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Rafael López García

Publications

Contributions in specialised journals:

• Prieto, V. M.; Álvarez, M.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F. 2012. "A Scale for Crawler Effectiveness on the Client-Side Hidden Web" in "Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)", vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 561-583. ISSN: 1820-0214. DOI: 10.2298/CSIS111215015P. Local copy of the paper here.
  ComSIS has been included in the 2011 release of Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters, and received the two-year impact factor of 0.625.

Contributions in specialised books:

• Cacheda, F.; Fernández, D.; Formoso, V.; López-García, R. 2011. "Aspectos avanzados de la implementación de motores de búsqueda" in Cacheda Seijo, F.; Fernández Luna, J. M.; Huete Guadix, J. F.; "Recuperación de Información. Un enfoque práctico y multidisciplinar", ch. 18, pp. 583-612. RA-MA. ISBN: 978-84-9964-112-6.
• López-García, R.; Cacheda, F. 2011. "A Technical Approach to Information Retrieval Pedagogy" in N. Efthimiadis, J.M. Fernández-Luna, J.F. Huete and A. MacFarlane "Teaching and Learning Information Retrieval", ch. 7, pp. 89-105. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-22510-9. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22511-6_7. "The Information Retrieval Series", vol. 31. ISSN: 1387-5264. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

Contributions in specialised conferences and workshops:

• López-García, R.; Kato, M.P.; Tanaka, K. 2017. "A Propagation-based Method of Estimating Students' Concept Understanding" in "The 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017)". The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/[DOI to appear].
  SocInfo 2017 received 142 submissions, of which 28% were accepted as full papers and 31% were accepted as short papers.
• López-García, R.; Kato, M.P.; Yamakata, Y.; Tanaka, K. 2013. "How do Students Search during Class and Homework? - A query log analysis for academic purposes" in "The 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013)". Edited in A. Jatowt, E.-P. Lim, Y. Ding, A. Miura, T. Taro, G. Dias, K. Tanaka, A. Flanagin and B.T. Dai. "Social Informatics - 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan, November 25-27, 2013, Proceedings", pp.457-466. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-03259-7. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3. "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", vol. 8238. ISSN: 0302-9743. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  SocInfo 2013 received 103 submissions, of which 22% were accepted as full papers, 15% were accepted as short papers and 3% were accepted as demo papers.
• Fontán, L.; López-García, R.; Álvarez, M.; Pan, A. 2012. "Automatically Extracting Complex Data Structures from the Web" in "International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR) 2012", pp. 246-251. ISBN: 978-989-8565-29-7.
  KDIR 2012 received 115 submissions, of which 16% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 28% were accepted as short papers and 17% as posters.
• Prieto, V. M.; Álvarez, M.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F. 2012. "Architecture for a Garbage-less and Fresh Content Search Engine" in "International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR) 2012", pp. 378-381. ISBN: 978-989-8565-29-7. (Poster).
  KDIR 2012 received 115 submissions, of which 16% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 28% were accepted as short papers and 17% as posters.
• Prieto, V. M.; Álvarez, M.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F. 2012. "Analysis and Detection of Web Spam by means of Web Content" in "The 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference for Science & Industry (IRFC 2012). Edited in M. Salampasis and B. Larsen "Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval", pp. 43-57. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-642-31273-1. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31274-8_4. "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", vol. 7356. ISSN: 0302-9743. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
• Prieto, V. M.; Álvarez, M.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F. 2012. "Analysing the Effectiveness of Crawlers on the Client-Side Hidden Web" in "Workshop on Agents and Multi-agent systems for Enterprise Integration (ZOCO 2012)", in "10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'12)". Edited in J.M. Corchado, J. Bajo, P. Golinska, S. Giroux, R. Corchuelo "Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems", pp. 141-148. ISBN: 978-3-642-28794-7. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28795-4_17. "Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing", vol. 157. ISSN 1867-5662. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

NOTE: Before 2012 all the articles were published with their authors in alphabetical order due to the internal policy of this research group. In any case, sorting by contribution is shown as a note after each reference in this web page and certifications specifying the order of the authors by contribution could be provided if necessary.

• Álvarez, M.; Cacheda, F.; López-García, R.; Prieto, V. M. 2011. "The Spanish Web in numbers - Main Features of the Spanish Hidden Web" in "International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR) 2011", pp. 371-374. ISBN: 978-989-8425-79-9. (Poster).
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: López-García, R.; Álvarez, M.; Prieto, V. M.; Cacheda, F.
  KDIR 2011 received 159 submissions, of which 13% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 21% were presented as short papers and 18% as posters.
• Álvarez, M.; Cacheda, F.; López-García, R.; Prieto, V. M. 2011. "Web Oculta del lado cliente: escala de crawling" in "X Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL 2011)", pp. 308-315. ISBN: 978-84-694-5948-5.
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: Prieto, V. M.; Álvarez, M.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F.
• Álvarez, M.; Cacheda, F.; López-García, R.; Prieto, V. M. 2011. "Análisis de la Web Oculta en España" in "X Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL 2011)", pp. 393-396. ISBN: 978-84-694-5948-5. (Poster).
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: López-García, R.; Álvarez, M.; Prieto, V. M.; Cacheda, F.
• Cacheda, F.; Fernández, D.; López-García, R. 2008. "Experimentos sobre la Carga de Red en Sistemas Distribuidos de Recuperación de Información" in "IADIS Conferencia Ibero-Americana WWW/Internet (CIAWI) 2008", pp. 330-338. ISBN: 978-972-8924-72-0. Local copy of the paper here.
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: Fernández, D.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F.
• Cacheda, F.; Fernández, D.; López-García, R. 2008. "Experiments about Performance and Imbalance in Distributed Information Retrieval Systems" in "IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet (ICWI) 2008", pp. 203-210. ISBN: 978-972-8924-68-3. Local copy of the paper here.
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: Fernández, D.; López-García, R.; Cacheda, F.
• Cacheda, F.; Fernández, D.; López-García, R. 2008. "Experiences on a Practical Course of Web Information Retrieval: Developing a Search Engine" in "The Second International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval (TLIR 2008)", pp. 18-21. Local copy of the paper here.
  Note: order of authors by contribution is: López-García, R.; Fernández, D.; Cacheda, F.

Other contributions:

• López-García, R.; Kato, M.P.; Yamakata, Y.; Tanaka, K. 2013. "Let them search in your classroom" poster in "8th ICT Innovation", Kyoto University.