Abstract. Group communication is a programming abstraction that allows a distributed group of processes to provide a reliable service in spite of the possibility of failures within...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
We present TextPro, a suite of modular Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for analysis of Italian and English texts. The suite has been designed so as to integrate and reuse ...
Emanuele Pianta, Christian Girardi, Roberto Zanoli
We study query authentication schemes, algorithmic and cryptographic constructions that provide efficient and secure protocols for verifying the results of queries over structured...
Distributed Source Coding (DSC), formulated thirty years ago, is lately witnessing a great research effort. This effort is encouraged by emerging new applications that could great...