Publications
(2025). Beyond Predictions: A Participatory Framework for Multi-Stakeholder Decision-Making. CoRR.
(2025). Community Membership Hiding via Gradient-based Optimization. CoRR.
(2025). Consistent Counterfactual Explanations via Anomaly Control and Data Coherence. IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell..
(2025). FROG: Fair Removal on Graphs. CoRR.
(2025). Generalizability through Explainability: Countering Overfitting with Counterfactual Examples. CoRR.
(2024). (∇) (τ): Gradient-based and Task-Agnostic machine Unlearning. CoRR.
(2024). Debiasing Machine Unlearning with Counterfactual Examples. CoRR.
(2024). Evading Community Detection via Counterfactual Neighborhood Search. Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2024, Barcelona, Spain, August 25-29, 2024.
(2024). Explain the Explainer: Interpreting Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Explanations of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent. IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell..
(2024). Natural Language Counterfactual Explanations for Graphs Using Large Language Models. CoRR.
(2024). Robust Training of Sequential Recommender Systems with Missing Input Data. Proceedings of the Workshop Design, Evaluation, and Deployment of Robust Recommender Systems (RobustRecSys 2024) co-located with the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024), Bari, Italy, October 18th, 2024.
(2024). Sparse Vicious Attacks on Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell..
(2023). A Byzantine-Resilient Aggregation Scheme for Federated Learning via Matrix Autoregression on Client Updates. CoRR.
(2023). A Survey on Decentralized Federated Learning. CoRR.
(2023). FLIRT: Federated Learning for Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023.
(2023). Prompt-to-OS (P2OS): Revolutionizing Operating Systems and Human-Computer Interaction with Integrated AI Generative Models. 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence, CogMI 2023, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 1-4, 2023.
(2023). Prompt-to-OS (P2OS): Revolutionizing Operating Systems and Human-Computer Interaction with Integrated AI Generative Models. CoRR.
(2023). The Dark Side of Explanations: Poisoning Recommender Systems with Counterfactual Examples. Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023.
(2023). The Dark Side of Explanations: Poisoning Recommender Systems with Counterfactual Examples. CoRR.
(2022). CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS 2022, 28-30 March 2022, Virtual Event.
(2022). ChAALenge: An Ambient Assisted Living Project to Promote an Active and Health Ageing. Proceedings of the Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society 2022 co-located with 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022), Udine (UD), Italy, November 28th - December 2nd, 2022.
(2022). Editorial: Human-Interpretable Machine Learning. Frontiers Big Data.
(2022). GREASE: Generate Factual and Counterfactual Explanations for GNN-based Recommendations. CoRR.
(2022). ISIDE: Proactively Assist University Students at Risk of Dropout. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2022, Osaka, Japan, December 17-20, 2022.
(2022). MUSTACHE: Multi-Step-Ahead Predictions for Cache Eviction. CoRR.
(2022). NEWRON: A New Generalization of the Artificial Neuron to Enhance the Interpretability of Neural Networks. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2022, Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022.
(2022). ReLAX: Reinforcement Learning Agent Explainer for Arbitrary Predictive Models. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 17-21, 2022.
(2022). Sparse Vicious Attacks on Graph Neural Networks. CoRR.
(2022). Turning Federated Learning Systems Into Covert Channels. IEEE Access.
(2021). CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks. CoRR.
(2021). Covert Channel Attack to Federated Learning Systems. CoRR.
(2021). Generating Actionable Interpretations from Ensembles of Decision Trees. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng..
(2021). NEWRON: A New Generalization of the Artificial Neuron to Enhance the Interpretability of Neural Networks. CoRR.
(2021). ReLACE: Reinforcement Learning Agent for Counterfactual Explanations of Arbitrary Predictive Models. CoRR.
(2020). Machine Learning for Web Vulnerability Detection: The Case of Cross-Site Request Forgery. IEEE Secur. Priv..
(2020). Treant: training evasion-aware decision trees. Data Min. Knowl. Discov..
(2019). Adversarial Training of Gradient-Boosted Decision Trees. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019, Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019.
(2019). Mitch: A Machine Learning Approach to the Black-Box Detection of CSRF Vulnerabilities. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-19, 2019.
(2019). Treant: Training Evasion-Aware Decision Trees. CoRR.
(2018). Advertising in the IoT Era: Vision and Challenges. IEEE Commun. Mag..
(2018). Advertising in the IoT Era: Vision and Challenges. CoRR.
(2018). Spot the Difference: Your Bucket is Leaking : A Novel Methodology to Expose A/B Testing Effortlessly. 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2018, Beijing, China, May 30 - June 1, 2018.
(2017). Interpretable Predictions of Tree-based Ensembles via Actionable Feature Tweaking. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Halifax, NS, Canada, August 13 - 17, 2017.
(2016). Learning to Rank User Queries to Detect Search Tasks. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2016, Newark, DE, USA, September 12- 6, 2016.
(2015). A Supervised Learning Approach to Protect Client Authentication on the Web. ACM Trans. Web.
(2015). Promoting Positive Post-Click Experience for In-Stream Yahoo Gemini Users. Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, NSW, Australia, August 10-13, 2015.
(2014). Quite a mess in my cookie jar!: leveraging machine learning to protect web authentication. 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW ‘14, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 7-11, 2014.
(2013). Discovering tasks from search engine query logs. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst..
(2013). Modeling and predicting the task-by-task behavior of search engine users. Open research Areas in Information Retrieval, OAIR 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, May 15-17, 2013.
(2013). SEED: a framework for extracting social events from press news. 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW ‘13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013, Companion Volume.
(2013). Trending Topics on Twitter Improve the Prediction of Google Hot Queries. International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013, Washington, DC, USA, 8-14 September, 2013.
(2013). Twitter anticipates bursts of requests for Wikipedia articles. Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Data-Driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from Social Media, DUBMOD@CIKM 2013 San Francisco, CA, USA, October 28, 2013.
(2013). Using Clustering to Improve the Structure of Natural Language Requirements Documents. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality - 19th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2013, Essen, Germany, April 8-11, 2013. Proceedings.
(2012). A clustering-based approach for discovering flaws in requirements specifications. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012, Riva, Trento, Italy, March 26-30, 2012.
(2012). Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Requirements: A Research Preview. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality - 18th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2012, Essen, Germany, March 19-22, 2012. Proceedings.
(2011). Discovering Europeana Users' Search Behavior. ERCIM News.
(2011). Identifying task-based sessions in search engine query logs. Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2011, Hong Kong, China, February 9-12, 2011.
(2011). Improving Europeana Search Experience Using Query Logs. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011, Berlin, Germany, September 26-28, 2011. Proceedings.
(2010). Detecting Task-Based Query Sessions Using Collaborative Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, Toronto, Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2010.
(2010). Towards a task-based search and recommender systems. Workshops Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, March 1-6, 2010, Long Beach, California, USA.
(2009). Challenges in designing an interest-based distributed aggregation of users in P2P systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, ICUMT 2009, 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia.
(2009). Search the web x.0: mining and recommending web-mediated processes. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2009, New York, NY, USA, October 23-25, 2009.
(2008). SPRANKER: A Discovery Tool to Rank Service Providers Using Quality of Experience. ERCIM News.
(2006). An open standard solution for domotic interoperability. IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron..