Alberto Abelló is tenure-track 2 professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Polytechnical University of Catalonia). He received his PhD from UPC in 2002. He is also a member of the MPI research group (Grup de recerca en Modelització i Processament de la Informació) at the same university, specializing in software engineering, databases and information systems. His research interests are databases, database design, data warehousing, OLAP tools, ontologies and reasoning. He is the author of articles and papers presented and published in national and international conferences and journals on these subjects (e.g., Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) and International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP). He has also served in the program committee of DaWaK and DOLAP, among others.
Oscar Romero has an MSc and a PhD in computing from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Currently, he is a tenure-track 1 lecturer at the Barcelona School of Informatics. He is also a member of the MPI research group at the same university, specialized in software engineering, databases and information systems. His research interests are data warehousing, OLAP tools, multidimensional modeling, the semantic web and ontologies. He is the author of articles and papers presented and published in national and international conferences and journals on these subjects.
Dr. Tomàs Aluja is associate professor of the UPC. Former director of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. He has been a member of the Scientific Committees of several international conferences, among them COMPSTAT (Computational Statistics) and PLS conferences; referee of different scientific reviews and national evaluation societies. He is member of the International Statistical Institute. He has been chairman of the ERS-IASC (the European Regional Section of the International Association of Statistical Computing, a branch of the International Statistical Institute) from 2008-2010. He is coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Data Mining and Knowledge Management at the UPC, responsible of the LIAM (Laboratory of Information Analysis and Modeling), a research group of the UPC. His research interests include methodological aspects of Multivariate Analysis: detection of functional regions defined by a pole of attraction, clustering with contiguity constraint, conditioning Principal Component Analysis by means of graphs, meta-data driven systems to manage OLAP data, robustness and scalability of decision trees algorithms, data fusion and file grafting of independent sources of information and finally the PLS approach for the estimation of intangibles. In all cases the methodological innovation has been complemented by its software implementation. He is author of 40 articles, published in scientific reviews or as a chapter of a book, and one book about Principal Components Analysis. In addition, he has participated in several European and Spanish research projects in the field of statistical meta-data systems, data fusion and PLS modeling.
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