publications

2026

1. Towards Neuro-Symbolic Federated Tree Learning

   Andrea Augello, Stefano Merendino, Alessandra De Paola, and 1 more author

   In 2026 12th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2026

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2026_towards,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Merendino, Stefano and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {2026 12th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
     title = {Towards Neuro-Symbolic Federated Tree Learning},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {194-199},
     issn = {2576-3555},
     isbn = {979-8-3195-2077-7},
     doi = {10.1109/CoDIT70676.2026.11631225},
   }

2. Resource-Aware Federated Learning for Malware Detection on Smart Devices

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp), 2026

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2026_resourceaware,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp)},
     title = {Resource-Aware Federated Learning for Malware Detection on Smart Devices},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {48-55},
     keywords = {Modeling;Malware;Printing;Training;Federated learning;Signal detection;Conferences;Servers;Timing;Operating systems;malware detection;federated learning;explainable AI;edge computing},
     doi = {10.1109/SmartComp69968.2026.00019},
     issn = {2693-8340 }
   }

3. Federated learning framework with battery-aware clients

   Andrea Augello, Priyesh Ranjan, Ashish Gupta, and 3 more authors

   In Federated Learning, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @incollection{augello_2026_buyya,
     title = {Federated learning framework with battery-aware clients},
     editor = {Buyya, Rajkumar and Mukherjee, Anwesha and Das, Sajal K.},
     booktitle = {Federated Learning},
     publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
     pages = {63-82},
     year = {2026},
     isbn = {978-0-443-44433-3},
     doi = {10.1016/B978-0-44-344433-3.00010-1},
     url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780443444333000101},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Ranjan, Priyesh and Gupta, Ashish and Corò, Federico and {Lo Re}, Giuseppe and Das, Sajal K.}
   }

4. Federated Learning for Robust Malware Detection under Noisy Labels and Malicious Sybils

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity, ITASEC & SERICS, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2026_sybils,
     title = {Federated Learning for Robust Malware Detection under Noisy Labels and Malicious Sybils},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on
     		  Cybersecurity, ITASEC \& SERICS},
     issn = {16130073},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS},
     volume = {4198},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4198/paper5.pdf},
     year = {2026}
   }

5. FairRFL: Fair and Robust Federated Learning in the Presence of Selfish Clients

   Andrea Augello, Ashish Gupta, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello2026fairrfl,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gupta, Ashish and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Das, Sajal K.},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing},
     title = {FairRFL: Fair and Robust Federated Learning in the Presence of Selfish Clients},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {14},
     number = {1},
     issn = {2168-6750},
     pages = {316-331},
     doi = {10.1109/TETC.2026.3661199},
   }

6. TrustBoot: A Trust Bootstrapping Framework for Semi-Supervised Malware Detection

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello2026trustboot,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and {De Paola}, Alessandra and {Lo Re}, Giuseppe},
     title = {TrustBoot: A Trust Bootstrapping Framework for Semi-Supervised Malware Detection},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART},
     year = {2026},
     pages = {1936-1947},
     publisher = {SciTePress},
     organization = {INSTICC},
     doi = {10.5220/0014465700004052},
     isbn = {978-989-758-796-2},
     issn = {2184-433X}
   }

2025

1. BatteryFL: Battery-Aware Federated Learning

   Andrea Augello, Priyesh Ranjan, Ashish Gupta, and 3 more authors

   In GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello2025batteryfl,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Ranjan, Priyesh and Gupta, Ashish and Corò, Federico and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Das, Sajal K.},
     booktitle = {GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference},
     title = {BatteryFL: Battery-Aware Federated Learning},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {1938-1943},
     isbn = {979-8-3315-7781-0},
     doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM59602.2025.11432132}
   }

2. Federated hyperdimensional ensembles for mobile malware detection

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025 colocated with the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by CINI (Ital-IA 2025) , 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2025_fedhdc,
     title = {Federated hyperdimensional ensembles for mobile malware detection},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Zangara, Gioacchino},
     booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings -  Joint Proceedings of the Thematic Workshops at Ital-IA 2025 colocated with the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by CINI (Ital-IA 2025) },
     issn = {16130073},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS},
     volume = {4121},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4121/Ital-IA_2025_paper_44.pdf},
     year = {2025}
   }

3. Multi-Objective Optimization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Three-Dimensional Paths for Air Quality Monitoring and Environmental Sensing

   Andrea Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   IEEE Access, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello_2025_uav,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gaglio, Salvatore and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Peri, Daniele},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     title = {Multi-Objective Optimization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
     		  Three-Dimensional Paths for Air Quality Monitoring and
     		  Environmental Sensing},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {13},
     number = {},
     issn = {2169-3536},
     pages = {187504-187517},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3626685}
   }

4. A Stackelberg Approach to Federated Learning for Malware Detection

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, Marena Jestin, and 1 more author

   In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity, ITASEC & SERICS, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2025_stackelberg,
     title = {A Stackelberg Approach to Federated Learning for Malware
     		  Detection},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Jestin, Marena and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on
     		  Cybersecurity, ITASEC \& SERICS},
     issn = {16130073},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS},
     volume = {3962},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3962/paper36.pdf},
     year = {2025}
   }

5. SF-AE: Split Federated Autoencoder for Unsupervised IoT Intrusion Detection

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, Domenico Giosuè, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2025_sfae,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Giosu{\`e}, Domenico and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     editor = {Yang, Xin-She and Sherratt, Simon and Dey, Nilanjan and Joshi, Amit},
     title = {{SF-AE}: Split Federated Autoencoder for Unsupervised IoT
     		  Intrusion Detection},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information
     		  and Communication Technology},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1007/978-981-96-6432-0_28},
     publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
     address = {Singapore},
     pages = {371--381},
     isbn = {978-981-96-6432-0}
   }

6. Hybrid Multilevel Detection of Mobile Devices Malware Under Concept Drift

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   Journal of Network and Systems Management, Feb 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello_2025_multilevel,
     title = {Hybrid Multilevel Detection of Mobile Devices Malware
     		  Under Concept Drift},
     volume = {33},
     issn = {1573-7705},
     doi = {10.1007/s10922-025-09906-3},
     number = {2},
     journal = {Journal of Network and Systems Management},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     year = {2025},
     month = feb,
     pages = {36},
   }

7. PhD Thesis

   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CYBERSECURITY IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

   Andrea Augello

   2025
8. M2FD: Mobile malware federated detection under concept drift

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   Computers & Security, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello_2025_m2fd,
     title = {M2FD: Mobile malware federated detection under concept
     		  drift},
     issn = {0167-4048},
     doi = {10.1016/j.cose.2025.104361},
     journal = {Computers \& Security},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {152},
     pages = {104361},
   }

9. HDDroid: Federated Hyperdimensional Computing for Mobile Malware Detection

   Andrea Augello, Alessandra De Paola, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity, ITASEC & SERICS, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2025_hddroid,
     title = {HDDroid: Federated Hyperdimensional Computing for Mobile
     		  Malware Detection},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and De Paola, Alessandra and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Menager, Antoine},
     booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings - Joint National Conference on
     		  Cybersecurity, ITASEC \& SERICS},
     issn = {16130073},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS},
     volume = {3962},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3962/paper13.pdf},
     year = {2025}
   }

2024

1. Tackling Selfish Clients in Federated Learning

   Andrea Augello, Ashish Gupta, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   In 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2024_tackling,
     title = {Tackling Selfish Clients in Federated Learning},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gupta, Ashish and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Das, Sajal K},
     booktitle = {27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI
     		  2024)},
     pages = {1888--1895},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.3233/FAIA240702},
     publisher = {IOS Press},
     isbn = {978-1-64368-548-9}
   }

2. NEP-IDS: a Network Intrusion Detection System Based on Entropy Prediction Error

   Andrea Augello, Giuseppe Lo Re, Daniele Peri, and 1 more author

   In 2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2024_nepids,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Peri, Daniele and Thiyagalingam, Partheepan},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks
     		  (LCN)},
     title = {NEP-IDS: a Network Intrusion Detection System Based on
     		  Entropy Prediction Error},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {1-9},
     doi = {10.1109/LCN60385.2024.10639755},
     isbn = {979-8-3503-8800-8}
   }

2023

1. DCFL: Dynamic Clustered Federated Learning under Differential Privacy Settings

   Andrea Augello, Giulio Falzone, and Giuseppe Lo Re

   In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello_2023_dcfl,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Falzone, Giulio and Lo Re, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing
     		  and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events
     		  (PerCom Workshops)},
     title = {{DCFL}: {D}ynamic {C}lustered {F}ederated {L}earning under
     		  {D}ifferential {P}rivacy {S}ettings},
     year = {2023},
     pages = {614-619},
     doi = {10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150285},
     isbn = {978-1-6654-5381-3}
   }

2022

1. Time-Constrained Node Visit Planning for Collaborative UAV-WSN Distributed Applications

   Andrea Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   Sensors, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello_2022_time,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gaglio, Salvatore and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Peri, Daniele},
     title = {{T}ime-{C}onstrained {N}ode {V}isit {P}lanning for
     		  {C}ollaborative {UAV}-{WSN} {D}istributed {A}pplications},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {22},
     year = {2022},
     number = {14},
     article-number = {5298},
     issn = {1424-8220},
     doi = {10.3390/s22145298}
   }

2. Modeling and Verification of Symbolic Distributed Applications Through an Intelligent Monitoring Agent

   Andrea Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   IEEE Access, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @article{augello_2022_modeling,
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gaglio, Salvatore and Re, Giuseppe Lo and Peri, Daniele},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     title = {{M}odeling and {V}erification of {S}ymbolic {D}istributed
     		  {A}pplications {T}hrough an {I}ntelligent {M}onitoring
     		  {A}gent},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {10},
     number = {},
     pages = {94443-94457},
     issn = {2169-3536},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3204043}
   }

2021

1. Distributed Symbolic Network Quality Assessment for Resource-constrained Devices

   Andrea Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   In IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello2021b,
     title = {{D}istributed {S}ymbolic {N}etwork {Q}uality {A}ssessment
     		  for {R}esource-constrained {D}evices},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and
     		  Factory Automation, ETFA},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {2021-September},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gaglio, Salvatore and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Peri, Daniele},
     doi = {10.1109/ETFA45728.2021.9613584},
     isbn = {978-1-7281-2989-1}
   }

2. Simulation and Test of UAV Tasks with Resource-Constrained Hardware in the Loop

   Andrea Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2021, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello2021,
     title = {{S}imulation and {T}est of {UAV} {T}asks with
     		  {R}esource-{C}onstrained {H}ardware in the {L}oop},
     booktitle = {Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart
     		  Computing, SMARTCOMP 2021},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {347-352},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and Gaglio, Salvatore and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Peri, Daniele},
     doi = {10.1109/SMARTCOMP52413.2021.00071},
     isbn = {978-1-6654-1252-0}
   }

2020

1. Verification of Symbolic Distributed Protocols for Networked Embedded Devices

   Andrea Augello, Rosolino D’Antoni, Salvatore Gaglio, and 3 more authors

   In IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{augello2020,
     title = {{V}erification of {S}ymbolic {D}istributed {P}rotocols for
     		  {N}etworked {E}mbedded {D}evices},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and
     		  Factory Automation, ETFA},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {2020-September},
     pages = {1177-1180},
     author = {Augello, Andrea and D{'}Antoni, Rosolino and Gaglio, Salvatore and Lo Re, Giuseppe and Martorella, Gloria and Peri, Daniele},
     doi = {10.1109/ETFA46521.2020.9212134},
     isbn = {978-1-7281-8956-7}
   }