• A novel computer Scrabble engine based on probability that performs at championship leve 

      González Romero, Alejandro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-03-07)
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      The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. Some brief notions ...
    • Analysis of class C G-protein coupled receptors using supervised classification methods 

      König, Caroline (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-30)
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      G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are cell membrane proteins with a key role in regulating the function of cells. This is the result of their ability to transmit extracellular signals, which makes them relevant for ...
    • Heterogeneous neural networks: theory and applications 

      Belanche Muñoz, Luis Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2000-07-18)
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      Aquest treball presenta una classe de funcions que serveixen de models neuronals generalitzats per ser usats en xarxes neuronals artificials. Es defineixen com una mesura de similitud que actúa com una definició flexible ...
    • Learning with Feed-forward Neural Networks: Three Schemes to Deal with the Bias/Variance Trade-off 

      Romero Merino, Enrique (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2004-11-30)
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      In terms of the Bias/Variance decomposition, very flexible (i.e., complex) Supervised Machine Learning systems may lead to unbiased estimators but with high variance. A rigid model, in contrast, may lead to small variance ...
    • Searching and tracking of humans in urban environments with humanoid robots 

      Goldhoorn, Alex (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-09-21)
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      Searching and tracking are important behaviours for a mobile service robot to assist people, to search-and-rescue and, in general, to locate mobile objects, animals or humans. Even though searching might be evident for ...