The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), with the consequent changes in network architectures and communication dynamics, has strongly conditioned the security market by radically shifting traditional per- ceptions of ...

Biometric technologies have historically been explored as Pattern Recognition systems. Over the past three decades, biometric- based human recognition systems have significantly changed and improved. Applications in ...

The Internet and advanced communication networks, such as IoT and cellular net- works, produce enormous and diverse traffic data flows. The behavior of network traffic in these networks is highly intricate due to factors ...

To identify a person by means of fully automatic systems is still an open problem and a matter of social concern. Many of the approaches coping with this problem are based on the combination of biometrics and computer ...

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, ...

Data Profiling represents one of the most crucial processes in data quality assessment. It includes a set of activities to efficiently analyze datasets and provide insights from them. Such activities rely on the identification of ...

This thesis is focused on synthesis. In formal veri cation synthesis can be referred to the controller synthesis and the system synthesis. This work combines both this area of research. First we focus on synthesizing modular ...

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 Internet is an extraordinary communications medium but it is not free from problems that are limiting its potential further development. In this dissertation we analyze and address some of the issues that make it an ...