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Manero Font, Jaume (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)
Forecasting is a critical task for the integration of wind-generated energy into electricity grids. Numerical weather models applied to wind prediction, work with grid sizes too large to reproduce all the local features ...
Piceno, Marie Ely (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
This work is developed within the field of data mining and data visualization. Under the premise that many of the algorithms give as result huge amounts of data impossible to handle for the users, we work with the ...
Sabir, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2020-11-10)
This thesis addresses the problem of improving text spotting systems, which aim to detect and recognize text in unrestricted images (e.g. a street sign, an advertisement, a bus destination, etc.). The goal is to improve ...
Rahmani, Vahid (Date of defense: 2020-11-18)
Pathfinding for autonomous agents and robots has been traditionally driven by finding optimal paths. Where typically optimality means finding the shortest path between two points in a given environment. However, optimality ...
Messegué Buisan, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
In an attempt to understand how Internet-like network and social networks behave, different models have been proposed and studied throughout history to capture their most essential aspects and properties. Network Creation ...
Jurado Gómez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)
We are facing a global climate crisis that is demanding a change in the status quo of how we produce, distribute and consume energy. In the last decades, this is being redefined through Smart Grids(SG), an intelligent ...
Comino Trinidad, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
Over the last few years, there has been a notorious growth in the field of digitization of 3D buildings and urban environments. The substantial improvement of both scanning hardware and reconstruction algorithms has led ...
Sànchez-Ferreres, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)
In the era of digital transformation, an increasing number of organizations are start ing to think in terms of business processes. Processes are at the very heart of each business, and must be understood and carried out ...
Fernández de la Rosa, Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-18)
Sports analytics is an emerging field focused on the application of advanced data analysis for assessing the performance of professional athletes and teams. In soccer, the integration of data analysis is in its initial ...
Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)
In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In our simulations, ...
Coma Puig, Bernat (Date of defense: 2022-03-02)
In recent years there has been an increase in the use of artificial intelligence and other data-based techniques to automate decision-making in companies, and discover new knowledge in research. In many cases, all this has ...
González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. Some brief notions ...
Hakoniemi, Tuomas (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis concerns the proof complexity of algebraic and semialgebraic proof systems Polynomial Calculus, Sums-of-Squares and Sherali-Adams. The most studied complexity measure for these systems is the degree of ...
Paz Ortiz, Alejandro Iván (Date of defense: 2022-05-03)
This manuscript explores automatic programming of sound synthesis algorithms within the context of the performative artistic practice known as live coding. Writing source code in an improvised way to create music or visuals ...
Renedo Mirambell, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
(English) This thesis presents a systematic approach to validate the results of clustering methods on weighted networks, particularly for the cases where the existence of a community structure is unknown. Including edge ...
Blondel, Gilles (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)
(English) This thesis focuses on the discovery of causal relations and on the prediction of causal effects. Regarding causal discovery, this thesis introduces a novel and generic method to learn causal graphs by performing ...
Manzano Aguilar, Martí (Date of defense: 2023-06-08)
(English) In line with the current trend of exploiting corporative data, software companies, especially those using Agile and Rapid software development, are challenged to improve the quality of their products, their ...
Álvarez de la Campa Crespo, Mercè (Date of defense: 2023-06-29)
(English) Virtual reality (VR) allows not only to easily change the perceived scenario but also to control several factors associated with the sense of being in an embodied virtual avatar that would not be achievable in ...
Pascual Pañach, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-11-10)
(English) One of the major problems to design and implement control and supervision systems for real-world processes lies in the need to stablish an ad-hoc solution for each process, i.e., environmental systems in this ...
Zambrana Seguí, Maria del Carme (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)
(English) High-throughput omics technologies produce large-scale heterogeneous data that provide complementary views of the underlying complexity of the studied organism. To exploit these new data to answer biomedical ...