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Partner:University of Girona
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LEQUIA has a long history of research and development in the field of environmental decision support systems, data mining technologies
and knowledge engineering tools.
Laboratori d’Enginyeria Química i Ambiental (LEQUiA, http://lequia1.udg.es) is a research group from the Chemical Engineering
Department at the University of Girona, which was set up ten years ago as a dynamic framework where different academic staff could combine their research areas, from different point of views, but all of
them focused to environmental aspects. Based on this idea, LEQUiA has been working in close association with several research groups on Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Artificial
Intelligence, mainly with the Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group (KEML, http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/gr-SBC/KEMLG.html), part of the Artificial Intelligence section that belongs to the
Software Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). LEQUiA has a wide experience in the field of wastewater treatment plant control and supervision, mainly in the application of natural
computing techniques to improve management of real plants. Though we started with a classical approach, applying our previous experience in the control of lab bioreactors, soon we realised that classical
control methods show some limitations when dealing with complex environmental processes. We think that it is important to build tools that solve these processes precisely and very rapidly, because of the
social, political and economic impacts of the suggested solutions. Following this approach, we concluded that it is necessary to integrate an array of specific supervisory intelligent systems and
numerical computations for detailed engineering, when trying to manage optimally complex environmental problems. Main results of the research work has been concerning the development of new techniques
for the design of knowledge-based systems and about their application as decision support, employing new concepts in fields such as automatic knowledge-acquisition, relevance-attribute concepts and
distributed systems. Our main interests are: Industrial-process control, Real-time system modelling, and Distributed architectures for knowledge engineering.
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Role in project
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LEQUIA’s key roles in this project are concerning the identification, use and test of different knowledge management techniques,
applied to the acquisition, codification, (re)use, and learning of the specific and general knowledge contained in a huge number of different sources. LEQUIA is also responsible of the definition of a
flexible architecture that can combine the technology developed by the commercial partners to manage the overall knowledge. LEQUIA is also in charge of the definition of the ontology, which will help to
define the common language that will be used to describe any incident/scenario.
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Contact
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Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda
Universitat de Girona
Facultat de Ciències
Campus Montilivi s/n
E-17071 Girona (Spain)
tel +34 972 418281
fax +34 972 418150
e-mail ignasi@lequia.udg.es
Ulises Cortés
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Edifici C5 Campus Nord
C/ Jordi Girona 1-3
E-08034 Barcelona (Spain)
Tel +34 93 4017016
Fax +34 93 4017014
e-mail ia@lsi.upc.es
Administrative service:
Berta Nadal (Head of the Oficina d'Investigació i Transferència Tecnológica)
OITT – Universitat de Girona
Plaça Sant Domènec, 3
E-17071 Girona (Spain)
Universitat de Girona
Tel.: +34 972 41 82 51
Fax.: +34 972 41 80 31
e-mail oitt.bnadal@pas.udg.es
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