Publications

Publications by riccardo cantini

Books

  1. Fabrizio Marozzo, Riccardo Cantini. Generative AI and Large Language Models. MDPI, 2026. ISBN: 978-3-7258-7703-4 (Hardback); ISBN 978-3-7258-7704-1 (PDF) BibTeX
  2. Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio, Fabrizio Marozzo, Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Alessio Orsino. Programming Big Data Applications: Scalable Tools and Frameworks for Your Needs. World Scientific, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-80061-504-5 BibTeX

Papers in journals

  1. Paolo Lindia, Riccardo Cantini, Francesco Bettucci, Luigi Sartori, Paolo Trunfio. Predictive maintenance in agricultural machinery: Activity-aware anomaly detection with language model-generated synthetic faults. Computers in Industry, Elsevier, n. 181, pp. 104539, 2026. BibTeXPDF
  2. Fabrizio Marozzo, Riccardo Cantini. Generative AI and Large Language Models. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2026. BibTeX
  3. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Dynamic Hashtag Recommendation in Social Media with Trend Shift Detection and Adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 13, n. 2, pp. 1989-2001, 2026. BibTeX
  4. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Detecting mental disorder on social media: a ChatGPT-augmented explainable approach. Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 48, pp. 100321, 2025. BibTeXPDF
  5. Riccardo Cantini, Cristian Cosentino, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Harnessing Prompt-based Large Language Models for Disaster Monitoring and Automated Reporting from Social Media Feedback. Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 45, pp. 100295, 2025. BibTeXPDF
  6. Riccardo Cantini, Cristian Cosentino, Irene Kilanioti, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia. Unmasking Deception: A Topic-Oriented Multimodal Approach to Uncover False Information on Social Media. Machine Learning, vol. 114, n. 13, 2025. BibTeXPDF
  7. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio, Rosa M. Badia, Jorge Ejarque, Fernando Vazquez-Novoa. Block size estimation for data partitioning in HPC applications using machine learning techniques. Journal of Big Data, vol. 11, n. 19, 2024. BibTeXPDF
  8. Loris Belcastro, Francesco Branda, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  9. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo. Knowledge Discovery From Large Amounts Of Social Media Data. Applied Sciences, vol. 12, n. 3, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  10. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Analyzing Political Polarization on Social Media by Deleting Bot Spamming. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, vol. 1, n. 6, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  11. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Programming Big Data Analysis: Principles and Solutions. Journal of Big Data, vol. 9, n. 4, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  12. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Giovanni Bruno, Paolo Trunfio. Learning sentence-to-hashtags semantic mapping for hashtag recommendation on microblogs. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 16, n. 2, pp. 1-26, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  13. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Silvio Mazza, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. A Weighted Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Influence Maximization. Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 26, pp. 100167, 2021. BibTeXPDF
  14. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Exploiting Machine Learning For Improving In-memory Execution of Data-intensive Workflows on Parallel Machines. Future Internet, vol. 13, n. 5, 2021. BibTeXPDF
  15. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Learning Political Polarization on Social Media using Neural Networks. IEEE Access, vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 47177-47187, 2020. BibTeXPDF

Book chapters

  1. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Shedding Light Inside the Black Box: Techniques for Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Explainable Machine Intelligence in Healthcare, pp. 57-72, 2025. BibTeX
  2. Alessio Orsino, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo. Evaluating the performance of a multimodal speaker tracking system at the edge-to-cloud continuum. Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum - Paradigms, Architectures and Applications, pp. 155-166, 2024. BibTeXPDF
  3. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino. Deep learning meets smart agriculture: using LSTM networks to handle anomalous and missing sensor data in the compute continuum. Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum - Paradigms, Architectures and Applications, pp. 141-153, 2024. BibTeXPDF

Papers in conference proceedings

  1. Riccardo Cantini, Cristian Cosentino, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Neural Topic Modeling in Social Media by Clustering Latent Hashtag Representations. 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025), pp. 146 - 153, 2025. BibTeX
  2. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Advancing Green and Fair AI: A Research Perspective on Environmental and Social Sustainability. 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2025), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 4121, 2025. BibTeXPDF
  3. Riccardo Cantini, Cristian Cosentino, Fabrizio Marozzo. Multi-Dimensional Classification on Social Media Data for Detailed Reporting with Large Language Models. 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2024), pp. 100--114, 2024. BibTeXPDF
  4. Riccardo Cantini, Cristian Cosentino, Irene Kilanioti, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia. Unmasking COVID-19 False Information on Twitter: a Topic-based Approach with BERT. 26th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS2023), vol. 14276, pp. 126-140, 2023. BibTeXPDF
  5. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo. Topic Detection and Tracking in Social Media Platforms. EAI International Conference on Pervasive knowledge and collective intelligence on Web and Social Media (EAI PerSoM 2022), pp. 41-56, 2022. BibTeXPDF
  6. Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Martina Passarelli, Paolo Trunfio. A visual tool for reducing returns in e-commerce platforms. 6th International Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation for a smart world (IEEE RTSI 2021), pp. 474-479, 2021. BibTeXPDF
  7. Loris Belcastro, Riccardo Cantini, Fabrizio Marozzo, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio. Discovering Political Polarization on Social Media: A Case Study. 15th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG), pp. 182-189, 2019. BibTeXPDF