In the surveillance systems, Unmanned Vehicle (UV) scene inter- pretation is a non-trivial problem, because UVs need to possess human-like common-sense knowledge to correctly interpret events and situations occurring in ...

The thesis is focused on statistical methods to characterize, mitigate, and counteract distributed network attacks. When coping with distributed network attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, two ...

In the field of logistics, the study of systems that follow the recommended requirements of the ``Industry 4.0'' is now of paramount importance. Since traditional hierarchical and centralized control architectures have ...

Medium and Large Companies must compete every day in a global context. To achieve greater efficiency in their products/processes they are forced to globalize by opening multiple locations in geographically distant places. ...

The following thesis deals with computational models of nervous system employed in motor reinforcement learning. The novel contribution of this work is that it includes a methodology of experiments for evaluating learning ...

This research work has been produced with the aim of performing gender recognition in real-time on face images extracted from real video sequences. The task may appear easy for a human, but it is not so simple for a computer ...

The growth of the Internet and the pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have led to a radical change in our society, a deep economical, commercial and social impact on our lives. To date, most ...

Durability and sustainability of cementitious materials are two important issues in the field of construction materials. Durability is defined as the ability of cementitious materials to resist weathering action, chemical ...

Hydrogels are three-dimensional, hydrophilic, polymeric networks capable of imbibing large amounts of water or biological fluids. Depending on the type of polymer, number of cross-links, presence of ionic species the ...

Carbon nanotubes are unique nanostructure with remarkable electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, some stemming from the close relation between carbon nanotubes and graphite, and some from their one-dimensional ...