Cresci, S., La Polla, M., and Tesconi, M. (2017). Il fenomeno dei Fake Follower in Twitter. In Andretta, M., and Bracciale, R., (eds.), Social Media Campaigning. Le elezioni regionali in #Toscana2015, 141-162. Pisa University Press.

Cresci, S., Del Vigna, F., and Tesconi, M. (2017). I Big Data nella ricerca politica e sociale. In Andretta, M., and Bracciale, R., (eds.), Social Media Campaigning. Le elezioni regionali in #Toscana2015, 113-140. Pisa University Press.

Cresci, S., Di Pietro, R., Petrocchi, M., Spognardi, A., and Tesconi, M. (2017, April). The paradigm-shift of social spambots: Evidence, theories, and tools for the arms race. WWW Companion 2017. ACM.

Avvenuti, M., Bellomo, S., Cresci, S., La Polla, M. N., and Tesconi, M. (2017, April). Hybrid crowdsensing: A novel paradigm to combine the strengths of opportunistic and participatory crowdsensing. WWW Companion 2017. ACM.

Cresci, S., Di Pietro, R., Petrocchi, M., Spognardi, A., and Tesconi, M. (2017, October). Exploiting digital DNA for the analysis of similarities in Twitter behaviours. 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics. IEEE.

Vadicamo, L., Carrara, F., Falchi, F., Cresci, S., Tesconi, M., Cimino, A., and Dell’Orletta, F. (2017, October). Cross-Media Learning for Image Sentiment Analysis in the Wild. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. IEEE.

Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Del Vigna, F., and Tesconi, M. (2017). On the need of opening up crowdsourced emergency management systems. AI & SOCIETY, 1-6. Springer.

Cresci, S., Avvenuti, M., La Polla, M., Meletti, C., and Tesconi, M. (2017). Nowcasting of Earthquake Consequences using Big Social Data. IEEE Internet Computing. IEEE.

Cresci, S., Di Pietro, R., Petrocchi, M., Spognardi, A., and Tesconi, M. (2017). Social Fingerprinting: detection of spambot groups through DNA-inspired behavioral modeling. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. IEEE.

S. Saponara, G. Ciarpi, "Design and Experimental Measurement of EMI Reduction Techniques for Integrated Switching DC/DC Converters", IEEE Canadian Journal of Electric and Computer Enginnering, vol. 40, pp. 116-127, Spring 2017

Abstract—This paper presents the design and verification of electromagnetic interference (EMI) reduction techniques for switching dc/dc converters. A 48-V dc/dc converter for electric/hybrid cars is considered as an application case study. An EMI filter...

S. Saponara, G. Ciarpi, "IC Design and Measurement of an Inductorless 48 V DC/DC Converter in Low-Cost CMOS Technology Facing Harsh Environment", IEEE Transaction on Circuit and System-I: Regular Paper, June 2017

Abstract— With reference to 48 V systems, used in electric and hybrid vehicles and for telecom and networking power supply, this paper presents the circuit/transistor-level design, implementation and test of an inductorless DC/DC converter. Its...

C. Cascone (Polimi), N. Bonelli, L. Bianchi, A. Capone, B. Sanso’: “Towards Approximate Fair Bandwidth Sharing via Dynamic Priority Queuing”, IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2017

We tackle the problem of a network switch enforcing fair bandwidth sharing of the same link among many TCP-like senders. Most of the mechanisms to solve this problem are based on complex scheduling algorithms, whose feasibility becomes very expensive...

N. Bonelli, G. Procissi, D. Sanvito (Polimi) and Roberto Bifulco (NEC) “The acceleration of OfSoftSwitch”, IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, 2017

The emerging trend of network devices with configurable data planes is pushing software switches as convenient playgrounds for experimenting novel programming paradigms and abstractions. OfSoftSwitch is a popular tool for carrying on such...

N. Bonelli, S. Giordano, G. Procissi: "Enabling Packet Fan--Out in the libpcap Library for Parallel Traffic Processing", IEEE ComSoc, TMA Conference 2017 - Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis

The large availability of multi--gigabit network cards for commodity PCs requires network applications to potentially cope with high volumes of traffic. However, computation intensive operations may not catch up with high traffic rates and need to be...

N. Bonelli, S. Giordano, G. Procissi: "A Pipeline Functional Language for Stateful Packet Processing", IEEE International Workshop on NEtwork Accelerated FunctIOns - NEAF-IO 2017

The evolution of commodity PCs towards multi– core processing platforms equipped with high–speed network interfaces makes them reasonable and cost effective targets for the implementation of generic network functions. In addition, the availability of...

J. P. Clark, E. Battaglia, M. Bianchi, M. G. Catalano, A. Bicchi, M. K. O'Malley (2017, June). “Aperture feedback for the Pisa/IIT SoftHand with The Rice Haptic Rocker.”. In World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2017 IEEE

This demonstration allows attendees to experience skin stretch as haptic feedback in conjunction with a prosthetic hand to handle and complete tasks with everyday objects. The closure position of the Pisa/IIT SoftHand is indicated to the user through...

E. Battaglia, M. G. Catalano, G. Grioli, M. Bianchi, A. Bicchi. “ExoSense: measuring manipulation in a wearable manner”. Submitted to 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Grasp and manipulation is a complex task, deceivingly simple to accomplish for humans in everyday life, yet challenging when it has to be implemented in a robotic hand. There is a trend in literature to use information obtained from studies on human...

G. Averta, C. Della Santina, E. Battaglia, S. Ciotti, V. Arapi, S. Fani, M. Bianchi, "From humans to robots: the role of cutaneous impairment in human environmental constraint exploitation to inform the design of robotic hands", 2017 9th Internationa

Human hands are capable of a variety of movements, thanks to their extraordinary biomechanical structure and relying on the richness of human tactile information. Recently, soft robotic hands have opened exciting possibilities and, at the same time, new...

E. Battaglia, J. P. Clark, M. Bianchi, M. G. Catalano, A. Bicchi, M. K. O'Malley (2017, June). “The Rice Haptic Rocker: skin stretch haptic feedback with the Pisa/IIT SoftHand”. In World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2017 IEEE (pp. 7-12), Best Paper and

Myoelectric prostheses have seen increased application in clinical practice and research, due to their potential for good functionality and versatility. Yet, myoelectric prostheses still suffer from a lack of intuitive control and haptic feedback, which...

S. Casini, V. Tincani, G. Averta, M. Poggiani, C. Della Santina, E. Battaglia, M. G. Catalano, M. Bianchi, G. Grioli, A. Bicchi (2017, May). “Design of an under-actuated wrist based on adaptive synergies”, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robot

An effective robotic wrist represents a key enabling element in robotic manipulation, especially in prosthetics. In this paper, we propose an under-actuated wrist system, which is also adaptable and allows to implement different under-actuation schemes....