Program

Time2 July3 July4 July
8:30 – 9:30Registration
9:00 – 9:30Opening
(Aula 7)
9:30 – 10:30Keynote
Diana Maynard
(Aula 7)
Parallel s9 (Aula 14)
Parallel s10 (Aula 15)
Parallel s17 (Aula 14)
Parallel s18 (Aula 15)
10:30 – 11:00Coffee breakCoffee break
10:30 – 11:30Coffee break
Poster session
11:00 – 12:00Parallel s1 (Aula 14)
Parallel s2 (Aula 15)
Parallel s11 (Aula 14)
Parallel s12 (Aula 15)
11:30 – 13:00Parallel s19 (Aula 14)
Parallel s20 (Aula 7)
Parallel s21 (Aula 15)
12:00 – 13:30Parallel s3 (Aula 14)
Parallel s4 (Aula 15)
Keynote
Thomas Hoe
(Aula 7)
13:00 – 13:30Closing
(Aula 7)
13:00 – 14:30Light lunchLight lunch
14:30 – 15:30Parallel s5 (Aula 14)
Parallel s6 (Aula 15)
Parallel s13 (Aula 14)
Parallel s14 (Aula 15)
14:30 – 16:30Lidl session
Data Science and AI in the Retail Business
(Aula 7)
15:30 – 16:30Parallel s7 (Aula 14)
Parallel s8 (Aula 15)
Parallel s15 (Aula 14)
Parallel s16 (Aula 15)

18:30 – 20:30Welcome cocktail
20:30 – 23:30Social dinner

Registration desk will be open on Wednesday from 8:15.

Presentations are classified into Full papers (F) and Posters (P). Instructions can be found at the following page.

Opening

Wednesday 2, 9:00 – 9:30. Room: Aula 7

Keynote

Wednesday 2, 9:30 – 10:30. Room: Aula 7

Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield

Parallel s1. AI for ESG and Sustainability Reporting

Wednesday 2, 11:00 – 12:00. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Pablo de Pedraza

Building Context Aware ESG Corpora Using Transformer Models
Daniel Pontoppidan Broby

From ESG reporting to structured data: A LLM rubric-based assessment
Ana Garcia-Bernabeu, Iñaki Aguilar, Francisco Salas-Molina, Milagros Bravo-Selles

An automated sustainability assessment model: extraction, classification and evaluation of corporate reports using NLP techniques
Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Ruiz, Alexsander Luiz Telpisow-Scheid, Ana María García-Berbaneu

Session s2. AI Adoption and Industry Trends

Wednesday 2, 11:00 – 12:00. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Emanuele Agapito Santangelo

Analyzing AI Adoption Patterns in Spanish Companies: A 2025 Perspective Using Web Scraping and Large Language Models
Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martinez-Barbero, Josep Domenech

The AI Race Needs Billion-Euros: Does Hype Drive Scaling Up?
Alessandro Marra, Andrea D’Isidoro

Firm Characteristics and Skill Needs in AI Adoption: An Empirical Analysis Using Micro-Level Data
Jan Hunady, Maria Stachova

Session s3. THE Mood of Infrastructures Accessibility

Wednesday 2, 12:00 – 13:00. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Angela Stefania Bergantino

Competitive Dynamics in Rail Service Delays: A Performance Analysis of The Italian Public Operator
Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Angela Stefania Bergantino, Lorenzo Gabrielli, Giuliano Resce

A revised classification of Italian Inner Areas: a new approach to monitoring services accessibility and territorial development
Giorgio Ialenti, Angela Stefania Bergantino, Nicola Caravaggio, Giuliano Resce, Mario Intini

Quality of life in cities: how to guide municipal governance?
Angela Stefania Bergantino, Mario Intini, Michele Vitagliano

Session s4. AI for Policy Analysis and Planning

Wednesday 2, 12:00 – 13:00. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Alessandro Marra

Bridging Policy and AI: An NLP Approach to Detecting Sustainability in Regional Public Funding
Lucio Morettini, Loreta Isaraj, Andrea Filippetti, Bianca Potì, Alessandra Maria Stilo, Mara Giua, Eleonora Pierucci, Giulia Valeria Sonzogno, Luca Tricarico

Using AI for Evaluating Public Policy Communication: Insights from the Comunitat Valenciana Case Study
Josep Domenech, Pablo de Pedraza

What shapes the EU Cohesion Policy Integrated Sustainable Urban Development? Evidence from a text mining analysis of Italian plans
Flavia Domitilla Carino

Session s5. AI in Education and Learning

Wednesday 2, 14:30 – 15:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Josep Domenech

An Approach for Assessing the GenAI Readiness of Degree Programs in Italian Universities
Dario Russo, Giorgio Alleva, Piero Falorsi, Giancarlo Manzi

AI-Driven Innovation in Higher Education: Developing, Implementing, and Assessing a Virtual Tutor
Elena Siletti, Marta Casassa, Quawtar El Rhorfi, Paola Pisano, Alessandro Lanteri, Dario Pensa

Few-Shot Learning for Relevance Classification of Textual Social Media Posts in Disaster Response
David Hanny, Sebastian Schmidt, Shaily Gandhi, Bernd Resch

Session s6. Generative AI Applications and Ethics

Wednesday 2, 14:30 – 15:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Leonardo Mazzoni

Generative AI to create website indicators: an exploratory analysis on private fundings
Pietro Cruciata

Utility of AI-driven Generative Design for Biomedical Engineering SMEs
Marc Tavener, Lihong Zhang

Code of Ethics for the Use of AI Technologies in Scholarly Publishing
Bilgehan Yildiz, Murat Ustaoğlu

Session s7. Web Data Analytics for Business

Wednesday 2, 15:30 – 16:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Pietro Cruciata

Detecting potential fake innovators using web scraping: the case for Italian startup
Ilaria Nigro, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Michele Modina

Exploring Search Strategies to Improve the Identification of Spanish Company Websites
Aitana Sebastià Espinosa, Josep Domenech

Social Media Insights: Instagram data mining for universities
Enara Zarrabeitia-Bilbao, Izaskun Alvarez-Meaza, Rosa-María Río-Belver, Maite Jaca-Madariaga

Session s8. Bibliometric Insights in Research

Wednesday 2, 15:30 – 16:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Cristina Vaquero-Piñeiro

Health Innovation Management in the Era of Digital Transformation: A Bibliometric Analysis
Azar Shahgholian, Lihong Zhang, Siran Wang, Arpana Verma

Decoding Circular Economy Research: A Bibliometric and Topic Analysis
Pavlos Fafalios, Konstantinos Tsagarakis

Emerging Manufacturing Paradigms and Systems for SMEs: Bibliometric Analysis
Hakki Berke Soydemir, Lihong Zhang

Session s9. Advanced Quantitative Methods in Economics

Thursday 3, 9:30 – 10:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Eduardo Cebrián Cerdán

Matrix completion: Bridging the gap in econometric methods
Marco Ventura, Angela Zanoni

Assessing the innovation landscape: Fitness and Complexity of Strategic EU Technologies
Annamaria Giuffrida, Alessio Bumbea, Marco Gentile, Andrea Mazzitelli, Marco Pini

Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 NPIs in Singapore: Insights from Twitter-Based Sentiment and Demographic Analysis
Xinglei Wang, Yanan Yao, Tao Cheng

Session s10. Social Media and Public Opinion in Italy

Thursday 3, 9:30 – 10:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Markus Herrmann

Analysis of the gender-based violence on social media
Elena Catanese, Angela Pappagallo

Italian web debate about immigration
Elena Catanese

Recovering social media users’ interactions during Italian European elections:  A comparative approach based on sentiment analysis algorithms
Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli, Rosario Giuseppe D’agata, Domenico De Stefano

Session s11. Leveraging Web and AI Technologies for Business Research

Thursday 3, 11:00 – 12:00. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Caterina Liberati

SME Monitoring via Website Data: Insights, Progress, and Challenges
Lisa Crosato, Carlo Bottai, Caterina Liberati

AI-Driven Innovation Measurement: Testing the limits of Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for scaling the mapping of business innovations
Arash Hajikhani

Measuring corporate digital divide through websites: insights from Italian firms
Leonardo Mazzoni 

Session s12. Public Sector Performance and Governance

Thursday 3, 11:00 – 12:00. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Marco Ventura

Does Visibility of Waiting Lists Improve Timeliness? A Comparative Analysis of Local Health Authorities
Giuliano Resce, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Margherita Smarra

Beyond Good Governance: The True Drivers of Mayoral Re-election
Giuseppe Di Renzo, Laura Fanelli, Giuliano Resce

Quantifying instability: A study of global unrest through different composite indices
Marco Tagliapietra, Luca Macis, Elena Siletti, Paola Pisano

Keynote

Thursday 3, 12:00 – 13:00. Room: Aula 7

Thomas Hoe, Amazon

Session s13. Digitalization and Sustainability in Industry and Agriculture

Thursday 3, 14:30 – 15:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Andrea Marletta

Asessing the Impact of a European Union’s Policy on Agricultural Innovation in Italy
Franseo del Puente

Antecedents and drivers of Net-Zero Technologies using web scraping: an empirical analysis from Italian corporate websites
Noemi Giampaoli, Marco Cucculelli, Matteo Renghini

Where digitalisation supports sustainability: environmental gains in the agri-food sector
Cristina Vaquero Piñero, Eleonora Pierucci, Giovanni Cerulli

Session s14. Text Analytics in Economics and Finance

Thursday 3, 14:30 – 15:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Lisa Crosato

Time Series Analysis of Temporal Word Embeddings: Geometric vs Probabilistic Interpretations
Nauel Serraino, Riccardo Ricciardi, Paola Zuccolotto

Optimizing Text Analysis with Large Language Models: Investigating the  Impact of Chunk Size, Number of Chunks, and Contextualization for  Web Scraping Data
Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martinez-Barbero, Josep Domenech

Extracting Meaningful Information from ECB and FED Speeches via BERT-based Language Modeling
Francesco Ortame, David Aristei, Mauro Bruno, Barbara Guardabascio

Lidl Session. Data Science and AI in the Retail Business

Thursday 3, 14:30 – 16:30. Room: Aula 7

Session s15. Environmental Trends and Climate Challenges

Thursday 3, 15:30 – 16:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Carlo Bottai

Are people losing interest in environmental issues? Insights from Google Trends
Eduardo Cebrián Cerdá, Agapito Emanuele Santangelo, Josep Domenech

An experimental study for geospatial and demographic analysis of green space access
Donatella Papa, Fabrizio De Fausti, Marco Di Zio

Evolving Extremes: Projections of Heatwave Characteristics in Pre-Monsoon India.
Rohan Choudhary

Session s16. Data-Driven Forecasting Methods

Thursday 3, 15:30 – 16:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Nicola Caravaggio

Nowcasting Philippine Household Consumption: An Alternative Approach using Google Trends and XGBoost Model
Michael Lawrence Garcia Castañares, Sarah Jane Alarcon Castañares

Carob’s demand forecasting with Google Trends
Antonios Psathas, Theodoros Daglis, Konstantinos Tsagarakis

Improving multi-horizon volatility forecasting using multi-task  learning
Johannes Frank, Christoph Drechsel

Session s17. Labor Market Dynamics and Predictions

Friday 4, 9:30 – 10:30. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Elena Catanese

Employee Income and Earnings Disparities in the United States of America: A Cluster Analysis and Causal Relationships
Florian Schütze, Sami Diaf

Predicting Regional Unemployment in the EU A ML investigation on the social cost of green transition and inflation
Angela Zanoni, Giuliano Resce

AI and Big Data’s Impact on the Future Labor Market in Selected Developed Countries: A Panel Data Approach
Bilgehan Yildiz, Murat Ustaoğlu

Session s18. Technology and the Workforce

Friday 4, 9:30 – 10:30. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Elena Siletti

‘Dead Man Working’: A Place-based Approach to Occupational Safety and Health
Augusto Cerqua

Understanding the skill requirements of the Industry 4.0 transformation. Evidence from Italian companies
Giulio Pedrini, Jasmine Mondolo, Marco Cucculelli

Occupational Exposure to AI: A Patent-Based Approach Using Large Language Models
Giulio Massacci, Massimo Armenise, Mauro Bruno, Luigi De Iaco, Marianna Mantuano

Poster session

Friday 4, 10:30 – 11:30.

Session s19. Gender Equality and Well-Being Metrics

Friday 4, 11:30 – 13:00. Room: Aula 14
Chair: Augusto Cerqua

A data-driven approach for the European Gender Equality Index
Lorenzo Giammei, Flaminia Musella, Fulvia Mecatti, Paola Vicard

Gender Equality and Inclusion in the Life Sciences Industry: A Website Analysis
Mariangela Zenga, Laura Benedan, Cinzia Colapinto, Paolo Mariani, Laura Pagani

Local BES Indicators, an Application with Mixed Effect Models and Bayesian Networks
Federica Cugnata, Clelia Di Serio, Elena Siletti, Silvia Salini

Grounding the building of Subjective Well-being Indicators on Large Language Models (LLMs)
Mohamed Sabbah, Francesco Pugliese, Filomena Maggino

Session s20. Advances in AI and NLP Techniques

Friday 4, 11:30 – 13:00. Room: Aula 7
Chair: Eleonora Pierucci

Implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Systematic Reviews: An Approach Applied to Information Assurance in Sustainability
Héctor Borobia Aranda, Elíes Seguí Mas, Guillermina Tormo Carbó

Knowledge as an emergent effect of the complexity of large language models
Rafal Maciag

Use of Large Language Models in Rubric-based evaluation: A Framework and Systematic Review
Pau Carles-Vega, Roberto Elias Cervelló-Royo, Pablo de Pedraza, Josep Domenech

The Silent Clues: Unveiling Patterns in Public Contracts
Laura Fanelli, Giuseppe Di Renzo, Giuliano Resce

Session s21. Advances in Digital-Data Analytics and Data-Driven Frameworks

Friday 4, 11:30 – 13:00. Room: Aula 15
Chair: Giuliano Resce

Classification of Companies’ Economic Activity: A Web Content and Machine Learning-Based Approach
Joan Fernández Navarro, Ana Debón, Josep Domenech

Partial Least Squares over Digital Footprint to Study Competitiveness in Food Industry
Hugo Sánchez Navalón, Ana Debon, Josep Domenech

Web-Augmenting the Italian Third Sector Register
Carlo Bottai, Francesco Trentini, Diletta Abbonato, Anna Velyka

Composite indicators and Machine Learning techniques. An Application to the tourism industry
Giulio Pedrini, Giovanni Bonaccolto, Fabio Aiello, Marina Bonaccolto-Toepfer, Vincenzo Conti, Vincenzo Fasone, Raffaele Scuderi, Vincenzo Marinello, Vladislava Stankova, Emily Alaimo

Closing

Friday 28, 13:00 – 13:30. Room: Aula 7