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Rovira Llobera, Xari
Associate Professor, Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Directora, Management of Quality and Programme Development
Directora Dirección de Calidad y Desarollo de Programas, Management of Quality and Programme Development
Investigador, ESADE D3 - Institute for Data-Driven Decisions
Education
- Doctora en Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Mestratge de Matemàtiques per als Instruments Financers. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Máster en Dirección y Administración de Empresas. ESADE
- Licenciada en Ciencias Matemáticas. Universitat de Barcelona
Biography
Her areas of interest are the applications of Qualitative Reasoning and of Fuzzy Reasoning
to business management, especially finance, and the study of the mathematical aspects
of qualitative calculus in order-of-magnitude models, and she has participated in
numerous congresses and published various articles related to these areas. She has
been a member of the GREC Knowledge Engineering Research Group and ARCAAutomation
of Qualitative Reasoning and Applications research groups since 1996 and 1999, respectively.
She is currently participating in a project financed by the Ministry of Science and
Technology MERITO to develop softcomputing techniques applied to the measurement of
credit risk.She was Associate Director of ESADE's PhD Programme from 1995 to 2004
and has represented this programme in the annual meeting of the 'European Doctoral
Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration' EDAMBA since 1996,
and participated in the 'PhD Supervisors Workshops' that it organizes. Until 1989,
when she joined ESADE, she taught and developed her PhD thesis on functional equations
and inequations in the Department of Mathematics of the ETSAB-UPC.
Selected publications
- Riu Vila, D., Casabayó Bonás, M. & Sayeras Maspera, J., Rovira Llobera, R., Agell Jané, N. (2022). A new method to assess how curricula prepare students for the workplace in higher education. Educational Review, 74 (2), pp. 207-225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2020.1713050.
- Matei, M., Rovira Llobera, R. & Agell Jané, N. (2019). Bivariate volatility modeling with high-frequency data. Econometrics, 7 (3), 41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics7030041.
- Agell Jané, N., Armisen Morell, A. & Nguyen, J., Rovira Llobera, R. (2019, June). Applying a fuzzy aggregator to segment user profiles based on their opinions [Paper presentation]. 30th European Conference on Operational Research.
- Nguyen, J., Sánchez-Hernández, G. & Sanchez-Hernandez, G., Armisen, A., Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R., Angulo, C. (2018). A linguistic multi-criteria decision-aiding system to support university career services. Applied Soft Computing Journal, 67, pp. 933-940. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2017.06.052.
- Nguyen, J., Sánchez-Hernández, G. & Sanchez-Hernandez, G., Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R., Angulo, C. (2018). A decision support tool using Order Weighted Averaging for conference review assignment. Pattern Recognition Letters, 105, pp. 114-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2017.09.020.
- Iñesta, A., Valencia, M. & Rovira Llobera, R., Mària Serrano, J. F., Sayeras Maspera, J., Serlavós, R., Marin, J. L., Obeso, C., Wilson, J., Caporarello, L., Choi, J., Statler, M., Gessi, G. (2017). The global integrative module: A competence-based online learning experience to help future managers understand complex, global, social challenges. Educating for Responsible Management, pp. 254-281. Taylor and Francis Ltd.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351284929.
- Nguyen, J., Sánchez-Hernández, G. & Sanchez-Hernandez, G., Agell Jané, N., Armisen, A., Rovira Llobera, R., Angulo, C. (2017). Evaluating student-internship fit using fuzzy linguistic terms and a fuzzy OWA operator. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ 2017, 8015646. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015646.
- Agell Jané, N., Nguyen, J. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez-Hernández, G., Sanchez-Hernandez, G. (2016, October). An OWA-based multi-criteria system for assigning reviewers [Paper presentation]. 19è Congrés Català d'Intel·ligència Artificial CCIA 2016.
- Sayeras Maspera, J., Agell Jané, N. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez, M., Dawson, J. (2016). A measure of perceived performance to assess resource allocation. Soft Computing, 20 (8), pp. 3201-3214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1696-3.
- Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R. & Sánchez Soler, M., Sayeras Maspera, J. (2016, July). Using qualitative reasoning to evaluate performance: An application in the retail sector [Paper presentation]. 29th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning QR 2016.
- Caporarello, L., Iñesta Codina, A. & Mària Serrano, J. F., Marín Arandia, J. L. M., Rovira Llobera, R., Sayeras Maspera, J., Serlavós Serra, R., Statler, M., Valencia-Silva, M. M. (2016, July). The Global Integrative Module GIM: An international project for training students solve the social challenges of tomorrow by working in global virtual teams across schools and across programs [Paper presentation]. CIDUI 2016 mpactos de la innovación en la docencia y el aprendizaje.
- Caporarello, L., Choi, J. & Iñesta Codina, A., Mària Serrano, J. F., Marín Arandia, J. L. M., Obeso Abalde, C., Rovira Llobera, R., Serlavós Serra, R., Statler, M., Valencia-Silva, M. M., Wilson, J. (2016, July). The global integrative module: Reflecting upon the conditions, challenges and learnings derived from implementing an international challenge-based online learning experience [Paper presentation]. 2016 RMLE Unconference.
- Caporarello, L., Choi, J. & Gessi, G., Iñesta Codina, A., Mària Serrano, J. F., Marín Arandia, J. L. M., Obeso Abalde, C., Rovira Llobera, R., Sayeras Maspera, J., Serlavós Serra, R., Statler, M., Valencia-Silva, M. M., Wilson, J. (2016). The global integrative module: A competency based online learning experience to help future managers understand complex global social challenges: Educating for responsible management: Putting theory into practice. Educating for responsible management: Putting theory into practice, pp. 254-282.
- Nguyen, J., Sánchez-Hernández, G. & Sanchez-Hernandez, G., Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R., Angulo, C. (2016). An OWA ased multi-criteria system for assigning papers to reviewers. In Binefa, X., Nebot, A. & de Mantaras, R. L. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Research and Development - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016, pp. 253-262. IOS Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-696-5-253.
- Fornells Herrera, A., Rodrigo, Z. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez, M., Santomà Vicens, R., Teixidó-Navarro, F., Golobardes Ribé, E. (2015). Promoting consensus in the concept mapping methodology: An application in the hospitality sector. Pattern Recognition Letters, 67, pp. 39-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2015.05.013.
- Iñesta Codina, A., Rovira Llobera, R. & Serlavós Serra, R., Valencia-Silva, M. M. (2012, November). The integrative module in the bachelor of business administration: Training undergraduate students in creative problem solving [Paper presentation]. ISBE 2012 Conference.
- Cano Giner, J. L., Iñesta Codina, A. & Mària Serrano, J. F., Rovira Llobera, R., Sayeras Maspera, J., Serlavós Serra, R., Valencia-Silva, M. M. (2012, October). The Global Integrative Module: Training future managers¿ knowledge integration, multicultural and social responsibility competences [Paper presentation]. XLIX Asamblea Anual CLADEA 2014.
- Vila Fernández-Santacruz, M. d. M., Rovira Llobera, R. & Costa Guix, G., Santomà Vicens, R. (2012, April). Combining research techniques to improve quality service in hospitality. Quality and Quantity, 46 (3), pp. 795-812. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-010-9414-9.
- Iñesta Codina, A., Rovira Llobera, R. & Serlavós Serra, R., Valencia-Silva, M. M. (2012, March). The integrative module in the bachelor of business administration: Training undergraduate students in creative problem solving [Paper presentation]. INBAM 2012.
- Iñesta Codina, A., Rovira Llobera, R. (2011, June). El módulo integrador en el Grado de Dirección de Empresas - BBA de ESADE: una experiencia de innovación curricular [Paper presentation]. I Jornadas Interuniversitarias de Innovación Docente 2011.
- Iñesta Codina, A., Rovira Llobera, R. (2011). El módulo integrador en el Grado de Dirección de Empresas - BBA de ESADE: una experiencia de innovación curricular: Jornadas Interuniversitarias de Innovación Docente 2011: 16-17 de junio: Think, share and innovative. Jornadas Interuniversitarias de Innovación Docente 2011: 16-17 de junio: Think, share and innovative, pp. 405-411.
- Vila Fernández-Santacruz, M. d. M., Costa Guix, G. & Rovira Llobera, R. (2010). The creation and use of scorecards in tourism planning: A Spanish example. Tourism Management, 31 (2), pp. 232-239. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.015.
- Iñesta Codina, A., Rovira Llobera, R. & Serlavós Serra, R. (2009, June). Reflexionant sobre el procés de resolució de problemes matemàtics: una experiència d'aprenentatge constructiu al primer curs del Grau en Direcció d'Empreses - BBA [Paper presentation]. Jornada d'Innovació Docent-URL Barcelona 2009.
- DAWSON, J. A., Hu, Y. C. & Prats Duaygues, F., Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M., Sayeras Maspera, J. (2007). Ranking features by means of a qualitative optimization process: Artificial intelligence research and development. Artificial intelligence research and development, pp. 310-322.
- Agell Jané, N., Prats Duaygues, F. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M., Ventura Alemany, M. (2007, June). Group decision systems for ranking and selection: An application to the accreditation of doping control laboratories [Paper presentation]. 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal 2007.
- Sánchez, M., Hu, Y. C. & Prats, F., Rovira Llobera, R., Sayeras Maspera, J., Dawson, J. (2007). Ranking features by means of a qualitative optimisation process. Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, pp. 310-319.
- Rovira Llobera, R., Agell Jané, N. & Sánchez, M., Prats, F., Ventura, M. (2007, January). Group decision systems for ranking and selection an application to the accreditation of doping control laboratories [Paper presentation]. 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2007, Funchal, Madeira. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67649973470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
- Agell Jané, N., Prats Duaygues, F. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M. (2006, July). Using orders of magnitude in multi-attribute decision-making [Paper presentation]. 20th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning QR 2006.
- Ansotegui Olcoz, M. C., Rovira Llobera, R. & Sánchez-Hernández, G., Sanchez-Hernandez, G. (2005, November). Predicción del rating: métodos estadísticos clásicos vs. máquinas de soporte vectorial [Paper presentation]. XI Conferencia de la Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial, Santiago de Compostela 2005.
- Ruiz, F., Angulo, C. & Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez, M., Prats, F. (2005). A discretization process in accordance with a qualitative ordered output. Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, pp. 273-280.
- Agell Jané, N., Prats Duaygues, F. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M. (2004). Kernel functions over orders of magnitude spaces by means of usual kernels. Application to measure financial credit risk: Current topics in artificial intelligence. Current topics in artificial intelligence, pp. 415-424.
- Sánchez, M., Prats, F. & Agell Jané, N., Rovira Llobera, R. (2004). Kernel functions over orders of magnitude spaces by means of usual kernels. Application to measure financial credit risk. In Conejo, R., Perez-de-la-Cruz, J. & Urretavizcaya, M. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 415-424. Springer Verlag. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25945-9_41.
- Agell Jané, N., Prats Duaygues, F. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M. (2003, November). Funciones kernel en espacios cualitativos de órdenes de magnitud. Aplicación a la evaluación del riesgo de crédito [Paper presentation]. 10th Conferencia de la Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial, San Sebastián 2003.
- Agell Jané, N., Angulo Bahón, C. & CAMPOS ESPINOZA, R. A., Rovira Llobera, R., Ruiz Vegas, F. J., Sánchez Soler, M. (2003). Funciones núcleo en un espacio de órdenes de magnitud absolutos.
- Agell Jané, N., Prats Duaygues, F. & Rovira Llobera, R., Sánchez Soler, M. (2003). Support vector machines over a discrete structure: A kernel for qualitative orders of magnitude spaces: Artificial intelligence research and development. Artificial intelligence research and development, pp. 267-275.
- Agell Jané, N., Parra Llanas, X. & Rovira Llobera, R. (2001). Generalisation improvement of radial basis function networks based on qualitative input conditioning for financial risk prediction: Artificial neural networks - ICANN 2001. Artificial neural networks - ICANN 2001, pp. 127-134.
- Parra, X., Agell Jané, N. & Rovira Llobera, R. (2001). Generalisation improvement of radial basis function networks based on qualitative input conditioning for financial credit risk prediction. In Hornik, K., Dorffner, G. & Bischof, H. (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2001 - International Conference, Proceedings, pp. 127-134. Springer Verlag. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44668-0_18.
- Rovira Llobera, R. (1984). Productos numerables de espacios normados probabilísticos.