Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Today's organizations are embedded in highly demanding and changing markets, where knowledge and learning has become a key asset to remain competitive. Technology advances modify products and processes at high speed, ...
Esta tesis tiene el doble objeto de explicar porqué las máquinas de vapor desaparecieron casi totalmente y de demostrar como y porqué hay que volver a ellas, principalmente quemando carbón, todo ello para inducir a su ...
Esta tesis pertenece a la línea de investigación La expresión del proyecto de arquitectura. Análisis y evolución del curso de doctorado de Comunicación Visual en Arquitectura y Diseño de la UPC-ETSAB. La presente investigación ...
Hardware and software complexity of future critical real-time systems challenges the scalability of traditional timing analysis methods. Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has recently emerged as an ...
Significant breakthroughs in the last decade in the Machine Learning (ML) field have ushered in a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Particularly, recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have enabled to develop a new ...
Powering wireless sensors has become a key challenge to enable the Internet of Things vision. A common approach to achieve this is to use Energy Harvesting. By means of this technology, sensors have access to an unlimited ...
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 list is still ...
This thesis investigates the encounters between elevated linear infrastructures and architectures of the European sedimentary city. The scalar contraposition between these two opposing urban elements (one small-grained ...
5G marks the beginning of a deep revolution in the mobile network ecosystem, transitioning to a network of services to satisfy the demands of new players, the vertical industries. This revolution implies a redesign of the ...
Participation in marathons and ultra-endurance races is growing every day, but it is worrisome that these types of races are becoming mass events, where many runners are not sufficiently prepared. For example, in the 2017 ...
During the recent years, a huge augmentation of the data traffic volume has been noticed, while a further steep increase is expected in the following years. As a result, questions have been raised over the years about the ...
(English) Cities are great resource consumers and largely contribute to anthropogenic environmental impacts, urgently requiring a decarbonization plan. Urban agriculture lies on industrial ecology principles; waste resources ...
The explosive growth of IoT is pushing the market towards cheap, very low power devices with a strong focus on miniaturization, for applications such as in-body sensors, personal health monitoring and microrobots. Proposing ...
The energy efficiency assessment of high-pressure pneumatic circuits is the aim of this dissertation. From a historical perspective the past and cur- rent activities with regards to the energy saving conservation in pneumatic ...
Plenty of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices are actuated using electrostatic forces, and specially, parallel-plate actuators are extensively used, due to the simplicity of their design. Nevertheless, ...
In Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) the lifetime of battery operated visual nodes is limited by their energy consumption, which is proportional to the energy required for sensing, processing, and transmitting ...
Mobile data offloading has been proposed as a solution for the network congestion problem that is continuously aggravating due to the increase in mobile data demand. The concept of offloading refers to the exploitation of ...
Surgery rooms are a space type with particularly stringent indoor environmental quality (IEQ) requirements, which translate into high energy use. Due to the unclear IEQ and infection control requirements for surgery rooms ...
Las tendencias en la tecnología actual permiten la reducción tanto en tamaño como en potencia consumida de los sistemas digitales complejos. Esta disminución en el tamaño y el consumo da lugar al concepto de dispositivos ...
(English) This thesis is introduced the research performed on microgrid applications, especially in cooperative operating mode. The research is conducted considering two main challenging aspects of microgrid operation over ...
