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 ...

Recent security breaches showed that every attack begins with the involvement of users and continues with the exploitation of technology bugs. In almost all cases, without human collaboration, conscious and unconscious, ...

In recent years the substantial advancements in Information and Communication Technologies enabled the development of original software solutions that can provide support to problems people face in their daily activities. ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent thyroid malignant neoplasia. Oncogene activation occurs in more than 70% of the cases. BRAF mutations occur in about 40% of PTCs, whereas RET rearrangements ...

Effort estimation is a critical activity for planning and monitoring software project development and for delivering the product on time and within budget. Significant over or under-estimates expose a software project to ...

The problem of data compression having specific security properties in order to guarantee user’s privacy is a living matter. On the other hand, high-throughput systems in genomics (e.g. the so-called Next Generation ...

A cryptographic protocol is defined by the behaviour of the involved parties and the messages that those parties send to each other. Beside the functionality and the security that a cryptographic protocol provides, it ...

Data  warehouse  systems aim to support decision making by providing users with the appropriate  information  at  the right time. This task is particularly challenging in business contexts where large  amount of data ...