Sessions

Day 1 - November 10, 2026

Benchmarking and Data Governance (11:15 - 12:00 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • Benchmarking Embedding Models for ESG Data, Motaz Saad; Veronica Creti; Ivan Gentile; Kianna Kazemi; Antonella Longo
  • Auditing and Guardrailing Large Language Models for Ethical Issues and Bias, Chiara Criscuolo; Mathyas Giudici; Marco Brambilla; Davide Martinenghi
  • Data Governance Project Valuation: a risk-based model for the economic valuation of data governance initiatives, Mauro Tuvo

Big Data and Data Science Applications (12:00 - 13:00 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • A Semantic-Driven Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Technical Document Assistance in Airport Ground Operations, Aiman Al Masoud; Marco Arazzi; Davide Gabrielli; Antonino Nocera; Matteo Zucchetti
  • From waste to resource: How the VALOR project uses data management and AI to recover critical raw materials, Stefano Rovetta; Muhammad Mohsin; Rosario Capponi; Gianluca Dini
  • Context-Aware Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Marine Environmental Monitoring, Pietro Patrizio Ciro Aucelli; Francesco Camastra; Angelo Ciaramella; Emanuel Di Nardo; Alessio Ferone; Antonio Maratea; Antonino Staiano
  • PATH4U: A Knowledge-Driven Expert System for Context-Aware Tourist Itinerary Recommendations, Mariangela Graziano; Luigi Colucci Cante; Beniamino di Martino

Security, Privacy, and Beyond I (14:00 - 15:00 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • Security Assurance for Modern Big Data APIs, Marco Anisetti; Enea Manzi
  • The Impact of the Cyber Resilience Act on IoT Devices, Martin Jaatun
  • Extending Privacy Risk Assessment in Online Social Media: Comparing Sparse and Neural Text Representations, Alessandro Folla; Giovanni Livraga; Marco Viviani
  • Distributed Quantum Redundancy: A Framework for Delayed Selective Redemption of Encrypted Clones, Gabriele Gianini; Claudio Ardagna; Marco Anisetti; Paolo Calvi; Nicolò Tosin; Stelvio Cimato; Ernesto Damiani

Distributed Processing and Workload Management (15:00 - 15:55 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • A Neurosymbolic Residual-based Model for GPU Demand Forecasting, Lorenzo Colombi; Francesco Resca; Simon Dahdal; Elena Bellodi; Mauro Tortonesi; Cesare Stefanelli
  • From legal requirements to architecture design: designing secure processing environment in Common European Data Space, Federica Casarosa
  • From Data to Praxis: Fragility, Resilience, and Antifragility in Data-Intensive Systems, Salvatore Distefano
  • An Observability-Driven Architecture with a Two-Stage Decision Process for Predictive Autoscaling in Kubernetes, Angelo Marchese; Francesco Romeo; Orazio Tomarchio

Interacting with LLMs and More (15:30 - 16:00 Aula A):
Session chair: TBD

  • Data-Driven Resilience, Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili; Massimo Stella
  • Talk2AI: Longitudinal Big Data for Measuring Persuasion, Trust, and Fallacious Reasoning in Human-LLM Conversations, Ali Aghazadeh Ardebili; Massimo Stella
  • Mind Reading or Misreading? LLMs on the Big Five Personality Test, Francesco Di Cursi; Chiara Boldrini; Andrea Passarella; Marco Conti

Day 2 - November 11, 2026

Database and Querying (11:30 - 12:15 Aula A):
Session chair: TBD

  • A Computation-Friendly, GQL-compliant Compressed Static Graph Database, Lorenzo Bellomo; Giuseppe Cianci; Luca de Rosa; Paolo Ferragina; Michelangelo Pucci
  • Adaptive-Elbow Graph Traversal for Schema Retrieval in Text-to-SQL, Fabio Picariello; Salvatore Cipolla; Susanna Bonura; Vito Morreale
  • GRACE: Parallel Best-of-N Multi-Agent Analysis of Closed-Form Questions over Dataframes with Guardrail Selection and Adaptive Retry, Fabio Picariello; Salvatore Cipolla; Susanna Bonura; Vito Morreale

Tree-Based Approaches, Online Learning, and More (11:30 - 12:15 Aula B):
Session chair: TBD

  • How Sensitive Are Clustering Models to Data Errors? An Error Sensitivity Profile Approach, Andrea Maurino; Fariha Maqbool
  • Explainable-by-Design Personal Protective Equipment Recognition with Prototype-Based Decision Trees, Giustino Claudio Miglionico; Fabrizio Ruffini; Pietro Ducange; Carlo Vallati; Francesco Marcelloni
  • Behaviour Cloning for Online Learning of Driver Habits, Antonio Daniele Ferraro; Massimo Cafaro; Italo Epicoco
  • Pseudo-Trees for Top-k Simple Shortest Paths: Construction and Structural Properties, Gianlorenzo D'Angelo; Andrea D'Ascenzo; Mattia D'Emidio; Gabriele Di Stefano; Marta Innamorati

Security, Privacy, and Beyond II (12:15 - 12:45 Aula A):
Session chair: TBD

  • Bridging Model Explainability and Data Provenance for Interactive Pipeline Auditing, Pasquale Leonardo Lazzaro; Paolo Missier; Riccardo Torlone
  • Integrity of peer-to-peer distributed LLM inference under malicious nodes, Mert Cihangiroglu; Antonino Nocera
  • Context-Aware Software Vulnerability Prioritisation: A Case Study, Steve Taylor; Panos Melas; Mike Surridge; Manuel Leone; Paolo De Lutiis; Ravishankar Borgaonkar; Martin Jaatun

Federated Learning and Anomaly Detection (14:45 - 15:30 Aula A):
Session chair: TBD

  • QUASAR-FL: A Quality-Aware Framework for Secure Federated Learning via Homomorphic Encryption, Raffaele Aurucci; Stefano Cirillo; Giuseppe Polese; Giandomenico Solimando
  • Federated Digital Twins on Data Spaces: An Architectural Framework, Ferdinando Bosco; Vincenzo Croce; Marcantonio La Franca
  • Experimenting with Federated Learning for Multivariate Time Series Classification, Bruno Casella, Lorenzo Sciandra
  • BACON in TELEMETRY context, Rosella Omana Mancilla

Big Data and Data Science in Urban Applications, and Clustering (14:45 - 15:30 Aula B):
Session chair: TBD

  • Personalizing Hyper-Proximity: A User-Centric Web Platform for Customized Urban Accessibility Metrics, Giancarlo Ruffo; Mirko Lai; Anna Sapienza; Federica Cena
  • From Urban Big Data to Generative Digital Twins: Research Activities at the M.O.D.A.L. Lab, Marzia Canzaniello; Sara Amitrano; Stefano Izzo; Daniela Annunziata; Fabio Giampaolo; Francesco Piccialli
  • Large-Scale Interpolation of Georeferenced Urban Sensing Data, Carmine Colarusso; Ida Falco, Eugenio Zimeo
  • ONSET: Online Causal Detection of Urban Events from Mobile-Subscriber Traffic, Luca Fantin; Chiara Pugliese; Fabio Pinelli; Bruno Zamengo
  • DeBERTa-Based Maritime Named Entity Recognition, Mani Wadhwa; Neha Gupta

Day 3 - November 12, 2026

Industry I (11:00 - 12:00 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • DT4Energy: Open AI-Driven Digital Twins for Energy Systems (DT4EC Use Case), Ferdinando Bosco; Marcantonio La Franca; Manlio Serio; Luigi Forioso; Tania Sari Bonaventura; Pasquale Leone; Michele Fuschillo; Lorenzo Cristofori; Angelo Triveri; Vincenzo Croce
  • Agentic AI for ERP Tender Analysis: Design and Industrial Validation of a Multi-Agent Assistant in the Microsoft Ecosystem, Daniele Angeloni; Fabrizio Montecchiani; Daniele Selvi
  • DocFlow AI: a Secure, Model-Agnostic Platform for Next-Gen Industrial Document Processing, Riccardo Martoglia; Piero De Giacomo; Mirko Orsini; Sonia Bergamaschi
  • Empowering building energy management systems with foundational time-series models, Angelo Impedovo

Knowledge Augmentation and Ontologies (11:00 - 12:00 Aula B):
Session chair: TBD

  • Towards LLM-Driven Knowledge Graph Construction for the Semantic Representation of Formulas, Claudia Diamantini; Alex Mircoli; Domenico Potena; Cristina Rossetti; Emanuele Storti
  • Combining Ontology-Guided Retrieval and Fine-Tuned LLMs for Practical Experiment Assistance in Scientific Domains, Celeste Sguera; Antonio Pellicani; Michelangelo Ceci
  • Ontology-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive AI Systems, Ada Bagozi, Devis Bianchini; Massimiliano Garda; Michele Melchiori; Stefano Picchi; Anisa Rula
  • Targeted Augmentation for Intent Routing in Joint Search and Recommendation, Ajla Rustemi; Cristina Muntean; Raffaele Perego
  • A Knowledge-Guided Architecture for Structuring and Exploring Conversational Data in Assisted Care, Massimo Callisto De Donato; Flavio Corradini; Flavio Gerosa; Francesco Finucci; Niccolò Vito Vacca
  • Reversibility in Knowledge Model Editing: A First Taxonomy, Manuela Sanguinetti; Maurizio Atzori Maurizio

Industry II (12:00 - 13:00 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • From heterogeneous Open Data to decision support: a modular Platform for smart rural area management, Antonio Filograna; Francesca D'Agresti; Elena Not; Tjasa Hericko; Muhamed Turkanovic; Eleonora Mencarini
  • Cross-Layer Clinical Reasoning for Prenatal Ultrasound: An Ontology-Grounded, LLM-Extensible Knowledge Graph, Stefano Patalano; Antonella Poggi
  • Near-Real-Time AI Assistance for Swiss Ambulance Emergency-Call Handling: An Industrial Pilot, Federico Frati; Alessio Schiavo; Alessio Bechini; Pietro Ducange; Francesco Marcelloni
  • On-Premises Natural Language Access to Incident Knowledge Graphs: An Industrial Experience Report, Marco Palumbo; Alessio Schiavo; Pietro Ducange; Francesco Marcelloni; Nicola Tonellotto; Andrea La Mantia

RAG (14:00 - 14:50 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • A Self-Hosted Modular RAG Architecture for Academic Student Support: Design, Deployment, and Evaluation, Giulia Giglioni; Michele Mariotti; Gabriele Costante; Fabrizio Montecchiani
  • Language-Aware Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Local-to-Global Retrieval, Gianluca Bonifazi; Christopher Buratti; Stefano Cirillo; Michele Marchetti; Federica Parlapiano; Giulia Quaglieri; Giandomenico Solimando; Davide Traini; Domenico Ursino; Luca Virgili
  • Merging LLMs, Geospatial data and RAG, Tonio De Paolis; Massimo Cafaro; Italo Epicoco
  • MIRAGE-GNN: Multimodal Imaging Representation And Graph Embedding, Salvatore Contino; Luca Cruciata; Dario Morreale; Roberto Pirrone

Healthcare and Data Imputation (14:50 - 15:30 Aula Magna):
Session chair: TBD

  • Text2Triage: Fine-Tuning Clinical NER Models on Synthetic Emergency Speech Data, Mariano Barone; Francesco Di Serio; Vincenzo Moscato; Gian Marco Orlando; Marco Perillo; Marco Postiglione; Giuseppe Riccio; Antonio Romano; Diego Russo
  • From Prediction to Event-Centered Discovery: Longitudinal Complement Proteomics in Islet Autoimmunity, Domenico Rossi
  • On the Transformer-based Data Imputation in (Dynamic) Relational Databases, Gianvincenzo Alfano; Sergio Greco; Lucio La Cava; Tariq Mahmood; Irina Trubitsyna