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    Optimització de fluxos no lineals amb xarxes amb constriccions a banda. Aplicació a models acoblats de coordinació hidro-tèrmica a curt termini 

    Heredia Cervera, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 1995-09-12)

    Com a primera part del treball de tesis doctoral, s'ha presentat la descripció, implementació i estudi computacional d'un nou algorisme de resolució del problema de fluxos no lineals amb constriccions a banda lineals. ...

    Optimization methods for the design of progressive lenses 

    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 complex design of ...

    Órdenes de experimentación en diseños factoriales 

    Correa Espinal, Alexander Alberto (Date of defense: 2007-06-21)

    Cuando se plantea un diseño factorial la práctica habitual es recomendar que los experimentos se realicen en orden aleatorio. Esta aleatorización tiene como objetivo el proteger de la posible influencia de factores ...

    Particle filtering estimation for linear and nonlinear state-space models 

    Acosta Argueta, Lesly María (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)

    The sequential estimation of the states (filtering) and the corresponding simultaneous estimation of the states and fixed parameters of a dynamic state-space model, being linear or not, is an important probleminmany fields ...

    Patent value models: partial least squares path modelling with mode C and few indicators 

    Martínez Ruiz, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-01-27)

    Two general goals were raised in this thesis: First, to establish a PLS model for patent value and to investigate causality relationships among variables that determine the patent value; second, to investigate the performance ...

    Policentrisme i eficiència territorial : avenços teòrics i empírics 

    Masip Tresserra, Jaume (Date of defense: 2017-11-13)

    The overarching research goal of this dissertation is to make theoretical and empirical contributions on the link between the polycentric spatial organization of agglomeration in metropolitan areas and its economic, social ...

    Principios de metodología de superficie de respuesta para modelos logísticos 

    Zan, Arturo T. de (Date of defense: 2006-02-03)

    En esta tesis doctoral abordamos algunos principios para estudiar la Metodología de Superficie de Respuesta (que abreviaremos en adelante como MSR) para datos que siguen distribuciones binarias (Bernoulli y binomial), y ...

    Proposing some innovative study design features to regulatory agencies (EMA and FDA) in bioequivalence trials : Reference Scaled Average Bioequivalence, and Two-Stage Adaptive Designs 

    Molins Lleonart, Eduard (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)

    In applications for generic medicinal products the concept of bioequivalence is fundamental. Two medicinal products, i.e. a test and a reference drugs containing the same active substance are considered bioequivalent if ...

    Regression and residual analysis in linear models with interval censored data 

    Topp, Rebekka (Date of defense: 2002-07-19)

    This work consists of two parts, both related with regression analysis for interval censored data. Interval censored data x have the property that their value cannot be observed exactly but only the respective interval ...

    Regression models with an interval-censored covariate 

    Langohr, Klaus (Date of defense: 2004-06-16)

    El análisis de supervivencia trata de la evaluación estadística de variables que miden el tiempo transcurrido hasta un evento de interés. Una particularidad que ha de considerar el análisis de supervivencia son datos ...

    Relevant statistical applications to real-world data science 

    Serra Burriel, Feliu (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)

    The work presented in this dissertation is a compendium of articles based on three main applications of advanced statistical methodologies on real-world complex datasets. The first application concerns wildfire effects ...

    Scheduling policies for multi-period services 

    Núñez del Toro, Alma Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)

    In many situations, the resources in organizations are employed to satisfy some demand (or services) requirements, which are repeated with some periodicity. These recurrent services appear in a large variety of processes ...

    Short - Term Bidding Strategies for a Generation Company in the Iberian Electricity Market 

    Corchero García, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-02-02)

    La posada en marxa del Mercat Ibèric de l'Electricitat va introduir al sector elèctric espanyol un seguit de nous mecanismes de participació que han forçat els agents a renovar les seves polítiques de gestió. D'aquesta ...

    Solving large-scale two-stage stochastic optimization problems by specialized interior point method 

    de la Lama Zubiran, Paula (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)

    Two-stage stochastic optimization models give rise to very large linear problems (LP). Several approaches have been devised for efficiently solving them, among which are interior-point methods (IPM). However, using IPM, ...

    Speculation – postponement strategies in supply chain network design problems: a modelling framework for new supply chain strategies through stochastic optimization 

    Ramón Lumbierres, Daniel Jacobo (Date of defense: 2024-01-23)

    (English) Speculation and Postponement are opposite supply chain strategies intended to either advance or postpone the necessary production processes to transform raw materials into finished goods. A Customer Order ...

    Statistical Applications in Geographical Health Studies 

    Martínez Martínez, José (Date of defense: 2006-07-25)

    Aquesta tesi està formada per dues parts relacionades amb l'estudi de la salut d'una regió geogràfica dividida en un conjunt de zones (àrees petites). La primera part es basa en un estudi amb informació de salut agregada ...

    Statistical methods and software for clinical trials with binary and survival endpoints : efficiency, sample size and two-sample comparison 

    Bofill Roig, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

    Defining the scientific question is the starting point for any clinical study. However, even though the main objective is generally clear, how this is addressed is not usually straightforward. Clinical studies very often ...

    Statistical methods in Kansei engineering studies 

    Marco Almagro, Lluís (Date of defense: 2011-12-15)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral tracta sobre Enginyeria Kansei (EK), una tècnica per traslladar emocions transmeses per productes en paràmetres tècnics, i sobre mètodes estadístics que poden beneficiar la disciplina. El propòsit ...

    Statistical metidos applied to volcanology and volcanic hazard assessment 

    Sobradelo Pérez, Rosa Maria (Date of defense: 2011-07-21)

    Disasters are large intractable problems that test the ability of communities and nations to effectively protect their populations and infrastructure, to reduce both human and property loss, and to rapidly recover. The ...

    Study and validation of data structures with missing values. Application to survival analysis 

    Serrat i Piè, Carles (Date of defense: 2001-05-21)

    En aquest treball tractem tres metodologies diferents -no paramètrica, paramètrica i semiparamètrica- per tal de considerar els patrons de dades amb valors no observats en un context d'anàlisi de la supervivència. Les dues ...