Applicability of deterministic global optimization to the short-term hydrothermal coordination problem 

    Ferrer Biosca, Alberto (Date of defense: 2004-03-30)

    Esta Tesis esta motivada por el interés en aplicar procedimientos de optimización global a problemas del mundo real. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en el problema de Coordinación Hidrotérmica de la Generación Eléctrica a ...

    Application of discrete-event simulation to health services research: analysis of needs and demand for elective 

    Comas Serrano, Mercè (Date of defense: 2008-04-23)

    Les tècniques computacionals de simulació han permès la introducció de metodologies de modelització per analitzar sistemes complexes a través d'experimentació virtual, i així avaluar l'impacte d'intervencions sobre els ...

    Aspectos estocásticos en la coordinación hidrotérmica a largo plazo 

    González Alastrué, José Antonio (Date of defense: 1997-12-19)

    El proyecto de tesis titulado "Aspectos estocásticos en la coordinación hidrotérmica a largo plazo" es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación enmarcado en el campo de la generación de electricidad y trata, más ...

    CHROMA model for the information-driven decision-making process 

    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 of significant trends ...

    Column-generation and interior point methods applied to the long-term electric power-planning problem 

    Pagès Bernaus, Adela (Date of defense: 2006-12-18)

    Aquesta tesi s'adreça al problema de planificació de la generació elèctrica a llarg termini per a una companyia específica (SGC) que participa en un mercat liberalitzat organitzat en un pool. Els objectius de la tesi són: ...

    Combination of vehicle routing models and dynamic traffic simulation for city logistics applications 

    Grzybwska, Hanna (Date of defense: 2012-06-08)

    The urban network is a highly dynamic system. Thus, a modern and efficient fleet management in urban areas should account for dynamics of traffic conditions, variability in travel times, changes in demand and fleet ...

    Composite endpoints in clinical trials : computational tools, practical guidelines and methodological extensions 

    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. In RCT, there should ...

    Conjoint design of railway lines and frequency setting under semi-congested scenarios 

    López Ramos, Francisco (Date of defense: 2014-02-24)

    This thesis develops mathematical programming models which integrate network design (ND) and line frequency setting (LFS) phases. These appear in transport planning studies that extend an existing urban public transportation ...

    Contribucions a la microagregació per a la protecció de dades estadístiques 

    Torres Aragó, Àngel (Date of defense: 2003-09-08)

    Després de recollir la informació referent a les tècniques pertorbatives més rellevants de control de la revelació de microdades contínues actualment existents, l'objectiu general de la tesi és l'anàlisi i la millora ...

    Contributions to the multivariate Analysis of Marine Environmental Monitoring 

    Graffelman, Jan (Date of defense: 2000-09-12)

    The thesis parts from the view that statistics starts with data, and starts by introducing the data sets studied: marine benthic species counts and chemical measurements made at a set of sites in the Norwegian Ekofisk oil ...

    Contributions to the planning and analysis of factorial designs 

    Xampeny Solaní, Rafael (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)

    The thesis is structured in five articles. In the first article, two methods are compared to analyze the significance of the effects: the Lenth method and the one based on the estimation of the variance of the effects from ...

    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 ...

    Estimation of the transport demand for real-time aplications 

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

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    L'us de la informació simbòlica en l'automatització del tractament estadístic de dominis poc estructurats 

    Gibert, Karina, 1967- (Date of defense: 1995-01-30)

    Per les seves característiques intrínseques (coexistència de variables quantitatives i qualitatives amb gran nombre de modalitats , coneixement addicional sobre l'estructura del domini per part d'un expert), els dominis ...

    Mathematical programming based approaches for classes of complex network problems : economical and sociological applications 

    Nasini, Stefano (Date of defense: 2015-01-29)

    The thesis deals with the theoretical and practical study of mathematical programming methodologies to the analysis complex networks and their application in economic and social problems. More specifically, it applies ...

    Mathematical programming models to design and analyse efficient and robust raiway freight transport networks 

    Rosell Camps, Francisca (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)

    (English) Searching to achieve an ambitious reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union has set as a goal a modal shift in freight transport of 30\% by rail or waterborne for the near future. The increasing ...

    Medium-term power planning in electricity markets with renewable generation sources 

    Marí Tomàs, Laura (Date of defense: 2015-09-25)

    The problem addressed in this thesis is the medium-term generation planning over a yearly horizon of a generation company participating in a liberalized electricity market with pool auction of generation and consumption ...