Giuseppina Andresini is an Assistant Researcher at the Department of Computer Science of University of Bari Aldo Moro. She graduated in Computer Science from the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, in April 2018, with full marks and honors (110/110 cum laude), discussing a Laurea thesis on data mining. Her research activity mainly concerns deep learning, data mining, big data analytics and cybersecurity. Applications include malware analysis and intrusion detection. On these topics, she has published papers in international journals (IEEE access, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Based System and Future Generation Computer Systems) and conferences. She has been an organizer of CyberChallenge.IT 2020 in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She is a member of the organization committee of CyberChallenge.IT 2021. She served as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals

Research Interests

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Cybersecurity, Intrusion detection, Big Data Analytics, Deep learning

Giuseppina Andresini
PhD, Assistant Professor
(non tenure)
Phone: +39 080 5442203
em@il: giuseppina.andresini @ uniba.it





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2023

Malik Al-Essa, Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
PANACEA: A Neural Model Ensemble for Cyber-Threat Detection. DSAA: 1-2 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DSAA60987.2023.10302518
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
$\mathsf{SILVIA}$: An eXplainable Framework to Map Bark Beetle Infestation in Sentinel-2 Images. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Remote. Sens. 16: 10050-1006 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3312521
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Pasquale Ardimento, Andrea Antonio Brunetta, Antonio Giuseppe Doronzo, Giuseppe Ieva, Francesco Luce, Donato Malerba, Vincenzo Pasquadibisceglie:
CENTAURO: An Explainable AI Approach for Customer Loyalty Prediction in Retail Sector. AI*IA: 205-217 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47546-7_14
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Roberto Gasbarro, Donato Malerba:
GLORIA: A Graph Convolutional Network-Based Approach for Review Spam Detection. DS: 111-125 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45275-8_8
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice:
Editorial: AI meets cybersecurity. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 60(2): 277-279 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-022-00767-9
Irena Koprinska, Paolo Mignone, Riccardo Guidotti, Szymon Jaroszewicz, Holger Fröning, Francesco Gullo, Pedro M. Ferreira, Damian Roqueiro, Gaia Ceddia, Slawomir Nowaczyk, João Gama, Rita P. Ribeiro, Ricard Gavaldà, Elio Masciari, Zbigniew W. Ras, Ettore Ritacco, Francesca Naretto, Andreas Theissler, Przemyslaw Biecek, Wouter Verbeke, Gregor Schiele, Franz Pernkopf, Michaela Blott, Ilaria Bordino, Ivan Luciano Danesi, Giovanni Ponti, Lorenzo Severini, Annalisa Appice, Giuseppina Andresini, Ibéria Medeiros, Guilherme Graça, Lee A. D. Cooper, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Jonas Richiardi, Diego Saldana Miranda, Konstantinos Sechidis, Arif Canakoglu, Sara Pidò, Pietro Pinoli, Albert Bifet, Sepideh Pashami:
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19-23, 2022, Proceedings, Part II PKDD/ECML Workshops (2) Communications in Computer and Information Science 1753, Springer (2023), ISBN: 978-3-031-23633-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23633-4
Irena Koprinska, Paolo Mignone, Riccardo Guidotti, Szymon Jaroszewicz, Holger Fröning, Francesco Gullo, Pedro M. Ferreira, Damian Roqueiro, Gaia Ceddia, Slawomir Nowaczyk, João Gama, Rita P. Ribeiro, Ricard Gavaldà, Elio Masciari, Zbigniew W. Ras, Ettore Ritacco, Francesca Naretto, Andreas Theissler, Przemyslaw Biecek, Wouter Verbeke, Gregor Schiele, Franz Pernkopf, Michaela Blott, Ilaria Bordino, Ivan Luciano Danesi, Giovanni Ponti, Lorenzo Severini, Annalisa Appice, Giuseppina Andresini, Ibéria Medeiros, Guilherme Graça, Lee A. D. Cooper, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Jonas Richiardi, Diego Saldana Miranda, Konstantinos Sechidis, Arif Canakoglu, Sara Pidò, Pietro Pinoli, Albert Bifet, Sepideh Pashami:
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19-23, 2022, Proceedings, Part I PKDD/ECML Workshops (1) Communications in Computer and Information Science 1752, Springer (2023), ISBN: 978-3-031-23618-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23618-1
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Dino Ienco, Donato Malerba:
SENECA: Change detection in optical imagery using Siamese networks with Active-Transfer Learning. Expert Syst. Appl. 214: 119123 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119123


2022

Giuseppina Andresini, Andrea Iovine, Roberto Gasbarro, Marco Lomolino, Marco de Gemmis, Annalisa Appice:
Review Spam Detection using Multi-View Deep Learning Combining Content and Behavioral Features. itaDATA: 87-98 (2022)
DOI: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3340/paper32.pdf
Malik Al-Essa, Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
An XAI-based adversarial training approach for cyber-threat detection. DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech: 1-8 (2022)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/Cy55231.2022.9927842
Malik Al-Essa, Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
XAI to Explore Robustness of Features in Adversarial Training for Cybersecurity. ISMIS: 117-126 (2022)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16564-1_12
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Francesco Paolo Caforio, Donato Malerba, Gennaro Vessio:
ROULETTE: A neural attention multi-output model for explainable Network Intrusion Detection. Expert Syst. Appl. 201: 117144 (2022)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117144
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Daniele Iaia, Donato Malerba, Nicolò Taggio, Antonello Aiello:
Leveraging autoencoders in change vector analysis of optical satellite images. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 58(3): 433-452 (2022)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-021-00670-9


2021

Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Domenico Dell'Olio, Donato Malerba:
Siamese Networks with Transfer Learning for Change Detection in Sentinel-2 Images. AI*IA: 478-489 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08421-8_33
Michael Kamp, Irena Koprinska, Adrien Bibal, Tassadit Bouadi, Benoît Frénay, Luis Galárraga, José Oramas, Linara Adilova, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Bo Kang, Christine Largeron, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tiphaine Viard, Pascal Welke, Massimiliano Ruocco, Erlend Aune, Claudio Gallicchio, Gregor Schiele, Franz Pernkopf, Michaela Blott, Holger Fröning, Günther Schindler, Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Przemyslaw Biecek, Eirini Ntoutsi, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Bodo Rosenhahn, Christopher L. Buckley, Daniela Cialfi, Pablo Lanillos, Maxwell Ramstead, Tim Verbelen, Pedro M. Ferreira, Giuseppina Andresini, Donato Malerba, Ibéria Medeiros, Philippe Fournier-Viger, M. Saqib Nawaz, Sebastián Ventura, Meng Sun, Min Zhou, Valerio Bitetta, Ilaria Bordino, Andrea Ferretti, Francesco Gullo, Giovanni Ponti, Lorenzo Severini, Rita P. Ribeiro, João Gama, Ricard Gavaldà, Lee A. D. Cooper, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Jonas Richiardi, Damian Roqueiro, Diego Saldana Miranda, Konstantinos Sechidis, Guilherme Graça:
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II PKDD/ECML Workshops (2) Communications in Computer and Information Science 1525, Springer (2021), ISBN: 978-3-030-93733-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93733-1
Michael Kamp, Irena Koprinska, Adrien Bibal, Tassadit Bouadi, Benoît Frénay, Luis Galárraga, José Oramas, Linara Adilova, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Bo Kang, Christine Largeron, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tiphaine Viard, Pascal Welke, Massimiliano Ruocco, Erlend Aune, Claudio Gallicchio, Gregor Schiele, Franz Pernkopf, Michaela Blott, Holger Fröning, Günther Schindler, Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Przemyslaw Biecek, Eirini Ntoutsi, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Bodo Rosenhahn, Christopher L. Buckley, Daniela Cialfi, Pablo Lanillos, Maxwell Ramstead, Tim Verbelen, Pedro M. Ferreira, Giuseppina Andresini, Donato Malerba, Ibéria Medeiros, Philippe Fournier-Viger, M. Saqib Nawaz, Sebastián Ventura, Meng Sun, Min Zhou, Valerio Bitetta, Ilaria Bordino, Andrea Ferretti, Francesco Gullo, Giovanni Ponti, Lorenzo Severini, Rita P. Ribeiro, João Gama, Ricard Gavaldà, Lee A. D. Cooper, Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Jonas Richiardi, Damian Roqueiro, Diego Saldana Miranda, Konstantinos Sechidis, Guilherme Graça:
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part I PKDD/ECML Workshops (1) Communications in Computer and Information Science 1524, Springer (2021), ISBN: 978-3-030-93736-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93736-2
Giuseppina Andresini, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Corrado Loglisci, Annalisa Appice, Lorenzo Cavallaro:
INSOMNIA: Towards Concept-Drift Robustness in Network Intrusion Detection. AISec@CCS: 111-122 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3474369.3486864
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
A Two-Step Network Intrusion Detection System for Multi-Class Classification (Discussion Paper). SEBD: 259-266 (2021)
DOI: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2994/paper27.pdf
Francesco Paolo Caforio, Giuseppina Andresini, Gennaro Vessio, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
Leveraging Grad-CAM to Improve the Accuracy of Network Intrusion Detection Systems. DS: 385-400 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88942-5_30
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Corrado Loglisci, Vincenzo Belvedere, Domenico Redavid, Donato Malerba:
A Network Intrusion Detection System for Concept Drifting Network Traffic Data. DS: 111-121 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88942-5_9
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Luca De Rose, Donato Malerba:
GAN augmentation to deal with imbalance in imaging-based intrusion detection. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 123: 108-127 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.04.017
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
Autoencoder-based deep metric learning for network intrusion detection. Inf. Sci. 569: 706-727 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2021.05.016
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
Nearest cluster-based intrusion detection through convolutional neural networks. Knowl. Based Syst. 216: 106798 (2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2021.106798


2020

Annalisa Appice, Giuseppina Andresini, Donato Malerba:
Clustering-Aided Multi-View Classification: A Case Study on Android Malware Detection. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 55(1): 1-26 (2020)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-020-00598-6
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Nicola Di Mauro, Corrado Loglisci, Donato Malerba:
Multi-Channel Deep Feature Learning for Intrusion Detection. IEEE Access 8: 53346-5335 (2020)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2980937
Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:
Dealing with Class Imbalance in Android Malware Detection by Cascading Clustering and Classification. Complex Pattern Mining: 173-187 (2020)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36617-9_11


2019

Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Nicola Di Mauro, Corrado Loglisci, Donato Malerba:
Exploiting the Auto-Encoder Residual Error for Intrusion Detection. EuroS&P Workshops: 281-290 (2019)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00038


2018

Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppina Andresini, Angelo Impedovo, Donato Malerba:
Analyzing Microblogging Posts for Tracking Collective Emotional Trajectories. AI*IA: 123-135 (2018)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03840-3_10