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PhD thesis defense
Antonio Ramírez-de-Arellano has defended his PhD thesis entitled Virus Machines: An Unconventional Computing Paradigm.

May 28, 2024

Agustín Riscos-Núñez has become EAI Distinguished Member
The head of the group, Agustín Riscos-Núñez, has become EAI Distinguished Member in 2023.

May 24-26, 2024

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez in the top 2% of scientists of the World
The study by the Stanford University, is an updated version of a previous studies classifying the top 2% of researchers of the World in 2023. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, founder of this research group, appears in the list available in the corresponding open database.
November 17, 2023

Agustín became Full Professor
On October 26th, Agustín Riscos-Núñez, the Head of the research group became Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Seville.

October 26, 2023

Science names our most recent research project

Our project Virus Machines: theory and applications has been named in a Science article, where some of the research projects awardee by the Zhejiang Lab with a BioBit grant.
May 26, 2023

Science names our most recent research project
Our project Virus Machines: theory and applications has been named in a Science article, where some of the research projects awardee by the Zhejiang Lab with a BioBit grant.

May 26, 2023

Ignacio became Associate Professor
On April 11th, Ignacio Pérez-Hurtado, a member of the research group became Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Seville.

April 12, 2023

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez #40 of computer scientists of Spain
Research.com is a new ranking of scientists, universities and conferences, among others, from all around the World. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, founder of the group, has been calalogued as the #40 researcher in the area of Computer Science in Spain and the number #3238 in the world.
March 21, 2023

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez in the top 2% of scientists of the World
The study by the Stanford University, is an updated version of a previous studies classifying the top 2% of researchers of the World in 2022. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, founder of this research group, appears in the list available in the corresponding open database.
November 16, 2022

Luis and Miguel Á. became Associate Professors
Luis Valencia-Cabrera and Miguel Á. Martínez-del-Amor, two members of the research group became Associate Professors (Profesor Titular de Universidad) of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Seville.
November 7, 2022

Best Paper Award at CMC2022
Antonio Ramírez-de-Arellano and David Orellana-Martín presented the papers "Generating, computing and recognizing with virus machines" and "Simulation of the environment in tissue P systems with evolutional communication rules", respectively, in the 23rd Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC2022), receiving both of them the Best Paper Award ex aequo.
October 1, 2022

New simulators available
New simulators for Fuzzy Reasoning Spiking Neural P systems by Juan Alberto Marín Morejón and for Virus Machines by Félix Conde Marrón, as part of their Bachelor theses, are available on GitHub
September 22, 2022

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez in the top 2% of scientists of the World
The study by the Stanford University, is an updated version of a previous study classifying the top 2% of researchers of the World in 2021. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, founder of this research group, appears in the list available in the corresponding open database.
October 08, 2021

Call for ecology experts (in Spanish)
March 18, 2022

The book "Ciencia, tecnología y humanidades en la era del conocimiento" is presented at "Salón de Grados" of the ETSII
October 21, 2021

The paper "Sparse matrix representation of Spiking Neural P systems on GPUs" presented by Javier Hernández-Tello was awarded with the "Best Student Paper" award at ICMC2021
August 26, 2021

Four papers from RGNC have been awarded the best paper award of ETSII
November 06, 2020

Prof Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez gave 2 keynotes on: ACMC2020 (The P versus NP problem: A Membrane Computing perspective) and BICTA2020 (From viruses to cells: Membrane systems modelling pandemics)
November 01, 2020

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez in the top 2% of scientists of the World
The study, published in Plos Biology, has classified around 160 000 scientists with respect to impact indicators of scientific production. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez, founder of this research group, appears in the list available in the corresponding open database.
October 08, 2020

The paper entitled Monodirectional tissue P systems with promoters, authored by B. Song, X. Zeng, M. Jiang, M.J. Pérez-Jiménez, has been accepted in the journal IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, which has a JCR impact factor of 11.079
July 2020

Four contributions of the group among the 50 most cited in IJCCC
May 7, 2020

A data exploration on COVID-19
20/04/20, by Luis Valencia-Cabrera

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez is interviewed on the TV program "En Red", of "Canal Sur", about Quantum Internet and its applications
May 14, 2019

Available book: "Enjoying Natural Computing: Essays Dedicated to Mario de Jesús Pérez-Jiménez on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday"
November 13, 2018

A paper by Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez has been selected as one of the Most Cited Articles in the journal ByoSystems since 2015
Oct 06, 2018

Prof. Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez appeared at Section "Visionaries" of Renfe Magazine
August 4, 2018

A paper presented by three members of the group at ICCCC 2018 selected with "Best Paper Award"
May 12, 2018

Three papers in tops of IJCCC and IJNS
January 18, 2017

Available the new version of ABCD-GPU (GPU simulator for PDP systems with DCBA)
August 5, 2015

Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez is interviewed in Canal Sur Radio
August 30, 2014

The RGNC appears on newspaper for his collaboration with NICSG Lab and the GPBB on the Giant Panda conservation
August 19, 2014