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Improving Recommendation Quality by Merging Collaborative Filtering and Social Relationships
Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1
Matrix Factorization techniques have been successfully applied to raise the quality of suggestions generated by Collaborative Filtering Systems (CFSs). Traditional CFSs based on Ma…
Fermi-LAT detection of gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of the star forming regions W43 and Westerlund 2
M. Lemoine-Goumard, E. Ferrara, M. -H. Grondin +2
Particle acceleration in massive star forming regions can proceed via a large variety of possible emission scenarios, including high-energy gamma-ray production in the colliding wi…
Generalized Louvain Method for Community Detection in Large Networks
Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1
In this paper we present a novel strategy to discover the community structure of (possibly, large) networks. This approach is based on the well-know concept of network modularity o…
A Framework for Designing 3D Virtual Environments
Salvatore Catanese, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1
The process of design and development of virtual environments can be supported by tools and frameworks, to save time in technical aspects and focusing on the content. In this paper…
Intelligent Self-Repairable Web Wrappers
Emilio Ferrara, Robert Baumgartner
The amount of information available on the Web grows at an incredible high rate. Systems and procedures devised to extract these data from Web sources already exist, and different…
A Large-Scale Community Structure Analysis In Facebook
Emilio Ferrara
Understanding social dynamics that govern human phenomena, such as communications and social relationships is a major problem in current computational social sciences. In particula…