danger: OntoPathView: A Simple View Definition Language for the Collaborative Development of Ontologies. In B. López et al. (Eds.): Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, pages 429-436. IOS Press, 2005. ISBN 1-58603-560-6

2004

• E. Jiménez, R. Marín, P. J. Sanz. A Soft Computing Classifier Based On Fourier Descriptors Within Online Robots Context. International Conference On Systems, Man And Cybernetics ? IEEE SMC 2004. The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004. ISBN 0-7803-8567-5, pp. 4838-4843