Here you can find a consolidated (a.k.a. slowly updated) list of my publications. A frequently updated (and possibly noisy) list of works is available on my Google Scholar profile.
Please find below a short list of highlight publications for my recent activity.
Caro, Valerio De; Danzinger, Herbert; Gallicchio, Claudio; Könczöl, Clemens; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Marmpena, Mina; Marpena, Mina; Politi, Sevasti; Veledar, Omar; Bacciu, Davide Prediction of Driver's Stress Affection in Simulated Autonomous Driving Scenarios Conference Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2023. Matteoni, Federico; Cossu, Andrea; Gallicchio, Claudio; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Bacciu, Davide Continual Learning for Human State Monitoring Conference Proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2022), 2022. Caro, Valerio De; Bano, Saira; Machumilane, Achilles; Gotta, Alberto; Cassará, Pietro; Carta, Antonio; Sardianos, Christos; Chronis, Christos; Varlamis, Iraklis; Tserpes, Konstantinos; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Gallicchio, Claudio; Bacciu, Davide AI-as-a-Service Toolkit for Human-Centered Intelligence in Autonomous Driving Conference Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), 2022. Bacciu, Davide; Carta, Antonio; Sarli, Daniele Di; Gallicchio, Claudio; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Petroni, Salvatore Towards Functional Safety Compliance of Recurrent Neural Networks Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on AI for People (CAIP 2021), 2021. Schoitsch, Erwin; Mylonas, Georgios (Ed.) Supporting Privacy Preservation by Distributed and Federated Learning on the Edge Periodical ERCIM News, vol. 127, 2021, visited: 30.09.2021. Macher, G.; Akarmazyan, S.; Armengaud, E.; Bacciu, D.; Calandra, C.; Danzinger, H.; Dazzi, P.; Davalas, C.; Gennaro, M. C. De; Dimitriou, A.; Dobaj, J.; Dzambic, M.; Giraudi, L.; Girbal, S.; Michail, D.; Peroglio, R.; Potenza, R.; Pourdanesh, F.; Seidl, M.; Sardianos, C.; Tserpes, K.; Valtl, J.; Varlamis, I.; Veledar, O. Dependable Integration Concepts for Human-Centric AI-based Systems Workshop Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SafeComp 2021), Springer, 2021, (Invited discussion paper). Macher, Georg; Armengaud, Eric; Bacciu, Davide; Dobaj, Jürgen; Dzambic, Maid; Seidl, Matthias; Veledar, Omar Dependable Integration Concepts for Human-Centric AI-based Systems Workshop Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Dependable Smart Embedded Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems (DECSoS 2021), 2021. Bacciu, Davide; Akarmazyan, Siranush; Armengaud, Eric; Bacco, Manlio; Bravos, George; Calandra, Calogero; Carlini, Emanuele; Carta, Antonio; Cassara, Pietro; Coppola, Massimo; Davalas, Charalampos; Dazzi, Patrizio; Degennaro, Maria Carmela; Sarli, Daniele Di; Dobaj, Jürgen; Gallicchio, Claudio; Girbal, Sylvain; Gotta, Alberto; Groppo, Riccardo; Lomonaco, Vincenzo; Macher, Georg; Mazzei, Daniele; Mencagli, Gabriele; Michail, Dimitrios; Micheli, Alessio; Peroglio, Roberta; Petroni, Salvatore; Potenza, Rosaria; Pourdanesh, Farank; Sardianos, Christos; Tserpes, Konstantinos; Tagliabò, Fulvio; Valtl, Jakob; Varlamis, Iraklis; Veledar, Omar (Ed.) TEACHING - Trustworthy autonomous cyber-physical applications through human-centred intelligence Conference Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) , 2021.
@conference{DeCaro2023,
title = {Prediction of Driver's Stress Affection in Simulated Autonomous Driving Scenarios},
author = {Valerio De Caro and Herbert Danzinger and Claudio Gallicchio and Clemens Könczöl and Vincenzo Lomonaco and Mina Marmpena and Mina Marpena and Sevasti Politi and Omar Veledar and Davide Bacciu},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-04},
urldate = {2023-06-04},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
abstract = {We investigate the task of predicting stress affection from physiological data of users experiencing simulations of autonomous driving. We approach this task on two levels of granularity, depending on whether the prediction is performed at end of the simulation, or along the simulation. In the former, denoted as coarse-grained prediction, we employed Decision Trees. In the latter, denoted as fine-grained prediction, we employed Echo State Networks, a Recurrent Neural Network
that allows efficient learning from temporal data and hence is
suitable for pervasive environments. We conduct experiments on a private dataset of physiological data from people participating in multiple driving scenarios simulating different stressful events. The results show that the proposed model is capable of detecting conditions of event-related cognitive stress proving, the existence of a correlation between stressful events and the physiological data.},
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that allows efficient learning from temporal data and hence is
suitable for pervasive environments. We conduct experiments on a private dataset of physiological data from people participating in multiple driving scenarios simulating different stressful events. The results show that the proposed model is capable of detecting conditions of event-related cognitive stress proving, the existence of a correlation between stressful events and the physiological data.
@conference{Matteoni2022,
title = {Continual Learning for Human State Monitoring},
author = {Federico Matteoni and Andrea Cossu and Claudio Gallicchio and Vincenzo Lomonaco and Davide Bacciu},
editor = {Michel Verleysen},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.00010, Arxiv},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-05},
urldate = {2022-10-05},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2022)},
abstract = {Continual Learning (CL) on time series data represents a promising but under-studied avenue for real-world applications. We propose two new CL benchmarks for Human State Monitoring. We carefully designed the benchmarks to mirror real-world environments in which new subjects are continuously added. We conducted an empirical evaluation to assess the ability of popular CL strategies to mitigate forgetting in our benchmarks. Our results show that, possibly due to the domain-incremental properties of our benchmarks, forgetting can be easily tackled even with a simple finetuning and that existing strategies struggle in accumulating knowledge over a fixed, held-out, test subject.},
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@conference{decaro2022aiasaservice,
title = {AI-as-a-Service Toolkit for Human-Centered Intelligence in Autonomous Driving},
author = {Valerio De Caro and Saira Bano and Achilles Machumilane and Alberto Gotta and Pietro Cassará and Antonio Carta and Christos Sardianos and Christos Chronis and Iraklis Varlamis and Konstantinos Tserpes and Vincenzo Lomonaco and Claudio Gallicchio and Davide Bacciu},
url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01645.pdf, arxiv},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-03-21},
urldate = {2022-03-21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022)},
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@conference{BacciuCAIP2021,
title = {Towards Functional Safety Compliance of Recurrent Neural Networks},
author = {Davide Bacciu and Antonio Carta and Daniele Di Sarli and Claudio Gallicchio and Vincenzo Lomonaco and Salvatore Petroni},
url = {https://aiforpeople.org/conference/assets/papers/CAIP21-P09.pdf, Open Access PDF},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on AI for People (CAIP 2021)},
abstract = {Deploying Autonomous Driving systems requires facing some novel challenges for the Automotive industry. One of the most critical aspects that can severely compromise their deployment is Functional Safety. The ISO 26262 standard provides guidelines to ensure Functional Safety of road vehicles. However, this standard is not suitable to develop Artificial Intelligence
based systems such as systems based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). To address this issue, in this paper we propose a new methodology, composed of three steps. The first step is the robustness evaluation of the RNN against inputs perturbations. Then, a proper set of safety measures must be defined according to the model’s robustness, where less robust models will require stronger mitigation. Finally, the functionality of the entire system must be extensively tested
according to Safety Of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) guidelines, providing quantitative results about the occurrence of unsafe scenarios, and by evaluating appropriate Safety Performance Indicators.},
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based systems such as systems based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). To address this issue, in this paper we propose a new methodology, composed of three steps. The first step is the robustness evaluation of the RNN against inputs perturbations. Then, a proper set of safety measures must be defined according to the model’s robustness, where less robust models will require stronger mitigation. Finally, the functionality of the entire system must be extensively tested
according to Safety Of The Intended Functionality (SOTIF) guidelines, providing quantitative results about the occurrence of unsafe scenarios, and by evaluating appropriate Safety Performance Indicators.
@periodical{Bacciu2021e,
title = {Supporting Privacy Preservation by Distributed and Federated Learning on the Edge},
author = { Davide Bacciu and Patrizio Dazzi and Alberto Gotta},
editor = {Erwin Schoitsch and Georgios Mylonas},
url = {https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en127/r-i/supporting-privacy-preservation-by-distributed-and-federated-learning-on-the-edge},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-09-30},
urldate = {2021-09-30},
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volume = {127},
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@workshop{Macher2021,
title = {Dependable Integration Concepts for Human-Centric AI-based Systems},
author = {G. Macher and S. Akarmazyan and E. Armengaud and D. Bacciu and C. Calandra and H. Danzinger and P. Dazzi and C. Davalas and M.C. De Gennaro and A. Dimitriou and J. Dobaj and M. Dzambic and L. Giraudi and S. Girbal and D. Michail and R. Peroglio and R. Potenza and F. Pourdanesh and M. Seidl and C. Sardianos and K. Tserpes and J. Valtl and I. Varlamis and O. Veledar },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-09-07},
urldate = {2021-09-07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SafeComp 2021)},
pages = {11-23},
publisher = {Springer},
note = {Invited discussion paper},
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@workshop{Macher2021b,
title = {Dependable Integration Concepts for Human-Centric AI-based Systems},
author = {Georg Macher and Eric Armengaud and Davide Bacciu and Jürgen Dobaj and Maid Dzambic and Matthias Seidl and Omar Veledar},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-09-07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Dependable Smart Embedded Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems (DECSoS 2021)},
abstract = {The rising demand to integrate adaptive, cloud-based and/or AI-based systems is also increasing the need for associated dependability concepts. However, the practical processes and methods covering the whole life cycle still need to be instantiated. The assurance of dependability continues to be an open issue with no common solution. That is especially the case for novel AI and/or dynamical runtime-based approaches. This work focuses on engineering methods and design patterns that support the development of dependable AI-based autonomous systems. The paper presents the related body of knowledge of the TEACHING project and multiple automotive domain regulation activities and industrial working groups. It also considers the dependable architectural concepts and their impactful applicability to different scenarios to ensure the dependability of AI-based Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems (CPSoS) in the automotive domain. The paper shines the light on potential paths for dependable integration of AI-based systems into the automotive domain through identified analysis methods and targets. },
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@conference{Bacciu2021d,
title = {TEACHING - Trustworthy autonomous cyber-physical applications through human-centred intelligence},
editor = {Davide Bacciu and Siranush Akarmazyan and Eric Armengaud and Manlio Bacco and George Bravos and Calogero Calandra and Emanuele Carlini and Antonio Carta and Pietro Cassara and Massimo Coppola and Charalampos Davalas and Patrizio Dazzi and Maria Carmela Degennaro and Daniele Di Sarli and Jürgen Dobaj and Claudio Gallicchio and Sylvain Girbal and Alberto Gotta and Riccardo Groppo and Vincenzo Lomonaco and Georg Macher and Daniele Mazzei and Gabriele Mencagli and Dimitrios Michail and Alessio Micheli and Roberta Peroglio and Salvatore Petroni and Rosaria Potenza and Farank Pourdanesh and Christos Sardianos and Konstantinos Tserpes and Fulvio Tagliabò and Jakob Valtl and Iraklis Varlamis and Omar Veledar},
doi = {10.1109/COINS51742.2021.9524099},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-08-23},
urldate = {2021-08-23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS) },
abstract = {This paper discusses the perspective of the H2020 TEACHING project on the next generation of autonomous applications running in a distributed and highly heterogeneous environment comprising both virtual and physical resources spanning the edge-cloud continuum. TEACHING puts forward a human-centred vision leveraging the physiological, emotional, and cognitive state of the users as a driver for the adaptation and optimization of the autonomous applications. It does so by building a distributed, embedded and federated learning system complemented by methods and tools to enforce its dependability, security and privacy preservation. The paper discusses the main concepts of the TEACHING approach and singles out the main AI-related research challenges associated with it. Further, we provide a discussion of the design choices for the TEACHING system to tackle the aforementioned challenges},
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