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 ...

Nowadays the current network-centric world has given rise to several security concerns regarding the access control management, which en- sures that only authorized users are given access to certain resources or tasks. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The era of Big Data is leading the generation of large amounts of data, which require storage and analysis capabilities that can be only ad- dressed by distributed computing systems. To facilitate large-scale distributed ...

The objective of our research is to give support to decision makers when facing problems which require rapid solutions in spite of the complexity of scenarios under investigation. In order to achieve this goal our studies ...

Parametric and Real-Time Systems play a central role in the theory underlying the Verification and Synthesis problems. Real-time systems are present everywhere and are used in safety critical applications, such as flight ...

Predicate encryption is an important cryptographic primitive (see [7, 14, 28]) that enables fine-grained control on the decryption keys. Let T be a class of binary predicates. Roughly speaking, in a predicate encryption ...

Il grande volume di dati che viene attualmente collezionato nei vari campi di applicazione non può essere gestito usando le tecniche standard di data mining. L’obiettivo principale del presente lavoro di tesi è quello ...

Availability of controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and so on is enabling feature to provide some added values in terms of knowledge management. Nevertheless, the design, maintenance and construction of domain ontologies ...