Javier Murillo Espinar

Co-Founder of Newronia http://www.newronia.com

And eXiT Research Group Partner

Location

Newronia

Parc Científic i Tecnològic

Narcís Monturiol Building

C/ Emili Grahit, 91

17003, Girona, Spain

javier(dot)murillo(at)newronia(dot)com

Academic formation

Computer Engineering, 2006, UdG

Master in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, 2007, UdG. Master Thesis, “Egalitarian behaviour in recurrent multi-unit combinatorial auctions”

Stay during 4 months at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre in Cork, Ireland, 2010.

PhD in Tecnology, 2010. Universitat de Girona. Thesis, “Egalitarian Behaviour in Multi Unit Combinatorial Auctions”

Research

Research lines: Optimization, constraint satisfaction problems, combinatorial auctions, multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling.

Publications

2011

Albert Plà, Beatriz López, Javier Murillo. “Workflow Resource Allocation through Auctions”. In: Proc. 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AILog in IJCAI), pp 55-60, Barcelona 2011.

2010

Javier Murillo and Beatriz López. “Fair Mechanisms for Recurrent Multi Unit Combinatorial Auctions”. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). Short paper. Lisbon, Portugal. August 16-20, 2010.

Javier Murillo and Beatriz López. “Fair Mechanisms for Recurrent Multi Unit Combinatorial Auctions”. European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS 2010). Lisbon, Portugal. August 16-20, 2010.

Javier Murillo, Beatriz López, Víctor Muñoz and Dídac Busquets. “Fairness in Recurrent Auctions with Competing Markets and Supply Fluctuations”. Computational Intelligence. To appear.

2009

Victor Muñoz, Javier Murillo, Beatriz López and Dídac Busquets. “Strategies for Exploiting Trust Models in Competitive Multiagent Systems”. Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES). Hamburg, Germany. September 9-11, 2009.

Javier Murillo, Victor Muñoz, Beatriz López and Dídac Busquets. “Developing strategies for the ART Domain”. The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA). Sevilla, Spain. November 9-13, 2009.

Javier Murillo, Víctor Muñoz, Dídac Busquets and Beatriz López. “Schedule Coordination through Egalitarian Recurrent Multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions”. Applied Intelligence, Springer, 2009.

Beatriz López, Víctor Muñoz, Javier Murillo, Federico Barber, Miguel A. Salido, Montserrat Abril, Mariamar Cervantes, Luis F. Caro and Mateu Villaret. “Experimental analysis of optimization techniques on the road passenger transportation problem”. Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence 22, pp. 374-388, (Ed. Elsevier Science), ISSN: 0952-1976, 2009.

2008

Víctor Muñoz and Javier Murillo. “Agent UNO: Winner in the 2nd Spanish ART competition”. Inteligencia Artificia Vol. 12, 39 (2008), pp. 19-27. ISSN: 1137-3601. AEPIA (http://erevista.aepia.org/).

Víctor Muñoz and Javier Murillo. “CABRO: Winner Determination Algorithm for Single-unit Combinatorial Auctions”. Onzè Congrés Internacional de l'Associació Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial, CCIA. Sant Martí d'Empúries, Spain. October 22-24, 2008.

Javier Murillo, Víctor Muñoz, Beatriz López and Dídac Busquets. “A Fair Mechanism for Recurrent Multi-unit Auctions”. Sixth German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies MATES. Kaiserslautern, Germany. September 23-26, 2008. Awarded as the Best Paper Award.

Javier Murillo, Dídac Busquets, Jordi Dalmau, Beatriz López and Víctor Muñoz. “Improving waste water treatment quality through an auction-based management of discharges”. Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008), pp. 1370-1377. 2008. Awarded as the Best Student Paper. Barcelona, Spain, July 7-10, 2008.

2007

Víctor Muñoz , Javier Murillo, Dídac Busquets and Beatriz López. "Improving Water Quality by Coordinating Industries Schedules and Treatment Plants". AAMAS Workshop on Coordinating Agent Plans and Schedules (CAPS). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. May 16-18, 2007.

Javier Murillo, Víctor Muñoz, Beatriz López and Dídac Busquets. "Dynamic Configurable Auctions for Coordinating Industrial Waste Discharges". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of MATES 2007), Vol. 4687, pp. 109-120, Springer, 2007. Fifth German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies MATES. Leipzig, Germany. September 24-26, 2007.

Javier Murillo and Beatriz López. “An Efficient Estimation Function for the Crew Scheduling Problem”. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications – AI Research & Development (Proceedings of CCIA 2007), pp. 11-18, IOS Press, 2007. Desè Congrés Internacional de l'Associació Catalana d'Intel·ligència Artificial CCIA. Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra, October 25-26, 2007.

Javier Murillo and Víctor Muñoz. “Agent UNO: Winner in the 2007 Spanish ART Testbed competition”. Workshop on Competitive agents in Agent Reputation and Trust Testbed, The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA). Salamanca, Spain, November 12-16, 2007.

Javier Murillo, Víctor Muñoz, Dídac Busquets and Beatriz López. “Coordinating Agents Schedules through Auction Mechanisms”. Workshop on Planning, Scheduling and Constraint Satisfaction, The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA). Salamanca, Spain, November 12-16, 2007.

2006

Javier Murillo and Beatriz López. “An Empirical Study of Planning and Scheduling Interactions in the Road Passenger Transportation Domain”. Proceedings of The 25th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group (PlanSIG2006), Rong Qu (ed.), 14th-15th December 2006. Nottingham, UK. ISSN 1368-5708.

Summer Schools and courses

Third International Summer School on Constraint Programming. Lloret de Mar, Spain. June 10-14, 2007.

Escuela de Primavera de agentes 07. Valencia, Spain. March 26-27, 2007.

ICAPS (International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling) Summer School on AI Planning 2006. Cumbria, UK. June 3rd - 5th, 2006.

Competitions

1st classified in the 2008 International ART (Agent Reputation and Trust) Testbed Competition. Estoril, Portugal. May 12-16, 2008.

1st classified in the Second Spanish ART (Agent Reputation and Trust) Testbed Competition. Valencia, Spain. March 26-27, 2007.

7th classified in the 2007 International ART (Agent Reputation and Trust) Testbed Competition. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. May 14-18, 2007.

Prizes

Best Paper Award. Sixth German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2008). Paper: “A Fair Mechanism for Recurrent Multi-unit Auctions”, 2008.

ACIA (Catalan Artificial Intelligence Association) Award to the best BSc or MsC thesis. Project: “Egalitarian behaviour in recurrent multi-unit combinatorial auctions”, 2008.

Best Student Paper prize. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008). Paper: “Improving waste water treatment quality through an auction-based management of discharges”, 2008.

2nd prize (Accèssit) in the ACIA (Catalan Artificial Inteligence Association) prize to the best BSc thesis. Project: Transport per carretera: estudi i solució mitjançant tècniques d'optimització (In Catalan), 2007.