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 ...

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 ...

Con la sempre più rapida crescita in termini di dimensioni e complessità delle moderne infrastrutture di rete, l’attività di individuazione e prevenzione di abusi e violazioni nell’uso di tali infrastrutture sta diventando ...

Nowadays Internet is the fulcrum of our world, and the World Wide Web is the key to access it. We develop relationships on social networks and entrust sensitive documents to online services. Desktop applications are being ...

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 ...

The use of diagrams is common in various disciplines. Typical examples include maps, line graphs, bar charts, engineering blueprints, architects’ sketches, hand drawn schematics, etc.. In general, diagrams can be created either ...

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

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 ...

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 sensitive ...

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 horizons ...