Aeronáutica y espacio

EdgeCIM: A Hardware-Software Co-Design for CIM-Based Acceleration of Small Language Models

- The growing demand for deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices, including laptops, smartphones, and embedded platforms, has exposed fundamental inefficiencies in existing accelerators....

Structural Consequences of Policy-Based Interventions on the Global Supply Chain Network

- As global political tensions rise and the anticipation of additional tariffs from the United States on international trade increases, the issues of economic independence and supply chain resilience...

Using Budgets to Reduce Application Emissions

- As carbon pricing mechanisms like the EU Emissions Trading System are set to increase prices of energy consumption, software architects face growing pressure to design applications that operate...

A Two-Stage Optimization Framework for Validating Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure under Grid Constraints

- This paper proposes a two-stage optimization framework to evaluate whether cost-optimal electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure translates into effective operation under distribution grid...

Towards Automated Solar Panel Integrity: Hybrid Deep Feature Extraction for Advanced Surface Defect Identification

- To ensure energy efficiency and reliable operations, it is essential to monitor solar panels in generation plants to detect defects. It is quite labor-intensive, time consuming and costly to manually...

Real-Time Coordinated Operation of Off-Grid Wind Powered Multi-Electrolyzer Systems Considering Thermal Dynamics and HTO Safety

- Coordinated operation of alkaline water electrolysis (AWE) systems with multiple electrolyzers under fluctuating renewable power input is challenging due to varying power availability and dynamic...

Towards Green Wearable Computing: A Physics-Aware Spiking Neural Network for Energy-Efficient IMU-based Human Activity Recognition

- Wearable IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) relies heavily on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which are burdened by immense computational and buffering demands. Their power-hungry floating-point...

A Diffusion-Contrastive Graph Neural Network with Virtual Nodes for Wind Nowcasting in Unobserved Regions

- Accurate weather nowcasting remains one of the central challenges in atmospheric science, with critical implications for climate resilience, energy security, and disaster preparedness. Since it is...

A 129FPS Full HD Real-Time Accelerator for 3D Gaussian Splatting

- Rendering large-scale, unbounded scenes on AR/VR-class devices is constrained by the computation, bandwidth, and storage cost of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). We propose a low-power, low-cost 3DGS...

Virtual Smart Metering in District Heating Networks via Heterogeneous Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks

- Intelligent operation of thermal energy networks aims to improve energy efficiency, reliability, and operational flexibility through data-driven control, predictive optimization, and early fault...

FlexVector: A SpMM Vector Processor with Flexible VRF for GCNs on Varying-Sparsity Graphs

- Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely adopted for tasks involving relational or graph-structured data and can be formulated as two-stage sparse-dense matrix multiplication (SpMM) during...

ConfigSpec: Profiling-Based Configuration Selection for Distributed Edge--Cloud Speculative LLM Serving

- Speculative decoding enables collaborative Large Language Model (LLM) inference across cloud and edge by separating lightweight token drafting from heavyweight verification. While prior systems show...

Calibrating Microgrid Simulations for Energy-Aware Computing Systems

- The surge for computing resource demand is increasing global electricity consumption in data centers which is expected to exceed 1000 TWh by 2026, mainly attributable to adoption of new AI...

The causal relation between off-street parking and electric vehicle adoption in Scotland

- The transition to electric mobility hinges on maximising aggregate adoption while also facilitating equitable access. This study examines whether the 'charging divide' between households with...

Watt Counts: Energy-Aware Benchmark for Sustainable LLM Inference on Heterogeneous GPU Architectures

- While the large energy consumption of Large Language Models (LLMs) is recognized by the community, system operators lack guidance for energy-efficient LLM inference deployments that leverage energy...

Generative AI Agent Empowered Power Allocation for HAP Propulsion and Communication Systems

- High altitude platforms (HAPs) are emerging as a key enabler for 6G coverage, yet limited energy must be split between propulsion and communications. Most prior HAP studies ignore propulsion power or...

Ge$^text{2}$mS-T: Multi-Dimensional Grouping for Ultra-High Energy Efficiency in Spiking Transformer

- Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, they encounter significant deficiencies in training and inference metrics when applied...

An Energy-Efficient Lyapunov-Based Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Controller for Electric Vehicles

- As electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly adopted as platforms for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), enhancing their energy efficiency becomes critical. With the emergence of...

Pruning Extensions and Efficiency Trade-Offs for Sustainable Time Series Classification

- Time series classification (TSC) enables important use cases, however lacks a unified understanding of performance trade-offs across models, datasets, and hardware. While resource awareness has grown...

A Game-Theoretic Decentralized Real-Time Control of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations - Part II: Numerical Simulations

- In the first part of this two-part paper a game-theoretic decentralized real-time control is proposed in the context of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station (CS). This method, relying on a...

A Game-Theoretic Decentralized Real-Time Control of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations - Part I: Incentive Design

- Large-scale Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station (CS) may be too large to be dispatched in real-time via a centralized approach. While a decentralized approach may be a viable solution, the lack of...