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Detecting criminal organizations in mobile phone networks
E Ferrara, S Catanese, P De Meo, and G Fiumara. Expert Systems with Applications, 4:5733-5750, (2014). Useful links: Journal Page | Arxiv | PDF. The study of criminal networks using traces from heterogeneous communication media is acquiring increasing importance in…
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Analyzing user behavior across social sharing environments
P De Meo, E Ferrara, F Abel, L Aroyo, and GJ Houben. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) 5(1), 2013. Useful links: PDF | ACM library | Arxiv. In this work we present an in-depth analysis of…
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Traveling Trends: Social Butterflies or Frequent Fliers?
E Ferrara, O Varol, F Menczer and A Flammini. ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN’13), 2013. Useful links: PDF | ACM library | Arxiv. Trending topics reflect the conversations that grab collective attention on online social media. They are…
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Clustering memes in Social media
E Ferrara, M JafariAsbagh, O Varol, V Qazvinian, F Menczer, and A Flammini. 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’13), 2013. Useful links: PDF | Arxiv. The increasing pervasiveness of social media creates new…
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The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
MD Conover, E Ferrara, F Menczer, and A Flammini. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64679 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Journal page. We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a…
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Scientific impact evaluation and the effect of self-citations: mitigating the bias by discounting h-index
E Ferrara, and AE Romero. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(11):2332–2339 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Arxiv | Journal Page. In this paper, we propose a measure to assess scientific impact that discounts self-citations and…
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The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network
MD Conover, C Davis, E Ferrara, K McKelvey, F Menczer, and A Flammini. PLoS One 8(3):e55957 (2013). Useful links: PDF | Journal page. Social movements rely in large measure on networked communication technologies to organize and disseminate information relating to…
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Mixing local and global information for community detection in large networks
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 problem of clustering large complex networks plays a key role…
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A large-scale community structure analysis in Facebook
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 major problem in current computational social sciences. In particular, given…
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Enhancing community detection using a network weighting strategy
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 to each other but less connected to the vertices outside.…