During the creation of a software architecture, the architects and stakeholders take a lot of decisions. Many of these decisions can be directly related to functional or quality r...
—When SA is applied to continuous optimization problems, the design of the neighborhood used in SA becomes important. A lot of experiments are necessary to determine an appropria...
The success of kernel methods including support vector machines (SVMs) strongly depends on the design of appropriate kernels. While initially kernels were designed in order to han...
Abstract. Finite volume numerical methods have been widely studied, implemented and parallelized on multiprocessor systems or on clusters. Modern graphics processing units (GPU) pr...
The heterogeneous nature and independent administration of geographically dispersed resources in Grid, demand the need for access control using fine-grained policies. In this pape...
Elisa Bertino, Pietro Mazzoleni, Bruno Crispo, Swa...