• 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; 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; 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Toward the parallelization of GSL 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Almeida, Francisco; Badía, José; Barrachina Mir, Sergio; Blanco, Vicente; Castillo Catalán, María Isabel; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Remón Gómez, Alfredo; Rodríguez, Casiano; De Sande, Francisco; Santos, Adrián Springer-Verlag (2009)
      In this paper, we present our joint efforts to design and develop parallel implementations of the GNU Scientific Library for a wide variety of parallel platforms. The multilevel software architecture proposed provides ...
    • openAccess   Toward the Robot Butler: the HUMABOT Challenge 

      Cervera, Enric; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-06)
      Presents information on the HUMABOT Challenge, the official robot competition for the 2014 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2014) that was held during the ...
    • openAccess   Towards a model of creative understanding: deconstructing and recreating conceptual blends using image schemas and qualitative spatial descriptors 

      Falomir, Zoe; Plaza, Enric Springer (2020)
      Computational models of novel concept understanding and creativity are addressed in this paper from the viewpoint of conceptual blending theory (CBT). In our approach, a novel, unknown concept is addressed in a communication ...
    • openAccess   Towards a Sustainable City for Cyclists: Promoting Safety through a Mobile Sensing Application 

      Boronat, Pablo; Pérez-Francisco, Miguel; Calafate, Carlos; Cano, Juan Carlos Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (2021-03-01)
      Riding a bicycle is a great manner to contribute to the preservation of our ecosystem. Cycling helps to reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, and so, it is one of the simplest ways to lower the environmental ...
    • 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 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, ...
    • 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 ...