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 ...

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, ...

In order to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives every- where, territorial development must be sustainable. Data science and analytics can offer fundamental contributions to it. More- over, to achieve the 17 goals ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To date, has been the primary driver of global innovation, compet- itiveness and cultural development. It is also a powerful engine for creating new job opportunities, expanding market segments and inspiring new ...

Every single person, animal, or thing we can see in the world around us is part of a broader collection of components that can spontaneously self- organize to exhibit non-trivial global structures and behaviors at ...