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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...