MELIS , Andrea

Water content estimation is of capital importance during the production process of the Carasau bread. A suitable microwave sensor could help monitor the moisture level in a non-invasive and reliable way. A simple narrowband patch antenna is proven to be more performing than dual band or wideband antennas. Magnitude and phase of the scattering...

Within the framework of the recent agri-food technological advancement, the design and validation of a methodology for the water content estimation in the Carasau bread manufacturing process is herein presented. Following a thorough evaluation of the dough dielectric properties, a suitable antenna layout has been selected, pointing out the...

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) applies the everything-as-a-service paradigm of Cloud Computing to transportation: a MaaS provider offers to its users the dynamic composition of solutions of different travel agencies into a single, consistent interface. Traditionally, transits and data on mobility belong to a scattered plethora of operators. Thus,...

Mobility as a Service takes the concept of XaaS to transportation: a MaaS provider shall merge transport options from different mobility providers, seamlessly handling the whole experience of traveling, from providing information, to travel planning, and payments handling. To effectively support the creation of a market of MaaS providers, we...

Multi-modal travelling is a common phenomenon. However, planning multi-modal journeys is still an unstructured and time-consuming experience for customers: they lose time assembling a comprehensive plan out of disparate data, spread over a multitude of information systems — each corresponding to a different company responsible for one of the...

Crypto-ransomware aims at extorting money from users by encrypting their files and asking them to pay for the decryption key. We present Ranflood; a configurable drop-in solution that contrasts ransomware attacks with a deluge of decoy files at specific locations (e.g., sensitive folders of the user, the attack site), deceiving the attacker...

Microservices is an emerging paradigm for developing distributed systems. With their widespread adoption, more and more work investigated the relation between microservices and security. Alas, the literature on this subject does not form a well-defined corpus : it is spread over many venues and composed of contributions mainly addressing...

Ransomware is one of the most infamous kinds of malware, particularly the "crypto" subclass, which encrypts users' files, asking for some monetary ransom in exchange for the decryption key. Recently, crypto-ransomware grew into a scourge for enterprises and governmental institutions. The most recent and impactful cases include an oil company in...