Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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(English) Speculation and Postponement are opposite supply chain strategies intended to either advance or postpone the necessary production processes to transform raw materials into finished goods. A Customer Order ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
