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 ...

Nowadays, taking and sharing digital pictures is becoming a very popular activity. This is witnessed by the explosive growth of the digital cameras market: e.g., more than one billion of digital cameras have been ...

The identification of the molecular pathway that is targeted by a compound, combined with the dissection of the following reactions in the cellular environment, i.e. the drug mode of action, is a key challenge in ...

Cellular communication has become an important part of our daily life. Besides using cell phones for voice communication, we are now able to access the Internet, conduct monetary transactions, send voice, video and ...

With the advent of massive parallel processing technology, exploiting the power offered by hundreds, or even thousands of processors is all but a trivial task. Computing by using multi-processor, multi-core or many-core ...