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Recommender Systems, Credit Scoring, Fraud Detection, Blockchain-based Applications Security
Italy

Biography

My research involves the data mining, the pattern recognition, the artificial intelligence, and
the Security areas. It is mainly oriented toward the design and development of new approaches
for the Recommender Systems, the Credit Scoring Systems, and the Fraud Detection Systems.
It also involves the security analysis of the blockchain-based applications, such us the Bitcoin
and Ethereum cryptocurrencies.

Activities

Employment (1)

University of Cagliari: Cagliari, IT

2016 to present | Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Cagliari: Cagliari, IT

2013 to 2016 | PhD in Computer Science (Department of Mathematics and Information Technology)
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University of Cagliari: Cagliari, IT

2010 to 2012 | Master Degree in Computer Science (Department of Mathematics and Information Technology)
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University of Cagliari: Cagliari, IT

2006 to 2009 | Bachelor Degree in Computer Science (Department of Mathematics and Information Technology)
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Works (49)

Enhancing EEG-Based User Verification with a Normalized Neural Network Ensemble Approach

2025 | Book chapter
Contributors: Roberto Saia; Riccardo Balia; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Livio Pompianu; Salvatore Carta; Alessia Pisu
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HUMAD 2024: International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation

2024-06-27 | Conference paper
Contributors: Simone Balloccu; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Livio Pompianu; Roberto Saia; Angelo Antonio Salatino
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RoadSense3D: A Framework for Roadside Monocular 3D Object Detection

2024-06-27 | Conference paper
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Modesto Castrillón-Santana; Mirko Marras; Sondos Mohamed; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Roberto Saia; Marco Sau; Walter Zimmer
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Investigating the Effectiveness of 3D Monocular Object Detection Methods for Roadside Scenarios

2024-04-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Silvio Barra; Mirko Marras; Sondos Mohamed; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Roberto Saia
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Can Existing 3D Monocular Object Detection Methods Work in Roadside Contexts? A Reproducibility Study

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Silvio Barra; Mirko Marras; Sondos Mohamed; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Roberto Saia
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Influencing brain waves by evoked potentials as biometric approach: taking stock of the last six years of research

Neural Computing and Applications
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberto Saia; Salvatore Carta; Gianni Fenu; Livio Pompianu
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Credit scoring by leveraging an ensemble stochastic criterion in a transformed feature space

Progress in Artificial Intelligence
2021-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Anselmo Ferreira; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia
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A Blockchain-Based Distributed Paradigm to Secure Localization Services

Sensors
2021-10-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberto Saia; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Livio Pompianu; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Gianni Fenu
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Wireless Internet, Multimedia, and Artificial Intelligence: New Applications and Infrastructures

Future Internet
2021-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberto Saia; Salvatore Carta; Olaf Bergmann
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A combined entropy-based approach for a proactive credit scoring

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073530311

Contributors: Carta, S.; Ferreira, A.; Reforgiato Recupero, D.; Saia, M.; Saia, R.
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A General Approach for Risk Controlled Trading Based on Machine Learning and Statistical Arbitrage

2020 | Book chapter
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia; Maria Madalina Stanciu
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Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: Identification, analysis, and impact

Future Generation Computer Systems
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85070691587

Contributors: Bartoletti, M.; Carta, S.; Cimoli, T.; Saia, R.
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A Local Feature Engineering Strategy to Improve Network Anomaly Detection

Future Internet
2020-10-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia
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Popularity Prediction of Instagram Posts

Information
2020-09-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia; Giovanni Usai
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Popularity Prediction of Instagram Posts

2020-08-30 | Other
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia; Giovanni Usai
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Analysis of a Consensus Protocol for Extending Consistent Subchains on the Bitcoin Blockchain

Computation
2020-07-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Riccardo Longo; Alessandro Sebastian Podda; Roberto Saia
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A discretized enriched technique to enhance machine learning performance in credit scoring

IC3K 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85074213422

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.; Recupero, D.R.; Fenu, G.; Saia, M.
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A discretized extended feature space (DEFS) model to improve the anomaly detection performance in network intrusion detection systems

IC3K 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85074210639

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.; Recupero, D.R.; Fenu, G.; Stanciu, M.M.
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A supervised multi-class multi-label word embeddings approach for toxic comment classification

IC3K 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85074189002

Contributors: Carta, S.; Corriga, A.; Mulas, R.; Recupero, D.R.; Saia, R.
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Evaluating the benefits of using proactive transformed-domain-based techniques in fraud detection tasks

Future Generation Computer Systems
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85055732465

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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Internet of entities (IoE): A blockchain-based distributed paradigm for data exchange between wireless-based devices

SENSORNETS 2019 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sensor Networks
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85064356813

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.; Recupero, D.R.; Fenu, G.
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Introducing a vector space model to perform a proactive credit scoring

Communications in Computer and Information Science
2019 | Book
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2-s2.0-85057141264

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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A Holistic Auto-Configurable Ensemble Machine Learning Strategy for Financial Trading

Computation
2019-11-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Andrea Corriga; Anselmo Ferreira; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia
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Fraud detection for E-commerce transactions by employing a prudential Multiple Consensus model

Journal of Information Security and Applications
2019-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Gianni Fenu; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia
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A probabilistic-driven ensemble approach to perform event classification in intrusion detection system

IC3K 2018 - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85058998023

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.; Recupero, D.R.
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A wavelet-based data analysis to credit scoring

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85048431744

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.
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Unbalanced data classification in fraud detection by introducing a multidimensional space analysis

IoTBDS 2018 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security
2018 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85051987783

Contributors: Saia, R.
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Forecasting E-Commerce Products Prices by Combining an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model and Google Trends Data

Future Internet
2018-12-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Salvatore Carta; Andrea Medda; Alessio Pili; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Roberto Saia
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A discrete wavelet transform approach to fraud detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2017 | Book
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2-s2.0-85028472655

Contributors: Saia, R.
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A fourier spectral pattern analysis to design credit scoring models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85048359912

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A frequency-domain-based pattern mining for credit card fraud detection

IoTBDS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85024408719

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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Evaluating credit card transactions in the frequency domain for a proactive fraud detection approach

ICETE 2017 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85029443021

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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Exploiting the evaluation frequency of the items to enhance the recommendation accuracy

Proceedings - 2016 Global Summit on Computer and Information Technology, GSCIT 2016
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85027470466

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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Popularity Does Not Always Mean Triviality: Introduction of Popularity Criteria to Improve the Accuracy of a Recommender System

Journal of Computers
2017 | Journal article
Contributors: Saia, Roberto; Boratto, Ludovico; Carta, Salvatore
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Semantics-aware content-based recommender systems: Design and architecture guidelines

Neurocomputing
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85014758704

Contributors: Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.; Saia, R.
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A class-based strategy to user behavior modeling in recommender systems

Studies in Computational Intelligence
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-84991785910

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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A linear-dependence-based approach to design proactive credit scoring models

IC3K 2016 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85006972821

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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A semantic approach to remove incoherent items from a user profile and improve the accuracy of a recommender system

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84964561202

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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An entropy based algorithm for credit scoring

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-84998727379

Contributors: Saia, R.; Carta, S.
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Binary sieves: Toward a semantic approach to user segmentation for behavioral targeting

Future Generation Computer Systems
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84992312404

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.
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Exploiting a Determinant-based Metric to Evaluate a Word-embeddings Matrix of Items

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
2016 | Conference paper
Contributors: Boratto, Ludovico; Carta, Salvatore; Fenu, Gianni; Saia, Roberto
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Exploiting a Determinant-Based Metric to Evaluate a Word-Embeddings Matrix of Items

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85015226304

Contributors: Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.; Saia, R.
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Improving the accuracy of latent-space-based recommender systems by introducing a cut-off criterion

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84996671499

Contributors: Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Saia, R.
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Representing items as word-embedding vectors and generating recommendations by measuring their linear independence

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84991112199

Contributors: Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.; Saia, R.
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Using neural word embeddings to model user behavior and detect user segments

Knowledge-Based Systems
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84969642571

Contributors: Boratto, L.; Carta, S.; Fenu, G.; Saia, R.
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A Latent Semantic Pattern Recognition Strategy for an Untrivial Targeted Advertising

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, BigData Congress 2015
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84959526780

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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A new perspective on recommender systems: A class path information model

Proceedings of the 2015 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2015
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84957837570

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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Multiple behavioral models: A divide and conquer strategy to fraud detection in financial data streams

IC3K 2015 - Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84960842947

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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Semantic coherence-based user profile modeling in the recommender systems context

KDIR 2014 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
2014 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84909979297

Contributors: Saia, R.; Boratto, L.; Carta, S.
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