He was born in
Vilches
(Jaén) an ancient town of Andalusia (Spain). He received
an MSc in Computer Science (1992) and a PhD in Computer Science
(2001) both from theUniversity of Granada.
Since 2006, he is a Scientific Adviser of
Iactive Intelligent
Solutions, an IT spin-off of the University of
Granada, promoted and participated by himself and other colleagues
of the Sepia
Working Group. A product of this company that
incorporates part of the technology developed in this group
is Egestia
He is member of
Intelligent Systems Research
Group His research interests are knowledge
representation, AI planning and scheduling systems and their
application to Semantic Web, Business Process Management (BPM),
Emergency Management, e- Learning, e-Tourism, e- Health, Logistics
and Manufacturing.