<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valentina Pansanella</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">From Mean-Field to Complex Topologies: Network Effects on the Algorithmic Bias Model</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Complex Networks &amp; Their Applications X</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Joseph, Simmi Marina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morini, Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stella, Massimo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cognitive network science quantifies feelings expressed in suicide letters and Reddit mental health communities</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.15269</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conformity: a Path-Aware Homophily measure for Node-Attributed Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Intelligent SystemsIEEE Intelligent Systems</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Intelligent Systems</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9321348</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1 - 1</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1941-1294</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Unveil the homophilic/heterophilic behaviors that characterize the wiring patterns of complex networks is an important task in social network analysis, often approached studying the assortative mixing of node attributes. Recent works underlined that a global measure to quantify node homophily necessarily provides a partial, often deceiving, picture of the reality. Moving from such literature, in this work, we propose a novel measure, namely Conformity, designed to overcome such limitation by providing a node-centric quantification of assortative mixing patterns. Differently from the measures proposed so far, Conformity is designed to be path-aware, thus allowing for a more detailed evaluation of the impact that nodes at different degrees of separations have on the homophilic embeddedness of a target. Experimental analysis on synthetic and real data allowed us to observe that Conformity can unveil valuable insights from node-attributed graphs.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morini, Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toward a Standard Approach for Echo Chamber Detection: Reddit Case Study</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5390</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ANGEL: efficient, and effective, node-centric community discovery in static and dynamic networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied Network Science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-020-00270-6</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–23</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community discovery is one of the most challenging tasks in social network analysis. During the last decades, several algorithms have been proposed with the aim of identifying communities in complex networks, each one searching for mesoscale topologies having different and peculiar characteristics. Among such vast literature, an interesting family of Community Discovery algorithms, designed for the analysis of social network data, is represented by overlapping, node-centric approaches. In this work, following such line of research, we propose Angel, an algorithm that aims to lower the computational complexity of previous solutions while ensuring the identification of high-quality overlapping partitions. We compare Angel, both on synthetic and real-world datasets, against state of the art community discovery algorithms designed for the same community definition. Our experiments underline the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed methodology, confirmed by its ability to constantly outperform the identified competitors.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morini, Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capturing Political Polarization of Reddit Submissions in the Trump Era</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SEBD</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conformity: A Path-Aware Homophily Measure for Node-Attributed Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05195</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cazabet, Rémy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boudebza, Souaad</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluating community detection algorithms for progressively evolving graphs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08635</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Identifying and exploiting homogeneous communities in labeled networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied Network Science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-020-00302-1</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–20</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Attribute-aware community discovery aims to find well-connected communities that are also homogeneous w.r.t. the labels carried by the nodes. In this work, we address such a challenging task presenting EVA, an algorithmic approach designed to maximize a quality function tailoring both structural and homophilic clustering criteria. We evaluate EVA on several real-world labeled networks carrying both nominal and ordinal information, and we compare our approach to other classic and attribute-aware algorithms. Our results suggest that EVA is the only method, among the compared ones, able to discover homogeneous clusters without considerably degrading partition modularity.We also investigate two well-defined applicative scenarios to characterize better EVA: i) the clustering of a mental lexicon, i.e., a linguistic network modeling human semantic memory, and (ii) the node label prediction task, namely the problem of inferring the missing label of a node.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sekerinski, Emil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moreira, Nelma</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oliveira, José N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ratiu, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Farrell, Marie</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luckcuck, Matt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marmsoler, Diego</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Campos, José</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Astarte, Troy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gonnord, Laure</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerone, Antonio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Couto, Luis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dongol, Brijesh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kutrib, Martin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monteiro, Pedro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Delmas, David</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">“Know Thyself” How Personal Music Tastes Shape the Last.Fm Online Social Network</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020//</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_11</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer International Publishing</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cham</style></pub-location><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-3-030-54994-7</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">As Nietzsche once wrote “Without music, life would be a mistake” (Twilight of the Idols, 1889.). The music we listen to reflects our personality, our way to approach life. In order to enforce self-awareness, we devised a Personal Listening Data Model that allows for capturing individual music preferences and patterns of music consumption. We applied our model to 30k users of Last.Fm for which we collected both friendship ties and multiple listening. Starting from such rich data we performed an analysis whose final aim was twofold: (i) capture, and characterize, the individual dimension of music consumption in order to identify clusters of like-minded Last.Fm users; (ii) analyze if, and how, such clusters relate to the social structure expressed by the users in the service. Do there exist individuals having similar Personal Listening Data Models? If so, are they directly connected in the social graph or belong to the same community?.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pietro Bonato</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paolo Cintia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francesco Fabbri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daniele Fadda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pier Luigi Lopalco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sara Mazzilli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mirco Nanni</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francesco Penone</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marcello Savarese</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lara Tavoschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mobile phone data analytics against the COVID-19 epidemics in Italy: flow diversity and local job markets during the national lockdown</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11278</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Understanding collective mobility patterns is crucial to plan the restart of production and economic activities, which are currently put in stand-by to fight the diffusion of the epidemics. In this report, we use mobile phone data to infer the movements of people between Italian provinces and municipalities, and we analyze the incoming, outcoming and internal mobility flows before and during the national lockdown (March 9th, 2020) and after the closure of non-necessary productive and economic activities (March 23th, 2020). The population flow across provinces and municipalities enable for the modelling of a risk index tailored for the mobility of each municipality or province. Such an index would be a useful indicator to drive counter-measures in reaction to a sudden reactivation of the epidemics. Mobile phone data, even when aggregated to preserve the privacy of individuals, are a useful data source to track the evolution in time of human mobility, hence allowing for monitoring the effectiveness of control measures such as physical distancing. We address the following analytical questions: How does the mobility structure of a territory change? Do incoming and outcoming flows become more predictable during the lockdown, and what are the differences between weekdays and weekends? Can we detect proper local job markets based on human mobility flows, to eventually shape the borders of a local outbreak?</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cornacchia, Giuliano</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Modelling Human Mobility considering Spatial, Temporal and Social Dimensions</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02371</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toccaceli, Cecilia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Opinion Dynamic Modeling of Fake News Perception</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-65347-7_31</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fake news diffusion represents one of the most pressing issues of our online society. In recent years, fake news has been analyzed from several points of view, primarily to improve our ability to separate them from the legit ones as well as identify their sources. Among such vast literature, a rarely discussed theme is likely to play uttermost importance in our understanding of such a controversial phenomenon: the analysis of fake news’ perception. In this work, we approach such a problem by proposing a family of opinion dynamic models tailored to study how specific social interaction patterns concur to the acceptance, or refusal, of fake news by a population of interacting individuals. To discuss the peculiarities of the proposed models, we tested them on several synthetic network topologies, thus underlying when/how they affect the stable states reached by the performed simulations.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paolo Cintia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daniele Fadda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bonato, Pietro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fabbri, Francesco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penone, Francesco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Savarese, Marcello</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Checchi, Daniele</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chiaromonte, Francesca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vineis , Paolo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guzzetta, Giorgio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo, Flavia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marziano, Valentina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poletti, Piero</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trentini, Filippo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bella, Antonio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrianou, Xanthi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Del Manso, Martina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fabiani, Massimo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bellino, Stefania</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boros, Stefano</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mateo Urdiales, Alberto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vescio, Maria Fenicia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brusaferro, Silvio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rezza, Giovanni</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pezzotti, Patrizio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ajelli, Marco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Merler, Stefano</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The relationship between human mobility and viral transmissibility during the COVID-19 epidemics in Italy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03141</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03141</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We describe in this report our studies to understand the relationship between human mobility and the spreading of COVID-19, as an aid to manage the restart of the social and economic activities after the lockdown and monitor the epidemics in the coming weeks and months. We compare the evolution (from January to May 2020) of the daily mobility flows in Italy, measured by means of nation-wide mobile phone data, and the evolution of transmissibility, measured by the net reproduction number, i.e., the mean number of secondary infections generated by one primary infector in the presence of control interventions and human behavioural adaptations. We find a striking relationship between the negative variation of mobility flows and the net reproduction number, in all Italian regions, between March 11th and March 18th, when the country entered the lockdown. This observation allows us to quantify the time needed to &quot;switch off&quot; the country mobility (one week) and the time required to bring the net reproduction number below 1 (one week). A reasonably simple regression model provides evidence that the net reproduction number is correlated with a region's incoming, outgoing and internal mobility. We also find a strong relationship between the number of days above the epidemic threshold before the mobility flows reduce significantly as an effect of lockdowns, and the total number of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections per 100k inhabitants, thus indirectly showing the effectiveness of the lockdown and the other non-pharmaceutical interventions in the containment of the contagion. Our study demonstrates the value of &quot;big&quot; mobility data to the monitoring of key epidemic indicators to inform choices as the epidemics unfolds in the coming months.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morini, Virginia</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">UTLDR: an agent-based framework for modeling infectious diseases and public interventions</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05606</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cazabet, Rémy</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CDLIB: a python library to extract, compare and evaluate communities from complex networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied Network Science</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied Network Science</style></short-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019/07/29</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-019-0165-9</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">52</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2364-8228</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community Discovery is among the most studied problems in complex network analysis. During the last decade, many algorithms have been proposed to address such task; however, only a few of them have been integrated into a common framework, making it hard to use and compare different solutions. To support developers, researchers and practitioners, in this paper we introduce a python library - namely CDlib - designed to serve this need. The aim of CDlib is to allow easy and standardized access to a wide variety of network clustering algorithms, to evaluate and compare the results they provide, and to visualize them. It notably provides the largest available collection of community detection implementations, with a total of 39 algorithms.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cazabet, Rémy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Challenges in community discovery on temporal networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Temporal Network Theory</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-23495-9_10</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">181–197</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community discovery is one of the most studied problems in network science. In recent years, many works have focused on discovering communities in temporal networks, thus identifying dynamic communities. Interestingly, dynamic communities are not mere sequences of static ones; new challenges arise from their dynamic nature. Despite the large number of algorithms introduced in the literature, some of these challenges have been overlooked or little studied until recently. In this chapter, we will discuss some of these challenges and recent propositions to tackle them. We will, among other topics, discuss of community events in gradually evolving networks, on the notion of identity through change and the ship of Theseus paradox, on dynamic communities in different types of networks including link streams, on the smoothness of dynamic communities, and on the different types of complexity of algorithms for their discovery. We will also list available tools and libraries adapted to work with this problem.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community-Aware Content Diffusion: Embeddednes and Permeability</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A complex network approach to semantic spaces: How meaning organizes itself</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SEBD</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sarmento, Rui Portocarrero</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lemos, Luís</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cordeiro, Mário</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardoso, Douglas</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DynComm R Package–Dynamic Community Detection for Evolving Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01498</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Citraro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eva: Attribute-Aware Network Segmentation</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Identifying topologically well-defined communities that are also homogeneous w.r.t. attributes carried by the nodes that compose them is a challenging social network analysis task. We address such a problem by introducing Eva, a bottom-up low complexity algorithm designed to identify network hidden mesoscale topologies by optimizing structural and attribute-homophilic clustering criteria. We evaluate the proposed approach on heterogeneous real-world labeled network datasets, such as co-citation, linguistic, and social networks, and compare it with state-of-art community discovery competitors. Experimental results underline that Eva ensures that network nodes are grouped into communities according to their attribute similarity without considerably degrading partition modularity, both in single and multi node-attribute scenarios.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Exorcising the Demon: Angel, Efficient Node-Centric Community Discovery</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">“Know Thyself” How Personal Music Tastes Shape the Last. Fm Online Social Network</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Symposium on Formal Methods</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guidi, Barbara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michienzi, Andrea</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Towards the dynamic community discovery in decentralized online social networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Grid Computing</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23–44</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Active and passive diffusion processes in complex networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Applied network science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-018-0100-5</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">42</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ideas, information, viruses: all of them, with their mechanisms, spread over the complex social information, viruses: all tissues described by our interpersonal relations. Usually, to simulate and understand the unfolding of such complex phenomena are used general mathematical models; these models act agnostically from the object of which they simulate the diffusion, thus considering spreading of virus, ideas and innovations alike. Indeed, such degree of abstraction makes it easier to define a standard set of tools that can be applied to heterogeneous contexts; however, it can also lead to biased, incorrect, simulation outcomes. In this work we introduce the concepts of active and passive diffusion to discriminate the degree in which individuals choice affect the overall spreading of content over a social graph. Moving from the analysis of a well-known passive diffusion schema, the Threshold model (that can be used to model peer-pressure related processes), we introduce two novel approaches whose aim is to provide active and mixed schemas applicable in the context of innovations/ideas diffusion simulation.

Our analysis, performed both in synthetic and real-world data, underline that the adoption of exclusively passive/active models leads to conflicting results, thus highlighting the need of mixed approaches to capture the real complexity of the simulated system better.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cazabet, Rémy</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community Discovery in Dynamic Networks: a Survey</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal ACM Computing Surveys</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3172867</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">51</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Networks built to model real world phenomena are characeterised by some properties that have attracted the attention of the scientific community: (i) they are organised according to community structure and (ii) their structure evolves with time. Many researchers have worked on methods that can efficiently unveil substructures in complex networks, giving birth to the field of community discovery. A novel and challenging problem started capturing researcher interest recently: the identification of evolving communities. To model the evolution of a system, dynamic networks can be used: nodes and edges are mutable and their presence, or absence, deeply impacts the community structure that composes them. The aim of this survey is to present the distinctive features and challenges of dynamic community discovery, and propose a classification of published approaches. As a &quot;user manual&quot;, this work organizes state of art methodologies into a taxonomy, based on their rationale, and their specific instanciation. Given a desired definition of network dynamics, community characteristics and analytical needs, this survey will support researchers to identify the set of approaches that best fit their needs. The proposed classification could also help researchers to choose in which direction should future research be oriented. </style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diffusive Phenomena in Dynamic Networks: a data-driven study</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Complex Networks CompleNet</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73198-8_13</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boston March 5-8 2018</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Everyday, ideas, information as well as viruses spread over complex social tissues described by our interpersonal relations. So far, the network contexts upon which diffusive phenomena unfold have usually considered static, composed by a fixed set of nodes and edges. Recent studies describe social networks as rapidly changing topologies. In this work – following a data-driven approach – we compare the behaviors of classical spreading models when used to analyze a given social network whose topological dynamics are observed at different temporal-granularities. Our goal is to shed some light on the impacts that the adoption of a static topology has on spreading simulations as well as to provide an alternative formulation of two classical diffusion models.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lorenzo Gabrielli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daniele Fadda</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mirco Nanni</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Piccinini, Leonardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patrizia Lattarulo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Discovering Mobility Functional Areas: A Mobility Data Analysis Approach</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Workshop on Complex Networks</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73198-8_27</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">How do we measure the borders of urban areas and therefore decide which are the functional units of the territory? Nowadays, we typically do that just looking at census data, while in this work we aim to identify functional areas for mobility in a completely data-driven way. Our solution makes use of human mobility data (vehicle trajectories) and consists in an agglomerative process which gradually groups together those municipalities that maximize internal vehicular traffic while minimizing external one. The approach is tested against a dataset of trips involving individuals of an Italian Region, obtaining a new territorial division which allows us to identify mobility attractors. Leveraging such partitioning and external knowledge, we show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms. Indeed, the outcome of our approach is of great value to public administrations for creating synergies within the aggregations of the territories obtained.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Fractal Dimension of Music: Geography, Popularity and Sentiment Analysis</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76111-4_19</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays there is a growing standardization of musical contents. Our finding comes out from a cross-service multi-level dataset analysis where we study how geography affects the music production. The investigation presented in this paper highlights the existence of a “fractal” musical structure that relates the technical characteristics of the music produced at regional, national and world level. Moreover, a similar structure emerges also when we analyze the musicians’ popularity and the polarity of their songs defined as the mood that they are able to convey. Furthermore, the clusters identified are markedly distinct one from another with respect to popularity and sentiment.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amato, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Candela, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castelli, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Esuli, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Falchi, F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gennaro, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anna Monreale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mirco Nanni</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pagano, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francesca Pratesi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rabitti, F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatore Ruggieri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sebastiani, F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tesconi, M.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flesca, Sergio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Greco, Sergio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Masciari, Elio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saccà, Domenico</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">How Data Mining and Machine Learning Evolved from Relational Data Base to Data Science</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Comprehensive Guide Through the Italian Database Research Over the Last 25 Years</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61893-7_17</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer International Publishing</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cham</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">287 - 306</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-3-319-61893-7</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">During the last 35 years, data management principles such as physical and logical independence, declarative querying and cost-based optimization have led to profound pervasiveness of relational databases in any kind of organization. More importantly, these technical advances have enabled the first round of business intelligence applications and laid the foundation for managing and analyzing Big Data today.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The italian music superdiversity</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multimedia Tools and Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-018-6511-6</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–23</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Globalization can lead to a growing standardization of musical contents. Using a cross-service multi-level dataset we investigate the actual Italian music scene. The investigation highlights the musical Italian superdiversity both individually analyzing the geographical and lexical dimensions and combining them. Using different kinds of features over the geographical dimension leads to two similar, comparable and coherent results, confirming the strong and essential correlation between melodies and lyrics. The profiles identified are markedly distinct one from another with respect to sentiment, lexicon, and melodic features. Through a novel application of a sentiment spreading algorithm and songs’ melodic features, we are able to highlight discriminant characteristics that violate the standard regional political boundaries, reconfiguring them following the actual musical communicative practices.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alina Sirbu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NDlib: a python library to model and analyze diffusion processes over complex networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Data Science and Analytics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41060-017-0086-6</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">61–79</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays the analysis of dynamics of and on networks represents a hot topic in the social network analysis playground. To support students, teachers, developers and researchers, in this work we introduce a novel framework, namely NDlib, an environment designed to describe diffusion simulations. NDlib is designed to be a multi-level ecosystem that can be fruitfully used by different user segments. For this reason, upon NDlib, we designed a simulation server that allows remote execution of experiments as well as an online visualization tool that abstracts its programmatic interface and makes available the simulation platform to non-technicians.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Personalized Market Basket Prediction with Temporal Annotated Recurring Sequences</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8477157</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays, a hot challenge for supermarket chains is to offer personalized services to their customers. Market basket prediction, i.e., supplying the customer a shopping list for the next purchase according to her current needs, is one of these services. Current approaches are not capable of capturing at the same time the different factors influencing the customer's decision process: co-occurrence, sequentuality, periodicity and recurrency of the purchased items. To this aim, we define a pattern Temporal Annotated Recurring Sequence (TARS) able to capture simultaneously and adaptively all these factors. We define the method to extract TARS and develop a predictor for next basket named TBP (TARS Based Predictor) that, on top of TARS, is able to understand the level of the customer's stocks and recommend the set of most necessary items. By adopting the TBP the supermarket chains could crop tailored suggestions for each individual customer which in turn could effectively speed up their shopping sessions. A deep experimentation shows that TARS are able to explain the customer purchase behavior, and that TBP outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guidi, Barbara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michienzi, Andrea</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dynamic community analysis in decentralized online social networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Conference on Parallel Processing</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Forecasting success via early adoptions analysis: A data-driven study</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PloS one</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">e0189096</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Innovations are continuously launched over markets, such as new products over the retail market or new artists over the music scene. Some innovations become a success; others don’t. Forecasting which innovations will succeed at the beginning of their lifecycle is hard. In this paper, we provide a data-driven, large-scale account of the existence of a special niche among early adopters, individuals that consistently tend to adopt successful innovations before they reach success: we will call them Hit-Savvy. Hit-Savvy can be discovered in very different markets and retain over time their ability to anticipate the success of innovations. As our second contribution, we devise a predictive analytical process, exploiting Hit-Savvy as signals, which achieves high accuracy in the early-stage prediction of successful innovations, far beyond the reach of state-of-the-art time series forecasting models. Indeed, our findings and predictive model can be fruitfully used to support marketing strategies and product placement.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Fractal Dimension of Music: Geography, Popularity and Sentiment Analysis</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76111-4_19</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer, Cham</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays there is a growing standardization of musical contents. Our finding comes out from a cross-service multi-level dataset analysis where we study how geography affects the music production. The investigation presented in this paper highlights the existence of a “fractal” musical structure that relates the technical characteristics of the music produced at regional, national and world level. Moreover, a similar structure emerges also when we analyze the musicians’ popularity and the polarity of their songs defined as the mood that they are able to convey. Furthermore, the clusters identified are markedly distinct one from another with respect to popularity and sentiment.

</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information diffusion in complex networks: The active/passive conundrum</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72150-7_25</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ideas, information, viruses: all of them, with their mechanisms, can spread over the complex social tissues described by our interpersonal relations. Classical spreading models can agnostically from the object of which they simulate the diffusion, thus considering spreading of virus, ideas and innovations alike. Indeed, such simplification makes easier to define a standard set of tools that can be applied to heterogeneous contexts; however, it can also lead to biased, partial, simulation outcomes. In this work we discuss the concepts of active and passive diffusion: moving from analysis of a well-known passive model, the Threshold one, we introduce two novel approaches whose aim is to provide active and mixed schemas applicable in the context of innovations/ideas diffusion simulation. Our data-driven analysis shows how, in such context, the adoption of exclusively passive/active models leads to conflicting results, thus highlighting the need of mixed approaches.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Market Basket Prediction using User-Centric Temporal Annotated Recurring Sequences</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays, a hot challenge for supermarket chains is to offer personalized services to their customers. Market basket prediction, i.e., supplying the customer a shopping list for the next purchase according to her current needs, is one of these services. Current approaches are not capable of capturing at the same time the different factors influencing the customer’s decision process: co-occurrence, sequentuality, periodicity and recurrency of the purchased items. To this aim, we define a pattern named Temporal Annotated Recurring Sequence (TARS). We define the method to extract TARS and develop a predictor for next basket named TBP (TARS Based Predictor) that, on top of TARS, is able to understand the level of the customer’s stocks and recommend the set of most necessary items. A deep experimentation shows that TARS can explain the customers’ purchase behavior, and that TBP outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alina Sirbu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NDlib: a python library to model and analyze diffusion processes over complex networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Data Science and Analytics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–19</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays the analysis of dynamics of and on networks represents a hot topic in the social network analysis playground.To support students, teachers, developers and researchers, in this work we introduce a novel framework, namely NDlib, an environment designed to describe diffusion simulations. NDlib is designed to be a multi-level ecosystem that can be fruitfully used by different user segments. For this reason, upon NDlib, we designed a simulation server that allows remote execution of experiments as well as an online visualization tool that abstracts its programmatic interface and makes available the simulation platform to non-technicians.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alina Sirbu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NDlib: Studying Network Diffusion Dynamics</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, DSA</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8259774</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tokyo</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays the analysis of diffusive phenomena occurring on top of complex networks represents a hot topic in the Social Network Analysis playground. In order to support students, teachers, developers and researchers in this work we introduce a novel simulation framework, ND LIB . ND LIB is designed to be a multi-level ecosystem that can be fruitfully used by different user segments. Upon the diffusion library, we designed a simulation server that allows remote execution of experiments and an online visualization tool that abstract the programmatic interface and makes available the simulation platform to non-technicians.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Next Basket Prediction using Recurring Sequential Patterns</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07158</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07158</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays, a hot challenge for supermarket chains is to offer personalized services for their customers. Next basket prediction, i.e., supplying the customer a shopping list for the next purchase according to her current needs, is one of these services. Current approaches are not capable to capture at the same time the different factors influencing the customer's decision process: co-occurrency, sequentuality, periodicity and recurrency of the purchased items. To this aim, we define a pattern Temporal Annotated Recurring Sequence (TARS) able to capture simultaneously and adaptively all these factors. We define the method to extract TARS and develop a predictor for next basket named TBP (TARS Based Predictor) that, on top of TARS, is able to to understand the level of the customer's stocks and recommend the set of most necessary items. By adopting the TBP the supermarket chains could crop tailored suggestions for each individual customer which in turn could effectively speed up their shopping sessions. A deep experimentation shows that TARS are able to explain the customer purchase behavior, and that TBP outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Node-centric Community Discovery: From static to dynamic social network analysis</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Online Social Networks and Media</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468696417301052</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">32–48</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nowadays, online social networks represent privileged playgrounds that enable researchers to study, characterize and understand complex human behaviors. Social Network Analysis, commonly known as SNA, is the multidisciplinary field of research under which researchers of different backgrounds perform their studies: one of the hottest topics in such diversified context is indeed Community Discovery. Clustering individuals, whose relations are described by a networked structure, into homogeneous communities is a complex task required by several analytical processes. Moreover, due to the user-centric and dynamic nature of online social services, during the last decades, particular emphasis was dedicated to the definition of node-centric, overlapping and evolutive Community Discovery methodologies.
In this paper we provide a comprehensive and concise review of the main results, both algorithmic and analytical, we obtained in this field. Moreover, to better underline the rationale behind our research activity on Community Discovery, in this work we provide a synthetic review of the relevant literature, discussing not only methodological results but also analytical ones.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tiles: an online algorithm for community discovery in dynamic social networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Machine Learning</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10994-016-5582-8</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">106</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1213–1241</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community discovery has emerged during the last decade as one of the most challenging problems in social network analysis. Many algorithms have been proposed to find communities on static networks, i.e. networks which do not change in time. However, social networks are dynamic realities (e.g. call graphs, online social networks): in such scenarios static community discovery fails to identify a partition of the graph that is semantically consistent with the temporal information expressed by the data. In this work we propose Tiles, an algorithm that extracts overlapping communities and tracks their evolution in time following an online iterative procedure. Our algorithm operates following a domino effect strategy, dynamically recomputing nodes community memberships whenever a new interaction takes place. We compare Tiles with state-of-the-art community detection algorithms on both synthetic and real world networks having annotated community structure: our experiments show that the proposed approach is able to guarantee lower execution times and better correspondence with the ground truth communities than its competitors. Moreover, we illustrate the specifics of the proposed approach by discussing the properties of identified communities it is able to identify.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pollacci, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">“Are we playing like Music-Stars?” Placing Emerging Artists on the Italian Music Scene</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, ECML-PKDD</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riva del Garda</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Italian emerging bands chase success on the footprint of popular artists by playing rhythmic danceable and happy songs. Our finding comes out from a deep study of the Italian music scene and how the new generation ofmusicians relate with the tradition of their country. By analyzing Spotify data we investigated the peculiarity of regional mu- sic and we placed emerging bands within the musical movements defined by already successful artists. The approach proposed and the results ob- tained are a first attempt to outline some rules suggesting how to reach the success in the musical Italian scene.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Audio Ergo Sum</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Federation of International Conferences on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nobody can state “Rock is my favorite genre” or “David Bowie is my favorite artist”. We defined a Personal Listening Data Model able to capture musical preferences through indicators and patterns, and we discovered that we are all characterized by a limited set of musical preferences, but not by a unique predilection. The empowered capacity of mobile devices and their growing adoption in our everyday life is generating an enormous increment in the production of personal data such as calls, positioning, online purchases and even music listening. Musical listening is a type of data that has started receiving more attention from the scientific community as consequence of the increasing availability of rich and punctual online data sources. Starting from the listening of 30k Last.Fm users, we show how the employment of the Personal Listening Data Models can provide higher levels of self-awareness. In addition, the proposed model will enable the development of a wide range of analysis and musical services both at personal and at collective level.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riivo Kikas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marlon Dumas</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Homophilic network decomposition: a community-centric analysis of online social services</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Network Analysis and Mining</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">103</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In this paper we formulate the homophilic network decomposition problem: Is it possible to identify a network partition whose structure is able to characterize the degree of homophily of its nodes? The aim of our work is to understand the relations between the homophily of individuals and the topological features expressed by specific network substructures. We apply several community detection algorithms on three large-scale online social networks—Skype, LastFM and Google+—and advocate the need of identifying the right algorithm for each specific network in order to extract a homophilic network decomposition. Our results show clear relations between the topological features of communities and the degree of homophily of their nodes in three online social scenarios: product engagement in the Skype network, number of listened songs on LastFM and homogeneous level of education among users of Google+.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">S Rinzivillo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A novel approach to evaluate community detection algorithms on ground truth</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7th Workshop on Complex Networks</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.giuliorossetti.net/about/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Complenet16.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer-Verlag</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dijon, France</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluating a community detection algorithm is a complex task due to the lack of a shared and universally accepted definition of community. In literature, one of the most common way to assess the performances of a community detection algorithm is to compare its output with given ground truth communities by using computationally expensive metrics (i.e., Normalized Mutual Information). In this paper we propose a novel approach aimed at evaluating the adherence of a community partition to the ground truth: our methodology provides more information than the state-of-the-art ones and is fast to compute on large-scale networks. We evaluate its correctness by applying it to six popular community detection algorithms on four large-scale network datasets. Experimental results show how our approach allows to easily evaluate the obtained communities on the ground truth and to characterize the quality of community detection algorithms.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ioanna Miliou</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A supervised approach for intra-/inter-community interaction prediction in dynamic social networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Social Network Analysis and Mining</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2016</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0397-y</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">86</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Due to the growing availability of Internet services in the last decade, the interactions between people became more and more easy to establish. For example, we can have an intercontinental job interview, or we can send real-time multimedia content to any friend of us just owning a smartphone. All this kind of human activities generates digital footprints, that describe a complex, rapidly evolving, network structures. In such dynamic scenario, one of the most challenging tasks involves the prediction of future interactions between couples of actors (i.e., users in online social networks, researchers in collaboration networks). In this paper, we approach such problem by leveraging networks dynamics: to this extent, we propose a supervised learning approach which exploits features computed by time-aware forecasts of topological measures calculated between node pairs. Moreover, since real social networks are generally composed by weakly connected modules, we instantiate the interaction prediction problem in two disjoint applicative scenarios: intra-community and inter-community link prediction. Experimental results on real time-stamped networks show how our approach is able to reach high accuracy. Furthermore, we analyze the performances of our methodology when varying the typologies of features, community discovery algorithms and forecast methods.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riivo Kikas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marlon Dumas</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community-centric analysis of user engagement in Skype social network</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2808797.2809384</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paris, France</style></pub-location><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-1-4503-3854-7</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riccardo Guidotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diego Pennacchioli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Interaction Prediction in Dynamic Networks exploiting Community Discovery</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2808797.2809401</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paris, France</style></pub-location><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">978-1-4503-3854-7</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Due to the growing availability of online social services, interactions between people became more and more easy to establish and track. Online social human activities generate digital footprints, that describe complex, rapidly evolving, dynamic networks. In such scenario one of the most challenging task to address involves the prediction of future interactions between couples of actors. In this study, we want to leverage networks dynamics and community structure to predict which are the future interactions more likely to appear. To this extent, we propose a supervised learning approach which exploit features computed by time-aware forecasts of topological measures calculated between pair of nodes belonging to the same community. Our experiments on real dynamic networks show that the designed analytical process is able to achieve interesting results.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anna Monreale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fabrizio Sebastiani</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantification in Social Networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA'2015)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.giuliorossetti.net/about/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/main_DSAA.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paris, France</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In many real-world applications there is a need to monitor the distribution of a population across different classes, and to track changes in this distribution over time. As an example, an important task is to monitor the percentage of unemployed adults in a given region. When the membership of an individual in a class cannot be established deterministically, a typical solution is the classification task. However, in the above applications the final goal is not determining which class the individuals belong to, but estimating the prevalence of each class in the unlabeled data. This task is called quantification. Most of the work in the literature addressed the quantification problem considering data presented in conventional attribute format. Since the ever-growing availability of web and social media we have a flourish of network data representing a new important source of information and by using quantification network techniques we could quantify collective behavior, i.e., the number of users that are involved in certain type of activities, preferences, or behaviors. In this paper we exploit the homophily effect observed in many social networks in order to construct a quantifier for networked data. Our experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches and the comparison with the existing state-of-the-art quantification methods shows that they are more accurate. </style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diego Pennacchioli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michele Coscia</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The patterns of musical influence on the Last.Fm social network</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">22nd Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, {SEBD} 2014, Sorrento Coast, Italy, June 16-18, 2014.</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michele Coscia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Uncovering Hierarchical and Overlapping Communities with a Local-First Approach</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">{TKDD}</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2629511</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Community discovery in complex networks is the task of organizing a network’s structure by grouping together nodes related to each other. Traditional approaches are based on the assumption that there is a global-level organization in the network. However, in many scenarios, each node is the bearer of complex information and cannot be classified in disjoint clusters. The top-down global view of the partition approach is not designed for this. Here, we represent this complex information as multiple latent labels, and we postulate that edges in the networks are created among nodes carrying similar labels. The latent labels are the communities a node belongs to and we discover them with a simple local-first approach to community discovery. This is achieved by democratically letting each node vote for the communities it sees surrounding it in its limited view of the global system, its ego neighborhood, using a label propagation algorithm, assuming that each node is aware of the label it shares with each of its connections. The local communities are merged hierarchically, unveiling the modular organization of the network at the global level and identifying overlapping groups and groups of groups. We tested this intuition against the state-of-the-art overlapping community discovery and found that our new method advances in the chosen scenarios in the quality of the obtained communities. We perform a test on benchmark and on real-world networks, evaluating the quality of the community coverage by using the extracted communities to predict the metadata attached to the nodes, which we consider external information about the latent labels. We also provide an explanation about why real-world networks contain overlapping communities and how our logic is able to capture them. Finally, we show how our method is deterministic, is incremental, and has a limited time complexity, so that it can be used on real-world scale networks.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Measuring tie strength in multidimensional networks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SEDB 2013</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></date></pub-dates></dates></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Matteo Magnani</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anna Monreale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On multidimensional network measures</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SEDB 2013</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256194479_On_multidimensional_network_measures</style></url></web-urls></urls><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Networks, i.e., sets of interconnected entities, are ubiquitous,
spanning disciplines as diverse as sociology, biology and computer science.
The recent availability of large amounts of network data has thus
provided a unique opportunity to develop models and analysis tools applicable
to a wide range of scenarios. However, real-world phenomena are
often more complex than existing graph data models. One relevant example
concerns the numerous types of social relationships (or edges) that
can be present between individuals in a social network. In this short paper
we present a unified model and a set of measures recently developed
to represent and analyze network data with multiple types of edges.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Letizia Milli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anna Monreale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fabrizio Sebastiani</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantification Trees</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining, Dallas, TX, USA, December 7-10, 2013</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2013.122</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">528–536</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In many applications there is a need to monitor how a population is distributed across different classes, and to track the changes in this distribution that derive from varying circumstances, an example such application is monitoring the percentage (or &quot;prevalence&quot;) of unemployed people in a given region, or in a given age range, or at different time periods. When the membership of an individual in a class cannot be established deterministically, this monitoring activity requires classification. However, in the above applications the final goal is not determining which class each individual belongs to, but simply estimating the prevalence of each class in the unlabeled data. This task is called quantification. In a supervised learning framework we may estimate the distribution across the classes in a test set from a training set of labeled individuals. However, this may be sub optimal, since the distribution in the test set may be substantially different from that in the training set (a phenomenon called distribution drift). So far, quantification has mostly been addressed by learning a classifier optimized for individual classification and later adjusting the distribution it computes to compensate for its tendency to either under-or over-estimate the prevalence of the class. In this paper we propose instead to use a type of decision trees (quantification trees) optimized not for individual classification, but directly for quantification. Our experiments show that quantification trees are more accurate than existing state-of-the-art quantification methods, while retaining at the same time the simplicity and understandability of the decision tree framework.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diego Pennacchioli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Giulio Rossetti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luca Pappalardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dino Pedreschi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fosca Giannotti</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michele Coscia</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Three 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