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Publications

Books

  • Greco S., Molinaro C., Spezzano F., Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012.

Journals

  1. Kang C., Kraus S., Molinaro C., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Diffusion Centrality: A Paradigm to Maximize Spread in Social Networks. Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), 239:70-96, 2016.
  2. Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., Checking Chase Termination: Cyclicity Analysis and Rewriting Techniques. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 27(3):621-635, 2015.
  3. Serra E., Spezzano F., An Effective GPU-based Approach to Probabilistic Query Confidence Computation. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 27(1): 17-31, 2015.
  4. Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., Calautti M., Checking Termination of Bottom-up Evaluation of Logic Programs with Function Symbols. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) 15(6): 854-889, 2015.
  5. Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Mannes A., Reshaping Terrorist Networks. Communications of the ACM (CACM) 57(8): 60-69, 2014.
  6. Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., Stratification Criteria and Rewriting Techniques for Checking Chase Termination. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 4(11): 1158-1168, 2011.
  7. Greco S., Spezzano F., Chase Termination: A Constraints Rewriting Approach. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 3(1): 93-104, 2010.

PhD Thesis

  • Spezzano F., On the problem of Checking Chase Termination (2012). Advisor Prof. Sergio Greco

Tutorials and Talks

  • Kumar S., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Identifying Malicious Actors on Social Media. Tutorial at 2016 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2016), page xlvi, San Francisco, August 18-21, 2016. [Bad Actors Tutorial Website]
  • Spezzano F., Bad Actors in Social Media, Keynote speech at 1st International Workshop on Computational Methods for CyberSafety (co-located with CIKM 2016), Indianapolis, USA, October 28, 2016. [Bad Actors in Social Media Slides]

Conferences

  1. A Scalable Graph-Coarsening Based Index for Dynamic Graph Databases. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), pp. -, Singapore, November 6-10, 2017.
  2. Arelli H., Spezzano F., Who Will Stop Contributing? Predicting Inactive Editors in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017), pp. 355-358, Sydney, Australia, Jul. 31 – Aug. 3, 2017.
  3. Dhakal N., Spezzano F., Xu D. Predicting Friendship Strength for Privacy Preserving: A Case Study on Facebook. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017), pp. 1096-1103, Sydney, Australia, Jul. 31 – Aug. 3, 2017.
  4. Green T., Spezzano F., Spam Users Identification in Wikipedia via Editing Behavior. In Proceedings of International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 532-535 , Montreal, Canada, May 15-18, 2017.
  5. Spezzano F.,Ensuring the Integrity of Wikipedia: A Data Science Approach. In Proceedings of Women in Data Science Workshop (WinDS) @ SDM 2017, Houston, USA, April 29, 2017.
  6. Kumar S., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Faloutsos C., Edge Weight Prediction in Weighted Signed Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), pp. 221-230, Barcelona, Spain, December 13-15, 2016.
  7. Suyehira K., Spezzano F., DePP: A System for Detecting Pages to Protect in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), pp. -, Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016.
  8. Joaristi M., Serra E., Spezzano F., Identifying Health-Violating Restaurants with Online Reviews. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Big Network Analytics (BigNet 2016) @ CIKM 2016, pp. -, Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016. [Data set for Identifying Health-Violating Restaurants with Online Reviews]
  9. Joaristi M., Serra E., Spezzano F.,Evaluating the Impact of Social Media in Detecting Health-Violating Restaurants. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2016), pp. 626-633, San Francisco, USA, August 18-21, 2016. [Data set for Evaluating impact of social media in detecting health-violating restaurants]
  10. Serra E., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., ChoiceGAPs: Competitive Diffusion as a Massive Multi-Player Game in Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2016), pp. 303-319, Nice, France, September 21-23, 2016. (Extended Version)
  11. Kumar S., Serra E., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Metric Logic Program Explanations for Complex Separator Functions. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2016), pp. 199-213, Nice, France, September 21-23, 2016.
  12. Kumar S., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGKDD International Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015), pp. 607-616 , Sydney, Australia, August 10-13, 2015. [Data set for VEWS] See it also in Wikimedia Research Newsletter 5(8).
  13. Andrews I., Kumar S., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., SPINN: Suspicion Prediction in Nuclear Networks. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2015), pp. 19-24 , Baltimore, MD, USA, May 26-29, 2015.
  14. Kumar S., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Accurately Detecting Trolls in Slashdot Zoo via Decluttering. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014), pp. 188-195, Beijing, China, August 17-20, 2014.
  15. Skillicorn D., Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Garber M., Understanding South Asian Violent Extremist Group-Group Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014), pp. 687-694, Beijing, China, August 17-20, 2014.
  16. Kolaitis P. G., Spezzano F., The Semantics of Aggregate Queries in Data Exchange Revisited. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2013), pp. 233-246, Washington DC Area, USA, September 16-18, 2013.
  17. Spezzano F., Subrahmanian V., Mannes A., STONE: Shaping Terrorist Organizational Network Efficiency. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), pp. 348-355, Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013.
  18. Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., On the Termination of Logic Programs with Function Symbols. In proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2012), pp. 323-333, 2012.
  19. Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., Stratification-based Criteria for Checking Chase Termination. In Proceedings of Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2012), pp. 185-192, 2012.
  20. De Francesco A., Greco S., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., ChaseT: A Tool for Checking Chase Termination. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2011), pp. 520-524, 2011. Tools: ChaseT, ChaseTEQ.
  21. De Francesco A., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., ChaseT: A Tool for Checking Chase Termination. In Proceedings of Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2011), pp. 163-174, 2011.
  22. Greco S., Molinaro C., Spezzano F., Trubitsyna I., Queryingand Updating Inconsistent Databases (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2010), pp. 438-445, 2010.
  23. Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati (SEBD 2009), pp. 9-20, 2009.