LAURA CRUZ REYES Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Madero División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación Juventino Rosas y Jesús Urueta Cd. Madero Tamaulipas México CP. 89440 Tel/Fax (52) 833 215 85 44 e-mail: lcruzreyes@prodigy.net.mx EDUCATION: Doctorate in Computer Science. Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (CENIDET). Cuernavaca, México, July 2004. Dissertation Topic: Classification of heuristic algorithms for the solution of Bin-packing problems. Master in Computer Science. Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). México, May 1999. Thesis Project: Automation of Vertical Fragmentation and Allocation Design in Distributed Data Bases using heuristic and exact methods. Master in Science, specialty in Information Systems. ITESM. México, June 1984. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero (ITCM), Cd. Madero, Tamaulipas, México. July 1984 HONORS: First place in the Best Doctoral Thesis Contest (Computer Science). Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), Dirección General de Educación Superior Tecnológica (DGEST). México, December 2005. SNI Level 1 Fellow, 2005-2008: Third highest country-wide distinction granted by the Mexican National System of Researchers for scientific merit. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT). México. DGEST-PROMEP Fellow, 2005-2008: Distinction granted by SEP under its Faculty Improvement Program. Secretaría de Educación Pública. México. SEP-ITCM Fellow Level 5: University-wide distinction granted by SEP through DGEST to outstanding faculty members for teaching and research. Secretaría de Educación Pública. México, 2006. Advisor of the third place in the Fourth National Competition for Graduate Thesis, mastery level of Computer Science. SEP-DGEST. México, 2007. Advisor of the first place in the Third National Competition for
Graduate Thesis, mastery level of Computer Science. SEP-DGEST. México, 2006. Advisor of the first place in the the XX National Creativity Contest, postgraduate level. SEP-DGEST. Mexico, 2006. Advisor of the second place in the Second National Competition for Graduate Thesis, mastery level of Computer Science. SEP-DGEST. México, 2005. Advisor of the first place in the Best Master Thesis Contest in Computer Science. 14 Encuentro Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica del Golfo de México. Veracruz, México, 2002. Scholarship for master degree studies, 1982 1984. SEP, México. Award as The Best Student of México granted to university students with the highest academic performance. El Diario de México, CONACYT. México, November 1981. Funded Research: Project CONACYT No. 60519, January-December 2007 Project SEP-DGEST No. 262.06-P, September 2006 - August 2008 Project SEP-COSNET No. 697.03-P, September 2003 - August 2004 Project SEP-COSNET No. 609.02-P, August 2002 - July 2003 Project SEP-COSNET No. 643.01-P, September 2001- August 2002 Project SEP-COSNET No. 699.99-P, October 1999- September 2000 RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS Cruz L, Nieto D., Rangel N., Herrera A., González J., Castilla G., Delgado F.: DiPro: An Algorithm for the Packing in Product Transportation Problems with Multiple Loading and Routing Variants. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4827, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2007): 1078-1088 Pérez J., Pazos R., Cruz L., Reyes G., Basave R., Fraire H.: Improving the Efficiency and Efficacy of the K-means Clustering Algorithm Through a New Convergence Condition. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4707, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2007) 674-682 Aguilar M., Fraire H., Cruz L., González J., Castilla G. Gómez C.: Classic Cryptanalysis Applied to Exons and Introns Prediction. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4707, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2007) 575-584 Ortega R., Meza E., Gómez C., Cruz L., Turrubiates T.: Impact of Dynamic Growing on the Internet Degree Distribution. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4743, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg
New York (2007) 326-334 Cruz L., Gonzalez J.J, Romero D., Fraire H., Rangel N., Herrera J.A., Arrañaga B.A., Delgado J.F.: A Distributed Metaheuristic for Solvin a Real-Word Scheduling-Routing-Loading Problem. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4742, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2007) 68-77 Cruz, L., Rangel, N., Herrera, J., Ramírez, A., Fraire, H., Castilla, G., Gómez, C.: A Distributed Metaheuristic for the Transportation Problem. To appear in Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2006) Cruz, L., Hernández, I., García, A., Rangel, N., Fraire, H., Castilla, G., Gómez, C.: An Architecture for Selecting Exact Algorithms to Solve the Distribution Design Problem. To apper in Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2006) Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Reyes, G., Santaolaya, R., Fraire, H., Cruz, L.: An Approach for Solving Very Large Scale Instances of the Design Distribution Problems for distributed DataBase Systems. Lectures Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3563, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2005) 33-42 Cruz, L., Pérez J., Landero V., Santiago, E., Álvarez, V. Pérez, V.: An Ordered Preprocessing Scheme for Data Mining. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3157, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2004) 1007-1008 Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Cruz, L., Fraire, H., Santiago, E., García, N.E.: A Machine Learning Approach for Modeling Algorithm Performance Predictors. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, No.3131, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2004) 70-80 Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Rodríguez, G., Romero, D., Cruz, L.: A Statistical Approach for Algorithm Selection. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3059. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2004) 417-431 Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Rodríguez, G., Cruz, L., Fraire, H.: Comparison and Selection of Exact and Heuristic Algorithms. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3045. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2004) 415-424 Pérez, J., Pazos, R., René, S., Frausto, J., Rodríguez, G., Cruz, L., Bravo, M.: Data-Object Replication, Distribution, and Mobility in Network Environments. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol.
2890. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2003) 539-545 Perez, J., Pazos, R.A., Fraire, H., Cruz, L., Pecero, J.: Adaptive Allocation of Data-Objects in the Web Using Neural Networks. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2829. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2003) 154-164 Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Romero, D., Cruz, L.: Predicción del Desempeño de Algoritmos Exactos y Heurísticos: un Enfoque Estadístico. I + D Computación, Vol. 1, No. 2. Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, México (2002) 114-127 Pérez, J., Pazos, R.A., Frausto, J., Romero, D., Cruz, L.: Vertical Fragmentation and Allocation in Distributed Databases with Site Capacity Restrictions Using the Threshold Accepting Algorithm. Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1793. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2000) 75-81 REFEREE WORK: International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2007. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología México 2006-2007. Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Ciencias Computacionales. México 2003-2007 Congreso Internacional en Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico IEEE Sección Morelos. México 2004-2007 MEMBERSHIPS: Academia Nacional de Investigación en Ciencias Computacionales. México. 2003-2006 Association for Computational Machinery. USA. 2000-2006 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Researcher and professor of the MSc. In Computer Science Program Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Madero. México. 2000-2007 Titular Profesor of Computer Science Department Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Madero. México. 1986-2000 Chair of the MSc. in Computer Science Program Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Madero. México. 2000-2004 Chair of the BS in System Information Program Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Victoria. México. 1984-1986
INTERES AREAS: Combinatorial optimization, machine learning and heuristic methods and applications to distributed systems, production and logistic systems and complex networks.