The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Working with the Image Description Processing Prediction" was the motto of this meeting, aiming to point out the role of Visual Language not only in describing reality, but also in supporting the thinking processes in Science (prediction), in Art (invention…
The book is inspired by the third seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano (July 2013). "Educating by Image. Teaching Styles vs Learning Styles" was the motto of this meeting. The contributions (coming from lectures, the poster session, interviews and round table) aim to propose an updated look at visual education, highlighting how d…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive TV, jAUTI 2014, and the Third Workshop on Interactive Digital TV, WTVDI 2014, held as part of Webmedia 2014, João Pessoa, Brazil, in November 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organize…
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the theory of persistence modules over the real line. It presents a set of mathematical tools to analyse the structure and to establish the stability of such modules, providing a sound mathematical framework for the study of persistence diagrams. Completely self-contained, this brief introduces the notion of persistence measure and makes extensive use o…
This brief examines current research on improving Vehicular Networks (VANETs), examining spectrum scarcity due to the dramatic growth of mobile data traffic and the limited bandwidth of dedicated vehicular communication bands and the use of opportunistic spectrum bands to mitigate congestion. It reviews existing literature on the use of opportunistic spectrum bands for VANETs, including license…
This Springer Brief investigates spectrum sharing with limited channel feedback in various cognitive radio systems, such as point-to-point, broadcast scheduling and ad-hoc networks. The design aim is to optimally allocate the secondary resources to improve the throughput of secondary users while maintaining a certain quality of service for primary users. The analytical results of optimal resour…
This book collects the proceedings of the 2012 Abel Symposium, held at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. The Symposium, and this book, are focused on two important fields of modern mathematical analysis: operator-related function theory and time-frequency analysis; and the profound interplay between them. Among the original contributions and overview lectures gathered here …
This book provides a comprehensive tutorial on similarity operators. The authors systematically survey the set of similarity operators, primarily focusing on their semantics, while also touching upon mechanisms for processing them effectively. The book starts off by providing introductory material on similarity search systems, highlighting the central role of similarity operators in such sys…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2014, held in Angers, France, in March 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Methodologies and Technologies and Appl…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in January 2015. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selection from a total of 89 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.