Martínez Garcia, Eva (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
In this thesis, we study the automatic translation of documents by taking into account cross-sentence phenomena. This document-level information is typically ignored by most of the standard state-of-the-art ...
Cardó, Carles, 1975- (Date of defense: 2018-03-15)
We propose a mathematical formalism called Algebraic Dependency Grammar with applications to formal linguistics and to formal language theory. Regarding formal linguistics we aim to address the problem ...
Estañol, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
Business processes are directly involved in the achievement of an organization's goals, and for this reason they should be performed in the best possible way. Modeling business processes can help to ...
Panagiotidi, Sofia (Date of defense: 2014-09-29)
As distributed electronic systems grow to include thousands of components, from grid to peer-to-peer nodes, from (Semantic) Web services to web-apps to computation in the cloud, governance of such systems ...
Palomares Bonache, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-10-04)
The final quality of software products and services depends on the requirements stated in the Software Requirements Specifications (SRSs). However, some problems like ambiguity, incompleteness and ...
Marco-Sola, Santiago (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
One of the outstanding milestones achieved in recent years in the field of biotechnology research has been the development of high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Due to the fact that at the moment it is ...
Vilamala Muñoz, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Malignant tumours of the brain represent one of the most difficult to treat types of cancer due to the sensitive organ they affect. Clinical management of the pathology becomes even more intricate as ...
Oriol Hilari, Xavier (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)
Ensuring the data correctness of some information system is a crucial task. So, software engineers specify sets of integrity constraints that should be satisfied by the system's data. These constraints, ...
Martínez-Fernández, Silverio (Date of defense: 2016-06-23)
Background: Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations ...
Oriol Hilari, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-03-19)
Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has been established in the last recent years as a successful paradigm in Software Engineering. The systems built under this paradigm, known as Service Based System ...