More than a feeling?: Reliability and robustness of high-level music classifiers

High-level music classification tasks such as automatic music mood annotation impose several challenges, both from a psychological and a machine learning point of view. Ground truth labels for these tasks at hand are hard to define due to the abstract and aesthetic nature of the data, being largely dependent on human psychology and perception....

Measuring the robustness of network controllability

Networks are all around us, telecommunication networks, road transportation networks, and the Internet are a few examples of networks that we encounter every day. The entities in a network are represented by nodes and the interconnections between them are represented by links. For example, in a telecommunication network, a node could be an end...

Probabilistic Quantification of Airspace Resilience

The resilience of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system to disturbances is required to maintain high operation performance. Before it can be improved, the resilience of the ATM system must be quantified. The measurement of resilience requires knowledge of a system reference state. This thesis proposes a novel methodology to detect disruptions...