• Combining Multiple Granularity Variability in a Software Product Line Approach for Web Engineering 

      Horcas Aguilera, José Miguel; Cortiñas, Alejandro; Fuentes, Lidia; Rodríguez Luaces, Miguel (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract] Context: Web engineering involves managing a high diversity of artifacts implemented in different languages and with different levels of granularity. Technological companies usually implement variable artifacts ...
    • Compact and indexed representation for LiDAR point clouds 

      Ladra, Susana; Rodríguez Luaces, Miguel; Paramá, José R.; Silva-Coira, Fernando (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
      [Abstract]: LiDAR devices are capable of acquiring clouds of 3D points reflecting any object around them, and adding additional attributes to each point such as color, position, time, etc. LiDAR datasets are usually large, ...
    • Compact Trip Representation over Networks 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Fariña, Antonio; Galaktionov, Daniil; Rodríguez, M. Andrea (Springer, 2016-09-21)
      [Abstract] We present a new Compact Trip Representation ( CTRCTR ) that allows us to manage users’ trips (moving objects) over networks. These could be public transportation networks (buses, subway, trains, and so on) where ...
    • Compressed and queryable self-indexes for RDF archives 

      Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; Bernardo, Guillermo de; Fariña, Antonio; Fernández, Javier D.; Martínez-Prieto, Miguel A. (Springer Nature, 2023-08)
      [Abstract]: RDF compression and querying are consolidated topics in the Web of Data, with a plethora of solutions to efficiently store and query static datasets. However, as RDF data changes along time, it becomes necessary ...
    • Compressed Data Structures for Binary Relations in Practice 

      Quijada Fuentes, Carlos; Penabad, Miguel R.; Ladra, Susana; Gutiérrez Retamal, Gilberto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-01-31)
      [Abstract] Binary relations are commonly used in Computer Science for modeling data. In addition to classical representations using matrices or lists, some compressed data structures have recently been proposed to represent ...
    • Design of Mutation Operators for Testing Geographic Information Systems 

      Alvarado, Suilen H. (M D P I AG, 2019-08-06)
      [Abstract] In this article, we propose the definition of specific mutation operators for testing Geographic Information Systems. We describe the process for applying the operators and generating mutants, and present a case ...
    • Efficient and Compact Representations of Some Non-canonical Prefix-Free Codes 

      Fariña, Antonio; Gagie, Travis; Manzini, Giovanni; Navarro, Gonzalo; Ordóñez, Alberto (Springer, 2016-09-21)
      [Abstract] For many kinds of prefix-free codes there are efficient and compact alternatives to the traditional tree-based representation. Since these put the codes into canonical form, however, they can only be used when ...
    • Efficient Processing of Raster and Vector Data 

      Silva-Coira, Fernando; Paramá, José R.; Ladra, Susana; López, Juan R.; Gutiérrez, Gilberto (Public Library of Science, 2020-01-10)
      [Abstract] In this work, we propose a framework to store and manage spatial data, which includes new efficient algorithms to perform operations accepting as input a raster dataset and a vector dataset. More concretely, we ...
    • Efficient Representation of Multidimensional Data over Hierarchical Domains 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; López López, Narciso; Navarro, Gonzalo; Penabad, Miguel R.; Silva-Coira, Fernando (Springer, 2016-09-21)
      [Abstract] We consider the problem of representing multidimensional data where the domain of each dimension is organized hierarchically, and the queries require summary information at a different node in the hierarchy of ...
    • Energy Consumption in Compact Integer Vectors: A Study Case 

      Fuentes Sepúlveda, José; Ladra, Susana (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019-10-25)
      [Abstract] In the field of algorithms and data structures analysis and design, most of the researchers focus only on the space/time trade-off, and little attention has been paid to energy consumption. Moreover, most of the ...
    • Exploiting Computation-Friendly Graph Compression Methods for Adjacency-Matrix Multiplication 

      Francisco, Alexandre P.; Gagie, Travis; Ladra, Susana; Navarro, Gonzalo (IEEE Computer Society, 2018-03)
      [Abstract] Computing the product of the (binary) adjacency matrix of a large graph with a real-valued vector is an important operation that lies at the heart of various graph analysis tasks, such as computing PageRank. In ...
    • Extending general compact querieable representations to GIS applications 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; Bernardo, Guillermo de; Navarro, Gonzalo; Pedreira, Óscar (Elsevier, 2020-01)
      [Abstract]: The raster model is commonly used for the representation of images in many domains, and is especially useful in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to store information about continuous variables of the space ...
    • From Coarse to Fine-Grained Parcellation of the Cortical Surface Using a Fiber-Bundle Atlas 

      López-López, Narciso; Vázquez, Andrea; Houenou, Josselin; Poupon, Cyril; Mangin, Jean-François; Ladra, Susana; Guevara, Pamela (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2020-09-10)
      [Abstract] In this article, we present a hybrid method to create fine-grained parcellations of the cortical surface, from a coarse-grained parcellation according to an anatomical atlas, based on cortico-cortical connectivity. ...
    • GraCT: A Grammar Based Compressed Representation of Trajectories 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Gómez-Brandón, Adrián; Navarro, Gonzalo; Paramá, José R. (Springer, 2016-09-21)
      [Abstract] We present a compressed data structure to store free trajectories of moving objects (ships over the sea, for example) allowing spatio-temporal queries. Our method, GraCT, uses a k2k2 -tree to store the absolute ...
    • GraCT: A Grammar-based Compressed Index for Trajectory Data 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Gómez-Brandón, Adrián; Navarro, Gonzalo; Paramá, José R. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
      [Abstract]: We introduce a compressed data structure for the storage of free trajectories of moving objects that efficiently supports various spatio-temporal queries. Our structure, dubbed GraCT, stores the absolute positions ...
    • Grammar compressed sequences with rank/select support 

      Ordóñez, Alberto; Navarro, Gonzalo; Brisaboa, Nieves R. (Elsevier BV, 2016-10-14)
      [Abstract] Sequence representations supporting not only direct access to their symbols, but also rank/select operations, are a fundamental building block in many compressed data structures. Several recent applications need ...
    • Graph Compression for Adjacency-Matrix Multiplication 

      Francisco, Alexandre P.; Gagie, Travis; Köppl, Dominik; Ladra, Susana; Navarro, Gonzalo (Springer, 2022)
      [Abstract] Computing the product of the (binary) adjacency matrix of a large graph with a real-valued vector is an important operation that lies at the heart of various graph analysis tasks, such as computing PageRank. In ...
    • Improved Compressed String Dictionaries 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; Bernardo, Guillermo de; Navarro, Gonzalo (ACM, 2019-11-03)
      [Abstract] We introduce a new family of compressed data structures to efficiently store and query large string dictionaries in main memory. Our main technique is a combination of hierarchical Front-coding with ideas from ...
    • Local features: Enhancing variability modeling in software product lines 

      Castro, David de; Cortiñas, Alejandro; Rodríguez Luaces, Miguel; Pedreira, Óscar; Saavedra Places, Ángeles (Elsevier, 2024-07)
      [Abstract]: Context and motivation: Software Product Lines (SPL) enable the creation of software product families with shared core components using feature models to model variability. Choosing features from a feature model ...
    • Lossless Compression of Industrial Time Series With Direct Access 

      Gómez-Brandón, Adrián; Paramá, José R.; Villalobos, Kevin; Illarramendi, Arantza; Brisaboa, Nieves R. (Elsevier, 2021)
      [Abstract] The new opportunities generated by the data-driven economy in the manufacturing industry have causedmany companies opt for it. However, the size of time series data that need to be captured creates theproblem ...