Publications

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Journal Articles

Towards Automatic Burrow Detection for Sustainable River Levees

Published in Sustainability, 2026

In this paper, we design, implement, and test a novel AI-based solution that, starting with drone-acquired imagery, allows the user to automatically identify and map potentially dangerous burrows in the target area, and lays the basis for the digitization and systematic conservation of such information, to be later used for intervention and planning.

Recommended citation: Borgatti, Lisa, Alberto Cervellati, Monica Ghirotti, Davide Martinucci, Giacomo Pampalone, Alberto Paparella, Stefano Parodi, Federica Pellegrini, Edoardo Ponsanesi, Guido Sciavicco, Valente, Massimo, and Zambrini, Roberta. (2026)."Towards Automatic Burrow Detection for Sustainable River Levees." Sustainability. 18(4).
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Precipitation nowcasting with generative diffusion models

Published in Applied Intelligence, 2024

In our study, we focus on a specific subset of the ERA-5 dataset, which includes hourly data pertaining to Central Europe from the years 2016 to 2021. Within this context, we examine the efficacy of diffusion models in handling the task of precipitation nowcasting, with a lead time of 1 to 3 hours.

Recommended citation: Asperti, Andrea, Merizzi, Fabio, Paparella, Alberto, Pedrazzi, Giorgio, Angelinelli, Matteo, and Colamonaco, Stefano. (2024). "Precipitation nowcasting with generative diffusion models." Applied Intelligence. 55(1).
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Conference Papers

Assessing the (In)Ability of LLMs to Reason in Interval Temporal Logic

Accepted for publication in 32nd International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2025), London, UK, 27-29 August 2025, 2025

In this paper, we tackle the problem of assessing the ability of LLMs to reason about interval-based statements in the form of validity recognition.

Recommended citation: Bellodi, Pietro, Casavecchia, Pietro, Paparella, Alberto, Sciavicco, Guido, and Stan, Eduard I. (2025). "Assessing the (In)Ability of LLMs to Reason in Interval Temporal Logic." 32nd International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2025), London, UK, 27-29 August 2025. 1(1).
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Generating and counting finite FLew-chains

Accepted for publication in 33rd IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2025), Montpellier, France, 06-09 July 2025, 2025

In this paper we provide both an accessible and open-source algorithmic tool for generating and counting FLew-chains and an explicit numerical bound.

Recommended citation: Badia, Guillermo, Monego, Riccardo, Noguera, Carles, Paparella, Alberto, and Sciavicco, Guido. (2025). "Generating and counting finite FLew-chains." 33rd IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2025), Montpellier, France, 06-09 July 2025. 1(1).
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Many-Expert Decision Trees

Published in 6th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Formal Verification, Logic, Automata, and Synthesis (OVERLAY 2024), Bolzano, Italy, 28-29 November 2024, 2024

Taking inspiration from the literature fuzzy decision trees, and leveraging many-valued logics, we propose a novel, and more general variety of decision trees.

Recommended citation: Badia, Guillermo, Noguera, Carles, Paparella, Alberto, and Sciavicco, Guido. (2024). "Many-Expert Decision Trees." 6th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Formal Verification, Logic, Automata, and Synthesis (OVERLAY 2024), Bolzano, Italy, 28-39 November 2024. 1(1).
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Fitting’s Style Many-Valued Interval Temporal Logic Tableau System: Theory and Implementation

Published in 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024), Montpellier, France, 28-30 October 2024, 2024

Theory and implementation of a Fitting’s style tableau system for Many-Valued Interval Temporal Logic.

Recommended citation: Badia, Guillermo, Noguera, Carles, Paparella, Alberto, Sciavicco, Guido, and Stan, Eduard I. (2024). "Fitting's Style Many-Valued Interval Temporal Logic Tableau System: Theory and Implementation." 31st International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2024), Montpellier, France, 28-30 October 2024. 1(1).
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Thesis

Diffusion generative models for weather forecasting

Published in Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in Informatica [LM-DM270], 2023

This thesis is dedicated to investigating the application of diffusion models in the realm of weather forecasting, with a specific focus on precipitation nowcasting.

Recommended citation: Paparella, Alberto (2023) Diffusion generative models for weather forecasting. [Laurea magistrale], Università di Bologna, Corso di Studio in Informatica [LM-DM270].
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A Laravel package for systematic construction of symbolic intelligent systems

Published in Università di Ferrara, Corso di Studio in Informatica [L-31], 2021

Pitòn is a Laravel package which offers machine learning utilities for solving hierarchically-arranged problems, where the available data is stored in a MySQL database, through the creation of rule-based models.

Recommended citation: Paparella, Alberto (2021) A Laravel package for systematic construction of symbolic intelligent systems. [Laurea triennale], Università di Ferrara, Corso di Studio in Informatica [L-31].
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