Cortés Martínez, Atia (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
The ability to walk is typically related to several bio-mechanical components that are involved in the gait cycle (or stride), including free mobility of joints, particularly in the legs; coordination ...
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 ...
Franco Bedoya, Oscar Hernán (Date of defense: 2018-02-27)
Background: Open source software (OSS) and software ecosystems (SECOs) are two consolidated research areas in software engineering. The adoption of OSS by firms, governments, researchers and practitioners ...
Taymouri, Farbod (Date of defense: 2018-12-21)
Conformance Checking is a new research discipline devoted to identify deviations between business process models and their real executions. Identifying deviations boils down to the notion of alignment ...
Castro Espinoza, Félix (Date of defense: 2018-06-21)
Supported by technological development and its impact on everyday activities, e-Learning and b-Learning (Blended Learning) have experienced rapid growth mainly in higher education and training. Its ...
Latifi, Majid (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
With regard to the growth in the amount of social, environmental, and biomedical information available digitally, there is a growing need for Question Answering (QA) systems that can empower users to ...
Díaz García, Jesús (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
This thesis concerns the specific field of visualization of medical models using commodity and mobile devices. Mechanisms for medical imaging acquisition such as MRI, CT, and micro-CT scanners are ...
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 ...
Argudo Medrano, Oscar (Date of defense: 2018-07-19)
During the last years, we have witnessed significant improvements in digital terrain modeling, mainly through photogrammetric techniques based on satellite and aerial photography, as well as laser ...
König, Caroline Leonore (Date of defense: 2018-10-30)
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are cell membrane proteins with a key role in regulating the function of cells. This is the result of their ability to transmit extracellular signals, which makes ...