Fernández Díaz, Gabriel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Artificial system interaction with the real environment is in general based on the deployment of properly coordinated sensors and actuators, establishing between them a “dynamic control-loop”. The time ...
Cugnasco, Cesare (Date of defense: 2019-03-22)
Spatial Big Data is considered an essential trend in future scientific and business applications. Indeed, research instruments, medical devices, and social networks generate hundreds of peta bytes of ...
Touma, Rizkallah (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Data prefetching has long been used as a technique to improve access times to persistent data. It is based on retrieving data records from persistent storage to main memory before the records are needed. ...
Royuela Alcázar, Sara (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Nowadays, applications from dissimilar domains, such as high-performance computing and high-integrity systems, require levels of performance that can only be achieved by means of sophisticated heterogeneous ...
Baranda Hortigüela, Jorge (Date of defense: 2021-11-09)
5G marks the beginning of a deep revolution in the mobile network ecosystem, transitioning to a network of services to satisfy the demands of new players, the vertical industries. This revolution implies ...
Garcia Gasulla, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-04-18)
It is well known that load imbalance is a major source of efficiency loss in HPC (High Performance Computing) environments. The load imbalance problem has very different sources, from static ones related ...
Castillo Reyes, Octavio (Date of defense: 2017-10-23)
Electromagnetic methods (EM) are an invaluable research tool in geophysics whose relevance has increased rapidly in recent years due to its wide industrial adoption. In particular, the forward modelling ...
Agirre Troncoso, Irune (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
An increasing variety of emerging systems relentlessly replaces or augments the functionality of mechanical subsystems with embedded electronics. For quantity, complexity, and use, the safety of such ...
Subasi, Omer (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
As high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to grow, their fault rate increases. Applications running on these systems have to deal with rates on the order of hours or days. Furthermore, some ...
Cardona Nadal, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-04-03)
(English) In the last decade performance needs in Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES) domains like automotive, avionics, railway or space have been steadily on the rise due to the unprecedented ...