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    Toward human-like pathfinding with hierarchical approaches and the GPS of the brain theory 

    Rahmani, Vahid (Date of defense: 2020-11-18)

    Pathfinding for autonomous agents and robots has been traditionally driven by finding optimal paths. Where typically optimality means finding the shortest path between two points in a given environment. However, optimality ...

    Towards adaptative monitoring for self-adaptative systems 

    Zavala, Edith (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)

    Nowadays, most of the approaches supporting self-adaptive systems (SASs) rely on static feedback control loops, for managing their adaptation process. One of the most popular feedback loops is the MAPE-K loop. In this loop, ...

    Towards more reliable feature evaluations for classification 

    Prat Masramon, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    In this thesis we study feature subset selection and feature weighting algorithms. Our aim is to make their output more stable and more useful when used to train a classifier. We begin by defining the concept of stability ...

    Tree automata with constraints and tree homomorphisms 

    Creus López, Carles (Date of defense: 2016-05-24)

    Automata are a widely used formalism in computer science as a concise representation for sets. They are interesting from a theoretical and practical point of view. This work is focused on automata that are executed on ...

    Unsupervised entity linking using graph-based semantic similarity 

    Naderi, Ali M. (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)

    Nowadays, the human textual data constitutes a great proportion of the shared information resources such as World Wide Web (WWW). Social networks, news and learning resources as well as Knowledge Bases (KBs) are just the ...

    Using natural language processing for question answering in closed and open domains 

    Latifi, Majid (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    With regard to the growth in the amount of social, environmental, and biomedical information available digitally, there is a growing need for Question Answering (QA) systems that can empower users to master this new wealth ...

    Visualization and interpretability in probabilistic dimensionality reduction models 

    Tosi, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    Over the last few decades, data analysis has swiftly evolved from being a task addressed mainly within the remit of multivariate statistics, to an endevour in which data heterogeneity, complexity and even sheer size, driven ...

    Walking with virtual humans : understanding human response to virtual humanoids' appearance and behaviour while navigating in immersive VR 

    Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)

    In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In our simulations, ...