GABRIELE TOLOMEI

Associate professor


email: gabriele.tolomei@uniroma1.it
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Gabriele Tolomei is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Padova, Italy. Prior to this, he was a Research Scientist at Yahoo Research in London, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Venezia Ca' Foscari, Italy, in 2011. His main research interests include web search and mining, (robust) machine learning, and computational advertising. He authored more than 30 papers, which appeared in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.


Research products

11573/1686336 - 2023 - The Dark Side of Explanations: Poisoning Recommender Systems with Counterfactual Examples
Chen, Ziheng; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Wang, Jia; Zhang, Yongfeng; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Taipei, Taiwan)
book: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - (9781450394086)

11573/1705607 - 2023 - FLIRT: Federated Learning for Information Retrieval
Pinelli, Fabio; Tolomei, Gabriele; Trappolini, Giovanni - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Taipei;Taiwan)
book: ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - ()

11573/1705588 - 2023 - Prompt-to-OS (P2OS): Revolutionizing Operating Systems and Human-Computer Interaction with Integrated AI Generative Models
Tolomei, Gabriele; Campagnano, Cesare; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Trappolini, Giovanni - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI) (Atlanta, GA, USA)
book: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI) - ()

11573/1690633 - 2023 - Sparse Vicious Attacks on Graph Neural Networks
Trappolini, Giovanni; Maiorca, Valentino; Severino, Silvio; Rodola, Emanuele; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Tolomei, Gabriele - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Piscataway NJ: IEEE) pp. 1-11 - issn: 2691-4581 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85173066368 (0)

11573/1667250 - 2022 - ISIDE: Proactively Assist University Students at Risk of Dropout
Bassetti, Enrico; Conti, Andrea; Panizzi, Emanuele; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Osaka, Japan)
book: IEEE International Conference on Big Data - (978-1-6654-8045-1)

11573/1667241 - 2022 - Explain the Explainer: Interpreting Model-Agnostic Counterfactual Explanations of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Chen, Z.; Silvestri, F.; Tolomei, G.; Wang, J.; Zhu, H.; Ahn, H. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Piscataway NJ: IEEE) pp. 1-15 - issn: 2691-4581 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85144015335 (3)

11573/1667244 - 2022 - ReLAX: Reinforcement Learning Agent Explainer for Arbitrary Predictive Models
Chen, Z.; Silvestri, F.; Wang, J.; Zhu, H.; Ahn, H.; Tolomei, G. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, usa)
book: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - (9781450392365)

11573/1667252 - 2022 - Turning Federated Learning Systems into Covert Channels
Costa, Gabriele; Pinelli, Fabio; Soderi, Simone; Tolomei, Gabriele - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE ACCESS (Piscataway NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) pp. 130642-130656 - issn: 2169-3536 - wos: WOS:000902053900001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85144798187 (3)

11573/1627349 - 2022 - CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks
Lucic, Ana; Ter Hoeve, Maartje; Tolomei, Gabriele; De Rijke, Maarten; Silvestri, Fabrizio - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (Virtual Conference)
book: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics - ()

11573/1657031 - 2022 - NEWRON: A New Generalization of the Artificial Neuron to Enhance the Interpretability of Neural Networks
Siciliano, Federico; Bucarelli, Maria Sofia; Tolomei, Gabriele; Silvestri, Fabrizio - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Padova; Italia)
book: IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks - (978-1-7281-8671-9)

11573/1667253 - 2022 - Editorial: Human-Interpretable Machine Learning
Tolomei, Gabriele; Pinelli, Fabio; Silvestri, Fabrizio - 01m Editorial/Introduzione in rivista
paper: FRONTIERS IN BIG DATA ([Lausanne]: Frontiers Media S.A.) pp. 956625- - issn: 2624-909X - wos: WOS:000820426600001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85133574079 (0)

11573/1338769 - 2021 - Generating actionable interpretations from ensembles of decision trees
Tolomei, Gabriele; Silvestri, Fabrizio - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING (IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated:445 Hoes Lane:Piscataway, NJ 08854:(800)701-4333, (732)981-0060, EMAIL: subscription-service@ieee.org, INTERNET: http://www.ieee.org, Fax: (732)981-9667) pp. 1540-1553 - issn: 1041-4347 - wos: WOS:000626617900014 (6) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85102239237 (7)

11573/1648624 - 2020 - Treant: training evasion-aware decision trees
Calzavara, S.; Lucchese, C.; Tolomei, G.; Abebe, S. A.; Orlando, S. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY (Kluwer Academic Publishers:Journals Department, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht Netherlands:011 31 78 6576050, EMAIL: frontoffice@wkap.nl, kluweronline@wkap.nl, INTERNET: http://www.kluwerlaw.com, Fax: 011 31 78 6576254) pp. 1390-1420 - issn: 1384-5810 - wos: WOS:000541682700001 (20) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85086857055 (25)

11573/1382676 - 2020 - Machine Learning for Web Vulnerability Detection: The Case of Cross-Site Request Forgery
Calzavara, Stefano; Conti, Mauro; Focardi, Riccardo; Rabitti, Alvise; Tolomei, Gabriele - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY (IEEE Computer Society.) pp. 2-10 - issn: 1540-7993 - wos: WOS:000536229600003 (8) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85078432497 (16)

11573/1338755 - 2019 - Adversarial training of gradient-boosted decision trees
Calzavara, S.; Lucchese, C.; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019 (Beijing; China)
book: International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings - (9781450369763)

11573/1382688 - 2019 - Mitch: A Machine Learning Approach to the Black-Box Detection of CSRF Vulnerabilities
Calzavara, Stefano; Conti, Mauro; Focardi, Riccardo; Rabitti, Alvise; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EURO S and P 2019 (Stockholm; Sweden)
book: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy - (978-172811147-6)

11573/1338785 - 2019 - You must have clicked on this ad by mistake! Data-driven identification of accidental clicks on mobile ads with applications to advertiser cost discounting and click-through rate prediction
Tolomei, Gabriele; Lalmas, Mounia; Farahat, Ayman; Haines, Andrew - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS () pp. 53-66 - issn: 2364-415X - wos: WOS:000590170500004 (9) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85088167456 (12)

11573/1382672 - 2018 - Advertising in the IoT era: vision and challenges
Aksu, Hidayet; Babun, Leonardo; Conti, Mauro; Tolomei, Gabriele; Selcuk Uluagac, A. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE (IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated:445 Hoes Lane:Piscataway, NJ 08854:(800)701-4333, (732)981-0060, EMAIL: subscription-service@ieee.org, INTERNET: http://www.ieee.org, Fax: (732)981-9667) pp. 138-144 - issn: 0163-6804 - wos: WOS:000450603000021 (42) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85048327185 (76)

11573/1382660 - 2018 - Spot the difference: your bucket is leaking. A novel methodology to expose A/B testing effortlessly
Conti, Mauro; Gangwal, Ankit; Sarada Prasad, Gochhayat; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 6th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, CNS 2018 (Beijing; China)
book: 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) - ()

11573/1382706 - 2017 - Interpretable predictions of tree-based ensembles via actionable feature tweaking
Tolomei, Gabriele; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Haines, Andrew; Lalmas, Mounia - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2017 (Halifax; Canada)
book: Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - (9781450348874)

11573/1382655 - 2016 - Learning to rank user queries to detect search tasks
Lucchese, Claudio; Maria Nardini, Franco; Orlando, Salvatore; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '16) (Newark; United States)
book: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '16) - (978-1-4503-4497-5)

11573/1382659 - 2015 - A supervised learning approach to protect client authentication on the web
Calzavara, Stefano; Tolomei, Gabriele; Casini, Andrea; Bugliesi, Michele; Orlando, Salvatore - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON THE WEB (New York, N.Y. : Association for Computing Machinery) pp. 1-30 - issn: 1559-1131 - wos: WOS:000356726300005 (13) - scopus: 2-s2.0-84932631843 (22)

11573/1382664 - 2015 - Promoting positive post-click experience for in-stream yahoo gemini users
Lalmas, Mounia; Lehmann, Janette; Shaked, Guy; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '15) (Sydney, NSW; Australia)
book: Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '15) - (978-1-4503-3664-2)

11573/1382685 - 2014 - Quite a mess in my cookie jar! Leveraging machine learning to protect web authentication
Calzavara, Stefano; Tolomei, Gabriele; Bugliesi, Michele; Orlando, Salvatore - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2014 (Seoul; South Korea)
book: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web - WWW '14 - (9781450327442)

11573/1382653 - 2013 - Mining lifecycle event logs for enhancing service-based applications
Dustdar, S; Leitner, P; Nardini, Fm; Silvestri, F; Tolomei, G - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Adaptive Web Services for Modular and Reusable Software Development: Tactics and Solution - ()

11573/1338715 - 2013 - Using clustering to improve the structure of natural language requirements documents
Ferrari, Alessio; Gnesi, Stefania; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (Essen; Germany)
book: Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality - ()

11573/1382663 - 2013 - A study on microblog and search engine user behaviors: how twitter trending topics help predict google hot queries
Giummolè, F.; Orlando, S.; Tolomei, G. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: HUMAN (USa: Academy of Science and Engineering (ASE)) pp. 195-209 - issn: - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1382702 - 2013 - Trending Topics on Twitter Improve the Prediction of Google Hot Queries
Giummole', Federica; Orlando, Salvatore; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: SocialCom2013 (Washington, DC, USA)
book: 2013 ASE/IEEE Int.l Conference on Social Computing - (9780769551371)

11573/1382673 - 2013 - Modeling and Predicting the Task-by-task Behavior of Search Engine Users
Lucchese, Claudio; Orlando, Salvatore; Perego, R.; Silvestri, F.; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval (Lisbon, Portugal)
book: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval - (9782905450098)

11573/1382680 - 2013 - Discovering tasks from search engine query logs
Lucchese, Claudio; Orlando, Salvatore; Raffaele, Perego; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Tolomei, Gabriele - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ACM / Association for Computing Machinery:1515 Broadway, 17th Floor:New York, NY 10036:(212)869-7440, EMAIL: acmhelp@hq.acm.org, INTERNET: http://www.acm.org, Fax: (212)944-1318) pp. 1-43 - issn: 1046-8188 - wos: WOS:000322829900004 (34) - scopus: 2-s2.0-84894573532 (48)

11573/1382700 - 2013 - SEED: A Framework for Extracting Social Events from Press News
Orlando, Salvatore; Pizzolon, Francesco; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2nd Int.l Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WOLE 2013) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
book: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '13 Companion - (9781450320382)

11573/1382692 - 2013 - Twitter anticipates bursts of requests for Wikipedia articles
Tolomei, Gabriele; Orlando, Salvatore; Diego, Ceccarelli; Lucchese, Claudio - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2103 workshop on Data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media - DUBMOD '13 (San Francisco, CA, USA)
book: Proceedings of the 2103 workshop on Data-driven user behavioral modelling and mining from social media - DUBMOD '13 - (9781450324175)

11573/1382669 - 2012 - Automatic analysis of multimodal requirements: a research preview
Bruni, E; Ferrari, A; Seyff, N; Tolomei, G. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 18th Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2012 (Essen; Germany)
book: Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality - (978-364228713-8)

11573/1382677 - 2012 - A clustering-based approach for discovering flaws in requirements specifications
Ferrari, A; Gnesi, S; Tolomei, G. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012 (Trento; Italy)
book: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on applied computing - (978-1-4503-0857-1)

11573/1382696 - 2011 - Improving Europeana search experience using query logs
Ceccarelli, D; Gordea, S; Lucchese, C; Nardini, F; Tolomei, G. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2011 (Berlin; Germany)
book: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - (978-364224468-1)

11573/1382654 - 2011 - Discovering Europeana Users' Search Behavior
Ceccarelli, D; Gordea, S; Lucchese, C; Nardini, Fm; Perego, G; Tolomei, G - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ERCIM NEWS (Le Chesnay: ERCIM.) pp. - - issn: 0926-4981 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1382704 - 2011 - Identifying task-based sessions in search engine query logs
Lucchese, Claudio; Orlando, Salvatore; Perego, R.; Silvestri, F.; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2011 (Hong Kong, China)
book: Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, WSDM 2011 - (9781450304931)

11573/1382690 - 2010 - Detecting task-based query sessions using collaborative knowledge
Lucchese, C.; Orlando, S.; Perego, R.; Silvestri, F.; Tolomei, G. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) (Toronto, ON; Canada)
book: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, Toronto, Canada, August 31 - September 3, 2010 (WI/IAT 2010) - (978-0-7695-4191-4)

11573/1382694 - 2010 - Towards a task-based search and recommender systems
Tolomei, Gabriele; Orlando, Salvatore; Silvestri, F. - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 2010 IEEE 26th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2010 (Long Beach, CA; United States)
book: Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering - (978-1-4244-6523-1)

11573/1382698 - 2009 - Challenges in designing an interest-based distributed aggregation of users in P2P systems
Mordacchini, Matteo; Dazzi, Patrizio; Tolomei, Gabriele; Baragalia, Ranieri; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Orlando, Salvatore - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, ICUMT 2009 ()
book: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, ICUMT 2009, 12-14 October 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia - ()

11573/1382681 - 2009 - Search the web x.0: mining and recommending web-mediated processes
Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2009) (New York City, NY (USA))
book: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems,RecSys 2009, New York, NY, USA, October 23-25, 2009 - (978-1-60558-435-5)

11573/1382684 - 2008 - SPRANKER: A Discovery Tool to Rank Service Providers Using Quality of Experience
Laforenza, D; Nardini, Fm; Silvestri, F; Tolomei, G - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ERCIM NEWS (Le Chesnay: ERCIM.) pp. - - issn: 0926-4981 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1382668 - 2006 - An open standard solution for domotic interoperability
Miori, V; Tarrini, L; Manca, M; Tolomei, G - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (IEEE / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated:445 Hoes Lane:Piscataway, NJ 08854:(800)701-4333, (732)981-0060, EMAIL: subscription-service@ieee.org, INTERNET: http://www.ieee.org, Fax: (732)981-9667) pp. 97-103 - issn: 0098-3063 - wos: WOS:000235946200016 (46) - scopus: 2-s2.0-33644994831 (71)

11573/1382708 - 2006 - DomoNet: a framework and a prototype for interoperability of domotic middlewares based on XML and Web Services
Miori, Vittorio; Tarrini, Luca; Manca Maurizio, Federico; Tolomei, Gabriele - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: IEEE - International Conference on Consumer Electronics (Las Vegas, NV (U.S.A.))
book: Proceedings of the International Conference on Consumer Electronics - IEEE - (0-7803-9459-3)

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