Noelia López Durán presents her doctoral research at the 6th Doctoral Consortium in Computer Science (University of Cádiz)
Our colleague Noelia López Durán recently took part in the 6th Doctoral Consortium in Computer Science of the University of Cádiz, presenting her ongoing doctoral research, “Structured knowledge modeling for multi-agent academic support systems”.
Representing Diverso Lab, and as part of a joint doctoral collaboration between the University of Seville and the University of Cádiz, Noelia shared the latest advances of her work on intelligent academic support systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and structured knowledge representations.
Her proposal addresses one of the main challenges of applying LLMs in universities: ensuring that generated responses align with institutional regulations, degree requirements and each student’s specific academic situation. To achieve this, the research combines variability models and ontologies to represent institutional knowledge explicitly, serving as the foundation for a network of specialized agents that collaborate, under orchestration and validation mechanisms, to answer queries coherently and traceably.
Noelia illustrated the proposal through a university enrolment scenario, showing how different agents analyze academic regulations and curricular requirements to provide accurate recommendations for students.
Congratulations to Noelia López Durán and her co-authors, Jesús Moreno León and Antonio Balderas, for their excellent work.