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I was recently appointed as Manager Data Governance & Business Solutions at the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Before that, I was Chief Research Informatics Officer at the Innovation Unit at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos. I hold a Ph.D. (2011) in Design, Analysis and Applications of Intelligent Systems from the Universidad de Granada - Spain and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the same University (2001). My dissertation was devoted to integrating HTN Temporal Planning (P&S) techniques in different domains: E-learning, Business Process Management (BPM) and Clinical Decision Support (CDS). I am passionate about applying AI to medical informatics, so I was a visiting post-doc in the University of Haifa (Israel) [Nov 2011 - Oct 2013], under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Mor Peleg, to work in the European FP7 project MobiGuide. Then I held a post-doc lecturer position in the Dept. of Computer Science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where I worked at the Planning and Learning group (PLG) leaded by Prof. Daniel Borrajo.

My research interests include Artificial Intelligence, particularly Medical Informatics; Clinical Decision Support Systems; Computer-interpretable Guidelines; Automated Planning; Clinical Data Standards; Knowledge Representation; Process-aware Information Systems; Argumentation; Machine Learning

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Selected Publications All Publications (BibTex)»

h-index: 12   Citations: 429  (source: Google Scholar)

• Elsevier IJMI'17 Q1 Development of a computer-interpretable clinical guideline model for decision support in the differential diagnosis of hyponatremia, González-Ferrer, A.; Valcárcel, M. A.; Cuesta, M.; Cháfer, J.; and Runkle de la Vega, I. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Elsevier, Vol. 103, pp. 55-64, 2017.
• Elsevier IJMI'17 Q1 Assessment of a personalized and distributed patient guidance system, Peleg, M.; Shahar. Y; Quaglini, S; Broems, T; et al. International Journal of Medical Informatics ,Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol.101 pp. 108-130. 2017.
• Elsevier AP'18 Q3 Promoting directives of the Quality Law of the Spanish National Health System: Computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines, Atención Primaria (Spanish),Elsevier Science Ltd. 50 (4), pp. 247-255, 2018.
• Springer JMS'16 Q2 Analysis of the process of representing clinical statements for decision-support applications: a comparison of openEHR archetypes and HL7 virtual medical record, González-Ferrer, A.; Peleg, M.; Marcos, M; and Maldonado, J.A.Journal of Medical Systems, Springer. 40(7): 1-10. 2016.
• Elsevier CSI'15 Q2 Understanding requirements of clinical data standards for developing interoperable knowledge-based DSS: A case study, González-Ferrer, A.; and Peleg, M. Computer Standards & Interfaces,Elsevier Science Ltd. Vol. 42: 125-136. 2015.
• JAMIA'15 Q1 Solving the interoperability challenge of a distributed complex patient guidance system: A data integrator based on HL7’s Virtual Medical Record standard, Marcos, C.; González-Ferrer, A.; Peleg, M.; and Cavero, J. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxf. Univ. Press, Vol. 22. Issue 3,pp.587-599, 2015.
• Cambridge KER'13 Q3 From Business Process Models to Hierarchical Task Network Planning Domains, González-Ferrer, A. Fdez-Olivares, J., Castillo, L.The Knowledge Engineering Review Cambridge Journals, Vol. 28, Issue 2 (Special Issue on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling), 2013.
• Elsevier AIIM'13 Q2 Automated Generation of Patient-tailored Electronic Care Pathways by Translating Computer-interpretable Guidelines into Hierarchical Task Networks, González-Ferrer, A., ten Teije, A., Fdez-Olivares, J. and Milian, K. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier, Vol. 57, Issue 2 (Special Issue of AIME Conference 2011 in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine), pp. 91-109 2013
• Springer JOS'10 Q2 Automatic generation of temporal planning domains for e-learning problems, Castillo, L., Morales, L., González-Ferrer, A., Fdez-Olivares, J., Borrajo, D., Onaindía, E. Journal of Scheduling, Springer, Vol. 13, Issue 4, pp. 347-362, 2010.
• IEEE BHI'14 Int.Conf. Use of the Virtual Medical Record Data Model for Communication among Components of a Distributed Decision-support System. , González-Ferrer, A.; Peleg, M.; Parimbelli, E.; Shalom, E.; Marcos, C.; Klebanov, G.; Martínez-Sarriegui, I.; Nick, L. S. F.; and Broens, T. IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, pp. 526-530, 2014.
• CDSS'14 Book Chapter Guidelines and Workflow Models, Peleg, M., González-Ferrer, A.; In Clinical Decision Support: The Road to Broad Adoption (2nd edition), pages 435-464. Academic Press, Elsevier, 2014.

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Courses & Teaching

• Universidad Carlos III Madrid:
• UC3M 16441 Automated Planning (2013/14-2014/15), HTN Planning, Master in Computer Science and Technology.
• UC3M 15759 Multimedia (2013/14-2014/15), Bachelor Informatics Engineering. Coordinating teacher, theoretical and practical lectures.
• UC3M 15976 Heuristics and Optimization (2013/14-2014/15), Bachelor Informatics Engineering, practical lectures.
• UC3M 15987 Artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry, (2013/14-2014/15), Bachelor Informatics Engineering
• ANECA Acreditado como Profesor Contratado Doctor por la ANECA (2017)
• ANECA Acreditado como Profesor Universidad Privada por la ANECA (2017)

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Awards

• ICKEPS'09 Award of Excellence for JABBAH, International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, Board of Judges Report, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 20, 2009.
• Hacking Medicine'15 Pill Journal, Entrepreneurship idea awarded as "Most Compelling Need in Healthcare" February 26-28, Madrid 2015.

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Scientific Refereeing Activities

Conference Committees

• AAAI: 2018, [The International Conference of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence]
• IJCAI: 2017, 2019, [ International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence]
• IEEE ICHI: 2014, 2015, 2016, [IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics - Human Factors track]

Workshop and Symposia Committees

• KEPS: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, [ Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling @ ICAPS]
• ICKEPS: 2009, [ International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling @ ICAPS]
• AMIA: 2014, 2015, [American Medical Informatics Association Anual Symposium]
• ISAWEL: 2014, [Symposium on Intelligent Systems for Animal Welfare (ISAWEL)]
• KR4HC-PROHEALTH: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, [International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Healthcare (KR4HC) + Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare @ AIME, BPM]

Other Committees

• IDEA2 Global: 2016 [A program of MIT LINQ program and the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute for Medical Engineering & Science for Emerging Innovation Leaders.]

Journal and Magazine Referee

• Journal Referee: Elsevier's Information Systems (1), Elsevier's AIME (8), Elsevier's JBI (2), Schattauer's Methods Inf. Med. (2),
• Editorial Boards: Schattauer's Methods Inf. Med., Student Editorial Board 2012