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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…
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…
Crawling Facebook for Social Network Analysis Purposes
Salvatore A. Catanese, Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara +2
We describe our work in the collection and analysis of massive data describing the connections between participants to online social networks. Alternative approaches to social netw…
Rendering of 3D Dynamic Virtual Environments
Salvatore Catanese, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara +1
In this paper we present a framework for the rendering of dynamic 3D virtual environments which can be integrated in the development of videogames. It includes methods to manage so…