Electronic procurement has been widely embraced by governments seeking the administrative efficiencies and cost reductions experienced in the private sector. The enthusiastic resp...
: The flow of data coming from modern sensing devices enables the development of novel research techniques related to data management and knowledge extraction. In this work, we und...
In real world processes in the industry or in business, where the elements involved generate data full of noise and biases, improving the energy efficiency represents one of the ma...
The goal of this paper is to permit secure outsourced system evaluation. We propose a method for generating synthetic databases and obfuscating a workload of queries in order to pr...
—The ever increasing scale and complexity of large computational systems ask for sophisticated management tools, paving the way toward Autonomic Computing. A first step toward A...