Vulnerability is an important component of risk assessment and represents the main element in the risk perception. Typically, the characteristics related to social, cultural, physical and institutional factors increase ...

Ontology-mediated query answering (OMQA) is an emerging paradigm at the basis of many semantic-centric applications. In this setting, a conjunctive query has to be evaluated against a logical theory (knowledge base) ...

Still today, the fracture phenomenon in cementitious materi-als is a research topic widely investigated by numerous research-ers in materials and structural engineering, since it involves many theoretical and practical ...

Providing accurate diagnoses of diseases and maximizing the effectiveness of treatments requires, in general, complex analyses of many clinical, omics, and imaging data. Making a fruitful use of such data is not ...

Heterocyclic compounds play an important role in synthetic and bioorganic chemistry, as they represent a structural motif in a large number of biologically active natural and non-natural compounds. The synthesis of new ...

The thesis investigates the role minority shareholders' representation plays on detrimental and abusive Related party transactions (RPT) in Italy. The purpose is to analyse the impact that the slate-vote system can exercise ...

L’argumentation è una tematica di grande rilievo che si è distinta nel vasto mondo dell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Un sistema di argomentazione, adottando un particolare framework, riesce a gestisce discussioni tra agenti ...

Neutron tomography is a well established technique to non-destructively investigate the inner structure of a wide range of objects. The main disadvantages of this technique are the time-consuming data acquisition, which ...