ITADATA 2025
Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science 2025

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were X papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, X 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