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I'm an Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Universidad Nacional del Sur and a researcher at the  Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET).

I obtained my Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2004.

My research interest lies in the design and development of tools for information access in context. I'm also interested in other formal and empirical aspects of artificial intelligence, knowledge capture and information retrieval. I recommend you visit our research group page.



Contact information:
Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional del Sur
Avenida Alem 1253
B8000CPB Bahía Blanca
ARGENTINA

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PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Journals

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Brignole, N. B. Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for context-based search, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Jersey, United States: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published Online: Mar 16, 2010.

Maguitman, A. Book Review: Algorithms of the Intelligent Web by Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenk. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium, Univ. of New Mexico. December 2009. April of 2010.

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A. Evolving Disjunctive and Conjunctive Topical Queries based on Multi-objective Optimization Criteria. Special Issue for the Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. Selected papers from ASAI 2009. AEPIA, 2009. vol. 44 n. - p.14-26.

Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A. A Semi-supervised Incremental Algorithm to Automatically Formulate Topical Queries. Information Science. Elsevier. 179 (12). 2009.

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Brignole, N. B. Using Genetics Algorithms to Evolve a Population of Queries. Information Processing & Management. Elsevier. Elsevier. 44 (6), 2008.

Abi-Haidar, A., Kaur, J., Maguitman, A.,  Radivojac, P.,  Retchsteiner, A.,  Verspoor, K.,  Wang, Z., and Rocha, L.M. Uncovering protein interaction in abstracts and text using a novel linear model and word proximity networks. Genome Biology. 9(2). 2008.

Sagui, F., Maguitman, A., Chesñevar, C., Simari, G. Modeling News Trust: A Defeasible Logic Programming Approach. Special Issue for the Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. Selected papers from the VIII WASI. 2008.

Huang, C., Kaur, J.,  Maguitman, A., Rocha, L.M. Agent-Based Model of Genotype Editing. Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press. 15(3): 253-89, 2007.

Serrano, M. Á., Maguitman, A., Boguñá, M., Fortunato, S., and Vespignani, A. “Decoding the structure of the WWW: A comparative analysis of Web crawls”. ACM Trans. Web.ACM Press. 1(2). August 2007.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Simari, R. Argument-Based Critics and Recommenders: A Qualitative Perspective on User Support Systems.  Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. 59(2), p 293-319. Elsevier. November 2006.

Chesñevar, C., Sabaté M., Maguitman, A. An Argument-based Decision Support System for Assessing Natural Language Usage on the Basis of the Web Corpus. Intl. Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley. Vol. 21, No. 11, pp.1151-1180, Nov. 2006.

Maguitman, A., Menczer, F., Erdinc, F., Roinestad, H., Vespignani, A. (2006). Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity. World Wide Web Journal (Special issue with the four best papers of WWW’05), Springer Science+Business Media B.V. June 2006.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A. (2005). Combining Argumentation and Web Search Technology: Towards a Qualitative Approach for Ranking Results. International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics. 9(1), p 53-60. Fuji Technology Press Ltd., Japan, January 2005.

Chesñevar,C., Maguitman, A., González, M. P., Cobo L. (2004) Teaching Fundamentals of Computing Theory: A Constructivist Approach. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Special Issue on Education). 4(2), p. 91-97. Iberoamerican Science & Technology Education Consortium, Univ. of New Mexico. December 2004.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Loui R. (2000). Logical Models of Argument. ACM Computing Surveys. 32 (4), p 337-383. December 2000.

 

Books and Edited Volumes

Godoy, D., Maguitman, A., (2008). Special Issue for the Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. Selected papers from the 9th Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 12(37). AEPIA, 2008.

Godoy, D., Maguitman, A., (2008). Special Issue for the Electronic Journal of SADIO. Selected papers from the 9th Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 8(1). SADIO, 2008.

Godoy, D., Maguitman, A., (2007). Proceedings of the 9th Argentinean Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ASAI 2007). SADIO. Argentina, 2007.

Maguitman, A. (2004). Intelligent Support for Knowledge Capture and Construction. UMI Dissertation Publishing, ProQuest Information and Learning. USA. ISBN: 0-496-95948-4. Order Number: AAI3162267, No de páginas: 185

 

Book  Chapters

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Gonzalez, P. Empowering Recommendation Technologies through Argumentation. Argumentation in AI. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer, 2009.

Brena,R. , Maguitman, A., Ramirez, E. Mining the Internet for Concepts , chapter of Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining - 2nd Edition, J. Wang (Ed.), IGI Press, 2008.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Simari, G. Recommender Systems based on Argumentation. In Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering. Ilias Maglogiannis,  Kostas Karpouzis and John Soldatos (eds). Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 160, pp. 53-70. IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007.

Wu, L.-S., Akavipat, R., Maguitman, A., Menczer, F. Adaptive Peer to Peer Social Networks for Distributed Content Based Web Search. In Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emergent Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively, IGI Global, 2007.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T. Integrating CBR with Knowledge Construction and Extension: Supporting Human Centered Knowledge Modeling. Case-Based Reasoning in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, S. Pak, D. Aha and K. Gupta Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, In Press.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T. (2006). Cases, Context, and Comfort: Opportunities for Case-Based Reasoning in Smart Environments. Designing Smart Homes by J.C. Augusto and C.D. Nugent, Springer Verlag, p 109-131.

Chesñevar C., Maguitman A., Simari G.  (2006) Argument-based User Support Systems using Defeasible Logic Programming. Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. I. Maglogiannis, K. Karpouzis and M. Bramer, Springer Verlag (IFIP Series) v. 204, p 61-69.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T. (2005). Exploiting Rich Context: An Incremental Approach to Context-Based Web Search. CONTEXT 2005. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer, p 254-267.

Ekbia, H., Maguitman, A. (2001) Context and Relevance: A Pragmatic Approach. Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer, p 156-169

 

International Conferences

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A. Multi-objective Query Optimization Using Topic Ontologies. FQAS 2009. Flexible Query Answering Systems. LNCS. Springer. Roskilde, Denmark, 2009.

Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman A. Tuning Topical Queries through Context Vocabulary Enrichment: A Corpus-Based Approach. QSI 2008. Quantitative Semantic Methods for Internet. LNCS. Springer. Monterrey, México, 2008.

Bíró, I., Benczúr, A., Szabó, J., Maguitman, A. (2008) A Comparative Analysis of Latent Variable Models for Web Page Classification. LA-WEB 2008. IEEE Press. Vila Velha, Brazil, 2008.

Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman A. Learning Better Context Characterizations: An Intelligent Information Retrieval Approach.  CLEI 2008. XXXIV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática. Santa Fe, Argentina, 2008.

Abi-Haidar, A., Kaur, J., Maguitman, A.,  Radivojac, P.,  Retchsteiner, A.,  Verspoor, K.,  Wang, Z., and Rocha, L.M. Uncovering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bibliome. Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, pp.247-255, Madrid, Spain, March 2007.

Akavipat, R., Wu, L.-S. , Maguitman, A., Menczer, F. (2006) Emerging Semantic Communities in Peer Web Search. P2PIR 2006: International Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer. ACM Press. Arlington, USA, November 2006.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Simari, G., Argument-Based User Support Systems using Defeasible Logic Programming. Proceedings of the 3rd Intl. IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2006). pp 61-69. Springer Verlag, Athens, Greece, June 2006.

Rocha, L.M., A. Maguitman, C. Huang, J. Kaur, and S. Narayanan. (2006). An Evolutionary Model of Genotype Editing. In: Artificial Life 10: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, L.M. Rocha, M. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. Goldstone, A. Vespignani, and L. Yaeger (Eds.). MIT Press, Bloomington, USA, June 2006.

Maguitman, A. G., Rechtsteiner, A., Verspoor, K., Strauss, C.E., Rocha, L.M. (2006). Large-Scale Testing Of Bibliome Informatics Using Pfam Protein Families.  Pacific Symposium on Bioinformatics, Maui, USA, January  2006.

Stoilova, L., Holloway, T., Markines, B., Maguitman, A. and Menczer, F. (2005). GiveALink: Mining a Semantic Network of Bookmarks for Web Search and Recommendation. Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications (LinkKDD’05), ACM Press, Chicago, USA,  August 2005.

Maguitman, A., Menczer, F., Roinestad, H., Vespignani, A. (2005). Algorithmic Detection of Semantic Similarity. Proceedings of WWW 2005, Chiba, Japan, May 2005.

Maguitman, A., Leake, D., Reichherzer, (2005). Suggesting Novel but Related Topics: Towards Context-Based Support for Knowledge Model Extension International Conference of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'05). ACM Press. San Diego, USA, January 2005.

Maguitman, A., Leake, D., Reichherzer, T., Menczer, F. (2004). Dynamic Extraction of Topic Descriptors and Discriminators: Towards Automatic Context-Based Topic Search. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM' 04). ACM Press. Washington, DC, USA, November 2004.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T., Cañas, A., Carvalho, M., Arguedas, M., and Eskridge, T.  (2004). “Googling” from a concept map: Towards Automatic Concept-Map-Based Query Formation. Concepts Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology. Proceedings of the First Conference on Concept Mapping.  A. J. Cañas, J.D. Novak, F. M. González Ed.  Pamplona, Spain, September 2004.

Cañas, A. J., Carvalho, M., Arguedas, M., Leake, D. B., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T (2004). Mining the Web to Suggest Concepts During Concept Map Construction. Concepts Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology. Proceedings of the First Conference on Concept Mapping.  A. J. Cañas, J.D. Novak, F. M. González Ed.  Pamplona, Spain, September 2004.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A. (2004). An Argumentative Approach to Assessing Natural Language Usage based on the Web Corpus. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2004. Valencia, Spain, August 2004.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T. (2004). Understanding Knowledge Models: Modeling Assessment of Concept Importance in Concept Maps. Proceedings of CogSci 2004. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, Chicago, USA, August, 2004.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A., Simari, R.  (2004). A First Approach to Argument-Based Recommender Systems based on Defeasible Logic Programming. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Non Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2004), Whistler, Canada, June 2004.

Chesñevar, C., Maguitman, A. (2004). ArgueNet: An Argument-Based Recommender System for Solving Web Search Queries. Proceedings of the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS 2004). Varna, Bulgaria, June 2004.

Chesñevar, C., González, M. P., Maguitman, A. (2004) Didactic Strategies for Promoting Significant Learning in Formal Languages and Automata Theory. International ACM-ITICSE Conference (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education) ACM Press, New York, Leeds, UK, June, 2004.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T., Cañas, A., Carvalho, M., Arguedas, M., Brenes, S., Eskridge, T. (2003). Aiding Knowledge Capture by Searching for Extensions of Knowledge Models.  Proceedings of KCAP-2003.  ACM Press, Sanibel Island, FL, USA, October 2003.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T., (2003) Topic Extraction and Extension to Support Concept Mapping. Proceedings of FLAIRS-03. AAAI Press, Saint Augustine, FL, USA, May 2003.

Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Cañas, A. (2002) Assessing Conceptual Similarity to Support Concept Mapping. Proceedings of FLAIRS-02. AAAI Press, Pensacola, FL, USA, May 2002.

Cañas, A., Leake, D., Maguitman, A. (2001). Combining Concept Mapping with CBR: Experience-Based Support for Knowledge Modeling.  Proceedings of FLAIRS-01. AAAI Press. Key West, FL, USA, May 2001

Leake, D., Bauer, T., Maguitman, A., Wilson, D. (2000). Capture, Storage and Reuse of Lessons about Information Resources: Supporting Task-Based Information Search.  Proceedings of the AAAI-00 Workshop on Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems. AAAI Press. Austin, TX, USA, July 2000.

Maguitman, A., Simari, G. (1998). Rationality Postulates for Relevance Relations. Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society. Edited by:  IEEE Computer Sciences Series. Antofagasta, Chile,  November, 1998.

 Maguitman, A., Simari, G. (1996).On the Use of Relevance to Characterize Explanations as Abductive Conclusions. Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society. Edited by: Marvin V. Zelwoitz and Pablo A. Straub, Valdivia, Chile, November, 1996.

 

National Conferences

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A. A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Learn Disjunctive and Conjunctive Topical Queries. ASAI 2009 - 38º JAIIO, Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa. Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2009.

Gallo, Cristian A., Maguitman, Ana G. Carballido, Jessica, Ponzoni, Ignacio. Biclustering in Data Mining Using a Memetic Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm. CACIC 2008: XIV Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. La Rioja (Argentina), 6 al 10 de Octubre de 2008.

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Brignole, N. B. Searching the Web in Context: Genetic Algorithms for Exploring Query Space. SSI 2007 (5º Simposio sobre la Sociedad de la Información), 36º JAIIO, Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa. Mar del Plata, 27-31 de Agosto de 2007.

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Brignole, N. B. Genetic Algorithms for Topical Web Search: A Study of Different Mutation Rates. VIII WASI: VIII Workshop de Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes – CACIC 2007: XIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. Resistencia (Argentina), 1 al 5 de Octubre de 2007.

Sagui, F., Maguitman, A., Chesñevar, C., Simari, G. An Argument-Based Approach to Cope with Trust and Pluralism in Web News Reports. – CACIC 2007: XIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. Resistencia (Argentina), 1 al 5 de Octubre de 2007.

Lorenzetti, C., Cecchini, R., Maguitman, A,. Intelligent Methods for Information Access in Context: The Role of Topic Descriptors and Discriminators. VIII WASI: VIII Workshop de Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes – CACIC 2007: XIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. Corrientes y Resistencia (Argentina), 1 al 5 de Octubre de 2007.

Cecchini, R., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Algoritmos Genéticos Para la Búsqueda Web basada en Contextos Temáticos. WICC 2007: IX Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación. Trelew (Argentina), 3 al 4 de Mayo de 2007.

Sagui, F., Maguitman, A., Simari, G.. Arquitectura de un Gestor de Noticias. IX Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación.Nacional.  4 de mayo de 2007. UNPSJB, Argentina.

Lorenzetti, C., Sagui, F., Maguitman, A., Simari, G., Chesñevar C. (2006) Incremental Methods for Context-Based Web Retrieval. XII Congreso Argentina de Ciencias de la Computación (CACIC), Argentina, Octubre 2006.

Chesñevar, C., Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Sagui, F., Simari, G. (2006) Exploiting User Context and Preferences for Intelligent Web Search WIIC'06 (Workshop de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación). Morón, Mayo 2006.

Chesñevar ,C., Maguitman ,A., González, M. P., Cobo L. (2003) Tecnología Informática en un curso de Lenguajes Formales y Teoría de Autómatas: Un Enfoque Constructivista. Proceedings of CACIC'03 (Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación) Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2003.

Falappa, M., Maguitman, A. (1999). Belief Revision and Relevance. Proceedings of WIIC'99 (Workshop de Investigadores en  Ciencias de la Computación). San Juan, Mayo,1999.

 Falappa, M., Maguitman, A. (1999). Notions of Relevance for Modeling the Dynamics of Belief. Proceedings of CACIC'99 (Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación).Tandil, October, 1999.

Maguitman, A., Delrieux, C. (1995). Planificación de Procesos para la Interpretación de Programación en Lógica Concurrente en Prolog Secuencial.    Proceedings of CACIC'95 (Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación). Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca. October, 1995.

 Maguitman, A., Simari, G. (1995).Sobre el Uso de la Analogía como Medio de Inferencia. 24 Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa (JAIIO). Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires. August, 1995.