The work presented in the Ph.D. thesis deals with the definition of new fuzzy models for Group Decision Making (GDM) aimed at improving two phases of the decision process: preferences expression and aggregation. In particular ...

A major goal in the design of cryptographic protocols is to re- duce the number of communication rounds. Since a cryptographic protocol usually consists of a composition and interplay of some subprotocols and cryptographic ...

Strategic information is one of the main assets for many organizations and, in the next future, it will become increasingly more important to enable the decisionmakers answer questions about their business, such as how to ...

The guarantee of food safety requires a fast and accurate control for all chemicals and bacteria, which are harmful for human health. In the food industry, the safety of a product is evaluated through periodic chemical and ...

Hip and knee articulations are the main joints in human body and they have the duty of sustaining heavy loads. This task is normally well performed by a healthy joint but, in some cases, the occurrence of diseases can ...

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 is ...

Nowadays, ripening of salami under natural conditions has been replaced by batch production in ventilated industrial chambers. Hence, the same product quality can be obtained regardless of local, environmental and climatic ...

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 interest in the protection and conservation of Cultural Heritage and the growing role that it plays in the development ofthe national policies, represents a valid reason to focus the attention ofthe research in this ...

Traditional materials (steel, concrete, timber and masonry) still dominate the building industry. However new materials are constantly being explored by engineers and scientists due to their numerous advantages offered. With ...