Most of our lives takes place on-line. Our on-line activities, affect directly or indirectly the way other people perceive us. One have to careful decide what to expose and what not. There are a lot of personal and sensitive ...

Cloud computing services represent the actual computation delivery to the most of customer communities. Such services are regulated by a contract called Service Level Agreement (SLA), cosigned between customers and providers. ...

Nowadays even more small, medium and large enterprises are world-wide and compete on a global market. In order to face the new challenges, industries have multiple co-located and geographically dispersed teams that work ...

Computer vision methods for tracking and identification of people in constrained and unconstrained environments have been widely explored in the last decades. De- spite of the active research on these topics, they are still ...

The main objective of this thesis is to explore and discuss novel techniques related to the compression and protection of multidimensional data (i.e., 3-D medical images, hyperspectral images, 3-D microscopy images and ...

The problem of data compression having specific security properties in order to guarantee user’s privacy is a living matter. On the other hand, high-throughput systems in genomics (e.g. the so-called Next Generation ...

Effort estimation is a critical activity for planning and monitoring software project development and for delivering the product on time and within budget. Significant over or under-estimates expose a software project to ...