Messegué Buisan, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
In an attempt to understand how Internet-like network and social networks behave, different models have been proposed and studied throughout history to capture their most essential aspects and properties. ...
Theoktisto, Víctor (Date of defense: 2015-11-25)
The present document exposes a different approach for haptic rendering, defined as the simulation of force interactions to reproduce the sensation of surface relief in dense models. Current research ...
Sevilla Villanueva, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
Nowadays, it is widely accepted that many of modern lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise, together with genetics, play an important role in the development of many diseases such as cardiovascular ...
Gkatzioura, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Current recommender systems aim mainly to generate accurate item recommendations, without properly evaluating the multiple dimensions of the recommendation problem. However, in many domains, like in ...
Cárdenas Domínguez, Martha Ivón (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Arguably, drug research has contributed more to the progress of medicine during the past decades than any other scientific factor. One of the main areas of drug research is related to the analysis of ...
Muñoz Gama, Jorge (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
In the last decades, the capability of information systems to generate and record overwhelming amounts of event data has experimented an exponential growth in several domains, and in particular in ...
Piceno, Marie Ely (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
This work is developed within the field of data mining and data visualization. Under the premise that many of the algorithms give as result huge amounts of data impossible to handle for the users, we ...
Sánchez Charles, David (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Crowdsourcing, the art of involving several individuals in the decentralized execution of business activities, is being positioned as the replacement of outsourcing, as it allows organization to reach ...
Ferrés Domènech, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
Geographical Information Access (GeoIA) can be defined as a way of retrieving information from textual collections that includes the automatic analysis and interpretation of the geographical constraints ...
Naderi, Ali M. (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)
Nowadays, the human textual data constitutes a great proportion of the shared information resources such as World Wide Web (WWW). Social networks, news and learning resources as well as Knowledge Bases ...