• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Fed-mRMR: A lossless federated feature selection method 

      Hermo González, Jorge; Bolón-Canedo, Verónica; Ladra, Susana (Elsevier, 2024-05)
      [Abstract]: Feature selection has become a mandatory task in data mining, due to the overwhelming amount of features in Big Data problems. To handle this high-dimensional data and avoid the well-known curse of dimensionality, ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Map algebra on raster datasets represented by compact data structures 

      Silva-Coira, Fernando; Paramá, José R.; Ladra, Susana (John Wiley and Sons, 2023-06)
      [Abstract]: The increase in the size of data repositories has forced the design of new computing paradigms to be able to process large volumes of data in a reasonable amount of time. One of them is in-memory computing, ...
    • Modeling the Number of People Infected With SARS-COV-2 From Wastewater Viral Load in Northwest Spain 

      Vallejo, J. A.; Trigo Tasende, Noelia; Rumbo-Feal, Soraya; Conde-Pérez, Kelly; López-Oriona, Ángel; Barbeito, Inés; Vaamonde, Manuel; Tarrío-Saavedra, Javier; Reif López, Rubén; Ladra, Susana; Rodiño-Janeiro, Bruno Kotska; Nasser-Ali, Mohammed; Cid, Ángeles; Veiga, María Carmen; Acevedo, Antón; Lamora, Carlos; Bou, Germán; Cao, Ricardo; Poza, Margarita (Elsevier, 2022)
      [Abstract] The quantification of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in wastewater has emerged as a useful tool to monitor COVID–19 outbreaks in the community. This approach was implemented in the metropolitan area of A Coruña (NW ...
    • Multilevel Modeling of Geographic Information Systems Based on International Standards 

      Alvarado, Suilen H.; Cortiñas, Alejandro; Rodríguez Luaces, Miguel; Pedreira, Óscar; Saavedra Places, Ángeles (SpringerLink, 2021)
      [Abstract] Even though different applications based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide different features and functions, they all share a set of common concepts (e.g., spatial data types, operations, services), ...
    • New machine learning approaches for real-life human activity recognition using smartphone sensor-based data 

      García-González, Daniel; Rivero, Daniel; Fernández-Blanco, Enrique; Rodríguez Luaces, Miguel (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
      [Abstract]: In recent years, mainly due to the application of smartphones in this area, research in human activity recognition (HAR) has shown a continuous and steady growth. Thanks to its wide range of sensors, its size, ...
    • Optimization in Sanger sequencing 

      Carpente, Luisa; Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; Lorenzo Freire, Silvia; Saavedra Places, Ángeles (Elsevier, 2019-09)
      [Abstract]: The main objective of this paper is to solve the optimization problem that is associated with the classification of DNA samples in PCR plates for Sanger sequencing. To achieve this goal, we design an integer ...
    • Parallel construction of wavelet trees on multicore architectures 

      Fuentes Sepúlveda, José; Elejalde, Erick; Ferres, Leo; Seco, Diego (Springer U K, 2016-10-05)
      [Abstract] The wavelet tree has become a very useful data structure to efficiently represent and query large volumes of data in many different domains, from bioinformatics to geographic information systems. One problem ...
    • Scalable processing and autocovariance computation of big functional data 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Cao, Ricardo; Paramá, José R.; Silva-Coira, Fernando (John Wiley & Sons, 2018)
      [Abstract]: This paper presents 2 main contributions. The first is a compact representation of huge sets of functional data or trajectories of continuous-time stochastic processes, which allows keeping the data always ...
    • Space-Efficient Representations of Raster Time Series 

      Silva-Coira, Fernando; Paramá, José R.; Bernardo, Guillermo de; Seco, Diego (Elsevier, 2021)
      [Abstract] Raster time series, a.k.a. temporal rasters, are collections of rasters covering the same region at consecutive timestamps. These data have been used in many different applications ranging from weather forecast ...
    • Space/time-efficient RDF stores based on circular suffix sorting 

      Brisaboa, Nieves R.; Cerdeira-Pena, Ana; Bernardo, Guillermo de; Fariña, Antonio; Navarro, Gonzalo (Springer Nature, 2023-03)
      [Abstract]: The resource description framework (RDF) has gained popularity as a format for the standardized publication and exchange of information in the Web of Data. In this paper, we introduce RDFCSA, a compressed ...
    • Take one for the team: on the time efficiency of application-level buffer-aided relaying in edge cloud communication 

      Li, Zheng; Millar-Bilbao, Francisco; Rojas-Durán, Gonzalo; Ladra, Susana (Springer, 2021-03-12)
      [Abstract] Background Adding buffers to networks is part of the fundamental advance in data communication. Since edge cloud computing is based on the heterogeneous collaboration network model in a federated environment, ...