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 ...

Data visualization concerns the communication of data through visual representations and techniques. It aims at enhancing perception and support data-driven decision making so enabling insights otherwise hard to achieve. ...

Functional dependencies (FDs) were conceived in the early '70s, and were mainly used to verify database design and assess data quality. However, to solve several issues in emerging application domains, such as the ...

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 ...

Current threats, such as terrorism and cyber-terrorism, pose new challenges to security and defence communities, and the ability to reason with different perspectives and detecting connections between facts, relationships ...