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Efficient approximate string matching techniques for sequence alignment

Marco-Sola, Santiago (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)

One of the outstanding milestones achieved in recent years in the field of biotechnology research has been the development of high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Due to the fact that at the moment it is technically impossible ...

Efficient bittorrent-like content distribution for cloud storage services

Chaabouni, Rahma (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)

Amb el tràfic d'Internet cada vegada més gran, la distribució de continguts peer-to-peer ha sorgit com una alternativa al model tradicional client-servidor, especialment amb la recent evolució de l'ample de banda en els ...

Efficient CAD based adjoint optimization of turbomachinery using adaptive shape parameterization

Sanchez Torreguitart, Ismael (Date of defense: 2019-05-23)

The present thesis incorporates the CAD model into an adjoint-based optimization loop and uses it for the shape optimization of a 2D transonic turbine blade mid-section (profile). This is demonstrated by performing a single ...

Efficient catalysts for water oxidation: synthesis, characterization and computational study

Azmani Oualite, Khalid (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)

L'emmagatzematge d'energia en enllaços químics ha esdevingut avui dia clau principal per fer possible la transició de la dependència del carboni a l'energia renovable (per exemple, solar o eòlica) resolent-ne la intermitència. ...

Efficient communication management in cloud environments

Espínola Brítez, Laura María (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)

Las aplicaciones científicas con requisitos de High Performance Computing (HPC) están migrando a entornos cloud debido a las ventajas que ofrece. El cloud computing juega un papel importante teniendo en cuenta la potencia ...

Efficient computational mesoscale modeling of concrete under cyclic loading

Titscher, Thomas (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)

Concrete is a complex material and can be modeled on various spatial and temporal scales. While simulations on coarse scales are practical for engineering applications, a deeper understanding of the material is gained on ...

Efficient data management strategies for sequence alignment on heterogeneous clusters

Shaolong, Chen (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)

Entre los sistemas de computación de alto rendimiento, el Intel Xeon Phi es un acelerador que resulta ser una alternativa muy atractiva para mejorar el rendimiento de aplicaciones con necesidades de cómputo intensas que ...

Efficient Deep Learning Models and Their Applications to Health Informatics

Sarker, Md Mostafa Kamal (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)

This thesis designed and implemented efficient deep learning methods to solve classification and segmentation problems in two major health informatics domains, namely pervasive sensing and medical imaging. In the area of ...

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 implementation of Deep Nets for video processing to preserve marine ecosystem services

Martín Abadal, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-05-25)

[eng] Marine ecosystems provide multiple services to humans, including provisioning services, such as seafood or fossil energy; regulating services, like coastal protection or water purification; cultural services, as ...

Efficient Mobility and Interoperability of Software Agents

Cucurull Juan, Jordi (Date of defense: 2008-12-10)

Els agents mòbils són entitats computacionals autònomes que tenen la capacitat de suspendre i prosseguir la seva execució en diferents punts de la xarxa per a dur a terme un conjunt de tasques assignades. Tot i la seva ...

Efficient models for building acoustics : combining deterministic and statistical methods

Díaz Cereceda, Cristina (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)

Modelling vibroacoustic problems in the field of building design is a challenging problem due to the large size of the domains and the wide frequency range required by regulations. Standard numerical techniques, for instance ...

Efficient multiprocessing architectures for spiking neural network emulation based on configurable devices

Sánchez Rivera, Giovanny (Date of defense: 2014-06-12)

The exploration of the dynamics of bioinspired neural networks has allowed neuroscientists to understand some clues and structures of the brain. Electronic neural network implementations are useful tools for this exploration. ...

Efficient Neural Network Inference for Resource Constrained Devices

Borrego Carazo, Juan (Date of defense: 2022-11-21)

Els avenços de la darrera dècada en l’aprenentatge profund han suposat un gran salt en els resultats d’última generació pel que fa a tasques com la classificació d’imatges, la traducció d’idiomes i moltes altres. Tanmateix, ...

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 ...

Efficient operation of photo-Fenton process for the treatment of emerging contaminants in water solutions

Yamal Turbay, Evelyn (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)

The growth of population density in some areas of the planet and the increasing fast advances in technology and energy issues, have resulted in a remarkable increment in the necessity for goods and services, with a subsequent ...

Efficient sequential and temporal pattern mining

Mordvanyuk, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)

The contributions of the present thesis are in the domain of Pattern Mining and Knowledge Discovery, being of particular relevance for the sequential pattern mining and time-interval related pattern mining fields. In ...

Efficient sharing mechanisms for virtualized multi-tenant heterogeneous networks

Vincenzi, Matteo (Date of defense: 2022-07-18)

The explosion in data traffic, the physical resource constraints, and the insufficient financial incentives for deploying 5G networks, stress the need for a paradigm shift in network upgrades. Typically, operators are also ...

Efficient simulation tools for real-time monitoring and control using model order reduction and data-driven techniques

Quaranta, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)

Numerical simulation, the use of computers to run a program which implements a mathematical model for a physical system, is an important part of today technological world. It is required in many scientific and engineering ...