Publications by Loris Belcastro

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    Books

  1. D. Talia, P. Trunfio, F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, A. Orsino, Programming Big Data Applications: Scalable Tools and Frameworks for Your Needs, World Scientific, 2024. Note: ISBN: 978-1-80061-504-5.


    2. Papers in journals

  2. L. Belcastro, C. Carlucci, C. Cosentino, P. Lio, F. Marozzo, "Enhancing Network Security Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models for Explainable Threat Detection". Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 176, pp. 108160, 2026.

  3. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Navigating the edge-cloud continuum: A state-of-practice survey". IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 40622-40647, 2026.

  4. L. Belcastro, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, "Understanding Political Polarization with Generative AI: A Large-Scale Analysis of Voter Preferences on Social Media". IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 47389-47405, 2026.

  5. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Detecting mental disorder on social media: a ChatGPT-augmented explainable approach". Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 48, pp. 100321, 2025.

  6. L. Belcastro, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, M. Gunduz-Cure, S. Ozturk-Birim, "Multistakeholder Disaster Insights from Social Media Using Large Language Models". IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2025.

  7. L. Belcastro, S. Giampà, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, R. Badia, J. Ejarque, N. Mammadli, "Boosting HPC Data Analysis Performance with the ParSoDA-Py Library". Journal of Supercomputing, 2024.

  8. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Edge-cloud continuum solutions for urban mobility prediction and planning". IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 38864-38874, 2023.

  9. L. Belcastro, D. Carbone, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, P. Trunfio, "Enhancing Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting: Integrating Machine Learning with Social Media and Market Data". Algorithms, n. 12, 2023.

  10. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Programming Big Data Analysis: Principles and Solutions". Journal of Big Data, vol. 9, n. 4, 2022.

  11. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, "Knowledge Discovery From Large Amounts Of Social Media Data". Applied Sciences, vol. 12, n. 3, 2022.

  12. L. Belcastro, F. Branda, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign". Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022.

  13. F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, "Cloud Computing for Big Data Analysis". Applied Sciences, vol. 12, n. 20, 2022.

  14. L. Belcastro, M. Kechadi, F. Marozzo, L. Pastore, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Parallel extraction of Regions-of-Interest from social media data". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 33, n. 8, pp. e5638, 2021.

  15. S. Giampà, L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "A data-aware scheduling strategy for executing large-scale distributed workflows". IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 47354-47364, 2021. Note: ISSN: 2169-3536.

  16. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, F. Branda, T. Palpanas, M. Imran, "Using Social Media for Sub-Event Detection during Disasters". Journal of Big Data, vol. 8, n. 79, 2021.

  17. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, E. Perrella, "Automatic detection of user trajectories from social media posts". Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 186, pp. 115733, 2021.

  18. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Learning Political Polarization on Social Media using Neural Networks". IEEE Access, vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 47177-47187, 2020.

  19. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, P. Trunfio, "A Scalable Middleware for Context-aware Mobile Applications". International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 31, n. 2, pp. 112-122, 2019.

  20. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, "Programming Models and Systems for Big Data Analysis". International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, vol. 34, pp. 632-652, 2019.

  21. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "ParSoDA: High-Level Parallel Programming for Social Data Mining". Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 9, n. 1, 2019.

  22. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "G-RoI: Automatic Region-of-Interest detection driven by geotagged social media data". ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 12, n. 3, pp. 27:1-27:22, 2018.

  23. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Using Scalable Data Mining for Predicting Flight Delays". ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 8, n. 1, pp. 5:1-5:20, 2016.


    24. Book chapters

  24. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Shedding Light Inside the Black Box: Techniques for Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare". In: Explainable Machine Intelligence in Healthcare, pp. 57-72, 2025.

  25. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, P. Trunfio, "Infrastructures for High-Performance Computing: Cloud Computing". In: Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier, 2024. Note: ISBN: 978-0-12-809633-8.

  26. L. Belcastro, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, "Infrastructures for High-Performance Computing: Cloud Infrastructures". In: Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier, 2024. Note: ISBN: 978-0-12-809633-8.

  27. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, "Hybrid edge/cloud solutions for supporting autonomous vehicles". In: Advances in Autonomous Vehicle Systems, 2023.

  28. F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, "High performance framework to analyze microarray data". In: Microarray Data Analysis: Methods and Protocols, Springer, vol. 2401 , pp. 13-27, 2022.

  29. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, "Workflow systems for Big data analysis". In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, A. Zomaya, J. Taheri, S. Sakr (Editors), pp. 1-7, 2022. Note: ISBN 978-3-319-63962-8.

  30. F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, "Cloud Computing for Big Data Analysis". In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, A. Zomaya, J. Taheri, S. Sakr (Editors), 2022. Note: ISBN 978-3-319-63962-8.

  31. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, "Workflow systems for Big data analysis". In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, S. Sakr, A. Zomaya (Editors), Springer, pp. 1-6, 2018. Note: ISBN 978-3-319-63962-8.

  32. F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, "Cloud computing for Big Data analysis". In: Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, S. Sakr, A. Zomaya (Editors), Springer, 2018. Note: ISBN 978-3-319-63962-8.

  33. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Big Data Analysis on Clouds". In: Handbook of Big Data Technologies, A. Zomaya, S. Sakr (Editors), Springer, pp. 101-142, 2017. Note: ISBN: 978-3-319-49339-8.


    34. Papers in conference proceedings

  34. L. Belcastro, C. Cosentino, P. Lio, F. Marozzo, "Balanced and Token-Efficient Summarization of User Reviews via Stratified Sampling and Large Language Models". European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), pp. 290–306, 2025.

  35. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Presta, R. Varchera, A. Vinci, "Developing Platform-Agnostic IIoT Applications in Edge-Cloud Environments". International Conference on Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing 2024 (ISM 2024), vol. 253, pp. 2106-2115, 2025.

  36. L. Belcastro, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, A. Presta, P. Trunfio, "Empowering Efficient Drone Monitoring with Low-Latency Edge-Cloud Continuum Platforms". 33rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2025), pp. 333-340, 2025.

  37. L. Belcastro, P. Ferragina, G. Manzini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Scalable Compression of Massive Data Collections on HPC Systems". International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2025), pp. 321–334, 2025.

  38. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Advancing Green and Fair AI: A Research Perspective on Environmental and Social Sustainability". 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2025), 2025.

  39. L. Belcastro, N. Gabriele, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, R. Badia, F. Lordan, "Federated Learning in the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A Task-Based Approach with Colony". Euro-Par Workshops, 2025. Note: To appear.

  40. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Presta, "Generative AI for Optimizing Service Mapping in the Edge-Cloud Continuum". IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2025), 2025.

  41. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Presta, D. Talia, "A Spark-based Task Allocation Solution for Machine Learning in the Edge-Cloud Continuum". 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), pp. 576-582, 2024.

  42. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, A. Presta, A. Vinci, "Developing Cross-Platform and Fast-Responsive Applications on the Edge-Cloud Continuum". 15th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2024), pp. 589-594, 2024.

  43. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Using the Compute Continuum for Data Analysis: Edge-cloud Integration for Urban Mobility". 31st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2023), pp. 338-344, 2023.

  44. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Cloud computing for enabling Big Data analysis". The 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2020), pp. 84-109, May 2021. Note: ISBN 978-3-030-72369-9.

  45. L. Belcastro, A. Falcone, A. Garro, F. Marozzo, "Evaluation of Large Scale RoI Mining Applications in Edge Computing Environments". 25th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), pp. 1-8, 2021.

  46. D. Talia, P. Trunfio, F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, J. Garcia Blas, D. Del Rio, P. Couvée, G. Goret, L. Vincent, A. Fernàndez-Pena, D. Martin de Blas, M. Nardi, T. Pizzuti, A. Spataru, M. Justyna, "A Novel Data-Centric Programming Model for Large-Scale Parallel Systems". Euro-Par 2019: Parallel Processing Workshops, Gottingen, Germany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 452-463, August 2020. Note: ISBN: 978-3-030-48339-5.

  47. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "A High-Level Programming Library for Mining Social Media on HPC Systems". Post-Proc. of the High Performance Computing Workshop 2018, Cetraro, Italy, Advances in Parallel Computing, Advances in Parallel Computing, vol. 34, pp. 3-21, IOS Press, July 2019.

  48. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Developing a Cloud-based Algorithm for Analyzing the Polarization of Social Media Users". 5th International Symposium, ALGOCLOUD 2019, Munich, Germany, pp. 15-24, 2019.

  49. L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Discovering Political Polarization on Social Media: A Case Study". 15th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG), Guangzhou, China, pp. 182-189, 2019.

  50. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Appraising SPARK on Large-Scale Social Media Analysis". Euro-Par Workshops, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , pp. 483-495, August 2017. Note: ISBN: 978-3-319-75178-8.

  51. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "A Parallel Library for Social Media Analytics". The 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017), Genoa, Italy, pp. 683--690, July 2017. Note: ISBN 978-1-5386-3250-5.

  52. L. Belcastro, G. Di Lieto, M. Lackovic, F. Marozzo, P. Trunfio, "Geocon: A Middleware for Location-aware Ubiquitous Applications". Proc. of the First International Workshop on Ultrascale Computing for Early Researchers (UCER 2016), Granada, Spain, pp. 234-243, December 2016. Note: ISBN: 978-3-319-49956-7.

  53. L. Belcastro, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, P. Trunfio, "Programming Visual and Script-based Big Data Analytics Workflows on Clouds". Post-Proc. of the High Performance Computing Workshop 2014, Cetraro, Italy, Advances in Parallel Computing, vol. 26, pp. 18--31, IOS Press, 2015. Note: ISBN: 978-1-61499-582-1.

  54. M. Tropea, F. Veltri, F. De Rango, F. Santamaria, L. Belcastro, "Two step based QoS scheduler for DVB-S2 satellite system". IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2011.


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