Continuing advances and reduced costs in computational power, graphics and network bandwidth let 3D immersive multi‐user Virtual Worlds (VWs) become increasingly accessible while offering an improved and engaging quality ...

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 ...

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 research work focuses on Situation Awareness and Context Awareness topics. Specifically, Situation Awareness involves being aware of what is happening in the vicinity to understand how information, events, and one’s ...

This thesis proposes several protocols for achieving secure com- putation under concurrent and physical attacks. Secure computation allows many parties to compute a joint function of their inputs, while keeping the privacy ...

The simplest container of digital information is “the file" and among the vast array of files currently available, MS-Office files are probably the most widely used. These files, starting from MS-Office 2007, respect the ...

Today public-key cryptographic is widely deployed and successfully used but still a major drawback exists. In fact, from encrypted data a party can either decrypt or cannot learn anything at all about the message other ...

Semantic interoperability represents the capability of two or more systems to meaningfully and accurately interpret the exchanged data so as to produce useful results. It is an essential feature of all distributed and open ...

This thesis provides an innovative framework, based on the risk assessment methodology, to support the design of a pioneering complex systems, strongly ICT based, whose failures could threaten people, environment and society ...

When students arrive in the classroom they expect to be involved in immersive, fun and challenging learning experiences. There is a high risk that they become quickly bored by the traditional instructional methods. The ...