Francesca Spezzano

91 papers A* 5A 8B 19C 2Misc 1Journal 28Unranked 24

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	A	`conf`	A New Attack Surface: XAI-guided Adversarial Comment Generation with LLMs to Attack Fake News Detectors. WSDM Md Shoaib Ahmed, Francesca Spezzano
2026	A	`conf`	Credibility Drift Attacks: LLM Crafted Adversarial Manipulations That Flip News Believability. WSDM Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Francesca Spezzano
2025	J	`jnl`	CIKM 2024 Conference Report. SIGWEB Newsl. Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, Francesco Gullo
2025	A	`conf`	Circumventing Misinformation Controls: Assessing the Robustness of Intervention Strategies in Recommender Systems. UMAP Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano
2025	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the robustness of fake news detectors to adversarial attacks with real user comments. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. Annat Koren, Chandler Underwood, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2025	—	`conf`	Integrating Service-Learning Into Social Media Mining Class. ITiCSE (1) Francesca Spezzano, Devshikha Bose
2025	A	`conf`	Opposites Attract? Ambivalence in Distinguishing Real and Fake News and Predicting their Spread. ICWSM Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Francesca Spezzano, Anne Hamby
2025	J	`jnl`	Understanding News Consumers' Perceptions of Believability: A Study of Real and Fake News. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Md Shoaib Ahmed, Francesca Spezzano, Anne Hamby
2024	J	`jnl`	ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management October 21-25, 2024 at Boise, Idaho (USA). SIGWEB Newsl. Antonela Tommasel, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, Francesco Gullo
2024	—	`conf`	An Empirical Analysis of Intervention Strategies' Effectiveness for Countering Misinformation Amplification by Recommendation Algorithms. ECIR (4) Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano
2024	—	`conf`	Analyzing the Interplay between Diversity of News Recommendations and Misinformation Spread in Social Media. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano
2024	J	`jnl`	Enhancing hate speech detection with user characteristics. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. Rohan Raut, Francesca Spezzano
2024	B	`conf`	Evaluating the Robustness of Fake News Detectors to Adversarial Attacks with Real User Comments (Extended Abstract). DSAA Annat Koren, Chandler Underwood, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2024	J	`jnl`	Joint Credibility Estimation of News, User, and Publisher via Role-relational Graph Convolutional Networks. ACM Trans. Web Anu Shrestha, Jason Duran, Francesca Spezzano, Edoardo Serra
2024	J	`jnl`	Modeling the Diffusion of Fake and Real News through the Lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory. ACM Trans. Soc. Comput. Abishai Joy, Royal Pathak, Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Donald Winiecki
2024	J	`jnl`	Modeling the time to share fake and real news in online social networks. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. Cooper Doe, Vladimir Knezevic, Maya Zeng, Francesca Spezzano, Liljana Babinkostova
2024	A	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2024, Boise, ID, USA, October 21-25, 2024 CIKM Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2023	C	`conf`	Evaluating Code Metrics in GitHub Repositories Related to Fake News and Misinformation. SERA Jason Duran, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Nasir U. Eisty, Francesca Spezzano
2023	J	`jnl`	Evaluating Code Metrics in GitHub Repositories Related to Fake News and Misinformation. CoRR Jason Duran, Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Nasir U. Eisty, Francesca Spezzano
2023	B	`conf`	Prediction of Future Nation-initiated Cyberattacks from News-based Political Event Graph. DSAA Bishal Lakha, Jason Duran, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2023	Misc	`conf`	Understanding Teenagers' Real and Fake News Sharing on Social Media. IDC Don Winiecki, Francesca Spezzano, Chandler Underwood
2023	J	`jnl`	Understanding the Contribution of Recommendation Algorithms on Misinformation Recommendation and Misinformation Dissemination on Social Networks. ACM Trans. Web Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera
2023	—	`conf`	Unveiling Truth Amidst the Pandemic: Multimodal Detection of COVID-19 Unreliable News. MISDOOM Royal Pathak, Bishal Lakha, Rohan Raut, Hongmin (Steven) Kim, Francesca Spezzano
2022	B	`conf`	Automated Detection of Sockpuppet Accounts in Wikipedia. ASONAM Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Francesca Spezzano
2022	J	`jnl`	Characterizing and predicting fake news spreaders in social networks. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2022	—	`ed.`	Disinformation in Open Online Media - 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2022, Boise, ID, USA, October 11-12, 2022, Proceedings MISDOOM Francesca Spezzano, Adriana M. Amaral, Davide Ceolin, Lisa Fazio, Edoardo Serra
2022	A*	`conf`	Predicting RNA Mutation Effects through Machine Learning of High-Throughput Ribozyme Experiments (Student Abstract). AAAI Joseph Kitzhaber, Ashlyn Trapp, James Beck, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, Eric Hayden, Jessica Roberts
2022	A*	`conf`	Predicting the Influence of Fake and Real News Spreaders (Student Abstract). AAAI Amy Zhang, Aaron Brookhouse, Daniel Hammer, Francesca Spezzano, Liljana Babinkostova
2021	J	`jnl`	A Network Analysis of Twitter Interactions by Members of the U.S. Congress. ACM Trans. Soc. Comput. Joshua M. Chamberlain, Francesca Spezzano, Jaclyn J. Kettler, Bogdan Dit
2021	—	`conf`	An Analysis of People's Reasoning for Sharing Real and Fake News. MISINFO@WWW Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2021	—	`conf`	An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Recommender Systems Robustness to Shilling Attacks. OHARS@RecSys Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera
2021	B	`conf`	Are you influenced?: modeling the diffusion of fake news in social media. ASONAM Abishai Joy, Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2021	—	`ed.`	Disinformation in Open Online Media - Third Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2021, Virtual Event, September 21-22, 2021, Proceedings MISDOOM Jonathan Bright, Anastasia Giachanou, Viktoria Spaiser, Francesca Spezzano, Anna George, Alexandra Pavliuc
2021	—	`conf`	Modeling Misinformation Diffusion in Social Media: Beyond Network Properties. CogMI Francesca Spezzano
2021	—	`conf`	Textual Characteristics of News Title and Body to Detect Fake News: A Reproducibility Study. ECIR (2) Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2021	J	`jnl`	That's Fake News! Reliability of News When Provided Title, Image, Source Bias & Full Article. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. Francesca Spezzano, Anu Shrestha, Jerry Alan Fails, Brian W. Stone
2021	—	`conf`	Using Service-Learning in Graduate Curriculum to Address Teenagers' Vulnerability to Web Misinformation. ITiCSE (2) Francesca Spezzano
2020	—	`conf`	DeepTrust: An Automatic Framework to Detect Trustworthy Users in Opinion-based Systems. CODASPY Edoardo Serra, Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini
2020	—	`conf`	Detecting Fake News Spreaders in Social Networks via Linguistic and Personality Features. CLEF (Working Notes) Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Abishai Joy
2020	A*	`conf`	Detecting Undisclosed Paid Editing in Wikipedia. WWW Nikesh Joshi, Francesca Spezzano, Mayson Green, Elijah Hill
2020	B	`conf`	How Do People Decide Political News Credibility? ASONAM Francesca Spezzano, Don Winiecki
2020	—	`conf`	Multi-modal Analysis of Misleading Political News. MISDOOM Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Indhumathi Gurunathan
2020	J	`jnl`	Multi-modal social and psycho-linguistic embedding via recurrent neural networks to identify depressed users in online forums. Netw. Model. Anal. Health Informatics Bioinform. Anu Shrestha, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2020	B	`conf`	Validating Bad Entity Ranking in the Panama Papers via Open-source Intelligence. ASONAM Donald Winiecki, Katherine Kappelman, Bryant Hay, Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2019	B	`ed.`	ASONAM '19: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27-30 August, 2019 ASONAM Francesca Spezzano, Wei Chen, Xiaokui Xiao
2019	B	`conf`	Detecting depressed users in online forums. ASONAM Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2019	J	`jnl`	Detecting pages to protect in Wikipedia across multiple languages. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. Francesca Spezzano, Kelsey Suyehira, Laxmi Amulya Gundala
2019	J	`jnl`	Detecting suspicious entities in Offshore Leaks networks. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2019	—	`ch.`	Editing Behavior Analysis for Predicting Active and Inactive Users in Wikipedia. Influence and Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Social Media Harish Arelli, Francesca Spezzano, Anu Shrestha
2019	J	`jnl`	Estimating node indirect interaction duration to enhance link prediction. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. Laxmi Amulya Gundala, Francesca Spezzano
2019	B	`conf`	Online misinformation: from the deceiver to the victim. ASONAM Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano
2019	B	`conf`	SQUID: A Scalable System for Querying, Updating and Indexing Dynamic Graph Databases. SSDBM Akshay Kansal, Francesca Spezzano
2018	B	`conf`	A Framework for Predicting Links Between Indirectly Interacting Nodes. ASONAM Laxmi Amulya Gundala, Francesca Spezzano
2018	B	`conf`	Inferring Bad Entities Through the Panama Papers Network. ASONAM Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2018	—	`conf`	Readers' Demanded Hyperlink Prediction in Wikipedia. WWW (Companion Volume) Laxmi Amulya Gundala, Francesca Spezzano
2018	J	`jnl`	Who is Really Affected by Fraudulent Reviews? An analysis of shilling attacks on recommender systems in real-world scenarios. CoRR Anu Shrestha, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera
2017	A	`conf`	A Scalable Graph-Coarsening Based Index for Dynamic Graph Databases. CIKM Akshay Kansal, Francesca Spezzano
2017	—	`conf`	Ensuring the Integrity of Wikipedia: A Data Science Approach. SEBD Francesca Spezzano
2017	B	`conf`	Predicting Friendship Strength for Privacy Preserving: A Case Study on Facebook. ASONAM Nitish Dhakal, Francesca Spezzano, Dianxiang Xu
2017	A	`conf`	Spam Users Identification in Wikipedia Via Editing Behavior. ICWSM Thomas Green, Francesca Spezzano
2017	B	`conf`	Who Will Stop Contributing?: Predicting Inactive Editors in Wikipedia. ASONAM Harish Arelli, Francesca Spezzano
2016	—	`conf`	Bad Actors in Social Media. CyberSafety@CIKM Francesca Spezzano
2016	—	`conf`	ChoiceGAPs: Competitive Diffusion as a Massive Multi-player Game in Social Networks. SUM Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2016	A	`conf`	DePP: A System for Detecting Pages to Protect in Wikipedia. CIKM Kelsey Suyehira, Francesca Spezzano
2016	J	`jnl`	Diffusion centrality: A paradigm to maximize spread in social networks. Artif. Intell. Chanhyun Kang, Sarit Kraus, Cristian Molinaro, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2016	A*	`conf`	Edge Weight Prediction in Weighted Signed Networks. ICDM Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian, Christos Faloutsos
2016	B	`conf`	Evaluating the impact of social media in detecting health-violating restaurants. ASONAM Mikel Joaristi, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2016	—	`conf`	Metric Logic Program Explanations for Complex Separator Functions. SUM Srijan Kumar, Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2016	B	`conf`	Tutorial: Identifying Malicious Actors on Social Media. ASONAM Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2015	J	`jnl`	An Effective GPU-Based Approach to Probabilistic Query Confidence Computation. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano
2015	J	`jnl`	Checking Chase Termination: Cyclicity Analysis and Rewriting Techniques. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2015	J	`jnl`	Checking termination of bottom-up evaluation of logic programs with function symbols. Theory Pract. Log. Program. Marco Calautti, Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2015	C	`conf`	SPINN: Suspicion prediction in nuclear networks. ISI Ian A. Andrews, Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2015	A*	`conf`	VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System. KDD Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2015	J	`jnl`	VEWS: A Wikipedia Vandal Early Warning System. CoRR Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2014	B	`conf`	Accurately detecting trolls in Slashdot Zoo via decluttering. ASONAM Srijan Kumar, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2014	J	`jnl`	Checking Termination of Bottom-Up Evaluation of Logic Programs with Function Symbols. CoRR Marco Calautti, Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2014	J	`jnl`	ChoiceGAPs: Competitive Diffusion as a Massive Multi-Player Game in Social Networks. CoRR Edoardo Serra, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian
2014	J	`jnl`	Reshaping terrorist networks. Commun. ACM Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian, Aaron Mannes
2014	B	`conf`	Understanding South Asian Violent Extremist Group-group interactions. ASONAM David B. Skillicorn, Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian, M. Garber
2013	B	`conf`	STONE: shaping terrorist organizational network efficiency. ASONAM Francesca Spezzano, V. S. Subrahmanian, Aaron Mannes
2013	—	`conf`	The Semantics of Aggregate Queries in Data Exchange Revisited. SUM Phokion G. Kolaitis, Francesca Spezzano
2012	—	`book`	Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases Sergio Greco, Cristian Molinaro, Francesca Spezzano
2012	—	`conf`	On the Termination of Logic Programs with Function Symbols. ICLP (Technical Communications) Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2012	—	`conf`	Stratification-based Criteria for Checking Chase Termination. SEBD Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2011	—	`conf`	ChaseT: A Tool For Checking Chase Termination. SEBD Andrea De Francesco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2011	—	`conf`	ChaseT: A Tool for Checking Chase Termination. SUM Andrea De Francesco, Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2011	J	`jnl`	Stratification Criteria and Rewriting Techniques for Checking Chase Termination. Proc. VLDB Endow. Sergio Greco, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2010	J	`jnl`	Chase Termination: A Constraints Rewriting Approach. Proc. VLDB Endow. Francesca Spezzano, Sergio Greco
2010	—	`conf`	Querying and Updating Inconsistent Databases (Extended Abstract). SEBD Sergio Greco, Cristian Molinaro, Francesca Spezzano, Irina Trubitsyna
2009	—	`conf`	A System Prototype for Computing Probabilistic Query Answers over Inconsistent Databases. SEBD Cristian Molinaro, Francesca Spezzano, Sergio Greco