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• A quite complete list of my publications is at DBLP.
• Authors are normally listed in alphabetical order for most of my papers.
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Journals

• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of twitter users, Elsevier Computer Communications, Volume 150, 15 January 2020, Pages 47-61

• Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi: On the capability of evolved spambots to evade detection via genetic engineering, in Online Social Networks and Media, 9: 1-16 (2019), Elsevier
• Pietro Ducange, Michela Fazzolari, Marinella Petrocchi, Massimo Vecchio: An Effective Decision Support System for Social Media Listening Based on Cross-source Sentiment Analysis Models, in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 78: 71-85 (2019) Elsevier
• Michela Fazzolari, Marinella Petrocchi: Enriching Travelling Information Through Online Reviews Analysis, in press Information Technology and Tourism, 20(1-4): 37-58 (2018)
• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: Social fingerprinting: detection of spambot groups through DNA-inspired behavioral modeling in Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(4): 561-576 (2018), IF 1.592
• Fabio Del Vigna, Marinella Petrocchi, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari and Maurizio Tesconi: Who framed Roger Reindeer? De-censorship of Facebook posts by snippet classification, in Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier, Volume 6, Pages 41-57, June 2018
• G. Dini, F. Martinelli, I. Matteucci, M. Petrocchi, A. Saracino, D. Sgandurra: Risk Analysis of Android Applications: A User-Centric Solution. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80: 505-518 (2018) IF 2016: 3,997
• Michela Fazzolari, Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: A study on text-score disagreement in online reviews. Springer Cognitive Computation 9(5): 689-701 (2017) IF 3.441 Pre-final version
• Alessandro Maggi, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Francesco Tiezzi: A language-based approach to modelling and analysis of Twitter interactions. JLAMP: Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, Volume 87, February 2017, pages 67-91. IF 0.636
• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: DNA-inspired online behavioral modeling and its application to spambot detection. Intelligent Systems, IEEE, 31(5): 58-64 (2016) (the link is the eprint on arxiv). IF 2.34
• Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Paolo Santi: Bioinspired Security Analysis of Wireless Protocols. Mobile Networks and Applications 21(1) 139-148, Springer (2016). IF 1.045
• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: Fame for sale: Efficient detection of fake Twitter followers. Decision Support Systems 80: 56-71 Elsevier (2015). IF 2.313
• Marco Casassa-Mont, Ilaria Matteucci, Marinella Petrocchi, Marco Luca Sbodio. Towards Safer Information Sharing in the Cloud. International Journal of Information Security, Springer, Volume 14, Issue 4 (2015), Page 319-334. DOI: 10.1007/s10207-014-0258-5. IF 0.963
• Noura Faci, Marinella Petrocchi, Gianpiero Costantino, Fabio Martinelli, Zakaria Maamar: A quality model for social networks populated with web services. In Service Oriented Computing and Applications 9(2): 139-155 (2015) SNIP 1.194, SJR 0.703
• Vincenzo Ciancia, Antonio Martin, Fabio Martinelli, Ilaria Matteucci, Marinella Petrocchi, and Ernesto Pimentel. Automated synthesis and ranking of secure BPMN orchestrators. International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, 5(2), 44-64, April-June 2014.
• Levente Buttyan, Laszlo Dora, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi: Fast certificate-based authentication scheme in multi-operator maintained wireless mesh networks. Computer Communications 33(8): 907-922 Elsevier (2010). IF 1.695
• Roberto Gorrieri, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi: Formal Models and Analysis of Secure Multicast in Wired and Wireless Networks. J. Autom. Reasoning 41(3-4): 325-364 Springer (2008) IF 0.881
• Maurice H. ter Beek, Gabriele Lenzini, Marinella Petrocchi: A Team Automaton Scenario for the Analysis of Security Properties of Communication Protocols. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 11(4): 345-374 (2006)
• Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Anna Vaccarelli: Formal analysis of some secure procedures for certificate delivery. Softw. Test., Verif. Reliab. 16(1): 33-59 Wiley Interscience (2006) IF 1.348
• Fabrizio Baiardi, Alessandro Falleni, Riccardo Granchi, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi, Anna Vaccarelli: SEAS, a secure e-voting protocol: Design and implementation. Computers & Security 24(8): 642-652 Elsevier (2005) IF 1.031

Conferences and Workshops (since 2014, full list on DBLP)

• Gabriele Lenzini, Marinella PetrocchiModelling of Railway Signalling System Requirements by Controlled Natural Languages: A Case Study., From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back - Essays Dedicated to Stefania Gnesi on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday
• Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi, Catia TrubianiDo you really follow them? Automatic detection of credulous Twitter users, In 20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), November, 2019
• Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Stefano Tognazzi Better Safe than Sorry: an adversarial approach to improve social bot detection, In Web Science 2019, ACM
• Tiziano Fagni, Leonardo Nizzoli, Marinella Petrocchi, Maurizio Tesconi: Six Things I Hate About You (in Italian) and Six Classification Strategies to More and More Effectively Find Them. ITASEC 2019
• Vittoria Cozza, Van Tien Hoang, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De Nicola: Transparency in Keyword Faceted Search: An Investigation on Google Shopping. IRCDL 2019: 29-43
• Michela Fazzolari, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: Predicting online review scores across reviewer categories. 19th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning IDEAL 2018, LNCS 11314, Springer, 2018.
• Francesco Buccafurri, Michela Fazzolari, Gianluca Lax, Marinella Petrocchi: Contrasting fake reviews in Tripadvisor, SEBD 2018, June 24-27, 2018, Castellaneta Marina, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
• Irfan Tanoli, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De Nicola: Towards Automatic Translation of Social Network Policies into Controlled Natural Language, 12 th IEEE RCIS 2018, Nantes, 2018, LNCS, pp. 1-12.
• S. Cresci, M. Petrocchi, A. Spognardi, and S. Tognazzi: From reaction to proaction: unexplored ways to the detection of evolving spambots, OSNED 2018, co-located with The Web Conference, ACM, WWW Companion Volume 2018: 1469-1470.
• Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: Mining implicit data association from tripadvisor hotel reviews. DARLI-AP 2018, co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2018 Joint Conference, Wien, March 26, 2018. Published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• S. Cresci, R. Di Pietro, M. Petrocchi, A. Spognardi, and M. Tesconi: DNA Fingerprinting: a nature-inspired technique for spambot detection. In 2nd Italian Conference on Cybersecurity ITASEC 2018
• Gianpiero Costantino, Fabio Martinelli, Ilaria Matteucci, Marinella Petrocchi: Efficient Detection of Conflicts in Data Sharing Agreements. In ICISSP (Revised Selected Papers): Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 867148-172, Springer, 2018).
• S. Cresci, R. Di Pietro, M. Petrocchi, A. Spognardi, and M. Tesconi: Exploiting digital DNA for the analysis of similarities in Twitter behaviours. In 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics DSAA 2017
• Michela Fazzolari, Marinella Petrocchi, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari. Mining Worse and Better Opinions: Unsupervised and Agnostic Aggregation of Online Reviews 17th International Conference on Web Engineering, Rome, June 2017.
• S. Cresci, R. Di Pietro, M. Petrocchi, A. Spognardi, and M. Tesconi: The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race.. World Wide Web 2017 Web Science track
• Fabio Del Vigna, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta, Marinella Petrocchi, Maurizio Tesconi: Hate me, hate me not: Hate speech detection on Facebook. ITA-SEC 2017
• Gianpiero Costantino, Fabio Martinelli, Ilaria Matteucci, Marinella Petrocchi: Analysis of Data Sharing Agreements. ICISSP 2017
• F. Del Vigna, M. Petrocchi, A. Tommasi, C. Zavattari, and M. Tesconi: Semi-supervised knowledge extraction for detection of drugs and their effects. Social Informatics 2016, LNCS 10046 pp 494-509
• F. Del Vigna, M. Avvenuti, C. Bacciu, P. Deluca, A. Marchetti, M. Petrocchi, M. Tesconi: Spotting the diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances over the Internet. Intelligent Data Analysis 2016, LNCS 9897 pp 86-97
• Jose Fran. Ruiz, Marinella Petrocchi, Gianpiero Costantino, Ilaria Matteucci, Mirko Manea, Carmela Gambardella and Anil Ozdeniz: A Lifecycle for Data Sharing Agreements: How it works out. Annual Privacy Forum 2016, LNCS
• Vittoria Cozza, Van Tien Hoang, Marinella Petrocchi, Rocco De Nicola: Online User Behavioural Modeling with Applications to Price Steering. FinRec 2016, CEUR-WS-online
• Vittoria Cozza, Van Tien Hoang, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: Experimental measures of news personalization in Google News. SoWeMine 2016, LNCS, Springer.
• Vittoria Cozza, Van Tien Hoang, Marinella Petrocchi: Google web searches and Wikipedia results: a measurement study. Italian Workshop on Information Retrieval IIR 2016. CEUR-WS-online
• Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: A matter of words: NLP for quality evaluation of Wikipedia medical articles. ICWE 2016, LNCS, Springer. Arxiv
• Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi: MIB at SemEval-2016 Task 4a: Exploiting lexicon-based features for sentiment analysis in Twitter. Semeval 2016, in press.
• Claudio Caimi, Carmela Gambardella, Mirko Manea, Marinella Petrocchi, Debora Stella: Technical and legal perspectives in Data Sharing Agreements definition. In Annual Privacy Forum 2015, LNCS 9484, Springer.
• Mauro Conti, Vittoria Cozza, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: TRAP: Using Targeted ads to unveil Google personal profiles. WIFS 2015: 1-6
• Rocco De Nicola, Alessandro Maggi, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Francesco Tiezzi. Twitlang(er): interactions modeling language (and interpreter) for Twitter. In SEFM 2015, LNCS 9276, 327-243, Springer. TR
• Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: VISIO: A visual approach for singularity detection in recommender systems. In Trustbus 2015, LNCS 9264, 33-47, Springer.
• Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi: Visual Detection Of Singularities In Review Platforms. Honorable mention for a poster @ Multimedia and Visualization Track - SAC 2015, 1294-1295, ACM.
• Zakaria Maamar, Gianpiero Costantino, Marinella Petrocchi, and Fabio Martinelli: Business Reputation of Social Networks of Web Services. In 12th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC-2015)
• Van Tien Hoang, Angelo Spognardi, Francesco Tiezzi, Marinella Petrocchi, and Rocco De Nicola: Domain-specific queries and Web search personalization: some investigations. In Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV2015) EPTCS 188
• Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi. A Lot of Slots -- Outliers Confinement in Review-based Systems. Accepted at 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2014). Part I, LNCS 8786, Springer, 2014.
• Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Paolo Santi. Cryptofraglets Reloaded: Bioinspired modelling and analysis of a RFID protocol and properties. 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014) ACM 2014. Cryptofraglets Web Page.
• Emanuel Marzini, Angelo Spognardi, Ilaria Matteucci, Paolo Mori, Marinella Petrocchi, Riccardo Conti. Improved maturity assessment of Wikipedia medical articles. 13th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2014), LNCS, Springer, 2014. TR-Link.
• Alessandro Celestini, Gianpiero Costantino, Rocco De Nicola, Zakaria Maamar, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi, and Francesco Tiezzi. Reputation-based Composition of Social Web Services. 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2014). TR-Link.
• Stefania Gnesi, Ilaria Matteucci, Corrado Moiso, Paolo Mori, Marinella Petrocchi, and Michele Vescovi. My Data, Your Data, Our Data: Managing Privacy Preferences in Multi-Subjects Personal Data. 2nd Annual Privacy Forum (APF), Springer LNCS 8450, May 2014. Springer-Link.
• Marina Egea, Ilaria Matteucci, Paolo Mori, Marinella Petrocchi. Definition of Data Sharing Agreements (The case of Spanish Data Protection Law). Accountability and Security in the Cloud: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8937, 2015, pp 248-272
• Zakaria Maamar, Gianpiero Costantino, Marinella Petrocchi, Fabio Martinelli: Using Incentives to Analyze Social Web Services' Behaviors. LNCS 9051. WISE Workshops 2014: 148-160
• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi. A Criticism to Society (as seen by Twitter analytics). In Intl. Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Security (DASec 2014). TR-Link.
• Riccardo Conti, Ilaria Matteucci, Paolo Mori, Marinella Petrocchi. An Expertise-driven Authoring Tool of Privacy Policies for e-Health. 27th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2014). TR-Link.

Book Chapters

• Stefano Cresci, Roberto Di Pietro Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi, Maurizio Tesconi: Chapter 12: DNA-inspired characterization and detection of novel social Twitter spambots. In ``Nature-inspired Cyber Security and Resilience: Fundamentals, Technology and Applications", IET publisher, in press, 2018.
• Riccardo Conti, Alessio Lunardelli, Ilaria Matteucci, Paolo Mori, Marinella Petrocchi. Preserving Data Privacy in eHealth: Book chapter in Advances in Engineering Secure Future Internet Services and Systems. LNCS State-of-the-Art-Surveys 8431, Springer, 2014, pages 366-392.
• B. Aziz, A. Arenas, F.Martinelli, P. Mori, M. Petrocchi, and M. Wilson: Trust Management for Grid Systems. In Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-682-7. ISBN: 9781615206827. IGI Global, 2010.