The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has launched a new world of opportunities, bringing with it a new understand ing of objects and technology that, today, is all around us. In fact, especially in domestic ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fundamental technology useful in many fields, ranging from finance, weather forecast, to medicine. Positive results are reached especially in the diagnostic field, where AI provides a great ...

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 ...

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 ...

User expectations, motivations, and feelings when using a system have prompted the need to investigate beyond traditional usability issues by evaluating and designing for the user experience. User eXperience (UX), therefore, ...

Despite modern technology provide new tools to measure the world around us, we are quickly generating massive amounts of high-dimensional, spatialtemporal data. In this work, I deal with two types of datasets: one in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This work has a two-fold objective, achieved through two lines of research. The first, purely industrial, focuses on the technical-scientific difficulties related to collecting, tokenizing, and producing value from ...