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    • A comparison study of different algorithms for energy-aware placement of virtual machines 

      Olvera, Alex; Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos (Springer, 2018)
      Conference report
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      Cloud Computing services are essential to modern society. The increasing number of people and organisations using these types of services results in a higher demand in datacenters, which in turn, is raising energy consumption ...
    • A cost-sensitive learning algorithm for fuzzy rule-based classifiers 

      Beck, Sebastian; Mikut, Ralf; Jäkel, Jens (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Secció de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, 2004)
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      Designing classifiers may follow different goals. Which goal to prefer among others depends on the given cost situation and the class distribution. For example, a classifier designed for best accuracy in terms of ...
    • A fuzzy inductive approach for rule-based modelling of high level structures in algorithmic composition systems 

      Múgica Álvarez, Francisco; Paz Ortiz, Alejandro Iván; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Romero Merino, Enrique (2015)
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      Algorithmic composition systems are now widely understood. However, its capacity for producing outputs consistently showing high level structures is still a field of research. In the present work, the Fuzzy Inductive ...
    • A generaliser applied to SBL 

      Moreno Ribas, Antonio (1992-03)
      Research report
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      In this work two algorithms have been developed: a generaliser and a hierarchy constructor. The generaliser receives as inputs the descriptions of some positive examples of a concept and it calculates their maximal conjunctive ...
    • A GRASP algorithm to optimize operational costs and regularity of production in mixed-model sequencing problems with forced interruption of operations 

      Bautista Valhondo, Joaquín; Alfaro Pozo, Rocío (Springer, 2018-10-23)
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      This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2018, held in Granada, Spain, in October 2018. The 36 full papers presented were carefully ...
    • A hybrid recommender system for improving automatic playlist continuation 

      Gatzioura, Anna; Vinagre, João; Jorge, Alípio Mário; Sànchez-Marrè, Miquel (2021-05-01)
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      Although widely used, the majority of current music recommender systems still focus on recommendations’ accuracy, userpreferences and isolated item characteristics, without evaluating other important factors, like the joint ...
    • A method for assessing parameter impact on control-flow discovery algorithms 

      Ribeiro, Joel; Carmona Vargas, Josep (CEUR-WS.org, 2015)
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      Given an event log L, a control-flow discovery algorithm f, and a quality metric m, this paper faces the following problem: what are the parameters in f that mostly influence its application in terms of m when applied ...
    • A methodology for distributed fault diagnosis 

      Gupta, Vikas; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Blesa Izquierdo, Joaquim (2016)
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      In this paper, a methodology for distributed fault diagnosis is proposed. The algorithm places the sensors in a system in such a manner that the partition of a system into various subsystems becomes ...
    • A modification of the Lloyd algorithm for k-anonymous quantization 

      Rebollo Monedero, David; Forné Muñoz, Jorge; Pallarès Segarra, Esteve; Parra Arnau, Javier (2013-02-10)
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      We address the problem of designing quantizers that cluster data while satisfying a k-anonymity requirement. A general data compression perspective is adopted, which considers both discrete and continuous probability ...
    • A novel procedure for training L1-L2 support vector machine classifiers 

      Anguita, Davide; Ghio, Alessandro; Oneto, Luca; Reyes Ortiz, Jorge Luis; Ridella, Sandro (2013)
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      In this work we propose a novel algorithm for training L1-L2 Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. L1-L2 SVMs allow to combine the effectiveness of L2 models and the feature selection characteristics of L1 solutions. ...
    • A one pass algorithm for type checking with overloading and polymorphism 

      Pérez Campo, Javier; Mylonakis Pascual, Nicolás (1992-05-24)
      Research report
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      This paper presents an algorithm to do type checking with overloaded functions. It also handles type variables, which enables it to handle polymorphic functions and other interesting problems as incomplete programs. The ...
    • A parallel dynamic asynchronous framework for uncertainty quantification by hierarchical Monte Carlo algorithms 

      Tosi, Riccardo; Amela Milian, Ramon; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Rossi, Riccardo (Springer Nature, 2021-09-13)
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      The necessity of dealing with uncertainties is growing in many different fields of science and engineering. Due to the constant development of computational capabilities, current solvers must satisfy both statistical ...
    • A second-order distributed Trotter–Suzuki solver with a hybrid CPU–GPU kernel 

      Wittek, Peter; Cucchietti, Fernando (Elsevier, 2013-04)
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      The Trotter-Suzuki approximation leads to an efficient algorithm for solving the timedependent Schrödinger equation. Using existing highly optimized CPU and GPU kernels, we developed a distributed version of the algorithm ...
    • A survey of isosurface fitting algorithms 

      Boada Oliveras, Immaculada; Navazo Álvaro, Isabel (1998-03)
      Research report
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      Implicit surface poligonalization is an useful technique for visualizing sampled volumetric data in many scientific applications. In this report we describe some of the different algorithms for constructing poligonazed ...
    • A Tabu search algorithm for scheduling independent jobs in computational grids 

      Xhafa Xhafa, Fatos; Carretero Casado, Javier Sebastián; Dorronsoro, Bernabé; Alba, Enrique (2009)
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      The efficient allocation of jobs to grid resources is indispensable for high performance grid-based applications, and it is a computationally hard problem even when there are no dependencies among jobs. We present in this ...
    • A vectorization of synchronization algorithms for OFDM systems 

      Pages Fageda, Carles (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-04-28)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      L'objectiu d'aquest projecte és doble. Per una banda, es tracta de crear una llibreria en C++ que ens permeti simular implementacions d'algoritmes en DSP vectorials (que poden realitzar la mateixa operació sobre diverses ...
    • Accelerating Sequence Alignment Using Processing-In-Memory 

      Alonso Marín, Alejandro (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-19)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Recent advances in sequencing technologies have made sequencing analysis a fundamental tool for genomics and healthcare research. Before any biological insights can be drawn, sequence data has to be analyzed using complex ...
    • Aceleración con CUDA de Procesos 3D 

      Raya Vaquera, Jose Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-01-26)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      Este proyecto se va a centrar en adaptar el algoritmo de space-carving y algunos procesos de tratamiento de imágenes a CUDA. El space-carving permite obtener representación 3D de un objeto a partir de varias imágenes del ...
    • ACO_R híbrido con múltiples colonias para problemas de optimización continua 

      Blum, Christian; Cardoso, Pedro; Herrera, Francisco (2009)
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      Este trabajo se centra en algoritmos con colonias de hormigas para resolver problemas de optimización continua. En concreto, se propone una extensión de este tipo de algoritmos hacia un método multi-colonia para incrementar ...
    • AHSPeR: Adaptive Hypermedia System Oriented Toward Personalization of Readings Plans 

      Giugni, Marilin; Grimón Mejías, Francisca de Jesús; Fernández Sánchez, Joaquín; Monguet Fierro, José María; Guerra, Laura (Elsevier, 2011)
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      The phenomenon of Internet has brought a wide range of communication possibilities and thus a rapid growth of digitized information. Each day the user is overwhelmed with the vast information obtained during the search ...