Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the ...
Araújo de Siqueira, Matheus (Date of defense: 2018-01-07)
This thesis confronts how, in Vincent Moon’s films, experience takes the spotlight in detriment of signification. I formulate that the director, rather than worrying about imbuing his films with an ...
Schaper, Marie-Monique (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
This dissertation focuses on better achieving co-design of Full-Body interactive learning experiences with children and experts (teachers, museum curators, pedagogues, etc.). Hence, on the one hand, it ...
González-Caro, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
As the Web continues to increase both in size and complexity, Web search is a ubiquitous service that allows users to find all kind of information, resources, and activities. However, as the Web evolves ...
Batikas, Michail (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
Les motivacions entorn al programari lliure han estat sempre un tema de gran interès, sent la pregunta més obvia, "perquè les persones treballen de forma gratuïta?". Les motivacions dels desenvolupadors ...
Soler Company, Juan (Date of defense: 2017-07-06)
Author profiling and identification are two areas of data-driven computational linguistics that have gained a lot of relevance due to their potential applications in, e.g., forensic linguistic studies, ...
Buehlmann, Andrés (Date of defense: 2010-07-20)
Les oscil·lacions d'activitat neuronal són un fenomen omnipresent a l'escorça cerebral. La funció d'aquestes oscil·lacions, però, no està clara. ¿Són només un epifenomen de les elevades taxes de descàrrega ...
Barreda Ángeles, Miguel (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
El análisis de la atención que prestan los espectadores durante el consumo de contenidos de televisión es un aspecto fundamental para comprender los procesos de recepción de los medios. En esta tesis ...
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 ...
Mille, Simon (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
The present Ph.D. thesis addresses the problem of deep data-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG), and in particular the role of proper corpus annotation schemata for stochastic sentence realization. ...