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 ...

The market for biometric technology continues to grow. Biomet rics is used in the real world in a wide variety of fields, from surveillance, health care, advertising, Human-Robot Interaction to security and trust. Interest ...

In our society, learners face the constantly growing world evolution, its technological progress and the big questions that innovations spark. The increasing demand of computing competences reflects the spread of targeted ...

In recent years, there has been an explosion of data shared online. The majority of this internet information is in text format, and can be used as a source to create new knowledge. These data are frequently unstructured ...