Departament de Ciències de la Computació
Recent Submissions
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Value engineering for autonomous agents
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-02-01)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The topic of this thesis is the engineering of values for autonomous agents. This is realised through the formulation, design and implementation of new functionalities for autonomous agents that enable reasoning ... -
Towards a linearly organized embedding space of biological networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-02-02)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The recent technological advances in high-throughput sequencing have yielded vast amounts of large-scale biological omics data that describe different aspects of cellular functioning. These omics data are typically ... -
Towards the automation of colon segmentation in magnetic resonance images
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-03-07)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) The study of the colonic volume has strong relevance in gastroenterology and contributes to the diagnosis and research of lowseverity diseases such as constipation, diarrhea, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In the ... -
A data-driven approach to prescribe web API evolution
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-01-23)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) In the last two decades, the use of web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has grown exponentially, providing both consumers (software developers) and providers (companies and institutions that expose their ... -
Revolutionizing space mission event modeling with the Tychonis framework
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-12-14)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) This thesis presents the Tychonis framework, a solution to the limitations faced by existing software packages used in space missions to identify geometric events. The framework is designed to integrate with ... -
DA&AI supporting tools for gas turbine’s efficiency improvement: maintenance, operation modes and performance enhancement
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-12-18)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Digitalization has revolutionized many industries, including the power generation sector. The availability of a vast amount of data from various systems has transformed decision-making processes in Industry. ... -
Assessing biases through mosaic attributions
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-12-11)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Machine learning and, more specifically, deep learning applications have grown in number in recent years. These intelligent systems have shown remarkable performance across various domains, including sensitive ... -
A methodology for the automation of building intelligent process control systems
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-11-10)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) One of the major problems to design and implement control and supervision systems for real-world processes lies in the need to stablish an ad-hoc solution for each process, i.e., environmental systems in this ... -
Specification, estimation and monitoring of quality-related software strategic indicators in agile software development
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-08)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) In line with the current trend of exploiting corporative data, software companies, especially those using Agile and Rapid software development, are challenged to improve the quality of their products, their ... -
Causal discovery and prediction: methods and algorithms
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-07)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) This thesis focuses on the discovery of causal relations and on the prediction of causal effects. Regarding causal discovery, this thesis introduces a novel and generic method to learn causal graphs by performing ... -
Construction and technological development of immersive virtual reality for pain therapy
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-06-29)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) Virtual reality (VR) allows not only to easily change the perceived scenario but also to control several factors associated with the sense of being in an embodied virtual avatar that would not be achievable in ... -
Cluster evaluation on weighted networks
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-03-28)
Doctoral thesis
Open Access(English) This thesis presents a systematic approach to validate the results of clustering methods on weighted networks, particularly for the cases where the existence of a community structure is unknown. Including edge ...