Beacco, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2014-12-11)
Nowadays crowd simulation is becoming more important in computer applications such as building evacuation planning, training, videogames, etc., presenting hundreds or thousands of agents navigating in ...
Beltrán Querol, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2008-10-03)
El ràpid creixement de la Web requereix una gran quantitat de recursos computacionals que han de ser utilitzats eficientment. Avui en dia, els servidors basats en hardware estendard son les plataformes ...
Sapena Masip, Emili (Date of defense: 2012-05-16)
The objectives of this thesis are focused on research in machine learning for coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is a natural language processing task that consists of determining the ...
Torné Santos, Josep María (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)
Traffic congestion is a major source of inefficiencies in metropolitan freeways (e.g. productivity loss, energy waste, pollutant emissions, among other externalities). Active traffic management (ATM) ...
Mulas, Dani (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
The Barcelona metropolitan area (BMA; 3.2 M inhabitants) has an integrated urban water cycle management. Different type of treatment plants are located along the drinking, sewerage and reuse networks ...
Corominas Murtra, Andreu (Date of defense: 2011-09-23)
Mobile robotics research is currently interested on exporting autonomous navigation results achieved in indoor environments, to more challenging environments, such as, for instance, urban pedestrian ...
Tomico Plasencia, Oscar (Date of defense: 2007-06-26)
El camp d'Experiència d'Usuari consta d'una àmplia gamma d'aspectes diferents sobre la interacció amb productes o serveis. L'experiència d'usuari difereix del paradigma objectiu basat en el rendiment, ...
Moreno Noguer, Francesc (Date of defense: 2005-09-01)
L'anàlisi de moviment i seguiment d'objectes ha estat un dels pricipals focus d'atenció en la comunitat de visió per computador durant les dues darreres dècades. L'interès per aquesta àrea de recerca ...
Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)
(English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In ...
Jiménez Pérez, Víctor Javier (Date of defense: 2016-10-20)
Increasing processors' clock frequency has traditionally been one of the largest drivers of performance improvements for computing systems. In the first half of the 2000s, however, it became clear that ...