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2020

Measuring bot and human behavioral dynamics

Pozzana, Iacopo, Ferrara, Emilio
In Frontiers in Physics
2020

Discovering patterns of online popularity from time series

Ozer, Mert, Anna Sapienza, Abeliuk, Andrés, Muric, Goran, Ferrara, Emilio
In Expert Systems with Applications
2020, 113337 pages

Learning to Reason in Round-based Games: Multi-task Sequence Generation for Purchasing Decision Making in First-person Shooters

Zeng, Yilei, Lei, Deren, Li, Beichen, Jiang, Gangrong, Ferrara, Emilio, Zyda, Michael
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05131
2020

Having a Bad Day? Detecting the Impact of Atypical Life Events Using Wearable Sensors

Keith Burghardt, Nazgol Tavabi, Ferrara, Emilio, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Lerman, Kristina
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.01723
2020

Enabling Low-Resource Transfer Learning across COVID-19 Corpora by Combining Event-Extraction and Co-Training

Spangher, Alexander, Peng, Nanyun, May, Jonathan, Ferrara, Emilio
In ACL 2020 Workshop on Natural Language Processing for COVID-19 (NLP-COVID)
2020

Political Polarization Drives Online Conversations About COVID-19 in the United States

Jiang, Julie, Chen, Emily, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
2020

COVID-19 amplifies gender disparities in research

Muric, Goran, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.06142
2020

ReCOVery: A Multimodal Repository for COVID-19 News Credibility Research

Zhou, Xinyi, Mulay, Apurva, Ferrara, Emilio, Zafarani, Reza
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05557
2020

What types of COVID-19 conspiracies are populated by Twitter bots?

Ferrara, Emilio
In First Monday
2020

Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set

Chen, Emily, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
2020, e19273 pages

Massive Cross-Platform Simulations of Online Social Networks

Murić, Goran, Tregubov, Alexey, Blythe, Jim, Abeliuk, Andrés, Choudhary, Divya, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
2020, 895–903 pages

Detecting multi-timescale consumption patterns from receipt data: A non-negative tensor factorization approach

Matsui, Akira, Kobayashi, Teruyoshi, Moriwaki, Daisuke, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13277
2020

TILES-2018: A longitudinal physiologic and behavioral data set of hospital workers

Mundnich, Karel, Booth, Brandon M, L'Hommedieu, Michelle, Feng, Tiantian, Girault, Benjamin, L'Hommedieu, Justin, Wildman, Mackenzie, Skaaden, Sophia, Nadarajan, Amrutha, Villatte, Jennifer L, others
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08474
2020

Affect Estimation with Wearable Sensors

Yan, Shen, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Kao, Hsien-Te, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
2020, 1–34 pages

Detecting Troll Behavior via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study of Russian Trolls in the 2016 US Election

Luceri, Luca, Giordano, Silvia, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2020

Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation

Nizzoli, Leonardo, Tardelli, Serena, Avvenuti, Marco, Cresci, Stefano, Tesconi, Maurizio, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10289
2020

Predictability limit of partially observed systems

Abeliuk, Andrés, Huang, Zhishen, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06547
2020

Bots, elections, and social media: a brief overview

Ferrara, Emilio
In Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media
2020

Does Streaming Esports Affect Players’ Behavior and Performance?

Matsui, Akira, Anna Sapienza, Ferrara, Emilio
In Games and Culture
2020, 9–31 pages

2019

The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-based Online Games

Zeng, Yilei, Anna Sapienza, Ferrara, Emilio
In IEEE Transactions on Games
2019

Characterizing the 2016 Russian IRA Influence Campaign

Badawy, Adam, Addawood, Aseel, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Social Network Analysis and Mining
2019

Characterizing Activity on the Deep and Dark Web

Nazgol Tavabi, Bartley, Nathan, Abeliuk, Andrés, Soni, Sandeep, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina
In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference
2019, 206–213 pages

SoReC: A Social-Relation Based Centrality Measure in Mobile Social Networks

Li, Bowen, Gao, Zhenxiang, Shan, Xu, Zhou, Weihua, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2019 26th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT)
2019, 485–489 pages

Who Falls for Online Political Manipulation?

Badawy, Adam, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference
2019, 162–168 pages

Effects of Network Structure on Subjective Preference Diversity

Lin, Anne, Abeliuk, Andreés, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
2019, 3026–3031 pages

Learning Adversarial Interactions in Stackelberg Security Games with Limited Data

Fang, Boli, Jiang, Miao, Tregubov, Alexey, James Blythe, Ferrara, Emilio
In NeurIPS 2019 (Workshop Proceedings)
2019

Lessons learned: Recommendations for implementing a longitudinal study using wearable and environmental sensors in a health care organization

L'Hommedieu, Michelle, L'Hommedieu, Justin, Begay, Cynthia, Schenone, Alison, Dimitropoulou, Lida, Margolin, Gayla, Falk, Tiago, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina, Narayanan, Shrikanth
In JMIR mHealth and uHealth
2019, e13305 pages

Estimating individualized daily self-reported affect with wearable sensors

Yan, Shen, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Kao, Hsien-Te, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)
2019, 1–9 pages

Learning Behavioral Representations from Wearable Sensors

Nazgol Tavabi, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Villatte, Jennifer L, Abeliuk, Andrés, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06959
2019

Collaboration Drives Individual Productivity

Murić, Goran, Abeliuk, Andres, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2019, 1–24 pages

Dynamics of Attention and Public Opinion in Social Media

Ferrara, Emilio
In The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication
2019

SAGE: a hybrid geopolitical event forecasting system

Morstatter, Fred, Aram Galstyan, Satyukov, Gleb, Benjamin, Daniel, Abeliuk, Andres, Mirtaheri, Mehrnoosh, Hossain, KSM, Pedro Szekely, Ferrara, Emilio, Matsui, Akira, others
In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2019, 6557–6559 pages

Network Modularity Controls the Speed of Information Diffusion

Peng, Hao, Nematzadeh, Azadeh, Romero, Daniel M, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05870
2019

The history of digital spam

Ferrara, Emilio
In Communications of the ACM
2019, 82–91 pages

Comparison of heart rate measurement between the Fitbit Charge 2 and OmSignal smart garments: A free-living study

Wildman, Mackenzie, Eulogio, Raul, Singh, Rishika, Ramirez, Ernesto, Foschini, Luca, Nadarajan, Amrutha, Booth, Brandon M, Mundnich, Karel, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina, others
In Annals of Behavioral Medicine
2019, S81 pages

Massive multi-agent data-driven simulations of the github ecosystem

Blythe, Jim, Bollenbacher, John, Huang, Di, Hui, Pik-Mai, Krohn, Rachel, Pacheco, Diogo, Muric, Goran, Anna Sapienza, Tregubov, Alexey, Ahn, Yong-Yeol, others
In International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
2019, 3–15 pages

Linguistic cues to deception: Identifying political trolls on social media

Addawood, Aseel, Badawy, Adam, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2019, 15–25 pages

Evolution of bot and human behavior during elections

Luceri, Luca, Deb, Ashok, Giordano, Silvia, Ferrara, Emilio
In First Monday
2019

Red Bots Do It Better: Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior

Luceri, Luca, Deb, Ashok, Badawy, Adam, Ferrara, Emilio
In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference
2019, 1007–1012 pages

Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms

Deb, Ashok, Luceri, Luca, Badawy, Adam, Ferrara, Emilio
In Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference
2019, 237–247 pages

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

Yang, Kai-Cheng, Varol, Onur, Davis, Clayton A, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo
In Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
2019, 48–61 pages

Multimodal Human and Environmental Sensing for Longitudinal Behavioral Studies in Naturalistic Settings: Framework for Sensor Selection, Deployment, and Management

Booth, Brandon M, Mundnich, Karel, Feng, Tiantian, Nadarajan, Amrutha, Falk, Tiago H, Villatte, Jennifer L, Ferrara, Emilio, Narayanan, Shrikanth
In Journal of Medical Internet Research
2019, e12832 pages

Personality and Behavior in Role-based Online Games

Wang, Zhao, Anna Sapienza, Culotta, Aron, Ferrara, Emilio
In IEEE Conference on Games
2019

Understanding Cyberbullying on Instagram and Ask.fm via Social Role Detection

Kao, Hsien-Te, Yan, Shen, Huang, Di, Bartley, Nathan, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Ferrara, Emilio
In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference
2019, 183–188 pages

The DARPA SocialSim Challenge: Massive Multi-Agent Simulations of the Github Ecosystem

James Blythe, Ferrara, Emilio, Huang, Di, Lerman, Kristina, Muric, Goran, Anna Sapienza, Tregubov, Alexey, Pacheco, Diogo, Bollenbacher, John, Flammini, Alessandro, others
In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
2019, 1835–1837 pages

Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Team Composition

Anna Sapienza, Palash Goyal, Ferrara, Emilio
In Frontiers in Big Data
2019

Benchmarks for graph embedding evaluation

Palash Goyal, Huang, Di, Goswami, Ankita, Chhetri, Sujit Rokka, Canedo, Arquimedes, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06543
2019

2018

Supplementary Information for “Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems”

Stella, Massimo, Ferrara, Emilio, De Domenico, Manlio
2018

Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign

Badawy, Adam, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2018
2018, 258–265 pages

Deep Neural Networks for Bot Detection

Kudugunta, Sneha, Ferrara, Emilio
In Information Sciences
2018, 312–322 pages

Could social bots pose a threat to public health?

Allem, Jon-Patrick, Ferrara, Emilio
In American journal of public health
2018, 1005–1006 pages

Embedding networks with edge attributes

Palash Goyal, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Ferrara, Emilio, Aram Galstyan
In Proceedings of the 29th on Hypertext and Social Media
2018, 38–42 pages

Recommending teammates with deep neural networks

Palash Goyal, Anna Sapienza, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the 29th on Hypertext and Social Media
2018, 57–61 pages

Individual performance in team-based online games

Anna Sapienza, Zeng, Yilei, Bessi, Alessandro, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Royal Society open science
2018, 180329 pages

Language, demographics, emotions, and the structure of online social networks

Lerman, Kristina, Marin, Luciano G., Megha Arora, de Lima, Lucas H. Costa, Ferrara, Emilio, David Garcia
In Journal of Computational Social Science
2018, 209–225 pages
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-017-0001-x

Social Bots for Online Public Health Interventions

Deb, Ashok, Majmundar, Anuja, Seo, Sungyong, Matsui, Akira, Tandon, Rajat, Yan, Shen, Allem, Jon-Patrick, Ferrara, Emilio
In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2018
2018, 186–189 pages

DISCOVER: Mining Online Chatter for Emerging Cyber Threats

Anna Sapienza, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Bessi, Alessandro, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Companion of the The Web Conference 2018
2018, 983–990 pages

Predicting Cyber Events by Leveraging Hacker Sentiment

Deb, Ashok, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In Information
2018, 280 pages

Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems

Stella, Massimo, Ferrara, Emilio, De Domenico, Manlio
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018, 12435–12440 pages

'Senator, We Sell Ads': Analysis of the 2016 Russian Facebook Ads Campaign

Dutt, Ritam, Deb, Ashok, Ferrara, Emilio
In Third International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies (ICIIT 2018)
2018

GEM: A Python package for graph embedding methods

Palash Goyal, Ferrara, Emilio
In Journal of Open Source Software
2018, 876 pages

Tensor Embedding: A Supervised Framework for Human Behavioral Data Mining and Prediction

Hosseinmardi, Homa, Ghasemian, Amir, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10867
2018

Advances in Data Science

Akoglu, Leman, Ferrara, Emilio, Deivamani, Mallayya, Baeza-Yates, Ricardo, Yogesh, Palanisamy
2018

Discovering signals from web sources to predict cyber attacks

Palash Goyal, Hossain, KSM, Deb, Ashok, Nazgol Tavabi, Bartley, Nathan, Abeliuk, Andr'es, Ferrara, Emilio, Lerman, Kristina
In arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03342
2018

Capturing Edge Attributes via Network Embedding

Palash Goyal, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Ferrara, Emilio, Aram Galstyan
In IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
2018, 907–917 pages

Mining and Forecasting Career Trajectories of Music Artists

Arakelyan, Shushan, Morstatter, Fred, Martin, Margaret, Ferrara, Emilio, Aram Galstyan
In Proceedings of the 29th on Hypertext and Social Media
2018, 11–19 pages

Measuring social spam and the effect of bots on information diffusion in social media

Ferrara, Emilio
In Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems
2018, 229–255 pages

The Rise of Jihadist Propaganda on Social Networks

Badawy, Adam, Ferrara, Emilio
In Journal of Computational Social Science
2018, 1–18 pages

Discovering latent psychological structures from self-report assessments of hospital workers

Kao, Hsien-Te, Hosseinmardi, Homa, Yan, Shen, Hasan, Michelle, Narayanan, Shrikanth, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2018 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC)
2018, 156–161 pages

Discovering patterns of online popularity from time series-Supplementary Material

Ozer, Mert, Anna Sapienza, Abeliuk, Andrés, Muric, Goran, Ferrara, Emilio
2018

The rise of Jihadist propaganda on social networks

Badawy, Adam, Ferrara, Emilio
In Journal of Computational Social Science
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-018-0015-z

Discovering Hidden Structure in High Dimensional Human Behavioral Data via Tensor Factorization

Hosseinmardi, Homa, Kao, Hsien-Te, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In HeteroNAM 2018: First International Workshop on Heterogeneous Networks Analysis and Mining
2018
http://heteronam.org/2018/papers/HeteroNAM_2018_paper_9.pdf

Non-negative Tensor Factorization for Human Behavioral Pattern Mining in Online Games

Anna Sapienza, Bessi, Alessandro, Ferrara, Emilio
In Information
2018, 66 pages
http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/3/66

2017

Dynamics of Content Quality in Collaborative Knowledge Production

Ferrara, Emilio, Nazanin Alipourfard, Keith Burghardt, Chiranth Gopal, Lerman, Kristina
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017)
2017, 520–523 pages
https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/download/15556/14845

E-cigarette surveillance with social media data: social bots, emerging topics, and trends

Allem, Jon-Patrick, Ferrara, Emilio, Uppu, Sree Priyanka, Cruz, Tess Boley, Unger, Jennifer B
In JMIR public health and surveillance
2017, e98 pages

Early Detection of Promoted Campaigns on Social Media

Varol, Onur, Ferrara, Emilio, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In EPJ Data Science
2017
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0111-y

Evidence of Complex Contagion of Information in Social Media: An Experiment Using Twitter Bots

Mønsted, Bjarke, Sapieżyński, Piotr, Ferrara, Emilio, Lehmann, Sune
In Plos One
2017, e0184148 pages
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184148

Online human-bot interactions: Detection, estimation, and characterization

Varol, Onur, Ferrara, Emilio, Davis, Clayton A, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2017, 280–289 pages
https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15587/14817

Performance Dynamics and Success in Online Games

Anna Sapienza, Peng, Hao, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
2017, 902–909 pages
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8215758/

Contagion dynamics of extremist propaganda in social networks

Ferrara, Emilio
In Information Sciences
2017, 1–12 pages
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025517305030

Early Warnings of Cyber Threats in Online Discussions

Anna Sapienza, Bessi, Alessandro, Saranya Damodaran, Paulo Shakarian, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio
In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
2017, 667–674 pages
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8215726/

E-Cigarette Surveillance With Social Media Data: Social Bots, Emerging Topics, and Trends

Allem, Jon-Patrick, Ferrara, Emilio, Uppu, Sree Priyanka, Cruz, Tess Boley, Unger, Jennifer B
In JMIR public health and surveillance
2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5752967/

Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election

Ferrara, Emilio
In First Monday
2017
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8005/6516

2016

How Twitter bots affected the US presidential campaign

Ferrara, Emilio
In The Conversation. http://theconversation. com/how-twitter-bots-affected-the-us-presidential-campaign-68406
2016

Scalable Query and Analysis for Social Networks

Wu, Tak-Lon Stephen, Zhang, Bingjing, Clayton Davis, Emilio, Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Menczer, Filippo, Qiu, Judy
In Big Data in Complex and Social Networks
2016, 47–72 pages

Evidence of online performance deterioration in user sessions on Reddit

Singer, Philipp, Ferrara, Emilio, Kooti, Farshad, Strohmaier, Markus, Lerman, Kristina
In PloS one
2016, e0161636 pages

Style in the Age of Instagram: Predicting Success within the Fashion Industry using Social Media

Park, Jaehyuk, Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Ferrara, Emilio
In CSCW '16 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
2016, 64–73 pages

Network Structure and Resilience of Mafia Syndicates

Agreste, Santa, Catanese, Salvatore, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Information Sciences
2016, 30–47 pages

Latent Space Model for Multi-Modal Social Data

Yoon-Sik Cho, Greg Ver Steeg, Ferrara, Emilio, Aram Galstyan
In WWW '16 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
2016, 447–458 pages

The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

Subrahmanian, V. S., Azaria, Amos, Durst, Skylar, Kagan, Vadim, Aram Galstyan, Lerman, Kristina, Linhong Zhu, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo, others
In Computer
2016, 38–46 pages

BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots

Davis, Clayton A, Varol, Onur, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo
In WWW '16 Companion Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web
2016, 273–274 pages

Evidence of Online Performance Deterioration in User Sessions on Reddit

Singer, Philipp, Ferrara, Emilio, Kooti, Farshad, Strohmaier, Markus, Lerman, Kristina
In PloS one
2016, e0161636 pages

OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media

Davis, Clayton A, Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Luca Maria Aiello, Chung, Keychul, Conover, Michael D, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Fox, Geoffrey C, Gao, Xiaoming, Gonçalves, Bruno, others
In PeerJ Computer Science
2016, e87 pages

Predicting online extremism, content adopters, and interaction reciprocity

Ferrara, Emilio, Wang, Wen-Qiang, Varol, Onur, Flammini, Alessandro, Aram Galstyan
In International Conference on Social Informatics
2016, 22–39 pages

Detection of promoted social media campaigns

Ferrara, Emilio, Varol, Onur, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
2016, 563–566 pages

Social politics: Agenda setting and political communication on social media

Yang, Xinxin, Chen, Bo-Chiuan, Maity, Mrinmoy, Ferrara, Emilio
In International Conference on Social Informatics
2016, 330–344 pages

The Rise of Social Bots

Ferrara, Emilio, Varol, Onur, Davis, Clayton, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In Communications of the ACM
2016, 96–104 pages

The importance of debiasing social media data to better understand e-cigarette-related attitudes and behaviors

Allem, Jon-Patrick, Ferrara, Emilio
In Journal of Medical Internet Research
2016

Social bots distort the 2016 US Presidential election online discussion

Bessi, Alessandro, Ferrara, Emilio
In First Monday
2016
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7090/5653

Scalable Query and Analysis for Social Networks: An Integrated High-Level Dataflow System with Pig and Harp

Wu, Tak-Lon, Zhang, Bingjing, Davis, Clayton, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo, Qiu, Judy
In Big Data in Complex and Social Networks
2016, 37–62 pages

2015

Analysis of a heterogeneous social network of humans and cultural objects

Agreste, Santa, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Piccolo, Sebastiano, Provetti, Alessandro
In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
2015, 559–570 pages

Trust and Compactness in Social Network Groups

De Meo, P, Ferrara, E, Rosaci, D, Sarne, GML
In IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2015, 205–216 pages

Quality versus quantity in scientific impact

Kaur, Jasleen, Ferrara, Emilio, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro, Radicchi, Filippo
In Journal of Informetrics
2015, 800–808 pages

Parallel Clustering of High-Dimensional Social Media Data Streams

Gao, Xiaoming, Ferrara, Emilio, Qiu, Judy
In CCGrid 2015: 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
2015, 323–332 pages

Adaptive search over sorted sets

Bonasera, Biagio, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Pagano, Francesco, Provetti, Alessandro
In Journal of Discrete Algorithms
2015, 128–133 pages

Toward computational crime prediction

Ferrara, Emilio
In Physics of life reviews
2015, 28–29 pages

On predictability of rare events leveraging social media: a machine learning perspective

Le, Lei, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro
In COSN '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on Conference on Online Social Networks
2015, 3–13 pages

Manipulation and abuse on social media

Ferrara, Emilio
In ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
2015, 4 pages

Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

Ke, Qing, Ferrara, Emilio, Radicchi, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015, 7426–7431 pages

Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media

Ferrara, Emilio, Yang, Zeyao
In PLoS One
2015, e0142390 pages

Quantifying the Effect of Sentiment on Information Diffusion in Social Media

Ferrara, Emilio, Yang, Zeyao
In PeerJ Computer Science
2015, e26 pages

Uncovering criminal behavior with computational tools

Ferrara, Emilio, Catanese, Salvatore, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Social Phenomena
2015, 177–207 pages

Trust Networks: Topology, Dynamics and Measurements

Agreste, Santa, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Piccolo, Sebastiano, Provetti, Alessandro
In Internet Computing
2015, 26–35 pages

2014

Criminal Network Analysis and Mining (CRIMENET 2014)-Introduction

Ferrara, Emilio, Catanese, Salvatore, Fiumara, Giacomo
In International Conference on Social Informatics
2014, 75–77 pages

Misogynistic Language on Twitter and Sexual Violence

Fulper, Rachael, Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Ferrara, Emilio, Ahn, YongYeol, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo, Lewis, Bryce, Rowe, Kehontas
In ChASM '14: Computational Approaches to Social Modeling
2014

Collective behaviors and networks

Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro
2014

Clustering memes in social media streams

JafariAsbagh, Mohsen, Ferrara, Emilio, Varol, Onur, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In Social Network Analysis and Mining
2014, 1–13 pages

Mixing local and global information for community detection in large networks

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In Journal of Computer and System Sciences
2014, 72–87 pages

XML Matchers: approaches and challenges

Agreste, Santa, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Ursino, Domenico
In Knowledge-Based Systems
2014, 190–209 pages

Detecting criminal organizations in mobile phone networks

Ferrara, Emilio, De Meo, Pasquale, Catanese, Salvatore, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Expert Systems with Applications
2014, 5733–5750 pages

Supporting a Social Media Observatory with Customizable Index Structures-Architecture and Performance

Gao, Xiaoming, Roth, Evan, McKelvey, Karissa, Davis, Clayton, Younge, Andrew, Ferrara, Emilio, Menczer, Filippo, Qiu, Judy
In Cloud Computing for Data Intensive Applications
2014

Optimal network modularity for information diffusion

Nematzadeh, Azadeh, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Ahn, Yong-Yeol
In Physical review letters
2014, 088701 pages

Visualizing criminal networks reconstructed from mobile phone records

Ferrara, Emilio, De Meo, Pasquale, Catanese, Salvatore, Fiumara, Giacomo
In 2014 DataWiz
2014

Online Popularity and Topical Interests through the Lens of Instagram

Ferrara, Emilio, Interdonato, Roberto, Tagarelli, Andrea
In 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media
2014, 24–34 pages

Evolution of online user behavior during a social upheaval

Varol, Onur, Ferrara, Emilio, Ogan, Christine L, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In 2014 ACM conference on Web science
2014, 81–90 pages

Dissemination of scholarly literature in social media

Moriano, Pablo, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo
In 2014 Altmetrics conference
2014

On Facebook, most ties are weak

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In Communications of the ACM
2014, 78–84 pages

Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks Systems

Ferrara, Emilio
2014

Web data extraction, applications and techniques: A survey

Ferrara, E, De Meo, P, Fiumara, G, Baumgartner, R
In Knowledge-based Systems
2014, 301–323 pages

2013

Scientific impact evaluation and the effect of self-citations: mitigating the bias by discounting h-index

Ferrara, Emilio, Romero, Alfonso E
In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
2013, 2332–2339 pages

Supplementary Materials for submission CACM-13-05-1707:“On Facebook, Most Ties Are Weak”

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
2013

Traveling trends: social butterflies or frequent fliers?

Ferrara, Emilio, Varol, Onur, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In COSN '13: 1st ACM conference on Online social networks
2013, 213–222 pages

Clustering memes in social media

Ferrara, Emilio, JafariAsbagh, Mohsen, Varol, Onur, Qazvinian, Vahed, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In ASONAM '13: 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
2013, 548–555 pages

The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street

Conover, Michael D, Ferrara, Emilio, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In PloS one
2013, e64679 pages

The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network

Conover, Michael D, Davis, Clayton, Ferrara, Emilio, McKelvey, Karissa, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro
In PloS one
2013, e55957 pages

Enhancing community detection using a network weighting strategy

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In Information Sciences
2013, 648–668 pages

Analyzing user behavior across social sharing environments

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Abel, Fabian, Lora Aroyo, Houben, Geert-Jan
In ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
2013, 14–42 pages

How to Improve Group Homogeneity in Online Social Networks

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Rosaci, Domenico, Sarné, Giuseppe ML
In CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2013, 73–77 pages

2012

A novel measure of edge centrality in social networks

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Ricciardello, Angela
In Knowledge-based Systems
2012, 136–150 pages

A large-scale community structure analysis in Facebook

Ferrara, Emilio
In EPJ Data Science
2012, 1–30 pages

Extraction and analysis of Facebook friendship relations

Catanese, Salvatore, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In Computational Social Networks: Mining and Visualization
2012, 291–324 pages

Forensic analysis of phone call networks

Catanese, Salvatore, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Social Network Analysis and Mining
2012, 15–33 pages

Finding similar users in Facebook

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Measurement
2012, 304–323 pages

Community structure discovery in Facebook

Ferrara, Emilio
In International Journal of Social Network Mining
2012, 67–90 pages

2011

Mining and analysis of online social networks

Ferrara, Emilio
2011

Improving recommendation quality by merging collaborative filtering and social relationships

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In ISDA '11: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
2011, 587–592 pages

Effective retrieval of resources in folksonomies using a new tag similarity measure

Quattrone, Giovanni, Capra, Licia, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Ursino, Domenico
In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
2011, 545–550 pages

Measuring similarity in large-scale folksonomies

Quattrone, Giovanni, Ferrara, Emilio, De Meo, Pasquale, Capra, Licia
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
2011, 385–391 pages

Intelligent self-repairable web wrappers

Ferrara, Emilio, Baumgartner, Robert
In AI* IA 2011: Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond
2011, 274–285 pages

Topological features of online social networks

Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics
2011, 1–20 pages

Generalized Louvain method for community detection in large networks

De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
2011, 88–93 pages

Rendering of 3D dynamic virtual environments

Catanese, Salvatore, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Pagano, Francesco
In Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
2011, 351–358 pages

A framework for designing 3D virtual environments

Catanese, Salvatore, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Pagano, Francesco
In Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
2011

Crawling Facebook for social network analysis purposes

Catanese, Salvatore A, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Provetti, Alessandro
In ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
2011, 52–1 pages

Design of automatically adaptable web wrappers

Ferrara, Emilio, Baumgartner, Robert
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
2011, 211–216 pages

Automatic wrapper adaptation by tree edit distance matching

Ferrara, Emilio, Baumgartner, Robert
In Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications
2011, 41–54 pages

2010

Living city: a collaborative browser-based massively multiplayer online game

Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo, Pagano, Francesco
In Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
2010, 1–8 pages

Analyzing the Facebook friendship graph

Catanese, Salvatore, De Meo, Pasquale, Ferrara, Emilio, Fiumara, Giacomo
In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining the Future Internet
2010, 14–19 pages

2005

Optimization of crossing the Strait of Messina railway with the help of RFID

Ferrara, Emilio
2005

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