Tsalouchidou, Ioanna (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
The objective of this thesis is to provide a temporal analysis of the structural and interaction dynamics of large evolving graphs. In this thesis we propose new definitions of important graph metrics ...
Pérez-Mayos, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)
Pretrained Transformer-based language models have quickly replaced traditional approaches to model NLP tasks, pushing the state of the art to new levels, and will certainly continue to be very influential ...
Glomb, Katharina (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
Spontaneous brain activity, measured under the absence of any overt task, has been investigated under the label of “resting state” for about 20 years with rising interest. While it was known since the ...
Francès, Guillem (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
Classical planning is concerned with finding sequences of actions that achieve a certain goal from an initial state of the world, assuming that actions are deterministic, states are fully known, and ...
Bas Serrano, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
Reinforcement learning is an expanding field where very often there is a mismatch between the high performance of the algorithms and their poor theoretical justification. For this reason, there is a ...
Sáez-Trumper, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of ...
Albó, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
This doctoral thesis focuses on a gap identified in the literature by investigating how visual representations, authoring support, and data analytics can aid teachers in designing for learning in complex ...
Sacco, Federica (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)
In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As ...
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 ...
Jordà Puig, Sergi (Date of defense: 2005-06-21)
This is a dissertation about performing music with computers, and about constructing the tools that will facilitate playing and improvising with these computers. The primary aim of this research is to ...