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20152022
most citedBreaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News

111 citations · 223 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG20221 cited

Development and Validation of an AI-Driven Model for the La Rance Tidal Barrage: A Generalisable Case Study

Túlio Marcondes Moreira, Jackson Geraldo de Faria, Pedro O. S. Vaz-de-Melo +1

In this work, an AI-Driven (autonomous) model representation of the La Rance tidal barrage was developed using novel parametrisation and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) technique…

cs.SI202073 cited

Facebook Ads Monitor: An Independent Auditing System for Political Ads on Facebook

Márcio Silva, Lucas Santos de Oliveira, Athanasios Andreou +3

The 2016 United States presidential election was marked by the abuse of targeted advertising on Facebook. Concerned with the risk of the same kind of abuse to happen in the 2018 Br…

cs.SI2019

A Multi-Strategy Approach to Overcoming Bias in Community Detection Evaluation

Jeancarlo Campos Leão, Alberto H. F. Laender, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

Community detection is key to understand the structure of complex networks. However, the lack of appropriate evaluation strategies for this specific task may produce biased and inc…

cs.SI2018

Improving Community Detection by Mining Social Interactions

Jeancarlo Campos Leão, Michele Amaral Brandão, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo +1

Social relationships can be divided into different classes based on the regularity with which they occur and the similarity among them. Thus, rare and somewhat similar relationship…

cs.SI2018

Fast Estimation of Causal Interactions using Wold Processes

Flavio Figueiredo, Guilherme Borges, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo +1

We here focus on the task of learning Granger causality matrices for multivariate point processes. In order to accomplish this task, our work is the first to explore the use of Wol…

cs.SI2018

When Politicians Talk About Politics: Identifying Political Tweets of Brazilian Congressmen

Lucas S. Oliveira, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Marcelo S. Amaral +1

Since June 2013, when Brazil faced the largest and most significant mass protests in a generation, a political crisis is in course. In midst of this crisis, Brazilian politicians u…