Topic: Public IS
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2026
- DetailsConference Toward Privacy-Aware Environmental Monitoring of CO2 and Air Pollutants in Southern ItalyCampanile, L., Di Bonito, L. P., Marulli, F., Balzanella, A., & Verde, R. (2026). Toward Privacy-Aware Environmental Monitoring of CO2 and Air Pollutants in Southern Italy [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 15893 LNCS, 317–333. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97645-2_21
Abstract
The increasing levels of CO2 and air pollutants represent a major challenge to environmental sustainability and public health, particularly in regions characterized by complex geographic and socio-economic dynamics. This work proposes a study focused on the Southern Italy regions, where environmental vulnerabilities are displayed, along with a limited availability of high-granularity data. The main aim of this work is to build and provide a comprehensive and detailed dataset tailored to the region’s unique needs, by leveraging datasets from EDGAR for greenhouse gases and air pollutants, integrated with demographic and territorial morphology data from ISTAT. The creation of composite indicators to monitor trends in emissions and pollution on a fine spatial scale is supported by the data set. These indicators enable initial insight into spatial disparities in pollutant concentrations, offering valuable data to inform targeted policy interventions. The work provided a foundation for next analytical studies, integrating different datasets and highlighting the potential for complex spatiotemporal analysis. The study provides a robust dataset and preliminary insights, enhancing the understanding of environmental dynamics in Southern Italy. Subsequent efforts will focus on extending this methodology to more extensive geographic contexts and incorporating real-time data for adaptive monitoring. The proposed framework also lays the groundwork for privacy-aware environmental monitoring solutions, enabling future integration with edge and IoT-based architectures while addressing privacy and data protection concerns. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
2025
- DetailsMarulli, F., Campanile, L., Ragucci, G., Carbone, S., & Bifulco, M. (2025). Data Generation and Cybersecurity: A Major Opportunity or the Next Nightmare? [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2025, 969–974. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130069
Abstract
In recent years, the proliferation of synthetic data generation techniques-driven by advances in artificial intelli-gence-has opened new possibilities across a wide range of fields, from healthcare to autonomous systems, by addressing critical data scarcity issues. However, this technological progress also brings with it a growing concern: the dual-use nature of synthetic data. While it offers powerful tools for innovation, it simultaneously introduces significant risks related to information disorder and cybersecurity. As AI systems become increasingly capable of producing highly realistic yet entirely fabricated content, the boundaries between authentic and artificial information blur, making it more difficult to detect manipulation, protect digital infrastructures, and maintain public trust. This work undertakes a preliminary exploration of the evolving nexus between Generative AI, Information Disorder, and Cybersecurity: it aims to investigate the complex interplay among these three and to map their dynamic interactions and reciprocal influences, highlighting both the potential benefits and the looming challenges posed by this evolving landscape. Moreover, it seeks to propose a conceptual framework for assessing these interdependencies through a set of indicative metrics, offering a foundation for future empirical evaluation and strategic response. © 2025 IEEE. - DetailsDi Bonito, L. P., Campanile, L., Iacono, M., & Di Natale, F. (2025). An eXplainable Artificial Intelligence framework to predict marine scrubbers performances [Article]. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.111860
Abstract
This study presents an eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) framework to predict the performance of marine scrubbers used for sulfur dioxide (SO2) removal from marine diesel engine flue gases. Using an aggregated dataset from a roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) cargo ship equipped with an open-loop scrubber, combined with satellite data, the study constructs and evaluates multiple artificial intelligence models, including ensemble models, which were benchmarked against each other using standard regression metrics such as the coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean squared error (MSE). Results achieve high accuracy R2>0.92 and offer insights for optimizing scrubber operations. Nevertheless, artificial intelligence models lack transparency. To overcome this problem, this research integrates post-hoc explainability techniques to elucidate the contributions of various features to model predictions, thereby enhancing interpretability and reliability. The integration of SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Explain Like I’m 5 (ELI5) not only confirmed the consistency of feature importance rankings (e.g. seawater acidity level, SO2 inlet concentration, outlet temperature) but also aligned with the physical-chemical principles of SO2 absorption. Quantitative comparisons with theoretical expectations demonstrated the reliability of the XAI insights, enhancing both model transparency and interpretability. This can improve the current capability of designing scrubber units by defining more efficient and less expensive options for environmental regulation compliance. © 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
- DetailsCampanile, L., De Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., & Marulli, F. (2024). Beyond the Hype: Toward a Concrete Adoption of the Fair and Responsible Use of AI [Conference paper]. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3762, 60–65. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205601768&partnerID=40&md5=99140624de79e37b370ed4cf816c24e7
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-changing technology that is having a profound impact on our society, from education to industry. Its applications cover a wide range of areas, such as medicine, military, engineering and research. The emergence of AI and Generative AI have significant potential to transform society, but they also raise concerns about transparency, privacy, ownership, fair use, reliability, and ethical considerations. The Generative AI adds complexity to the existing problems of AI due to its ability to create machine-generated data that is barely distinguishable from human-generated data. Bringing to the forefront the issue of responsible and fair use of AI. The security, safety and privacy implications are enormous, and the risks associated with inappropriate use of these technologies are real. Although some governments, such as the European Union and the United States, have begun to address the problem with recommendations and proposed regulations, it is probably not enough. Regulatory compliance should be seen as a starting point in a continuous process of improving the ethical procedures and privacy risk assessment of AI systems. The need to have a baseline to manage the process of creating an AI system even from an ethics and privacy perspective becomes progressively more important In this study, we discuss the ethical implications of these advances and propose a conceptual framework for the responsible, fair, and safe use of AI. © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
2022
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2022). Towards privacy-aware software design in small and medium enterprises. 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/Cy55231.2022.9927958
Abstract
The legal definition of privacy regulations, like GDPR in the European Union, significantly impacted on the way in which software, systems and organizations should be designed or maintained to be compliant to rules. While the privacy community stated proper risk assessment and mitigation approaches to be applied, literature seems to suggest that the software engineering community, with special reference to companies, did actually concentrate on the specification phase, with less attention for the test phase of products. In coherence with the privacy-by-design approach, we believe that a bigger methodological effort must be put in the systematic adaptation of software development cycles to privacy regulations, and that this effort might be promoted in the industrial community by focusing on the relation between organizational costs vs technical features, also leveraging the benefits of targeted testing as a mean to lower operational privacy enforcement costs. © 2022 IEEE. - DetailsConference A Federated Consensus-Based Model for Enhancing Fake News and Misleading Information DebunkingMarulli, F., Verde, L., Marrore, S., & Campanile, L. (2022). A Federated Consensus-Based Model for Enhancing Fake News and Misleading Information Debunking [Conference paper]. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 309, 587–596. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3444-5_50
Abstract
Misinformation and Fake News are hard to dislodge. According to experts on this phenomenon, to fight disinformation a less credulous public is needed; so, current AI techniques can support misleading information debunking, given the human tendency to believe “facts” that confirm biases. Much effort has been recently spent by the research community on this plague: several AI-based approaches for automatic detection and classification of Fake News have been proposed; unfortunately, Fake News producers have refined their ability in eluding automatic ML and DL-based detection systems. So, debunking false news represents an effective weapon to contrast the users’ reliance on false information. In this work, we propose a preliminary study aiming to approach the design of effective fake news debunking systems, harnessing two complementary federated approaches. We propose, firstly, a federation of independent classification systems to accomplish a debunking process, by applying a distributed consensus mechanism. Secondly, a federated learning task, involving several cooperating nodes, is accomplished, to obtain a unique merged model, including features of single participants models, trained on different and independent data fragments. This study is a preliminary work aiming to to point out the feasibility and the comparability of these proposed approaches, thus paving the way to an experimental campaign that will be performed on effective real data, thus providing an evidence for an effective and feasible model for detecting potential heterogeneous fake news. Debunking misleading information is mission critical to increase the awareness of facts on the part of news consumers. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Designing a GDPR compliant blockchain-based IoV distributed information tracking system [Article]. Information Processing and Management, 58(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102511
Abstract
Blockchain technologies and distributed ledgers enable the design and implementation of trustable data logging systems that can be used by multiple parties to produce a non-repudiable database. The case of Internet of Vehicles may greatly benefit of such a possibility to track the chain of responsibility in case of accidents or damages due to bad or omitted maintenance, improving the safety of circulation and helping granting a correct handling of related legal issues. However, there are privacy issues that have to be considered, as tracked information potentially include data about private persons (position, personal habits), commercially relevant information (state of the fleet of a company, freight movement and related planning, logistic strategies), or even more critical knowledge (e.g., considering vehicles belonging to police, public authorities, governments or officers in sensible positions). In the European Union, all this information is covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this paper we propose a reference model for a system that manages relevant information to show how blockchain can support GDPR compliant solutions for Internet of Vehicles, taking as a reference an integrated scenario based on Italy, and analyze a subset of its use cases to show its viability with reference to privacy issues. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd - DetailsJournal Privacy regulations, smart roads, blockchain, and liability insurance: Putting technologies to workCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Levis, A. H., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Privacy regulations, smart roads, blockchain, and liability insurance: Putting technologies to work [Article]. IEEE Security and Privacy, 19(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2020.3012059
Abstract
Smart streets promise widely available traffic information to help improve people’s safety. Unfortunately, gathering that data may threaten privacy. We describe an architecture that exploits a blockchain and the Internet of Vehicles and show its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. © 2003-2012 IEEE.
2020
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Marrone, S., & Mastroianni, M. (2020). On Performance Evaluation of Security Monitoring in Multitenant Cloud Applications [Article]. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 353, 107–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2020.09.020
Abstract
In this paper we present a modeling approach suitable for practical evaluation of the delays that may affect security monitoring systems in (multitenant) cloud based architecture, and in general to support professionals in planning and evaluating relevant parameters in dealing with new designs or migration projects. The approach is based on modularity and multiformalism techniques to manage complexity and guide designers in an incremental process, to help transferring technical knowledge into modeling practice and to help easing the use of simulation. We present a case study based on a real experience, triggered by a new legal requirement that Italian Public Administration should comply about their datacenters. © 2020 The Author(s) - DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Martinelli, F., Marulli, F., Mastroianni, M., Mercaldo, F., & Santone, A. (2020). Towards the Use of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks to Attack Online Resources [Conference paper]. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1150 AISC, 890–901. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_81
Abstract
The role of remote resources, such as the ones provided by Cloud infrastructures, is of paramount importance for the implementation of cost effective, yet reliable software systems to provide services to third parties. Cost effectiveness is a direct consequence of a correct estimation of resource usage, to be able to define a budget and estimate the right price to put own services on the market. Attacks that overload resources with non legitimate requests, being them explicit attacks or just malicious, non harmful resource engagements, may push the use of Cloud resources beyond estimation, causing additional costs, or unexpected energy usage, or a lower overall quality of services, so intrusion detection devices or firewalls are set to avoid undesired accesses. We propose the use of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) to setup a method for shaping request based attacks capable of reaching resources beyond defenses. The approach is studied by using a publicly available traffic data set, to test the concept and demonstrate its potential applications. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2026
- DetailsConference Toward Privacy-Aware Environmental Monitoring of CO2 and Air Pollutants in Southern ItalyCampanile, L., Di Bonito, L. P., Marulli, F., Balzanella, A., & Verde, R. (2026). Toward Privacy-Aware Environmental Monitoring of CO2 and Air Pollutants in Southern Italy [Conference paper]. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 15893 LNCS, 317–333. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97645-2_21
Abstract
The increasing levels of CO2 and air pollutants represent a major challenge to environmental sustainability and public health, particularly in regions characterized by complex geographic and socio-economic dynamics. This work proposes a study focused on the Southern Italy regions, where environmental vulnerabilities are displayed, along with a limited availability of high-granularity data. The main aim of this work is to build and provide a comprehensive and detailed dataset tailored to the region’s unique needs, by leveraging datasets from EDGAR for greenhouse gases and air pollutants, integrated with demographic and territorial morphology data from ISTAT. The creation of composite indicators to monitor trends in emissions and pollution on a fine spatial scale is supported by the data set. These indicators enable initial insight into spatial disparities in pollutant concentrations, offering valuable data to inform targeted policy interventions. The work provided a foundation for next analytical studies, integrating different datasets and highlighting the potential for complex spatiotemporal analysis. The study provides a robust dataset and preliminary insights, enhancing the understanding of environmental dynamics in Southern Italy. Subsequent efforts will focus on extending this methodology to more extensive geographic contexts and incorporating real-time data for adaptive monitoring. The proposed framework also lays the groundwork for privacy-aware environmental monitoring solutions, enabling future integration with edge and IoT-based architectures while addressing privacy and data protection concerns. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
2025
- DetailsMarulli, F., Campanile, L., Ragucci, G., Carbone, S., & Bifulco, M. (2025). Data Generation and Cybersecurity: A Major Opportunity or the Next Nightmare? [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2025, 969–974. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130069
Abstract
In recent years, the proliferation of synthetic data generation techniques-driven by advances in artificial intelli-gence-has opened new possibilities across a wide range of fields, from healthcare to autonomous systems, by addressing critical data scarcity issues. However, this technological progress also brings with it a growing concern: the dual-use nature of synthetic data. While it offers powerful tools for innovation, it simultaneously introduces significant risks related to information disorder and cybersecurity. As AI systems become increasingly capable of producing highly realistic yet entirely fabricated content, the boundaries between authentic and artificial information blur, making it more difficult to detect manipulation, protect digital infrastructures, and maintain public trust. This work undertakes a preliminary exploration of the evolving nexus between Generative AI, Information Disorder, and Cybersecurity: it aims to investigate the complex interplay among these three and to map their dynamic interactions and reciprocal influences, highlighting both the potential benefits and the looming challenges posed by this evolving landscape. Moreover, it seeks to propose a conceptual framework for assessing these interdependencies through a set of indicative metrics, offering a foundation for future empirical evaluation and strategic response. © 2025 IEEE. - DetailsDi Bonito, L. P., Campanile, L., Iacono, M., & Di Natale, F. (2025). An eXplainable Artificial Intelligence framework to predict marine scrubbers performances [Article]. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.111860
Abstract
This study presents an eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) framework to predict the performance of marine scrubbers used for sulfur dioxide (SO2) removal from marine diesel engine flue gases. Using an aggregated dataset from a roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) cargo ship equipped with an open-loop scrubber, combined with satellite data, the study constructs and evaluates multiple artificial intelligence models, including ensemble models, which were benchmarked against each other using standard regression metrics such as the coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean squared error (MSE). Results achieve high accuracy R2>0.92 and offer insights for optimizing scrubber operations. Nevertheless, artificial intelligence models lack transparency. To overcome this problem, this research integrates post-hoc explainability techniques to elucidate the contributions of various features to model predictions, thereby enhancing interpretability and reliability. The integration of SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) and Explain Like I’m 5 (ELI5) not only confirmed the consistency of feature importance rankings (e.g. seawater acidity level, SO2 inlet concentration, outlet temperature) but also aligned with the physical-chemical principles of SO2 absorption. Quantitative comparisons with theoretical expectations demonstrated the reliability of the XAI insights, enhancing both model transparency and interpretability. This can improve the current capability of designing scrubber units by defining more efficient and less expensive options for environmental regulation compliance. © 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
- DetailsCampanile, L., De Fazio, R., Di Giovanni, M., & Marulli, F. (2024). Beyond the Hype: Toward a Concrete Adoption of the Fair and Responsible Use of AI [Conference paper]. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3762, 60–65. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205601768&partnerID=40&md5=99140624de79e37b370ed4cf816c24e7
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-changing technology that is having a profound impact on our society, from education to industry. Its applications cover a wide range of areas, such as medicine, military, engineering and research. The emergence of AI and Generative AI have significant potential to transform society, but they also raise concerns about transparency, privacy, ownership, fair use, reliability, and ethical considerations. The Generative AI adds complexity to the existing problems of AI due to its ability to create machine-generated data that is barely distinguishable from human-generated data. Bringing to the forefront the issue of responsible and fair use of AI. The security, safety and privacy implications are enormous, and the risks associated with inappropriate use of these technologies are real. Although some governments, such as the European Union and the United States, have begun to address the problem with recommendations and proposed regulations, it is probably not enough. Regulatory compliance should be seen as a starting point in a continuous process of improving the ethical procedures and privacy risk assessment of AI systems. The need to have a baseline to manage the process of creating an AI system even from an ethics and privacy perspective becomes progressively more important In this study, we discuss the ethical implications of these advances and propose a conceptual framework for the responsible, fair, and safe use of AI. © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
2022
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., & Mastroianni, M. (2022). Towards privacy-aware software design in small and medium enterprises. 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/Cy55231.2022.9927958
Abstract
The legal definition of privacy regulations, like GDPR in the European Union, significantly impacted on the way in which software, systems and organizations should be designed or maintained to be compliant to rules. While the privacy community stated proper risk assessment and mitigation approaches to be applied, literature seems to suggest that the software engineering community, with special reference to companies, did actually concentrate on the specification phase, with less attention for the test phase of products. In coherence with the privacy-by-design approach, we believe that a bigger methodological effort must be put in the systematic adaptation of software development cycles to privacy regulations, and that this effort might be promoted in the industrial community by focusing on the relation between organizational costs vs technical features, also leveraging the benefits of targeted testing as a mean to lower operational privacy enforcement costs. © 2022 IEEE. - DetailsConference A Federated Consensus-Based Model for Enhancing Fake News and Misleading Information DebunkingMarulli, F., Verde, L., Marrore, S., & Campanile, L. (2022). A Federated Consensus-Based Model for Enhancing Fake News and Misleading Information Debunking [Conference paper]. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 309, 587–596. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3444-5_50
Abstract
Misinformation and Fake News are hard to dislodge. According to experts on this phenomenon, to fight disinformation a less credulous public is needed; so, current AI techniques can support misleading information debunking, given the human tendency to believe “facts” that confirm biases. Much effort has been recently spent by the research community on this plague: several AI-based approaches for automatic detection and classification of Fake News have been proposed; unfortunately, Fake News producers have refined their ability in eluding automatic ML and DL-based detection systems. So, debunking false news represents an effective weapon to contrast the users’ reliance on false information. In this work, we propose a preliminary study aiming to approach the design of effective fake news debunking systems, harnessing two complementary federated approaches. We propose, firstly, a federation of independent classification systems to accomplish a debunking process, by applying a distributed consensus mechanism. Secondly, a federated learning task, involving several cooperating nodes, is accomplished, to obtain a unique merged model, including features of single participants models, trained on different and independent data fragments. This study is a preliminary work aiming to to point out the feasibility and the comparability of these proposed approaches, thus paving the way to an experimental campaign that will be performed on effective real data, thus providing an evidence for an effective and feasible model for detecting potential heterogeneous fake news. Debunking misleading information is mission critical to increase the awareness of facts on the part of news consumers. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
2021
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Designing a GDPR compliant blockchain-based IoV distributed information tracking system [Article]. Information Processing and Management, 58(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102511
Abstract
Blockchain technologies and distributed ledgers enable the design and implementation of trustable data logging systems that can be used by multiple parties to produce a non-repudiable database. The case of Internet of Vehicles may greatly benefit of such a possibility to track the chain of responsibility in case of accidents or damages due to bad or omitted maintenance, improving the safety of circulation and helping granting a correct handling of related legal issues. However, there are privacy issues that have to be considered, as tracked information potentially include data about private persons (position, personal habits), commercially relevant information (state of the fleet of a company, freight movement and related planning, logistic strategies), or even more critical knowledge (e.g., considering vehicles belonging to police, public authorities, governments or officers in sensible positions). In the European Union, all this information is covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this paper we propose a reference model for a system that manages relevant information to show how blockchain can support GDPR compliant solutions for Internet of Vehicles, taking as a reference an integrated scenario based on Italy, and analyze a subset of its use cases to show its viability with reference to privacy issues. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd - DetailsJournal Privacy regulations, smart roads, blockchain, and liability insurance: Putting technologies to workCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Levis, A. H., Marulli, F., & Mastroianni, M. (2021). Privacy regulations, smart roads, blockchain, and liability insurance: Putting technologies to work [Article]. IEEE Security and Privacy, 19(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2020.3012059
Abstract
Smart streets promise widely available traffic information to help improve people’s safety. Unfortunately, gathering that data may threaten privacy. We describe an architecture that exploits a blockchain and the Internet of Vehicles and show its compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. © 2003-2012 IEEE.
2020
- DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Marrone, S., & Mastroianni, M. (2020). On Performance Evaluation of Security Monitoring in Multitenant Cloud Applications [Article]. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 353, 107–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2020.09.020
Abstract
In this paper we present a modeling approach suitable for practical evaluation of the delays that may affect security monitoring systems in (multitenant) cloud based architecture, and in general to support professionals in planning and evaluating relevant parameters in dealing with new designs or migration projects. The approach is based on modularity and multiformalism techniques to manage complexity and guide designers in an incremental process, to help transferring technical knowledge into modeling practice and to help easing the use of simulation. We present a case study based on a real experience, triggered by a new legal requirement that Italian Public Administration should comply about their datacenters. © 2020 The Author(s) - DetailsCampanile, L., Iacono, M., Martinelli, F., Marulli, F., Mastroianni, M., Mercaldo, F., & Santone, A. (2020). Towards the Use of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks to Attack Online Resources [Conference paper]. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1150 AISC, 890–901. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_81
Abstract
The role of remote resources, such as the ones provided by Cloud infrastructures, is of paramount importance for the implementation of cost effective, yet reliable software systems to provide services to third parties. Cost effectiveness is a direct consequence of a correct estimation of resource usage, to be able to define a budget and estimate the right price to put own services on the market. Attacks that overload resources with non legitimate requests, being them explicit attacks or just malicious, non harmful resource engagements, may push the use of Cloud resources beyond estimation, causing additional costs, or unexpected energy usage, or a lower overall quality of services, so intrusion detection devices or firewalls are set to avoid undesired accesses. We propose the use of Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (GANs) to setup a method for shaping request based attacks capable of reaching resources beyond defenses. The approach is studied by using a publicly available traffic data set, to test the concept and demonstrate its potential applications. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.