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    Towards a better model for intangible asset valuation 

    Ajour El Zein, Samer (Date of defense: 2020-09-19)

    Context: Intangible assets have recently come under the spotlight because of their growing importance within the business world. Thus, Brand Equity, considered a strategic asset, makes up a substantial intangible asset for ...

    Towards a cloud enabler : from an optical network resource provisioning system to a generalized architecture for dynamic infrastructure services provisioning 

    Figuerola Fernández, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)

    This work was developed during a period where most of the optical management and provisioning system where manual and proprietary. This work contributed to the evolution of the state of the art of optical networks with new ...

    Towards a linearly organized embedding space of biological networks 

    Xenos, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)

    (English) The recent technological advances in high-throughput sequencing have yielded vast amounts of large-scale biological omics data that describe different aspects of cellular functioning. These omics data are typically ...

    Towards a virtual platform for aerodynamic design, performance assessment and optimization of horizontal axis wind turbines 

    Martínez Valdivieso, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-03-31)

    This thesis focuses on the study and improvement of the techniques involved on a virtual platform for the simulation of the Aerodynamics of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines, with the ultimate objective of making Wind Energy ...

    Towards adaptative monitoring for self-adaptative systems 

    Zavala, Edith (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)

    Nowadays, most of the approaches supporting self-adaptive systems (SASs) rely on static feedback control loops, for managing their adaptation process. One of the most popular feedback loops is the MAPE-K loop. In this loop, ...

    Towards cognitive in-operation network planning 

    Morales Alcaide, Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-06-15)

    Next-generation internet services such as live TV and video on demand require high bandwidth and ultra-low latency. The ever-increasing volume, dynamicity and stringent requirements of these services’ demands are generating ...

    Towards computational modeling of electrohydrodynamics in microfluidics-based manufacturing 

    Narváez Muñoz, Christian (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)

    (English) The high precision controllability and versatility of Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes are enabling and accelerating the development of novel microfluidic-based manufacturing techniques. This technology relies ...

    Towards data assimilation in the Catalan Continental Shelf From data analysis to optimization methods. 

    Jordà Sánchez, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2005-06-17)

    L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és implementar un sistema d'assimilació de dades a un model hidrodinàmic de la plataforma continental catalana. Aquest sistema ens permetrà combinar la informació proporcionada per les dades ...

    Towards efficient quantum repeater nodes based on solid-state quantum memories 

    Duranti, Stefano (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

    (English) Quantum repeaters are the foundation of future long-distance quantum networks. In most architectures, their functional core is constituted by quantum memories, which are devices that can store and re-emit photonic ...

    Towards instantaneous performance analysis using coarse-grain sampled and instrumented data 

    Servat Gelabert, Harald (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)

    Nowadays, supercomputers deliver an enormous amount of computation power; however, it is well-known that applications only reach a fraction of it. One limiting factor is the single processor performance because it ultimately ...

    Towards Integrated Management of the Supply Chain for Enterprise Sustainability 

    Laínez Aguirre, José Miguel (Date of defense: 2010-01-15)

    Las tendencias del mercado han hecho que las empresas cambien su forma de hacer negocios. La Globalización ha permitido a las empresas tener la posibilidad de acceder a distintos proveedores y mercados globalmente dispersos. ...

    Towards lightweight and high-performance hardware transactional memory 

    Tomić, Sasa (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)

    Conventional lock-based synchronization serializes accesses to critical sections guarded by the same lock. Using multiple locks brings the possibility of a deadlock or a livelock in the program, making parallel programming ...

    Towards LoRa mesh networks for the IoT 

    Pueyo Centelles, Roger (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)

    There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in recent years as a popular solution for low power ...

    Towards more reliable feature evaluations for classification 

    Prat Masramon, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    In this thesis we study feature subset selection and feature weighting algorithms. Our aim is to make their output more stable and more useful when used to train a classifier. We begin by defining the concept of stability ...

    Towards more sustainable food systems 

    Derqui Zaragoza, Belén (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)

    Context: Globalization, increased competition for natural resources, the rise of non-financial performance indicators in decision making, among other new trends have made sustainability more and more relevant and linked ...

    Towards multi enterprise-wide coordination for large-scale chemical supply chains 

    Hjaila, Kefah (Date of defense: 2016-09-06)

    Current Supply chain (Se) decision support tools are devoted to the optimization of one objective function from a bias centralized perspective, without considering the coexistence with other participants and their uncertain ...

    Towards multiprogrammed GPUs 

    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 tasks to a ...

    Towards resilient wireless networks: mesh backhauls for 5G ultra-dense networks and rural Internet service provision 

    Gemmi, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)

    (English) This thesis aims to investigate the efficacy and applicability of Wireless Backhaul Network (WBN) in two divergent contexts: ultra-dense urban networks for 5G and connectivity solutions for rural or digitally ...

    Towards resource-aware computing for task-based runtimes and parallel architectures 

    Chasapis, Dimitrios (Date of defense: 2019-04-24)

    Current large scale systems show increasing power demands, to the point that it has become a huge strain on facilities and budgets. The increasing restrictions in terms of power consumption of High Performance Computing ...

    Towards stochastic methods in CFD for engineering applications 

    Tosi, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)

    Recent developments of high performance computing capabilities allow solving modern science problems employing sophisticated computational techniques. However, it is necessary to ensure the efficiency of state of the art ...