Steiner, Thomas (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)
(i) Mobile devices and social networks are omnipresent Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, or digital cameras together with social networks enable people to create, share, and consume enormous ...
Almalkawi, Islam (Date of defense: 2013-07-23)
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have emerged and shifted the focus from the typical scalar wireless sensor networks to networks with multimedia devices that are capable to retrieve video, ...
Cerqueira, Francisco Diogo de Almeida (Date of defense: 2020-06-08)
Antibiotic (AB) Resistance is an increasing global problem for public health, with multi-resistant bacteria persisting and spreading not only in clinical settings but also in the environment. One of the ...
Tirabassi, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
En una situación de grandes cambios climáticos, el conocimiento de el sistema Tierra ha devenido, en los últimos años, una de las tareas mas importantes para la comunidad científica. En los últimos diez ...
Quintero Quiroz, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Optical excitable systems that mimic neuronal behavior have potential to be building-blocks of novel, ultra-fast, neuron-inspired photonic information processing systems. In particular, semiconductor ...
Lensing, Paul Hermann (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
New challenges to file systems’ metadata performance are imposed by the continuously growing average number of files existing in file systems. The traditional component based lookup approach can become ...
Barbat Vlad, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
The numerical modelling of fracture has been an active topic of research for over five decades. Most of the approaches employed rely on the use of the Finite Element Method, which has shown to be an ...
Ferrandiz Gea, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-10-04)
The introduction of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is changing the work environment in the AEC industry. Many countries require the AEC industry to submit building documentation using BIM. For ...
Paita, Fabrizio (Date of defense: 2017-09-04)
In this thesis we consider the problem of developing distributed control strategies for spacecraft formation flying. In light of possible interferometric applications, the study is conducted in two ...
Alvanos, Michail (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages promise to deliver improved programmer productivity and good performance in large-scale parallel machines. However, adequate performance for applications ...