4 papers
Who's Blocking Whom? Candidate Generation and Block Prediction on Bluesky
Cecilia Galbiati, Carlo Bono, Carlo Piccardi +1
Blocking is a widely used tool that helps people manage unwanted interactions on social platforms. We study the problem of predicting block events on Bluesky: whether a given user…
Static and Dynamic Strategies for Influencing Opinions in Social Networks
Paolo Tarantino, Fabio Mazza, Carlo Piccardi +1
The ability of a small set of coordinated actors to manipulate opinions in online social networks poses a serious challenge to the fairness and integrity of public debate. We inves…
A data-driven analysis of the impact of non-compliant individuals on epidemic diffusion in urban settings
Fabio Mazza, Marco Brambilla, Carlo Piccardi +1
Individuals who do not comply with public health safety measures pose a significant challenge to effective epidemic control, as their risky behaviours can undermine public health i…
An egonet-based approach to effective weighted network comparison
Carlo Piccardi
With the impressive growth of network models in practically every scientific and technological area, we are often faced with the need to compare graphs, i.e., to quantify their (di…