• Automatic related work section generation: experiments in scientific document abstracting

  AbuRa’ed, Ahmed; Saggion, Horacio; Shvets, Alexander; Bravo Serrano, Àlex, 1984- (Springer, 2020)

  Related work sections or literature reviews are an essential part of every scientific article being crucial for paper reviewing and assessment. However, writing a good related work section is an activity which requires ...
• Taking advantage of overhearing in low power listening WSNs: a performance analysis of the LWT-MAC protocol

  Cano Bastidas, Cristina; Bellalta, Boris; Sfairopoulou, Anna; Oliver Riera, Miquel; Barceló Vicens, Jaume (Springer, 2011)

  LWT-MAC is a new Low Power Listening MAC protocol for WSNs designed to rapidly react to instantaneous increases of the network load. It takes advantage of overhearing by waking up all nodes at the end of a transmission to ...
• A semi-dynamic, game based and interference aware channel assignment for multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks

  Amiri Nezhad, Maryam; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Bellalta, Boris; Guerrero Zapata, Manel (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2013)

  Channel assignment (CA) has been extensively researched for multi-radio wireless mesh networks (WMNs), but it is still very challenging when it comes to its implementation. In this paper we propose a semi-dynamic and ...
• A distributed power sharing framework among households in microgrids: a repeated game approach

  AlSkaif, Tarek; Guerrero Zapata, Manel; AlSkaif, Tarek; Bellalta, Boris; Nilsson, Anders (Springer, 2016)

  In microgrids, the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the residential sector can improve power reliability, and potentially reduce power demands and carbon emissions. Improving the utilization of renewable ...
• Current approaches for solving over-constrained problems

  Meseguer, Pedro; Bouhmala, Noureddine; Bouzoubaa, Taoufik; Irgens, Morten; Sànchez Fibla, Martí (Springer, 2003)

  We summarize existing approaches to model and solve overconstrained problems. These problems are usually formulated as combinatorial optimization problems, and different specific and generic formalisms are discussed, ...
• Handling confounding variables in statistical shape analysis - application to cardiac remodelling

  Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Benkarim, Oualid M.; Sanz de la Garza, Maria; Prat Gonzàlez, Susanna; Sepúlveda Martínez, Álvaro; Crispi Brillas, Fàtima; Sitges, Marta; Butakoff, Constantine; De Craene, Mathieu; Bijnens, Bart; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Elsevier, 2020)

  Statistical shape analysis is a powerful tool to assess organ morphologies and find shape changes associated to a particular disease. However, imbalance in confounding factors, such as demographics might invalidate the ...
• Generalized path–permutation codes for reliable end-to-end networking of opportunistic links

  Lai, I-Wei; Shih, Jhih-Wei; Chen, Kwang-Cheng; Biglieri, Ezio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  Opportunistic links are emerging as a novel technology for state-of-the-art wireless networks, such as cognitive radio networks, energy-harvesting networks, and low-latency vehicular networks. To increase the reliability ...
• Uplink fractional power control and downlink power allocation for cell-free networks

  Nikbakht, Rasoul; Mosayebi, Reza; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  This letter proposes respective policies for uplink power control and downlink power allocation in cell-free wireless networks. Both policies rely only on large-scale quantities and are expressed in closed form, being ...
• Subset MMSE receivers for cell-free networks

  Attarifar, Masoud; Abbasfar, Aliazam; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  This paper formulates linear MMSE receivers that are both network- and user-centric for the uplink of cell-free wireless networks with centralized processing. Precisely, every user’s reception involves a distinct subset ...
• Fast quasi-conformal regional flattening of the left atrium

  Nuñez-Garcia, Marta; Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Alarcón, Francisco; Caixal, Gala; Mont, Lluís; Camara, Oscar; Butakoff, Constantine (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  Two-dimensional representation of 3D anatomical structures is a simple and intuitive way for analysing patient information across populations and image modalities. While cardiac ventricles, especially the left ventricle, ...
• Concurrent decentralized channel allocation and access point selection using multi-armed bandits in multi BSS WLANs

  López Raventós, Álvaro; Bellalta, Boris (Elsevier, 2020)

  Enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) consist of multiple Access Points (APs) covering a given area. In these networks, interference is mitigated by allocating different channels to neighboring APs. Besides, ...
• Learning design and learning analytics in mobile and ubiquitous learning: a systematic review

  Pishtari, Gerti; Rodríguez-Triana, María Jesús; Sarmiento Márquez, Edna M.; Pérez Sanagustín, Maria del Mar; Ruiz Calleja, Adolfo; Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia; Prieto, Luis P.; Serrano Iglesias, Sergio; Väljataga, Terje (Wiley, 2020)

  Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning (m/u‐learning) are finding an increasing adoption in education. They are often distinguished by hybrid learning environments that encompass elements of formal and informal learning, in ...
• Possible molecular and cellular mechanisms at the basis of atmospheric electromagnetic field bioeffects

  Cifra, Michal; Apollonio, Francesca; Liberti, Micaela; García Sánchez, Tomás; Mir, Lluis M. (Springer, 2020)

  Mechanisms of how electromagnetic (EM) field acts on biological systems are governed by the same physics regardless of the origin of the EM field (technological, atmospheric...), given that EM parameters are the same. We ...
• Ghost attractors in spontaneous brain activity: recurrent excursions into functionally-relevant BOLD phase-locking states

  Vohryzek, Jakub; Deco, Gustavo; Cessac, Bruno; Kringelbach, Morten L.; Cabral, Joana R. B. (Frontiers, 2020)

  Functionally relevant network patterns form transiently in brain activity during rest, where a given subset of brain areas exhibits temporally synchronized BOLD signals. To adequately assess the biophysical mechanisms ...
• Multi-armed bandits for decentralized AP selection in enterprise WLANs

  Carrascosa Zamacois, Marc; Bellalta, Boris (Elsevier, 2020)

  WiFi densification leads to the existence of multiple overlapping coverage areas, which allows user stations (STAs) to choose between different Access Points (APs). The standard WiFi association method makes STAs select ...
• Three cases of hybridity in learning spaces: towards a design for a Zone of Possibility

  Cook, John; Mor, Yishay; Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia (Wiley, 2020)

  The paper contributes to design discourse by drawing on Educational Design Research (EDR) that has been conducted into what we call a Zone of Possibility (ZoP) over the past seven years. We define a ZoP as a place where ...
• Visual illusions via neural dynamics: Wilson–Cowan-type models and the efficient representation principle

  Bertalmío, Marcelo; Calatroni, Luca; Franceschi, Valentina; Franceschiello, Benedetta; Gómez Villa, Alexander; Prandi, Dario (American Physiological Society, 2020)

  We reproduce suprathreshold perception phenomena, specifically visual illusions, by Wilson–Cowan (WC)-type models of neuronal dynamics. Our findings show that the ability to replicate the illusions considered is related ...
• Automatic detection of slow conducting channels during substrate ablation of scar-related ventricular arrhythmias

  Alcaine, Alejandro; Jáuregui, Beatriz; Soto-Iglesias, David; Acosta, Juan; Penela, Diego; Fernández-Armenta, Juan; Linhart, Markus; Andreu Martínez, David; Mont, Lluís; Laguna, Pablo; Camara, Oscar; Martínez, Juan Pablo; Berruezo Sánchez, Antonio (Hindawi, 2020)

  Background. Voltage mapping allows identifying the arrhythmogenic substrate during scar-related ventricular arrhythmia (VA) ablation procedures. Slow conducting channels (SCCs), defined by the presence of electrogram (EGM) ...
• Differences in applied electrical power between full thorax models and limited-domain models for RF cardiac ablation

  Irastorza, Ramiro M.; González-Suárez, Ana; Pérez, Juan J.; Berjano, Enrique J. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Purpose: Most modeling studies on radiofrequency cardiac ablation (RFCA) are based on limited-domain models, which means the computational domain is restricted to a few centimeters of myocardium and blood around the active ...
• Reduced spatiotemporal brain dynamics are associated with increased depressive symptoms after a relationship breakup

  Alonso Martínez, Sonsoles; Marsman, Jan-Bernard C.; Kringelbach, Morten L.; Deco, Gustavo; ter Horst, Gert J. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Depressive symptoms following a stressful life event, such as a relationship breakup, are common, and constitute a potent risk factor for the onset of a major depressive episode. Resting-state neuroimaging studies have ...

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