• openAccess   Towards Fish Welfare in the Presence of Robots: Zebrafish Case 

      Pino Jarque, Andrea; Vidal, Rosario; Tormos, Elisabeth; Cerda-Reverter, Jose Miguel; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J MDPI (2024-05-31)
      Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a valuable animal model for neurobehavioral research, particularly in the study of anxiety-related states. This article explores the use of conceptual models to investigate stress, ...
    • closedAccess   Towards portable realizations of winograd-based convolution with vector intrinsics and OpenMP 

      Dolz, Manuel F.; Castelló, Adrián; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. IEEE (2022)
      We take a step forward in the direction of developing high performance codes for the convolution, based on the Winograd transformation, that are easy to customize for different processor architectures. In our approach, ...
    • openAccess   Towards Semantic Digital Twins for Social Networks 

      Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Museros, Lledó; Llidó Escrivá, Dolores María; Sanz, Ismael; Aramburu Cabo, María José CEUR Workshop Proceedings (2021-09-03)
      This position paper proposes a platform for the creation of digital twins for social networks as semantic digital twins for people. These are mainly aimed at simulating human behavior from a cognitive point of view. The ...
    • 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 ...
    • openAccess   Towards the semantic enrichment of Computer Interpretable Guidelines: a method for the identification of relevant ontological terms 

      Quesada-Martínez, Manuel; Marcos, Mar; Abad-Navarro, Francisco; Martínez-Salvador, Begoña; Fernández Breis, Jesualdo Tomás American Medical Informatics Association (2018-12-05)
      Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) contain recommendations intended to optimize patient care, produced based on a systematic review of evidence. In turn, Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIGs) are formalized versions ...
    • closedAccess   Towards Underwater Robust Image Transmission Using Acoustic Communications 

      Muntaner, Caterina; Nordfeldt-Fiol, Bo Miquel; Martin-Abadal, Miguel; Martorell Torres, Antoni; Bonin Font, Francisco; Molina Arcas, Fernando; Marin, Raul; Oliver-Codina, Gabriel; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2023-06-05)
      This paper presents a novel approach aimed at broadcasting pre-compressed images of reference hot-spots between marine robots through an acoustic link. The transmission must be robust, even on areas with potential acoustic ...
    • 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   TRIDENT: A Framework for Autonomous Underwater Intervention 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Oliver, Gabriel; Melchiorri, Claudio; Casalino, Giuseppe; Silvestre, Carlos; Petillot, Yvan; Turetta, Alessio (2011)
      TRIDENT is a STREP project recently approved by the European Commission whose proposal was submitted to the ICT call 4 of the 7th Framework Program. The project proposes a new methodology for multipurpose underwater ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Tuning stationary iterative solvers for fault resilience 

      Anzt, Hartwig; Dongarra, Jack; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. ACM. Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
      As the transistor’s feature size decreases following Moore’s Law, hardware will become more prone to permanent, intermittent, and transient errors, increasing the number of failures experienced by applications, and ...
    • 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 ...