Ital-IA-TW 2025
Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025

Table of Contents

Summary: There were 130 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 104 papers were accepted for this volume. All of them are short papers.

Workshop 1: Responsible and Trustworthy AI

• End-to-end explainability of machine learning pipelines with decision predicate graphs: a financial scenario case study
  Leonardo Arrighi , Matheus Camilo Da Silva , Sylvio Barbon Junior
• Why does AI seem to have a problem with women?
  Antonio Rodà , Silvana Badaloni
• Is Underrepresentation overemphasized? A study of data bias and algorithmic fairness
  Marina Ceccon , Giandomenico Cornacchia , Davide Dalle Pezze , Alessandro Fabris , Gian Antonio Susto
• FrameSAI: a three-layer framework to create symbiotic AI systems
  Miriana Calvano , Antonio Curci , Rosa Lanzilotti , Antonio Piccinno
• Research on trustworthy and secure AI at the RETIS Lab, SSSUP
  Giulio Rossolini , Wesam Abbasi , Federico Nesti , Andrea Saracino , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo
• Theoretical basis and computational complexity of semifactual explanations
  Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Domenico Mandaglio , Francesco Parisi , Reza Shahbazian , Irina Trubitsyna
• Towards trustworthy AI in the public transport domain
  Giuseppe Riccardo Leone , Andrea Carboni , Giulio Del Corso , Silvia Gravili , Davide Moroni , Maria Antonietta Pascali , Sara Colantonio
• Evaluating the evaluators: trust in adversarial robustness tests
  Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli
• Responsible and reliable AI @ CINI AI-IS
  Piercosma Bisconti Lucidi , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Domenico Bloisi , Daniele Nardi , Carlo Sansone
• Advancing trustworthy in AI: mission and research lines at the TRAIL Lab
  Stefano Buzi , Simona Cacace , Andrea Loreggia , Nadia Maccabiani , Giorgio Pedrazzi , Mattia Savardi , Alberto Signoroni , Laura Zoboli

Workshop 2: AI and Sustainability

• Enhancing safety and explainability of reinforcement learning agents for environmental monitoring tasks
  Luca Marzari , Francesco Trotti , Francesco Dal Santo , Amirhossein Zhalehmehrabi , Celeste Veronese , Davide Villaboni , Federico Bianchi , Daniele Meli , Alberto Castellini , Alessandro Farinelli
• Towards a sustainable future: AI-powered solutions in agriculture and green energy
  Matteo Tortora , Giulia Romoli , Valerio Guarrasi , Rosa Sicilia , Francesco Conte , Federico Silvestro , Paolo Soda
• Applications of deep learning super-resolution methods for coastal ocean modelling
  Federica Adobbati , Lorenzo Bonin , Gianpiero Cossarini , Valeria Di Biagio , Fabio Giordano , Paolo Lazzari , Luca Manzoni , Stefano Piani , Marco Reale , Stefano Salon , Cosimo Solidoro , Stefano Querin
• AI for sustainability should be sustainable in its own: results from project FAIR-Spoke 9
  Luigi Pontieri , Pietro Sabatino , Francesco Scala
• Explaining reinforcement learning policies for power grid operations
  Luca Marzari , Francesco Leofante , Enrico Marchesini
• Advancing green and fair AI: a research perspective on environmental and social sustainability
  Loris Belcastro , Riccardo Cantini , Fabrizio Marozzo , Alessio Orsino , Domenico Talia , Paolo Trunfio
• Advancing sustainable AI: research perspectives from the CINI-AIIS Lab at Federico II
  Antonio Galli , Antonino Ferraro , Vincenzo Moscato , Lidia Marassi , Carlo Sansone , Stefano Marrone , Antonio Elia Pascarella
• Requirements analysis in ARCAD-IA project
  Pietro Patrizio Ciro Aucelli , Francesco Camastra , Angelo Ciaramella , Emanuel Di Nardo , Alessio Ferone , Antonio Maratea , Raffaele Montella , Antonino Staiano
• Multi-objective particle swarm optimization for environmental risk/benefit analysis with pre-assignment strategy
  Luca Puzzoli , Gabriele Sbaiz , Luca Manzoni
• AI4Materials: a manifesto for AI-driven scientific discovery in materials science
  Eros Radicchi , Usman Syed , Federico Cunico , Michele Cassetta , Uzair Khan , Paolo Marone , Alberto Scarsini , Filiberto Semenzin , Francesco Enrichi , Francesco Setti , Adolfo Speghini , Marco Cristani

Workshop 3: AI for Public Administration

• AI for public administrations: research at UNIFI DISIT Lab
  Pierfrancesco Bellini , Stefano Bilotta , Enrico Collini , Marco Fanfani , Luciano Alessandro Ipsaro Palesi , Paolo Nesi , Gianni Pantaleo
• Small Language Models for Public Administration: Towards Sustainable, Trustworthy, and Transparent AI Systems
  Francesco Recanati
• Enabling research collaboration with AI: the BI4E experience with large language models
  Gianluca Amato , Marcello Costantini , Luca Di Vita , Francesca Ferri , Paolo Melchiorre , Maria Chiara Meo , Francesca Scozzari , Matteo Vitali
• Neural technologies for predictive analytics in tourism governance processes
  Natalia Pichierri , Daniele Margiotta , Andriy Shcherbakov , Danilo Croce , Roberto Basili
• AI-supported certification of family-friendly organizations
  Davide Vandelli , Sara Tonelli , Pietro Marzani , Alessio Palmero Aprosio
• Towards an ontology network for Italian educational institutions
  Luigi Asprino , Aldo Gangemi , David Grassi , Giorgia Lodi , Nicola Mallogi , Elettra Morini , Maria Teresa Sagri , Eniko Tolvay
• Generative artificial intelligence in public administration: an integrated framework for regulatory compliance, ethical governance, and digital transformation
  Gaetano Riccio
• Prediction of unconstitutional index of Italian bills
  Monica Palmirani , Michele Corazza , Generoso Longo , Salvatore Sapienza , Pier Francesco Bresciani , Faria Ferooz

Workshop 4: AI for Health and Medicine

• Detecting anomalies in healthcare processes: a k-NN graph-based approach
  Iuliana Malina Grigore , Azin Moradbeikie , Sylvio Barbon Junior
• Advances in AI for health and medicine @ Computer-Human Interaction Laboratory (CHILab)
  Germano Ammirata , Salvatore Contino , Luca Cruciata , Irene Siragusa , Roberto Pirrone
• Lively Ageing: an integrated system of services and technologies to enhance the well-being of elderly
  Martina Casari , Giovanni Bonisoli , Laura Po
• Modeling and analyzing non-IID data in federated learning based ECG arrhythmia detection scenarios
  Davide Cantoro , Angela-Tafadzwa Shumba , Gianluigi Semeraro , Mattia Cotardo , Davide Rollo , Teodoro Montanaro , Ilaria Sergi , Massimo De Vittorio , Luigi Patrono
• SICURA: a symbiotic AI system to support pharmacological management
  Raffaele Manna , Giulia Speranza , Maria Pia Di Buono , Gianmarco Troia , Giovanni Vizzini
• Federated approach for glioblastoma radiogenomic methylation classification
  Eriberto Andrea Franchi , Elena De Momi , Alberto Redaelli
• Artificial intelligence in digital medicine across biomedical signal processing and medical imaging
  Simone Bove , Rosanna Ferrara , Martino Giaquinto , Gennaro Percannella , Alessia Saggese , Mattia Sarno , Francesco Tortorella , Mario Vento
• Feature importance via Shapley values in random forests for sleep apnea and hypopnea detection
  Giulia Cisotto , Shayan Sharifi , Shahla Sadeghzadehdarandash , Leonardo Badia
• Transparent machine learning for type 1 diabetes diagnosis from gene expression data
  Rosa Carotenuto , Viviana Pentangelo , Antonio Della Porta , Fabio Palomba
• Towards resilient ocular anomaly detection for health monitoring
  Giovanni Mancini , Antonio Visconti , Luigi Libero Lucio Starace , Sergio Di Martino , Daniel Riccio
• Transforming healthcare with AI: the work of CINI-AIIS at Federico II University
  Mariano Barone , Domenico Benfenati , Salvatore Capuozzo , Giovanni Maria De Filippis , Adriano De Simone , Simona Fioretto , Kyriakos Kristofer Georgiou , Michela Gravina , Julian Gortz , Lidia Marassi , Stefano Marrone , Enea Vincenzo Napolitano , Valeria Panzetta , Giuseppe Pontillo , Giuseppe Riccio , Antonio Romano , Cristiano Russo , Carmela Russo , Cristian Tommasino , Mariano Sirignano , Konstantinos Siettos , Elio Masciari , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Paolo Antonio Netti , Vincenzo Moscato , Carlo Sansone
• Health-related NLP activities at IDSIA
  Fabio Rinaldi , Andrea Franchini , Roberta Noseda , Oscar William Lithgow Serrano , Joseph Cornelius , Lorenzo Ruinelli , Amos Colombo , Sandra Mitrovic , Alessandro Ceschi
• HEMERA: H&E-to-HER2 encoding for morphology-enhanced region annotation
  Daniel Riccio , Francesco Longobardi , Mara Sangiovanni , Maria Frucci , Nadia Brancati , Mariacarla Staffa , Lorenzo D'Errico , Antonio Ciccarelli
• Leveraging AI for signal and image analysis in medicine and health
  Marco Cafiso , Andrea Carboni , Claudia Caudai , Sara Colantonio , Francesco Conti , Mario D'Acunto , Said Daoudagh , Giulio Del Corso , Danila Germanese , Giacomo Ignesti , Gianmarco Lazzini , Giuseppe Riccardo Leone , Massimo Magrini , Davide Moroni , Francesca Pardini , Maria Antonietta Pascali , Paolo Paradisi , Federico Volpini
• Explainability in breast cancer detection
  Ijaz Ahmad , Alessia Amelio , Daniela Cardone , Eliezer Zahid Gill , Francesca Scozzari
• Understanding and extrapolating from healthcare data through machine learning: a case study on a COVID-19 Dataset
  Michele Rispoli , Francesco Salton , Andrea Rocca , Paola Confalonieri , Marco Confalonieri , Alberto d'Onofrio , Luca Manzoni
• Automatic radiology report generation: evaluating the alignment of NLP metrics with radiologist assessment
  Andrea Santomauro , Ivan Gallesio , Xhorxhi Kaci , Giorgio Leonardi , Luigi Portinale
• A comparative study of speech-to-text for Italian
  Michela Quadrini , Michele Loreti , Mattia Luciani , Ivano Corradetti , Carboni Matteo , Stefano Vagnoni
• Enhancing medication safety with LLMs
  Gabriele De Vito , Filomena Ferrucci , Athanasios Angelakis
• Next-gen health: from multimodal AI to foundation models
  Rosa Sicilia , Fatih Aksu , Alessandro Bria , Alice Natalina Caragliano , Camillo Maria Caruso , Ermanno Cordelli , Arianna Francesconi , Valerio Guarrasi , Giulio Iannello , Guido Manni , Massimiliano Mantegna , Giustino Marino , Daniele Molino , Elena Mulero Ayllon , Filippo Ruffini , Linlin Shen , Matteo Tortora , Paolo Soda
• UniCas research initiatives in medicine and healthcare
  Gabriele Lozupone , Marco Cantone , 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
• MediMint: medical imaging and multimodal intelligence laboratory
  Alberto Signoroni , Mattia Savardi
• Improving medical code classification for death certificates using ontology-adapted contrastive loss in BERT models
  Kevin Roitero , Davide Volpi , Riccardo Lunardi , Mihai Horia Popescu , Vincenzo Della Mea
• Some research directions for multi-agent systems in medicine and health
  Vincenzo Auletta , Francesco Cauteruccio , Diodato Ferraioli , Grazia Ferrara
• From rules to reports: enhancing diabetes prediction interpretability with anchor and LLMs
  Francesco Festa , Antonio Della Porta , Viviana Pentangelo , Fabio Palomba
• AI-driven applications for diagnostic, clinical decision support and prevention in cardiology, orthopedics, and oncology
  Carmen Guzman Garcia , Monica Mordonini , Stefano Cagnoni
• AI and data science research in life science, system biology and medicine
  Alessio Ansuini , Alberto Cazzaniga , Edith Natalia Villegas Garcia , Michele Alessi , Federico Barone , Stefano Cozzini , Francesca Cuturello , Fiorella Fabris , Valerio Piomponi , Lucrezia Valeriani , Ruggero Lot , Marco Prenassi

Workshop 5: AI for Industry

• Efficient transformer-based identification of defects in fasteners
  Luigi Portinale , Giorgio Leonardi , Stefania Montani , Simone Garau , Guido Noce , Mario Brumini , Enrico Ottaviano
• An analysis of vision-language models for fabric retrieval
  Francesco Giuliari , Asif Khan Pattan , Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Fabio Poiesi
• Egocentric human-object interaction in industrial scenarios: a case study
  Marco Moltisanti , Ketty Cantone , Antonino Lopes , Emanuele Ragusa , Rosario Leonardi , Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella
• Spatial understanding for industry
  Daniele Di Mauro , Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella
• AI for industry at FBK
  Alessandro Cimatti , Fabio Antonelli , Luisa Bentivogli , Marco Cristoforetti , Andrea Micheli , Fabio Poiesi , Fabio Remondino , Angelo Susi , Stefano Tonetta
• AI for environmental, energy, and IoT applications: UniCas industrial research highlights
  Mario Molinara , Alessandro Bria , Domenico Capriglione , Tiziana D'Alessandro , Claudio De Stefano , Luigi Ferrigno , Francesco Fontanella , Fabrizio Marignetti , Claudio Marrocco , Alessio Miele , Filippo Milano , Hamza Mustafa , Vincenzo Rega , Alessandra Scotto di Freca , Luca Cicala , Sara Parrilli , Mariano Focareta , Giuseppe Meoli , Michele Vitelli , Carmine Bourelly , Andrea Amodei
• Bridging AI and industry: research and innovation from the CINI-AIIS Lab at Federico II University
  Antonio Galli , Flora Amato , David Carlini , Alessandro Del Prete , Sofia Dutto , Narendra Patwardhan , Stefano Marrone , Vincenzo Moscato , Gabriele Piantadosi , Carlo Sansone , Marco Valle
• The SmarTwin project, an intelligent digital supply chain twin
  Pietro Catalano , Angelo Ciaramella , Pietro D’Ambrosio , Aniello De Prisco , Michele Di Capua , Luigi Ferraro , Salvatore Moscariello , Pasquale Perillo
• An agentic AI for a new paradigm in business process development
  Mohammad Azarijafari , Luisa Mich , Michele Missikoff
• Reasoning in the financial space with the vadalog system
  Teodoro Baldazzi , Luigi Bellomarini , Emanuel Sallinger
• MYCAMPANIA.TRAVEL: leveraging generative AI to enhance digital travel experiences
  Aniello Somma , Sergio Di Meglio , Fabio Scippacercola , Ermanno Battista , Sergio Di Martino , Luigi Libero Lucio Starace
• AI and tourism: a chatbot for small and medium enterprises in the tourism sector
  Stefano Bistarelli , Marco Cuccarini
• AI-VaS: empowering edge video analytics with cloud-based services
  Bruno Vento , Cristian Cerasuolo , Andrea Vincenzo Ricciardi , Domenico Rocco , Stefano Saldutti , Antonio Vitale
• Renewable energy management in industry using AI and system simulation
  Behzad Pirouz , Francesca Guerriero
• Automatic positioning of AI microservices on NextG networks to support interactive holograms
  Martina Di Bratto , Antonio Origlia , Jaime Llorca , Andrea Detti , Alessandro Mauro , Marco Grazioso , Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Valentina Russo , Azzurra Mancini , Alessandro Perrino , Nicholas Napolitano , Giovanni Della Corte , Antonia Maria Tulino , Sergio Piane , Margherita Tennirelli

Workshop 6: AI for Cybersecurity

• Empirical quantification of spurious correlations in malware detection
  Bianca Perasso , Ludovico Lozza , Andrea Ponte , Luca Demetrio , Luca Oneto , Fabio Roli
• Learning to explain cyberattacks: insights from random forest and decision predicate graphs
  Eron Ponce Pereira , Azin Moradbeikie , Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão , Sylvio Barbon Junior
• Federated hyperdimensional ensembles for mobile malware detection
  Andrea Augello , Alessandra De Paola , Giuseppe Lo Re , Gioacchino Zangara
• Towards explainability framework for cybersecurity domain: a case study using NER
  Stefano Silvestri , Emanuele Damiano , Raffaele Guarasci , Mario Ciampi
• A concept drift stream generator for intrusion detection systems
  Gabriele Nicolò Costa , Alessandra De Paola , Salvatore Drago , Pierluca Ferraro , Giuseppe Lo Re
• Causal prototype attention classifier: an interpretable model for credit card fraud detection under extreme class imbalance
  Claudio Giusti , Mirko Casu , Luca Guarnera , Sebastiano Battiato
• Constructing cryptographic primitives with evolutionary computation and cellular automata
  Rocco Ascone , Firas Ben Ramdhane , Luca Manzoni , Giuliamaria Menara , Gloria Pietropolli
• Large language models in the software supply chain: challenges and opportunities
  Giacomo Benedetti , Luca Caviglione , Carmela Comito , Daniela Gallo , Alberto Falcone , Massimo Guarascio , Angelica Liguori , Giuseppe Manco , Francesco Sergio Pisani , Ettore Ritacco , Antonino Rullo
• The BullyBuster Research Center: a multidisciplinary approach to digital and social violence
  Giulia Orrù , Guido Colaiacovo , Sara Concas , Antonio Galli , Vincenzo Gattulli , Michela Gravina , Stefano Marrone , Marco Micheletto , Wanda Nocerino , Angela Procaccino , Giovanni Puglisi , Lucia Sarcinella , Enrico Santoro , Grazia Terrone , Alessandro Valenti , Donatella Curtotti , Donato Impedovo , Gian Luca Marcialis , Carlo Sansone
• Artificial intelligence in cybersecurity: activities of the CINI-AIIS Lab at University of Naples Federico II
  Roberto Canonico , Annalisa Navarro , Simon Pietro Romano , Giancarlo Sperlì , Andrea Vignali

Workshop 7: AI and Robotics

• Intelligent drones with vision technology for sustainable weed mapping in precision agriculture
  Pasquale De Marinis , Gennaro Vessio , Giovanna Castellano
• Spherical vision for mobile robotics
  Marco La Cascia , Liliana Lo Presti
• Investigating the mechanisms of embodied intelligence with evolvable modular soft robots
  Eric Medvet , Giorgia Nadizar , Michel El Saliby , Francesco Rusin , Berfin Sakallioglu
• I-BOAT: an autonomous sailboat to monitor the state of the seas
  Cosimo Distante , Vishali Mankina , Andre P.D. Araujo , Luiz Marcos Garcia Goncalves , Esteban Clua , Arturo Argentieri
• Evolving roles of intelligent robots in social and industrial domains
  Giuseppe De Simone , Pasquale Foggia , Francesco Rosa , Alessia Saggese , Mario Vento
• SISTER: social robots to support biopsychosocial frailty
  Vincenzo Solfrizzi , Claudia Chiapparino , Giovanna Castellano , Berardina Nadja De Carolis , Davide Lofrese , Giuseppe Palestra , Aurora Toma , Loredana Perla , Stefania Massaro , Mariateresa Santacroce , Giuseppe De Simone , Alessia Saggese , Mario Vento

Workshop 8: Generative AI

• A methodological approach for applications of generative AI to support students and teachers
  Davide Ponzini , Giovanni Adorni , Daniele D’Agostino , Giorgio Delzanno , Giovanna Guerrini
• Geometry, topology and mechanistic interpretability of large scale AI models
  Alessio Ansuini , Lorenzo Basile , Federica Bazzocchi , Matteo Biagetti , Alberto Cazzaniga , Stefano Cozzini , Francesca Cuturello , Diego Doimo , Yuri Gardinazzi , Ruggero Lot , Francesco Ortu , Emanuele Panizon , Valerio Piomponi , Tommaso Rodani , Alessandro Serra , Niccolò Tosato , Lucrezia Valeriani
• Towards sustainable computation: synergizing LLM heat recovery and algorithmic trading for energy-efficient AI systems
  Ivan Letteri , Pierpaolo Vittorini , Tamsir Jobe
• Prompt engineering approaches for working with biomedical knowledge graphs through LLMs
  Marco Mesiti , Emanuele Cavalleri , Matteo Castagna , Paolo Perlasca , Darya Shlyk
• Improving LLM-generated code via genetic improvement: a summary of recent advances
  Giovanni Pinna , Damiano Ravalico , Luigi Rovito , Luca Manzoni , Andrea De Lorenzo
• AI, spot me! Multimodal models in the gym
  Gaetano Dibenedetto , Elio Musacchio , Marco Polignano , Pasquale Lops
• Generative AI across modalities: insights from our research on domain-aware content generation
  Giovanna Castellano , Emanuele Colonna , Nicola Fanelli , Lucrezia Laraspata , Ivan Rinaldi , Alberto Gaetano Valerio , Gennaro Vessio
• Medicine without boundaries: generative AI for translating medical data across modalities
  Valerio Guarrasi , Francesco Di Feola , Giulio Ianello , Irene Iele , Linlin Shen , Massimiliano Mantegna , Daniele Molino , Elena Mulero Ayllon , Ludovica Pompilio , Aurora Rofena , Marco Salmè , Rosa Sicilia , Matteo Tortora , Paolo Soda
• Prompting the future: educator competencies and case-based innovation for GenAI in higher education
  Giovanni Adorni , Ilaria Torre , Gianni Vercelli , Daniele Zolezzi
• SAI4EO: generative AI for Earth observation tasks
  Nicolò Taggio , Elio Musacchio , Pierpaolo Basile , Flavio D'Ippolito , Domenico Monaco , Nicola Nicastro , Marco Polignano , Lucia Siciliani , Giovanni Semeraro
• Assessing large multimodal models on complex technical and procedural documents
  Roberto Zanoli , Alessandro Dal Pozzo , Alberto Maria Matassoni , Manuela Speranza , Ravi Kiran Chikkala , Magnini Bernardo
• Generative AI: developments, applications, and responsible practices
  Alberto Moccardi , Egidia Cirillo , Cristina Davino , Mattia Fonisto , Francesco Gargiulo , Rajib Chandra Ghosh , Ojasvi Gupta , Rajesh Jaiswal , Roberto La Rovere , Lidia Marassi , Zahida Mashaallah , Narendra Patwardhan , Gian Marco Orlando , Domenico Benfenati , Giovanni Maria De Filippis , Antonio Elia Pascarella , Diego Russo , Cristiano Russo , Cristian Tommasino , Stefano Marrone , Flora Amato , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Vincenzo Moscato , Carlo Sansone
• Teaching with Generative AI: Ethical Human-AI Co-Creation as an Innovative Legal Education Methodology
  Chiara Gallese
• Demystifying Generative AI: A Pedagogical Approach
  Emanuele Ballarin , Francesco Giacomarra , Andrea Mecchina , Nicholas Andrea Pearson
• Adaptation, automated feedback, engagement, and effectiveness in learning data science: a summary of five years of research
  Pierpaolo Vittorini , Ivan Letteri , Tamsir Jobe
• Evaluating large language models on Italian tasks
  Bernardo Magnini , Roberto Zanoli , Michele Resta , Martin Cimmino , Paolo Albano , Marco Madeddu , Viviana Patti

Workshop 9: AI, Misinformation and Disinformation

• Misinformation and disinformation in AI: the PICUS Lab experience
  Lidia Marassi , Narendra Patwardhan , Stefano Marrone , Carlo Sansone
• Beyond binary classification: ranking for information access in misinformation contexts
  David La Barbera , Gian Carlo Milanese , Georgios Peikos , Gabriella Pasi , Marco Viviani