Fernández Albert, Francesc (Date of defense: 2014-10-30)
Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) instruments are widely used in Metabolomics. To analyse their output, it is necessary to use computational tools and algorithms to extract meaningful ...
Brown, John N.A. (Date of defense: 2014-04-04)
Rather than adapt human behavior to suit a life surrounded by computerized systems, is it possible to adapt the systems to suit humans? Mark Weiser called for this fundamental change to the design and ...
Fernández López, Cristina (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
Torrential flows have so far been studied less than have river flows, due to the difficulty of faithfully reproducing them in the laboratory, and the few field measurements available. For this reason, ...
Castro, Jordi (Date of defense: 1995-09-12)
Tal i com indica el seu títol, la present memòria de tesi té com objecte d'estudi el desenvolupament d'algorismes i implementacions eficients per resoldre el problema conegut dins del món de l'Optimització ...
Calafell Sandiumenge, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-07-05)
The main purpose of this thesis has been to contribute to the development of methodologies for wall modeling Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of wall-bounded flows, especially those at high Reynolds numbers. ...
Jha, Sudhanshu S. (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)
As the transistor budgets outpace the power envelope (the power-wall issue), new architectural and microarchitectural techniques are needed to improve, or at least maintain, the power efficiency of ...
Reyes Ávila, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2012-11-23)
This work presents the development and experimental validation of a generic workflow model applicable to any parameter sweep problem: the Parameter Sweep Scientific Workflow (PSWF) model. As part of it, ...
Rius Rueda, Armand (Date of defense: 2017-06-02)
The weight of electric and electronic components of cars has been uninterruptedly increasing through the last decades, and thus the weight of their wiring harnesses. This fact has awakened the interest ...
Mutlu, Burcu O. (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
Soft errors caused by transient bit flips have the potential to significantly impactan applicalion's behavior. This has motivated the design of an array of techniques to detect, isolate, and correct ...
Takač, Boris (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
Parkinson’s disease (PD). It is characterized by brief episodes of inability to step, or by extremely short steps that typically occur on gait initiation or on turning while walking. The consequences ...