In the social reality, objects communicate with each other by means of assuming roles to establish collaboration, and then can adaptively change their roles to obtain other intera...
The huge volumes of unstructured texts available online drives the increasing need for automated techniques to analyze and extract knowledge from these repositories of information...
While it provides the unprecedented processing power to solve many large scale computational problems, GRID, if abused, has the potential to easily be used to launch (for instance...
This paper reports on research-in-progress designed to understand adoption and diffusion of e-learning (EL) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in northern Italy. The ...
A new topic of great relevance and concern has been the design of efficient early warning systems to detect as soon as possible the emergence of spatial clusters. In particular, m...