PROGRAM
Session 1 – Smart Healthcare Systems and Analytics
Session Chair: John Templeton
BlackOps: GIS-Informed Planning for Healthcare Resilience Amid Power Grid Outages
Authors: Modeste Mefenya Kenne (University of California Irvine, USA); Andrew Chio (University of California, Irvine, USA); Zhenghui Hu (ImageCat, Inc., USA); Julie Rousseau (University of California Irvine School of Medicine, USA); Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Precomputed 1D-CNNs for Atrial Fibrillation Detection on Tiny Smart Sensor Systems
Authors: Lukas Einhaus, Natalie Maman, Julian Hoever, Andreas Erbsloeh and Gregor Schiele (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
FedAVL: Automated Vertical Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Healthcare Data
Authors: Ferdinand Kahenga (University of the Western Cape, South Africa & Université Don Bosco de Lubumbashi, DRC); Gad Tambwe (Université Don Bosco de Lubumbashi, DRC); Antoine Bagula (University of the Western Cape, South Africa & New Horizons University, DRC); Jovita Nyanyukweni Mateus (University of the Western Cape, Namibia & Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia); Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
TabHealth: Towards a Self-Supervised Tabular Foundation Model for Smart Healthcare
Authors: Mattia G. Campana (IIT-CNR, Italy); Giada Anastasi, Stefania Pieroni, Michela Franchini and Sabrina Molinaro (Italian National Research Council, Italy); Franca Delmastro (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Session 2 – Networks and Systems Simulation
Session Chair: Claudio Cicconetti
DataCenterGym: A Physics-Grounded Simulator for Multi-Objective Data Center Scheduling
Authors: Nilavra Pathak (Expedia Group, USA); Samadrita Biswas (Curia Global, USA); Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Bounded-Time Neighbor Discovery in 3D Free-Space Optical Networks with LoRa Assistance
Authors: Suman Bhunia (Miami University, Ohio, USA); Peter A. Jamieson, Zach Copenhaver and Blake Rile (Miami University, USA)
Session 3 – Industry Track
Session Chair: Davide Giacalone
Empowering 9-1-1 Calltaking Training with Generative AI: Experiences and Lessons Learned
Authors: Zirong Chen and Meiyi Ma (Vanderbilt University, USA)
ML-based SoH Estimation for Li-Ion Batteries using CC-Phase Charging Voltage Features: Insights on Minimum and Optimal Training Datasets
Authors: Giada Pietroccola, Mario Molinara and Francesco Porpora (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy); Luca Gerevini and Michele Vitelli (E-Lectra s.r.l., Italy); Claudio Marrocco (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy)
Session 4 – Best Paper Candidates
Session Co-Chairs: George Roussos, Daniela Nicklas
A Comparative Analysis on the Performance of Upper Confidence Bound Algorithms in Adaptive Deep Neural Networks
Authors: Grigorios Papanikolaou and Ioannis Kontopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Konstantinos Tserpes (National Technical University of Athens & Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)
Resource-Aware Federated Learning for Malware Detection on Smart Devices
Authors: Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola and Giuseppe Lo Re (University of Palermo, Italy)
Dynamic Pickup-and-Delivery Routing with Early-Arrival Waiting Limits and Station Relocation
Authors: Agrima Khanna, Sophie Pavia, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey and Fangqi Liu (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Session 5 – Human-Centric Sensing and Activity Recognition
Session Chair: Francesca Righetti
Simultaneous Multi-target Tracking and Gesture Recognition via Distributed Radar-Sensing Systems
Authors: Wanru Ning (Peking University, China); Dariush Salami (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland); Hongliu Yang (Peking University, China); Yongtao Ma (Tianjin University, China); Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)
Efficient and Adaptive Human Activity Recognition via LLM Backbones
Authors: Aleksandr Bredikhin (UGA, Russia); Philippe Lalanda (Grenoble University, France); German Vega (CNRS, France)
Reasoning Supervision for Enhancing Video-based Human Activity Recognition
Authors: Yilin Liu and Meiyi Ma (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Natural Language Driven Multi-Object Tracking via Joint Spatial, Visual, and Semantic Association
Authors: Azhar Hasan (Vanderbilt University, USA); Alex Richardson (Vanderbilt, USA); Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University/ISIS, USA)
Session 6 – Machine Learning for Edge Systems and Security
Session Chair: Fabrizio De Vita
Emulated Autoencoder: A Defense against CNN Evasion Attacks for Resource Constrained Devices and High Throughput Applications
Authors: Dat Le and Brent Lagesse (University of Washington Bothell, USA)
A Two-Stage Hybrid Deep and Machine Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection and Classification in IoT Sensor Networks
Authors: Chiraz Houaidia (Lab Cristal, ENSI, Manouba University, Tunisia); Ichrak Amdouni (ENSI Manouba, Tunisia & University of Manouba, Tunisia); Leila Azzouz Saidane (Lab CRISTAL-ENSI, University Manouba, Tunisia)
CoBO: Conformal-Constrained Bayesian Optimization for Energy-Efficient SLO-Aware DNN Inference
Authors: Ivan Dokuchaev and Ali Kadhum Idrees (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany); Rolf Schuster (Open Edge Computing Initiative, Germany)
FedAdapt++: Plane-consistent Federated Learning for SDN-IoT Anomaly Detection
Authors: Jovita Nyanyukweni Mateus (University of the Western Cape, Namibia & Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia); Guy-Alain Lusilao-Zodi (Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia); Antoine Bagula (University of the Western Cape, South Africa & New Horizons University, DRC); Ferdinand Kahenga (University of the Western Cape, South Africa & Université Don Bosco de Lubumbashi, DRC)
Session 7 – Smart Mobility and Urban Systems
Session Chair: Mohan Kumar
A Congestion Mitigation Approach for Ground Vehicles with Diverse Advanced Driver Assistance Systems in Smart Transportation Networks
Authors: Doris E. M. Brown and Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
A Simulation-based Framework for Dynamic Light Pollution Prediction in Urban Air Mobility
Authors: Ying Chieh Wang (Osaka University, Japan); Tatsuya Amano and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (The University of Osaka, Japan)
Navigating Sparsity: Evaluating the Impact of Controlled Data Reduction on Synthetic Mobility Data Utility
Authors: Abeera Ayesha Riaz and Muhammad Tayyab Shafique (Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany); Leonie Ackermann and Debasree Das (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Operating Regimes of Decentralized Learning Under Mobility and Bandwidth Constraints
Authors: Samuele Sabella, Chiara Boldrini and Lorenzo Valerio (IIT-CNR, Italy); Marco Conti (Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy); Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)
DM-SmartHealth
Session 1
Session Chair: Mattia Campana
A Machine Learning Approach for Sleep Apnea Detection Using Unobtrusive In-Bed Sensors
Authors: Eleonora Melissa (Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Italy); Carlotta Marinai, Lucia Arcarisi and Francesco Bossi (University of Pisa, Italy); Pasquale Bufano (CNR, Italy); Francesco Di Rienzo and Gianluca Rho (University of Pisa, Italy); Michele Zanoletti (Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Italy); Alberto Greco, Carlo Vallati and Nicola Carbonaro (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Laurino (CNR, Italy); Alessandro Tognetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Robust Wearable Stress Detection using Physiological Feature Engineering and Subject-Independent Evaluation
Authors: Paul Ben O’brien, Malik Muhammad Qirtas and Andrea Visentin (University College Cork, Ireland)
CLICK-SAM: A CLinical Interactive Click-based Kit for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Segmentation
Authors: Giada Anastasi, Giulio Del Corso, Michela Franchini, Sabrina Molinaro and Stefania Pieroni (CNR, Italy)
Session 2
Session Chair: John Templeton
Multimodal-to-Semantics Large Language Model Framework for Loneliness Assessment
Authors: Chenxin Chen and Iman Azimi (University of Turku, Finland); Amir M. Rahmani (University of California, Irvine, USA); Pasi Liljeberg (University of Turku, Finland)
RamanLLM: Reprogramming Frozen Large Language Models for Raman Spectral Analysis
Authors: Álvaro García (University College Cork, Ireland); Simone Innocente (Tyndall National Institute, Ireland); Nicola Rossberg, Malik Muhammad Qirtas and Andrea Visentin (University College Cork, Ireland)
LIFESEC
Session 1
Session Chair: Robert Seidl
Automated Distributed Ledger Infrastructure for Continuous Cybersecurity Certification in Multi-Stakeholder Environments
Authors: Álvaro Navarro Martínez, Sara Nieves Matheu García, Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gómez
Deployment-Aware Parameter Optimization for IoT Attack Detection
Authors: Mohammed Nasereddin, Erol Gelenbe
Session 2
Session Chair: Robert Seidl
Cross-Domain Convolutional Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection for Whole-Lifecycle Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Authors: Diego Argüello Ron, Armando Aguayo Mendoza, Oscar Garcia Perales
Context Matters: Vulnerability Categorization with Dual-Input Code Representations
Authors: Anna Maria Voulkopoulou, Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Dionysios Kehagias, and Dimitrios Tzovaras
Session 3
Session Chair: Robert Seidl
On feasibility of network based firmware change detection
Authors: Joerg Abendroth, Martin G. Jaatun, Manuel Leone, Egil
An Heuristic and Explainable Unsupervised Concept Drift Detector
Authors: Gabriele Nicolò Costa, Alessandra De Paola, Salvatore Drago, Pierluca Ferraro, Giuseppe Lo Re
Interactive session: “Tools and Techniques for Whole-Lifecycle Security”, introducing and demonstrating tools and use cases for “Whole-Lifecycle Security” and gathering feedback from the audience.
5G/6G Network Digital Twin – based cyber defense framework for threat detection and classification
Authors: Ioannis Vasalos, Efstathios Zaragkas, Athina Vekraki, Maria Christopoulou, Michail Alexandros Kourtis, George Xilouris, Nikos Dimitriou
Automatic Association of Cloud Security Controls and Quantifiable Metrics for Certification
Authors: John Bianchi, Luca Petrillo, Shuya Dong, Marinella Petrocchi
QCNS
Session 1
Session Chair: Claudio Cicconetti
Keynote speech: Analog Quantum Computing in Practice: Graph Optimization for Telco and the Road to Digital Machines
Speaker: Giacomo Vitali
Solving Currency Arbitrage Problems using D-Wave Advantage2 Quantum Annealer
Authors: Lorenzo Mazzei, Giada Beccari, Mirko Laruina, Marco Cococcioni
Session 2
Session Chair: Mansur Ziiatdinov
Explainable Quantum Machine Learning for IoMT Security: Evaluating Quantum Advantage
Authors: Vincenzo Spadari, Alfredo Nascita, Idio Guarino, Domenico Ciuonzo, Antonio Pescapé
Assessing the Feasibility of Quantum Autoencoders for Real-World Visual Anomaly Detection
Authors: Farida Farsian, Attilio Azzarelli, Fabrizio De Vita, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Schilliro
Federated Variational Quantum Neural Networks for Privacy-Preserving Anomaly Detection in Smart IoT Networks
Authors: Radhakrishnan Delhibabu, Manuel Mazzara, Salvatore Distefano
A Recipe for Data-driven Medicine: Data Encoding, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing
Authors: Mansur Ziiatdinov, Salvatore Distefano
Session 3
Session Chair: M Arif Khan
Invited talk: Towards Quantum Networks: Characterizing Raman Noise over Metropolitan scale Fiber Network
Authors: Marcello Caleffi, Laura d’Avossa, Italo Ignacio Machuca Flores, Marco Grillo, Elena Montella, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
Traveling Salesman Problem with a preprocessing method for classical and quantum optimization
Authors: Alessia Ciacco, Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese, Francesca Guerriero
QAIRAS: A Resource-Bounded Hybrid Quantum-Inspired Architecture for Secure Smart Systems
Authors: Patrick Hamilton, M Arif Khan, Rafiqul Islam, Fendy Santoso
Integrating Classical and Quantum PUF with QKD for Secure IoT Networks
Authors: Franco Cirillo, Maria Caterina D’Aloia, Christian Esposito
Quantum k-means based on Quantum Local Sensitive Hashing with Application to Irrigation Machine Sensors Data Clustering
Authors: Kamil Khadiev, Aliia Khadieva
Q2NS Demo: A Quantum Network Simulator Based on ns-3
Authors: Francesco Mazza, Adam Pearson, Marcello Caleffi, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
SmartAIDa
Session 1
Keynote: Engineering the Smart City Data Continuum: Data Spaces, Digital Twins and AI-Driven Decision Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Antonio J. Jara
Session 2
Session Chair: Martin Serrano
Policy-Driven Federated Learning: Operationalising Governance, Trust, and Compliance in Cross-Organisational AI
Authors: T. Ranathunga, S. Bharti, A. McGibney
Sparse-BP: Efficient On-Device Backpropagation for Resource-Constrained Systems
Authors: R. M. A. Nawaiseh, E. Catalfamo, F. De Vita
A Balanced-Scorecard-Aligned Mapping for Data Valuation Metrics
Authors: E. Vyhmeister, U. Bub, R. Schneider, A. Visentin
Session 3
Session Chair: Antonio J. Jara
Improving Authenticity of x402 Payment Protocol through Verification of Agent’s Intention with Zero-Knowledge Proof
Authors: S. Thakur, M. Serrano
Semantically Enriching Investor Micro-blogs for Opinion-Aware Emotion Analysis: A Practical Approach
Authors: G. Negi, O. Zayed, M. Serrano, P. Buitelaar
Multimodal AI-driven Multi-Source Remote Sensing Framework for Sustainable Paludiculture Monitoring
Authors: S. H. Alsamhi, F. Renou-Wilson, K. Byrne, N. O’Brolchain, M. Serrano, F. Nashwan, E. Curry
FedLLM-Align: Feature Extraction From Heterogeneous Clients
Authors: A. Gaber; M. A. El-Mahdy; Y. A. Abuzied; H. M. A. Eltawab; T. ElBatt
SmartAgr
Session 1
Session Chair: Gabriele Cecchetti
Benchmarking Object Detection Models for Tuta Absoluta Egg Identification in Field Images
Authors: Georgios Katranas, Isaak Kavasidis, Zisis Tsiropoulos, Ioannis Gravalos
An AI-driven Digital Twin Methodology to Optimize Irrigation in Greenhouses
Authors: Ilenia Ficili, Maurizio Giacobbe, Giuseppe Tricomi, Antonio Pulifito
PesTwin: a biology-informed Digital Twin for enabling precision farming
Authors: Andrea De Antoni, Matteo Rucco, Alberto Maria Cattaneo, Paola Draicchio, Giovanni Iacca, Andrea Pugliese, Maria Vittoria Mancini
Evaluating Weak Supervision for Grapevine Segmentation in UAV-based RGB Imager
Authors: Danilo Leite, Pedro Marques, Luis Padua, Joaquim João Sousa, Raul Morais, António Cunha
Session 2
Session Chair: Luis Padua
Smart Agrivoltaics for Precision Agriculture: A Sustainable Simulation-Driven Architecture
Authors: Gabriele Cecchetti, Anna Lina Ruscelli, Piero Castoldi
Photovoltaic Vs National Grid Energy in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) for Enhanced WEFE Nexus: A Jordanian Case Study
Authors: Tetiana Buzykina, Omar Bawab, Asiya Khan, Husam HajAli, Nagham Saeed, Mohammad Mashatleh
MODASYS: An Integrated Digital Platform for Agricultural GHG Mitigation and Economic Performance
Authors: Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil, Badhan Sen, Md. Masum Billah
Simulating Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Health Dynamics Using MODASYS: A New Zealand Case Study
Authors: Masum Billah, Badhan Sen, Tony van der Weerden, Rebecca Redmond, Banira Lombardi, Bruce Osborne, Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil
Session 3
Session Chair: Asiya Khan
A Data Governance Framework for Socio-Ecological Value in Smart Agriculture
Authors: Saeed Niksaz, Fisnik Dalipi, Avni Rustemi
WISDOM: Water and energy efficient Irrigation using Smart Drone-Orchestrated Microservic
Authors: Abhishek Pandey, Sourav Kanti Addya
SmartSys
Session 1
Session Chair: Marco Pettorali
Keynote: Enabling Physical AI for Resilient Community Infrastructure
Speaker and affiliation
Speaker: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Session 2
Session Chair: Flavio De Paoli
Enabling the Cloud-to-Autonomous-Vehicles continuum for future Industrial IoT Applications: the CAVIA approach
Authors: Gianluca Filippone, Francesca Righetti, Francesco Di Rienzo, Marco Autili, Alberto Ceselli, Christian Quadri, Carlo Vallati
Toward a Distributed Hypervisor for I/O Virtualization in the Cloud-to-Things Compute Continuum
Authors: Giovanni Lombardo, Antonio Puliafito, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo
Toward Deviceless Paradigm: An IoT-centered and Orchestrated FaaS Architecture
Authors: Fabio Orazio Mirto, Luca D’Agati, Giuseppe Tricomi, Francesco Longo, Carlo Puliafito, Antonio Virdis, Giovanni Merlino
Automated Litter Characterization for Smart Cities
Authors: Emily Diaz-Silva, Grace Gao, Nidhi Begur, Sandina Charles, Rishith Arra, Suvosree Chatterjee, Mahdi Zarif, Jason O Hallstrom
Session 3
Session Chair: Carlo Vallati
Encrypted Unsupervised Federated Learning for Condition Monitoring in Wind Turbines
Authors: Chibuike Azubuine, Raj Mani Shukla, Bernardi Pranggono
Information-Extraction-Guided LLM Generation of WoT Thing Descriptions for Services
Authors: Lara Sormani, Giuseppe Vizzari, Flavio De Paoli
PLAIground: SLO-Driven Runtime Model Selection for Compound AI Systems in the Edge-Cloud-Space Continuum
Authors: Milos Gravara, Andrija Stanisic, Cynthia Marcelino, Stefan Nastic
Secure and Dependable UAV through Rejuvenation
Authors: Salvatore Distefano, Maurizio Giacobbe, Marco Scarpa
Towards neurosymbolic network intrusion detection
Authors: Vito Scaraggi, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti
SSC
Session 1
Session Chair: Antonio Puliafito
Keynote speech: From Smart City to Intelligent City: the SmartMe.io experience
Speaker: Francesco Alessi (SmartMe.io s.r.l., Italy)
PROAIR: A Digital Twin Framework for Urban Air Quality Forecasting via Temporal Fusion Transformers and Scenario-based What-if Analysis
Authors: Mario Molinara, Marco Cantone, Ciro Russo, Alessandro Bria, Claudio Marrocco, Simone De Vita, Michelangelo Esposito, Giovanni D’ Acunto, Claudio Pagano, Gaetano Rocco
Edge-Based PPE Detection for Urban Construction Under Realistic Visual Conditions
Authors: Giustino Claudio Miglionico, Francesco Di Rienzo, Pietro Ducange, Francesco Marcelloni, Carlo Vallati
Dynamic Cluster-Head Rotation for Energy-Aware Predictive Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Imourane Abdoulaye, Dorian Diana, Laurent Yvon Rodriguez, Cécile Belleudy, Benoit Miramond
Session 2
Session Chair: Fabrizio De Vita
Context-Aware Recommendation for Smart Tourism: A Framework for Enhancing Archaeological Park Experiences
Authors: Francesco Colace, Marco Lombardi, Angelo Lorusso, Domenico Santaniello, Pietro Giuseppe Strollo, Carmine Valentino
Detecting Cyber-Attacks in Connected Vehicles through Context-Aware Multilevel Graph Modeling
Authors: Mario Casillo, Francesco Colace, Angelo Lorusso, Domenico Santaniello, Giusy Strollo, Carmine Valentino
An IoT-Driven Machine Learning Framework for Real-Time Monitoring in Smart Buildings
Authors: Mostafa Zaman, Sujay Saha, Gayatri Bhavana Addala, Nasibeh Zohrabi, Sherif Abdelwahed
Energy-Aware Multi-Objective Resource Allocation of Real-Time Mobile Applications in the Cloud-to-Things Continuum
Authors: Marco Pettorali, Lorenzo Moni, Francesca Righetti, Giuseppe Anastasi
Session 3
Session Chair: Giuseppe Tricomi
Neuro-Symbolic AI for Industrial Systems: Bridging Deep Learning and Domain Expertise
Authors: Ghena Barakat, Harshit Gupta, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, Antonio Puliafito
When Seconds Matter – Designing Sensor driven Emergency Services for Smart Cities
Authors: Spyridon Georg Koustas, Timon Sengewald, Angela Roth
Towards a Zero-Touch Provisioning Approach for Heterogeneous Edge Platforms using UEFI and iPXE Boot
Authors: Theo Manea, Zakaria Benomar, Laurent Corbain, Anatole Phamnguyen, Jerome Venant, Alexandre Berne
Optimizing LoRaWAN Coverage for IoTaaS in Dense Urban Scenario through Validation-Based Radio Planning
Authors: Maurizio Giacobbe, Sarah Zanafi, Antonio Puliafito
S-CI: An Agent-Based AI Framework for Strategic Competitive Intelligence in the Geoeconomic Age
Author: Andrea Puliafito
SMVG
Session 1
Session Chair: Manuel Andruccioli
Prioritizing Policy Instruments for Accelerating Sustainable Electric Vehicle Adoption Using Fuzzy Decision-Making
Authors: Sina Shaffiee Haghshenas, Raffaele Zinno, Giuseppe Guido, Sami Shaffiee Haghshenas, Gregorio Cappuccino
Exploring Geospatial Features for Short-Term Energy Forecasting in EBus with Machine Learning
Authors: Manuel Andruccioli, Bryce Chao, Hugo Badia, Giovanni Delnevo, Miquel Estrada, Silvia Mirri
Zero-Trust Secure Network Slicing for Autonomous Vehicle Platooning
Authors: Quazi Ehsanul Kabir Mamun, Marco Picone
Optimized Collective Perception Service for Vehicular Networks
Authors: Thenuka Karunathilake, Anna Förster
Session 2
Session Chair: Manuel Andruccioli
Short-Term Fuel Forecasting in Urban Bus Fleets: A Data-Driven Approach for Transport Operations
Authors: Manuel Andruccioli, Miquel Estrada, Giovanni Delnevo, Silvia Mirri
IoV-FedMBD: Privacy-Preserving Federated Detection of Message Manipulation in the Internet of Vehicles
Authors: Quazi Ehsanul Kabir Mamun, Ashish Patel, Gaurav Ameta
A Semantic Digital Twin for Occlusion-Aware Cooperative Collision Prediction
Authors: Malik Luti, Daniel Solc, Matúš Dopiriak, Zixia Xia, Juraj Gazda, Marco Levorato
Quadruped Robots in Smart Mobility Systems: Applications, Challenges, and Integration Gaps
Authors: Kelvin Olaiya, Eugenio Tampieri, Manuel Andruccioli, Giovanni Delnevo, Chan-Tong Lam, Giovanni Pau, Paola Salomoni