Natural language, spoken and written, is the most important way for humans to communicate information to each other. In the last decades \emph{natural language processing} (NLP) researchers have studied methods aimed at ...

Given the central role of Business Models in company characterization, it is not surprising that a great deal of effort has been spent in studying suitable representations for them. Most of the proposed models, however, ...

In this work we present Casanova, a programming language. Its novelty lies in the fact that it was designed with an exclusive focus on making games. The goal of Casanova is to change the landscape of game development, ...

L'insieme di tutti i processi biochimici che avvengono in un organismo viene chiamato metabolismo. Il metabolismo è rappresentato da una rete metabolica suddivisa in vie metaboliche. Le vie metaboliche sono insiemi di ...

In this thesis, we present new schemes which leverage a constrained clustering method to solve several computer vision tasks ranging from image retrieval, image segmentation and co-segmentation, to person re-identification. ...

L'analisi dei dati attraverso un sistema datawarehouse è sempre più presente e necessaria per permettere alle aziende una corretta politica decisionale. Con l'aumentare della quantità di informazioni presenti nei sistemi ...

In the last two decades, a huge amount of data are increasingly become available due to the exponential growth of the World Wide Web. Mostly, such data consist of unstructured or semi-structured texts, which often contain ...

Publishing meaningful datasets that don't jeopardize the privacy of the partecipants is still a great challenge for the database community. It has been demonstrated that the recent differentially private approach guarantees ...

The burgeoning field of Digital Humanities has seen a great deal of interest in methodologies that support the exploration, cross-pollination, and programmatic analysis of heritage collections across the web of data. ...

In the last years most of our daily activities have moved to the digital world, including sensitive operations related to health data management and financial processes. Security flaws in the systems running these critical ...