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    Kinodynamic planning and control of closed-chain robotic systems 

    Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

    This work proposes a methodology for kinodynamic planning and trajectory control in robots with closed kinematic chains. The ability to plan trajectories is key in a robotic system, as it provides a means to convert ...

    El Kitab al anwa' del Katib'Arib ibn Sa'id 

    Alkuwaifi Khaz'Al, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2022-09-21)

    [spa] ʿArīb ibn Saʿīd (m.980) fue un destacado médico, historiador y cortesano de los omeyas andalusíes. Escribió un tratado de anwāʾ ampliamente difundido y citado, directa o indirectamente, por muchos autores. Parece ser ...

    Klando. Informalidad y «mystique» en un sistema de transporte en la Baja Casamance (Senegal) 

    Contijoch Torres, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-02-02)

    [spa] Esta tesis se centra en el funcionamiento del sistema de taxis colectivos no regulados (klandos) en Ziguinchor y sus alrededores, en la Baja Casamance (Senegal). He prestado atención a su papel como infraestructura ...

    Knowing what you know: a pedagogical model based on learners’ metacognitive abilities 

    Blancas Muñoz, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)

    Students’ metacognition, that is, the ability to accurately assess one’s skill level and to update one’s internal model of those skills, is a crucial educational factor, as it can help students selfregulate their learning. ...

    Knowledge acquisition in the information age: the interplay between lexicography and natural language processing 

    Espinosa-Anke, Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)

    Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of Artificial Intelligence aimed at understanding and generating language as close as possible to a human’s. Today, NLP benefits substantially of large amounts of unnanotated ...

    Knowledge aggregation from experts and customers: A contribution to new product innovation with artificial intelligence techniques 

    Mohanty, Pooja (Date of defense: 2021-08-31)

    La innovació de nous productes amb la participació del client, ha ajudat a reforçar el canvi de paradigma de les organitzacions cap a una lògica centrada en el client. Els beneficis de participar en la co-creació de nous ...

    Knowledge aggregation in people recommender systems : matching skills to tasks 

    Nguyen, Jennifer (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)

    People recommender systems (PRS) are a special type of RS. They are often adopted to identify people capable of performing a task. Recommending people poses several challenges not exhibited in traditional RS. Elements such ...

    Knowledge as an effective tool to improve Economics Performance in Micro and Small Enterprise 

    Herrera Barrera, Boris Vladimir (Date of defense: 2009-11-13)

    L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és entendre i explicar l'efecte de la creació, l'ús i l'administració del coneixement com a factor del rendiment econòmic de la petita i la microempresa, utilitzant una aproximació qualitativa, ...

    Knowledge Biases in Supplier-Based Innovation Ecosystems 

    Arribas Ibar, Manel (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)

    Què tenen en comú els ecosistemes tan diferents basats en proveïdors dels anàlisis clínics, la moda de luxe i els vehicles elèctrics,? Al cap i a la fi, segons els nostres preconcepcions, aquests ecosistemes són monolítics, ...

    Knowledge entrepreneurship in universities. Practice and strategy in the case of Internet based innovation appropiation 

    Senges, Maximilian (Date of defense: 2007-12-10)

    The thesis argues that knowledge entrepreneurship is a cogent and apt argument to frame the idea of the university in the 21st century. This is true because it combines the positive creative destruction of entrepreneurship ...

    Knowledge extraction and representation learning for music recommendation and classification 

    Oramas Martín, Sergio (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)

    In this thesis, we address the problems of classifying and recommending music present in large collections. We focus on the semantic enrichment of descriptions associated to musical items (e.g., artists biographies, album ...

    Knowledge graph population from news streams 

    Fernández Cañellas, Dèlia (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)

    (English) Media producers publish large amounts of multimedia content online - both text, audio, image and video. As the online media market grows, the management and delivery of contents becomes a challenge. Semantic ...

    Knowledge management technology for integrated decision support systems in process industries 

    Muñoz Mata, Edrisi (Date of defense: 2011-12-12)

    Nowadays, factors such as globalization of trade, market uncertainty and fierce competition involve dwindling error margins in enterprises. Two key aspects for achieve it are the viability and the competitiveness of ...

    Knowledge representation and reasoning for perception-based manipulation planning 

    Diab, Mohammed (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)

    This thesis develops a series of modeling and reasoning tools for knowledge-oriented manipulation planning in semi/unstructured environments. The main idea is to use high-level knowledge-based reasoning to capture a rich ...

    Knowledge transmission in cyberspace. Discourse analysis of professional web forums as internet subgenre 

    Varga, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-03-09)

    El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías y el uso del Internet como nueva plataforma para la enseñanza crean nuevas modalidades de interacción comunicativa entre los usuarios de Internet con el fin de aprender, comunicar y ...

    Knowledge-based modelling and simulation of operational problems of microbiological origin in wastewater treatment plants 

    Dalmau Solé, Jordi (Date of defense: 2009-11-13)

    The activated sludge and anaerobic digestion processes have been modelled in widely accepted models. Nevertheless, these models still have limitations when describing operational problems of microbiological origin. The aim ...

    Knowledge-based and data-driven approaches for geographical information access 

    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 and terms present ...

    Knowledge-based incremental induction of clinical algorithms 

    López Vallverdú, Joan Albert (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)

    The current approaches for the induction of medical procedural knowledge suffer from several drawbacks: the structures produced may not be explicit medical structures, they are only based on statistical measures that do ...

    Knowledge-based probabilistic modeling for tracking lyrics in music audio signals 

    Dzhambazov, Georgi (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)

    This thesis proposes specific signal processing and machine learning methodologies for automatically aligning the lyrics of a song to its corresponding audio recording. The research carried out falls in the broader field ...

    Knowledge-defined networking : a machine learning based approach for network and traffic modeling 

    Mestres Sugrañes, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)

    The research community has considered in the past the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. However, such ...