Award-winning project for creating personalized conversational agents

22 December 2025

The CloudLab research group at the URV has been recognized as one of the 22 winners of the Aina Challenge thanks to PACAT (Platform for Conversational Agents with Aina Kit), a project aimed at creating personalized conversational agents from documents and web pages using advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. The...

CLOUDLESS project concludes its work at URV with final event

27 November 2025

The CLOUDLESS research project has held its final event at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), bringing together researchers, companies, and academic partners to present the results achieved after two years of work. The project focused on designing new cloud and edge computing architectures aimed at improving data processing efficiency...

Engineering students take part in the Cloud Computing Hackathon

17 February 2025

Around forty engineering students participated in the first Cloud Computing Hackathon organized by the URV and T-Systems through the URV–T-Systems Cloud Computing Chair. Working in teams for 24 consecutive hours, participants developed cloud-based solutions to address real-world challenges using territorial data and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The initiative promoted not...

URV project identifies the freight train disrupting residents’ sleep in El Serrallo

24 May 2024

A citizen science project led by the CloudLab research group at the URV has identified the freight train responsible for disturbing the sleep of residents in the El Serrallo neighborhood of Tarragona. Through the Soundless project, researchers combined noise measurements with health data collected from smart bracelets to analyze the...

Paper "Exploiting Inherent Elasticity of Serverless in Algorithms with Unbalanced and Irregular Workloads"

19 April 2024

We are glad to announce that our research paper, “Exploiting Inherent Elasticity of Serverless in Algorithms with Unbalanced and Irregular Workloads”, has been accepted and published in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. In this article, we showcase the capability of serverless computing to provide exceptional cost-performance benefits for...

The URV and T-Systems create a chair on cloud-native applications

12 January 2024

Research, dissemination and, above all, training will be promoted, providing professionals and students with the tools to understand and apply cloud computing. Read the URV’s news for more information (in Spanish).

URV hosts the 29th Conference on Concurrency and Distributed Systems

22 June 2023

The University Rovira i Virgili (URV) hosted the 29th edition of the Conference on Concurrency and Distributed Systems, organized by the CloudLab research group in collaboration with the Spanish Society of Concurrent and Distributed Computing. The event brought together researchers, academics, and industry professionals to present and discuss recent advances...

Artificial intelligence to save lives

01 April 2023

Read the interview (in Catalan).

Noise pollution in Tarragona neighborhoods has negative health impacts on residents

13 March 2023

A study led by the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) has shown that chronic noise pollution in the Serrallo, Tarragona 2, and Francolí neighborhoods in Tarragona has significant negative effects on residents’ health. The research, carried out through a citizen science project, measured environmental noise levels and correlated them with...

The URV obtains two million euros to promote four international projects on cloud computing and artificial intelligence

25 January 2023

Three are led by the CloudLab research group, coordinated by the researcher from the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Pedro García. Read the URV’s news for more information.

With IBM the URV has developed a tool for analysing mass data in the cloud

05 July 2022

Teams of English and German scientists are using this open-code tool, the result of the European Cloudbutton project. Read the URV’s news for more information.