Nowadays there is a growing interest in wireless sensor networks, one of the most significant technologies of the 21𝑠𝑡 century. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is essentially composed by a large number of electronic ...

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 ...

The mission of homeland security is ensuring the safety of living communities and protecting citizens from unforeseen events. In this research field, intelligent and advanced systems are extremely useful to prevent from ...

Computational science is an ever-expanding research eld. It combines tech- nologies, modern computational methods, and simulations to address prob- lems too complex to be e ectively predicted by theory alone or too ...

Biometrics has been a thriving field of Pattern Recognition forlong. Both Academia and Business have thus focused their at-tention in the practical use of biometrics to advance and pro-mote varying applications in ...

Context-Aware Computing describes the development of technologies and applications that can detect data from the surrounding environment and react accordingly with specific actions, reducing and simplifying the human-machine ...

In recent years, deep learning (DL) has obtained numerous successes in analyzing complex data, such as images or audio. A particularly recent area of application is the analysis of videos. This thesis focuses on the ...

Le attuali minacce, come il terrorismo e il cyber-terrorismo, pongono nuove sfide alle comunità della sicurezza e della difesa. Appare cruciale la capacità di ragionare con diverse prospettive e di rilevare connessioni tra ...

Il Facility Management è una disciplina in via di sviluppo che ha ricevuto l'attenzione di professionisti e ricercatori negli ultimi anni. Nell'industria ciò è dovuto principalmente all'importanza dell'efficienza nel ...

User expectations, motivations, and feelings when using a system have prompted the need to investigate beyond traditional usability issues by evaluating and designing for the user experience. User eXperience (UX), therefore, ...