Awan, Ahsan Javed (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark ...
Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 ...
Tanasić, Ivan (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
Programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have recently become the most pervasitheve massively parallel processors. They have come a long way, from fixed function ASICs designed to accelerate graphics ...
Slijepcevic, Mladen (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Industry developing Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES), such as Aerospace, Space, Automotive and Railways, faces relentless demands for increased guaranteed processor performance to support new ...
Grass, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)
Since the early 2000s, computer systems have seen a transition from single-core to multi-core systems. While single-core systems included only one processor core on a chip, current multi-core processors ...
Milić, Uglješa (Date of defense: 2017-11-22)
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress by using available transistors on chip and specializing hardware for a given type of computation. ...
Mestres Sugrañes, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
The research community has considered in the past the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. ...
Xhagjika, Vamis (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
Distributed Real-Time Media Processing refers to classes of highly distributed, delay no-tolerant applications that account for the majority of the data traffic generated in the world today. Real-Time ...
Guisado Gámez, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
Query expansion techniques aim at improving the results achieved by a user's query by means of introducing new expansion terms, called expansion features. Expansion features introduce new concepts that ...
López Berga, Ester (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
Wireless community networks (WCN) are specially vulnerable to routing forwarding failures because of their intrinsic characteristics: use of inexpensive hardware that can be easily accessed; managed in ...