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Distance Vector Domination
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Garagano, Adele A. Rescigno
Identifying and mitigating the spread of fake information is a challenging issue that has become dominant with the rise of social media. We consider a generalization of the Dominat…
Parameterized Complexity of (d,r)-Domination via Modular Decomposition
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele A. Rescigno
With the rise of social media, misinformation has significant negative effects on the decision-making of individuals, organizations and communities within society. Identifying and…
Synthetic vs Human Emotional Faces: What Changes in Humans' Decoding Accuracy
Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Alessandro Vinciarelli +2
Considered the increasing use of assistive technologies in the shape of virtual agents, it is necessary to investigate those factors which characterize and affect the interaction b…
Exploring Emotion Expression Recognition in Older Adults Interacting with a Virtual Coach
Cristina Palmero, Mikel deVelasco, Mohamed Amine Hmani +18
The EMPATHIC project aimed to design an emotionally expressive virtual coach capable of engaging healthy seniors to improve well-being and promote independent aging. One of the cor…
Handwriting and Drawing for Depression Detection: A Preliminary Study
Gennaro Raimo, Michele Buonanno, Massimiliano Conson +6
The events of the past 2 years related to the pandemic have shown that it is increasingly important to find new tools to help mental health experts in diagnosing mood disorders. Le…
Identifying synthetic voices qualities for conversational agents
M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco +6
The present study aims to explore user acceptance and perceptions toward different quality levels of synthetical voices. To achieve this, four voices have been exploited considerin…
EMOTHAW: A novel database for emotional state recognition from handwriting
Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy +2
The detection of negative emotions through daily activities such as handwriting is useful for promoting well-being. The spread of human-machine interfaces such as tablets makes the…
The EMPATHIC Project: Mid-term Achievements
M. I. Torres, J. M. Olaso, C. Montenegro +26
The goal of active aging is to promote changes in the elderly community so as to maintain an active, independent and socially-engaged lifestyle. Technological advancements currentl…
Seniors' acceptance of virtual humanoid agents
Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello +5
This paper reports on a study conducted as part of the EU EMPATHIC project, whose goal is to develop an empathic virtual coach capable of enhancing seniors' well-being, focusing on…
The EMPATHIC Project: Building an Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly
Luisa Brinkschulte, Natascha Mariacher, Stephan Schlögl +21
This paper outlines the EMPATHIC Research & Innovation project, which aims to research, innovate, explore and validate new interaction paradigms and plat-forms for future generatio…
Parameterized Complexity of Immunization in the Threshold Model
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele Anna Rescigno
We consider the problem of controlling the spread of harmful items in networks, such as the contagion proliferation of diseases or the diffusion of fake news. We assume the linear…
Analyzing, Exploring, and Visualizing Complex Networks via Hypergraphs using SimpleHypergraphs.jl
Alessia Antelmi, Gennaro Cordasco, Bogumił Kamiński +4
Real-world complex networks are usually being modeled as graphs. The concept of graphs assumes that the relations within the network are binary (for instance, between pairs of node…
Iterated Type Partitions
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele Anna Rescigno
This paper deals with the complexity of some natural graph problems when parametrized by {measures that are restrictions of} clique-width, such as modular-width and neighborhood di…
Time-Bounded Influence Diffusion with Incentives
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Joseph Peters +2
A widely studied model of influence diffusion in social networks represents the network as a graph with an influence threshold for each node. Initially the members…
Whom to befriend to influence people
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Manuel Lafond +4
Alice wants to join a new social network, and influence its members to adopt a new product or idea. Each person in the network has a certain threshold for {\em activatio…
Evangelism in Social Networks: Algorithms and Complexity
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele Anna Rescigno +1
We consider a population of interconnected individuals that, with respect to a piece of information, at each time instant can be subdivided into three (time-dependent) categories:…
On Finding Small Sets that Influence Large Networks
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele Anna Rescigno
We consider the problem of selecting a minimum size subset of nodes in a network, that allows to activate all the nodes of the network. We present a fast and simple algorithm that,…
Discovering Small Target Sets in Social Networks: A Fast and Effective Algorithm
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Marco Mecchia +2
Given a network represented by a graph , we consider a dynamical process of influence diffusion in that evolves as follows: Initially only the nodes of a given $S\subs…
Optimizing Spread of Influence in Weighted Social Networks via Partial Incentives
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano, Adele A. Rescigno +1
A widely studied process of influence diffusion in social networks posits that the dynamics of influence diffusion evolves as follows: Given a graph , representing the net…
Spread of Influence in Weighted Networks under Time and Budget Constraints
Ferdinando Cicalese, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano +3
Given a network represented by a weighted directed graph G, we consider the problem of finding a bounded cost set of nodes S such that the influence spreading from S in G, within a…
How to go Viral: Cheaply and Quickly
Ferdinando Cicalese, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano +3
Given a social network represented by a graph , we consider the problem of finding a bounded cardinality set of nodes with the property that the influence spreading from …
Latency-Bounded Target Set Selection in Social Networks
Ferdinando Cicalese, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano +2
Motivated by applications in sociology, economy and medicine, we study variants of the Target Set Selection problem, first proposed by Kempe, Kleinberg and Tardos. In our scenario…
Minimum Weight Dynamo and Fast Opinion Spreading
Sara Brunetti, Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano +2
We consider the following multi--level opinion spreading model on networks. Initially, each node gets a weight from the set [0..k-1], where such a weight stands for the individuals…
Community Detection via Semi-Synchronous Label Propagation Algorithms
Gennaro Cordasco, Luisa Gargano
A recently introduced novel community detection strategy is based on a label propagation algorithm (LPA) which uses the diffusion of information in the network to identify communit…