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Resumen: La supervivencia relativa se ha utilizado habitualmente como medida de la evolución temporal del exceso de riesgo de mortalidad en cohortes de pacientes diagnosticados de cáncer, teniendo en cuenta la mortalidad de una población de referencia. Una vez estimado el exceso de riesgo de mortalidad pueden calcularse tres probabilidades acumuladas a un tiempo T: 1) la probabilidad de fallecer asociada a la causa de diagnóstico inicial (enfermedad en estudio), 2) la probabilidad de fallecer asociada a otras causas, y 3) la probabilidad de supervivencia absoluta en la cohorte a un tiempo T. Este trabajo presenta la aplicación WebSurvCa (https://shiny.snpstats.net/WebSurvCa/), mediante la cual los registros de cáncer de base hospitalaria y poblacional, y los registros de otras enfermedades, estiman dichas probabilidades en sus cohortes seleccionando como población de referencia la mortalidad de la comunidad autónoma que consideren. Abstract: Relative survival has been used as a measure of the temporal evolution of the excess risk of death of a cohort of patients diagnosed with cancer, taking into account the mortality of a reference population. Once the excess risk of death has been estimated, three probabilities can be computed at time T: 1) the crude probability of death associated with the cause of initial diagnosis (disease under study), 2) the crude probability of death associated with other causes, and 3) the probability of absolute survival in the cohort at time T. This paper presents the WebSurvCa application (https://shiny.snpstats.net/WebSurvCa/), whereby hospital-based and population-based cancer registries and registries of other diseases can estimate such probabilities in their cohorts by selecting the mortality of the relevant region (reference population). Palabras clave: Cáncer de mama, Supervivencia neta, Supervivencia relativa, Exceso de mortalidad, Riesgos competitivos, Keywords: Breast cancer, Net survival, Relative survival, Excess mortality, Competing risk

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2020, Director: Eloi Puertas i Prats i Neus Verger, [en] This project is based on the creation of an application that allows the end user to consult the database of images of printer’s brands in charge of the Reserve Library of the University of Barcelona and to see images similar to a brand. For this, different methods are used to extract characteristics from the image, then techniques to improve the results obtained and finally, a web development that allows to carry out all the search functionalities. The project is divided into two phases, one of comparison and research and another part of software development for the creation of the application. Throughout the project we will see different technologies used for both the comparison part and for the development part of the final web. In the research and comparison we will see how to extract the descriptive vectors of different models and then compare them to obtain K similar images, which is currently called Transfer learning. Then we will apply a fine tuning to the selected model to improve the results. Once we have this model located we will go to the development of the final application in which consists of two parts: an API using the Django framework to facilitate the work and then the Frontend using the framework of Angular which will serve to show all the images and printers, always taking into account a satisfactory user experience. During the whole project we will experiment with different things that we will see in order to obtain the results we want at the end of the project.

Orientador: Regina Coeli Ruschel Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo Resumo: Um número crescente de fabricantes tem buscado a Customização em Massa (CM). CM é uma estratégia de produção que utiliza de Tecnologia da Informação, processos flexíveis e estruturas organizacionais adequadas para fornecer produtos projetos específicamente para um cliente a um custo próximo ao da produção em massa. Quanto maior for o nível de customização, maiores serão os benefícios, mas também os custos operacionais. Portanto, o objetivo desta pesquisa é avaliar os benefícios da Modelagem da Informação da Construção (BIM) para se obter um elevado nível de CM. O foco da pesquisa está na formulação de uma solução que permita a reconfiguração das estruturas e processos de sistemas de fabricação de componentes de construção, em sistemas de produção em CM mediados por BIM. Esta solução fornecerá conhecimento sobre como determinar o nível apropriado de personalização para um determinado produto abordando os seguintes problemas: (a) O valor de um determinado nível de customização, de acordo com as especificações dos clientes; (b) a capacidade do sistema oferecer este nível de customização; e, (c) a combinação desses problemas aparentemente antagônicos. O desenvolvimento da solução proposta, está sendo realizado através de uma Design Science Research, um método de pesquisa que é um processo rigoroso de projetos de artefatos (constructos, modelos, métodos, instanciações e Design propositions) com relevância prática e contribuição teórica. Esta investigação cria artefatos que são validados por uma instanciação através de uma pesquisa-ação em um fabricante de cozinhas e móveis modulados fabricados sob encomenda Abstract: An increasing number of fabricators has pursued Mass Customization (MC). MC is a system that uses information technology, flexible processes and organizational structures suitable to provide individually designed products at a cost near that of Mass Production. The higher the customization level the more significant the benefits, but also the operational costs. Therefore, the objective of this research was to evaluate the benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for achieving a higher level of MC. The research focused on the formulation of a solution that enables reconfiguration of fabricators structures and processes into BIM mediated mass-customized production system. Such solution provided knowledge on how to determine the appropriate level of customization for a specific product addressing the following issues: (a) the value placed on a level of customization by the customer's requirements, (b) the system's ability to deliver that level of customization, and (c) the combination of these apparently conflicting issues. The development of such a solution was carried out through a Design Science Research, a method that is a scientific process of designing artifacts (constructs, models, methods, instantiations, and design propositions) with practical relevance and theoretical contribution. This investigation created artifacts that were validated by an instantiation through action research at a kitchen and furniture custom cabinetry fabricator Doutorado Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade Doutor em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2019, Director: Simone Balocco, [en] Sidbrint is a portal that is responsible for containing and keeping a record on the information regarding the Spanish Civil War through the brigadistas who participated in this stage of the Spanish history. While we were directly working with portal, it was found that the queries can not provide direct and interpretative information without going through a process of external modeling and debugging; making the search for information a tedious process. As a solution to this problem, this end-of-career project has been defined. Noticing the difficulty to obtain data during the extraction and maintenance, the necessity of developing an API was raised. This New API and the improvement will be shared with the collaborators in order to create a nexuswith them for the exchange of data which would be beneficial to both sides due to the major goal is to find an effective and practical way to redefine and manage the results from a preconditioned consultation. As the process becomes more efficient, many more variants of API methods can be made in order to provide a solid and secure use of the portal SIDBRINT and its collaborators.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2018, Director: Josep Vañó Chic, [en] This Final Degree Project consists of the development of a web application to manage incidents in companies that offer Technical Attention Service (SAT). This document will describe all the analysis, design and implementation that has been carried out. In addition, it has the implementation of the application in a real environment. Technology is in constant change, hence why this project has opted for the development of a web application, where the backend implementation has been made using the Laravel 5.6 PHP framework and, for the frontend development, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript have been chosen, as well as all the technologies that surround it, such as AJAX, which allows us to have a dynamic application. The application allows, on one side, for the customers to report incidents and review the state and actions being carried on them and, on the other side, for the technicians to coordinate the response for the reported incidents, thus having a positive impact on productivity and work optimization. The functionalities provided by the application are focused on: incident management, allowing to create, modify, assign and solve incidents quickly; also, it allows to manage the calendar of the technicians through registering, in a shared calendar, aspects such as: meetings, displacements, vacations, etc. On the other hand, it also focuses on customer management, which allows registering new clients or modifying their basic information and location; finally, the management of users and profiles so that they can access the application. It should be noted that the application offers notifications, both by email and within the same application, so that the customer knows at all times the course of its occurrence, as well as communications that may have with the technician. Finally, regarding the visual design, its focus on ease of use and comfortability allows for an attractive experience for the end user. In addition, its responsive design allows the application to being used on any mobile device.

The ranked retrieval model has rapidly become the de-facto way for search query processing in web databases. Despite the extensive efforts on designing better ranking mechanisms, in practice, many such databases fail to address the diverse and sometimes contradicting preferences of users. In this paper, we present QR2, a third-party service that uses nothing but the public search interface of a web database and enables the on-the-fly processing of queries with any user-specified ranking functions, no matter if the ranking function is supported by the database or not., Comment: 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE Demo), 2018

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2017, Director: Laura Igual Muñoz, [en] This work is part of a project which consists on the development of the web “Guía de consenso para el uso de medicamentos en de insuficiencia renal”. The goal of this web is to let their users search for relevant information of a set of medicines. For each active principle, users can read their descriptions and usage recommendations depending on the glomerular filtration rate of the patient. These descriptions and recommendations were written by a team of practical pharmacy from Faculty of Pharmacy of Universitat de Barcelona. This information has to be able to be updated in any moment. The main goal of this project is to let the administrator manage a database of active principles. The web application allow the administrator to do the following database operations: to add, edit and delete an active principle and to add, edit and remove a recommendation to or from any active principle. This paper analyzes and designs the development of a CRUD which fulfills the database requirements of the web administrator. Also, it is explained the technology which has been used and the solution of each operation of the CRUD.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2016, Director: Eloi Puertas i Prats i Anna Puig Puig, The Museum of Mathematics in Catalonia (MMACA) is an association of teachers of the discipline of mathematics, whose main challenge is to popularize mathematics in order to make them more exciting and thus combat the idea that they are abstract and distant discipline. To this end, over recent years the MMACA has developed a lot of modules, manipulable interactive activities, in order discussed above. Currently these modules are presented as part of a permanent exhibition at the Palau Mercader in Cornella de Llobregat and several itinerants exhibitions on display in several places, especially but not exclusively, in Catalonia. For some time now, it has highlighted the need of dispose for a basic documentation of different modules, activities and workshops and there have been several attempts that have had limited results. Now, them would like undertake this task in a more systematic and comprehensive way. For this reason, it has set itself in the goal of this project the analysis and development of a web portal for the diffusion, organization and management of modules, activities and workshops that are made from the MMACA.

An overview of the development of the City of New York's City Environmental Quality Review online database, CEQR Access.

This paper describes the design, implementation, and testing of an information system built to generate streaming radio reports for ibiblio and the open-source Icecast streaming media server. This new system allows end-users to generate reports on demand, in either standard Icecast format or the SoundExchange 2013 reporting format. The system was designed to help aid community radio stations in complying with government reporting and regulations. In addition, a plan to increase system availability for ibiblio radio streaming is discussed.

Whereas genomics describes the study of genome, mainly represented by its gene expression on the DNA or RNA level, the term proteomics denotes the study of the proteome, which is the protein complement encoded by the genome. In recent years, the number of proteomic experiments increased tremendously. While all fields of proteomics have made major technological advances, the biggest step was seen in bioinformatics. Biological information management relies on sequence and structure databases and powerful software tools to translate experimental results into meaningful biological hypotheses and answers. In this resource article, I provide a collection of databases and software available on the Internet that are useful to interpret genomic and proteomic data. The article is a toolbox for researchers who have genomic or proteomic datasets and need to put their findings into a biological context.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2015, Director: Simone Balocco, The following project is a managment system using a web application for the inventory of chemestry of the Faculty of Chemestry. The project is the design and development of a web application that fits the necesities of the Faculty of Chemestry and allow them manage their inventories with diferents levels of product hierarchy, levels of acces, modification and search. Using this tool, the Faculty of Chemestry can check all the products, with all their characteristics and relationships, as well as the administration of the diferents laboratories. The development of this project will make the work more easy for the teachers and the technicians of the Faculty. With this web application will no longer be necessary physically check the stores, you can do it with this web application. You will be able to recognize the products that you need to teach a class, as well as allow lab technicians know more quickly when to seek for more products when the laboratory is reaching the stock limit. The development of this project has been developed taking into account possible extensios as they are intended to be applied as the project intensify his magnitud. In this document we will se the process of analisis, design, planification and development of the project.

Given the undeniable popularity of the Web, providing efficient and secure access to remote databases using a Web browser is crucial for the emerging cooperative information systems and applications. In this paper, we evaluate all currently available Java-based approaches that support persistent connections between Web clients and database servers. These approaches include Java applets, Java Sockets, Servlets, Remote Method Invocation, CORBA, and mobile agents technology. Our comparison is along the dimensions of performance and programmability. Our findings point out that best performance is not always achievable with high programmability and low resource requirements. Moreover, the mobile agent technology needs to improve its programmability while giving particular emphasis on its infrastructure. 10 4 401 422 Cited By :5

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2014, Director: Eloi Puertas i Prats, In the last decades, thecnology has been such a mainstream topic. Smartphones have become the main access to social networks. Until now, access to the Internet has been attached to computers. However, with the emergence of these devices, this way of access has changed dramatically, creating new adaptation needs. It was then when web 2.0 concept was born, which is focused on a new generation of websites, where contents are dynamic and produced by users, leading to a meeting point and a form of relationship, where the smartphone would be the link This project consist in developing a web application, in order to add multimedia content from differents networks. The purpose of this application is to provide the customer a cheap, easy and simple tool which allows you to organize your images or photographs that customer has in his networks. To do this, the web application will must be accessible from anywhere and responsive to any device used. The project is based on client­server architecture. On the server side there is the engine of application, developed in PHP and MySQL languages, besides the control of Facebook and Instagram APIs that allow us to collect images. On the client side, interface design is provided by HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, which is based on Initializr, a template generator to build customizable and responsive websites.

This paper is an accompaniment to a Master's Project that involved creating an online database for LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer/questioning, asexual) young adult fantasy novels that enabled user-friendly Boolean searching on criteria of interest to those searching for LGBTQA YA fantasy. Database search results featured a few of the search criteria, while clicking upon a search result led users to a detailed book entry that elaborated upon the relevant metadata as appropriate. Ninety-seven LGBTQA YA fantasy novels were included in this online database. This paper includes a discussion of the motivation for the project; a description of the database design and rationale behind said design; a delineation of database scope; some analysis of LGBTQA novel metadata; and recommendations for future exploration.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2013, Director: Francesco Ciompi ; Santi Seguí Mesquida, The project that will be documented below, called "The Music Collectorship" is a web service designed to collect and provide all available information related to a music artist. Given the wide range of services available in the market offering different types of information related to music and being the internet and music a couple more close than ever, we decided that it could be great to englobe some of these services into one, collecting the information of these services and show them through a single channel.

This paper reports on a usability test (n=10) that evaluated the web interface of the Dryad repository of biological data. Participants, mostly biologists, were asked to find information about the database, find and download data, and upload data. These three workflows were tested with a card sorting procedure and a think-aloud protocol. The results suggest that biologists interact with online database systems much like non- biologists; color, placement, and size of buttons and text were important determiners of recognition and acknowledgement. However, while most web users prefer browsing to seek information on new websites, participants in this study preferred searching. Most participants did not arrive at the website at the homepage, and thus reported a lack of information about Dryad at their initial entry point. Recommendations for enhancing Dryad specifically and web database interfaces in general are included.

Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, Any:2013, Director: Mario Gorga López, Aquest projecte consisteix en la creació d’una interfície web per a la gestió del control de comandes de l'empresa Doiser. Aquesta aplicació web està destina a crear una nova plataforma per a l' empresa i així substituir l’ actual forma de treballar mitjançant Microsoft Office Excel.

When integrating the information of a number of applications, one solution is to provide one or more unified entry points to the applications. A challenging task in this context is to translate the user query, which is posed over the unified entry point, to the integrated applications. The user query is expressed in terms of the entry point schema and the integrated applications do not accept this query because they have different schemes. In this demo, we present SPARQL Query Splitter, a tool that translates SPARQL user queries posed over an entry point schema to a number of queries over the application schemes. Our tool uses the mappings between the schemes to perform the translation by means of a symbolic calculator. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-64119 Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-2602 Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-4100

As massive amount of information are becoming available electronically, techniques for making the decision to analyze statistics on the large dataset are tending to be very complex. Making of such a decision requires more disk accesses in the main memory. So there is a need of such important techniques which can take least number of disk accesses as well as less running time to perform some operations in the main memory. Building of such a strategic goal oriented decision, there is requisite to classify the information into different classes with the help of some given properties of the information which enabled us to make two BTrees that are running simultaneous. One BTree is used as a classifier for making the decision and another bTree maintains the organization of the information of dataset from where we make the strategic decisions. Our research embodies around the learning, implementation and usage of advances data structure (i.e. BTree). In our thesis work we have used the binary search approach instead of the linear search takes running time O (T), has enhanced the performance of the BTree during execution of the operations on the BTree.

Rapid advances in data collection and storage technology has enabled organizations (especially e-commerce) to accumulate vast amounts of data. The amount of data kept in computer files and databases is growing at a phenomenal rate because customers are evolving to use e- commerce services. So processing of large number of coustomer’s past purchase records is becoming a new challenge in e-commerce. The primary goal of e-commerce services is to build the systems where customers can get their likely recommended products relevant to their past purchase. We have implemented collaboratives filtering with supervised learning techniques. One of supervised learning techniques is Decision Tree. We have used Decision Tree to cluster similar type of customers according to active customer preferences (or tastes). In our new approach, a collaborative filtering based recommender system will recommended Top-k likely products according to customers preferences (or tastes) by considering past purchase record (or implicit ratings) of its clustered customers. This system will also recommend or predict Top-k likely products to particular customers by considering the cases when clustered customers have given explicit ratings (or votes) to their previously purchased products.

Outliers are data elements different from the other elements in the category from which they are mined. Finding outliers in web data is considered as web outlier mining. This thesis explores web content outlier mining which finds applications in electronic commerce, finding novelty in text, etc. Web content outliers are text documents having varying contents from the rest of the documents taken from the same domain. Existing approaches for this problem uses lexical match techniques such as n-grams which are prone to problems like synonymy (expressing the same word in different ways), which leads to poor recall (an important measure for evaluating a search strategy). In this thesis we use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) to represent the documents and terms as vectors in a reduced dimensional space and thereby separating the outlying documents from the rest of the corpus. Experimental results using embedded outliers in chapter four indicate the proposed idea is successful and also better than the existing approaches to mine web content outliers.

The contents of Web databases are accessed through queries formulated on complex user interfaces. In many domains of interest (e.g. Auto) users are interested in obtaining information from alternative sources. Thus, they have to access many individual Web databases via query interfaces. We aim to construct automatically a well-designed query interface that integrates a set of interfaces in the same domain. This will permit users to access information uniformly from multiple sources. Earlier research in this area includes matching attributes across multiple query interfaces in the same domain and grouping related attributes. In this paper, we investigate the naming of the attributes in the integrated query interface. We provide a set of properties which are required in order to have consistent labels for the attributes within an integrated interface so that users have no difficulty in understanding it. Based on these properties, we design algorithms to systematically label the attributes. Experimental results on seven domains validate our theoretical study. In the process of naming attributes, a set of logical inference rules among the textual labels is discovered. These inferences are also likely to be applicable to other integration problems sensitive to naming: HTML forms, HTML tables or concept hierarchies in the semantic Web.

This dissertation addresses issues for the efficient access to Web databases and services. We propose a distributed ontology for a meaningful organization of and efficient access to Web databases. Next, we dedicate most of our work on presenting a comprehensive query infrastructure for the emerging concept of Web services. The core of this query infrastructure is to enable the efficient delivery of Web services based on the concept of Quality of Web Service. Treating Web services as first class objects is a fundamental step towards achieving the envisioned Semantic Web. Semantics-aware processing of information requires intensive use of Web services. In our research, we propose a new query model where queries are resolved by combining Web service invocations. To efficiently deploy such scheme, we propose an optimization strategy based on aggregating Quality of Web service (QoWS) of different Web services. QoWS is adjusted through a dynamic rating scheme and multilevel matching. Web service rating provides an assessment of their behavior. The multilevel matching allows a larger solution space by enabling similar and partial answers. Ph. D.

Socadi (Sociedad Catalana de Documentació i Informació) viene organizando una serie de sesiones de estudio y debate que están teniendo un gran éxito de asistencia. Ernest Abadal resumió, primero para IweTel y luego para nuestra revista, la que tuvo lugar sobre "Intranets documentales"

Este proyecto tiene por objeto crear un mercado electrónico inteligente de residuos reciclables en el que por un lado aparecen los ofertantes, generadores de residuos y por el otro, los demandantes, aquellos que comprarían el producto, de tal manera que el sistema gestione de forma automática la relación entre ellos. Consiste en un proyecto de demostración tecnológica en donde los residuos ofertados serían de un tipo determinado, purines, y los demandantes serían los agricultores que por las características de sus suelos pudieran utilizar los purines como fertilizante para sus campos. Los diferentes tipos de purines así como los diferentes tipos de suelos y cultivos a los que vayan destinados definirán qué purines puede absorber las tierras de un agricultor y en que cantidades y durante cuánto tiempo. Todo ello de manera transparente y automática para el agricultor. Un completo portal de noticias sobre temas relacionados con los residuos del sector ganadero y agrario completará el embrión del mercado electrónico inteligente de residuos. La inclusión de diferentes tipos de residuos en una fase posterior permitiría la implantación definitiva del sistema actuando como una herramienta para minimizar el impacto de los residuos en el medio ambiente

El projecte que es presenta consisteix en la definició i implementació del magatzem de dades de l’SBD de la UPC, que esdevindrà un sistema Datawarehouse (DW). De forma genèrica, un DW és un sistema on s’apleguen, d’una forma organitzada, les dades estadístiques rellevants de les organitzacions. L’accés al DW permetrà extreure, manipular i interrogar les dades d'una forma àgil i senzilla, i així obtenir la informació necessària en forma d’informes, gràfics, estadístiques, etc. L’anàlisi de les dades extretes del DW, serà una bona eina per a recolzar la presa de decisions. Per exemple, ajudarà a identificar oportunitats, a descobrir els efectes de les innovacions portades a terme o aquells serveis que no s’utilitzen, però també serà una eina per a facilitar la definició de nous reptes de qualitat a les biblioteques de la UPC. A més del disseny i implementació del magatzem de dades de l’SBD, aquest projecte inclou: - El suport per a la correcta definició dins el sistema de les dades estadístiques i els indicadors que les biblioteques de la UPC consideren adients. - La implementació d’aplicacions complementàries i el disseny de procediments per a possibilitar la càrrega dels valors de les dades i el càlcul del dels indicadors. Magatzem de dades de l’SBD Memòria PFC 12 - El disseny de formularis per a facilitar la gestió del servei “Formació d’usuaris” així com la càrrega dins el magatzem de valors de les dades que l’SBD consideri adients per al seguiment del servei.

[CASTELLÀ] Este proyecto ha consistido en la creación de una aplicación web para almacenar, tratar y centralizar información sobre las infraestructuras sanitarias de la provincia de Inhambane, para ayudar en la planificación de las tareas de mantenimiento y reconstrucción de los centros de la región, [ANGLÈS] This project consisted on the creation of a web application for saving, managing and centralizing information about the sanitary infrastructures of the province of Inhambane, and therefore, helping with the planning of maintenance and reconstruction tasks of the centers of the region