PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Alberto Díaz Esteban under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro (Univ. Complutense de Madrid) and Dr. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Univ. Europea). The author was examined in July 13 2005 by the commitee formed by Dr. Carmen Fernández Chamizo (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Univ. de Alicante), Dr. Juan Pavón Mestras (...

PhD thesis in Linguistics, written by Eva María Domínguez Noya at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), under the supervision of Dr. Guillermo Rojo and Dr. María Sol López Martínez (USC). The viva examination was held on the 25 of November 2013. The Examining Board consisted of the following members: Dr. Rosario Álvarez Blanco (USC), Dr. María Inês Pedrosa da Silva Duarte (University ...

Acknowledgements A special thanks goes to Malte Helmert for the excellent supervision of both my study project and this Diploma thesis. I want to thank him not only for his professional advice but for his positive attitude towards me, my work and ideas. I also want to thank Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel for agreeing to be my supervisor and, in particular, for his support regarding the publication of...

The opinions and experiences of other people constitute an important source of information in our everyday life. For example, we ask our friends which dentist, restaurant, or smartphone they would recommend to us. Nowadays, online customer reviews have become an invaluable resource to answer such questions. Besides helping consumers to make more informed purchase decisions, online reviews are a...

Review mining and summarization has been a hot topic for the past decade. A lot of effort has been devoted to aspect detection and sentiment analysis under the assumption that every review has the same utility for related tasks. However, reviews are not equally helpful as indicated by user-provided helpfulness assessment associated with the reviews. In this thesis, we propose a novel review sum...

Ph.D. thesis (European doctorate mention) in Computer Science written by Davide Buscaldi under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia). The author was examined in Valencia in October 2010 by a panel composed by the following doctors: Paul David Clough (University of Sheffield), Ross Purves Universität Zürich), Emilio Sanchis Arnal (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia), Mark...

PhD thesis in Computer Engineering written by Felipe Sánchez-Mart́ınez at Universitat d’Alacant under the joint supervision of Dr. Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz and Dr. Mikel L. Forcada. Author was examined on June 30th, 2008 by the committee formed by Dr. Rafael C. Carrasco (Univ. d’Alacant), Dr. Llúıs Padró and Dr. Llúıs Màrquez (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya), Dr. Harold Somers (Univ. of Manchest...

PhD thesis in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence written by Rafael Guzmán Cabrera at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia under the joint supervision of Dr. Paolo Rosso and Dr. Manuel Montes y Gómez (INAOE, México). The author was examined on november 24th, 2009 by the committee formed by Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universidad de Alicante), Paloma Martínez Fernández (Universidad Carlo...

This paper presents an evolutionary method for designing electronic circuits and numerical methods associated with monitoring systems. The instruments described here have been used in studies of weather and climate changes due to global warming, and also in medical patient supervision. Genetic Programming systems have been used both for designing circuits and sensors, and also for determining s...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Francisco J. Ribadas Pena under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Vilares (Universidade de Vigo, Spain). The author was examined in November 29, 2002 by the commitee formed by Dr. José Luis Freire Nistal (Universidade da Coruña, Spain), Dr. Alejandro Sobrino Cerdeiriña (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Dr. Antonio Bahamonde Rionda (Universida...