Rodríguez Pupo, Luis Enrique (Date of defense: 2021-04-28)
This thesis presents an analytics platform for calculating spatio-temporal metrics in the context of geogames and context-based applications. It is based on an underlying conceptual model for spatio-temporal ...
Flegar, Goran (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
With the breakdown of Dennard scaling in the mid-2000s and the end of Moore's law on the horizon, the high performance computing community is turning its attention towards unconventional accelerator ...
Alfaras Espinàs, Miquel (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)
This thesis is an invitation to rethink how simplistic approaches to biosignal processing enrich the potential of personal sensing in line with the fast development of what have come to be undeniably ...
Iserte Agut, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
This proposal addresses, from two different approaches, the improvement of data centers productivity through an efficient resource management. On the one hand, the combination of GPU remote virtualization ...
Ngo, Manh Khoi (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
The thesis details the design and implementation of a multi-purpose participatory sensing framework (Citizense) based on a list of requirements extracted from the literature. This framework enables ...
Valls Pla, Xavier (Date of defense: 2018-10-19)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is generating Physics data at an unprecedented rate that is expected to continue increasing in the future. This situation results in increasing demands in computation ...
Benítez Páez, Manuel Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
This book presents a user-centric framework that local open data authorities can use it to improve the ongoing initiatives towards a bottom-up approach. In an open data atmosphere where the accessibility ...
Gasch García, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-03-12)
The video games, simulators and virtual reality industry increasingly demands more complex and realistic natural environments, which makes manual generation difficult. To solve it, procedural techniques ...
Smid, Marek (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
Urban systems are not only major drivers of climate change, but also impact hotspots. The processes of global warming and urban population growth make our urban agglomerations vulnerable to chain reactions ...