Teniente Avilés, Ernesto Homar (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
This thesis reports research on mapping, terrain classification and path planning. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power ...
Rodríguez Natal, Alberto (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) arose as a solution to address the limitations of traditional networking. In SDN networks, the control-plane is decoupled from the data-plane devices and logically ...
Ciesko, Jan (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that ...
Fernández Díaz, Gabriel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Artificial system interaction with the real environment is in general based on the deployment of properly coordinated sensors and actuators, establishing between them a “dynamic control-loop”. The time ...
Cugnasco, Cesare (Date of defense: 2019-03-22)
Spatial Big Data is considered an essential trend in future scientific and business applications. Indeed, research instruments, medical devices, and social networks generate hundreds of peta bytes of ...
Touma, Rizkallah (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Data prefetching has long been used as a technique to improve access times to persistent data. It is based on retrieving data records from persistent storage to main memory before the records are needed. ...
Royuela Alcázar, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Nowadays, applications from dissimilar domains, such as high-performance computing and high-integrity systems, require levels of performance that can only be achieved by means of sophisticated heterogeneous ...
Hermosilla Casajús, Pedro (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
Molecular dynamics simulations are computer simulations of the physical movements of atoms and molecules, and the interactions between them. In the particular cases we focus on (pharmaceutical drug ...
Foix Salmerón, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-07-28)
This thesis deals with active sensing and its use in real exploration tasks under both scene ambiguities and measurement uncertainties. While object modeling is the implicit objective of most of active ...