Tesis doctoral en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones y su Gestión. El acto de defensa de tesis tuvo lugar en Barcelona en Junio de 2009 ante el tribunal formado por los doctores Paolo Rosso (Univ. Politécnica de Valencia),…

Este artículo propone que para una eficaz gestión de los recursos hídricos es también necesario incluir variables sociológicas que ayuden a comprender y explicar la concepción y comportamiento social en torno al agua. Con esta intención se presenta una metodología…

The main purpose of this book is to present the contents of an introductory course in databases. In this regard, one can find a number of material validity and recognized different scopes. This work is developed under the guidelines that…

DATA QUALITY IS DEGRADED DURING THE PROCESS OF EXTRACTING AND MERGING DATA FROM MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES. BESIDES, USERS HAVE NO INFORMATION REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE ACCESSED DATA. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS THE METHODS UTILIZED TO ASSESS DATA QUALITY AT MULTIPLE…

Applying design patterns is considered a helpful technique for designing software systems.
Patterns description, however, results not sufficiently precise providing a weak understanding and making it difficult to be certain when a pattern is being used correctly. We have formally…

Hybrid dynamic spatial approximation trees are recently proposed data structures for searching in metric spaces, based on combining the concepts of spatial approximation and pivot based algorithms. These data structures are hybrid schemes, with the full features of dynamic spatial…

In C++, Generative Programming (GP) techniques are being used to generate highly customized and optimized products automatically manufactured at compile-time; to provide these functionalities increasing compiling power is required.
This work presents an improved compilation model for C++ by adding…

In this study we use cointegration methods to investigate the relationship between the variables of the Ohlson model (stock price, earnings per share and book value) with panel data. The cointegration tests were applied at individual and group level (by…

En este artículo presentamos el sistema AMSABEL, un sistema de acceso a información basado en lenguaje natural. AMSABEL proporciona acceso al contenido de una base de datos relacional, a partir de consultas realizadas en lenguaje natural, tanto en castellano como…

Metric-temporal databases are a new database model that combines metric spaces with temporal databases to process similarity queries within a time interval or snapshot. The Historical FHQT is a metric-temporal index which has shown to be competitive answering this type…