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    Agent-based management of clinical guidelines 

    Isern Alarcón, David (Date of defense: 2009-02-05)

    Les guies de pràctica clínica (GPC) contenen un conjunt d'accions i dades que ajuden a un metge a prendre decisions sobre el diagnòstic, tractament o qualsevol altre procediment a un pacient i sobre una determinada malaltia. ...

    An object-oriented approach to the translation between MOF Metaschemas 

    Raventós Pagès, Ruth (Date of defense: 2009-02-27)

    Since the 1960s, many formal languages have been developed in order to allow software engineers to specify conceptual models and to design software artifacts. A few of these languages, such as the Unified Modeling Language ...

    Validation of UML conceptual schemas with OCL constraints and operations 

    Queralt, Anna (Date of defense: 2009-03-02)

    Per tal de garantir la qualitat final d'un sistema d'informació, és imprescindible que l'esquema conceptual que representa el coneixement sobre el seu domini i les funcions que ha de realitzar sigui semànticament ...

    Peer-to-Peer Bartering: Swapping Amongst Self-interested Agents 

    Cabanillas, David (Date of defense: 2009-04-01)

    Large--scale distributed environments can be seen as a conflict between the selfish aims of the participants and the group welfare of the population as a whole. In order to regulate the behavior of the participants it is ...

    Adaptive Learning and Mining for Data Streams and Frequent Patterns 

    Bifet, Albert (Date of defense: 2009-04-24)

    Aquesta tesi està dedicada al disseny d'algorismes de mineria de dades per fluxos de dades que evolucionen en el temps i per l'extracció d'arbres freqüents tancats. Primer ens ocupem de cadascuna d'aquestes tasques per ...

    Generative manifold learning for the exploration of partially labeled data 

    Cruz Barbosa, Raúl (Date of defense: 2009-10-01)

    In many real-world application problems, the availability of data labels for supervised learning is rather limited. Incompletely labeled datasets are common in many of the databases generated in some of the currently most ...

    Automating the multidimensional design of data warehouses 

    Romero Moral, Óscar (Date of defense: 2010-02-09)

    Les experiències prèvies en l'àmbit dels magatzems de dades (o data warehouse), mostren que l'esquema multidimensional del data warehouse ha de ser fruit d'un enfocament híbrid; això és, una proposta que consideri tant els ...

    Digui: a flexibe dialogue system for guiding the user interaction to guiding the user interaction to acces web services 

    González Bermúdez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2010-10-22)

    Current dialogue systems can handle friendly and collaborative communication that supports diverse types of interactions, such as menus in which the user is asked to choose an option, form filling in which the user is ...

    Validation of mappings between data schemas 

    Rull Fort, Guillem (Date of defense: 2011-01-19)

    En esta tesis, presentamos un nuevo enfoque para validar mappings entre esquemas de datos que permite al diseñador comprobar si el mapping satisface o no ciertas propiedades deseables. La respuesta que obtiene el diseñador ...

    Pointing facilitation techniques for 3d object selection on virtual environments 

    Argelaguet Sanz, Fernando (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)

    Les contribucions d’aquesta tesi s’emmarquen en la interacció home-computador en entorns de realitat virtual. Concretament, en la millora de tasques de selecció d’objectes tridimensionals. La selecció d’objectes és una ...

    The Role of preferences in logic programming: nonmonotonic reasoning, user preferences, decision under uncertainty 

    Confalonieri, Roberto (Date of defense: 2011-12-02)

    Intelligent systems that assist users in fulfilling complex tasks need a concise and processable representation of incomplete and uncertain information. In order to be able to choose among different options, these systems ...

    Testing and test-driven development of conceptual schemas 

    Tort Pugibet, Albert (Date of defense: 2012-04-11)

    The traditional focus for Information Systems (IS) quality assurance relies on the evaluation of its implementation. However, the quality of an IS can be largely determined in the first stages of its development. Several ...

    The Complexity of angel-daemons and game isomorphism 

    García Chacón, Alina (Date of defense: 2012-05-07)

    The analysis of the computational aspects of strategic situations is a basic field in Computer Sciences. Two main topics related to strategic games have been developed. First, introduction and analysis of a class of games ...

    Factoid question answering for spoken documents 

    Comas Umbert, Pere R. (Date of defense: 2012-05-12)

    In this dissertation, we present a factoid question answering system, specifically tailored for Question Answering (QA) on spoken documents. This work explores, for the first time, which techniques can be robustly adapted ...

    A constraint-based hypergraph partitioning approach to coreference resolution 

    Sapena Masip, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-05-16)

    The objectives of this thesis are focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the expressions in a discourse ...

    Unsupervised learning of relation detection patterns 

    Gonzàlez Pellicer, Edgar (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)

    L'extracció d'informació és l'àrea del processament de llenguatge natural l'objectiu de la qual és l'obtenir dades estructurades a partir de la informació rellevant continguda en fragments textuals. L'extracció d'informació ...

    Swarm intelligence techniques for optimization and management tasks insensor networks 

    Hernández Pibernat, Hugo (Date of defense: 2012-06-11)

    The main contributions of this thesis are located in the domain of wireless sensor netorks. More in detail, we introduce energyaware algorithms and protocols in the context of the following topics: self-synchronized ...

    Automatic production and integration of knowledge to the support of the decision and planning activities in medical-clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. 

    Bohada Jaime, John Alexander (Date of defense: 2012-06-20)

    El concepto de procedimiento médico se refiere al conjunto de actividades seguidas por los profesionales de la salud para solucionar o mitigar el problema de salud que afecta a un paciente. La toma de decisiones dentro del ...

    ProCLAIM: an argument-based model for deliberating over safety critical actions 

    Tolchinsky, Pancho (Date of defense: 2012-07-09)

    In this Thesis we present an argument-based model – ProCLAIM – intended to provide a setting for heterogeneous agents to deliberate on whether a proposed action is safe. That is, whether or not a proposed action is expected ...

    From the i* diversity to a common interoperability framework 

    Cares Gallardo, Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-09-20)

    Since the i* framework emerged in the requirements engineering community in the mid-90s, different research groups have proposed variations to the modelling language proposed in the i* framework (¿the i* language¿). There ...