Artificial Intelligence and Applications: MICAI 2009

The following theses submitted for the competition were judged the best theses in the field of Artificial Intelligence by the Advisory Council of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA):

PhD
1 place:	Angel Eduardo Muñoz Zavala, CIMAT. Multi-State System Reliability Design via Particle Evolutionary Swarm Optimization.Advisors: Dr. Arturo Hernández Aguirre and Dr. Enrique Villa Diharce.
2 place:	Luis Vicente Santana Quintero, CINVESTAV. Development of techniques to improve computational efficiency in multi-objetive evolutionary algorithms. Advisor: Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello.
3 place:	Yulia Ledeneva, CIC-IPN. Automatic Language-Independent Detection of Multiword Descriptions for Text Summarization. Advisor: Dr. Alexander Gelbukh.
MSc
1 place:	Margarita Elizabeth Gómez Mayorga, UPIITA-IPN. Detección de cáncer cérvico-uterino mediante red neuronal función de base radial. Advisors: Dr. Francisco Javier Gallegos Funes.
2 place:	José Juan Tapia Valenzuela, ITESM-CEM. A clustering genetic algorithm for inferring protein-protein functional interaction sites. Advisor: Dr. Edgar Emmanuel Vallejo Clemente and Dr. Juan Enrique Morett Sánchez.
3 place:	Marco Antonio Aguirre Lam, ITCM. Algoritmo de Búsqueda Semántica para Redes P2P Complejas. Advisor: Dra. Laura Cruz Reyes and Dra. Satu Elisa Schaeffer.