Javalera Rincón, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-04-07)
This thesis describes a methodology to deal with the interaction between MPC controllers in a distributed MPC architecture. This approach combines ideas from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) ...
Hayes, Timothy (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)
As the rate of annual data generation grows exponentially, there is a demand to manage, query and summarise vast amounts of information quickly. In the past, frequency scaling was relied upon to push ...
Kahvazadeh, Sarang (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)
Nowadays, by increasing the number of connected devices to Internet rapidly, cloud computing cannot handle the real-time processing. Therefore, fog computing was emerged for providing data processing, ...
Martínez Martínez, David (Date of defense: 2017-02-21)
Automated planning has proven to be useful to solve problems where an agent has to maximize a reward function by executing actions. As planners have been improved to salve more expressive and difficult ...
Sevilla Villanueva, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
Nowadays, it is widely accepted that many of modern lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise, together with genetics, play an important role in the development of many diseases such as cardiovascular ...
Nguyen, Jennifer (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
People recommender systems (PRS) are a special type of RS. They are often adopted to identify people capable of performing a task. Recommending people poses several challenges not exhibited in traditional ...
Gkatzioura, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
Current recommender systems aim mainly to generate accurate item recommendations, without properly evaluating the multiple dimensions of the recommendation problem. However, in many domains, like in ...
Cárdenas Domínguez, Martha Ivón (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Arguably, drug research has contributed more to the progress of medicine during the past decades than any other scientific factor. One of the main areas of drug research is related to the analysis of ...
Valsomatzis, Emmanouil (Date of defense: 2017-12-04)
Over the last few years, the cost of energy from renewable resources, such as sunlight and wind, has declined resulting in an increasing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). As a result, the energy ...
Abadal Cavallé, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Recent years have seen the emergence and ubiquitous adoption of Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs), which rely on the coordinated operation of multiple execution units or cores. Successive CMP generations ...