Escala Ribas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Electronic voting presents many challenges due to its multiple security requirements. Some of the challenges are related to guaranteeing voters' privacy and system's transparency, which are hard to ...
Vegué, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Structure is fundamental in shaping the types of computations that neuronal circuits can perform. Explaining the laws that determine the connectivity properties of brain networks and their implications ...
Kaurin, Dimitri (Date of defense: 2018-10-29)
We examine a classical problem in soft-matter physics: the specific adhesion between deformable elastic objects, such as vesicles, mediated by mobile adhesion molecules. This problem is relevant to ...
Porro Martorell, Olga (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)
Multiple-criteria or multiple-attribute group decision-making is a sub-field of operations research that seek to find a common and representative solution given the preferences elicited by a pre-defined ...
Barcelona Cabeza, Rosa (Date of defense: 2021-10-19)
Substantial technological advancements in next generation sequencing (NGS) have revolutionized the genomic field. Over the last years, the speed and throughput of NGS technologies have increased while ...
Olivares Mañas, Edgar (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
This thesis is focused on particle transport in the context of high computing performance (HPC) in its widest range, from the numerical modeling to the physics involved, including its parallelization ...
López-Yunta, Mariña (Date of defense: 2018-07-30)
After a myocardial infarction, the affected areas of the cardiac tissue suffer changes in their electrical and mechanical properties. This post-infarction scar tissue has been related with a particular ...
Córdoba Pañella, Paula (Date of defense: 2022-04-22)
This thesis aims at improving the convergence of iterative solvers, used for algebraic systems coming from the discretization of partial differential equations (PDE), in the context of large scale ...
Montserrat Adell, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
Decision-making is an active field of research. Specifically, in recent times, a lot of contributions have been presented on decision-making under linguistic assessments. To tackle this kind of processes, ...
Mohan, Prahu (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
Discrete Mathematics, and in particular Graph Theory, has gained a lot of popularity during the last 7 decades. Among the many branches in Graph Theory, graph labelings has experimented a fast development, ...