Existing software proposals for electronic payments can be divided into "on-line" schemes that require participation of a trusted party (the bank) in every transaction an...
Information flow and non-interference are well-established techniques for expressing both integrity and privacy properties. Because of the enormous potential to transmit informati...
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, the problem of generation of real random matrix samples with uniform distribution in structured (spectral) norm bounded sets is stud...
The Internet is constantly growing, proposing more and more services and sources of information. Modeling personal preferences enables recommender systems to identify relevant subs...
Focusing on the context of XML retrieval, in this paper we propose a general methodology for managing structured queries (involving both content and structure) within any given st...