Adaptive fragment designs to reduce the latency of web caching in content aggregation systems 

Guerrero Tomé, Carlos (Date of defense: 2012-05-14)

Adding fault tolerance to a flexible real-time Ethernet network for embedded systems 

Gessner, David (Date of defense: 2017-10-17)

[cat]Un sistema encastat distribuït consisteix en un conjunt de nodes computacionals que cooperen per aconseguir un objectiu comú dins d’un sistema físic més gran. En les societats modernes podem trobar aquests sistemes ...

An Inverse-Perspective-based Approach to Monocular Mobile Robot Navigation 

Bonin Font, Francisco Jesus (Date of defense: 2012-05-18)

Analysis of user behavior with different interfaces in 360-degree videos and virtual reality 

Oliver Tomàs, Antoni (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)

[eng] Virtual reality and its related technologies are being used for many kinds of content, like virtual environments or 360-degree videos. Omnidirectional, interactive, multimedia is consumed with a variety of devices, ...

Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection and its Application to Topological Mapping and Image Mosaicing 

García Fidalgo, Emilio (Date of defense: 2016-09-12)

Mapping and localization are two essential processes in autonomous mobile robotics since they are the basis of other higher level and more complex tasks, such as obstacle avoidance or path planning. Mapping is the process ...

Compact Machine Learning Systems with Reconfigurable Computing 

Moran Costoya, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-01-28)

[spa] De manera similar a nosotros los humanos, las m aquinas pueden aprender a partir de los datos e incluso superarnos en ciertas tareas espec cas, lo cual es conocido como rendimiento sobrehumano. El proceso por el ...

Contributions to Robot-based Vessel Visual Inspection 

Bonnín Pascual, Francisco (Date of defense: 2017-07-25)

[cat]El transport marítim és una de les maneres més efectives de transportar béns d’un lloc a l’altre del món. Encara que avui dia es realitzen grans esforços per tal d’evitar els accidents marítims, aquests encara ocorren ...

Cross-Layer Design for Quality of Service provisioning in AMC/ARQ-based wireless networks 

Ramis Bibiloni, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-07-10)

In the last years, the explosive development of wireless services and applications has produced an unprecedented revolution in wireless communications systems. The impact of wireless fading channels on the quality of ...

Curvilinear Object Detection with Fuzzy Mathematical Morphology for Grayscale and Color Medical Imagery 

Bibiloni Serrano, Pedro (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)

[eng] Fuzzy mathematical morphology is a set of tools to process grayscale images. It is based on two operators, the dilation and the erosion, that respectively enlarge and shrink objects. We extend these operators to ...

Efficient implementation of Deep Nets for video processing to preserve marine ecosystem services 

Martín Abadal, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-05-25)

[eng] Marine ecosystems provide multiple services to humans, including provisioning services, such as seafood or fossil energy; regulating services, like coastal protection or water purification; cultural services, as ...

Expresión de emociones de alegría para personajes virtuales mediante la risa y la sonrisa 

Mascaró Oliver, Miquel (Date of defense: 2014-06-06)

La animación facial es uno de los tópicos todavía no resueltos tanto en el campo de la interacción hombre máquina como en el de la informática gráfica. Las expresiones de alegría asociadas a risa y sonrisa son por su ...

Fair exchange in e-commerce and certified e-mail, new scenarios and protocols 

Draper Gil, Gerard (Date of defense: 2013-07-22)

We are witnessing a steady growth in the use of Internet in the electronic commerce field. This rise is promoting the migration from traditional processes and applications (paper based) to an electronic model. But the ...

Formal Algebraic Modelling for Fog Computing Network Architecture. 

Roig Roig, Pedro Juan (Date of defense: 2022-07-20)

[eng] Fog computing is basically an extension of cloud computing where the computing resources are located on the edge of the network, allowing for better performance regarding latency and bandwidth. Hence, data centres ...

Generació additiva de funcions d'agregació conjuntives i disjuntives discretes 

Monreal Garcies, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)

En aquest treball es defineix el concepte de generador additiu de t–normes i de t–conormes discretes. S’hi estableixen resultats generals sobre la generació additiva de disjuncions i les caracteritzacions dels generadors ...

Interactive therapeutic systems for fallprevention using computervision technologies 

Ayed, Ines (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)

[spa] . Introducción En los últimos años, las tecnologías basadas en la visión han ganado mucho interés entre los investigadores y los profesionales de la salud. Por ejemplo, el uso de dispositivos interactivos y de bajo ...

IT governance development and deployment for HEIs in developing countries 

Gómez Suárez, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)

[eng] Information Technology (IT) is becoming an essential part of the business and the board is expecting to obtain value from it. However, results are not always as requested, and the board is realizing the necessity ...

Mac-Phy Cross-Layer analysis and design of Mimo-Ofdm Wlans based on fast link adaptation 

Martorell Lliteras, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)

The latestWLAN standard, known as IEEE 802.11n, has notably increased the network capacity with respect to its predecessors thanks to the incorporation of the multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) technology. Nonetheless, ...

Modelo de proceso para la evaluación continua de la accesibilidad de sitios web 

Campoverde Molina, Milton Alfredo (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)

[spa] La identidad y la imagen corporativa de las instituciones educativas se presentan al mundo a través de sus sitios web. En sus sitios web, las instituciones educativas publican su oferta académica, su misión, su ...

Un Modelo para Facilitar la Integración de Estándares de Gestión de TI en Entornos Maduros 

Mesquida Calafat, Antoni Lluís (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)

New balance indices and metrics for phylogenetic trees 

Rotger García, Lucía (Date of defense: 2019-07-31)

[eng] The belief that the shape of a phylogenetic tree re ects the properties of the evolutionary processes underlying it has motivated the study of indices quantifying the graph-theoretical properties of phylogenetic ...