Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa

El Departament d’Estadística i Investigació Operativa participa en projectes de recerca principalment centrats en estadística computacional, anàlisi de la supervivència, interfases intel·ligents entre usuaris i aplicacions estadístiques, mètodes estadístics per al control i la millora de la qualitat, optimització i simulació de fluxos en xarxes, programació sencera i optimització combinatòria, aplicacions de la simulació en el transport i la logística.


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MIPing complex multi-action management planning: models, algorithms, and variants 

Salgado Rojas, José (Fecha de defensa: 2023-12-20)

(English) We are living in an era where the complexity of environmental challenges is unprecedented. Biodiversity loss, habitat degradation, and climate change are interconnected issues requiring a comprehensive and ...

The dynamics of bike sharing systems: advancements in analytics tools 

Cortez Ordóñez, Alexandra Piedad (Fecha de defensa: 2023-11-23)

(English) Nowadays, Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSS) have become a popular and widespread transportation system across the world thanks to their multiple environmental and health benefits, and its successful support for urban ...

Metodologia d'identificació de seqüències Web per a business intelligence basada en tècniques de mineria de dades 

Palomino Gayete, Arturo (Fecha de defensa: 2023-10-03)

(English) The Internet has changed the way companies sell and users shop. Nowadays, having an online presence is an opportunity, while not doing so is a competitive disadvantage, and companies strive to appear as the first ...

Understanding investor reaction to sustainability news in energy companies: fossil vs renewable vs nuclear, tone effects, and COVID-19 impacts through a multi-study approach using event study metholology 

Barroso del Toro, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 2023-07-06)

(English) This thesis provides empirical evidence, with an unprecedented sample size, that sustainability news moves the stock market, particularly positive news related to fossil fuels. The findings confirm that there is ...

Demand aggregator optimal strategies: from the bidding to the execution 

Barbero, Mattia (Fecha de defensa: 2023-07-17)

(English) Europe is at the beginning of an energy revolution. The old energy paradigm where centralized power plants provide energy to passive consumers is ending. Distributed renewable energy resources and electrification ...

Relevant statistical applications to real-world data science 

Serra Burriel, Feliu (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

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

Rosell Camps, Francisca (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

Measuring review report quality in health research : development and validation of ARCADIA 

Superchi, Cecilia (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-21)

Editorial peer review is the gateway to scientific publication. It was established to ensure that research papers were vetted by independent experts before they are published. Despite the importance of this process, its ...

Dynamic OD matrix estimation exploiting ICT traffic measurements 

Ros Roca, Xavier (Fecha de defensa: 2021-10-01)

During the last decades, urban mobility has become the main concern for city councils and transportation operators. The main problem is the traffic congestion that easily appears in urban networks, producing negative ...

Desarrollo de técnicas estadísticas basadas en computacion intensiva para el análisis de medidas repetidas 

Sánchez Espigares, Josep Anton (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

Long-term impact of an editorial intervention to improve paper transparency and reproducibility 

Vilaró Pacheco, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-15)

This PhD thesis is concerned with evaluating the long-term effects of interventions in the editorial peer review process of a biomedical journal. The growing need to increase the value of research and avoid waste motivates ...

Data science in HIV : statistical approaches for therapeutic HIV vaccine data 

Alarcón Soto, Yovaninna (Fecha de defensa: 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 trials based on ...

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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...

Constant effect in randomized clinical trials with quantitative outcome : a methodological review 

Cortés Martínez, Jordi (Fecha de defensa: 2021-05-27)

The past decade has seen continuous growth in so-called precision medicine, due especially to great advances in the genetics. While applying it presently goes unquestioned in certain fields like oncology, it is more ...

From RNA to histological images: linking the transcriptome with human phenotypes through statistical learning 

Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel (Fecha de defensa: 2021-04-07)

Genomic datasets are fundamental to broaden our understanding of human biology in the context of health and disease. However, the high-dimensional nature of gene expression and other molecular traits poses a challenge when ...

Ingeniería kansei en el campo del diseño : una aproximación desde la ingeniería estadística aplicada a la percepción de los materiales 

Abella Garcia, Ainoa (Fecha de defensa: 2021-01-19)

The objective of the current doctoral thesis is the theoretical and experimental application of Kansei engineering in the field of design. Kansei engineering is a method that aims to develop or improve products, services ...

Zipf extensions and their applications for modeling the degree sequences of real networks 

Duarte-López, Ariel (Fecha de defensa: 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 distribution, the ...

Designing smart ITS services through innovative data analysis modeling 

Arjona Martínez, Jamie (Fecha de defensa: 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 life. Part of the ...

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

de la Lama Zubiran, Paula (Fecha de defensa: 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, ...

Intracavity spatial filtering in broad area semiconductor laser 

Gawali, Sandeep Babu (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-17)

Semiconductor lasers in high-power regime typically manifest a poor beam quality due to its asymmetric beam divergence and its large beam quality factor (M2). The emission along one of the transverse directions (slow axis) ...

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