ITAKA (Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Knowledge Acquisition) is a research group of the University Rovira i Virgili (URV). It was founded in January 2007 by Dr Antonio Moreno and Dr Aïda Valls, following the successful trail left by the Working Group on Multi-Agent Systems (GruSMA) from 2000 to 2006. Our research is mainly applied to eHealth, Tourism and Environment Protection.
iTAKA was present at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the top conferences on AI. It was held in in Bremen, Germany, on 15-21 of August 2026. Dr. Valls and Dr. Moreno presented a work in the Qualitative Reasoning workshop. Dr. Valls also participated in the ECAI assembly as representative of the Catalan association on AI (ACIA).
The Entrepreneuship Talent Award of the Fundació Gresol recognized ExplainUp, a project that uses Artificial Intelligence to transform complex information into easy-to-read text. SRBLab and Inserlab from URV design and validate the tool, while the ITAKA group is involved in its implementation.
Our group has participated in the workshop. Pol Pujol has presented a poster about our work with the LSTM team about detection of cognitive impairment with sociodemographic and lifestyle variables, within the DEMDETECT project.