Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods
URL Professor
Co-ordinator GREC
Director Research Programmes Unit
Programme Director, Master of Research in Management Sciences
Programme Director, PhD in Management Sciences
Academic training
Doctora en Matemáticas. Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya
Licenciada en Ciencias Matemáticas. Universidad de Barcelona
Interest Areas
Artificial Intelligence
Forms of Reasoning: Qualitative Reasoning/Fuzzy Reasoning
Artificial Learning
Data Mining
Biography
From January 1982 to September 1987, she worked as teacher assistant at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). She was awarded a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UPC for a dissertation related to Qualitative Reasoning Modelization (under the direction of Prof. Núria Piera).
From 1998 to 2001, she was on the Executive Committee of LEA-SICA (European Associate Laboratory on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Control). Since 2000 to 2004, she was member of the MONET European Network of Excellence on Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning.
She is the coordinator of the GREC-ESADE Research Group on Engineering Knowledge and an active member of ARCA (Qualitative Reasoning Automatization and Applications Group). She is a member of the programme committee for several international conferences and chaired the 18th Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning held in Barcelona in 2002. She serves as reviewer for several international journals.
Since October 2006 to October 2010 has been President of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA). Since October 2004, she has been editor of the ACIA Bulletin.
She is currently the principal coordinator of several projects related to the application of artificial intelligence to Business, Marketing and Finance, funded by public institutions and private organizations.
She was teacher assistant at ESADE from 1990 to 1992, and lecturer from 1993 to 2003. Since 2003 she is professor at ESADE (Universitat Ramon Llull).
Selected publications
Roselló, Ll.; Prats, F. ; Agell Jané, N. & Sánchez, M. (2010). Measuring consensus in group decisions by means of qualitative reasoning. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 51(4), 441-452.
Ruiz, F. J.; Angulo, C. & Agell Jané, N. (2008). IDD: A supervised interval distance-based method for discretization. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 20(9), 1230-1238.
Domingo, M.; Agell Jané, N.; Xavier Parra; Sánchez, M. & Angulo, C. (2007). Using qualitative information to predict citizens' satisfaction. AI Communications: The European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, 20(1), 59-65.
Ruiz, F. J.; Angulo, C. & Agell Jané, N. (2006). Nature-inspiration on Kernel Machines: Data mining for continuous and discrete variables. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (4252/2006), 425-432.
Prats, F. ; Sánchez, M. ; Agell Jané, N. & Ormazábal, G. (2006). An evaluation method with imprecise information for multi-attribute decision support. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (4177), 133-142.
Travé-Massuyčs, L.; Prats, F. ; Sánchez, M. & Agell Jané, N. (2005). Relative and absolute order-of-magnitude models unified. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 45(3/4), 323-341.
Sánchez, M. ; Prats, F. ; Agell Jané, N. & Ormazabal Sánchez, G. (2005). Multiple criteria evaluation for value management in civil engineering. Journal of Management in Engineering, 21(3), 131-137.
Travé-Massuyčs, L.; Ph. Dague; N.Piera; Agell Jané, N.; Prats, F. ; A. Missier & Sánchez, M. (2003). Le raisonement sur les ordres de grandeur. In L. Travé-Massuyčs & Ph. Dague (Ed.). Modčles et raisonnements qualitatifs (pp. 75-127). Francia: Lavoisier Hermes Science.
Contact
nuria.agell@esade.edu
Phone: +34 932 806 162 Ext. 2272
Fax: +34 932 048 105
Av. de la Torre Blanca, 59 E-08172 Sant Cugat
