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