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During the last decade, we witnessed a constantly increasing digitalization in the health-care domain that, while from the one hand, has increased the average life expectancy representing one of the crowning achievements of the last years, from the other hand, has introduced extra challenges due to the simultaneous increasing of the proliferation of cyber-crime and the creation of malicious applications...
Electronic payment systems have always represented an attractive target for cyber criminals. In this context the Single Euro Payments Area Direct Debit (SDD) service is gaining more and more importance since it has been promoted by the European banking industry as an innovative payment infrastructure. This service allows to perform electronic payments across the Euro zone as simple as domestic payments...
The development of SCM systems is a difficult activity, since it involves integrating critical business flows both within and among participating companies. The inherently difficulty of the problem is exacerbated by the business constraint (that almost invariably applies in the real world) that the investments made by individual companies throughout the years must be preserved. This maps to major...
In the recent years payment systems in Europe are evolved to a new scenario where transactions and retail payments take place according to the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Regulation. SEPA is an initiative of the European banking industry aiming at making all electronic payments across the Euro area -- e.g. by credit card, debit card, bank transfer or direct debit -- as easy as domestic payments...
In recent years a growing interest has grown in Magnetic Resonance images segmentation techniques, due to their usefulness in many applications. Within this manuscript, a novel segmentation approach is presented, based on two main innovations. First, it exploits the estimated proton density and relaxation times for each pixel, instead of its gray-level intensity. This feature makes the algorithm particularly...
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