• openAccess   Towards an Efficient Use of the BLAS Library for Multilinear Tensor Contractions 

      Di Napoli, Edoardo; Fabregat Traver, Diego; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Bientinesi, Paolo Aachen University (2014)
      Mathematical operators whose transformation rules constitute the building blocks of a multi-linear algebra are widely used in physics and engineering applications where they are very often represented as tensors. In the ...
    • openAccess   Towards Automatic Parallelization of Stream Processing Applications 

      Dolz, Manuel F.; del Río Astorga, David; Fernández Muñoz, Javier; García, J. Daniel; Carretero, Jesús IEEE (2018-08)
      Parallelizing and optimizing codes for recent multi-/many-core processors have been recognized to be a complex task. For this reason, strategies to automatically transform sequential codes into parallel and discover ...
    • openAccess   Towards the interoperability of computerised guidelines and electronic health records: an experiment with openEHR archetypes and a chronic heart failure guideline 

      Marcos, Mar; Martínez-Salvador, Begoña Springer (2011)
      Clinical guidelines contain recommendations based on the best empirical evidence available at the moment. There is a wide consensus about the benefits of guidelines and about the fact that they should be deployed through ...
    • closedAccess   Transforming general networks into feed-forward by using turn-prohibition 

      Echagüe, Juan; Villadangos, José; Cholvi, Vicent; Prieto, M. Elsevier (2008)
      The issue of breaking cycles in communication networks is an important topic for several reasons. For instance, it is required when transparent bridges are filling the forwarding tables. It is also needed to prevent the ...
    • openAccess   Try to Start It! The Challenge of Reusing Code in Robotics Research 

      Cervera, Enric IEEE (2019-01)
      This letter reviews the source code published with the papers of a flagship robotics research conference, 2017 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The aim is to investigate whether the code is actually ...
    • openAccess   TWINBOT: Autonomous Underwater Cooperative Transportation 

      Pi Roig, Roger; Cieslak, Patryk; Ridao Rodriguez, Pere; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2021-03-02)
      Underwater Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair operations are nowadays performed using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) deployed from dynamic-positioning vessels, having high daily operational costs. During the last twenty ...
    • closedAccess   Two-sided orthogonal reductions to condensed forms on asymmetric multicore processors 

      Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Catalán, Sandra; Herrero, José R.; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael Elsevier (2018)
      We investigate how to leverage the heterogeneous resources of an Asymmetric Multicore Processor (AMP) in order to deliver high performance in the reduction to condensed forms for the solution of dense eigenvalue and ...
    • openAccess   Underwater Multirobot Cooperative Intervention MAC Protocol 

      Centelles Beltran, Diego; Soriano, Antonio; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2020-03-26)
      This work introduces a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol designed to allow a group of underwater robots that share a wireless communication channel to effectively communicate with each other. The goal of the Underwater ...
    • openAccess   Underwater radio frequency image sensor using progressive image compression and region of interest 

      Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo; Centelles, Diego; Sales Gil, Jorge; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J; Alvares, Alberto Springer-Verlag (2017-08)
      The increasing demand for underwater robotic intervention systems around the world in several application domains requires more versatile and inexpensive systems. By using a wireless communication system, supervised ...
    • openAccess   Underwater Wireless Communications for Cooperative Robotics with UWSim-NET 

      Centelles, Diego; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J MDPI (2019-08-28)
      The increasing number of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) cooperating in underwater operations has motivated the use of wireless communications. Their modeling can minimize the impact of their limited performance in ...
    • openAccess   Universidad en tiempo de pandemia. Experiencia de estudiantes universitarios en España 

      Ferrandez-Berrueco, Reina; Marqués-Andrés, Mercedes; Sánchez-Tarazaga, Lucía; Ruiz-Bernardo, Paola Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela (2022-01)
      El 14 de marzo de 2020 comenzaba un periodo de docencia de emergencia. Profesorado y alumnado se veían abocados a una situación sin precedentes. El presente estudio de encuesta muestra cómo ha valorado el estudiantado de ...
    • openAccess   Unleashing GPU acceleration for symmetric band linear algebra kernels and model reduction 

      Benner, Peter; Dufrechou, Ernesto; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo © Springer International Publishing AG (2015-12)
      Linear algebra operations arise in a myriad of scientific and engineering applications and, therefore, their optimization is targeted by a significant number of high performance computing (HPC) research efforts. In particular, ...
    • openAccess   Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case 

      Höök, Kristina; Benford, Steve; Tennent, Paul; Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; Alfaras, Miquel; Martinez Avila, Juan; Li, Christine; Marshall, Joseph; Daudén Roquet, Claudia; Sanches, Pedro; Ståhl, Anna; Umair, Muhammad; Windlin, Charles; Zhou, Feng Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2021-11)
      We report on a somaesthetic design workshop and the subsequent analytical work aiming to demystify what is entailed in a non-dualistic design stance on embodied interaction and why a first-person engagement is crucial to ...
    • closedAccess   Unveiling the performance-energy trade-off in iterative linear system solvers for multithreaded processors 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Anzt, Hartwig; Castillo Catalán, María Isabel; Fernández Fernández, Juan Carlos; León Navarro, Germán; Pérez, Joaquín; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Wiley (2015)
      In this paper, we analyze the interactions occurring in the triangle performance-power-energy for the execu- tion of a pivotal numerical algorithm, the iterative conjugate gradient (CG) method, on a diverse collection ...
    • openAccess   Urban sound classifcation using neural networks on embedded FPGAs 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Coronado, Raul; Valls, Oscar; Amor, Rocío del; Leon, German; Naranjo, Valery; Dolz, Manuel F.; Amor-Martin, Adrian; Piñero, Gema Springer (2024-03-01)
      Sound classifcation using neural networks has recently produced very accurate results. A large number of diferent applications use this type of sound classifers such as controlling and monitoring the type of activity in ...
    • openAccess   Usability of the Stylus Pen in Mobile Electronic Documentation 

      Park, Eunil; del Pobil, Angel P.; Kwon, Sang Jib MDPI (2015-11-06)
      Stylus pens are often used with mobile information devices. However, few studies have examined the stylus’ simple movements because the technical expertise to support documentation with stylus pens has not been developed. ...
    • closedAccess   Users' attitudes toward service robots in South Korea 

      del Pobil, Angel P.; Park, Eunil Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2013)
      Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand users' acceptance of service robots by integrating perceived enjoyment of service robots and users' need to belong in a technology acceptance model (TAM) framework. ...
    • closedAccess   Using desktop computers to solve large-scale dense linear algebra problems 

      Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Marqués-Andrés, Mercedes; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Van de Geijn, Robert A. Springer Science+Business Media (2011-11)
      We provide experimental evidence that current desktop computers feature enough computational power to solve large-scale dense linear algebra problems. While the high computational cost of the numerical methods for solving ...
    • openAccess   Using graphics processors to accelerate the computation of the matrix inverse 

      Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo Springer Verlag (2011)
      We study the use of massively parallel architectures for computing a matrix inverse. Two different algorithms are reviewed, the traditional approach based on Gaussian elimination and the Gauss-Jordan elimination alternative, ...
    • openAccess   Using machine learning to model the training scalability of convolutional neural networks on clusters of GPUs 

      Barrachina Mir, Sergio; Castelló, Adrián; Catalán Carbó, Mar; Dolz, Manuel F.; Mestre Miravet, Jose Ignacio Springer (2021-08-30)
      In this work, we build a general piece-wise model to analyze data-parallel (DP) training costs of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on clusters of GPUs. This general model is based on i) multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) ...