- Doctoral thesis entitled "Random Forest y Soft Computing: Análisis, Diseño y Construcción de un Fuzzy Random Forest" by D. Ramón Andrés Díaz Valladares. University of Murcia, Informatic Faculty, 27 November 2009.
- Doctoral thesis ("European Doctor" mention) entitled "Metaheurísticas híbridas cooperativas y su control usando Soft Computing y conocimiento previo" by D. Enrique Muñoz Ballester. University of Murcia, Informatic Faculty, 18 September 2010.
- Research stay of Enrique Muñoz (FPI) in the "Laboratori ad Agenti System Laboratory (LASA) since 1 October 2009 to 31 December 2009. Laboratory headed by Professor Vincenzo Loia - Department of "Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Salerno (Italy).
- XV Spanish Congress on Fuzzy Logic and Technology (ESTYLF 2010). Special Session: "Optimization and evaluation for fuzzy decision making". Huelva (España). February 2010. Organizer: J.M. Cadenas, M.C. Garrido, E. Muñoz.
- Best Student Paper Award "Constructing Fuzzy Partitions from Imprecise Data" J.M. Cadenas, M.C. Garrido, R. Martinez. Conference FCTA/IJCCI 2011