González Romero, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-03-07)
The thesis starts by giving an introduction to the game of Scrabble, then mentions state-of-the-art computer Scrabble programs and presents some characteristics of our developed Scrabble engine Heuri. ...
Bakkar, Mostafa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Distributed Generators (DGs) are sensible to voltage sags, so the protection devices must trip fast to disconnect the faulted part of the grid. The DG disconnection will not be desirable in the near ...
Jou Claus, Sonia (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Global change is expected to affect significantly the global hydrological behavior, changing mean annual precipitation patterns, increasing length of drought periods, rising evaporation and atmospheric ...
Dawid Lekowska, Anna Maria (Date of defense: 2022-09-20)
(English) Quantum many-body physics poses a substantial computational challenge resulting from the exponential growth of the wave function complexity and many non-trivial correlations encoded in it. ...
Sequeira, Diogo Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2022-10-31)
(English) Optical communications have been extensively investigated and enhanced in the last decades. Nowadays, they are responsible to transport all the data traffic generated around the world, from ...
Batbayar, Khulan (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)
Internet access is still unavailable to one-third of the world population due to the lack of infrastructure, high cost, and the digital divide. Many access-limited communities opt for shared Internet ...
Ríos Jerez, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-02-17)
In this thesis, we present a set of studies whose results have allowed us to analyze how to improve the realism, navigation, and behaviour of the avatars in an immersive virtual reality environment. In ...
Westerman Spier, Daniel (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)
Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs) are a type of Voltage Source Converter (VSC) which have become the preferred topology choice for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) applications. Compare to its HVDC ...
Tipantuña Tenelema, Christian José (Date of defense: 2022-03-29)
Ever-increasing energy consumption, the depletion of non-renewable resources, the climate impact associated with energy generation, and finite energy-production capacity are important concerns worldwide ...
Portal González, Gerard (Date of defense: 2022-05-27)
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable that plays a crucial role linking the Earth’s water, energy, and carbon cycles. It is responsible for the water exchange between the Earth’s surface and ...