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Roca Marí, Damián (Date of defense: 2018-02-01)
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a plethora of new services and applications supported by a wide range of devices that includes sensors and actuators. To reach its potential IoT must break down the silos that limit ...
Neumann, Axel (Date of defense: 2017-12-20)
Community Networks (CN) are naturally open and decentralized structures, that grow organically with the addition of heterogeneous network devices, contributed and configured as needed by their participants. The continuous ...
Mestres Sugrañes, Albert (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
The research community has considered in the past the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to control and operate networks. A notable example is the Knowledge Plane proposed by D.Clark et al. However, such ...
Awan, Ahsan Javed (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The sheer increase in volume of data over the last decade has triggered research in cluster computing frameworks that enable web enterprises to extract big insights from big data. While Apache Spark defines the state of ...
Slijepcevic, Mladen (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)
Industry developing Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES), such as Aerospace, Space, Automotive and Railways, faces relentless demands for increased guaranteed processor performance to support new advanced functionalities ...
Sinaeepourfard, Amir (Date of defense: 2017-11-18)
There is a vast amount of data being generated every day in the world with different formats, quality levels, etc. This new data, together with the archived historical data, constitute the seed for future knowledge discovery ...
Montero Banegas, Diego (Date of defense: 2017-11-03)
Internet has become an indispensable and powerful tool in our modern society. Its ubiquitousness, pervasiveness and applicability have fostered paradigm changes around many aspects of our lives. This phenomena has positioned ...
Milić, Uglješa (Date of defense: 2017-11-22)
From single-core CPUs to detachable compute accelerators, supercomputers made a tremendous progress by using available transistors on chip and specializing hardware for a given type of computation. Today, compute nodes ...
Dimopoulos, Georgios (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
On-line video streaming is an ever evolving ecosystem of services and technologies, where content providers are on a constant race to satisfy the users' demand for richer content and higher bitrate streams, updated set of ...
Nemirovsky, Daniel A. (Date of defense: 2017-10-30)
Computer architects are beginning to embrace heterogeneous systems as an effective method to utilize increases in transistor densities for executing a diverse range of workloads under varying performance and energy ...
Souza, Vitor Barbosa Carlos de (Date of defense: 2018-01-10)
Albeit several IoT applications have been recently deployed in several fields, including environment and industry monitoring, Smart Home, Smart Hospital and Smart Agriculture, current deployments are mostly host-oriented, ...
Grass, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)
Since the early 2000s, computer systems have seen a transition from single-core to multi-core systems. While single-core systems included only one processor core on a chip, current multi-core processors include up to tens ...
García Flores, Víctor (Date of defense: 2017-10-02)
Efficiently managing the memory subsystem of modern multi/manycore architectures is increasingly becoming a challenge as systems grow in complexity and heterogeneity. In the field of high performance computing (HPC) in ...
Castillo Reyes, Octavio (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Electromagnetic methods (EM) are an invaluable research tool in geophysics whose relevance has increased rapidly in recent years due to its wide industrial adoption. In particular, the forward modelling of three-dimensional ...
Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)
In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 list is still ...
Kosmidis, Leonidas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
Hardware and software complexity of future critical real-time systems challenges the scalability of traditional timing analysis methods. Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has recently emerged as an ...
Guisado Gámez, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-09-28)
Query expansion techniques aim at improving the results achieved by a user's query by means of introducing new expansion terms, called expansion features. Expansion features introduce new concepts that are semantically ...
Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power consumed within a data ...
López Berga, Ester (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
Wireless community networks (WCN) are specially vulnerable to routing forwarding failures because of their intrinsic characteristics: use of inexpensive hardware that can be easily accessed; managed in a decentralized way, ...
Ciesko, Jan (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that offer support for ...