UNIVERSITY of PISA
School of Engineering
 


 



 



Alessio Bechini


 Papers

Papers are listed in reverse chronological order.

  • M. Basile, F. Gibiino, J. Cavazza, P. Semplici, A. Bechini, and N. Vanello,
    “Blind Approach Using Convolutional Neural Networks to a New Ultrasound Image Denoising Task,” 2023 International Workshop on Biomedical Applications, Technologies and Sensors (BATS), Catanzaro, Italy, 2023, pp. 68-73 - DOI: 10.1109/BATS59463.2023.10303265.
  • M. Olivelli, M. Donati, A. Vianello, S., A. Bechini, and L. Fanucci,
    “An Intelligent System for Telemonitoring Plan Decision and Update in Covid-19 Patients,” 2023 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advances in Data-Driven Analytics And Intelligent Systems (ADACIS), Marrakesh, Morocco, 2023, pp. 226-231 - DOI: 10.1109/ADACIS59737.2023.10424241.
  • A. Bechini, M. Daole, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni, A. Renda,
    “An Application for Federated Learning of XAI Models in Edge Computing Environments,” in Proc. of Fuzz-IEEE'23, 2023 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Fuzzy Systems (Songdo Incheon, Korea) - DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ52849.2023.10309783 .
  • P. Dell'Oglio, A. Bondielli, A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni,
    “Leveraging Sequence Mining for Robot Process Automation,” in A. Abraham et al. (eds), Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 717 (Jun 2023), pp. 224-233. Springer, Cham. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35510-3_22.
  • M. Donati, A. Bechini, et al.,
    “A Clinical Tool for Prognosis and Speech Rehabilitation in Dysarthric Patients: The DESIRE Project,” in R. Berta, A. De Gloria (eds), Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. ApplePies 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1036 (Apr 2023), pp. 380-385. Springer, Cham. - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30333-3_52.
  • A. Bechini, A. Bondielli, P. Dell'Oglio, F. Marcelloni,
    “From basic approaches to novel challenges and applications in Sequential Pattern Mining,” Applied Computing and Intelligence, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Jan 2023), pp. 44-78. - DOI: 10.3934/aci.2023004.
  • A. Bechini, J.L. Corcuera Bárcena, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni, A Renda,
    “Increasing Accuracy and Explainability in Fuzzy Regression Trees: An Experimental Analysis,” in Proc. of Fuzz-IEEE'22, 2022 IEEE Int'l Conf. On Fuzzy Systems (Padua, IT) - DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE55066.2022.9882604.
  • A. Bechini, A. Bondielli, J.L. Corcuera Barcena, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni and A. Renda,
    “A News-based Framework for Uncovering and Tracking City Area Profiles: Assessment in Covid-19 Setting,” ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Vol. 16, Issue 6 (Dec. 2022), art. no. 125 (online since Apr. 2022) - DOI: 10.1145/3532186.
  • M. Olivelli, M. Donati, A. Bechini, and L. Fanucci,
    “Enabling the E@syCare telemedicine platform with push notification with end-to-end acknowledgment,” in Proc. of PERCOM 2022, TELMED Workshop, pp. 763-768, Mar. 2022 - DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops53856.2022.9767507.
  • J. L. Corcuera Bárcena, F. Marcelloni, A. Renda, A. Bechini, and P. Ducange,
    "A Federated Fuzzy C-means Clustering Algorithm," in Proc. of WILF 2021, 13th Int'l Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Dec. 2021, url: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3074/paper08.pdf
  • A. Bechini, A. Bondielli, J.L. Corcuera Barcena, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni and A. Renda,
    “Mining the Stream of News for City Areas Profiling: a Case Study for the City of Rome,” in Proc. of 2021 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), pp. 317-322, 2021 - DOI: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP52413.2021.00066.
  • A. Bechini, A. Bondielli, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni and A. Renda,
    “Addressing Event-Driven Concept Drift in Twitter Stream: a Stance Detection Application,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 77758-77770, 2021 - DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3083578.
  • M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, and F. Marcelloni
    “Implicitly Distributed Fuzzy Random Forests,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2021, pp. 392-399 - DOI: 10.1145/3412841.3442082.
  • A. Bechini, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni, and A. Renda
    “Stance Analysis of Twitter Users: the Case of the Vaccination Topic in Italy,”  IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 36 (5), Sept-Oct. 2021, pp. 131-139 - DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2020.3044968
  • A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni, A. Renda
    “TSF-DBSCAN: a Novel Fuzzy Density-based Approach for Clustering Unbounded Data Streams,”   in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 30 (3), March 2022, pp. 623-637 - DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2020.3042645.
  • M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, and F. Marcelloni
    “An Analysis of Boosted Ensembles of Binary Fuzzy Decision Trees,”   Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 154, Sept. 2020, Elsevier, 113436 - DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113436.
  • A. Bechini, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni, and A. Renda
    “FDBSCAN-APT: A Fuzzy Density-based Clustering Algorithm with Automatic Parameter Tuning,”  in Proc. of Fuzz-IEEE'20, 2020 IEEE Int'l Conf. On Fuzzy Systems (Glasgow, UK), pp. 1-8 - DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ48607.2020.9177702
  • A. Bechini, B. Lazzerini, F. Marcelloni, and A. Renda
    “Integration of Web-scraped Data in CPM Tools: the Case of Project Sibilla,   Proc. of 5th Int'l Congress on Information and Communication Technology (London, UK, Feb. 20-21, 2020). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1184, ch. 27 pp. 279-287. Springer - DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5859-7_27
  • A. Renda, M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, and F. Marcelloni
    “Comparing Ensemble Strategies for Deep Learning: An Application to Facial Expression Recognition,”   Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 136, Dec. 2019, Elsevier, pp. 1-11 - DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2019.06.025
  • A. Aliperti, A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni, and A. Renda
    “A Fuzzy Density-based Clustering Algorithm for Streaming Data,”  in Proc. of Fuzz-IEEE'19, 2019 IEEE Int'l Conf. On Fuzzy Systems - DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2019.8858909
  • M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, P. Ducange, and F. Marcelloni
    “Optimizing Partition Granularity, Membership Function Parameters, and Rule Bases of Fuzzy Classifiers for Big Data by a Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach,”   Cognitive Computation, Vol. 11, Gen. 2019, Springer, pp. 367-387 (accepted Nov. 2018) - DOI: 10.1007/s12559-018-9613-6
  • E. D'Andrea, P. Ducange, A. Bechini, A. Renda, and F. Marcelloni
    “Monitoring the Public Opinion about the Vaccination Topic from Tweets Analysis,”   Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 116, Feb. 2019, Elsevier, pp. 209-226 - DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.09.009.
  • A. Renda, M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, and F. Marcelloni
    “Assessing Accuracy of Ensemble Learning for Facial Expression Recognition with CNNs,” ch. 34 in book "Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. LOD 2018". LNCS vol 11331, Springer, pp. 406-417 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13709-0_34.
  • M. Ricatto, M. Barsacchi, and A. Bechini
    “Interpretable CNV-based Tumour Classification using Fuzzy Rule Based Classifiers,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2018, April 2018, pp. 54-59 - DOI: 10.1145/3167132.3167135.
  • A. Segatori, A. Bechini, P. Ducange, F. Marcelloni
    “A Distributed Fuzzy Associative Classifier for Big Data,”   IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, Vol. 48 (9), Sept. 2018, IEEE, pp. 2656-2669 -   (acc. Sept. 2017) - DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2017.2748225.
  • M. Barsacchi, A. Bechini, and F. Marcelloni
    “Multi-class Boosting with Fuzzy Decision Trees,” in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Fuzzy Systems, July 2017, IEEE, - DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2017.8015567.
  • A. Bechini, A.D. De Matteis, F. Marcelloni, and A. Segatori
    “Spreading Fuzzy Random Forests with MapReduce,” in Proc. of IEEE SMC 2016, October 2016, IEEE, pp. 2641-2646 - DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2016.7844638.
  • M. Barsacchi, E.M. Novoa, M. Kellis, and A.Bechini
    “SwiSpot: Modeling Riboswitches by Spotting Out Switching Sequences,”   Bioinformatics Vol. 32 (21), 2016, pp. 3252-3259 - DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw401.
  • A. Bechini, D. Gazzè, A. Marchetti, and M. Tesconi
    “Towards a General Architecture for Social Media Data Capture from a Multi-domain Perspective,” in Proc. of IEEE AINA 2016, March 2016, IEEE, pp. 1093-1100 - DOI: 10.1109/AINA.2016.75.
  • M. Barsacchi, A. Baù, and A. Bechini
    “Extensive Assessment of Metrics on RNA Secondary Structures and Relative Ensembles,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2016, April 2016, pp. 44-47 - DOI: 10.1145/2851613.2851868.
  • A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni, A. Segatori
    “A MapReduce Solution for Associative Classification of Big Data,”   Information Sciences, Vol. 332, Mar. 2016, Elsevier, pp. 33-55 -   (acc. Oct. 2015) - DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2015.10.041.
  • A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni, A. Segatori
    “Low-Effort Support to Efficient Urban Parking in a Smart City Perspective,”   chapter 17 in book: S. Gaglio and G. Lo Re (Editors), Advances onto the Internet of Things (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 260, Springer) Jan. 2014, pp. 233-252 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03992-3_17.
  • (poster) A. Bechini, F. Marcelloni, A. Segatori
    “A Mobile Application Leveraging QR-Codes to Support Efficient Urban Parking,”  in Proc. of  SustainIT 2013 - 30-31 Oct. 2013 - DOI: 10.1109/SustainIT.2013.6685203
  • (poster) G. Anastasi, M. Antonelli, A. Bechini, S. Brienza, et al.
    “Urban and Social Sensing for Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities,”  in Proc. of  SustainIT 2013 - 30-31 Oct. 2013 - DOI: 10.1109/SustainIT.2013.6685198
  • (poster) A. Vetrano, A. Bechini, C. Chiappini, K. Schroeder
    “Browsing and Selection of CTD/XBT Data through Open-Source GIS Clients,”  IMDIS 2013 - Int'l Conf. on Marine Data and Information Systems, 23-25 Sept. 2013 - abstract in Bollettino di Geofisica - An International Journal of Earth Sciences, ISSN 0006-6729 Vol. 54 pp.  267-269 (PDF)
  • A. Bechini
    “On the Characterization and Software Implementation of General Protein Lattice Models,”  PLoS ONE 8(3): e59504, Mar. 2013 - DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059504 (open access)
  • M. Nardelli, L. Tedesco, and A. Bechini
    “Cross-lattice Behavior of General ACO Folding for Proteins in the HP Model,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2013, Bioinformatics track, March 2013, pp. 1320-1327 - DOI: 10.1145/2480362.2480611
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Special Track on Embedded Systems: Advances along the Hardware/Software Borderline,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2013, March 2013, pp. 1476-1477
  • A. Bechini, and A. Vetrano
    “Management and Storage of In-situ Oceanographic Data: An ECM-based Approach,”  Information Systems, 28(3), May 2013, Elsevier, pp. 351-368 - DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2012.10.004, (available online Oct. 2012)
  • D. Gazzè, A. Bechini, M. Avvenuti, M. Tesconi, and A. Marchetti
    “Integration of External Data in Document Workflows via Web Services,”  in Proc. of IC3K-KMIS 2012, October 2012, ISBN 978-989-8565-31-0, pp. 346-351 - DOI: 10.5220/0004143203460351.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Special Track on Embedded Systems: Across Hardware and Software,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2012, March 2012, pp. 1563-1564 - DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2232027.
  • A. Bechini, and R. Giannini
    "Management of Genotyping-related Documents by Integrated Use of Semantic Tagging,"  Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems - TLDKS IV, LNCS 6990, 2011, Springer, pp. 15-39, ISSN: 1869-1994 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23740-9_2.
  • A. Bechini, C. A. Prete, and L-P. Chang
    “Editorial Message: Special Track on Embedded Systems,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2011, March 2011, pp. 336-337 - DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982260.
  • A. Bechini, J. Viotto, and R. Giannini
    "Smooth Introduction of Semantic Tagging in Genotyping Procedures," 1st Int'l Conf. on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics (ITBAM 2010), vol. LNCS 6266, 2010, pp. 201-214 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15020-3_18.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message: Special Track on Embedded Systems,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2010, March 2010, pp. 481-482 - DOI: 10.1145/1774088.1774188.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message: Special Track on Embedded Systems,”  in Proc. of ACM SAC 2009, March 2009, pp. 1619-1620 - DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529647.
  • A. Bechini, A. Tomasi, and J. Viotto
    “Collaborative e-Business and Document Management: Integration of Legacy DMSs with the ebXML Environment,” chapter in book Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies, ISBN 978-3-7908-2009-6, Physica Verlag 2008, pp. 287-293 - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2010-2_35.
  • A. Bechini, A. Tomasi, and J. Viotto
    “Enabling Ontology-Based Document Classification and Management in ebXML Registries,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2008, March 2008, pp. 1145-1150 - DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1363951.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Special track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques: editorial message,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2008, March 2008, p. 1476 - DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1364033.
  • A. Bechini, M.G.C.A. Cimino, F. Marcelloni, and A. Tomasi
    “Patterns and technologies for enabling supply chain traceability through collaborative e-business,”  Information and Software Technology, 50(4), March 2008, pp. 342-359 - DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.017.
  • A. Bechini, A. Tomasi, and J. Viotto
    “Collaborative e-Business and Document Management: Integration of Legacy DMSs with the ebXML Environment,” in Proc. of itAIS 2007, abstract, October 2007
  • A. Bechini, A. Tomasi, and J. Viotto
    “Document Management for Collaborative E-business: Integrating ebXML Environment and Legacy DMS,” in Proc. of ICE-B, Int'l Conf. on e-business 2007, pp. 78-83 - DOI: 10.5220/0002112700780083.
  • A. Bechini, J. Kim, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2007, March 2007, pp. 664-665 - DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244153.
  • A. Bechini, F. Bodin, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2006, March 2006, pp. 889-890 - DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141484.
  • A. Bardine, A. Bechini, P. Foglia, C.A. Prete
    "Analysis of Embedded Video Coder Systems: a System-level Approach," ACM SigArch Computer Architecture News, Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 2006), pp. 71-76 - DOI: 10.1145/1147349.1147362.
  • A. Bechini, M.G.C.A. Cimino, and A. Tomasi
    “Using ebXML for Supply Chain Traceability - Pitfalls, Solutions and Experiences,” in Proc. of 5th IFIP I3E Conf., Springer, Oct. 2005, pp. 497-511 - DOI: 10.1007/0-387-29773-1_33.
  • A. Bechini, F. Bodin, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2005, March 2005, pp. 836-837 - DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066869.
  • A. Bechini, M.G.C.A. Cimino, B. Lazzerini, F. Marcelloni, and A. Tomasi
    “A General Framework for Food Traceability,” in Proc. of Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT) 2005 Workshops, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005, pp.366-369 - DOI: 10.1109/SAINTW.2005.10.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Support for Architectural Design and Re-Design of Embedded Systems,”  chapter in book: H. Yang, (Editor), Software Evolution with UML and XML. Idea Group Publishing, 2005 - DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-462-0.ch011.
  • A. Bechini, T. M. Conte, and C. A. Prete
    Guest Editors' Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges in Embedded Systems. IEEE Micro, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Jul-Aug 2004), pp. 8-9 - DOI: 10.1109/MM.2004.30.
  • A. Bechini, A. Tomasi, and G. Ceccarelli
    “The Ecumene Experience to Data Integration in Cultural Heritage Web Information Systems,”  in Proc. of  WISM 2004 (Int'l Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling), Vol. 1,June 2004, pp. 49-59  ( get the on-line version)
  • A. Bechini and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques,” in Proc. of ACM SAC 2004, March 2004, pp. 819-820 - DOI: 10.1145/967900.968069
  • A. Bechini, P. Foglia, and C. A. Prete
    “Fine-Grain Design Space Exploration for a Cartographic Embedded SoC Multiprocessor, ” ACM SigArch ComputerArchitecture News, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March 2003), pp. 85-92 - DOI: 10.1145/773365.773375.
  • A. Bechini, and C. A. Prete
    “Editorial Message for the Special Track on Embedded Systems: Applications, Solutions, and Techniques,” in Proc. of 2003 Symp. on Applied Computing, March 2003, pp. 659-660 - DOI: 10.1145/952532.952661.
  • Alessio Bechini, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    Performance-Steered Design of Software Architectures for Embedded Multicore Systems”
    Software: Practice and Experience Vol. 32 No.12 (Oct. 2002), pp. 1155-1173 - DOI: 10.1002/spe.477.
  • Alessio Bechini, Pierfrancesco Foglia, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “Use of a CORBA/RMI Gateway: Characterization of Communication Overhead”
    in Proc. of WOSP 2002, ACM Third Int'l Workshop on Software and Performance, July 2002, pp. 150-157 - DOI: 10.1145/584369.584392.
  • Alessio Bechini, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “Behavior Investigation of Concurrent Java Programs: an Approach Based on Source-Code Instrumentation”
    Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 18 No. 2 (Oct. 2001), pp. 307-316 - DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(00)00095-9.
  • Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications - PDPTA 2001 -
    CSREA Press, June 2001 (associate editor, co-chair for a special session and member of Program Committe). (look at the conference programme )
  • Alessio Bechini, and Pierfrancesco Foglia
    “Extension of Web Server Systems for E-Commerce: Incremental Crowding vs. Functional Doubling-Up”
    extended abstract for PADDA 2001, Int’l Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures, Munich (Germany), Apr. 2001.
  • Alessio Bechini, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “Evaluation of On-Chip Multiprocessor Architectures for an Embedded Cartographic System”
    in Proc. of IASTED Applied Informatics Conference, Symposium on Software, Innsbruck (Austria), Feb. 2001, pp. 686-691. ( pdf )
  • Alessio Bechini, Raffaele Lapadula, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “Dealing with Non-Determinism in Communications within Java Programs”
    in Proc. of 25th Euromicro Conference, Workshop on Multimedia and Telecommunications, IEEE Computer Society Press, Sept. 1999, pp. 350-357 - DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794800.
  • Alessio Bechini, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “Instrumentation of Concurrent Java Applications for Program Behavior Investigation”
      in Proc. of Workshop on Java for High-Performance Computing, 1999 ACM International  Conference on Supercomputing, June 1999, pp. 21-29. ( workshop page )
  • Alessio Bechini, and Kuo-Chung Tai
    “Design of a Toolset for Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent Java Programs”
    in Proc. of International Workshop on Program Comprehension, June 1998, pp. 190-197 DOI: 10.1109/WPC.1998.693354
  • Alessio Bechini, and Kuo-Chung Tai
    “Timestamps for Programs Using Messages and Shared Variables”
    in Proc. of 18th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1998, pp. 266-273 - DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS.1998.679522
  • Alessio Bechini, John Cutajar, and Cosimo Antonio Prete
    “A Tool for Testing of Parallel and Distributed Programs in Message-Passing Environments”
    in Proc. of 9th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON 98), May 1998, pp. 1308-1312 - DOI: 10.1109/MELCON.1998.699448.