Amaral, Marcelo (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
In recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its protocols. The increasing diffusion of electronic devices with identification, computing and communication ...
Ribas Ripoll, Vicent Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-01-29)
The management of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a hospital has its own, very specific requirements that involve, amongst others, issues of risk-adjusted mortality and average length of stay; nurse ...
Torrents Lapuerta, Martí (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Recently, high performance processor designs have evolved toward Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures to deal with instruction level parallelism limitations and, more important, to manage the power ...
Liravi, Hassan (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)
This thesis is concerned with the development of efficient and practical numerical methodologies to deal with longitudinally invariant soil-structure interaction problems in elastodynamics. All the ...
Carmona Leyva, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2018-06-19)
Visual analysis of human movements concerns the understanding of human activities from image sequences. The goal of the action/gesture recognition is to recognize the label that corresponds to an action ...
Moreno Mencía, David (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
In the last decades, quantum materials have received much attention in the field of condensed matter physics due, in part, to their exotic properties. These are difficult to understand as they result ...
Moreno Vega, Alberto (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
Improvements in circuit manufacturing have allowed, along the years, increasingly complex designs. This has been enabled by the miniaturization that circuit components have undergone. But, ...
Costa Solé, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
This dissertation presents high-order hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulations coupled with implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for the simulation of one-phase flow and two-phase flow ...
Ros, Xavier (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
The main topic of the thesis is the study of Elliptic PDEs. It is divided into three parts: (I) integro-differential equations, (II) stable solutions to reaction-diffusion problems, and (III) weighted ...
Martín Cañizares, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)
Building a high-speed line requires significant investment and its design strongly influences the operation, with the aggravating circumstance that subsequent modifications not initially planned are not ...