Naderi, Ali M. (Date of defense: 2016-02-10)
Nowadays, the human textual data constitutes a great proportion of the shared information resources such as World Wide Web (WWW). Social networks, news and learning resources as well as Knowledge Bases ...
Ratković, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
Vector processors are a very promising solution for mobile devices and servers due to their inherently energy-efficient way of exploiting datalevel parallelism. While vector processors succeeded in the ...
Bano, Sophia (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
The increasing availability of smartphones is facilitating people to capture videos of their experience when attending events such as concerts, sports competitions and public rallies. Smartphones are ...
Civit Flores, Óscar (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
This thesis focuses on the interactive simulation of highly detailed deformable solids modelled with the Corotational Finite Element Method. Starting from continuum mechanics we derive the discrete ...
Husain, Syed Farzad (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Perceiving human environments is becoming increasingly fundamental with the gradual adaptation of robots for domestic use. High-level tasks such as the recognition of objects and actions need to be ...
Fargas Marquès, Andreu (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
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. ...
Khan, Amin M. (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
Internet and communication technologies have lowered the costs for communities to collaborate, leading to new services like user-generated content and social computing, and through collaboration, ...
Moragues Ginard, Margarida (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
This thesis is about the stabilization of the numerical solution of the Euler and Navier- Stokes equations of compressible flow. When simulating numerically the flow equations, if no stabilization is ...
Álvarez Napagao, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
As distributed systems grow in complexity, the interactions among individuals (agents, services) of such systems become increasingly more complex and therefore more difficult to constrain and monitor. ...
Sharifi, Leila (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Energy has been emerged as a first-class computing resource in modern systems. The trend has primarily led to the strong focus on reducing the energy consumption of data centers, coupled with the growing ...