• openAccess   An Extension of the StarSs Programming Model for Platforms with Multiple GPUs 

      Ayguadé, Eduardo; Badía Sala, Rosa María; Igual, Francisco D.; Labarta Mancho, Jesús; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
      While general-purpose homogeneous multi-core architectures are becoming ubiquitous, there are clear indications that, for a number of important applications, a better performance/power ratio can be attained using specialized ...
    • closedAccess   A Rule-Based Multi-agent System for Local Traffic Management 

      Martí, Isabel; Tomás López, Vicente Ramón; García Fernández, Luis Amable; Martínez, Juan J. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
      Road Traffic presents a high dynamism which makes necessary the development of traffic management and control strategies to improve traffic flows and more important, road safety. So it is needed the use of intelligent ...
    • closedAccess   A Proposal to Extend the OpenMP Tasking Model for Heterogeneous Architectures 

      Ayguadé, Eduardo; Badía Sala, Rosa María; Cabrera, Daniel; Durán, Alejandro; González, Marc; Igual, Francisco D.; Jiménez González, Daniel; Labarta Mancho, Jesús; Martorell, Xavier; Mayo, Rafael; Pérez, Josep M.; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
      OpenMP has evolved recently towards expressing unstructured parallelism, targeting the parallelization of a broader range of applications in the current multicore era. Homogeneous multicore architectures from major vendors ...
    • openAccess   Combining Multiple Classifiers with Dynamic Weighted Voting 

      Valdovinos Rosas, Rosa María; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2009)
      When a multiple classifier system is employed, one of the most popular methods to accomplish the classifier fusion is the simple majority voting. However, when the performance of the ensemble members is not uniform, the ...
    • openAccess   Accelerating Model Reduction of Large Linear Systems with Graphics Processors 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Kressner, Daniel; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Model order reduction of a dynamical linear time-invariant system appears in many applications from science and engineering. Numerically reliable SVD-based methods for this task require in general O(n3) floating-point ...
    • closedAccess   Parallelization of Multilevel ILU Preconditioners on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Bollhöfer, Matthias; Martín Huertas, Alberto F.; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      In this paper we investigate the parallelization of the ILUPACK library for the solution of sparse linear systems on distributed-memory multiprocessors. The parallelization approach employs multilevel graph partitioning ...
    • openAccess   A Pilot Study on Saccadic Adaptation Experiments with Robots 

      Chinellato, Eris; Antonelli, Marco; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Despite the increasing mutual interest, robotics and cognitive sciences are still lacking common research grounds and comparison methodologies, for a more efficient use of modern technologies in aid of neuroscience research. ...
    • openAccess   Integration of Static and Self-motion-Based Depth Cues for Efficient Reaching and Locomotor Actions 

      Grzyb, Beata J.; Castelló, Vicente; del Pobil, Angel P.; Antonelli, Marco Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      The common approach to estimate the distance of an object in computer vision and robotics is to use stereo vision. Stereopsis, however, provides good estimates only within near space and thus is more suitable for reaching ...
    • closedAccess   Leveraging Task-Parallelism in Energy-Efficient ILU Preconditioners 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Dolz, Manuel F.; Martín Huertas, Alberto F.; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      We analyze the energy-performance balance of a task-parallel computation of an ILU-based preconditioner for the solution of sparse linear systems on multi-core processors. In particular, we elaborate a theoretical model ...
    • openAccess   Plastic Representation of the Reachable Space for a Humanoid Robot 

      Antonelli, Marco; Grzyb, Beata J.; Castelló, Vicente; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Reaching a target object requires accurate estimation of the object spatial position and its further transformation into a suitable arm-motor command. In this paper, we propose a framework that provides a robot with a ...
    • openAccess   Accelerating BST Methods for Model Reduction with Graphics Processors 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Model order reduction of dynamical linear time-invariant system appears in many scientific and engineering applications. Numerically reliable SVD-based methods for this task require O(n3) floating-point arithmetic operations, ...
    • openAccess   Investigación práctica en educación : investigación-acción 

      Marqués-Andrés, Mercedes; Ferrandez-Berrueco, Reina TICAI, Sociedad de Educación (2012)
      This paper describes the methodology of action research, an educational research methodology in which professors investigate on their own teaching practices. In this work we also justify the need of using such methodology ...
    • closedAccess   Analysis of RF-based Indoor Localization with Multiple Channels and Signal Strengths 

      Claver, José M.; Ezpeleta, Santiago; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Pérez Solano, Juan J. Springer (2015)
      In this paper, the influence and improvement of the localization accuracy achieved using a fingerprint database with information coming from different channels and radio signal strength levels is evaluated. This study uses ...
    • closedAccess   A Parallel Multi-threaded Solver for Symmetric Positive Definite Bordered-Band Linear Systems 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón, Alfredo Springer (2016-04)
      We present a multi-threaded solver for symmetric positive definite linear systems where the coefficient matrix of the problem features a bordered-band non-zero pattern. The algorithms that implement this approach heavily ...
    • closedAccess   Revisiting the Gauss-Huard Algorithm for the Solution of Linear Systems on Graphics Accelerators 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón, Alfredo Springer (2016-04-02)
      In 1979, P. Huard presented an efficient variant of the Gauss-Jordan elimination for the solution of linear systems. In particular, this alternative algorithm exhibits the same computational cost as the traditional LU-based ...
    • openAccess   On the Rationality of Explanations in Classification Algorithms 

      Falomir, Zoe; Costa, Vicent IOS Press (2021)
      This paper is a first step towards studying the rationality of explanations produced by up-to-date AI systems. Based on the thesis that designing rational explanations for accomplishing trustworthy AI is fundamental for ...
    • openAccess   Dimensiones a considerar en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje 

      Llorens Largo, Faraón; Sánchez-Carracedo, Fermín; Lopez, David; Badía, José; Marco-Galindo, Maria-Jesús Octaedro (2022-12)
      La pandemia provocada por la covid-19 durante los años 2020 y 2021 obligó a los centros de enseñanza universitaria de todo el mundo a realizar una adaptación urgente, en la que no fue posible realizar una reflexión profunda. ...
    • openAccess   General Framework for Deriving Reproducible Krylov Subspace Algorithms: BiCGStab Case 

      Iakymchuk, Roman; Graillat, Stef; Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio Springer (2023)
      Parallel implementations of Krylov subspace algorithms often help to accelerate the procedure to find the solution of a linear system. However, from the other side, such parallelization coupled with asynchronous and ...