| Time | 2 July | 3 July | 4 July |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration | ||
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Opening (Aula 7) | ||
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Keynote Diana Maynard (Aula 7) | Parallel s9 (Aula 14) Parallel s10 (Aula 15) | Parallel s17 (Aula 14) Parallel s18 (Aula 15) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Coffee break Poster session | ||
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Parallel s1 (Aula 14) Parallel s2 (Aula 15) | Parallel s11 (Aula 14) Parallel s12 (Aula 15) | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Parallel s19 (Aula 14) Parallel s20 (Aula 7) Parallel s21 (Aula 15) | ||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Parallel s3 (Aula 14) Parallel s4 (Aula 15) | Keynote Thomas Hoe (Aula 7) | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Closing (Aula 7) | ||
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Light lunch | Light lunch | |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Light lunch & farewell | ||
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel s5 (Aula 14) Parallel s6 (Aula 15) | Parallel s13 (Aula 14) Parallel s14 (Aula 15) | |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Lidl session Data Science and AI in the Retail Business (Aula 7) | ||
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Parallel s7 (Aula 14) Parallel s8 (Aula 15) | Parallel s15 (Aula 14) Parallel s16 (Aula 15) | |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Welcome cocktail | ||
| 20:30 – 23:30 | Social 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 4, 13:00 – 13:30. Room: Aula 7