Rakotoarisoa, Manitra Johanesa (Date of defense: 2014-03-04)
Complex hardware systems become more and more ubiquitous in mission critical applications such as military, satellite, and medical to name but a few. In such applications, reliability remains a primary ...
Verdugo Rojano, Francesc (Date of defense: 2013-10-15)
The finite element method is a valuable tool for simulating complex physical phenomena. However, any finite element based simulation has an intrinsic amount of error with respect to the exact solution ...
Rojas-Cervellera, Víctor (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Thiolate monolayer-protected gold clusters (AuMPCs) are being used in various biological and biomedical applications due to their unique physical and chemical properties. The fact that gold-sulphur bonds ...
Maroñas Borras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)
The main goal of the work presented in this thesis is to describe the definition of interoperability mechanisms between rights expression languages and policy languages. Starting from languages ...
Iglesias González, Rubén (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
Every year, with the onset of spring rains and snow melting, landslides represent one of the major threats to human life and infrastructures in natural environments. In this context, different surveying ...
Brunel Montaner, Helena (Date of defense: 2013-11-14)
The main goal of this thesis was to help in the identification of genetic variants that are responsible for complex traits, combining both linear and nonlinear approaches. First, two one-locus approaches ...
Torres Kompen, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
The emergence of Web 2.0 has not only changed the available Web technologies, but also the way people communicate and relate to one another. The growing ubiquity of Web access, and the variety of devices ...
González Gambau, Verónica (Date of defense: 2012-09-05)
The variability of soil moisture and ocean salinity controls the continuous exchange of water between the oceans, the atmosphere and the land. Therefore, the accurate and periodic measurements of these ...
Panić, Miloš (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) are in charge of controlling fundamental parts of embedded system, e.g. energy harvesting solar panels in satellites, steering and breaking in cars, or flight ...
Navas Palencia, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
In this dissertation, we investigate new methods to obtain uniform asymptotic expansions for the numerical evaluation of special functions to high-precision. We shall first present the theoretical and ...