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Mixing local and global information for community detection in large networks

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  • January 15, 2013
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P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara, and A Provetti. Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences 80(1):72-87 (2014). Useful links: PDF | Journal page | Arxiv | CONCLUDE code. The…

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A large-scale community structure analysis in Facebook

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  • October 9, 2012
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E Ferrara. EPJ Data Science 1:9 (2012). Useful links: PDF | Arxiv | Journal page. Understanding social dynamics that govern human phenomena, such as communications and social relationships is a…

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Enhancing community detection using a network weighting strategy

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  • August 6, 2012
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P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara, and A Provetti. Information Sciences (2013). Useful links: PDF | Journal. A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected…

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The role of strong and weak ties in Facebook: a community structure perspective

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  • February 24, 2012
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E Ferrara, P De Meo, G Fiumara, and A Provetti. CHASM ’12: Computational Approaches to Social Modeling. Useful links: PDF | BibTex | Arxiv In this paper we discuss the…

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Community Structure Discovery in Facebook

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  • February 23, 2012
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E Ferrara. International Journal of Social Network Mining, 1(1):67--90 (2012). Useful links: PDF | BibTex | Journal page. Download Facebook Datasets ! In this paper I presented the analysis of…

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A novel measure of edge centrality in social networks

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  • February 23, 2012
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P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara, and A Ricciardello. Knowledge-based Systems 30:136-150 (2012). Useful links: PDF | BibTex | Journal page. Download WERW-Kpath ! In this paper we presented…

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Forensic analysis of phone call networks

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  • February 23, 2012
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S Catanese, E Ferrara, and G Fiumara. Social Network Analysis and Mining (2013). Useful links: PDF | BibTex | Journal page. In this paper we presented LogAnalysis, a Social Network…

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