The Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA) have built and maintained the TDX server (TDX: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa Networked Doctoral Theses), which now hosts around 1,000 e-doctoral theses. The theses belong to 10 different universities from the Catalan context. The National Library of Catalonia also participates in the project, ...

In a search for lessons learned from 50 years of history of AI, this paper presents a brief, subjective and personal history of the field. It then introduces five theses-prescriptions for what makes good AI research. The theses stem form the author’s understanding of successes and failures of the field, and from his own experience as a long-standing and active member of the AI community. The fi...

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Many of the discussions about conditionals can best be put as follows: can those conditionals that involve an entailment relation be formulated within a formal system? The reasons for the failure of the classical approach to entailment have usually been that they ignore the meaning connection between antecedent and consequent in a valid entailment. One of the first theories in the history of lo...

The ETD movement has not yet taken root in the UK. Nevertheless, activity in the field has been growing steadily over the past few years. UTOG, the UK Theses Online Group, was established several years ago, and was aware of the activities of the ETD movement, but also of the distinctive characteristics of thesis publishing in the UK, which have made it so far unsympathetic to the creation of an...

OF THE DISSERTATION Biomimetic Catalysts of Graphene Conjugates and Palladium Nanoparticles

Applications of Integer Programming Methods to Solve Statistical Problems by Michael James Higgins Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics University of California, Berkeley Jasjeet Sekhon, Co-chair Deborah Nolan, Co-chair Many problems in statistics are inherently discrete. When one of these problems also contains an optimization component, integer programming may be used to facilitate a solution t...