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Francisco Grimaldo

I am Full Professor and head of the LAIA-UV research group at the University of Valencia (Excellence in Education Award). I am a Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Agent Based Social Simulation (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) at the Italian National Research Council. I received my PhD (Doctoral Dissertation Award), MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the University of Valencia, from where I also received my BSc in Telecommunications.

My main research interests are applied artificial intelligence, data analysis/visualization and web engineering. I am the Director of the Capgemini-UV Chair in innovation in software development and a board member of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Follow my profiles on: ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Adademia.edu, ORCID or DBLP.

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News

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39th Databeers VLC

Visit databeersvlc.com and follow us on Twitter @databeersvlc. January 29th, 2026.

CS3 2026

4th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Complex Systems. Sevilla. January, 2026.

CCIA 2026

28th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Castelló de La Plana. October, 2026.

AWPSolver

A project about Tools to measure complexity, skills and performance in arithmetic word problem solving is now funded by the Generalitat Valenciana for the period 2023/2025.

REMISS

The project Towards a methodology to REduce MISinformation Spread about vulnerable and stigmatized groups is now funded by the MCIN/AEI/NextGenerationEU/PRTR for the period 2021/2024.

Published peer review reports have higher informative content than unpublished reports

Elena Álvarez-García, Francisco Grimaldo et al. J. Informetrics, 2026.
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2025.101760

Mapping network structures and dynamics of decentralised cryptocurrencies

Marco Venturini, Francisco Grimaldo et al. PLoS ONE, 2023.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329617

Projects

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The PREWAIT project — The PREWAIT project
Advanced information tools about peer
review of scientific manuscripts.

PEERE Cost Action — PEERE
Multidisciplinary COST Action devoted
to study New Frontiers of Peer Review.

Databeers València — @databeersvlc
The community of data & beer lovers
in València. Join us!

La Falla Immaterial — La Falla Immaterial
Citizen science project about computers,
multimedia and data science.

COMSOTEC — COMSOTEC
Association for the study of socio-
technical complex systems.

Jason Multi-modal Agent Decision Making — J-MADeM
The project on Multi-modal Agent
Decision Making using Jason.

Jason Induction of Logical Decision Trees — JILDT
The library that provides Jason with a
learning mechanism based on induction
of Logical Decision Trees.

Milmots — Milmots.eu
An initiative to collect and connect
words with the community of Catalan
speakers behind them.

Resources

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Spring MVC v5 + Spring Data JPA step-by-step — Spring MVC v5 + JPA
Learn how to develop a web application
using Spring Framework MVC v5 +
Spring Data JPA step-by-step (Spanish).

Multimedia programming notes — Multimedia programming notes
Notes on the course on multimedia
programming for the BSc in Computer
Science and Multimedia.

Computer programming notes — Computer programming notes
Notes on the course on computer
programming for the BSc in Physics.

Computer science notes — Computer science notes
Notes on the course on computer
science for the Degree in Information
and Documentation.