Conferences

Conference presentations, invited sessions, and scientific committees

Conferences · Invited Sessions · Scientific Committees

More than two decades of contributions to national and international conferences — from COMPSTAT 2002 in Berlin to ENBIS 2026 in Florence — on bibliometrics and science mapping, tree-based and explainable machine learning, text analysis, and health and tourism analytics.

Active participant in numerous national and international conferences — DSSR, SDS, ASA, COMPSTAT, IFCS, CLADAG, JADT, ECDA, ENBIS, and CMStatistics — where I have presented research contributions related to bibliometric analysis, classification methods, explainable machine learning, and methodological innovation in the social sciences. Invited seminars and doctoral lectures are listed on the Teaching page.

Scientific Committees

Member of the scientific or organising committees of major conferences, including JADT 2022 and JADT 2026, the Data Science in Social Research (DSSR) conferences, and several editions of the Italian Statistics Society (SIS) meetings.

2026 · Programme Committee, “18th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data” (JADT 2026), Palermo, 8–10 July 2026.
2025 · Scientific Committee, “The Future of Sustainability” (SIS DIAS), Bari.
2025 · Scientific Committee, “5th International Conference on Data Science in Social Research” (DSSR2025), Pescara.
2024 · Scientific Committee, “4th International Conference on Data Science in Social Research” (DSSR2024), Naples.
2022 · Programme Committee, “16th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data” (JADT 2022), Naples.
2021 · Programme Committee, “Small Area Estimation: Big4Small” (SAE 2021), Naples.
2019 · Scientific Committee, “3rd International Conference on Data Science in Social Research” (DSSR 2019), Milan.
2015 · Programme Committee, “Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods Conference” (CARME2015), Naples.

Presentations and Sessions

2026

Sep · Invited paper “Agreement over Association in Explainable Ensemble Trees”, ENBIS 2026 (ISBIS Invited Session), Florence.
Jul · Invited paper “A Dissimilarity-Based Approach to Explaining Regression Ensembles”, IFCS 2026 (ISBIS Invited Session), Milan.
Jul · Paper “Mapping Communicative Purposes in Academic Discourse: designing an analytic linguistic pattern”, JADT 2026, Palermo.

2025

Sep · Paper “A Framework to Assess the Multi-Dimensional Performance of Italian Academic Health Science Centers”, 11th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33), Naples.
Sep · Papers “Does clinical research improve the quality of care? Evidence from Italy” and “SciK-Health: Exploring Diseases, Experts, and Research Centres with One Question”, SIS “Futures of Sustainability” conference, Bari.
Sep · Papers “‘Can You Explain That?’ E2Tree, SHAP, and LIME for Interpretable Random Forests” and “From Prediction to Explanation: Interpreting Risk Factors in Health Survey Analytics”, CLADAG 2025, Naples.
Jun · Paper “From Data Collection to Knowledge in Health: Turning Scientific Production into Practical Decision-Making Tools”, IES 2025, Bressanone.
Jun · Co-organiser (with C. Cuccurullo) of the workshop “Research performance and social impact of Italian public Academic Health Science Centers”, DiSES, University of Naples Federico II.
May · Paper “Measuring the Triple Impact of Research Performance: Scientific, Industrial, and Social Dimensions in Italian Academic Health Science Centers”, IGCKM 2025, University of Salerno.

2024

Sep · Paper “Decoding Knowledge Claims: The Evaluation of Scientific Publication Contributions through Semantic Analysis”, STI 2024, Berlin.
Sep · Paper “The evolution of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): a preliminary systematic literature review”, ASA 2024, Rome.
Sep · Paper “Regional Disparities and Financial Health of Italian Accredited Private Hospitals”, SIDREA 2024, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona.
Aug · Invited paper “Inside the black-box models through Explainable Decision Tree Ensembles”, COMPSTAT 2024, Giessen.
Jun · Papers “Breaking Barriers with TALL: A Text Analysis Shiny app for ALL”, “Extracting knowledge from scientific literature with an integrated Text Summarization approach” and “Decoding disinformation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Fake News”, JADT 2024, Brussels.
Jun · Paper “Explainable decision tree ensembles”, 52nd Scientific Meeting SIS, Bari.
Mar · Paper “The spread of Random Forest across scientific research fields: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis”, DSSR 2024, Naples.

2023

Dec · Invited paper “Unlocking explainable in ensemble trees”, CMStatistics 2023, Berlin.
Nov · Invited paper “Exploring the Applications of Explainable Ensemble Trees: Real-World Scenarios”, ICDS 2023, Santiago, Chile.
Paper “Explainable Ensemble Trees”, NSE – New Statistical Experiences workshop.

2022

Oct · Papers “openalexR: An R-package to gather bibliographic metadata from OpenAlex through API” and “A new way to explain a random forest model” (invited session), ECDA 2022, Naples.
Sep · Paper “The 13As model identifying the successful factors for a tourism destination”, SIET, Varese.
Jul · Paper “Destination performance evaluation: when can a destination be considered successful?”, 9th ITSA Biennial Conference, Gran Canaria.
Jul · Paper “AI and ML in accounting and finance: a bibliometric review”, JADT 2022, Naples.
Jun · Chair of the invited session “Statistical Methods for Science Mapping”, 51st Scientific Meeting SIS, Caserta.
Jan · Chair of the session “Statistical Learning” and papers “Using partial triadic analysis for depicting the temporal evolution of Italian private healthcare organizations” and “Twenty Years of Random Forest: preliminary results of a systematic literature review”, IES 2022, Capua.

2021

Sep · Paper “Relational and Individual Capabilities in Collaborative Decisions”, SMS 41st Annual Conference, Toronto.
Sep · Paper “Supporting decision-makers in healthcare domain. A comparative study of two interpretative proposals for Random Forests”, ASA 2021, Florence.
Jun · Paper “Internet of Things in healthcare: a scientometric state of research and entrepreneurial fronts”, EURAM 2021, Montréal; paper “Does industry change affect strategy, governance, and financial configurations of private hospital providers? A survey of Italian private healthcare organizations”, SIMA 2021, Palermo.
May · Paper “Biblioshiny: A Comprehensive Science Mapping App for Systematic Literature Review”, conference “New tools and new technologies: bibliometrics in action for a new decade”.

2020

Jan · Paper “Bibliometrics & Science Mapping”, conference “Discursive perspectives on knowledge dissemination”, Naples.

2019

Sep · Papers “Does industry change affect strategic, governance, and financial configurations of private hospital providers?” and “Automatic identification of wines via supervised text classification”, ASA Conference, Brescia.
Apr · Workshop “Research Synthesis and Lab of Bibliometrics”, University of Brescia.
Feb · Paper “Science mapping via dynamic topic modelling”, DSSR 2019, Milan.

2018

Jun · Paper “Bibliometrix R-package: A tool for quantitative literature review”, JADT 2018, Rome.
Apr · Paper “Cerebral Stroke: Rationalisation of Care Pathways”, Naples.

2017

Jun · Chair of the session “Social and Religious Discrimination”, Conference on Well-being and Social Inclusion, University of Naples Federico II.
Mar · Poster “Ideal Graduate Profiles for Working in Tourism”, University of Padua.

2016

Jun · Chair of the special session “Inside the tourism destination”, ICOT 2016, Naples.
Jun · Invited paper “Inter-firm relationships in the arena of tourist destinations”, ICOT 2016, Naples.
May · Paper “The role of ecosystem in cultural firms”, SOItmC & CSCOM 2016, Napa Valley (USA).

2015

Sep · Papers “Twenty Years of Research on Performance Management” and “Distance-Based Visualization of Sequence Rules in Web Mining”, CARME2015, Naples.

2013

Dec · Paper “Synthetic Resampling Algorithm for Response Class Imbalance”, ERCIM 2013, London.
Sep · Paper “Visual model representation and selection for classification and regression trees”, CLADAG 2013, Modena.
Jun · Discussant of the session “Special Symbolic Data Analysis”, 47th SIS Scientific Meeting, Brescia.

2012

Jun · Organiser of the session “Missing Data Imputation” and invited paper “Dynamic Classification Trees for imprecise data”, 46th SIS Scientific Meeting, Rome.

2009

Sep · Session organiser, CLADAG 2009, Catania.

2008

Sep · Paper “A non parametric pre-grafting procedure for data fusion”, MTISD 2008, Lecce.
Jan · Invited paper “Tourism as a Resource”, Unione Industriali, Naples.

2007

Sep · Invited papers “Robust Incremental Trees for Missing Data Imputation and Data Fusion” and “3Way Trees”, CLADAG 2007, Macerata; invited papers “Robust Tree-based Incremental Imputation Method for Data Fusion” and “Conditional Classification Trees using Instrumental Variables”, IDA 2007, Ljubljana.
Apr · Invited paper “Discriminating Drivers of Satisfaction: The SEPSA Case”, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2005

Jun · Invited paper “Boosted Stump Algorithm for Missing Data Incremental Imputation”, CLADAG 2005, Parma.

2004

Aug · Paper “Harvesting Trees: Methods, Software and Applications”, 16th COMPSTAT, Prague.
May · Paper “Parallel Models for Longitudinal Sensory Analysis”, ISPA 2004, Cassino.

2003

Sep · Invited paper “Learning from Trees: Two-Stage Enhancements”, CLADAG 2003, Bologna.
Jul · Paper “A Stabilizing Algorithm for Longitudinal Data Analysis Networks”, IMPS 2003, Chia.
Jun · Paper “Parallel Budget Network for Longitudinal Data Analysis”, SIS, Naples.

2002

Aug · Paper “Growing and Visualizing Prediction Paths Trees in Market Basket Analysis”, 15th COMPSTAT, Berlin.
Jul · Paper “Neural Budget Networks of Sensorial Data”, GfKl, Mannheim.