Chiarandini, Luca (Date of defense: 2014-10-13)
This thesis focuses on the analysis and modeling of web sessions, groups of requests made by a single user for a single navigation purpose. Understanding how people browse through websites is important, ...
Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical ...
Koduri, Gopala Krishna (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the specific case of Carnatic music. Besides making use of metadata and symbolic notations, we process natural ...
Nunes, Cecília (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
Data mining and machine learning (ML) are increasingly at the core of many aspects of modern life. With growing concerns about the impact of relying on predictions we cannot understand, there is widespread ...
Hoogendoorn, Corné (Date of defense: 2014-02-26)
This thesis is centered on the construction of a cardiac atlas to serve as a common reference frame in the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH). The construction covers the entire construction pipeline, ...
Trevisiol, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-15)
This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences ...
Calderón-Benavides, Liliana (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
This doctoral work focuses on identifying and understanding the intents that motivate a user to perform a search on the Web. To this end, we apply machine learning models that do not require more ...
Caro Repetto, Rafael (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Music in jingju, one of the most representative genres of Chinese traditional theatre, is created according to a series of orally transmitted principles. This thesis aims at deepening the understanding ...
Roma Trepat, Gerard (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
The rapid adoption of Internet and web technologies has created an opportunity for making music collaboratively by sharing information online. However, current applications for online music making do ...
Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)
To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in ...