Ital-IA 2024
Ital-IA 2024 Thematic Workshops

Table of Contents

• Summary: There were 128 papers submitted for peer-review to Ital-IA 2024 Thematic Workshops. Out of these, 93 papers were accepted for this volume, as short papers.

Thematic Workshop: Generative AI

• GiottoBugFixer: an effective and scalable easy-to-use framework for fixing software issues in a DevOps pipeline 1-5
  Placido Pellegriti , Carmine Cisca , Fabio Previtali
• GitHub Copilot: a systematic study 6-11
  Alessandro Benetti , Michele Filannino
• Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Question Answering with Large Language Models 12-17
  Ermelinda Oro , Francesco Granata , Antonio Lanza , Amir Bachir , Luca De Grandis , Massimo Ruffolo
• Large Language Models for Issue Report Classification 18-23
  Giuseppe Colavito , Filippo Lanubile , Nicole Novielli , Luigi Quaranta
• SAI4EO: Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation 24-28
  Nicolò Taggio , Sergio Samarelli , Matteo Simone
• Explaining Intimate Partner Violence with LLaMAntino 29-34
  Pierpaolo Basile , Marco de Gemmis , Elio Musacchio , Marco Polignano , Giovanni Semeraro , Lucia Siciliani , Vincenzo Tamburrano , Vita Barletta , Danilo Caivano , Fabiana Battista , Antonietta Curci , Rosa Scardigno , Gabriella Calvano , Patrizia Sorianello
• Regulating Generative AI towards the future 35-41
  Giovanna De Minico , Michela Tuozzo
• Using Large Language Models to Support Software Engineering Documentation in Waterfall Life Cycles: Are We There Yet? 42-47
  Antonio Della Porta , Vincenzo De Martino , Gilberto Recupito , Carmine Iemmino , Gemma Catolino , Dario Di Nucci , Fabio Palomba
• Large Language Models in Software Engineering: A Focus on Issue Report Classification and User Acceptance Test Generation 48-53
  Gabriele De Vito , Luigi Libero Lucio Starace , Sergio Di Martino , Filomena Ferrucci , Fabio Palomba
• Improving the accessibility of EU laws: the Chat-EUR-Lex project 54-59
  Manola Cherubini , Francesco Romano , Andrea Bolioli , Lorenzo De Mattei , Mattia Sangermano
• Virtual Scanner: Leveraging Resilient Generative AI for Radiological Imaging in the Era of Medical Digital Twins 60-65
  Carolina Adornato , Cecilia Assolito , Ermanno Cordelli , Francesco Di Feola , Valerio Guarrasi , Giulio Iannello , Lorenzo Marcoccia , Elena Mulero Ayllon , Rebecca Restivo , Aurora Rofena , Rosa Sicilia , Paolo Soda , Matteo Tortora , Lorenzo Tronchin
• Leveraging LLMs for Event Extraction in Italian Documents: a Roadmap for Future Research 66-71
  Federica Rollo , Giovanni Bonisoli , Laura Po
• Intelligent Smart Tourism Education: AI-Based Learning for Cultural Tourism Experiments 72-76
  Michele Angelaccio , Michele Fasolo , Lucia Zappitell
• Advancements and Challenges in Generative AI: Architectures, Applications, and Ethical Implications 77-82
  Flora Amato , Egidia Cirillo , Mattia Fonisto , Alberto Moccardi , Vincenzo Moscato , Carlo Sansone , Stefano Marrone , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Antonio Galli , Domenico Benfenati , Giovanni Maria De Filippis , Lidia Marassi , Narendra Patwardhan , Antonio Elia Pascarella , Cristiano Russo , Cristian Tommasino
• Teachers Interacting with Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Dual Responsibility 83-88
  Carmine Gravino , Alessandro Iannella , Mirko Marras , Silvio Marcello Pagliara , Fabio Palomba
• Toward the use of Generative AI to develop Computational Thinking by supporting Problem Decomposition 89-94
  Davide Ponzini , Giovanni Adorni , Giorgio Delzanno , Giovanna Guerrini

Thematic Workshop: Responsible and Trustworthy AI

• A Risk-based Approach to Trustworthy AI Systems for Judicial Procedures 95-100
  Majid Mollaeefar , Eleonora Marchesini , Roberto Carbone , Silvio Ranise
• Towards a responsible usage of AI-based Large Acoustic Models for Automatic Speech Recognition: on the importance of data in the self-supervised era 101-105
  Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Emilia Tanda , Francesco Cutugno
• Beyond the Hype: Toward a Concrete Adoption of the Fair and Responsible Use of AI 106-111
  Lelio Campanile , Roberta De Fazio , Michele Di Giovanni , Fiammetta Marulli
• Acceptability of Symbiotic Artificial Intelligence: Highlights from the FAIR project 112-117
  Francesca Alessandra Lisi , Antonio Carnevale , Abeer Dyoub , Antonio Lombardi , Piero Marra , Lorenzo Pulito
• Symbiotic AI: What is the Role of Trustworthiness? 118-123
  Miriana Calvano , Antonio Curci , Rosa Lanzilotti , Antonio Piccinno
• The NEMO co-pilot 124-128
  Stefania Costantini , Pierangelo Dell'Acqua , Giovanni De Gasperis , Francesco Gullo , Andrea Rafanelli
• Developing safe and explainable autonomous agents: from simulation to the real world 129-134
  Federico Bianchi , Alberto Castellini , Alessandro Farinelli , Luca Marzari , Daniele Meli , Francesco Trotti , Celeste Veronese
• On Representing Humans' Soft-Ethics Preferences As Dispositions 135-140
  Donatella Donati , Ziba Assadi , Simone Gozzano , Paola Inverardi , Nicolas Troquard
• Responsibile and Reliable AI: Activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II 141-146
  Flora Amato , Giovanni Maria De Filippis , Antonio Galli , Michela Gravina , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Elio Masciari , Vincenzo Moscato , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Cristiano Russo , Carlo Sansone , Cristian Tommasin
• Ghosts in the AI 147-152
  Emanuele Fulvio Perri , Elio Grande
• Towards Trustworthy AI in Inclusive Education: A Co-Creation Approach Rooted in Ecological Frameworks 153-158
  Valeria Cesaroni , Martina Galletti , Eleonora Pasqua , Daniele Nardi

Thematic Workshop: AI for Cybersecurity

• Adaptive Ensemble Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems 159-164
  Vincenzo Agate , Federico Concone , Alessandra De Paola , Pierluca Ferraro , Salvatore Gaglio , Giuseppe Lo Re , Marco Morana
• Robustness and Generalization of Synthetic Images Detectors 165-169
  Davide Alessandro Coccomini , Roberto Caldelli , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Fiameni , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi
• Dawn of LLM4Cyber: Current Solutions, Challenges, and New Perspectives in Harnessing LLMs for Cybersecurity 170-175
  Luca Caviglione , Carmela Comito , Erica Coppolillo , Daniela Gallo , Massimo Guarascio , Angelica Liguori , Giuseppe Manco , Marco Minici , Simone Mungari , Francesco Sergio Pisani , Ettore Ritacco , Antonino Rullo , Paolo Zicari , Marco Zuppelli
• A Natural Language Processing-based Approach for Cyber Risk Assessment in the Healthcare Ecosystems 176-181
  Stefano Silvestri , Giuseppe Tricomi , Giuseppe Felice Russo , Mario Ciampi
• Enhancing Cyber-threat detection coupling Deep Neural Ensemble Learning with XAI 182-187
  Malik Al-Essa , Giuseppina Andresini , Annalisa Appice , Donato Malerba
• Artificial intelligence tools in the ongoing fight against bullying and cyberbullying: a multidisciplinary approach 188-193
  Giulia Orrù , Vincenzo Gattulli , Guido Colaiacovo , Stefano Marrone , Giovanni Puglisi , Lucia Sarcinella , Grazia Terrone , Donatella Curtotti , Donato Impedovo , Gian Luca Marcialis , Carlo Sansone
• AI in Cybersecurity: Activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II 194-199
  Antonino Ferraro , Antonio Galli , Valerio La Gatta , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Vincenzo Moscato , Marco Postiglione , Carlo Sansone , Giancarlo Sperlì
• Real-Time Intrusion Detection via Machine Learning Approaches 200-205
  Erik Murtaj , Michela Quadrini , Fausto Marcantoni , Michele Loreti , Hans-Friedrich Witschel

Thematic Workshop: AI for Industry

• Data & AI for Industrial Application 206-211
  Antimo Angelino
• Design the modern supply chain: The SmarTwin Projec 212-217
  Michele Di Capua , Emanuel Di Nardo , Angelo Ciaramella , Gennaro Iannuzzo , Aniello De Prisco , Daniele Ruggeri Laderchi , Pietro Catalano , Pietro D'Ambrosio , Salvatore Moscariello
• Dictionary Learning for data compression within a Digital Twin Framework 218-223
  Laura Cavalli , Domitilla Brandoni , Margherita Porcelli , Eric Pascolo
• Industrial Datasets for Multi-Modal Monitoring of an Assembly Task for Human Action Recognition and Segmentation 224-229
  Laura Romeo , Annaclaudia Bono , Grazia Cicirelli , Tiziana D'Orazio
• Exploiting Multimodal Latent Diffusion Models for Accurate Anomaly Detection in Industry 5.0 230-235
  Luigi Capogrosso , Alvise Vivenza , Andrea Chiarini , Francesco Setti , Marco Cristani
• An integrated intelligent surveillance system for Industrial areas 236-241
  Francesco Camastra , Angelo Ciaramella , Angelo Casolaro , Pasquale De Trino , Alessio Ferone , Giovanni Hauber , Gennaro Iannuzzo , Vincenzo Mariano Scarrica , Antonio Junior Spoleto , Antonino Staiano , Maria Concetta Vitale
• 3D reconstruction methods in industrial settings: a comparative study for COLMAP, NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting 242-247
  Zeno Sambugaro , Lorenzo Orlandi , Nicola Conci
• Cutting edge video analytics solutions: from the research to the market 248-252
  Mattia Marseglia , Domenico Rocco , Stefano Saldutti , Bruno Vento
• UniCas for Industry 253-258
  Alessio Miele , Hamza Mustafa , Michele Vitelli , Alessandro Bria , Claudio De Stefano , Francesco Fontanella , Claudio Marrocco , Mario Molinara , Alessandra Scotto di Freca
• AI-driven models for Cold Spray deposition: transforming additive manufacturing for sustainability 259-264
  Alessia Auriemma Citarella , Luigi Carrino , Fabiola De Marco , Luigi Di Biasi , Alessia Serena Perna , Genoveffa Tortora , Antonio Viscusi
• AI in Industry: Activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II 265-270
  Alessandro Del Prete , Sofia Dutto , Antonino Ferraro , Antonio Galli , Vincenzo Moscato , Gabriele Piantadosi , Carlo Sansone , Giancarlo Sperlì
• Video Analytics for Volleyball: Preliminary Results and Future Prospects of the 5VREAL Project 271-276
  Andrea Rosani , Ivan Donadello , Michele Calvanese , Alessandro Torcinovich , Giuseppe Di Fatta , Marco Montali , Oswald Lanz

Thematic Workshop: AI for Finance and Marketing

• Large-Scale Transformer models for Transactional Data 277-282
  Fabrizio Garuti , Simone Luetto , Enver Sangineto , Rita Cucchiara
• VolTS Augmented: An Improvement of a Volatility-based Trading System to Forecast Stock Markets Trends 283-288
  Ivan Letteri

Thematic Workshop: AI for Health and Medicine

• Implementing Vision Transformers in Dermatological Practice: A Web Application for Melanoma Screening 289-294
  Daniele Sirico , Giuseppe Accardo , Valentina Esposito
• Advancing e-health with AI: Insights from our research experience in neuroimaging, acoustic signals, and vital parameter monitoring 295-300
  Gabriella Casalino , Giovanna Castellano , Gennaro Vessio , Gianluca Zaza
• ARTIS: a digital interface to promote the rehabiliatation of text comprehension difficulties through Artificial Intelligence 301-306
  Martina Galletti , Eleonora Pasqua , Manuela Calanca , Caterina Marchesi , Donatella Tomaiuoli , Daniele Nardi
• Leveraging Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms for Advanced Feature Selection in Chronic Disease Datasets 307-312
  Ivan Letteri , Abeer Dyoub
• LLM embeddings on test items predict post hoc loadings in personality tests 313-317
  Monica Casella , Maria Luongo , Davide Marocco , Nicola Milano , Michela Ponticorvo
• An MLOps Solution Framework for Transitioning Machine Learning Models into eHealth Systems 318-323
  Andrea Basile , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile , Giulio Mallardi , Luigi Quaranta
• Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for DBT data augmentation: preliminary results 324-329
  Lorenzo D'Errico , Lorenzo Pergamo , Daniel Riccio , Mariacarla Staffa
• UniCas for Medicine and Healthcare 330-335
  Marco Cantone , Svonko Galasso , Gabriele Lozupone , Emanuele Nardone , Cesare Davide Pace , Ciro Russo , Alessandro Bria , Tiziana D'Alessandro , Claudio De Stefano , Francesco Fontanella , Claudio Marrocco , Mario Molinara , Alessandra Scotto di Freca
• Advancing Healthcare Through AI: Innovations in Monitoring and Diagnostic Technologies at the Augmented Reality for Health Monitoring Laboratory (ARHeMLab) 336-341
  Giovanni Annuzzi , Andrea Apicella , Pasquale Arpaia , Lutgarda Bozzetto , Umberto Bracale , Egidio De Benedetto , Paolo De Blasiis , Antonio Esposito , Francesco Isgrò , Giacomo Lus , Nicola Moccaldi , Roberto Peltrini , Roberto Prevete , Simona Raim
• Leveraging Prompt Engineering and Large Language Models for Automating MADRS Score Computation for Depression Severity Assessment 342-347
  Alessandro Raganato , Francesco Bartoli , Cristina Crocamo , Daniele Cavaleri , Giuseppe Carrà , Gabriella Pasi , Marco Viviani
• AI in Medicine: Activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II 348-353
  Domenico Benfenati , Salvatore Capuozzo , Giovanni Maria De Filippis , Adriano De Simone , Michela Gravina , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Elio Masciari , Enea Vincenzo Napolitano , Giuseppe Pontillo , Marco Postiglione , Cristiano Russo , Cristian Tommasino , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Vincenzo Moscato , Carlo Sansone
• AI-driven technologies in Digital Health & Well Being: early detection and intervention strategies 354-359
  Ilaria Amaro , Alessia Auriemma Citaralla , Fabiola De Marco , Attilio Della Greca , Luigi Di Biasi , Rita Francese , Domenico Rossi , Genoveffa Tortora , Cesare Tucci
• Towards AI-driven Next Generation Personalized Healthcare and Well-being 360-365
  Fatih Aksu , Alessandro Bria , Alice Natalina Caragliano , Camillo Maria Caruso , Wenting Chen , Ermanno Cordelli , Omar Coser , Arianna Francesconi , Leonardo Furia , Valerio Guarrasi , Giulio Iannello , Clemente Lauretti , Guido Manni , Giustino Marino , Domenico Paolo , Filippo Ruffini , Linlin Shen , Rosa Sicilia , Paolo Soda , Christian Tamantini , Matteo Tortora , Zhuoru Wu , Loredana Zollo
• AI-Driven Innovations in Healthcare: Bridging Imaging and Genomics for Advanced Disease Insights 366-371
  Carlo Adornetto , Pierangela Bruno , Francesco Calimeri , Edoardo De Rose , Gianluigi Greco , Alessandro Quarta
• From Covid-19 detection to cancer grading: how medical-AI is boosting clinical diagnostics and may improve treatment 372-377
  Andrea Berti , Rossana Buongiorno , Gianluca Carloni , Claudia Caudai , Francesco Conti , Giulio Del Corso , Danila Germanese , Davide Moroni , Eva Pachetti , Maria Antonietta Pascali , Sara Colantonio
• Deep learning-based tumor resectability prediction model in patients with Ovarian Cancer: a preliminary evaluation 378-383
  Francesca Fati , Marina Rosanu , Luigi De Vitis , Gabriella Schivardi , Giovanni Damiano Aletti , Francesco Multinu , Roberto Veraldi , Paolo Zaffino , Carlo Cosentino , Maria Francesca Spadea , Elena De Momi
• Comparison of Machine Learning approaches for Stress Detection from Wearable Sensors Data 384-389
  Michela Quadrini , Denise Falcone , Gianluca Gerard

Thematic Workshop: AI for the Public Administration

• Developing a Decision Support System with a Georeferenced Smart City Security Index (SCSI): A Case Study of Messina 390-395
  Giuseppe Accardo , Roberta Marino , Valentina Esposito
• Towards a Semantic Document Management System for Public Administration 396-401
  Carlo Batini , Gaetano Santucci , Matteo Palmonari , Valerio Bellandi , Elisabetta Fersini , Fabio Zanzotto , Barbara Pernici , Giancarlo Vecchi , Stefano Ronchi
• Process Mining of Public Administration Operations from Big Data 402-406
  Dmitry Mingazov , Fabio Celli
• Empowering Time-Series Forecasting in Official Statistics through Transformers 407-412
  Alberico Emanuele , Francesco Pugliese , Massimo De Cubellis , Angela Pappagallo
• Artificial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption 413-418
  Fabrizio Sbicca
• I.PaC: the National Data Space for Cultural Heritage 419-423
  Margherita Porena , Antonella Negri , Luigi Cerullo
• Instruct Large Language Models for Public Administration Document Information Extraction 424-429
  Salvatore Carta , Alessandro Giuliani , Marco Manolo Manca , Leonardo Piano , Alessia Pisu , Sandro Gabriele Tiddia
• AI-driven big web redesign: two case studies in Italian universities 430-435
  Andrea Vian , Daniele Pretolesi , Lucia Rampino , Annalisa Barla
• Automatic Summarization of Legal Texts, Extractive Summarization using LLMs 436-440
  David Preti , Cristina Giannone , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli
• A preliminary study on Business Process-aware Large Language Models 441-446
  Mario Luca Bernardi , Angelo Casciani , Marta Cimitile , Andrea Marrella
• Road map per la creazione di un agente conversazionale per la scoperta di servizi pubblici coerente con le direttive di Design System Italia (DSI 447-451
  Davide Bruno
• Empowering e-services through the Semantic Web 452-457
  Raffaella Maria Aracri , Dario Frisardi , Roberta Radini , Valerio Santarelli
• Design of a Knowledge Hub of Heterogeneous Multisource Documents to support Public Authorities 458-463
  Paolo Tagliolato Acquaviva d'Aragona , Lorenza Babbini , Gloria Bordogna , Alessandro Lotti , Annalisa Minelli , Alessandro Oggioni
• SAVIA: Artificial Intelligence in support of the lawmaking process 464-469
  Michele Visciarelli , Giovanni Guidi , Laura Morselli , Domitilla Brandoni , Giuseppe Fiameni , Luisa Monti , Stefano Bianchini , Cosimo Tommasi
• Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis for Improving Attractiveness in Shrinking Areas 470-475
  Raffaele Manna , Giulia Speranza , Maria Pia di Buono , Johanna Monti
• Towards ShowVoc: dataset publication and browsing 476-481
  Armando Stellato , Manuel Fiorelli , Tiziano Lorenzetti , Andrea Turbati
• Legal Drafting supported by AI: enhancing LEOS 482-487
  Monica Palmirani , Fabio Vitali , Generoso Longo , Emanuele Di Sante , Aurora Brega , Andrea D'Arpa , Michele Corazza

Thematic Workshop: AI and Sustainability

• Insights into Entomopathogenic Nematode Behavior by Using AI Techniques to Advance Sustainable Pest Control 488-493
  Gianluca Manduca , Anita Casadei , Valeria Zeni , Giovanni Benelli , Cesare Stefanini , Donato Romano
• Single-instance, multi-target learning of 3D architectural gridshells for material reuse and circular economy 494-498
  Andrea Favilli , Francesco Laccone , Paolo Cignoni , Luigi Malomo , Daniela Giorgi
• Advancing Sustainability: Research Initiatives at the Signals and Images Lab 499-504
  Antonio Bruno , Claudia Caudai , Francesco Conti , Massimo Martinelli , G. Riccardo Leone , Massimo Magrini , Davide Moroni , Awais Ch Muhammad , Oscar Papini , Maria Antonietta Pascali , Gabriele Pieri , Marco Reggiannini , Marco Righi , Emanuele Salerno , Andrea Scozzari , Marco Tampucci
• Sustainable walkability in inner areas of Italy: a research proposal on AI-based simulation for older adults 505-509
  Frida Milella , Eleonora Clarizia , Alessio De Pellegrin , Stefania Bandini
• Unmasking Climate Change Impacts: Traversing Storms, Cold, Heat and Fire in Corporate Earnings Calls through a Hybrid Taxonomy and GPT-based Methodology 510-515
  Michele Cimino , Annalisa Molino , Maria Paola Priola , Lorenzo Prosperi , Lea Zicchino
• AI for Sustainability: Research at Ud'A Node 516-521
  Gianluca Amato , Alessia Amelio , Luciano Caroprese , Piero Chiacchiaretta , Fabio Fioravanti , Luigi Ippoliti , Maria Chiara Meo , Gianpiero Monaco , Christian Morbidoni , Luca Moscardelli , Maurizio Parton , Francesca Scozzari
• Machine Learning for Automated Seabed Mapping 522-527
  Umberto Di Laudo , Silvia Ceramicola , Luca Manzoni
• A Comparative Study of LightGBM on Air Quality Data Across Multiple Locations 528-533
  Martina Casari , Laura Po , Andrea Arigliano
• Safeguarding the Marine and Coastal Environment with Artificial Intelligence 534-539
  Paola Barra , Francesco Camastra , Angelo Ciaramella , Ciro Giuseppe De Vita , Emanuel Di Nardo , Raffaele Montella , Gennaro Mellone , Vincenzo Scarrica , Antonino Staiano
• AI for Sustainability: Activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II 540-545
  Flora Amato , Giovanni Giacco , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Antonio Elia Pascarella , Carlo Sansone