Ana Carolina Januário Vicente — 2020

In an era where the existing competitiveness in the industrial production is constantly growing, traditional strategic approaches have become insufficient for the high pressure of consumers, who increasingly demand innovation in supply. With this reality, there is a strong need to improve processes …

Francisco Pedro Furtado Simões — 2020

Under the hypothesis of the underlying asset of an option following the SABR model, we tested the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm for volatility smile interpolation using the price of European options. This prove to be fast in the simulated framework. However, the real framework sometimes implies unev…

Rodrigo Franco Serra — 2020

PTZ cameras become popular over the last years in activities such as traffic monitoring, sports analysis and surveillance systems due to its ability to cover a wide range of views at a high definition over multiple zoom levels. Having an overall perception of a scene become significantly important i…

Basile Jean Belime — 2020

This thesis focuses on the design, implementation and testing of a control system for the hydrofoil vessel SR02, developped under the Técnico Solar Boat project. In this project solar-powered vessels are built and therefore aim to be as light and efficient as possible. For this purpose it is inten…

João Guilherme Severino Mendes Santos — 2020

With recent technological advances, more people are moving towards the use of renewable energy instead of fossil fuels. This group includes the photovoltaic technologies that have been improving by leaps and bounds, although they still need a lot of development. Factors as the dust still need furthe…

João Carlos Teixeira — 2020

The directives implemented in May 2018 at General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are responsible for regulating the processing and circulation of data classified as personal within the European Union. With the implementation of acrshort gdpr, the need to implement a set of modifications in the …

Madalena Carvalho de Azevedo Moreira — 2020

Epistasis detection studies focus on finding interactions between Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that may be linked with susceptibility to and development of complex disease states. Since existing search and score methods for detecting significant SNP combinations focus heavily on the search…

Laura Mariana Brito Silva — 2020

Portuguese law considers two generation profiles for renewable energy: Small production units, Unidade de pequena produção (UPP) and Self consumption units, Unidades de produção para auto-consumo (UPAC). For UPPs connection power is limited by the contracted power. Oftentimes contacted power is low…

João Mário Ribeiro Domingos — 2020

Unlimited vector extension (UVE) is a novel instruction set architecture extension that takes streaming and SIMD processing together into the modern computing scenario. It aims to overcome the shortcomings of state-of-the-art scalable vector extensions by adding data streaming as a way to simultaneo…

Carla Margarida da Silva Marreiros — 2020

The work done during this dissertation has as starting point an indoor localization system developed by Thales. It uses Open Beacon based sensors and relies on RSS measurements. This system was already the subject of study of a previous dissertation. In that one, the methodologies originally used we…