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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Temporal graph mining and distributed processing 

    Kumar, Rohit, 1986- (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-27)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Université libre de Bruxelles
    With the recent growth of social media platforms and the human desire to interact with the digital world a lot of human-human and human-device interaction data is getting generated every second. With the boom of the Internet ...
  • Learning the impact of data pre-processing in data analysis 

    Bilalli, Besim (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-06-28)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Politechnika Poznańska
    There is a clear correlation between data availability and data analytics, and hence with the increase of data availability --- unavoidable according to Moore's law, the need for data analytics increases too. This certainly ...
  • Aggregation techniques for energy flexibility 

    Valsomatzis, Emmanouil (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-12-04)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Aalborg universitet
    Over the last few years, the cost of energy from renewable resources, such as sunlight and wind, has declined resulting in an increasing use of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). As a result, the energy produced by RES is fed ...
  • Semantic metadata for supporting exploratory OLAP 

    Varga, Jovan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-01-24)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Aalborg universitet
    On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an approach widely used for data analysis. OLAP is based on the multidimensional (MD) data model where factual data are related to their analytical perspectives called dimensions and ...
  • Automating user-centered design of data-intensive processes 

    Theodorou, Vasileios (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-01-27)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   Technische Universität Dresden
    Business Intelligence (BI) enables organizations to collect and analyze internal and external business data to generate knowledge and business value, and provide decision support at the strategic, tactical, and operational ...

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