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20142026
most citedAnalysis of a heterogeneous social network of humans and cultural objects

29 citations · 29 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.AI2026

The CriticalSet problem: Identifying Critical Contributors in Bipartite Dependency Networks

Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Andrea Tagarelli

Identifying critical nodes in complex networks is a fundamental task in graph mining. Yet, methods addressing an all-or-nothing coverage mechanics in a bipartite dependency network…

cs.SE2026

Project resilience as network robustness

Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Giorgio Terracina

Engineering projects are the result of the combined effort of their members. Yet, it has been documented that labor division withing projects is unevenly distributed: some project…

cs.SI2026

The Theory and Practice of Computing the Bus-Factor

Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Pasquale De Meo, Giorgio Terracina +1

The bus-factor is a measure of project risk with respect to personnel availability, informally defined as the number of people whose sudden unavailability would cause a project to…

cs.SE2025

Fast and Accurate Heuristics for Bus-Factor Estimation

Sebastiano Antonio Piccolo

The bus-factor is a critical risk indicator that quantifies how many key contributors a project can afford to lose before core knowledge or functionality is compromised. Despite it…

cs.SI2014★ 29 cited

Analysis of a heterogeneous social network of humans and cultural objects

Santa Agreste, Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara +2

Modern online social platforms enable their members to be involved in a broad range of activities like getting friends, joining groups, posting/commenting resources and so on. In t…