Arnau, Jose Maria (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
The design of mobile GPUs is all about saving energy. Smartphones and tablets are battery-operated and thus any type of rendering needs to use as little energy as possible. Furthermore, smartphones do ...
Serna-Olvera, Jetzabel Maritza (Date of defense: 2013-01-08)
Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs) are an emerging technology which aims to improve road safety by preventing and reducing traffic accidents. While VANETs offer a great variety of promising applications, ...
Pieralisi, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2016-04-13)
Pervious concrete is a special material with high permeability usually obtained by reducing the amount of fine aggregates in the composition of concrete. The properties of pervious concrete not only ...
Agirre Troncoso, Irune (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
An increasing variety of emerging systems relentlessly replaces or augments the functionality of mechanical subsystems with embedded electronics. For quantity, complexity, and use, the safety of such ...
Subasi, Omer (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
As high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to grow, their fault rate increases. Applications running on these systems have to deal with rates on the order of hours or days. Furthermore, some ...
Jiménez Agudelo, Yury Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-06)
The simplicity of Internet design has led to enormous growth and innovation. In recent decades several network technologies, services and applications have appeared, which demand specific network ...
Garcia Gasulla, Dario (Date of defense: 2015-04-23)
The first chapter introduces an approach to machine learning (ML) were data is understood as a network of connected entities. This strategy seeks inter-entity information for knowledge discovery, in ...
Rozo, Leonel (Date of defense: 2013-06-11)
One of the main challenges in Robotics is to develop robots that can interact with humans in a natural way, sharing the same dynamic and unstructured environments. Such an interaction may be aimed at ...
Jokanović, Ana (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
Network interference of nearby jobs has been recently identified as the dominant reason for the high performance variability of parallel applications running on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. ...
Rabiei, Nima (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
Limit analysis is relevant in many practical engineering areas such as the design of mechanical structure or the analysis of soil mechanics. The theory of limit analysis assumes a rigid, perfectly-plastic ...