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 ...
Lobo Quintero, René Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores motivation within Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP), focusing on the Pyramid CLFP. It investigates how incorporating game mechanics (GM) can foster both intrinsic ...
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, ...
Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, ...
Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)
The link between mental disorders and social media usage has led researchers to work on the development of automated methods to detect mental health issues in social platforms. This thesis proposes a ...
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 ...
Lorini, Valerio (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The interactions among people on social media are a form of distributed intelligence, as they allow people to make sense of a developing event collectively. Social media users can contribute to creating ...