• closedAccess   Tall-and-skinny QR factorization with approximate Householder reflectors on graphics processors 

      Tomás Domínguez, Andrés Enrique; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2020-01-24)
      We present a novel method for the QR factorization of large tall-and-skinny matrices that introduces an approximation technique for computing the Householder vectors. This approach is very competitive on a hybrid platform ...
    • openAccess   Technological Applications for the Automation of Food Questionnaires in Medical Studies: a state-of-art-review and future prospective 

      Falomir, Zoe; Madueño Manrique, Francisco; Arregui, María; Corella, Dolores; Coltell, Oscar Elsevier (2012-10)
      Applications for automating the most commonly used dietary surveys in nutritional research, Food Frequency Questionnaires (FFQs) and 24 h Dietary Recalls (24HDRs), are reviewed in this paper. A comprehensive search of ...
    • closedAccess   Technology Acceptance Model for the Use of Tablet PCs 

      Park, Eunil; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer (2013-06)
      Tablet personal computers (tablet PCs) are popular electronic devices worldwide. They influence many aspects of our social lives. Compared with laptop computers, tablet PCs feature characteristics including enhanced ...
    • openAccess   Tecnologías de posicionamiento en interiores al servicio de una biblioteca universitaria: hacia la smart library 

      Aguilar Moreno, Estefanía; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín EPI SCP (2016)
      Se presenta un caso de uso de la aplicación de tecnologías geoespaciales en una biblioteca universitaria. En concreto, se han desarrollado dos aplicaciones capaces de obtener la localización de los ejemplares buscados por ...
    • openAccess   The Experience of the Robot Programming Network Initiative 

      Casañ, Gustavo Adolfo; Cervera, Enric Hindawi (2018-06)
      Since its creation in 2014, the Robot Programming Network (RPN) has been an environment to learn and teach robotics to the general public, which has also allowed us to learn about education. In this paper, we aim to not ...
    • closedAccess   The FLAME approach: From dense linear algebra algorithms to high-performance multi-accelerator implementations 

      Igual, Francisco D.; Chan, Ernie; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Van de Geijn, Robert A. Elsevier (2012)
      Parallel accelerators are playing an increasingly important role in scientific computing. However, it is perceived that their weakness nowadays is their reduced “programmability” in comparison with traditional general-purpose ...
    • openAccess   The Impact of the Multi-core Revolution on Signal Processing 

      González, Alberto; BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Martínez, Francisco J.; Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; García, Víctor M.; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo; Vidal, Antonio M. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2010)
      This paper analyzes the influence of new multi- core and many-core architectures on Signal Processing. The article covers both the architectural design and the programming models of current general-purpose multi-core ...
    • openAccess   The law of attraction in human-robot interaction 

      Park, Eunil; Dallae, Jin; del Pobil, Angel P. In-Tech (2012)
      Following the law of attraction in human‐human interaction, this paper examines the effects of a robot’s personality and a human’s personality in various human‐ robot interactions. This study was conducted using ...
    • openAccess   The libflame library for dense matrix computations 

      Van Zee, Field G.; Chan, Ernie; Van de Geijn, Robert A.; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. IEEE Computer Society (2009-11)
      Researchers from the Formal Linear Algebra Method Environment (Flame) project have developed new methodologies for analyzing, designing, and implementing linear algebra libraries. These solutions, which have culminated in ...
    • openAccess   The neuroscience of vision-based grasping: a functional review for computational modeling and bio-inspired robotics 

      Chinellato, Eris; del Pobil, Angel P. Imperial College Press (2009)
      The topic of vision-based grasping is being widely studied using various techniques and with different goals in humans and in other primates. The fundamental related findings are reviewed in this paper, with the aim of ...
    • openAccess   The on-line teaching of robot visual servoing 

      Pérez Vidal, Carlos; García, Nicolás; Cervera, Enric; Gracia Marco, Luis; Sabater, José María Manchester University Press (2011)
      Visual servoing uses the visual information provided by cameras to control the movement of a robotic system. This paper presents an international on-line course aimed at BSc, MSc and PhD students in this subject. The ...
    • openAccess   The robot programming network 

      Cervera, Enric; Martinet, Philippe; Marin, Raul; Moughlbay, Amine A.; del Pobil, Angel P.; Alemany, Jaume; Esteller Curto, Roger; Casañ, Gustavo Adolfo Springer Netherlands (2016)
      The Robot Programming Network (RPN) is an initiative for creating a network of robotics education laboratories with remote programming capabilities. It consists of both online open course materials and online servers that ...
    • openAccess   The Role of Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart Cities: Technology Roadmap-oriented Approaches 

      Park, Eunil; del Pobil, Angel P.; Kwon, Sang Jib MDPI (2018)
      Since the concept of a smart city was introduced, IoT (Internet of Things) has beenconsidered the key infrastructure in a smart city. However, there are currently no detailed explanations of the technical contributions ...
    • openAccess   The Smartphone-Based Offline Indoor Location Competition at IPIN 2016: Analysis and FutureWork 

      Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín; Jiménez, Antonio R.; Knauth, Stefan; Moreira, Adriano; Beer, Yair; Fetzer, Toni; TA, Viet Cuong; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Seco, Fernando; Mendoza-Silva, Germán Martín; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Koukofikis, Athanasios; Nicolau, Maria João; Costa, António; Meneses, Filipe; Ebner, Frank; Deinzer, Frank; Vaufreydaz, Dominique; Dao, Trung Kien; Castelli, Eric MDPI (2017)
      This paper presents the analysis and discussion of the off-site localization competition track, which took place during the Seventh International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2016). Five ...
    • openAccess   The UJI Aerial Librarian Robot: A Quadcopter for Visual Library Inventory and Book Localisation 

      Martínez Martín, Ester; Ferrer, Eric; Vasilev, Ilia; del Pobil, Angel P. MDPI (2021)
      Over time, the field of robotics has provided solutions to automate routine tasks in differentscenarios. In particular, libraries are awakening great interest in automated tasks since they aresemi-structured environments ...
    • openAccess   The UJI librarian robot 

      Prats Sánchez, Mario; Martínez Martín, Ester; Sanz, Pedro J; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer Verlag (2008)
      This paper describes the UJI Librarian Robot, a mobile manipulator that is able to autonomously locate a book in an ordinary library, and grasp it from a bookshelf, by using eye-in-hand stereo vision and force sensing. The ...
    • openAccess   Tight arrival curve at the output of a work-conserving blind multiplexing serve 

      Echagüe, Juan; Cholvi, Vicent IOS Press (2010)
      As a means of supporting quality of service guarantees, aggregate multiplexing has attracted a lot of attention in the networking community, since it requires less complexity than flow-based scheduling. However, contrary ...
    • closedAccess   Time and energy modeling of a high-performance multi-threaded Cholesky factorization 

      Catalán, Sandra; Igual, Francisco D.; Mayo, Rafael; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2016-02-05)
      We present accurate time and energy piece-wise models of high-performance multi-threaded implementations for the general matrix multiplication, triangular system solve with multiple right-hand sides, and symmetric rank-k ...
    • closedAccess   Time and energy modeling of high–performance Level-3 BLAS on x86 architectures 

      Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Catalán, Sandra; Igual, Francisco D.; Mayo, Rafael; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Elsevier (2015-06)
      We present accurate piece-wise models for the time and energy costs of high performance implementations of both the matrix multiplication (gemm) and the triangular system solve with multiple right-hand sides (trsm) on x86 ...
    • openAccess   Toward a modular precision ecosystem for high-performance computing 

      Anzt, Hartwig; Flegar, Goran; Grützmacher, Thomas; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Sage (2019-05)
      With the memory bandwidth of current computer architectures being significantly slower than the (floating point) arithmetic performance, many scientific computations only leverage a fraction of the computational power in ...