Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...
Casamayor, Gerard (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)
Text summarization deals with the automatic creation of summaries from one or more documents, either by extracting fragments from the input text or by generating an abstract de novo. Research in recent ...
Franzoni, Federico (Date of defense: 2021-05-07)
During the last decade, cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial industry. In these systems, participants communicate by means of a peer-to-peer protocol. Today, many of such protocols take ...
Sayago Barrantes, Sergio (Date of defense: 2009-07-24)
L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es ...
Paun, Bruno (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
The role of trabeculations and their normal morphological expression in the human heart is still unclear. Clinical studies have shown that excessive trabeculation can cause heart failure due to diastolic ...
Salleras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Telecommunication systems such as mobile communications are evolving over time, and thanks to that, many digital services have arisen in the last decade. Usually, these services ask their users to provide ...
Bellés Muñoz, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)
In recent years, zero-knowledge proofs have come to play a crucial role in distributed systems where there is no trust between the parties involved. Most popular proof systems are for the NP-complete ...
Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and ...
García González, Roberto (Date of defense: 2006-04-21)
Un dels principals requeriments de la gestió de drets digitals a la Web és un llenguatge compartit per a la representació del copyright. Les aproximacions actuals es basen en solucions purament sintàctiques, ...
Butti, Silvia (Date of defense: 2022-10-20)
This thesis focuses on the complexity of the fixed-template Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and its variants. Our contributions are two-fold. On the one hand, we study how closure of the space of ...