Topic: human
Published:
2025
- DetailsDi Giovanni, M., Verde, L., Campanile, L., Romoli, M., Sabbarese, C., & Marrone, S. (2025). Assessing Safety and Sustainability of a Monitoring System for Nuclear Waste Management [Article]. IEEE Access, 13, 120486–120505. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586735
Abstract
Nowadays, nuclear technologies are increasingly being integrated into industry, healthcare and manufacturing. As a side effect, waste materials are produced according to standard processes which are subject to international regulations. One of the most critical phases is the pre-disposal, due to the uncertainty related to the evolution of the materials and their potential impact on environmental protection. This paper introduces the architecture of a monitoring system able to accomplish safety goals and to guarantee energetic sustainability. The possibility of defining different system configurations (e. g., sensor scheduling policies, geometry of the sites, trustworthiness of the sensors) fosters a high adaptability to several monitoring scenarios, being characterised by different safety and sustainability levels. A methodology, integrating a model-based approach with data collection and processing, is proposed to quantitatively evaluate system configurations. This methodology is based on the definition of two metrics — one for safety and one for sustainability — and an assessment model. The model computes the metrics considering geometry of the place, scheduling and trustworthiness of monitoring sensors. This is a first step in the construction of a Decision Support System able to aid human operators in assessing system configurations and finding possible safety/sustainability trade-offs. A case study is used to show the feasibility of the approach: some configurations are evaluated on the real plant, placed at Řež in the Czech Republic, assessing them on the base of the defined metrics. © 2025 The Authors. - DetailsConference Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: Perspectives and ChallengesNapoli, F., Campanile, L., De Gregorio, G., & Marrone, S. (2025). Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: Perspectives and Challenges [Conference paper]. International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, IoTBDS - Proceedings, 509–516. https://doi.org/10.5220/0013521500003944
Abstract
Quantum Computing is becoming a central point of discussion in both academic and industrial communities. Quantum Machine Learning is one of the most promising subfields of this technology, in particular for image classification. In this paper, the model of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks and some related implementations are explored in their potential for a non-trivial task of image classification. The paper presents some experimentations and discusses the limitations and the strengths of these approaches when compared with classical Convolutional Neural Networks. Furthermore, an analysis of the impact of the noise level on the quality of the classification task has been performed. This paper reports a substantial equivalence of the perfomance of the model with respect the level of noise. Copyright © 2025 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
2024
- DetailsBook Chapter Combining Federated and Ensemble Learning in Distributed and Cloud Environments: An Exploratory StudyMarulli, F., Campanile, L., Marrone, S., & Verde, L. (2024). Combining Federated and Ensemble Learning in Distributed and Cloud Environments: An Exploratory Study [Book chapter]. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, 203, 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57931-8_29
Abstract
Conventional modern Machine Learning (ML) applications involve training models in the cloud and then transferring them back to the edge, especially in an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled environment. However, privacy-related limitations on data transfer from the edge to the cloud raise challenges: among various solutions, Federated Learning (FL) could satisfy privacy related concerns and accommodate power and energy issues of edge devices. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines FL and Ensemble Learning (EL) to improve both security and privacy challenges. The presented methodology introduces an extra layer, the Federation Layer, to enhance security. It uses Bayesian Networks (BNs) to dynamically filter untrusted/unsecure federation clients. This approach presents a solution for increasing the security and robustness of FL systems, considering also privacy and performance aspects. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. - DetailsVerde, L., Marulli, F., De Fazio, R., Campanile, L., & Marrone, S. (2024). HEAR set: A ligHtwEight acoustic paRameters set to assess mental health from voice analysis [Article]. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109021
Abstract
Background: Voice analysis has significant potential in aiding healthcare professionals with detecting, diagnosing, and personalising treatment. It represents an objective and non-intrusive tool for supporting the detection and monitoring of specific pathologies. By calculating various acoustic features, voice analysis extracts valuable information to assess voice quality. The choice of these parameters is crucial for an accurate assessment. Method: In this paper, we propose a lightweight acoustic parameter set, named HEAR, able to evaluate voice quality to assess mental health. In detail, this consists of jitter, spectral centroid, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and their derivates. The choice of parameters for the proposed set was influenced by the explainable significance of each acoustic parameter in the voice production process. Results: The reliability of the proposed acoustic set to detect the early symptoms of mental disorders was evaluated in an experimental phase. Voices of subjects suffering from different mental pathologies, selected from available databases, were analysed. The performance obtained from the HEAR features was compared with that obtained by analysing features selected from toolkits widely used in the literature, as with those obtained using learned procedures. The best performance in terms of MAE and RMSE was achieved for the detection of depression (5.32 and 6.24 respectively). For the detection of psychogenic dysphonia and anxiety, the highest accuracy rates were about 75 % and 97 %, respectively. Conclusions: The comparative evaluation was carried out to assess the performance of the proposed approach, demonstrating a reliable capability to highlight affective physiological alterations of voice quality due to the considered mental disorders. © 2024 The Author(s)
2023
- DetailsCampanile, L., de Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., Marrone, S., Marulli, F., & Verde, L. (2023). Inferring Emotional Models from Human-Machine Speech Interactions [Conference paper]. Procedia Computer Science, 225, 1241–1250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.10.112
Abstract
Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are getting more and more important in a hyper-connected society. Traditional HMIs are built considering cognitive features while emotional ones are often neglected, bringing sometimes such interfaces to misuse. As a part of a long run research, oriented to the definition of an HMI engineering approach, this paper concretely proposes a method to build an emotional-aware explicit model of the user starting from the behaviour of the human with a virtual agent. The paper also proposes an instance of this model inference process in voice assistants in an automatic depression context, which can constitute the core phase to realize a Human Digital Twin of a patient. The case study generated a model composed of Fluid Stochastic Petri Net sub-models, achieved after the data analysis by a Support Vector Machine. © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) - DetailsMarrone, S., Campanile, L., De Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., Gentile, U., Marulli, F., & Verde, L. (2023). A Petri net oriented approach for advanced building energy management systems [Article]. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 15(3), 211–233. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-230065
Abstract
Sustainability is one of the main goals to pursue in several aspects of everyday life; the recent energy shortage and the price raise worsen this problem, especially in the management of energy in buildings. As the Internet of Things (IoT) is an assessed computing paradigm able to capture meaningful data from the field and send them to cloud infrastructures, other approaches are also enabled, namely model-based approaches. These methods can be used to predict functional and non-functional properties of Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) before setting up them. This paper aims at bridging the gap between model-based approaches and physical realizations of sensing and small computing devices. Through an integrated approach, able to exploit the power of different dialects of Petri Nets, this paper proposes a methodology for the early evaluation of BEMS properties as well as the automatic generation of IoT controllers. © 2023 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
2022
- DetailsVerde, L., Campanile, L., Marulli, F., & Marrone, S. (2022). Speech-based Evaluation of Emotions-Depression Correlation. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/Cy55231.2022.9927758
Abstract
Early detection of depression symptoms is fundamental to limit the onset of further associated behavioural disorders, such as psychomotor or social withdrawal. The combination of Artificial Intelligence and speech analysis revealed the existence of objectively measurable physical manifestations for early detection of depressive symptoms, constituting a valid support to evaluate these signals. To push forward the research state-of-art, this aim of this paper is to understand quantitative correlations between emotional states and depression by proposing a study across different datasets containing speech of both depressed/non-depressed people and emotional-related samples. The relationship between affective measures and depression can, in fact, a support to evaluate the presence of depression state. This work constitutes a preliminary step of a study whose final aim is to pursue AI-powered personalized medicine by building sophisticated Clinical Decision Support Systems for depression, as well as other psychological disorders. © 2022 IEEE.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Hybrid Simulation of Energy Management in IoT Edge Computing Surveillance Systems [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13104 LNCS, 345–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91825-5_21
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is a well established approach used for the implementation of surveillance systems that are suitable for monitoring large portions of territory. Current developments allow the design of battery powered IoT nodes that can communicate over the network with low energy requirements and locally perform some computing and coordination task, besides running sensing and related processing: it is thus possible to implement edge computing oriented solutions on IoT, if the design encompasses both hardware and software elements in terms of sensing, processing, computing, communications and routing energy costs as one of the quality indices of the system. In this paper we propose a modeling approach for edge computing IoT-based monitoring systems energy related characteristics, suitable for the analysis of energy levels of large battery powered monitoring systems with dynamic and reactive computing workloads. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2019
- DetailsGribaudo, M., Campanile, L., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2019). Performance modeling and analysis of an autonomic router [Conference paper]. Proceedings - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS, 33(1), 441–447. https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0441
Abstract
Modern networking is moving towards exploitation of autonomic features into networks to reduce management effort and compensate the increasing complexity of network infrastructures, e.g. in large computing facilities such the data centers that support cloud services delivery. Autonomicity provides the possibility of reacting to anomalies in network traffic by recognizing them and applying administrator defined reactions without the need for human intervention, obtaining a quicker response and easier adaptation to network dynamics, and letting administrators focus on general system-wide policies, rather than on each component of the infrastructure. The process of defining proper policies may benefit from adopting model-based design cycles, to get an estimation of their effects. In this paper we propose a model-based analysis approach of a simple autonomic router, using Stochastic Petri Nets, to evaluate the behavior of given policies designed to react to traffic workloads. The approach allows a detailed analysis of the dynamics of the policy and is suitable to be used in the preliminary phases of the design cycle for a Software Defined Networks compliant router control plane. ©ECMS Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco (Editors).
2025
- DetailsDi Giovanni, M., Verde, L., Campanile, L., Romoli, M., Sabbarese, C., & Marrone, S. (2025). Assessing Safety and Sustainability of a Monitoring System for Nuclear Waste Management [Article]. IEEE Access, 13, 120486–120505. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3586735
Abstract
Nowadays, nuclear technologies are increasingly being integrated into industry, healthcare and manufacturing. As a side effect, waste materials are produced according to standard processes which are subject to international regulations. One of the most critical phases is the pre-disposal, due to the uncertainty related to the evolution of the materials and their potential impact on environmental protection. This paper introduces the architecture of a monitoring system able to accomplish safety goals and to guarantee energetic sustainability. The possibility of defining different system configurations (e. g., sensor scheduling policies, geometry of the sites, trustworthiness of the sensors) fosters a high adaptability to several monitoring scenarios, being characterised by different safety and sustainability levels. A methodology, integrating a model-based approach with data collection and processing, is proposed to quantitatively evaluate system configurations. This methodology is based on the definition of two metrics — one for safety and one for sustainability — and an assessment model. The model computes the metrics considering geometry of the place, scheduling and trustworthiness of monitoring sensors. This is a first step in the construction of a Decision Support System able to aid human operators in assessing system configurations and finding possible safety/sustainability trade-offs. A case study is used to show the feasibility of the approach: some configurations are evaluated on the real plant, placed at Řež in the Czech Republic, assessing them on the base of the defined metrics. © 2025 The Authors. - DetailsConference Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: Perspectives and ChallengesNapoli, F., Campanile, L., De Gregorio, G., & Marrone, S. (2025). Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: Perspectives and Challenges [Conference paper]. International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, IoTBDS - Proceedings, 509–516. https://doi.org/10.5220/0013521500003944
Abstract
Quantum Computing is becoming a central point of discussion in both academic and industrial communities. Quantum Machine Learning is one of the most promising subfields of this technology, in particular for image classification. In this paper, the model of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks and some related implementations are explored in their potential for a non-trivial task of image classification. The paper presents some experimentations and discusses the limitations and the strengths of these approaches when compared with classical Convolutional Neural Networks. Furthermore, an analysis of the impact of the noise level on the quality of the classification task has been performed. This paper reports a substantial equivalence of the perfomance of the model with respect the level of noise. Copyright © 2025 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
2024
- DetailsBook Chapter Combining Federated and Ensemble Learning in Distributed and Cloud Environments: An Exploratory StudyMarulli, F., Campanile, L., Marrone, S., & Verde, L. (2024). Combining Federated and Ensemble Learning in Distributed and Cloud Environments: An Exploratory Study [Book chapter]. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, 203, 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57931-8_29
Abstract
Conventional modern Machine Learning (ML) applications involve training models in the cloud and then transferring them back to the edge, especially in an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled environment. However, privacy-related limitations on data transfer from the edge to the cloud raise challenges: among various solutions, Federated Learning (FL) could satisfy privacy related concerns and accommodate power and energy issues of edge devices. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines FL and Ensemble Learning (EL) to improve both security and privacy challenges. The presented methodology introduces an extra layer, the Federation Layer, to enhance security. It uses Bayesian Networks (BNs) to dynamically filter untrusted/unsecure federation clients. This approach presents a solution for increasing the security and robustness of FL systems, considering also privacy and performance aspects. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. - DetailsVerde, L., Marulli, F., De Fazio, R., Campanile, L., & Marrone, S. (2024). HEAR set: A ligHtwEight acoustic paRameters set to assess mental health from voice analysis [Article]. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109021
Abstract
Background: Voice analysis has significant potential in aiding healthcare professionals with detecting, diagnosing, and personalising treatment. It represents an objective and non-intrusive tool for supporting the detection and monitoring of specific pathologies. By calculating various acoustic features, voice analysis extracts valuable information to assess voice quality. The choice of these parameters is crucial for an accurate assessment. Method: In this paper, we propose a lightweight acoustic parameter set, named HEAR, able to evaluate voice quality to assess mental health. In detail, this consists of jitter, spectral centroid, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, and their derivates. The choice of parameters for the proposed set was influenced by the explainable significance of each acoustic parameter in the voice production process. Results: The reliability of the proposed acoustic set to detect the early symptoms of mental disorders was evaluated in an experimental phase. Voices of subjects suffering from different mental pathologies, selected from available databases, were analysed. The performance obtained from the HEAR features was compared with that obtained by analysing features selected from toolkits widely used in the literature, as with those obtained using learned procedures. The best performance in terms of MAE and RMSE was achieved for the detection of depression (5.32 and 6.24 respectively). For the detection of psychogenic dysphonia and anxiety, the highest accuracy rates were about 75 % and 97 %, respectively. Conclusions: The comparative evaluation was carried out to assess the performance of the proposed approach, demonstrating a reliable capability to highlight affective physiological alterations of voice quality due to the considered mental disorders. © 2024 The Author(s)
2023
- DetailsCampanile, L., de Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., Marrone, S., Marulli, F., & Verde, L. (2023). Inferring Emotional Models from Human-Machine Speech Interactions [Conference paper]. Procedia Computer Science, 225, 1241–1250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2023.10.112
Abstract
Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are getting more and more important in a hyper-connected society. Traditional HMIs are built considering cognitive features while emotional ones are often neglected, bringing sometimes such interfaces to misuse. As a part of a long run research, oriented to the definition of an HMI engineering approach, this paper concretely proposes a method to build an emotional-aware explicit model of the user starting from the behaviour of the human with a virtual agent. The paper also proposes an instance of this model inference process in voice assistants in an automatic depression context, which can constitute the core phase to realize a Human Digital Twin of a patient. The case study generated a model composed of Fluid Stochastic Petri Net sub-models, achieved after the data analysis by a Support Vector Machine. © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) - DetailsMarrone, S., Campanile, L., De Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., Gentile, U., Marulli, F., & Verde, L. (2023). A Petri net oriented approach for advanced building energy management systems [Article]. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 15(3), 211–233. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIS-230065
Abstract
Sustainability is one of the main goals to pursue in several aspects of everyday life; the recent energy shortage and the price raise worsen this problem, especially in the management of energy in buildings. As the Internet of Things (IoT) is an assessed computing paradigm able to capture meaningful data from the field and send them to cloud infrastructures, other approaches are also enabled, namely model-based approaches. These methods can be used to predict functional and non-functional properties of Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) before setting up them. This paper aims at bridging the gap between model-based approaches and physical realizations of sensing and small computing devices. Through an integrated approach, able to exploit the power of different dialects of Petri Nets, this paper proposes a methodology for the early evaluation of BEMS properties as well as the automatic generation of IoT controllers. © 2023 - IOS Press. All rights reserved.
2022
- DetailsVerde, L., Campanile, L., Marulli, F., & Marrone, S. (2022). Speech-based Evaluation of Emotions-Depression Correlation. Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, International Conference on Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/Cy55231.2022.9927758
Abstract
Early detection of depression symptoms is fundamental to limit the onset of further associated behavioural disorders, such as psychomotor or social withdrawal. The combination of Artificial Intelligence and speech analysis revealed the existence of objectively measurable physical manifestations for early detection of depressive symptoms, constituting a valid support to evaluate these signals. To push forward the research state-of-art, this aim of this paper is to understand quantitative correlations between emotional states and depression by proposing a study across different datasets containing speech of both depressed/non-depressed people and emotional-related samples. The relationship between affective measures and depression can, in fact, a support to evaluate the presence of depression state. This work constitutes a preliminary step of a study whose final aim is to pursue AI-powered personalized medicine by building sophisticated Clinical Decision Support Systems for depression, as well as other psychological disorders. © 2022 IEEE.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Hybrid Simulation of Energy Management in IoT Edge Computing Surveillance Systems [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13104 LNCS, 345–359. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91825-5_21
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is a well established approach used for the implementation of surveillance systems that are suitable for monitoring large portions of territory. Current developments allow the design of battery powered IoT nodes that can communicate over the network with low energy requirements and locally perform some computing and coordination task, besides running sensing and related processing: it is thus possible to implement edge computing oriented solutions on IoT, if the design encompasses both hardware and software elements in terms of sensing, processing, computing, communications and routing energy costs as one of the quality indices of the system. In this paper we propose a modeling approach for edge computing IoT-based monitoring systems energy related characteristics, suitable for the analysis of energy levels of large battery powered monitoring systems with dynamic and reactive computing workloads. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2019
- DetailsGribaudo, M., Campanile, L., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2019). Performance modeling and analysis of an autonomic router [Conference paper]. Proceedings - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS, 33(1), 441–447. https://doi.org/10.7148/2019-0441
Abstract
Modern networking is moving towards exploitation of autonomic features into networks to reduce management effort and compensate the increasing complexity of network infrastructures, e.g. in large computing facilities such the data centers that support cloud services delivery. Autonomicity provides the possibility of reacting to anomalies in network traffic by recognizing them and applying administrator defined reactions without the need for human intervention, obtaining a quicker response and easier adaptation to network dynamics, and letting administrators focus on general system-wide policies, rather than on each component of the infrastructure. The process of defining proper policies may benefit from adopting model-based design cycles, to get an estimation of their effects. In this paper we propose a model-based analysis approach of a simple autonomic router, using Stochastic Petri Nets, to evaluate the behavior of given policies designed to react to traffic workloads. The approach allows a detailed analysis of the dynamics of the policy and is suitable to be used in the preliminary phases of the design cycle for a Software Defined Networks compliant router control plane. ©ECMS Mauro Iacono, Francesco Palmieri, Marco Gribaudo, Massimo Ficco (Editors).