My research lines can be summarized in the following kew words: Consumer data mining; Data mining and knowledge discovering; Supervised and unsupervised learning.

Selected projects in Industry:
2009 - 2011: Turnover prediction in Call Centers using Naive Bayesian Networks.
2011 - 2014: Modeling the customer purchase behavior in a large supermarket chain using transactional databases.
2012 - 2013: Data analysis modeling for mining exploration activities using Support Vector Machines.
2014 - 2015: Data analysis and modeling predictions for industrial fishing o shore using clustering and novelty detection algorithms.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
2019 - Valle, M.A., Ruz, G.A. Market Basket Analysis Using Boltzmann Machines.Presented at Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11730. Springer, Cham. Munich, Germany, September 17-19, 2019.

2018 - Valle, M.A., Ruz, G.A., Rica, S. Transactional database analysis by discovering pairwise interactions strengths. Presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Barcelona, Spain, August 28-31, 2018, pp. 849-854

2017 - Valle, M. A., Ruz, G. A., Morrás, R.Market Basket Analysis Using Minimum Spanning Trees. Presented at the 4th European Network Intelligence Conference ENIC 2017: Network Intelligence Meets User Centered Social Media Networks, Duisburg, Germany, 11-12 September, 2017, pp. 155-167.

2016 - Valle, M. A., P\érez-Acosta, A. and Bueno, J.L.O. Apuestas a toda costa: Factores que influyen en el excesivo compromiso por apostar, presented at CLADEA 2016, XLI Annual Assembly, Medellín - Colombia, October 2-4, Track 2: Economy, paper nº170, pp. 51.

2016 - Masías V., Valle, M. A., Crespo, F. Housing Market Analysis using Machine Learning: A Case Study of Santiago, Chile, presented at International Conference for Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics and Management - AMSE 2016, Santiago - Chile, January 20-22, pp. 6.

2016 - Valle, M. A., Ruz, G.A. Using Self-Organizing Maps to model turnover of Sales Agents in a Call Center as probabilities of state changes, presented at BAFI 2015, 50th Annual Assembly, Santiago - Chile, 14-16,
2015, pp. 42-43. $[$\href{http://www.gonzaloruz.com/GR/Publications_files/BAFI2015Ruz.pdf}{pdf}$]$.

2015 - Valle, M. A., Morrás R. Mental accounting in grocery settings: Evidence of slack account from the expected cost of the basket for unplanned purchases, presented at CLADEA 2015, XL Annual Assembly, Viña del Mar - Chile, September 6-8, Marketing Track, paper nº194.