PUBLICATIONS

PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS:

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Representing asymmetric relationships by h-plots. Discovering the archetypal patterns of cross-journal citation relationships. Accepted as a chapter in the book titled “Analysis of asymmetric relationships: Case studies”, to be published as a part of the book series, “Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior” of Springer. 2026.

• Aragón-Basanta, Elisa, Page, Álvaro, Ayala, Guillermo et al. Functional data analysis of ground reaction forces combined with clinical measures for early knee osteoarthritis detection. Sci Rep 15, 40514 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24411-y

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Outlier detection of clustered functional data with image and signal processing applications by archetype analysis. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0311418. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311418.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS:

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Fair archetypal analysis for fair representation. 8th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2025). Tokyo, August 21-23, 2025. https://www.cmstatistics.org/EcoSta2025/docs/BoA.pdf?20250728012733 Slides: https://www.aleixalcacer.com/japan2025-slides

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Representing asymmetric relationships by h-plots. Discovering the archetypal patterns of cross-journal citation relationships. 108 Symposium of the Behaviormetric Society. Tokyo, August 23, 2025. https://bms.gr.jp/en/ Slides: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25237.03040

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Archetypal cases for questionnaires with nominal multiple choice questions. Statistical Methods for Data Analysis and Decision Sciences. Third Conference of the Statistics and Data Science Group of the Italian Statistical Society. Milan, April 2-3, 2025. https://sds2025.sis-statistica.it/s12/ Slides: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20677.15846

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Análisis de biarquetipos en R. LatinR 2024 Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Uso de R en Investigación + Desarrollo. 21 noviembre 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27LeNWW0kA&list=PL9-E3cL2KgKnhXXfAo1ahd_cJKwRFGf0l&index=5 

• Irene Epifanio. De Blancaneus a Judy Hopps: anàlisi arquetípica.  Col·loqui Provem, Universitat Jaume I, 19th September 2024.     DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13510.48969.

SOFTWARE:

• Aleix Alcacer: https://github.com/aleixalcacer/archetypes

• Aleix Alcacer: https://archetypes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

SUBMITTED:

• Aleix Alcacer,  Rafael Benítez, Vicente J. Bolós, Irene Epifanio. Multidimensional scaling of two-mode three-way asymmetric dissimilarities: finding archetypal profiles and clustering. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.15813

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio. Incorporating Fairness Constraints into Archetypal Analysis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12021

• Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio, Sebastian Mair, Morten Mørup. A Survey on Archetypal Analysis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.12392

STUDENTS:

• María López Romero. Análisis arquetípico de datos mixtos. Aplicación en el análisis de un videojuego educativo.  Master's thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2025.

RESEARCH DISSEMINATION:

• https://nostraciencia.com/2025/11/03/archetype/