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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
63
Citations
23511
World Ranking
2691
National Ranking
45

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Fosca Giannotti is affiliated with the Institute of Information Science and Technologies in Italy. Their research contributions span across computer science and social sciences, with a primary focus on artificial intelligence and its applications.

Their work encompasses several subfields including artificial intelligence, transportation, sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, and health informatics. Key topics that Giannotti has extensively studied include explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), human mobility and location-based analysis, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, adversarial robustness in machine learning, machine learning and data classification, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and complex network analysis techniques.

Recent papers published by Fosca Giannotti include:

  • "Benchmarking and survey of explanation methods for black box models," 2023, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • "GLocalX - From Local to Global Explanations of Black Box AI Models," 2021, Artificial Intelligence
  • "Understanding the impact of explanations on advice-taking: a user study for AI-based clinical Decision Support Systems," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Human migration: the big data perspective," 2020, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
  • "Ethics of Smart Cities: Towards Value-Sensitive Design and Co-Evolving City Life," 2021, Sustainability

Their frequent coauthors include Dino Pedreschi, Riccardo Guidotti, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Francesca Pratesi, and Roberto Pellungrini. Collaboration with these researchers has been significant in building a coherent body of work related to AI and data science.

Fosca Giannotti has published numerous articles in various venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 17 publications
  • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics - 5 publications
  • ACM Computing Surveys - 3 publications
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - 2 publications
  • Artificial Intelligence - 2 publications

They have also contributed to book publications, with one notable work titled "Social Informatics" published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2020.

The domains of study and research topics reflect the integration of data-driven approaches and societal considerations, highlighting interdisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Methods for Explaining Black Box Models

    Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Salvatore Ruggieri;Franco Turini

  • Smart cities of the future

    M. Batty;K. W. Axhausen;F. Giannotti;A. Pozdnoukhov

  • Trajectory pattern mining

    Fosca Giannotti;Mirco Nanni;Fabio Pinelli;Dino Pedreschi

  • Human mobility, social ties, and link prediction

    Dashun Wang;Dino Pedreschi;Chaoming Song;Fosca Giannotti

  • WhereNext: a location predictor on trajectory pattern mining

    Anna Monreale;Fabio Pinelli;Roberto Trasarti;Fosca Giannotti

  • Returners and explorers dichotomy in human mobility

    Luca Pappalardo;Filippo Simini;Salvatore Rinzivillo;Dino Pedreschi;Dino Pedreschi

  • A classification for community discovery methods in complex networks

    Michele Coscia;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • Unveiling the complexity of human mobility by querying and mining massive trajectory data

    Fosca Giannotti;Mirco Nanni;Dino Pedreschi;Fabio Pinelli

  • Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Geographic Knowledge Discovery

    Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • A Survey Of Methods For Explaining Black Box Models

    Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Franco Turini;Dino Pedreschi

  • Machine Learning, ECML 2004

    Jean-François Boulicaut;Floriana Esposito;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • Factual and Counterfactual Explanations for Black Box Decision Making

    Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • Local Rule-Based Explanations of Black Box Decision Systems.

    Riccardo Guidotti;Anna Monreale;Salvatore Ruggieri;Dino Pedreschi

  • Interactive visual clustering of large collections of trajectories

    Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Salvatore Rinzivillo;Mirco Nanni

  • DEMON: a local-first discovery method for overlapping communities

    Michele Coscia;Giulio Rossetti;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • Visually driven analysis of movement data by progressive clustering

    Salvatore Rinzivillo;Dino Pedreschi;Mirco Nanni;Fosca Giannotti

  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2004

    Jean-François Boulicaut;Floriana Esposito;Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy

    Fosca Giannotti;Dino Pedreschi

  • PlayeRank: Data-driven Performance Evaluation and Player Ranking in Soccer via a Machine Learning Approach

    Luca Pappalardo;Paolo Cintia;Paolo Ferragina;Emanuele Massucco

  • A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions.

    Luca Pappalardo;Paolo Cintia;Alessio Rossi;Emanuele Massucco

  • Movement Data Anonymity through Generalization

    Anna Monreale;Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Fosca Giannotti

  • Movement data anonymity through generalization

    Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Fosca Giannotti;Anna Monreale

Frequent Co-Authors

Dino Pedreschi
Dino Pedreschi University of Pisa
Francesco Bonchi
Francesco Bonchi Institute for Scientific Interchange
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Natalia Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Paolo Ferragina
Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Paul Lukowicz
Paul Lukowicz German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Josep Domingo-Ferrer
Josep Domingo-Ferrer Rovira i Virgili University
János Kertész
János Kertész Central European University
Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási Northeastern University

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