Graph data warehousing 

    Ghrab, Amine (Date of defense: 2020-10-29)

    Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of networks in a wide spectrum of application domains, ranging from social and information networks to biological and transportation networks. Graphs provide a solid ...

    Layout inference and table detection in spreadsheet document 

    Koci, Elvis (Date of defense: 2020-06-04)

    Spreadsheet applications have evolved to be a tool of great importance for businesses, open data, and scientific communities. Using these applications, users can perform various transformations, generate new content, ...

    Learning the impact of data pre-processing in data analysis 

    Bilalli, Besim (Date of defense: 2018-06-28)

    There is a clear correlation between data availability and data analytics, and hence with the increase of data availability --- unavoidable according to Moore's law, the need for data analytics increases too. This certainly ...

    Metadata-driven data integration 

    Nadal Francesch, Sergi (Date of defense: 2019-05-16)

    Data has an undoubtable impact on society. Storing and processing large amounts of available data is currently one of the key success factors for an organization. Nonetheless, we are recently witnessing a change represented ...

    Model-based control and diagnosis of inland navigation networks 

    Segovia Castillo, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-06-11)

    This thesis regards the problem of optimal management of water resources in inland navigation networks from a control theory perspective. In particular, the main objective to be attained consists in guaranteeing the ...

    Physical database design in document stores 

    Hewasinghage, Moditha Lakshan Dharmasir (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)

    NoSQL is an umbrella term used to classify alternate storage systems to the traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs). Among these, Document stores have gained popularity mainly due to the semi-structured ...

    Requirement-driven design and optimization of data-intensive flows 

    Jovanovic, Petar (Date of defense: 2016-09-26)

    Data have become number one assets of today's business world. Thus, its exploitation and analysis attracted the attention of people from different fields and having different technical backgrounds. Data-intensive flows are ...

    Semantic metadata for supporting exploratory OLAP 

    Varga, Jovan (Date of defense: 2017-01-24)

    On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an approach widely used for data analysis. OLAP is based on the multidimensional (MD) data model where factual data are related to their analytical perspectives called dimensions and ...

    Statistical normalisation of network propagation methods for computational biology 

    Picart Armada, Sergio (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)

    The advent of high-throughput technologies and their decreasing cost have fostered the creation of a rich ecosystem of public database resources. In an era of affordable data acquisition, the core challenge has shifted to ...

    Storage format selection and optimization for materialized intermediate results in data-intensive flows 

    Munir, Rana Faisal (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)

    Modern organizations produce and collect large volumes of data, that need to be processed repeatedly and quickly for gaining business insights. For such processing, typically, Data-intensive Flows (DIFs) are deployed on ...

    Temporal graph mining and distributed processing 

    Kumar, Rohit, 1986- (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)

    With the recent growth of social media platforms and the human desire to interact with the digital world a lot of human-human and human-device interaction data is getting generated every second. With the boom of the Internet ...