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Online Consumer Mediation in Catalonia
A doctoral thesis at the UAB aims at considering whether mediation is an efficient mechanism of redress in the consumer domain, as well as to determine whether the B2C domain supports the introduction of ITCs and particularly, online mediation procedures. Moreover, the research aims at...
Engineering ethics in the twenty-first century
Researchers at the UAB's Department of Information and Communications Engineering and at the UOC have tried to answer the question: what should the ethics of engineering be in today's world, which is so dependent on technology but at the same time so concerned about the...
What attracts our visual attention?
A doctoral thesis conducted at the Department of Computer Science of the UAB has studied which parts of an image attract our attention the most and which parts seem aesthetically pleasing to us and which not. The study suggests that regions that attract our attention can be predicted by the...
Reputation and trust in models
We all know the reputation and trust are essential elements for which our society works. Also, are crucial in the new virtual societies. UAB researchers have developed a computational model of cognitive reputation that uses units called agents with beliefs, desires and intentions to make decisions based...
