Mariano Rico
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Mariano Rico was Postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Computer Science Faculty of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and belonged to the Ontology Engineering Group of this faculty. Currently his entailment with this group is as Collaborator.
Previously he worked as post-doc researcher at Escuela Politécnica Superior of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), where he had a Teaching Assistant position from 2003 to 2009. In 2010 he was Associate Teacher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Telematics Engineering Department). He holds a MSc (Physics, 1992), a Master degree (DEA) in Computer Science and Telecommunication (2004) and a PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunication (2009), all of them from UAM. He is accredited as Contratado Doctor since 2010 by the spanish quality agency ACAP.
His research interests are focused on Semantic Web, Virtual Worlds, Human-Computer Interaction and Web Technologies. From 1992 to 2003 he worked on R&D centres of private companies as software engineer and project manager in New Technologies areas. He had two predoctoral stays at Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI, Galway) in 2004 and 2005, where he also was Erasmus Teacher at National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).
Projects
He has participated in the following research projects:
- UpGrid ("Acceso ubicuo a contenidos de A/V basado en UPnP")
UAM
- e-Madrid ("Investigación y desarrollo de tecnologías para el e-learning en la CM")
- V-LeaF
- METEORIC (Meta-Tool Environments for Model-Oriented Collaborative Web Applications)
- DEDICON (DEsarrollo para DIspositivos de COmputación Natural)
- Red Temática de Web Semántica
- S5T (Scaleable Semantic Personalised Search of Spoken and written contents on the Semantic Web)
- Neptuno: gestión integral de contenidos y publicación de prensa digital personalizada y accesible en la web semántica (FIT-150500-2003-511)
Publications
His most relevant 5 publications are these:
- "A Programming Experience of High School Students in a Virtual World Platform"; Mariano Rico, Gonzalo Martínez?Muñoz, Xavier Alaman, David Camacho and Estrella Pulido; International Journal of Engineering Education; 2010; Impact (JCR 2008): 0.552. Accepted.
- "A Contribution-based Framework for the Creation of Semantically-enabled Web Applications"; Mariano Rico, David Camacho, Óscar Corcho; Information Sciences180(10), pp. 1850-1854; 2009; Impact (JCR 2008): 3.095.
- "Enabling Intelligent Service Discovery with GGODO"; Mariano Rico, Francisco García-Sánchez, Juan Miguel Gómez, et al.; Journal of Information Science and Engineering 26(4), pp. 1-20; 2010; Impact (JCR 2008):0.242. In press.
- "Symplifying Semantic Web Application Development and Semantic Data Usage"; Mariano Rico; AI Communications 23(1), pp. 65-66; 2010; Impact (JCR 2008): 0.608.
- "A Tool Suite to Enable Web Designers,Web Application Developers and End-users to Handle Semantic Data"; M. Rico, J.A. Macías, D. Camacho, and O. Corcho; International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS); 2010; Impact (JCR 2008):1.893; Under review.
