Discrete Event System (DES) are systems whose behavior is governed by discrete events occurring asynchronously over time and solely responsible for generating state transitions. DESs are particularly used in the field of ...

The understanding and the modeling of mechanisms involved in organic semiconductors are the aims of this Ph.D. thesis. In particular, the document focuses the attention on the role played by organic semiconductor defectson ...

This dissertation collects results of the work on the interpretation, characteri- zation and quanti cation of a novel topic in the eld of detection theory -the Unlucky Broker problem-, and its asymptotic extension. The ...

In the last decades we have assisted to a growing need for security in many public environments. According to a study recently conducted by the European Security Observatory, one half of the entire population is worried ...

Energy market liberalization processes and incentive programs by various National governmwnts are driving an increasing diffusion of a wide variety of Distributed Generation (DG) powe plants, causing huge changes and ...

Collections of handwritten documents of historical interest are often small, ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred pages, but they may have features typical of the collection itself which make them interesting for ...

This thesis work deals with the problem of learning the topology of a network starting from the signals emitted by the network nodes while executing some distributed processing task. In particular, these signals are generated ...

Since modern cryptography was born around the late 1970s, a myriad of cryptographic constructions and protocols have been proposed. The field quickly developed into a science whose results have had great im pact on people’s ...

Social robots are a particular category of robots able to perceive in- formation about the environment to reason about the acquired infor- mation with the particular aim to interact with humans. Remarkable applications ...

The power grid is an electric system capable of performing electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control. Nowadays it has been subjected to a deep transformation, which will reshape it completely. In fact, ...