Alserafi, Ayman (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
With the huge growth in the amount of data generated by information systems, it is common practice today to store datasets in their raw formats (i.e., without any data preprocessing or transformations) ...
García Pastor, David (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
Nowadays, mobile devices have become a key technology in our lives, making us become part of a connected world, in which millions of mobile handsets are sold every year. In order to satisfy the user ...
Besharatloo, Hossein (Date of defense: 2021-05-13)
This thesis is dedicated to understanding the micromechanical properties of multiphase materials which are indispensable in today’s engineering applications. The mechanical behavior of these materials ...
Madrid Argomedo, Manuel Ricardo (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)
The design and construction of vertical caisson breakwaters on soft soils represents a significant challenge for the engineering of marine structures. Past experience reveals that this type of structures ...
Silfa, Franyell (Date of defense: 2021-01-25)
Deep Learning algorithms have been remarkably successful in applications such as Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. Thus, these kinds of applications are ubiquitous in our lives and ...
Girbau Xalabarder, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-03-17)
Since less than a decade ago, deep learning techniques started to dominate many different fields, revolutionizing the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Seeing their potential, industrial sectors ...
de Vreese, Steffen (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
While marine, anthropogenic noise pollution is a scientific and societal matter of concern, there is limited knowledge on how sea animals, particularly cetaceans, perceive their environment through ...
Cikojević, Viktor (Date of defense: 2021-04-20)
The properties of mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates at T=0 have been investigated using quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods and Density Functional Theory (DFT) with the aim of understanding physics ...
Braddell, Róisín (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)
In this thesis, we study the application of symplectic geometry, regular and singular, to symplectic dynamical systems.We start with a motivating case: the relation between symplectic foliations and ...
Porro Martorell, Olga (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)
Multiple-criteria or multiple-attribute group decision-making is a sub-field of operations research that seek to find a common and representative solution given the preferences elicited by a pre-defined ...