11 papers
Automated Compliance Mapping in Cloud Security with Domain-Adapted Sentence Transformers
John Bianchi, Luca Petrillo, Fabio Martinelli +1
Mapping cloud security controls to technical metrics is currently a manual process. This paper proposes domain adaptation of Sentence Transformer models to automate it. We build a…
Automatic Association of Cloud Security Controls and Quantifiable Metrics for Certification
John Bianchi, Shuya Dong, Luca Petrillo +1
The draft candidate European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS) defines security controls that must be associated with measurable metrics to assess compli…
BotVerse: Real-Time Event-Driven Simulation of Social Agents
Edoardo Allegrini, Edoardo Di Paolo, Angelo Spognardi +1
BotVerse is a scalable, event-driven framework for high-fidelity social simulation using LLM-based agents. It addresses the ethical risks of studying autonomous agents on live netw…
A Behavioural Analysis of Credulous Twitter Users
Alessandro Balestrucci, Rocco De Nicola, Marinella Petrocchi +1
Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, people can know facts and events that otherwise would have been silenced. However, social media significantly contribute also to f…
Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research
Stefano Cresci, Kai-Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi +3
Research on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation. Yet, social bot research is plagued by widespre…
Evaluating the Simulation of Human Personality-Driven Susceptibility to Misinformation with LLMs
Manuel Pratelli, Marinella Petrocchi
Large language models (LLMs) make it possible to generate synthetic behavioural data at scale, offering an ethical and low-cost alternative to human experiments. Whether such data…