Departament de Ciències de la Computació: Recent submissions
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Specification, estimation and monitoring of quality-related software strategic indicators in agile software development
(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 ...
Causal discovery and prediction: methods and algorithms
(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 ...
Construction and technological development of immersive virtual reality for pain therapy
(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 ...
Cluster evaluation on weighted networks
(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 ...
New data integration methods for drug re-purposing by mining heterogeneous omics data
(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 ...
A novel soft computing approach based on FIR to model and predict energy dynamic systems
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 ...
On-the-fly synthesizer programming with rule learning
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 ...
A novel computer Scrabble engine based on probability that performs at championship leve
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 ...
Size bounds for algebraic and semialgebraic proof systems
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 ...
Human-aware application of data science techniques
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 ...
Walking with virtual humans : understanding human response to virtual humanoids' appearance and behaviour while navigating in immersive VR
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, ...
A framework for the analytical and visual interpretation of complex spatiotemporal dynamics in soccer
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 ...
Bridging the gap between textual and formal business process representations
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 ...
Language: universals, principles and origins
Here, old and new linguistic universals, i.e. properties obeyed by all languages on Earth are investigated. Basic principles of language predicting linguistic universals are also investigated. More precisely, two principles ...
Network creation games: structure vs anarchy
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 ...
Algorithms for the reconstruction, analysis, repairing and enhancement of 3D urban models from multiple data sources
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 ...
Toward human-like pathfinding with hierarchical approaches and the GPS of the brain theory
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 ...
Enhancing scene text recognition with visual context information
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 ...
An adaptive, fault-tolerant system for road network traffic prediction using machine learning
This thesis has addressed the design and development of an integrated system for real-time traffic forecasting based on machine learning methods. Although traffic prediction has been the driving motivation for the thesis ...
