Rodríguez Pereira, Jessica (Date of defense: 2018-01-09)
Some of the most common decisions to be taken within a logistic systems at an operational level are related to the design of the vehicle routes. Vehicle Routing Problems and Arc Routing Problems are ...
Escala Ribas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Electronic voting presents many challenges due to its multiple security requirements. Some of the challenges are related to guaranteeing voters' privacy and system's transparency, which are hard to ...
Mosaffa, Payman (Date of defense: 2017-11-11)
This thesis presents a hybrid vertex/cell-centred approach to mechanically simulate planar cellular monolayers undergoing cell reorganisation. Cell centres are represented by a triangular nodal network, ...
Li, Bin (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Fracture mechanics of brittle materials has focused on bulk materials with isotropic surface energy. In this situation different physical principles for crack path selection are very similar or even ...
Coltraro Ianniello, Franco (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)
(Eng) In this work we study various mathematical problems arising from the robotic manipulation of cloth. First, we develop a locking-free continuous model for the physical simulation of inextensible ...
Gürkan, Ceren (Date of defense: 2018-11-22)
This thesis proposes a new numerical technique: the eXtended Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (X-HDG) Method, to efficiently solve problems including moving boundaries and interfaces. It aims to ...
Casanellas, Glòria (Date of defense: 2020-03-05)
This work is the result of an Industrial Doctorate developed through a partnership agreement between the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the company Horizons Optical. This thesis solves the ...
Gómez-Mateu, Moisés (Date of defense: 2016-06-30)
The conclusions from randomized clinical trials (RCT) rely on the primary endpoint (PE), which is chosen at the design stage of the study; thus, it is of utmost importance to select it appropriately. ...
Roca Lacostena, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
The goal of this thesis is to solve the embedding problem for Markov matrices, posed by Gustav Elfving in1937. A Markov matrix is non-negative square matrix whose rows sum to 1. We say that such a matrix ...
Parra, Xileidys (Date of defense: 2018-05-10)
The strong, progressive interaction between decision-making processes (DMP) and information technologies has led to breakthroughs in how business is conducted. These developments represent the advent ...