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Researchers Pablo Chamoso and Alfonso González Briones, from the BISITE Research Group, have recently made a stay at the University of Buenos Aires, an institution that has celebrated its 200th anniversary last year and is recognised as number 69 in the world according to the QS World University Ranking.

During their stay, they were accompanied by Jorge Lerache and Hernán Merlino, director and co-director of the Advanced Information Systems Laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires. The researchers are renowned experts in areas such as: Intelligent and multi-agent systems, robot software, knowledge engineering and the applications related to computer-integrated manufacturing.

During this stay, in addition to disseminating their work, they have had the opportunity to learn about the work being carried out by the group led by Dr. Lerache and Dr. Merlino, as well as to present the lines of research of the BISITE group. Establishing points of interest and lines of research in order to strengthen the collaboration between the two research groups.

In addition, they are currently participating as lecturers in the PhD programme of the course "Technologies 4.0: "Industries 4.0, Digital Twins, Smart Contracts - Blockchain and Society 5.0", which is being held during the months of May and June 2022.

During their stay, the Engineering Week 2022 was held, where, among other events, the first 100 years of the Argentinean company YPF were celebrated in the presence of the president of the company (Lwy. Pablo González), the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Nation (B.A. Daniel Filmus), the Rector of the UBA (Dr. Alberto Barbieri) and other authorities.