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A game engine to make games as multi-agent systems
(Elsevier, 2020-02)
Video games are applications that present design patterns that resemble multi-agent systems. Game objects or actors are like autonomous agents that interact with each other to describe complex systems. The purpose of this ...
Compression and load balancing for efficient sparse matrix-vector product on multicore processors and graphics processing units
(John Wiley and Sons, 2021)
We contribute to the optimization of the sparse matrix-vector product by introducing a variant of the coordinate sparse matrix format that balances the workload distribution and compresses both the indexing arrays and the ...
Robot vision for manipulation: a trip to real-world applications
(IEEE, 2021-01-01)
Along the last decades, Robotics research has taken a major turn from laboratories to factories and ordinary real-world environments. Consequently, new issues to be overcome have arisen, specially when autonomous, dexterous ...
Underwater Multirobot Cooperative Intervention MAC Protocol
(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 ...
TWINBOT: Autonomous Underwater Cooperative Transportation
(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 ...
Analysis of Threading Libraries for High Performance Computing
(IEEE, 2020-01-30)
With the appearance of multi-many core machines, applications and runtime systems evolved in order to exploit the new on-node concurrency that brought new software paradigms. POSIX threads (Pthreads) was widely-adopted for ...
A Framework for Enhancing the Operational Phase of Traffic Management Plans
(IEEE, 2020-11-20)
Road traffic emergencies are dangerous and unexpected situations that require immediate actions by the authorities. These actions involve to attend to the people who have been affected by the emergency and to minimize its ...
A Multilevel Road Alignment Model for Spatial-Query-by-Sketch
(MDPI, 2020-11-01)
A sketch map represents an individual’s perception of a specific location. However, the information in sketch maps is often distorted and incomplete. Nevertheless, the main roads of a given location often exhibit considerable ...
Effects of behavioral risk factors and social-environmental factors on non-communicable diseases in South Korea: a national survey approach
(MDPI, 2021-01-12)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the major health threats in the world.
Thus, identifying the factors that influence NCDs is crucial to monitor and manage diseases. This
study investigates the effects of ...
Recovering Depth from Still Images for Underwater Dehazing Using Deep Learning
(MDPI, 2020)
Estimating depth from a single image is a challenging problem, but it is also interestingdue to the large amount of applications, such as underwater image dehazing. In this paper, a newperspective is provided; by taking ...