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 ...

Nowadays the current network-centric world has given rise to several security concerns regarding the access control management, which en- sures that only authorized users are given access to certain resources or tasks. ...

Most of our lives takes place on-line. Our on-line activities, affect directly or indirectly the way other people perceive us. One have to careful decide what to expose and what not. There are a lot of personal and ...

Due to technological advances which enabled their deployment in relevant and diverse scenarios, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been object of intense study in the last few years. Possible application contexts include ...

Several real-life problems as well as problems of theoretical importance within the field of Operations Research are combinatorial in nature. Combinatorial Optimization deals with decision-making problems defined on a ...

The increasing interest about wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs) is due to some key features not owned by traditional networks such as nodes mobility, network self-organization and the ability to rely on infrastructure-less ...

Complexity, sophistication, and rate of growth of modern networks, coupled with the depth, continuity, and pervasiveness of their role in our everyday lives, stress the importance of identifying potential misuse or threats ...

The era of Big Data is leading the generation of large amounts of data, which require storage and analysis capabilities that can be only ad- dressed by distributed computing systems. To facilitate large-scale distributed ...

The objective of our research is to give support to decision makers when facing problems which require rapid solutions in spite of the complexity of scenarios under investigation. In order to achieve this goal our studies ...

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 ...