Approximate algorithms for decentralized Supply Chain Formation 

    Penya-Alba, Toni (Date of defense: 2014-12-16)

    Supply chain formation involves determining the participants and the exchange of goods within a production network. Today’s companies operate autonomously, making local decisions, and coordinating ...

    Assisted Hybrid Structured 3D Virtual Environments 

    Almajano, Pablo (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)

    The blending of digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, interactive systems, 3D interfaces and the Internet is enabling new services for users. In particular, Hybrid Structured 3D Virtual Environments (VE) ...

    Assisting the training of deep neural networks with applications to computer vision 

    Romero, Adriana (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)

    Deep learning has recently been enjoying an increasing popularity due to its success in solving challenging tasks. In particular, deep learning has proven to be effective in a large variety of computer vision tasks, such ...

    Boundedness of the Hilbert Transform on Weighted Lorentz Spaces 

    Agora, Elona (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)

    The main goal of this thesis is to characterize the weak-type (resp. strong-type) boundedness of the Hilbert transform H on weighted Lorentz spaces Λpu(w). The characterization is given in terms of some geometric ...

    Capacitary function spaces and applications 

    Silvestre Albero, María Pilar (Date of defense: 2012-02-08)

    The first part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis on a capacity space, with capacities as substitutes of measures in the study of function spaces. The goal is to extend to the associated function lattices some aspects ...

    Computation of Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds 

    Canadell Cano, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-07-04)

    The subject of the theory of Dynamical Systems is the evolution of systems with respect to time. Hence, it has many applications to other areas of science, such as Physics, Biology, Economics, etc. and it also has interactions ...

    Connectivity of Julia sets of transcendental meromorphic functions 

    Taixés i Ventosa, Jordi (Date of defense: 2011-09-22)

    Newton's method associated to a complex holomorphic function f is defined by the dynamical system Nf(z) = z – f(z) / f'(z). As a root-finding algorithm, a natural question is to understand the dynamics of Nf about its fixed ...

    Context-aware quality of life telemonitoring for a novel healthcare paradigm 

    Miralles Barrachina, Felip (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)

    Our healthcare systems are facing sustainability challenges caused by a demographic shift with ageing, chronicity and disability growing in our society. A novel healthcare paradigm should be founded on 4P medicine: Preventive, ...

    Contribution to the study of invariant manifolds and the splitting of separatrices of parabolic points 

    Baldomá, Inmaculada (Date of defense: 2001-01-01)

    In general, when beginning to explore any scientific field, one focuses on the generic situations; that is, one centers on the behaviours that appear in “most” of the cases encountered in practice. This methodology ...

    Detection and Alignment of Vascular Structures in Intravascular Ultrasound using Pattern Recognition Techniques 

    Alberti, Marina (Date of defense: 2013-02-21)

    In this thesis, several methods for the automatic analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) sequences are presented, aimed at assisting physicians in the diagnosis, the assessment of the intervention and the monitoring ...

    Endpoint estimates via extrapolation theory 

    Domingo Salazar, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-04-07)

    In this thesis, we study different variants of Rubio de Francia’s extrapolation that allow us to obtain estimates near L1. This theory is subsequently applied to deduce enpoint boundedness for the Bochner-Riesz operator ...

    Estabilitat efectiva i tors invariants de sistemes hamiltonians quasi-integrables 

    Gutiérrez i Serrés, Pere (Date of defense: 1995-06-02)

    La memòria recull contribucions a diversos aspectes del problema de l'estabilitat en sistemes hamiltonians quasi-integrables. Aquests aspectes inclouen resultats d'estabilitat efectiva, que comporten el confinament de ...

    Estudi de sistemes dinàmics mitjançant la reducció de la seva dimensió 

    Bosch Gual, Miquel (Date of defense: 1992-09-30)

    L'objectiu del treball és mostrar que alguns aspectes de certs sistemes dinàmics discrets bidimensionals poden ser estudiats mitjançant sistemes de dimensió 1 que corresponen a casos particulars o simplificacions. Els tres ...

    Evolution of Sex-Ratio in Structured Population Dynamics 

    Ripoll i Missé, Jordi (Date of defense: 2005-10-05)

    In this Thesis we address the study of some non-linear evolution equations (e.g. pde's) modelling the dynamics of sexually-reproducing structured populations, with special emphasis on biological evolution driven by natural ...

    Generalized Stacked Sequential Learning 

    Puertas i Prats, Eloi (Date of defense: 2014-11-04)

    Over the past few decades, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become a very useful tool in tasks where designing and programming explicit, rule-based algorithms are infeasible. Some examples of applications ...

    Human Pose Analysis and Gesture Recognition from Depth Maps: Methods and Applications 

    Reyes Estany, Miguel (Date of defense: 2017-02-27)

    The visual analysis of humans is one of the most active research topics in Computer Vision. Several approaches for body pose recovery have been recently presented, allowing for better generalization of gesture recognition ...

    Interpolación compleja de operadores lineales 

    Carro Rossell, María Jesús (Date of defense: 1988-01-30)

    El primer resultado de interpolación de operadores data del año 1911 y es debido a I. Schur. Dos años más tarde, Young prueba un resultado del mismo tipo referente a espacios Lp y a un operador L La extensión de estos ...

    Invariant manifolds and bifurcations for one-dimensional and two-dimensional dissipative maps 

    Tatjer i Montaña, Joan Carles (Date of defense: 1990-03-01)

    It is known that for the study of continuous dynamical systems the discret case plays an important role because, with it we can study the continuous one by using the Poincaré return map. In the discret case we can distinguish ...

    Learning error-correcting representations for multi-class problems 

    Bautista Martín, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2016-02-11)

    Real life is full of multi-class decision tasks. In the Pattern Recognition field, several method- ologies have been proposed to deal with binary problems obtaining satisfying results in terms of performance. However, the ...

    Mesures i probabilitats en estructures ordenades 

    Congost Iglesias, Maria Assumpta (Date of defense: 1981-01-01)

    En una primera part s'estudien els conjunts de mesures que prenen valors en un grup reticualt, per a les quals la T-aditivitat es defineix a partir de l'estructura ordenada. L'estudi realitzat a partir de les propietats ...