ITADATA 2025
Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 50 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 33 papers were accepted as full papers.

Papers

• Diabetes Management: Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring via ECG and Machine Learning
  Matteo Ruggiero , Luigi Di Biasi , Fabiola De Marco , Alessia Auriemma Citarella , Genoveffa Tortora
• A Federated Learning Architecture for Prostate MRI Image Segmentation
  Alice Bovio , Mario Barile , Francesco Pallotta , Lorenzo Pede , Alessandro Maiocchi , Marco Alì , Fatemeh Darvizeh , Deborah Fazzini , Francesco Lacavalla , Massimo Banzi , Gabriele Gianini , Corrado Mio , Filippo Berto , Ruslan Bondaruc , Ernesto Damiani , Saman Fouladi
• Investigating Edge Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models in a Federated Environment
  Lorenzo Colombi , Michela Vespa , Francesco Resca , Sara Cavicchi , Edoardo di Caro , Elena Bellodi , Mauro Tortonesi , Cesare Stefanelli
• Space-efficient private estimation of quantiles
  Massimo Cafaro , Angelo Coluccia , Italo Epicoco , Marco Pulimeno
• Reconciling Statistical and Causal Metrics of Fairness in Machine Learning on Data-Driven Systems
  Chiara Criscuolo , Davide Martinenghi , Jing Huang
• Health Data Sharing for Secondary Use: a Critical Overview
  Alessio Famiani , Ruggero G. Pensa
• Augmented Narratives: A Data-Driven Platform for Interactive Storytelling based on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation techniques
  Luigi Colucci Cante , Mariangela Graziano , Beniamino Di Martino
• Representation of the temporal ego-networks through graph evolution rules: a tool for Web3 applications
  Alessia Galdeman , Matteo Zignani , Christian Quadri , Sabrina Gaito
• HybridKAN: Leveraging Multi-Sized Sub-MLPs for Enhanced Performance
  Fabio D'Andreamatteo , Andrea D'Angelo , Giovanni Stilo
• From Data Sources to User Screens: a Multimodal hEalth Data lakehouse for ITAly (MEDITA)
  Maria Paola Priola
• Climate Data IT: towards a National Data Hub for Climate Science
  Sandro Fiore , Paola Nassisi , Ludovica Sacco , Gabriele Padovani , Fabrizio Antonio , Donatello Elia , Italo Epicoco , Nicola Giuseppe Marchioro , Marco Robol , Konstantinos Zefkilis , Flavio Vella , Carolina Sopranzetti , Andrea Alessandri , Annalisa Cherchi , Franco Catalano , Gianmaria Sannino , Gabriella Scipione , Marco Puccini , Erika Coppola , Ivan Girotto , Marco Reale , Stefano Salon , Antonella Galizia , Marcello Iotti , Paolo Giorgini , Hilary J Oliver , Valentine Anantharaj , Silvio Gualdi
• Real-Time Detection of Social Media Disinformation Using DISARM: Twitter Case Study
  Daniele Granata , Roberto Nardone
• Exploring the Dataset Landscape for Automated Propaganda Detection: A Data-Centric Insight
  Marco Usai , Davide Antonio Mura , Andrea Loddo , Manuela Sanguinetti , Luca Zedda , Cecilia Di Ruberto , Maurizio Atzori
• Improving Preliminary Diagnosis in Italian Through a Retrieval-Augmented Medical Chatbot
  Mariano Barone , Gian Marco Orlando , Marco Perillo , Giuseppe Riccio , Antonio Romano , Diego Russo , Ferdinando Tammaro , Valerio La Gatta , Marco Postiglione , Vincenzo Moscato
• DART: A Structured Dataset of Regulatory Drug Documents in Italian for Clinical NLP
  Mariano Barone , Antonio Laudante , Giuseppe Riccio , Antonio Romano , Marco Postiglione , Vincenzo Moscato
• Variational Inference for the Partial Credit Model
  Paolo Frazzetto , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti
• A new framework for Integrated distributed data management, processing, and advanced analytics supporting Digital Twin systems: a Proof of Concept
  Nicola Masi , Chiara Maria Capizzi , Francesco Patanè , Giuseppe Veneziano , Davide Profeta , Sergio Comella , Giada Sajeva , Lorenzo Gori , Susanna Bonura
• A secure AI-enabled platform to support the automated Alzheimer's disease diagnosis
  Claudio A. Ardagna , Veronica Buttaro , Michelangelo Ceci , Marco Luzzara , Antonio Pellicani , Gianvito Pio , Antongiacomo Polimeno
• Question Answering through Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models: an Experimental Evaluation
  Claudia Diamantini , Alex Mircoli , Alessia Pagnotta , Domenico Potena , Maria Cristina Recchioni , Emanuele Storti
• PARSAL: Pipeline for Automatic Retrieval and Structuring of Academic Literature
  Salvatore Contino , Irene Siragusa , Giovanni Sciortino , Roberto Pirrone
• Towards an AI-assisted T1DM Data Analysis Pipeline
  Anna Khristodulo , Giancarlo Mascetti , Giorgio Delzanno , Marta Bassi , Nicola Minuto
• Twin (Green and Digital) Patents Identification: an Automated Patent Landscaping Method
  Francesca Ghinami
• On effective ways to warn people against misleading contents
  Luigi Catuogno , Emanuel Di Nardo , Clemente Galdi , Gennaro Ragucci
• Network Traffic-Based Malware Detection for Android Devices
  Dincy R. Arikkat , Hasna Jabeen N. K. , Mirko Lai , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Anafa P. , Vinod P. , Rafidha Rehiman K.A.
• BoXoR-C: Coherence and Directionality of Counterfactual Explanations
  Antonio Maratea , Domenico Lugubre
• S-PIC4CHU: Semantics-Enriched Techniques for Data Preparation in Data Science
  Gianvincenzo Alfano , Ilaria Bartolini , Diego Calvanese , Paolo Ciaccia , Sergio Greco , Davide Lanti , Pasquale Leonardo Lazzaro , Emilia Lenzi , Davide Martinenghi , Cristian Molinaro , Marco Patella , Letizia Tanca , Riccardo Torlone , Irina Trubitsyna
• Non-Euclidean Geometries for Prototype-Based Image Classification: a Reality Check
  Samuele Fonio , Silvia Grosso , Sara Bouchenak
• A Service-Oriented Architecture for the Digital Thread of Smart Products
  Devis Bianchini , Massimiliano Garda , Anisa Rula
• Homomorphic Encryption for EDSS Classification: Safeguarding Patient Privacy in MRI-Based Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis
  Stefano Cirillo , Vincenzo Deufemia , Luigi Di Biasi , Giuseppe Polese , Giandomenico Solimando , Genoveffa Tortora
• Bridging LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning in Educational QA Systems: Insights from the XAI Challenge at IJCNN 2025
  Long S. T. Nguyen , Khang H. N. Vo , Thu H. A. Nguyen , Tuan C. Bui , Duc Q. Nguyen , Thanh-Tung Tran , Anh D. Nguyen , Minh L. Nguyen , Fabien Baldacci , Thang H. Bui , Emanuel Di Nardo , Angelo Ciaramella , Son H. Le , Ihsan Ullah , Lorenzo Di Rocco , Tho T. Quan
• Automatic Evaluation of Cancer Reduction during Radiotherapy
  Valerio Bellandi , Stefano Siccardi
• A Privacy-Preserving Schema Matching Technique based on k-Anonymity
  Domenico Beneventano , Sonia Bergamaschi , Carmelo La Corte
• Dividi et Impera: Enhancing Synthetic Data Fidelity through Data Partitioning
  Yordanos Nebiyou Yifru , Salvatore Distefano

Best PhD Awards

• Toward Explainable Biomedical Deep Learning
  Andrea Mastropietro
• Explainable AI methods and their interplay with privacy protection
  Francesca Naretto