Browsing by Subject "Decision support systems"

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    • A context-aware model to provide positioning in disaster relief scenarios 

      Moreno, Daniel; Ochoa, Sergio; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc (2015-10-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      The effectiveness of the work performed during disaster relief efforts is highly dependent on the coordination of activities conducted by the first responders deployed in the affected area. Such coordination, in turn, ...

    • A decision making support tool: The resilience management fuzzy controller 

      González Cardenas, Rubén; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      In this paper a fuzzy controller capable to perform an automated estimation of the period of time necessary to recover a resilience level is proposed. Estimations where made by considering realistic time-dependent action ...

    • A decision support system and a mathematical model for strategic workforce planning in consultancies 

      Llort Gual, Núria; Lusa García, Amaia; Martínez Costa, Carme; Mateo Doll, Manuel (2018-01-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Strategic staff planning in consultancies is a major problem that directly affects the firm’s performance and capacity for dealing with projects appropriately. Furthermore, the decisions taken now will have long term ...

    • A decision support tool using order weighted averaging for conference review assignment 

      Nguyen, Jennifer; Sánchez Hernández, Germán; Agell Jané, Núria; Rovira Llobera, Xari; Angulo Bahón, Cecilio (Elsevier, 2017-01-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Assigning papers to reviewers is a large, long and difficult task for conference chairs and scientific committees. The paper reviewer assignment problem is a multi-agent problem which requires understanding reviewer expertise ...

    • A hierarchical perspective to fuzzy inductive reasoning: an attempt to obtain more understandable fuzzy inductive reasoning rules 

      Bagherpour, Solmaz; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela (2015)
      Conference lecture
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Generalizing hypotheses based on the past data in order to predict the future is the essential core of human learning. Various successful methods and techniques have been developed so far that perform some sort of ...

    • A linguistic multi-criteria decision-aiding system to support university career services 

      Nguyen, Jennifer; Sánchez Hernández, Germán; Armisen Morell, Albert; Agell Jané, Núria; Angulo Bahón, Cecilio (2017-07-27)
      Article
      Open Access
      In this paper we introduce a linguistic multi-criteria decision-aiding model to support college students with the internship job market application. It considers a fuzzy ordered weighted averaging (FOWA) operator in the ...

    • A microcomputer-based decision support system 

      Olivé Ramon, Antoni (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1981)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The last ten years have seen the emrgence of some new ways of applying computers to organizations. This has been done by focusing attention on the suport of the key decisions that must be made in organizations. Decision ...

    • A proposal for climate change resilience management through fuzzy controllers 

      González Cárdenas, Rubén; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco (SciTePress, 2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      We aim towards the implementation of a set of fuzzy controllers capable to perform automated estimation of the period of time necessary to recover a resilience level through the non-linear influence of a set of interrelated ...

    • A soft computing decision support framework to improve the e-learning experience 

      Castro Espinoza, Félix Agustín; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco (Society for Computer Simulation International San Diego, 2008)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      In this paper an e-learning decision support framework based on a set of soft computing techniques is presented. The framework is mainly based on the FIR methodology and two of its key extensions: a set of Causal Relevance ...

    • A systematic requirements engineering approach for decision support systems 

      Garcia Martinez, Stephany (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-09-05)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Decision Support Systems have emerged as a dominant technology capable to integrate heterogeneous sources into an analytical fashion to facilitate and provide a better decision-making process. Successful projects of Decision ...

    • A temporal case-based reasoning approach for performance improvement in intelligent environmental decision support systems 

      Pascual Pañach, Josep; Sànchez-Marrè, Miquel; Cugueró Escofet, Miquel Àngel (Elsevier, 2024-10)
      Article
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      One of the major problems when designing control and supervision systems for environmental systems is the need to be adapted to the particularities of each system. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques instead ...

    • Achievable hierarchies in voting games with abstention 

      Freixas Bosch, Josep; Tchantcho, Bertrand; Tedjeugang, Narcisse (Elsevier, 2014-07-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      It is well known that he influence relation orders the voters the same way as the classical Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik indices do when they are extended to the voting games with abstention (VGA) in the class of complete ...

    • Acquisition of temporal patterns from electronic health records: an application to multimorbid patients 

      Ageno Pulido, Alicia; Catala Roig, Neus; Pons Cloquells, Marcel (2023)
      Article
      Open Access
      Background: The exponential growth of digital healthcare data is fueling the development of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). Extracting temporal relationships between medical events is essential to reveal hidden ...

    • Addressing the evaluation of EDSS-maintenance 

      Turon, Clàudia; Comas Matas, Joaquim; Cortés García, Claudio Ulises; Poch Espallargas, Manel (2006)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Daily operation and maintenance tasks are needed to guarantee the correct performance of constructed wetlands. The definition of these activities is a complex task since these actions vary according to the characteristics ...

    • Agile approach to business intelligence as a way to success 

      Fernández González, Jorge; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Pastor Collado, Juan Antonio (Information Science Reference, 2012)
      Part of book or chapter of book
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      In this chapter we present an overview of several methodological approaches used in business intelligence (BI) projects, as well as data warehouse projects. This study reveals that some of them reveal weaknesses, since ...

    • Algunos ejemplos de aplicación, diseño y utilización de las SIAPD 

      Barceló Garcia, Miquel (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, 1980-03)
      Article
      Open Access

    • An architecture for a faceted and multiple linked 

      Cuello Butelo, Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008-08)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement

    • Analytical metadata modeling for next generation BI systems 

      Varga, Jovan; Romero Moral, Óscar; Bach Pedersen, Torben; Thomsen, Christian (2018-10)
      Article
      Open Access
      Business Intelligence (BI) systems are extensively used as in-house solutions to support decision-making in organizations. Next generation BI 2.0 systems claim for expanding the use of BI solutions to external data sources ...

    • Assessment of electrocardiograms with pretraining and shallow networks 

      Ribas Ripoll, Vicent; Wojdel, Anna; Ramos, Pablo; Romero Merino, Enrique; Brugada Terradellas, Josep (Computing in Cardiology, 2014)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Objective: Clinical Decision Support Systems normally resort to annotated signals for the automatic assessment of ECG signals. In this paper we put forward a new method for the assessment of normal/abnormal heart function ...

    • Automated quality control for proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy data using convex non-negative matrix factorization 

      Mocioiu, Victor; Kyathanahally, Sreenath P.; Arús, Carles; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo; Julià Sapé, Margarida (Springer, 2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H MRS) has proven its diagnostic potential in a variety of conditions. However, MRS is not yet widely used in clinical routine because of the lack of experts on its diagnostic ...