The objective of the Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest (CLTD) is to identify and promote the best regional doctoral theses in Informatics, Computing, or other related areas, from a Latin American university member of CLEI, in one of the disciplinary areas defined in the computing curriculum established by the IEEE/ACM.
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Rodrigo A. C. da Silva The Fog Node Location Problem Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil 2nd PRIZE Leonardo Leite A grounded theory of organizational structures for development and infrastructure professionals in software-producing organizations Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil 3rd PRIZE Gabriela Cajamarca Visualization of health data on mobile devices for older adults Universidad de Investigación de Tecnología Experimental Yachay (Yachay Tech), Ecuador
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Allan M. de Souza Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicular Traffic Re-routing System Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil 2nd PRIZE Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo Medium Access Control Techniques for Massive Machine-Type Communications in Cellular Networks Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil 3rd PRIZE Julio César Mello Román Esquemas Morfológicos Multiescala Basados en Operaciones de Top-Hat para Aplicaciones de Mejora y Fusión de Imágenes Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Rodolfo Miranda Pereira Dealing with Imbalanceness in Hierarchical Classification Problems Through Data Resampling Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brasil 2nd PRIZE Jesús Guillermo Falcón Cardona New Findings on Indicator-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINESTAV-IPN), Mexico 3rd PRIZE Bernardo Bentes Gatto Pattern-set Representations using Linear, Shallow and Tensor Subspaces Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Brasil
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Felipe Forero Geometric Aspects and Random Delays in Probabilistic Broadcasting for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES, Colombia) y Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil) 2nd PRIZE Jandson Santos Ribeiro Santos Belief Change without Compactness Universidade de São Paulo(USP), Brazil 3rd PRIZE Facundo Quiroga Medidas de Invarianza y Equivarianza a Transformaciones en Redes Neuronales Convolucionales Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP), Argentina
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Ernesto Dufrechou Accelerating advanced preconditioning methods on hybrid architectures Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay 2nd PRIZE Helder Oliveira Proteção em Redes Ópticas Elásticas com Multiplexação Espacial Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil 3rd PRIZE Lyubanit Rodríguez Interfaces for monitoring patients with pain Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Diego Furtado Silva Algorithms for Scaling Similarity-Based Time Series Mining Brazil 2nd PRIZE Francisco J. Gutierrez Guidelines to Design Computer-Based Technology for Supporting Informal Elderly Caregiving in Southern Cone Families Universidad de Chile, Chile 3rd PRIZE Fabio López Pires Many-Objective Resource Allocation for Elastic Infrastructures in Overbooked Cloud Computing Datacenters Under Uncertainty Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Lida Mercedes Barba Maggi Multiscale Forecasting Models based on Singular Values for Nonstationary Time Series Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile 2nd PRIZE Lucas de Oliveira O problema dos árbitros viajantes: complexidade, modelagem e algoritmos Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil 3rd PRIZE Melina Mongiovi Scaling Testing of Refactoring Engines Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Marcelo Fiori Graph inference and graph matching problems: theory and algorithms Universidad de la República (Udelar), Uruguay 2nd PRIZE Rafael Lopes Gomes Mechanisms for management of SLA for Virtual Software Defined Networks based on QoS Classes Universidade Estadual de 3rd PRIZE Maximiliano Budán A Labeled Argumentation Framework Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Argentina
# Winning Name Thesis Title University 1st PRIZE Wallace Casaca Graph Laplacian for Spectral Clustering and Seeded Image Segmentation Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil 2nd PRIZE Jesús Bellido Dynamic Composition of REST services Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC, UC), Chile 3rd PRIZE Uéverton dos Santos Souza Multivariate Investigation of NP-Hard Problems: Boundaries Between Parameterized Tractability and Intractability Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil