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    Data science in HIV : statistical approaches for therapeutic HIV vaccine data 

    Alarcón Soto, Yovaninna (Date of defense: 2021-06-30)

    The present dissertation contributes to Data Science in the Human lmmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) field, addressing specific issues related to the modelling of data coming from three different clinical trials based on ...

    Decisions that make things work better: an analysis of the quality concept 

    Camps Lorente, Oriol (Date of defense: 2012-07-06)

    The present thesis is aimed at analyzing the concept of quality and at dis-cussing, in a unified manner, its role not only in operations management but also in strategic thinking. It criticizes the widespread view that ...

    Demand aggregator optimal strategies: from the bidding to the execution 

    Barbero, Mattia (Date of defense: 2023-07-17)

    (English) Europe is at the beginning of an energy revolution. The old energy paradigm where centralized power plants provide energy to passive consumers is ending. Distributed renewable energy resources and electrification ...

    A demand-responsive traffic control system for urban areas 

    Grau Mariani, Rafael (Date of defense: 1995-02-08)

    The goal of this Ph.D. Thesis is the design, development and testing of a 'well-engineered system' aimed at the demand-responsive traffic control of urban areas. Because of the author's background -software engineering-, ...

    Desarrollo de técnicas estadísticas basadas en computacion intensiva para el análisis de medidas repetidas 

    Sánchez Espigares, Josep Anton (Date of defense: 2021-04-09)

    This thesis includes contributions to statistical methodologies and practical applications in situations where data has been obtained as a result of repeated measures. The first block includes a first article where different ...

    Designing smart ITS services through innovative data analysis modeling 

    Arjona Martínez, Jamie (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)

    Nowadays, one of the most important problems in urban areas concerns traffic congestion. This, in turn, has an impact on the economy, nature, human health, city architecture, and many other facets of life. Part of the ...

    Dynamic OD matrix estimation exploiting ICT traffic measurements 

    Ros Roca, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)

    During the last decades, urban mobility has become the main concern for city councils and transportation operators. The main problem is the traffic congestion that easily appears in urban networks, producing negative ...

    Economic evaluation in health research: cohort simultation and applications 

    Pérez Álvarez, Nuria (Date of defense: 2014-07-23)

    Currently, resources that may be spent in health care are limited so it is necessary to rationalize their consumption and prioritise their allocation to the options with higher health outcome and economic sustainability. ...

    Estimation of the transport demand for real-time aplications 

    Casas Vilaró, Jordi (Date of defense: 2005-01-1)

    La implementació dels sistemes de transport intel·ligent (ITS) ha possibilitat disposar de gran quantitat de dades de trànsit en temps real, utilitzant les actuals infrastructures en la xarxa viària que ens permeten recollir ...

    Estudi de les inèrcies estructurals en anàlisis de correspondències. Aportacions per a una millora de les anàlisis 

    Daunis i Estadella, Josep (Date of defense: 2005-02-11)

    La memòria d'aquesta tesi doctoral s'estructura en un primer capítol on es descriuen els objectius de la tesi i l'organització del treball de recerca. Després, el Capítol 2: Anàlisis factorials de dades es destina a presentar ...

    Exact and heuristic methods for statistical tabular data protection 

    Baena Mirabete, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-07-03)

    One of the main purposes of National Statistical Agencies (NSAs) is to provide citizens or researchers with a large amount of trustful and high quality statistical information. NSAs must guarantee that no confidential ...

    Factores que facilitan el éxito y la continuidad de los equipos de mejora en la empresas industriales. Modelo de implantación, aplicación y medición de los resultados en una empresa piloto 

    Robert Gadea, Antonio (Date of defense: 2005-05-16)

    Des de l'inici de la meva activitat laboral a final dels anys setanta he viscut experiències de implantació de Equips de Millora en diverses empreses del nostre entorn industrial, algunes de les quals formaven part de grups ...

    The flexible periodic vehicle routing problem: modeling alternatives and solution techniques 

    Huerta Muñoz, Diana Lucia (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)

    In this thesis the Flexible Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem is introduced and studied. In this problem a carrier must establish a distribution plan to serve a given set of customers over a planning horizon using a fleet ...

    From RNA to histological images: linking the transcriptome with human phenotypes through statistical learning 

    Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

    Genomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits poses a challenge when ...

    Fusión de Datos: Imputación y Validación 

    Juárez Alonso, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2005-03-04)

    Las actitudes, el conocimiento y las acciones generalmente se basan en muestras. Algunos basan sus conclusiones en muestras pequeñas y pocas veces toman en cuenta la magnitud de lo que se desconoce. Generalmente se carece ...

    Generalized unit commitment by the radar multiplier method 

    Beltran Royo, César (Date of defense: 2001-07-09)

    This operations research thesis should be situated in the field of the power generation industry. The general objective of this work is to efficiently solve the Generalized Unit Commitment (GUC) problem by means of specialized ...

    Homogeneïtat d'estil en El Tirant Lo Blanc 

    Riba, Alex (Date of defense: 2002-09-20)

    En la tesi s'aborda el problema de l'homogeneïtat d'estil en el Tirant lo Blanc mitjançant l'ús de l'estilometria. Les hipòtesis al voltant de l'autoria del Tirant lo Blanc van des de l'autoria única de Joanot Martorell a ...

    Improving urban deliveries via collaboration 

    Roca Riu, Mireia (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)

    Distribution of goods is essential for the economic development of cities but at the same time it entails several problems to the urban systems and different stakeholders. Carriers spend a significant portion of their cost ...

    Inference for a General Class of Models for Recurrent Events with application to cancer data 

    González Ruiz, Juan Ramón (Date of defense: 2005-12-29)

    La necesidad del análisis de supervivencia aparece cuando necesitamos estudiar las propiedades estadísticas de una variable que describe el tiempo hasta que ocurre un evento único. En algunas ocasiones, podemos observar ...