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Recent Publications

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Journals

  1. M. Pratelli, M. Petrocchi, F. Saracco, R. De Nicola: Online disinformation in the 2020 US election:
    swing vs. safe states. EPJ Data Science 13 (1), 25, (2024)

  2. M. Pratelli, F. Saracco, M. Petrocchi: Entropy-based detection of Twitter echo chambers, PNAS
    Nexus 3 (5), pgae177 (2024)

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

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

  5. 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)

  6. 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)

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

  8. 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)

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

  10. 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)

  11. 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)

  12. Guido Caldarelli, Rocco De Nicola, Fabio Del Vigna, Marinella Petrocchi and Fabio Saracco: The role of bot squads in the political propaganda on Twitter. Communications Physics, volume 3, Article number: 81 (2020)

  13. Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of Twitter users. Comput. Commun. 150: 47-61 (2020)

  14. Massimo Vecchio, Marinella Petrocchi, Michela Fazzolari, Pietro 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)

  15. Stefano Tognazzi, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, 5 Stefano Cresci: On the capability of evolved spambots to evade detection via genetic engineering. Online Soc. Networks Media 9: 1-16 (2019)

  16. Daniele Sgandurra, Andrea Saracino, Marinella Petrocchi, Ilaria Matteucci, Fabio Martinelli, Gianluca Dini: Risk analysis of Android applications: A user-centric solution. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 80: 505-518 (2018)

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

  18. ​Maurizio Tesconi, Cesare Zavattari, Alessandro Tommasi, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Del Vigna: Who framed Roger Reindeer? De-censorship of Facebook posts by snippet classification. Online Soc. Networks Media 6: 41-57 (2018)​

  19. Maurizio Tesconi, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Cresci: Social Fingerprinting: Detection of Spambot Groups Through DNA-Inspired Behavioral Modeling. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 15(4): 561-576 (2018)​

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Conferences
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  1. Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Viviani: ROMCIR 2024: Overview of the 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Through Credible Information Retrieval. ECIR (5) 2024: 403-408

  2. Gabriele Costa, Silvia de Francisci, Letterio Galletta, Cosimo Perini Brogi, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Pinelli, Roberto Pizziol, Manuel Pratelli, Margherita Renieri, Simone Soderi, Mirco Tribastone, Serenella Valiani:

    Systems Security Modeling and Analysis at IMT Lucca. ISoLA (1) 2024: 13-26​

  3. Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Gabriele Lenzini, Marinella Petrocchi:

    Can AI Help with the Formalization of Railway Cybersecurity Requirements? ISoLA (1) 2024: 186-203​

  4. John Bianchi, Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Pinelli:

    Evaluating Trustworthiness of Online News Publishers via Article Classification. SAC 2024: 671-678

  5. Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Saracco, Marinella Petrocchi:

    Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions. WebSci 2024: 139-148

  6. Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Viviani:

    Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ROMCIR@ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3677, CEUR-WS.org 2024

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

  8. 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

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

  10. 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

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

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

  13. Catia Trubiani, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De Nicola, Alessandro Balestrucci: Do You Really Follow Them? Automatic Detection of Credulous Twitter Users. IDEAL (1) 2019: 402-410

  14. Stefano Tognazzi, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Stefano Cresci: Better Safe Than Sorry: An Adversarial Approach to Improve Social Bot Detection. WebSci 2019: 47-56

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

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

  17. ​Maurizio Tesconi, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Cresci Exploiting Digital DNA for the Analysis of Similarities in Twitter Behaviours. DSAA 2017: 686-695​

  18. Maurizio Tesconi, Marinella Petrocchi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Andrea Cimino, Fabio Del Vigna: Hate Me, Hate Me Not: Hate Speech Detection on Facebook. ITASEC 2017: 86-95

  19. Maurizio Tesconi, Angelo Spognardi, Marinella Petrocchi, Roberto Di Pietro, Stefano Cresci: The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race. WWW (Companion Volume) 2017: 963-972​

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