Editors
Giorgio Guariso
Politecnico di Milano
Milan
Italy
Marialuisa Volta
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Brescia
Italy
ISSN 2191-530X
ISSN 2191-5318 (electronic)
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
ISSN 2282-2577
ISSN 2282-2585 (electronic)
PoliMI SpringerBriefs
ISBN 978-3-319-33348-9
ISBN 978-3-319-33349-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33349-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016951968
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Giorgio Guariso
Politecnico di Milano
Milan
Italy
Marialuisa Volta
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Brescia
Italy
ISSN 2191-530X
ISSN 2191-5318 (electronic)
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
ISSN 2282-2577
ISSN 2282-2585 (electronic)
PoliMI SpringerBriefs
ISBN 978-3-319-33348-9
ISBN 978-3-319-33349-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33349-6
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016951968
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is published open access.
Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit
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changes were made.
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