Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

Arianna D'Ulizia

Computer science engineer and researcher at the IRPPS. Her main research interests are: social computing, human-computer interaction,  multimodal and natural language processing, user-centered interaction design, geographic information systems, knowledge management and social innovation.

Rome

arianna.dulizia@irpps.cnr.it

+39 06 492724 297

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Curriculum Vitae

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Arianna D'Ulizia obtained a Degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2005 and a PhD in Computer Science and Automation at the University of RomaTre in 2009.
 
She is currently a researcher at the National Research Council, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) in Rome.
 
She participates in the activities of the research group on Social Informatics and Technology Assessment. She deals with human-computer interaction, in particular natural and multimodal language processing and user-centered interaction design, to make Information and Communication Technologies more accessible and inclusive. She also deals with social computing, in particular smart data analytics and artificial intelligence techniques for extracting data from social networks and optimize the decision-making process in different social fields (e.g. disinformation, healthcare). 

She is member of the teaching staff of the doctoral course in "Medium and Mediality" at the eCampus University of Novedrate (CO). 

She is the author of more than 80 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. 
 
From January 2025 is the scientific director of the CNR-IRPPS Project SMILE CITY funded by the European Commission. Since January 2024 he has been co-responsible for CNR-IRPPS of the Project AI4Debunk funded by the European Commission. Since 2023 he has been the scientific director of the CNR-IRPPS Project HealthyW8 and co-responsible for the Project ForestTEEN funded by the European Commission.  In 2022, she was scientific leader for the co-creation activities of the SOCIAL4FOOD project funded by the EIT. Since 2005, she has participated in more than 20 European and national research projects, including DECISO, ATHENA, MARINA, GRRIP, R&I-Peers, HubIT, BioVoices, IC-Health, SHAPES, SciCafé2.0, GreenHero, KNOWING, MIDIR, INCA, IMRA, CHAT, SCENARIO and WIL.
 
From 2006 to 2018 he participated in the Organizing Committee of various international Workshops and Conferences, including the “Workshop on Mobile and Networking Technologies for Social Applications (MONET 2006MONET 2007MONET 2008MONET 2009, MONET 2010MONET 2011, "Workshop on SOcial and MObile COmputing for collaborative environments" (SOMOCO 2012SOMOCO 2013), "Workshop on Mobile and Social Computing for interaction environments" (MSC 2014, MSc 2015), and the "International Conference on Responsible Research and Innovation in Science, Innovation and Society" (RRI-SIS 2017RRI-ICT 2018).

 

She is editor-in-chief of the journal “EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications and she was editor-in-chief of the journal "EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications"

She is associate editor of IEEE Access journal, for which she was honored with the "Outstanding Associate Editors award" for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. 

She is involved in the editorial board of various international journals, including the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Arrays (Elsevier), theInternational Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) and theInternational Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC). 

È currently guest-editor of the following special issue: 

- "The Role of Computer Vision in Facilitating Smart Urban Development: Opportunities and Impedimentsfor the international journal “Applied Sciences”.

È has been a guest editor of various special issues of international journals, including “Computational and Explainable Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Fact-checking Mis/disinformation for the international journal “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Intelligent Applications of Human-Computer Interaction for the international magazine “Electronics”, "Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, Multimedia Tools and Applications and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

She has beenselected as a technical-scientific evaluator of various project proposals submitted to both European and national competitive calls, including PRIN, FCS-H2020 PON, FRI Digital Agenda, Intelligent Factory Innovation Agreement, and Young Researchers “Rita Levi Montalcini”, and various calls of European cascade projects.

She is involved in numerous program committees for national and international conferences and workshops.
 
 

Main publications

Pyrrho, M., D'Ulizia A. (2024). The Localization of Software and Video Games: Current State and Future Perspectives. Information, 15(10) - Article in journal 

D'Ulizia A. Federico, D., Notte, A. (2024). The Technological Innovation of the Metaverse in Financial Sector: Current State, Opportunities, and Open Challenges. Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, 31(3), e1566 - Article in journal 

By Andrea A., D'Ulizia A. (2024) A participatory approach for sustainable local food development: Evidence and digital perspectives from a rural area in Italy, Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development, 8 (8) - Article in journal 

D'Ulizia A. D'Andrea A., Grifoni P., Ferri F. (2024). Analysis, Evaluation, and Future Directions on Multimodal Deception Detection, Technologies, 12 (5) - Article in journal

D'Andrea A., D'Ulizia A., (2023). The societal impacts of the SOCIAL4FOOD Project, Societal Impacts, 1(1-2) - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A. D'Andrea A., Grifoni P., Ferri F. (2023). Detecting Deceptive Behaviors through Facial Cues from Videos: a Systematic Review, Applied Sciences, 13(16) - Article in journal

D'Andrea A., D'Ulizia A., (2023). Preserving Local Food Traditions: a Hybrid Participatory Approach for Stimulating Transgenerational Dialogue, Societies, 13(4) - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A. Grifoni P., Ferri F.,  (2022) Query Processing of Geosocial Data in Location-Based Social Networks. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2022(11):1.  - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A., Caschera MC, Ferri F., Grifoni P. (2021). Fake news detection: a survey of evaluation datasets, Peer J Computer Science - Article in journal

Grifoni P., D'Ulizia A., Ferri F. (2021). When Language Evolution Meets Multimodality: Current Status and Challenges Toward Multimodal Computational Models, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 35196 - 35206 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2020). A Survey on Modeling Language Evolution in the New MillenniumNew Generation Computing, 38(1), 97–124, doi: 10.1007/s00354-019-00079-7 - Article in journal

Ferri, F., D'Andrea, D'Ulizia, A., Grifoni, P. (2020). Co-Creation of e-Learning Content: The Case Study of a MOOC on Health and Cyber-Bullying, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 26 (2), 200-219 - Article in journal

Ferri, F., D'Ulizia, A., Grifoni, P. (2019) A grammar inference approach for language self-adaptation and evolution in digital ecosystems. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Volume 53, Issue 3, pp 409–430 - Article in journal

Caschera MC, D'Ulizia A., Ferri F., Grifoni P. (2019) MONDE: a method for predicting social network dynamics and evolution, EVOLVING SYSTEMS, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 363–379 - Article in journal

Ferri, F., D'Ulizia, A., & Grifoni, P. (2018). Computational Models of Language Evolution: Challenges and Future Perspectives. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE (J.UCS), 24 (10), 1345-1377 - Article in journal

D'Andrea A, D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2017). EMAG: An Extended Multimodal Attribute Grammar for Behavioral Features. DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES, Oxford University Press, 32 (2): 251-275. ISSN: 2055-7671 - Article in journal

Grifoni P, D'Ulizia A, Ferri F (2016). Computational methods and grammars in language evolution: a survey. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, vol. 45, p. 369-403, ISSN: 0269-2821, doi: 10.1007 / s10462-015-9449-3 - Article in journal

Grifoni P., Ferri F., Caschera MC, D'Ulizia A., Mazzei M. (2014) MIS: Multimodal Interaction Services in a cloud perspective. Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 1-10. - Article in journal

Grifoni P., D'Ulizia A., Ferri F. (2014) A Semantic-Based Approach for Context-Aware Service Discovery, International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), 6 (4), 1-26. - Article in journal

Ferri, F., Grifoni, P., Caschera, MC, D'Ulizia, A., & Praticò, C. (2013) KRC: KnowInG crowdsourcing platform supporting creativity and innovation. Advances in Information Sciences & Service Sciences, 5 (16), pp.1-15 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2012). Moving GeoPQL: a Pictorial Language Towards Spatio-Temporal Queries. GEOINFORMATICS, vol. 16, p. 357-389, ISSN: 1384-6175, doi: 10.1007 / s10707-011-0135-6 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2011). A Learning Algorithm for Multimodal Grammar Inference. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART B-CYBERNETICS, vol. 41, p. 1495-1510, ISSN: 1083-4419, doi: 10.1109 / TSMCB.2011.2155057 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2011). A survey of grammatical inference methods for natural language learning. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW, vol. 36, p. 1-27, ISSN: 0269-2821, doi: 10.1007 / s10462-010-9199-1 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia, A., Ferri, F., Grifoni, P. (2010). A similarity assessment method for discovering and adapting business services, Int. J. Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 97-109. - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Grifoni P (2010). Generating Multimodal Grammars for Multimodal Dialogue Processing. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART A-SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, vol. 40, p. 1130-1145, ISSN: 1083-4427, doi: 10.1109 / TSMCA.2010.2041227 - Article in journal

D'Ulizia A, Ferri F, Formica A, Grifoni P (2009). Approximating Geographical Queries. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 24, p. 1109-1124, ISSN: 1000-9000, doi: 10.1007 / s11390-009-9284-6 - Article in journal