• Dra. Cristina Montañola Sales

Dra. Cristina Montañola Sales
IQS School of Management
Universidad Ramon Llull
Via Augusta, 390 08017, Barcelona, Spain
+34 932 672 000
>+34 932 056 266
Researcher ID I-1740-2015
Scopus Author ID 56111292800
ORCID 0000-0001-5893-3709

 

email: 
cristina.montanola@iqs.url.edu

Doctora en Estadística i Investigació Operativa (2015, UPC)
Enginyera Superior en Informàtica (2006, UPC)

Professora Contractada Doctora, IQS Management School (2018-)
Enginyera de recerca, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017-2018)
Professora Associada, UPC (2015-2017)
Personal de suport a la recerca, UPC (2012-2017)
Investigadora predoctoral, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2007-2012)

 

Informàtica i Sistemes, Estadística i Tecnologies de la Informació i la Comunicació

 

  • Simulació social
  • Models basats en agents
  • Epidemiologia
  • Big Data

 

Martínez-Ruiz, A., Montañola-Sales, C. Big Data in Multi-Block Data Analysis: An Approach to Parallelizing Partial Least Squares Mode B Algorithm. Heliyon. Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2019, e01451. 2019

Edmonds,B., Le Page, C., Bithell, M., Chattoe-Brown, E., Grimm, V., Meyer, R., Montañola-Sales, C., Ormerod, P., Root, H., Squazzoni, F. Different Modelling Purposes. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 22 (3) 6. 2019

Ahmad, N. MR., Montañola-Sales, C., Prats, C., Musa, M., López, D., & Casanovas, J. “Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria,” Complexity, vol. 2018, Article ID 9253846, 13 pages, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9253846

Oliveira AD, Prats C, Espasa M, Zarzuela Serrat F, Montañola Sales C, Silgado A, Codina DL, Arruda ME, i Prat JG, Albuquerque J. (2017) The Malaria System MicroApp: A New, Mobile Device-Based Tool for Malaria Diagnosis. JMIR Research Protocols ;6(4):e70 doi: 10.2196/resprot.6758

Pellegrini A., Montañola Sales, C.; Quaglia, F., Casanovas Garcia, J. (2017) Load-sharing policies in parallel simulation of agent-based demographic models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10104 LNCS, pp. 334-346., Springer-Verlag.

Montañola Sales, C.; Onggo, Bahkti S.S.; Casanovas Garcia, Jose; Cela Espín, Jose Maria; Kaplan Marcusán, Adriana. (2016) Approaching parallel computing to simulating population dynamics in demography. Parallel Computing 59, pp. 151 - 170. Elsevier.

ISSN 0167-8191

Prats, C., Montañola-Sales, C., Gilabert, J. F., Valls, J., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Vilaplana, C., Cardona, P.J., Lopez, D. (2016). Individual-based modeling of tuberculosis in a user-friendly interface: understanding the epidemiological role of population heterogeneity in a city. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6 (1564). doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01564

Pellegrini, A., Montañola-Sales, C., Quaglia, F., Casanovas-Garcia, J. (2016). Programming agent-based demographic models with cross-state and message-exchange dependencies: a study with speculative PDES and automatic load-sharing. In Roeder, T. M. K., Frazier, P. I., Szechtman, R., Zhou, E., Huschka, T., and Chick, S. E. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2016 Winter Simulation Conference, 11-14 December, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 955 - 966, ISBN 978-1-5090-4484-9. ACM.

Montañola-Sales, C., Gilabert-Navarro, J.F., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Prats C., López, D., Valls, J., Cardona P.J., Vilaplana C. (2015). Modeling of tuberculosis in Barcelona. A solution to speed up agent-based simulations. In Yilmaz L., Chan W.K.V., Moon I., Roeder T.M.K., Macal C., Rossetti M.D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 1295 - 1306. ISBN 978-1-4673-9742-1. ACM.

de Millan, P., Juan, A. A., i Casas, P., & Montañola-Sales, C. (2015). Simulation of the Airbus 380 Evacuation. In Yilmaz L., Chan W.K.V., Moon I., Roeder T.M.K., Macal C., Rossetti M.D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 3216 - 3217. ACM.

Büsing-Meneses V., Montañola-Sales, C., Pellegrini, A. (2015). Analysis and Optimization of a Demographic Simulator for Parallel Environments. In Yilmaz L., Chan W.K.V., Moon I., Roeder T.M.K., Macal C., Rossetti M.D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Huntington Beach, CA, pp. 3218-3219. ACM.

Martinez-Ruiz, A., & Montañola-Sales, C. (2015). Big data in multi-block data analysis: an approach to paralleling classic PLS algorithm. 60th World Statistics Congress – ISI 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, July 26-31 (in press).

Montañola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Ahn, C-W. (2015). Parallel agent-based simulation of South Korean population dynamics. PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference PraceDays15. 26-28 May Dublin, Ireland.

Montañola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Onggo, B. S. S., & Li, Z. (2014). A user interface for large-scale demographic simulation. In J. Guerrero (Ed.), Proccedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2014), pp. 723 - 726. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CloudCom.2014.46

Montañola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Onggo, B. S. S., Cela-Espín J. M., & Kaplan-Marcusán, A. (2014). Approaching simulation to modelers: A user interface for large-scale demographic simulation. In A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, & J. A. Miller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 4035-4036. ACM.

Guasch, T., Figueras, J., i Casas, P., Montañola-Sales, C., & Casanovas-Garcia,  (2014). Simulation analysis of a dynamic ridesharing model. In A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, & J. A. Miller (Eds.), Proceeding of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Savannah (GA), pp. 1965-1976. ACM Press.

Fonseca i Casas, P., Codina Sancho, E., Montero Mercadé, L., Linares, M. P., & Montañola-Sales, C. (2014). Formal and operational validation of a bus stop public transport network micro simulation. In A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, & J. A. Miller (Eds.), Proceeding of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Savannah (GA), pp. 604-615. ACM Press.

Linares, M. P., Carmona, C., Barcelo, J., & Montañola-Sales, C. (2014). Validation of a new multiclass mesoscopic simulator based on individual vehicles for dynamic network loading. In A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, & J. A. Miller (Eds.), Proceeding of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, 7-10 December, Savannah (GA), pp. 2048-2059. ACM Press.

Montañola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., Kaplan-Marcusán, A., & Cela-Espín, J. M. (2014). Demographic agent-based simulation of Gambians immigrants in Spain. In F. J. Miguel, F. Amblard, J. A. Barcelo, & M. Madella (Eds.), Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation, Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference, Barcelona, 1-5th Sept. 2014. Barcelona, Spain. doi:10.13140/2.1.3052.4166

Balbo, A.L.; Rubio, X.; Rondelli, B.; Ramirez, M. J.; Lancelotti, C.; Torrano, A.; Salpeteur, M.; Lipovetzky, N.; Reyes, V.; Montañola-Sales, C.; Madella, M. (2014) Agent-Based Simulation of Holocene Monsoon Precipitation Patterns and Hunter-Gatherer Population Dynamics in Semi-arid Environments. Journal of archaeological method and theory. 21 - 2, pp. 426 - 446. Springer.

Montañola-Sales C., Rubio-Campillo X., Cela-Espín J.M., Casanovas-Garcia J., Kaplan-Marcusán A. (2014) Large-scale social simulation, dealing with complexity challenges in high performance environments. In Adamatti, D.F., Dimuro, G.P. and Coelho, H. (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation and Modeling, IGI Global, 2014. pp. 106-123. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5954-4.ch007

Martinez-Ruiz, A., & Montañola-Sales, C. (2014). A Review on Strategies to Factor Matrices and Parallelize Algorithms. 8th International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods, Paris, May 26-28.

Montañola-Sales C., Rubio-Campillo X., Cela-Espín J.M., Casanovas-Garcia J., Kaplan-Marcusán A. (2013) Overview on Agent-Based Social Modelling and the use of formal languages. In Fonseca, P. (Ed.), Formal Languages for Computer Simulation: Transdisciplinary Models and Applications, IGI Global, pp. 333-377. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4369-7.ch011  

Montañola-Sales C., Onggo B.S.S., Casanovas-Garcia, J. (2011) Agent-based simulation validation: A case study in demographic simulation. In SIMUL 2011, The Third International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, 23-29 October 2011, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 101-107.

Onggo B.S.S. Montañola-Sales C., Casanovas-Garcia J. (2010) Performance Analysis of parallel demographic simulation. In Proceedings of the 24th European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM10), 25-27 October 2010, Hasselt, Belgium, pp. 142-148

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