A Report of Activities at the WIC-Spain Research Centre
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The WIC(Web Intelligence Consortium)-Spain Research Centre is an interdisciplinary research initiative which brings together people with the aim of covering all the aspects related to the discovery of hidden knowledge in big volumes of data as long as exploring the practical impacts of advanced Information Technology (IT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on this volume of information The group consist of seven researchers and five Ph.D. students led by Dr. Javier Segovia and coordinated by Dr. Ernestina Menasalvas. We are funded from a variety of sources including the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology as well as national and international industry.Keywords:
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