Anonymous communication is an important building block for privacy enhancing technologies and in addition to this, the deployed anonymity networks have become important tools to protect the users’ privacy in the Internet ...

The development of distributed reactive systems is a complex and error-prone process. These systems consist of many separate autonomous components that operate concurrently and continuously interact with each other and ...

Recent innovations in the smart city and the maritime domains have led to the proposition of a new mode of transportation utilizing Autonomous Passenger Ships (APS) or ferries in inland waterways. The novelty of the APS ...

This thesis emphasizes the need for congestion control mechanisms for multimedia flows requiring both low jitter and low end-to-end delays. Such mechanisms must not only satisfy the user in terms of high Quality of Experience ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) presents a concept of smart world around us, where things are trying to assist and benefit people. Patient monitoring outside the hospital environment is one case for the IoT in healthcare. The ...

The methodological approach of this doctoral thesis is to use optical imaging and to employ the mathematical theory of regularisation methods, in order to support cultural heritage research. State-of-the-art optical imaging ...

We conduct risk assessments to reducing the uncertainty regarding future events in order to make the best decisions possible and to control risk. In industry, the aim is to find the appropriate balance in risk-taking ...

Digital ecosystems are continually confronted with increasing number, sophistication, and complexity of cybersecurity threats and incidents. Cybersecurity researchers have been acutely aware of this challenge for many ...

Summary Biometric recognition is a typical means to identify individuals or to verify claimed identities. Use cases are manifold. For example, users can unlock their smartphones for convenience by presenting their faces ...