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 ...
Kostov, Belchin Adriyanov (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)
This thesis arises from the need to deal with open-ended questions answered in different languages in international surveys. For every language, the free answers are encoded in the form of a individuals ...
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 ...
Duarte-López, Ariel (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
The Zipf distribution, also known as discrete Pareto distribution, attracts considerable attention because it helps describe skewed data from many natural as well as man-made systems. Under the Zipf ...
González Rojas, Victor Manuel (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
The fundamental content of this thesis corresponds to the development of the GNM-NIPALIS, GNM-PLS2 and GNM-RGCCA methods, used to quantify qualitative variables parting from the first k components given ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Padilla Barreto, Alemar Elaine (Date of defense: 2019-05-16)
The first contribution of this Thesis is the creation of a new risk measure that allows to classify the clients according to the risk that they bring to the company. This measure defined from the aggregate ...
Blanco de Tena Davila, David (Date of defense: 2020-06-22)
The lack of transparency and accuracy of research reports has been pointed out as one of the main factors causing research waste. Reporting guidelines (RGs) are sets of recommendations for authors on ...