Malvestio, Irene (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
An important problem in neuroscience is the assessment of the connectivity between neurons from their spike trains. One recent approach developed for the detection of directional couplings between ...
Rezazadeh, Arezou (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)
Due to delay constraints of modern communication systems, studying reliable communication with finite-length codewords is much needed. Error exponents are one approach to study the finite-length regime ...
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 ...