Publications | Andrea Rafanelli

Journal

Combining Neural Empathy-Aware Behavior Trees with Knowledge Graphs for Affective Human-AI Teaming

Glenda Amaral, Stefania Costantini, Giovanni De Gasperis, Lorenzo De Lauretis, Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Francesco Gullo, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{11293217,
  author = {Amaral, Glenda and Costantini, Stefania and De Gasperis, Giovanni and De Lauretis, Lorenzo and Dell'Acqua, Pierangelo and Guizzardi, Giancarlo and Gullo, Francesco and Rafanelli, Andrea},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing},
  title = {Combining Neural Empathy-Aware Behavior Trees with Knowledge Graphs for Affective Human-AI Teaming},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-17},
  keywords = {Artificial intelligence;Trees (botanical);Emotion recognition;Knowledge graphs;Affective computing;Computer architecture;Decision making;Computational modeling;Physiology;Medical services;Artificial Intelligence;Affective Computing;Theory of Mind;Human-AI Teaming;Behavior Tree;Knowledge Graph;Trustworthy AI;Responsible AI},
  doi = {10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3641641}
}

From detection to deployment: AI for culprit vessel identification and the path to practice

Andrea Rafanelli, Martijn C Schut, and Folkert W Asselbergs

BMJ Digital Health & AI, Aug 2025

DOI Bib

@article{Rafanelli2025-jf,
  title = {From detection to deployment: {AI} for culprit vessel
                identification and the path to practice},
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea and Schut, Martijn C and Asselbergs, Folkert W},
  journal = {BMJ Digital Health \& AI},
  volume = {1},
  number = {1},
  month = aug,
  year = {2025},
  doi = https://bmjdigitalhealth.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000115
}

Symbolic Knowledge Injection meets Intelligent Agents: QoS metrics and experiments

Andrea Agiollo, Andrea Rafanelli, Matteo Magnini, Giovanni Ciatto, and Andrea Omicini

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Jun 2023

DOI Bib

@article{skiqos-jaamas37,
  author = {Agiollo, Andrea and Rafanelli, Andrea and Magnini, Matteo and Ciatto, Giovanni and Omicini, Andrea},
  doi = {10.1007/s10458-023-09609-6},
  iris = {11585/932553},
  issn = {1573-7454},
  journal = {Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  keywords = {symbolic knowledge injection, quality of service, efficiency, robustness, PSyKI},
  month = jun,
  number = {2},
  numpages = {30},
  pages = {27:1-27:30},
  scholar = {6493335879803556297},
  scopus = {2-s2.0-85162972232},
  semanticscholar = {259234850},
  title = {Symbolic Knowledge Injection meets Intelligent Agents: {QoS} metrics and experiments},
  volume = {37},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10458-023-09609-6}
}

Neural-logic multi-agent system for flood event detection

Andrea Rafanelli, Stefania Costantini, and Giovanni De Gasperis

Intelligenza Artificiale, Jun 2023

DOI Bib

@article{Rafanelli2CG23,
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea and Costantini, Stefania and Gasperis, Giovanni De},
  title = {Neural-logic multi-agent system for flood event detection},
  journal = {Intelligenza Artificiale},
  volume = {17},
  number = {1},
  pages = {19--35},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3233/IA-230004},
  doi = {10.3233/IA-230004},
}

Extension of constraint-procedural logic-generated environments for deep Q-learning agent training and benchmarking

Giovanni De Gasperis, Stefania Costantini, Andrea Rafanelli, Patrizio Migliarini, Ivan Letteri, and Abeer Dyoub

Journal of Logic and Computation, Jun 2023

DOI Bib

@article{exad032,
  author = {De Gasperis, Giovanni and Costantini, Stefania and Rafanelli, Andrea and Migliarini, Patrizio and Letteri, Ivan and Dyoub, Abeer},
  title = {{Extension of constraint-procedural logic-generated environments for deep Q-learning agent training and benchmarking}},
  journal = {Journal of Logic and Computation},
  pages = {exad032},
  year = {2023},
  month = jun,
  issn = {0955-792X},
  doi = {10.1093/logcom/exad032},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exad032},
  eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/logcom/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/logcom/exad032/50530031/exad032.pdf}
}

Conference

"Stop replacing salt with sugar!": Towards Intuitive Human-Agent Teaching

Nikolaos Kondylidis, Andrea Rafanelli, Ilaria Tiddi, Annette Teije, and Frank Harmelen

CoRR, Jun 2025

DOI Bib

@article{abs-2509-24651,
  author = {Kondylidis, Nikolaos and Rafanelli, Andrea and Tiddi, Ilaria and ten Teije, Annette and van Harmelen, Frank},
  title = {"Stop replacing salt with sugar!": Towards Intuitive Human-Agent
                    Teaching},
  journal = {CoRR},
  volume = {abs/2509.24651},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.24651},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2509.24651},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2509.24651},
  timestamp = {Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:16:29 +0200},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2509-24651.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

NEMO - A Neural, Emotional Architecture for Human-AI Teaming

Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Giovanni De Gasperis, Francesco Gullo, and Andrea Rafanelli

Jun 2024

Bib

@article{CDGGR24,
  author = {Costantini, Stefania and Dell'Acqua, Pierangelo and Gasperis, Giovanni De and Gullo, Francesco and Rafanelli, Andrea},
  editor = {Angelis, Emanuele De and Proietti, Maurizio},
  title = {{NEMO} - {A} Neural, Emotional Architecture for Human-AI Teaming},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th Italian Conference on Computational Logic,
                    Rome, Italy, June 26-28, 2024},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3733},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3733/paper11.pdf}
}

The NEMO co-pilot

Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Giovanni De Gasperis, Francesco Gullo, and Andrea Rafanelli

Jun 2024

Bib

@article{CostantiniDGGR24,
  author = {Costantini, Stefania and Dell'Acqua, Pierangelo and Gasperis, Giovanni De and Gullo, Francesco and Rafanelli, Andrea},
  editor = {Martino, Sergio Di and Sansone, Carlo and Masciari, Elio and Rossi, Silvia and Gravina, Michela},
  title = {The {NEMO} co-pilot},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ital-IA Intelligenza Artificiale - Thematic Workshops
                    co-located with the 4th {CINI} National Lab {AIIS} Conference on Artificial
                    Intelligence (Ital-IA 2024), Naples, Italy, May 29-30, 2024},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3762},
  pages = {124--128},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3762/543.pdf},
}

An Empirical Study on the Robustness of Knowledge Injection Techniques Against Data Degradation

Andrea Rafanelli, Matteo Magnini, Andrea Agiollo, Giovanni Ciatto, and Andrea Omicini

Jun 2024

Bib

@article{RafanelliMACO24,
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea and Magnini, Matteo and Agiollo, Andrea and Ciatto, Giovanni and Omicini, Andrea},
  editor = {Alderighi, Marco and Baldoni, Matteo and Baroglio, Cristina and Micalizio, Roberto and Tedeschi, Stefano},
  title = {An Empirical Study on the Robustness of Knowledge Injection Techniques
                    Against Data Degradation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th Workshop "From Objects to Agents", Bard (Aosta),
                    Italy, July 8-10, 2024},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3735},
  pages = {20--32},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3735/paper\_02.pdf}
}

Empowering Emotional Behavior Trees with Neural Computation for Digital Forensic

Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Giovanni De Gasperis, and Andrea Rafanelli

15th European Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Mathematics, Jun 2024

Bib

@article{NEABT,
  author = {Costantini, Stefania and Dell'Acqua, Pierangelo and De Gasperis, Giovanni and Rafanelli, Andrea},
  year = {2024},
  title = {Empowering Emotional Behavior Trees with
  Neural Computation for Digital Forensic},
  journal = {15th European Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Mathematics},
  publisher = {Book of Abstracts , ESCIM 2024}
}

Leveraging DALI to Refine Route Planning by Dynamically Avoiding Risky POIs

Fabio Persia, Mouzhi Ge, Giovanni Pilato, Daniela D’Auria, Andrea Rafanelli, Stefania Costantini, and Giovanni De Gasperis

Jun 2024

DOI Bib

@article{PersiaGPDRCG24,
  author = {Persia, Fabio and Ge, Mouzhi and Pilato, Giovanni and D'Auria, Daniela and Rafanelli, Andrea and Costantini, Stefania and Gasperis, Giovanni De},
  title = {Leveraging {DALI} to Refine Route Planning by Dynamically Avoiding
                    Risky POIs},
  booktitle = {18th {IEEE} International Conference on Semantic Computing, {ICSC}
                    2024, Laguna Hills, CA, USA, February 5-7, 2024},
  pages = {351--354},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00061},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00061}
}

Empathy-Aware Behavior Trees for Social Care Decision Systems

Pierangelo Dell’Acqua, Stefania Costantini, Abeer Dyoub, Giovanni De Gasperis, Andrea Monaldini, and Andrea Rafanelli

Jun 2023

DOI Bib

@article{EABTS,
  author = {Dell'Acqua, Pierangelo and Costantini, Stefania and Dyoub, Abeer and Gasperis, Giovanni De and Monaldini, Andrea and Rafanelli, Andrea},
  editor = {Cruz{-}Cunha, Maria Manuela and Domingos, Dulce and Peres, Emanuel and Rijo, Rui},
  title = {Empathy-Aware Behavior Trees for Social Care Decision Systems},
  booktitle = {{CENTERIS} 2023 - International Conference on ENTERprise Information
                    Systems / ProjMAN - International Conference on Project MANagement
                    / HCist - International Conference on Health and Social Care Information
                    Systems and Technologies 2023, Porto, Portugal, November 8-10, 2023},
  series = {Procedia Computer Science},
  volume = {239},
  pages = {1727--1735},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2024.06.351},
  doi = {10.1016/J.PROCS.2024.06.351}
}

Beyond Traditional Neural Networks: Toward adding Reasoning and Learning Capabilities through Computational Logic Techniques

Andrea Rafanelli

Jun 2023

DOI Bib

@article{RafanelliICLP,
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea},
  editor = {Pontelli, Enrico and Costantini, Stefania and Dodaro, Carmine and Gaggl, Sarah Alice and Calegari, Roberta and d'Avila Garcez, Artur S. and Fabiano, Francesco and Mileo, Alessandra and Russo, Alessandra and Toni, Francesca},
  title = {Beyond Traditional Neural Networks: Toward adding Reasoning and Learning
                    Capabilities through Computational Logic Techniques},
  booktitle = {Proceedings 39th International Conference on Logic Programming, {ICLP}
                    2023, Imperial College London, UK, 9th July 2023 - 15th July 2023},
  series = {{EPTCS}},
  volume = {385},
  pages = {416--422},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.385.51},
  doi = {10.4204/EPTCS.385.51}
}

A multi-agent-system framework for flooding events

Andrea Rafanelli, Stefania Costantini, and Giovanni De Gasperis

Jun 2022

Bib

@article{RafanelliCG22,
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea and Costantini, Stefania and Gasperis, Giovanni De},
  editor = {Ferrando, Angelo and Mascardi, Viviana},
  title = {A multi-agent-system framework for flooding events},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop "From Objects to Agents", Genova,
                    Italy, September 1-3, 2022},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3261},
  pages = {142--151},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3261/paper11.pdf}
}

Towards Quality-of-Service Metrics for Symbolic Knowledge Injection

Andrea Agiollo, Andrea Rafanelli, and Andrea Omicini

Nov 2022

Bib

@article{skiqs-woa2022,
  author = {Agiollo, Andrea and Rafanelli, Andrea and Omicini, Andrea},
  booktitle = {WOA 2022 -- 23rd Workshop ``From Objects to Agents''},
  editor = {Ferrando, Angelo and Mascardi, Viviana},
  issn = {1613-0073},
  keywords = {symbolic knowledge injection, quality of service, efficiency, understandability, robustness},
  month = nov,
  pages = {30--47},
  series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  subseries = {AIxIA Series},
  title = {Towards Quality-of-Service Metrics for Symbolic Knowledge Injection},
  url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3261/paper3.pdf},
  volume = {3261},
  year = {2022}
}

Position Paper: On the Role of Abductive Reasoning in Semantic Image Segmentation

Andrea Rafanelli, Stefania Costantini, and Andrea Omicini

Nov 2022

Bib

@article{RafanelliCO22,
  author = {Rafanelli, Andrea and Costantini, Stefania and Omicini, Andrea},
  editor = {Dovier, Agostino and Montanari, Angelo and Orlandini, Andrea},
  title = {Position Paper: On the Role of Abductive Reasoning in Semantic Image
                    Segmentation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Discussion Papers - 22nd International Conference
                    of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022
                    DP), Udine, Italy, November 28 - December 2, 2022},
  series = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3419},
  pages = {75--84},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3419/paper9.pdf}
}