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Development of Laboratory Based Smart Micro Grid To Be Used As An Educational Tool
The increasing trend of the energy industry to move towards a new smart power grid has pushed researchers to address the challenges that this represents. Universities all around the world are also under pressure to better prepare their students to meet the challenges that await them with this new technology and techniques. The work presented on this thesis was motivated by the current need of the electrical engineering curriculum to include new material into their current courses. A laboratory based smart micro grid was created by applying several concepts and techniques currently being adopted by the energy industry to make their distribution systems smarter. A series of experiments were conducted in order to test the functionality of both hardware equipment as well as software implementation. The results indicate that the experimental setup has proven to be adequate to introduce students to new concepts of the smart grid
3D high definition video coding on a GPU-based heterogeneous system
H.264/MVC is a standard for supporting the sensation of 3D, based on coding from 2 (stereo) to N views. H.264/MVC adopts many coding options inherited from single view H.264/AVC, and thus its complexity is even higher, mainly because the number of processing views is higher. In this manuscript, we aim at an efficient parallelization of the most computationally intensive video encoding module for stereo sequences. In particular, inter prediction and its collaborative execution on a heterogeneous platform. The proposal is based on an efficient dynamic load balancing algorithm and on breaking encoding dependencies. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed algorithm's ability to reduce the encoding time for different stereo high definition sequences. Speed-up values of up to 90× were obtained when compared with the reference encoder on the same platform. Moreover, the proposed algorithm also provides a more energy-efficient approach and hence requires less energy than the sequential reference algorith
Complexity in forecasting and predictive models
Te challenge of this special issue has been to know the
state of the problem related to forecasting modeling and
the creation of a model to forecast the future behavior
that supports decision making by supporting real-world applications.
Tis issue has been highlighted by the quality of its
research work on the critical importance of advanced analytical methods, such as neural networks, sof computing,
evolutionary algorithms, chaotic models, cellular automata,
agent-based models, and fnite mixture minimum squares
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PGAS Model for the Implementation of Scalable Cluster Systems
This paper introduces an extended version of the traditional Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) model, for the implementation of scalable cluster systems, that the HyperTransport Consortium Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is working on. Using the Simics and GEMS simulators, we developed a software module that approximates the behavior of a PGAS cluster. This approach mainly provides the simplest mechanism to evaluate how much the PGAS infrastructure will affect overall the application performance. The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of the ATG’s PGAS model for running applications with high memory requirements. Such a model, will let manufacturers build clusters that enable the execution of these applications, in such a way that it will be impossible to run them in a single processor, or in a multi–processor
On the relationship between pump chirp and single-photon chirp in spontaneous parametric downconversion
We study the chronocyclic character, i.e. the joint temporal and spectral
properties, of the single-photon constituents of photon pairs generated by
spontaneous parametric down conversion. In particular we study how single
photon properties, including purity and single-photon chirp, depend on photon
pair properties, including the type of signal-idler spectral and correlations
and the level of pump chirp.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Live lecture screencast recording: a proposal to simplify the tasks associated with content production for video-teaching
Se trata de un resumen (Abstract) de la contribución. El acuerdo de transferencia de copyright del trabajo completo es incompatible con el depósito del mismo en RIUMA.Se describe la implementación inicial de un método simplificado de grabación en directo de sesiones de clase en asignaturas de las Escuelas de IngenierÃa de la Universidad de Málaga. La simplificación se logra al incorporar en la actividad diaria del aula ciertas caracterÃsticas tÃpicas de la grabación en diferido de mini videos docentes. En una configuración mÃnima se graba únicamente el audio y el video en pantalla de la clase, evitando los desafÃos técnicos y las dificultades que implica la grabación de otros elementos como la pizarra. Esto implica el uso de anotaciones en pantalla en tiempo real para reemplazar completamente las anotaciones en la pizarra.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional AndalucÃa Tech.
I Plan Propio Integral de Docencia. Universidad de Málaga.
Universidad de Málaga. Vicerectorado de Personal Docente e Investigador, Proyectos de Innovación Educativa (PIE 17-018
Confined photon modes with triangular symmetry in hexagonal microcavities in 2D photonic Crystals
We present theoretical and experimental studies of the size and thickness
dependencies of the optical emission spectra from microcavities with hexagonal
shape in films of two-dimensional photonic crystal. A semiclassical plane-wave
model, which takes into account the electrodynamic properties of quasi-2D
planar photonic microcavity, is developed to predict the eigenfrequencies of
the confined photon modes as a function of both the hexagon-cavity size and the
film thickness. Modes with two different symmetries, triangular and hexagonal,
are critically analyzed. It is shown that the model of confined photon modes
with triangular symmetry gives a better agreement between the predicted
eigenmodes and the observed resonances.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
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