[Abstract] The notion of distance correlationwas introduced to measure the dependence between two random vectors, not necessarily of equal dimensions, in a multivariate setting. In their work, Sz´ekely et al. (2007) ...

[Abstract] The study of animal behavior in laboratory experiments is key in ethology, ecotoxicology, neuroscience and other fields. Although modern studies use computer imaging techniques, current solutions cannot preserve ...

BDWatchdog is a framework to assist in the in-depth and real-time analysis of the execution of Big Data frameworks and applications. BDWatchdog was originally developed to monitor Hadoop ecosystems deployed on serverless ...

[Abstract] Sleep medicine deals with the diagnosis and treatment of sleep-related disorders. The diagnosis is carried out through the manual analysis and labeling of polysomnographic studies, which record various ...

[Abstract] Password-based traditional authentication systems are increasingly insufficient when it comes to providing security and checking the identity of the authenticated user. What happens when the password of an ...

[Abstract] In thiswork, we investigate pilot attacks for 5G single-cell multi-user massive multipleinput multiple-output (MaMIMO) systems with a single-antenna active eavesdropper and a single-antenna jammer operating ...

[Abstract] The present study proposes an innovative approach to promote wellbeing by developing forest bathing environments in virtual reality (VR). Forest bathing, a practice rooted in traditional Japanese culture, ...

[Abstract] In the current context of an era in which a significant portion of people are constantly living online, with various multimedia streaming platforms serving as major sources of entertainment, and with e-commerce ...

[Abstract] Increasingly, the use of technology is emerging as a tool to support health care. The newinformation and telecommunications technologies have triggered a newparadigm in health: in access, availability and ...

[Abstract] A promising direction for the use of UAVs is their association into groups or herds, like the insects observe the principle of swarm organization in the nature. In the case of UAVs, after combining into a ...