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    Desenvolupant un mètode per a la detecció de les potencialitats educatives dels videojocs comercials 

    Adell, Ferran (Date of defense: 2023-03-22)

    L'ús dels videojocs en l'educació ha passat per diferents etapes. En un primer moment, els extrems s'apoderaren de les opinions sobre l'aprenentatge basat en videojocs (VGBL, per la sigla en anglès), i generaven passió o ...

    Engaging learners and facilitating teachers in practice-based learning 

    Iftikhar, Sidra (Date of defense: 2024-03-25)

    This research provides an in-depth understanding of student engagement and its indicators for practice-based learning contexts, specifically for the tools. The analysis of engagement in educational contexts is the basis ...

    Enterprise reference architectures for higher education institutions: Analysis, comparison and practical uses 

    Sanchez Puchol, Felix (Date of defense: 2022-04-29)

    Enterprise Architecture (EA) is currently accepted as one on the major instruments for enabling organisations in their transformation processes to achieve business-technology alignment. Despite that over the last years EA ...

    Estudi dels sistemes d'informació analítics en el context universitari: Proposta d'un sistema analític universal per a la universitat 

    Guitart Hormigo, Isabel, (Date of defense: 2017-04-07)

    Un element clau per a l'èxit de les empreses és la implantació de sistemes analítics amb l'objectiu de fer-les més competitives. Aquests sistemes han evolucionat fins a arribar a una certa maduresa i les empreses han ...

    Forensic imaging and analysis of Apple iOS devices 

    Gomez-Miralles, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    In this thesis we present our research on digital forensics on the iOS platform, structured along three areas: forensic imaging; forensic analysis; and anti-forensic techniques. In the field of forensic imaging, we demonstrate ...

    From metaheuristics to learnheuristics: Applications to logistics, finance, and computing 

    Calvet Liñán, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)

    Un gran nombre de processos de presa de decisions en sectors estratègics com el transport i la producció representen problemes NP-difícils. Sovint, aquests processos es caracteritzen per alts nivells d'incertesa i dinamisme. ...

    Gesture tracking and neural activity segmentation in head-fixed behaving mice by deep learning methods 

    Abbas, Waseem (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)

    The typical approach used by neuroscientists is to study the response of laboratory animals to a stimulus while recording their neural activity at the same time. With the advent of calcium imaging technology, researchers ...

    Guided requirements engineering using feature oriented software modeling 

    Sreekumar, Anjali (Date of defense: 2023-05-23)

    A well-defined software requirements specification uniquely describes a functionality or part of a functionality of the software product and is consistent with the definitions and descriptions of the other functionalities ...

    Human body parts segmentation via stacked and multi-task learning 

    Sánchez Abril, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)

    La segmentació de persones en imatges RGB ha estat un problema central en el camp de la visió per computador. En aquesta tesi abordem el problema mitjançant hand-crafted features en un pipeline de dues etapes tant per ...

    Image steganalysis and steganography in the spatial domain 

    Lerch-Hostalot, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-04-23)

    In this dissertation, we propose different novel techniques both to detect hidden information (steganalysis) and to hide information (steganography). These techniques are presented in the form of a collection of five ...

    Integrating secure mobile P2P systems and Wireless Sensor Networks 

    Domingo Prieto, Marc (Date of defense: 2017-03-03)

    Aquesta tesi tracta de les diferents limitacions trobades a WSN per a habilitar-ne el desplegament en nous escenaris i facilitar la difusió de la informació obtinguda. A un nivell baix, ens centrem en el consum d’energia, ...

    IoT@run-time: a model-based approach to support deployment and self-adaptations in IoT systems 

    Alfonso, Ivan (Date of defense: 2022-12-05)

    Today, most Internet of Things (IoT) systems leverage edge and fog computing to meet increasingly restrictive requirements and improve quality of service (QoS). Although these multi-layer architectures can improve system ...

    Leveraging mobile phone-based technologies to provide on-demand adolescent sexual reproductive health information in a resource-limited setting: Kibra, Nairobi County 

    macharia, paul (Date of defense: 2022-12-13)

    Adolescents transitioning from childhood to adulthood need to be equipped with reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that empower them. The prevalence of pregnancy and STIs among adolescents ...

    A metaheuristic and simheuristic approach for the p-HUB median problem from a telecommunication perspective 

    Alvarez Fernandez, Stephanie Milena (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)

    Els últims avenços en la indústria de les telecomunicacions ofereixen grans oportunitats per a ciutadans i organitzacions en un món globalment connectat, però alhora presenten reptes als quals s'enfronten tècnics i enginyers ...

    Model-driven round-trip engineering of REST APIs 

    Ed-douibi, Hamza (Date of defense: 2019-05-13)

    Les API web s'han convertit cada vegada més en un actiu clau per a les empreses, que n'han promogut la implementació i la integració en les seves activitats quotidianes. A la pràctica, la majoria d'aquestes API web són ...

    Modeling of emotional subjectivity in affective-based predictive systems 

    Hayat, Hassan (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)

    One of the goals of affective computing is to develop affective technologies that can understand humans emotionally and make their life better. Human emotions are highly subjective in nature. This is why systems that ...

    A multi-fold assessment framework for virtualized collaborative and social learning scenarios 

    Mora Núñez, Néstor (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)

    Proposem un procés de virtualització de sessions col·laboratives en directe a partir de fòrums de discussió i xats web amb l'objectiu de produir recursos d'aprenentatge en línia interactius per a ser utilitzats pels alumnes ...

    Optimizing transportation systems and logistics network configurations: from biased-randomized algorithms to fuzzy simheuristics 

    Tordecilla Madera, Rafael David (Date of defense: 2022-02-23)

    Transportation and logistics (T&L) are currently highly relevant functions in any competitive industry. Locating facilities or distributing goods to hundreds or thousands of customers are activities with a high degree of ...

    Predictive maintenance of industrial water cooling systems 

    Galve Ceamanos, Sergio (Date of defense: 2022-11-21)

    Working in the practical environment of the LAUDA Ultracool company, this project worked with industrial refrigeration equipment to detect and diagnose failures before they impact the efficiency of the machine. Once the ...

    Service allocation methodologies for contributory computing environments 

    Cabrera Añon, Guillem (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)

    Aquesta tesi adreça el problema de l'assignació eficient de recursos en sistemes de computació contributius. Aquest tipus de sistemes estan formats únicament per nodes no dedicats i requereixen de mecanismes adequats per ...