Introspection on control-grounded capabilities. An agent inspired approach for control 

    Quintero Monroy, Christian G. (Date of defense: 2007-10-18)

    Introspecció sobre la dinàmica dels agents té un important impacte en decisions individuals i cooperatives en entorns multi-agent. Introspecció, una habilitat cognitiva provinent de la metàfora "agent", permet que els ...

    A formalization for multi-agent decision support in cooperative environments. A framework for situated agents 

    Ibarra Martínez, Salvador (Date of defense: 2008-06-16)

    La tesis propone un marco de trabajo para el soporte de la toma de decisiones adecuado para soportar la ejecución distribuida de acciones cooperativas en entornos multi-agente dinámicos y complejos. Soporte para la toma ...

    Multivariate Statistical Process Control and Case-Based Reasoning for situation assessment of Sequencing Batch Reactors 

    Ruiz Ordóñez, Magda Liliana (Date of defense: 2008-06-16)

    ABSRACT<br/><br/>This thesis focuses on the monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP), which are important fields of research for a wide range of engineering disciplines. <br/><br/>The ...

    A Multi-agent Architecture with Distributed Coordination for an Autonomous Robot 

    Innocenti, Bianca (Date of defense: 2008-11-17)

    Aquest treball proposa una nova arquitectura de control amb coordinació distribuïda per a un robot mòbil (ARMADiCo). La metodologia de coordinació distribuïda consisteix en dos passos: el primer determina quin és l'agent ...

    A proposal for the diagnosis of uncertain dynamic systems based on interval models 

    Gelso, Esteban Reinaldo (Date of defense: 2009-05-29)

    The performance of a model-based diagnosis system could be affected by several uncertainty sources, such as,model errors,uncertainty in measurements, and disturbances. This uncertainty can be handled by mean of interval ...

    Semiactive control strategies for vibration mitigation in adaptronic structures equipped with magnetorheological dampers 

    Zapateiro de la Hoz, Mauricio Fabián (Date of defense: 2009-07-21)

    Los sistemas tales como edificios y veh¨ªculos est¨¢n sujetos a vibraciones que pueden causar mal funcionamiento, incomodidad o colapso. Para mitigar estas vibraciones, se suelen instalar amortiguadores. Estas estructuras ...

    Egalitarian behaviour in multi unit combinatorial auctions 

    Murillo Espinar, Javier (Date of defense: 2010-11-10)

    En entornos donde los recursos son precederos y la asignación de recursos se repite en el tiempo con el mismo conjunto o un conjunto muy similar de agentes, las subastas recurrentes pueden ser utilizadas. Una subasta ...

    Robustness on resource allocation problems 

    Muñoz i Solà, Víctor (Date of defense: 2011-02-17)

    En problemes d'assignació de recursos, normalment s'han de tenir en compte les incerteses que poden provocar canvis en les dades inicials. Aquests canvis dificulten l'aplicabilitat de les planificacions que s'hagin fet ...

    Dynamic task allocation and coordination in cooperative multi-agent environments 

    Suárez Barón, Silvia Andrea (Date of defense: 2011-02-25)

    La coordinació i assignació de tasques en entorns distribuïts ha estat un punt important de la recerca en els últims anys i aquests temes són el cor dels sistemes multi-agent. Els agents en aquests sistemes necessiten ...

    Prediction of postprandial blood glucose under intra-patient variability and uncertainty and its use in the design of insulin dosing strategies for type 1 diabetic patients 

    García Jaramillo, Maira Alejandra (Date of defense: 2011-07-22)

    In this thesis I propose a novel method to estimate the dose and injection-to-meal time for low-risk intensive insulin therapy. This dosage-aid system uses an optimization algorithm to determine the insulin dose and ...

    Unstructured P2P social search query routing algorithms for agentified social networks 

    Trias Mansilla, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)

    The village paradigm presents some benefits compared with the library paradigm; people can adapt the answer content as a function of who is requesting the information, or furthermore, people can perform clarifications of ...

    Enfoques metodológicos para mejorar la precisión y fiabilidad de los sistemas de monitorización continua de glucosa en pacientes con diabetes tipo 1 y en pacientes críticos mediante técnicas lineales y no lineales 

    Leal Moncada, Yenny Teresa (Date of defense: 2013-07-30)

    This dissertation focuses on the development and improvement of the minimally invasive continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS). This dissertation gives emphasis in solving the problem of the accuracy and reliability ...

    Design and implementation of a closed-loop blood glucose control system in patients with type 1 diabetes 

    León Vargas, Fabian Mauricio (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)

    In the work presented in this dissertation, open-loop and closed-loop control strategies that were aimed at resolving major glucose control problems in the postprandial period were developed. A new model-based control ...

    Case-based diagnosis of batch processes based on latent structures 

    Berjaga Moliné, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-11-14)

    The aim of this thesis is to present a methodological approach for the automatic monitoring of batch processes based on a combination of statistical models and machine learning methods. The former is used to model the ...

    Multi-attribute auctions: application to workflow management systems 

    Pla Planas, Albert (Date of defense: 2014-04-25)

    Resource and task allocation for workflows poses an allocation problem in which several attributes may be involved (economic cost, delivery time, CO2 emissions...), therefore, it must be treated from a multi-criteria ...

    Decision support framework for space-use optimization and arrangement of public services 

    Rusek, Robert (Date of defense: 2017-05-24)

    The thesis concentrates particularly on how to enhance space-use in the case of public facilities. This issue has been approached by repurposing existing facilities and introducing additional services, thereby creating ...

    Data-driven models for building energy efficiency monitoring 

    Massana i Raurich, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2018-02-02)

    Nowadays, energy is absolutely necessary all over the world. Taking into account the advantages that it presents in transport and the needs of homes and industry, energy is transformed into electricity. Bearing in mind ...

    Foundations of uncertainty management for text-based sentiment prediction 

    Hossayni, Sayyed Ali (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)

    Analyzing the sentiment of Social Networks users is an attractive task, well-covered by the Sentiment Analysis research communities. Alongside, predicting the rating/opinion of users in Social Networks or e-commerce platforms ...

    Novel methods for the efficacy and safety in the artificial pancreas intended for domiciliary use 

    Ramkissoon, Charrise Mary (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)

    Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that targets the insulin producing β-cells in the pancreas that results in chronically elevated blood glucose (BG) levels and requires lifelong insulin-replacement therapy. ...

    Forecasting and decision support for type 1 diabetes insulin therapy using machine learning 

    Oviedo Castillo, Silvia (Date of defense: 2019-04-09)

    Insulin therapy for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) has several ramifications with different degrees of automation. The advances in sensors and monitoring devices have led to an increasing availability of data. Additionally, machine ...