Acquiring abilities in the absence of a task-oriented reward function is at the frontier of reinforcement learning research. This problem has been studied through the lens of empowerment, which draws a connection between ...

The increasing availability of satellite information has improved Earth observation applications globally. However, primary satellite information is not as immediate as desirable. Indeed, besides the geometric and atmospheric ...

Urban water management has recently been questioned because of the fragmented nature of the urban water system and its linear model. The integration and management of water systems are currently recognized as a socio-technical ...

Recovering the 3D shape of deformable surfaces from single images is difficult because many different shapes have very similar projections. This is commonly addressed by restricting the set of possible shapes to linear ...

In this work we focus on the analysis of performance in the context of Probabilistic Timing Analysis (PTA) from different angles. First, we model and evaluate average performance of time-randomised caches used in the context ...

Tigernut tubers are the main ingredient in the production of orxata in Valencia, a white soft sweet popular drink. In recent years, the appearance of black spots in the skin of tigernuts has led to important economic losses ...

Unbleached sulphite cellulose was subjected to an LQPo biobleaching sequence with the intention to elucidate the potential of LMS as an alternative to conventional bleaching processes. The enzymatic stage (L) was performed ...

We consider open IoT applications in which the IoT devices, i.e. sensor nodes and gateways, can be contributed by volunteer participants. Since the contribution of sensor deployments and their data is critical for the value ...

Multithreaded processors are now common in the industry as they offer high performance at a low cost. Traditionally, in such processors, the assignation of hardware resources between the multiple threads is done implicitly, ...