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    Distributed detection of anomalous internet sessions 

    García-Cervigon Gutiérrez, Manuel (Date of defense: 2012-11-02)

    Financial service providers are moving many services online reducing their costs and facilitating customers¿ interaction. Unfortunately criminals have quickly found several ways to avoid most security measures applied to ...

    DVFS power management in HPC systems 

    Etinski, Maja (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)

    Recent increase in performance of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems has been followed by even higher increase in power consumption. Power draw of modern supercomputers leads to very high operating costs and ...

    Dynamic load balancing for hybrid applications 

    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 to the data ...

    Dynamic Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors 

    Martorell Bofill, Xavier (Date of defense: 1999-07-09)

    E-EON : Energy-Efficient and Optimized Networks for Hadoop 

    Fischer e Silva, Renan (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)

    Energy efficiency and performance improvements have been two of the major concerns of current Data Centers. With the advent of Big Data, more information is generated year after year, and even the most aggressive predictions ...

    Economic regulation for multi tenant infrastructures 

    León Gutiérrez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-07-05)

    Large scale computing infrastructures need scalable and effi cient resource allocation mechanisms to ful l the requirements of its participants and applications while the whole system is regulated to work e ciently. ...

    Edge-elements formulation of 3D CSEM in geophysics : a parallel approach 

    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 of three-dimensional ...

    Efficient algorithms for passive network measurement 

    Sanjuàs Cuxart, Josep (Date of defense: 2012-03-23)

    Network monitoring has become a necessity to aid in the management and operation of large networks. Passive network monitoring consists of extracting metrics (or any information of interest) by analyzing the traffic that ...

    Efficient hardware acceleration of deep neural networks via arithmetic complexity reduction 

    Reggiani, Enrico (Date of defense: 2023-10-26)

    (English) Over the past decade, significant progresses in the field of artificial intelligence have led to remarkable advancements in a wide range of technologies. Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning centered ...

    Efficient hardware/software co-designed schemes for low-power processors 

    López Muñoz, Pedro (Date of defense: 2014-03-17)

    Nowadays, we are reaching a point where further improving single thread performance can only be done at the expenses of significantly increasing power consumption. Thus, multi-core chips have been adopted by the industry ...

    Efficient openMP over sequentially consistent distributed shared memory systems 

    Costa Prats, Juan José (Date of defense: 2011-07-20)

    Nowadays clusters are one of the most used platforms in High Performance Computing and most programmers use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library to program their applications in these distributed platforms getting ...

    Elastic phone : towards detecting and mitigating computation and energy inefficiencies in mobile apps 

    Almeida, Mario Manuel Sa Dias e Pinto de (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)

    Mobile devices have become ubiquitous and their ever evolving capabilities are bringing them closer to personal computers. Nonetheless, due to their mobility and small size factor constraints, they still present many ...

    Electromechanical large scale computational models of the ventricular myocardium 

    Arís Sánchez, Ruth (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)

    Els models computacionals del cor són una eina important que pot donar als investigadors biomèdics una font addicional d’informació per entendre el funcionament del miocardi. Els models numèrics poden ajudar a interpretar ...

    Enabling caches in probabilistic timing analysis 

    Kosmidis, Leonidas (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)

    Hardware and software complexity of future critical real-time systems challenges the scalability of traditional timing analysis methods. Measurement-Based Probabilistic Timing Analysis (MBPTA) has recently emerged as an ...

    Enabling knowledge-defined networks : deep reinforcement learning, graph neural networks and network analytics 

    Suárez-Varela Macià, José Rafael (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)

    Significant breakthroughs in the last decade in the Machine Learning (ML) field have ushered in a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Particularly, recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have enabled to develop a new ...

    Enabling the use of embedded and mobile technologies for high-performance computing 

    Rajović, Nikola (Date of defense: 2017-06-30)

    In the late 1990s, powerful economic forces led to the adoption of commodity desktop processors in High-Performance Computing(HPC). This transformation has been so effective that the November 2016 TOP500 list is still ...

    End-to-end network service orchestration in heterogeneous domains for next-generation mobile networks 

    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 a redesign of the ...

    Energy efficient cooperative node management for wireless multimedia sensor networks 

    Alaei, Mohammad (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)

    In Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) the lifetime of battery operated visual nodes is limited by their energy consumption, which is proportional to the energy required for sensing, processing, and transmitting ...

    Energy optimising methodologies on heterogeneous data centres 

    Nishtala, Rajiv (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)

    In 2013, U.S. data centres accounted for 2.2% of the country's total electricity consumption, a figure that is projected to increase rapidly over the next decade. A significant proportion of power consumed within a data ...

    Energy sharing in smart grids : a game theory approach 

    AlSkaif, Tarek (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)

    The need for energy conservation, grid reliability, and improved operational efficiencies have led to the changes from conventional electricity grids which have “blind” and manual operations, along with the electromechanical ...