• A quality control method for fraud detection on utility customers without an active contract 

      Coma Puig, Bernat; Carmona Vargas, Josep (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018)
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      Fraud detection in energy consumption has proven to be a difficult problem for current techniques. In general, the approaches used in this area are restricted to compute a fraud score for each client based on its behaviour. ...
    • A review of CNN accelerators for embedded systems based on RISC-V 

      Sanchez Flores, Alejandra; Álvarez Martí, Lluc; Alorda Ladaria, Bartomeu (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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      One of the great challenges of computing today is sustainable energy consumption. In the deployment of edge computing this challenge is particularly important considering the use of embedded equipment with limited energy ...
    • Accelerating K-mer Frequency Counting with GPU and Non-Volatile Memory 

      Cadenelli, Nicola; Polo Cantero, José; Carrera Pérez, David (2018)
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      The emergence of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms has increased the throughput of genomic sequencing and in turn the amount of data that needs to be processed, requiring highly efficient computation for its ...
    • Energy-efficient resource allocation techniques for battery management with energy harvesting nodes: A theoretical approach 

      Rubio López, Javier; Pascual Iserte, Antonio (2013)
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      This paper addresses the problem of radio resource allocation in a multi-user broadcast downlink flat-fading channel, where the receiving nodes are considered to be battery-powered devices provided with energy harvesting ...
    • Hardware leverages for energy reduction in large-scale distributed systems 

      Careglio, Davide; Da Costa, Georges; Ricciardi, Sergio (Wiley, 2015-03-01)
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      This chapter provides the summary and references on existing and future leverages to adapt the underlying hardware infrastructures of large-scale distributed computing systems in order to decrease their energy consumption. ...
    • Implementing cost-optimal methodology in existing public buildings 

      Aelenei, L.; Paduos, S.; Petran, H; Tarrés, J.; Ferreira, A.; Corrado, V.; Camelo, S.; Polychroni, E.; Sfakianaki, K.; Gonçalves, H.; Salom Tormo, Jaume; Riva, G.; Murano, G. (Elsevier Ltd, 2015-11-01)
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      This study presents some preliminary results of an on-going European Project, RePublic-ZEB [1], where an analysis is conducted for identifying the cost optimal levels for the existing buildings, towards nearly Zero Energy ...
    • Optimal Buildings' Energy Consumption Calculus through a Distributed Experiment Execution 

      Fonseca Casas, Pau; Fonseca, Antoni; Garrido Soriano, Núria; Ortiz, Joana Aina; Casanovas, Josep; Salom Tormo, Jaume (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
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      The calculus of building energy consumption is a demanding task because multiple factors must be considered during experimentation. Additionally, the definition of the model and the experiments is complex because the problem ...
    • Privacy-aware vehicle emissions control system for traffic light intersections 

      Barbecho Bautista, Pablo; Urquiza Aguiar, Luis Felipe; Aguilar Igartua, Mónica (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022)
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      This paper proposes a privacy-aware reinforcement learning (RL) framework to reduce carbon emissions of vehicles approaching light traffic intersections. Taking advantage of vehicular communications, traffic lights disseminate ...
    • Replica: a wireless manycore for communication-intensive and approximate data 

      Fernando, Vimuth; Franques, Antonio; Abadal Cavallé, Sergi; Misailovic, Sasa; Torrellas, Josep (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019)
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      Data access patterns that involve fine-grained sharing, multicasts, or reductions have proved to be hard to scale in sharedmemory platforms. Recently, wireless on-chip communication has been proposed as a solution to this ...