SEBD 2024
Symposium on Advanced Database Systems 2024

Table of Contents

• Preface I-V
  There were 76 papers submitted for peer-review to SEBD 2024 main track. Out of these, 66 were accepted for this volume (11 regular papers and 55 discussion papers). Out of them, 38 were presented as an oral presentation and 28 as a booster and poster presentation. Additionally, 5 papers were accepted to be presented at the Doctoral Consortium.

Keynotes

• Enhancing Data Precision with Large Language Models: Analyzing Failures and Innovating Database Curation 1-2
  Georg Gottlob
• Detecting and Fixing Unfairness in Data-Driven Decision Making 3
  H.V. Jagadish
• Scalable Vector Analytics: A Story of Twists and Turns 4-5
  Themis Palpanas

Taste-of-time Award: Winner

• Tasting the Time: How M-Tree Broke the “27 Club” Curse 6-8
  Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Fausto Rabitti, Pavel Zezula

Taste-of-time Award: Honorable Mention

• Knowledge Discovery su Schemi per l’Integrazione di Basi di Dati 9-13
  Massimo La Camera, Luigi Palopoli, Domenico Saccà, Domenico Ursino

Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Analysis

• Building Taxonomies with Triplet Queries 14-24
  Donatella Firmani, Sainyam Galhotra, Barna Saha, Divesh Srivastava
• Mining Validating Shape for Large Knowledge Graphs via Dynamic Reservoir Sampling 25-34
  Matteo Lissandrini, Kashif Rabbani, Katja Hose
• A Provenance-Based Caching System to Speed-up SPARQL Query Answering 35-50
  Gianmaria Silvello, Dennis Dosso
• Computing the Why-Provenance for Datalog Queries via SAT Solvers 51-60
  Marco Calautti, Ester Livshits, Andreas Pieris, Markus Schneider
• Initial achievements in relation extraction from RNA-focused scientific papers 61-69
  Emanuele Cavalleri, Mauricio Soto Gomez, Ali Pashaeibarough, Dario Malchiodi, Harry Caufield, Justin Reese, Christopher J. Mungall, Peter Robinson, Elena Casiraghi, Giorgio Valentini, Marco Mesiti
• Towards a Standard for Triggers in Property Graphs 70-79
  Luigi Bellomarini, Anna Bernasconi, Stefano Ceri, Alessia Gagliardi, Davide Magnanimi, Davide Martinenghi
• ReliK: A Reliability Measure for Knowledge Graph Embeddings 80-90
  Maximilian K. Egger, Wenyue Ma, Davide Mottin, Panagiotis Karras, Ilaria Bordino, Francesco Gullo, Aris Anagnostopoulos
• The ARIADNEplus Knowledge Base: a Linked Open Data set for archaeological research 91-100
  Alessia Bardi, Miriam Baglioni, Michele Artini, Andrea Mannocci, Gina Pavone

Data Mining and Business Intelligence

• Assessing Speech Model Performance: A Subgroup Perspective 101-111
  Alkis Koudounas, Eliana Pastor, Elena Baralis
• An Innovative Big Temporal Data Analytics Technique over Real-Life Healthcare Datasets: The F-TBDA Approach 112-121
  Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Geertruida H. de Bock, Willemijn J. Maas, Selim Soufragi, Abderraouf Hafsaoui
• Emotional Data Querying: The BI Scenario 122-130
  Sandro Bimonte, Patrick Marcel, Stefano Rizzi
• Colossal Trajectory Mining: Semantic Co-movement Pattern Mining 131-141
  Chiara Forresi, Matteo Francia, Enrico Gallinucci, Matteo Golfarelli, Manuele Pasini
• Compressing Big OLAP Data Cubes over Mobile Clouds: A Hierarchy-Based Data Partitioning Approach 142-151
  Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Mojtaba Hajian, Abderraouf Hafsaoui
• Max Flow Vulnerability of Undirected Planar Networks 152-162
  Lorenzo Balzotti, Paolo G. Franciosa

Advanced AI Techniques in Databases

• Bootstrapping Gene Expression-Cancer Knowledge Bases with Limited Human Annotations 163-173
  Stefano Marchesin, Laura Menotti, Fabio Giachelle, Gianmaria Silvello, Omar Alonso
• Speeding up Vision Transformers Through Reinforcement Learning 174-184
  Francesco Cauteruccio, Michele Marchetti, Davide Traini, Domenico Ursino, Luca Virgili
• Verification of Unary Communicating Datalog Programs 185-194
  Cyriac Aiswarya, Diego Calvanese, Francesco Di Cosmo, Marco Montali
• Nowcasting of the energy production of wind power plants through spatially-aware model trees 195-204
  Annunziata D’Aversa, Gianvito Pio
• Data Filtering for a Sustainable Model Training 205-216
  Francesco Scala, Sergio Flesca, Luigi Pontieri
• Mitigating Unfairness in Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and an Evaluation Pipeline 217-226
  Chiara Criscuolo, Tommaso Dolci, Mattia Salnitri
• Refining Triplet Sampling for Improved Self-Supervised Representation Learning 227-246
  Manuel Goyo, Giacomo Frisoni, Gianluca Moro, Claudio Sartori
• Using Graph Neural Networks for Heterogeneous Event Classification 247-259
  Valerio Bellandi, Stefano Montanelli, Darya Shlyk, Stefano Siccardi

Natural Language Processing in Databases

• Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models: Exploring the Promise and Pitfalls 260-270
  Luca Sala, Giovanni Sullutrone, Sonia Bergamaschi
• From Product Sheet to Text and Video: A NLG Pipeline to Transform Structured Data into Comprehensive Descriptions 271-280
  Andrea Avignone, Alessandro Fiori, Silvia Chiusano, Giuseppe Rizzo
• Efficient and Effective Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval with EMVB 281-289
  Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini
• CAMEO: Fostering Joint Conversational Search and Recommendation 290-301
  Tommaso Di Noia, Guglielmo Faggioli, Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Fedelucio Narducci, Raffaele Perego, Giuseppe Santucci
• A Framework for the Generation of Training Examples from Tabular Data 302-311
  Jean-Flavien Bussotti, Paolo Papotti, Donatello Santoro, Enzo Veltri
• Clustering Amendments with Semantic Embeddings 312-320
  Alessandro Sajeva, Stefano Iannucci, Carlo Marchetti, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone
• Impact of Data Augmentation on Hate Speech Detection in Roman Urdu 321-330
  Fariha Maqbool, Blerina Spahiu, Andrea Maurino
• Named Entity Recognition using context similarity data augmentation 331-338
  Ilaria Bartolini, Angelo Chianese, Vincenzo Moscato, Marco Postiglione, Giancarlo Sperlí, Andrea Vignali

Process Mining

• Attacking Maritime Control Systems Through Process Mining 339-348
  Giacomo Longo, Francesco Lupia, Andrea Pugliese, Enrico Russo
• Enhancing Next Activity Prediction with Adversarial Training of Vision Transformers 349-358
  Vincenzo Pasquadibisceglie, Annalisa Appice, Giovanna Castellano, Donato Malerba
• Process-level Model Repair through Instance Graphs Representations 359-367
  Laura Genga, Claudia Diamantini, Emanuele Storti, Domenico Potena
• Exploring Large Language Models for Procedure Extraction from Documents 368-376
  Anisa Rula, Jennifer D’Souza

Applications

• Evaluating status and value assortativity in Threads 377-386
  Gianluca Bonifazi, Enrico Corradini, Domenico Ursino
• Design of a Telemedicine Infrastructure for Rural and Remote Areas 387-391
  Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Patrizia Vizza, Giuseppe Tradigo, Sergio Greco Pierangelo Veltri
• Food Certification through Collaborative Sensory Analysis Methods and Tools 392-400
  Ada Bagozi, Devis Bianchini
• “Dead or Alive, we can deny it”. A Differentially Private Approach to Survival Analysis 401-411
  Francesco L. De Faveri, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Riccardo Spizzo
• ASYDE: An Argumentation-based System for classifYing Driving bEhaviors 412-421
  Bettina Fazzinga, Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Giuseppina Monterosso, Irina Trubitsyna
• Infantile Predictors of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A Machine Learning Approach to Risk Assessment 422-430
  Flavia Indrio, Elio Masciari, Flavia Marchese, Matteo Rinaldi, Gianfranco Maffei, Enea Vincenzo Napolitano, Isadora Beghetti, Luigi Corvaglia, Arianna Aceti
• Machine Learning-Augmented Ontology-Based Data Access for Renewable Energy Data 431-445
  Marco Calautti, Damiano Duranti, Paolo Giorgini
• Automated Knowledge Extraction from Legal Texts using ASKE 446-455
  Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli, Sergio Picascia, Davide Riva
• Integrating Brain Networks and Multi-Modal Data for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease 456-467
  Carmela Comito, Clara Pizzuti, Marcello Sammarra, Annalisa Socievole
• PNRRorienta: A Web Application for Managing Schools, Courses, and Students Involved in the PNRR Orientation Initiative 468-476
  Andrea Pasin, Lorenza Da Re, Andrea Gerosa, Lidia Pezzuoli, Silvia Preciso, Nicola Ferro
• TypoAlert: a browser extension against typosquatting 477-485
  Francesco Blefari, Angelo Furfaro, Giovambattista Ianni, Alessandro Viscomi

Data Quality, Preprocessing and Data Analysis

• The Future of Sustainable Data Preparation 486-497
  Barbara Pernici, Cinzia Cappiello, Edoardo Ramalli, Matteo Palmonari, Federico Belotti, Flavio De Paoli, Angelo Mozzillo, Luca Zecchini, Giovanni Simonini, Sonia Bergamaschi, Tiziana Catarci, Matteo Filosa, Marco Angelini, Dario Benvenuti
• Comparing Incomplete Database Instances 489-507
  Boris Glavic, Giansalvatore Mecca, Renée J. Miller, Paolo Papotti, Donatello Santoro, Enzo Veltri
• From why-provenance to why+provenance: Towards addressing deep data explanations in Data-Centric AI 508-517
  Paolo Missier, Riccardo Torlone
• Autonomous Intelligent Systems: From Illusion of Control to Inescapable Delusion 518-527
  Stéphane Grumbach, Giorgio Resta, Riccardo Torlone
• POLARIS: A framework to guide the development of Trustworthy AI systems 528-537
  Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Domenico Gigante, Azzurra Ragone
• Data Pipelines Assessment: The Role of Data Engine Deployment Models 538-550
  Claudio A. Ardagna, Valerio Bellandi, Marco Luzzara, Antongiacomo Polimeno
• Schema Decomposition via Transformation Patterns 551-564
  Théo Abgrall
• Improving Malicious Accounts Discrimination through a New Feature Engineering Approach Using Relaxed Functional Dependencies 565-573
  Loredana Caruccio, Gaetano Cimino, Stefano Cirillo, Domenico Desiato, Giuseppe Polesea, Genoveffa Tortora

Interpretable AI

• A Comparative Assessment of eXplainable AI Tools in Predicting Hard Disk Drive Health 574-584
  Flora Amato, Antonino Ferraro, Antonio Galli, Valerio La Gatta, Francesco Moscato, Vincenzo Moscato, Marco Postiglione, Carlo Sansone, Giancarlo Sperlì
• Causal Mediation Analysis for Interpreting Large Language Models 585-594
  Elisabetta Rocchetti, Alfio Ferrara
• A Clustering-based Approach for Interpreting Black-box Models 595-603
  Luca Ferragina, Simona Nisticò
• Symbolic Regression for Transparent Clinical Decision Support: A Data-Centric Framework for Scoring System Development 604-614
  Veronica Guidetti, Federica Mandreoli
• Data and System Traceability for Transparent AI in Medical Imaging 615-623
  Sara Colantonio, Andrea Berti, Gianluca Carloni, Claudia Caudai, Giulio Del Corso, Danila Germanese, Eva Pachetti, Maria Antonietta Pascali, Varvara Kalokyri, Haridimos Kondylakis, Charalampos Kalantzopoulos, Nikolaos Tachos, Dimitris Fotiadis, Valentina Giannini, Simone Mazzetti, Daniele Regge, Nickolas Papanikolaou, Konstantinos Marias, Manolis Tsiknakis

Entity Resolution and Data Integration

• FDup framework: A General-purpose solution for Efficient Entity Deduplication of Record Collections 624-632
  Michele De Bonis, Claudio Atzori, Sandro La Bruzzo, Paolo Manghi
• Combining Entity Resolution and Query Answering in Ontologies: A Formal Conceptual Framework 633-642
  Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Domenico Lembo, Lucian Popa, Federico Scafoglieri
• Overlap-Based Duplicate Table Detection 643-652
  Luca Zecchini, Tobias Bleifuß, Giovanni Simonini, Sonia Bergamaschi, Felix Naumann
• Personalised Exploration Graphs on top of Data Lakes 653-661
  Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Massimiliano Garda
• How Transformers Are Revolutionizing Entity Matching 662-670
  Matteo Paganelli, Donato Tiano, Francesco Del Buono, Andrea Baraldi, Riccardo Benassi, Giacomo Guiduzzi, Francesco Guerra
• Privacy-Preserving Data Integration for Health: Adhering to OMOP-CDM Standard 671-680
  Lisa Trigiante, Domenico Beneventano
• A Minimum Metadataset for Data Lakes Supporting Healthcare Research 681-691
  Davide Piantella, Pierluigi Reali, Priyansh Kumar, Letizia Tanca
• Identifying key factors in designing data spaces for Urban Digital Twin Platforms: a data driven approach 692-703
  Cristian Martella, Angelo Martella, Amro Issam Hamed Attia Ramadan, Antonella Longo

Doctoral Consortium

• Understanding Emerging Cyber Attacks and Vulnerabilities Targeting Maritime Systems 704-709
  Giacomo Longo
• Data/Process Analysis for Advanced Interoperable Cyber Ranges 710-716
  Giuseppe Salerno
• Large Language Models integration in Digital Humanities 717-723
  Giovanni Sullutrone
• Symbolic Regression for Medical Scoring Systems: a Bayesian and Multi-Objective Approach 724-730
  Mattia Billa
• A Lakehouse-based platform for Data-driven Sustainability Monitoring in Energy-Intensive Production 731-737
  Paola Magrino