Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct ...
Pindado, Zaira (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, ...
Dovelos, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Undoubtedly, spectrum scarcity constitutes the main bottleneck of current wireless networks. It is therefore imperative to move beyond the sub-6 GHz band in order to overcome this limitation. Toward ...
Cabrero Daniel, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
Computer-generated crowds are becoming more and more frequent in films, video games and safety assessment applications. Many crowd simulation algorithms exist to address the needs of this diverse range ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with ...
Chandna, Pritish (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
This thesis dissertation focuses on singing voice extraction from polyphonic musical signals. In particular, we focus on two cases; contemporary popular music, which typically has a processed singing ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...
De Santiago , Jessica (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
In neuropsychiatry, the development of brain imaging and dedicated data analysis for personalized medicine promises to predict both the evolution of diseases and responses of treatments. The ability to ...
Casamayor, Gerard (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Text summarization deals with the automatic creation of summaries from one or more documents, either by extracting fragments from the input text or by generating an abstract de novo. Research in recent ...
Franzoni, Federico (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
During the last decade, cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial industry. In these systems, participants communicate by means of a peer-to-peer protocol. Today, many of such protocols take ...