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Recent Publications

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Journals

  1. Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi:
    Adversarial Machine Learning for Protecting Against Online Manipulation. IEEE Internet Comput. 26(2): 47-52 (2022)

  2. Mattia Mattei, Manuel Pratelli, Guido Caldarelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco:
    Bow-Tie Structures of Twitter Discursive Communities. Scientific Reports 12(12944) (2022)

  3. Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif, Yassine Maleh, Marinella Petrocchi, Valentina Casola:
    Guest Editorial: Advanced Computing and Blockchain Applications for Critical Industrial IoT. IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics 18(11): 8282-8286 (2022)

  4. Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco:
    Flow of online misinformation during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. EPJ Data Sci. 10(1): 34 (2021)

  5. Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi:
    The coming age of adversarial social bot detection. First Monday 26(6) (2021)

  6. Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Manuel Pratelli:
    On the efficacy of old features for the detection of new bots. Inf. Process. Manag. 58(6): 102685 (2021)

  7. Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Catia Trubiani:
    A behavioural analysis of credulous Twitter users. Online Soc. Networks Media 23: 100133 (2021)

  8. Michela Fazzolari, Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Marinella Petrocchi:
    Experience: Improving Opinion Spam Detection by Cumulative Relative Frequency Distribution. ACM J. Data Inf. Qual. 13(1): 4:1-4:16 (2021)

  9. Yesim Tonga Uriarte, Marinella Petrocchi, Maria Luisa Catoni, Stefano Cresci, Rocco De Nicola, Maurizio Tesconi, Rafael Brundo Uriarte: Exploring the relation between festivals and host cities on Twitter: a study on the impacts of Lucca Comics & Games. Journal of Information Technology and Tourism 22(4): 625-648 (2020)

  10. Guido CaldarelliRocco De Nicola, Fabio Del VignaMarinella Petrocchi and Fabio Saracco: The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on TwitterCommunications Physics, volume 3, Article number: 81 (2020)

  11. Stefano CresciRoberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo SpognardiMaurizio Tesconi: Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of Twitter users. Comput. Commun. 150: 47-61 (2020)

  12. Massimo Vecchio, Marinella Petrocchi, Michela FazzolariPietro Ducange: An effective Decision Support System for social media listening based on cross-source sentiment analysis models. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 78: 71-85 (2019)

  13. Stefano TognazziAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, 5 Stefano CresciOn the capability of evolved spambots to evade detection via genetic engineering. Online Soc. Networks Media 9: 1-16 (2019)

  14. Daniele SgandurraAndrea Saracino, Marinella Petrocchi, Ilaria MatteucciFabio MartinelliGianluca DiniRisk analysis of Android applications: A user-centric solution. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 80: 505-518 (2018)

  15. Marinella Petrocchi, Michela FazzolariA study on online travel reviews through intelligent data analysis. J. of IT & Tourism 20 (1-4): 37-58 (2018)

  16. Maurizio TesconiCesare ZavattariAlessandro Tommasi, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Del VignaWho framed Roger Reindeer? De-censorship of Facebook posts by snippet classification. Online Soc. Networks Media 6: 41-57 (2018)​

  17. Maurizio TesconiAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di PietroStefano CresciSocial Fingerprinting: Detection of Spambot Groups Through DNA-Inspired Behavioral Modeling. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 15(4): 561-576 (2018)

Conferences
  1. Edoardo Di Paolo, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi:
    From Online Behaviours to Images: A Novel Approach to Social Bot Detection. ICCS (1) 2023: 593-607

  2. Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Saracco, Rocco De Nicola:
    Swinging in the States: Does disinformation on Twitter mirror the US presidential election system? WWW (Companion Volume) 2023: 1395-1403

  3. Manuel Pratelli and Marinella Petrocchi: A Structured Analysis of Journalistic Evaluations for News Source Reliability ICWSM Workshops 2022

  4. Michela Fazzolari, Stefania Fabbri, Ilaria Matteucci, Marinella Petrocchi, Anna Vaccarelli: Presente Digitale: an Online Education System for Teachers. In HELMeTO 2020, published by Springer CCIS book series, 2020

  5. Angelo Spognardi and Marinella Petrocchi: On the Robustness of Rating Aggregators Against Injection Attacks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12259, MISDOOM 2020

  6. Michela Fazzolari, Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Martinelli and Marinella Petrocchi: Emotions and Interests of Evolving Twitter BotsIEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS 2020)

  7. Catia Trubiani, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De NicolaAlessandro BalestrucciDo You Really Follow Them? Automatic Detection of Credulous Twitter Users. IDEAL (1) 2019: 402-410

  8. Stefano TognazziAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Stefano CresciBetter Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection. WebSci 2019: 47-56

  9. Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Michela Fazzolari Predicting Online Review Scores Across Reviewer Categories. IDEAL (1) 2018: 698-710​

  10. Stefano TognazziAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Stefano Cresci From Reaction to Proaction: Unexplored Ways to the Detection of Evolving Spambots. WWW (Companion Volume) 2018: 1469-1470

  11. Maurizio TesconiAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di PietroStefano Cresci Exploiting Digital DNA for the Analysis of Similarities in Twitter BehavioursDSAA 2017: 686-695​

  12. Maurizio Tesconi, Marinella Petrocchi, Felice Dell'OrlettaAndrea CiminoFabio Del VignaHate Me, Hate Me Not: Hate Speech Detection on Facebook. ITASEC 2017: 86-95

  13. Maurizio TesconiAngelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di PietroStefano CresciThe Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race. WWW (Companion Volume) 2017: 963-972​

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