Recent Submissions

  • Physical database design in document stores 

    Hewasinghage, Moditha Lakshan Dharmasir (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07-12)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    NoSQL is an umbrella term used to classify alternate storage systems to the traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs). Among these, Document stores have gained popularity mainly due to the semi-structured ...
  • Characterization and interpretation of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory dynamics in cardiomyopathy patients 

    Rodríguez Benítez, Javier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-12-04)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    The main objective of this thesis was to study the variability of the cardiac, respiratory and vascular systems through electrocardiographic (ECG), respiratory flow (FLW) and blood pressure (BP) signals, in patients with ...
  • Graph data warehousing 

    Ghrab, Amine (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-10-29)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Over the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of networks in a wide spectrum of application domains, ranging from social and information networks to biological and transportation networks. Graphs provide a solid ...
  • Data preprocessing and quality diagnosis in deep learning-based in silico bioactivity prediction 

    López del Río, Ángela (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-23)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Drug discovery is a time and resource consuming process involving the identification of a target and the exploration of suitable drug candidates for it. To streamline drug discovery, computational techniques help identifying ...
  • Statistical normalisation of network propagation methods for computational biology 

    Picart Armada, Sergio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-07-23)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    The advent of high-throughput technologies and their decreasing cost have fostered the creation of a rich ecosystem of public database resources. In an era of affordable data acquisition, the core challenge has shifted to ...
  • Dataset proximity mining for supporting schema matching and data lake governance 

    Al-serafi, Ayman Mounir Mohamed (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02-05)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Université libre de Bruxelles
    With the huge growth in the amount of data generated by information systems, it is common practice today to store datasets in their raw formats (i.e., without any data preprocessing or transformations) in large-scale data ...
  • Model-based control and diagnosis of inland navigation networks 

    Segovia Castillo, Pablo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-06-11)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   École nationale supérieure des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai
    This thesis regards the problem of optimal management of water resources in inland navigation networks from a control theory perspective. In particular, the main objective to be attained consists in guaranteeing the ...
  • Aspects of semantic ETL 

    Deb Nath, Rudra Pratap (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-10-01)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Aalborg universitet
    Business Intelligence tools support making better business decisions by analyzing available organizational data. Data Warehouses (DWs), typically structured with the Multidimensional (MD) model, are used to store data from ...
  • Advances in state estimation, diagnosis and control of complex systems 

    Wang, Ye (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-10-22)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    This dissertation intends to provide theoretical and practical contributions on estimation, diagnosis and control of complex systems, especially in the mathematical form of descriptor systems. The research is motivated by ...
  • Layout inference and table detection in spreadsheet document 

    Koci, Elvis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-06-04)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Technische Universität Dresden
    Spreadsheet applications have evolved to be a tool of great importance for businesses, open data, and scientific communities. Using these applications, users can perform various transformations, generate new content, ...
  • Storage format selection and optimization for materialized intermediate results in data-intensive flows 

    Munir, Rana Faisal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-12-05)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Modern organizations produce and collect large volumes of data, that need to be processed repeatedly and quickly for gaining business insights. For such processing, typically, Data-intensive Flows (DIFs) are deployed on ...
  • Metadata-driven data integration 

    Nadal Francesch, Sergi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-16)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Data has an undoubtable impact on society. Storing and processing large amounts of available data is currently one of the key success factors for an organization. Nonetheless, we are recently witnessing a change represented ...

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