In this thesis we consider the output regulation problem consisting of choosing a controller to asymptotically steer the output of a linear infinite-dimensional system to a given reference signal despite external disturbances. ...

Streaming allows consuming content, such as video or audio, without storing it on a receiving device. The benefit of streaming is that it requires little memory from the device. The drawback is that the device must always ...

Most of the current processor architectures have word-addressable internal memories and wide data paths that are efficiently utilized whenever data is aligned according to word locations. However, in video coding the ...

Concerns about oil price, the strengthening climate change and traffic related health effects are all reasons which have promoted the research of renewable fuels. One renewable fuel candidate is diesel consisting of ...

Globalization is a general trend in the world which will also affect the way software is developed and the kinds of organization which will make this development. Global Software Development (GSD) offers new benefits but ...

Organic semiconductor materials offer the intriguing possibility to fabricate diodes, transistors and circuits on flexible substrates using cost-effective mass printing processes. However, the fabrication of fully printed ...

Studies related to the productivity of machine work often show that there is a large amount of unexplained variation in the productivity, which counts in most of the performance differences between the machines. This ...

Photopolymerizable liquid monomers of fullerene, phthalocyanine and porphyrin were synthesized, polymerized and used as photoactive materials in organic solar cell structures. The design of the molecules requires the ...

When an image is acquired by a digital imaging sensor, it is always degraded by some noise. This leads to two basic questions: What are the main characteristics of this noise? How to remove it? These questions in turn ...

The work presented in this dissertation is a qualitative research in the field of engineering design. The applied research method involves case studies and interviews in the industry. The data collection methods are briefly ...