On October 13, Ardi Tampuu defended his PhD thesis „Neural networks for analyzing biological data“. In his thesis, it was demonstrated the benefits of ANNs in analyzing two biological datasets. First, they investigated if based only on the information contained within a DNA snippet it is possible to predict if the snippet originates from a […]

On March 23, Adriano Augusto defended his PhD thesis „Accurate and efficient discovery of process models from event logs„ in which he provided an overview of the available algorithms to perform automated process discovery. They identified deficiencies in existing algorithms, and proposed a new algorithm, called Split Miner, which is faster and consistently discovers more […]

On the 21st of February, Faiz Ali Shah defended his PhD thesis on “Extracting information from app reviews to facilitate software development activities” which evaluates the existing Text Mining techniques for extracting developer-relevant information from app reviews at different levels of granularity, and then combined these techniques to develop a tool REVSUM for competitive analysis. […]