publications
Selected and recent papers from the lab
2026
- conference Keynote: Rethinking AI Through Full Decentralisation
- conference EARL: Energy-Aware Optimization of Liquid State Machines for Pervasive AI
- conference Operating Regimes of Decentralized Learning Under Mobility and Bandwidth Constraints
- conference Towards neurosymbolic network intrusion detection
- preprint Sparing User Time with a Socially-Aware Independent Metaverse Avatar
- preprint DecHW: Heterogeneous Decentralized Federated Learning Exploiting Second-Order Information
- preprint Gender Disparities in StackOverflow's Community-Based Question Answering: A Matter of Quantity versus Quality
- preprint Neural Network Compression by Approximate Differential Equivalence
- preprint Layered Ego Networks in Email Communication: From Enron to the Jmail Archive
- preprint Annotation of Positive vs Negative User Interactions for Social Sign Prediction
- preprint Decentralised Federated Learning over Temporal Networks: The Role of Heterogeneities
- journal Federated clustering: An unsupervised cluster-wise training for decentralized data distributions
- journal The Impact of COVID-19 on Twitter Ego Networks: Structure, Sentiment, and Topics
- journal Coordination-free decentralised federated learning in pervasive networks: Overcoming heterogeneity
- journal Cascade-Driven Opinion Dynamics on Social Networks
- journal Federated Unlearning via Distilled Data
- journal Leveraging Topic Specificity and Social Relationships for Expert Finding in Community Question Answering Platforms
2025
- conference DODO: Causal Structure Learning with Budgeted Interventions
- conference Agent Meets World: Learning Causality Through Repeated Autonomous Interventions
- conference Human-AI Coevolution (Abstract Reprint)
- conference The Built-In Robustness of Decentralized Federated Averaging to Bad Data
- conference Improving Communication-Efficiency for Decentralized Federated Clustering
- journal Human-AI coevolution
- journal Initialisation and network effects in decentralised federated learning
- journal Robustness of decentralised learning to nodes and data disruption
- preprint Mind Reading or Misreading? LLMs on the Big Five Personality Test
2024
- conference Applying the Ego Network Model to Cross-Target Stance Detection
- conference A Herd of Young Mastodonts: the User-Centered Footprints of Newcomers After Twitter Acquisition
- conference Social Isolation, Digital Connection: COVID-19's Impact on Twitter Ego Networks
- conference Towards Robust Expert Finding in Community Question Answering Platforms
- conference On the Potential of an Independent Avatar to Augment Metaverse Social Networks
- conference Variational Autoencoders for Noise Resistant Traffic Generation in B5G Networks
- conference Optimizing Risk-Averse Human-AI Hybrid Teams
- journal Guest Editorial: Social-Aware Communication Networks and Systems and Innovative Social Network Applications and Services
- journal Impact of network topology on the performance of Decentralized Federated Learning
- preprint On the Joint Effect of Culture and Discussion Topics on X (Twitter) Signed Ego Networks
- preprint Initialisation and Topology Effects in Decentralised Federated Learning
- preprint Understanding and Addressing Gender Bias in Expert Finding Task
- preprint FedQUIT: On-Device Federated Unlearning via a Quasi-Competent Virtual Teacher
- journal Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: structural properties of negative relationships on Twitter
- journal Optimizing Delegation in Collaborative Human-AI Hybrid Teams
- journal Unveiling Cognitive Constraints in Language Production: Extracting and Validating the Active Ego Network of Words
2023
- conference Exploring the Impact of Disrupted Peer-to-Peer Communications on Fully Decentralized Learning in Disaster Scenarios
- conference Communication Costs Analysis of Unsupervised Federated Learning: an Anomaly Detection Scenario
- conference The effect of network topologies on fully decentralized learning: a preliminary investigation
- conference Optimizing Delegation Between Human and AI Collaborative Agents
- conference Cultural Differences in Signed Ego Networks on Twitter: An Investigatory Analysis
- preprint Social AI and the Challenges of the Human-AI Ecosystem
- preprint Coordination-free Decentralised Federated Learning on Complex Networks: Overcoming Heterogeneity
- preprint On the Potential of an Independent Avatar to Augment Metaverse User Socialization Time
- journal Social search: Retrieving information in Online Social platforms - A survey
- journal Compensating for Sensing Failures via Delegation in Human-AI Hybrid Systems
- journal Modeling, Replicating, and Predicting Human Behavior: A Survey
- journal Harnessing the Power of Ego Network Layers for Link Prediction in Online Social Networks
- journal Dynamics of Opinion Polarization
2022
- conference Signed Ego Network Model and its Application to Twitter
- conference On Efficiently Partitioning a Topic in Apache Kafka
- conference Anomaly Detection Through Unsupervised Federated Learning
- conference Demonstrating Optimized Delegation between AI and Human Agents
- conference A Cognitive Framework for Delegation Between Error-Prone AI and Human Agents
- journal Models for Digitally Contact-Traced Epidemics
- journal A transfer-learning approach for corrosion prediction in pipeline infrastructures
- preprint Structural invariants and semantic fingerprints in the "ego network" of words
- preprint Federated Semi-Supervised Classification of Multimedia Flows for 3D Networks
- preprint Modeling Human Behavior Part II - Cognitive approaches and Uncertainty
- preprint Modeling Human Behavior Part I - Learning and Belief Approaches
- preprint The Internet of People: A human and data-centric paradigm for the Next Generation Internet
- preprint The Structure of Online Social Networks Mirror Those in the Offline World
- preprint The Internet of People (IoP): A New Wave in Pervasive Mobile Computing
- preprint Structure of Ego-alter relationships of Politicians in Twitter
- journal Dynamic hard pruning of Neural Networks at the edge of the internet
- journal Journalists' ego networks in Twitter: Invariant and distinctive structural features
- journal A Multi-Stage Optimisation Approach to Design Relocation Strategies in One-Way Car-Sharing Systems With Stackable Cars
- journal Optimising Cost vs Accuracy of Decentralised Analytics in Fog Computing Environments
- journal Federated Feature Selection for Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems
2021
- conference A Machine-Learning Approach for the Prediction of Internal Corrosion in Pipeline Infrastructures
- conference MobiWEB: Mobility-Aware Energy Balancing for P2P Wireless Power Transfer
- conference Centralised vs decentralised anomaly detection: when local and imbalanced data are beneficial
- journal The academic wanderer: structure of collaboration network and relation with research performance
- preprint From MANET to people-centric networking: milestones and open research challenges
- preprint Energy efficient distributed analytics at the edge of the network for IoT environments
- preprint A communication efficient distributed learning framework for smart environments
- preprint A Social Cognitive Heuristic for Adaptive Data Dissemination in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
- preprint Stateful Function-as-a-Service at the Edge
- preprint Cellular traffic offloading via Opportunistic Networking with Reinforcement Learning
- preprint Structural Models of Human Social Interactions in Online Smart Communities: the Case of Region-based Journalists on Twitter
- preprint Predictive Auto-scaling with OpenStack Monasca
- preprint FaaS Execution Models for Edge Applications
- journal Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment
- journal (So) Big Data and the transformation of the city
- journal Human migration: the big data perspective
- journal Correction to: Human migration: the big data perspective
- journal Special Issue on IoT for Fighting COVID-19
- journal Editorial
- journal A Decentralized Framework for Serverless Edge Computing in the Internet of Things
2020
- conference Corrosion Prediction in Oil and Gas Pipelines: a Machine Learning Approach
- conference Structural Invariants in Individuals Language Use: The "Ego Network" of Words
- conference Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration Networks Due to Academic Migrations
- journal A Survey on Industrial Internet With ISA100 Wireless
- journal Toward Distributed Computing Environments with Serverless Solutions in Edge Systems
- journal Uncoordinated access to serverless computing in MEC systems for IoT
- journal Energy efficient network path reconfiguration for industrial field data
- journal Distributed Data Access in Industrial Edge Networks
- journal Architecture and performance evaluation of distributed computation offloading in edge computing
- journal Human-centric Data Dissemination in the IoP: Large-scale Modeling and Evaluation
- journal Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment
2019
- conference Low-latency Distributed Computation Offloading for Pervasive Environments
- conference On the Performance of Data Distribution Methods for Wireless Industrial Networks
- journal Data Management in Industry 4.0: State of the Art and Open Challenges
- journal Special Section on Challenged Networks
- journal Editorial
- preprint Data Management in Networked Industrial Environments: State of the Art and Open Challenges
- journal Weak signals in the mobility landscape: car sharing in ten European cities
- journal Editorial - Special issue on OSNEM network properties and dynamics
- journal Special issue on information and opinion diffusion
- journal Editorial
2018
- conference An Architectural Framework for Serverless Edge Computing: Design and Emulation Tools
2017
- conference Optimal trade-off between accuracy and network cost of distributed learning in Mobile Edge Computing: An analytical approach
- journal Online Social Networks and information diffusion: The role of ego networks
2016
- journal Ego network structure in online social networks and its impact on information diffusion
2013
- conference Ego networks in Twitter: An experimental analysis
2012
- journal Ego network models for Future Internet social networking environments