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19 papers
Are renewable energies on a sustained path? Analysis of selected case-studies from the pre-pandemic-era
Alessandro Bessi, Mariangela Guidolin, Piero Manfredi
Provided widespread vaccination will bring the COVID-19 pandemic under full control worldwide, the contrast to climate change and the energy transition as one of its main actions w…
Early Warnings of Cyber Threats in Online Discussions
Anna Sapienza, Alessandro Bessi, Saranya Damodaran +3
We introduce a system for automatically generating warnings of imminent or current cyber-threats. Our system leverages the communication of malicious actors on the darkweb, as well…
Non-negative Tensor Factorization for Human Behavioral Pattern Mining in Online Games
Anna Sapienza, Alessandro Bessi, Emilio Ferrara
Multiplayer online battle arena has become a popular game genre. It also received increasing attention from our research community because they provide a wealth of information abou…
Towards the Modeling of Behavioral Trajectories of Users in Online Social Media
Alessandro Bessi
In this paper, we introduce a methodology that allows to model behavioral trajectories of users in online social media. First, we illustrate how to leverage the probabilistic frame…
On the statistical properties of viral misinformation in online social media
Alessandro Bessi
The massive diffusion of online social media allows for the rapid and uncontrolled spreading of conspiracy theories, hoaxes, unsubstantiated claims, and false news. Such an impress…
Echo Chambers: Emotional Contagion and Group Polarization on Facebook
Michela Del Vicario, Gianna Vivaldo, Alessandro Bessi +4
Recent findings showed that users on Facebook tend to select information that adhere to their system of beliefs and to form polarized groups -- i.e., echo chambers. Such a tendency…