Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Communication via air routes is an important issue in a world organized around a web-like city network. In this context, the robustness of network infrastructures, e.g. air transport networks, are a central issue in transport ...
The confluence of digital technology and connectivity has led, in several sectors, to the rise of application-based shared economy activities. In particular, in the mobility sector, there has been an increase in on-demand ...
Practitioners participation in strategy formulation has a significant influence in strategy implementation. Formulation and implementation are interdependent processes. Although historically formulation has received more ...
The thesis aims to provide a complete overview of the specialization trends of the EU regions in the context of the regional innovation smart specialization strategy (RIS3), as well as to evaluate whether some priorities ...
El levantamiento manual de cargas es un requerimiento de trabajo muy frecuente en Europa y su exposición puede originar importantes daños a la salud, comportando un gran coste socio-económico. En esta investigación, ...
The existing industries are facing new challenges due to increasing international competition, this involves increasing needs for productivity, the design of new products and delivery times getting shorter. At the same ...
The aim of this thesis is to identify, describe and analyze the variables for the construction of a Conceptual Model of Adaptation job as Gestational Time Evolution Development of working women who are pregnant. This ...
(English) Managing the development of workers in the organization, their well-being, health and performance, should not be questioned in a world that shows day by day that it is people who, with their humanity, creativity ...
The answer to the current changes that take place in our society implies new demands for our universities. What functions correspond to a University today? Training, research, professional training through professional ...
Globalization has irreversibly transformed our reality. However, firms must work to develop new ideas that mitigate the negative effects of globalization, take advantage of its opportunities and propose new forms to make ...
The increasing interest in the real estate investment has led to the emergence of new real estate investment vehicles, adding more complexity to the real estate market which increasingly resembles to financial markets. ...
The research work was based on an analysis of the film industry and its prospects in terms of distribution and exhibition. The film industry is based on three processes: production, distribution and screening. The work ...
This thesis studies diffusion phenomena in heterogeneous media, which includes Darcy flow and diffusive solute transport in geological media. Natural media are heterogeneous at different scales, which induces complexity ...
This thesis, entitled "Contributions to sequencing problems in JiT productive environments using heuristic, exact and hybrid procedures" consists of three publications that address the resolution of job sequencing problems ...
Day by day, the great companies are reduced to increase their competitiveness. After these reductions, the small enterprises have kept assuming a prominent role in the employment creation, opportunities of investment and ...
In this thesis a supply chain of the real world is studied through a simulation model, in order to analyze the dynamic aspects of this system under different inventory management policies. The chain is comprised of a main ...
TESIS DOCTORAL.<br/><br/>HIPÓTESIS DE PARTIDA Y OBJETIVOS DE LA TESIS.<br/><br/>La investigación parte de la hipótesis de que las grandes empresas con sede en Catalunya no realizan control de gestión económico (tanto de ...
Competitiveness and excellence heavily rely on the capacity of regions to innovate and transfer knowledge from academic institutions to society. In a scenario where these values acquire a growing importance, universities ...
Context: Over the last decades, the interest in personalization and, namely, web personalization has grown exponentially, both in industry and in academia. But still, while web personalization is already a standard ...
This doctoral thesis tackles an assembly line balancing problem with restricted access to the workpieces that has been entitled AWALBP: the Accessibility Windows Assembly Line Balancing Problem. The problem is described ...
