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Resilience of mobility network to dynamic population response across COVID-19 interventions: evidences from Chile
Pasquale Casaburi, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Nicolò Gozzi +6
The COVID19 pandemic highlighted the importance of non-traditional data sources, such as mobile phone data, to inform effective public health interventions and monitor adherence to…
Massive Multi-Agent Data-Driven Simulations of the GitHub Ecosystem
Jim Blythe, John Bollenbacher, Di Huang +12
Simulating and predicting planetary-scale techno-social systems poses heavy computational and modeling challenges. The DARPA SocialSim program set the challenge to model the evolut…
Personality and Behavior in Role-based Online Games
Zhao Wang, Anna Sapienza, Aron Culotta +1
Both offline and online human behaviors are affected by personality. Of special interests are online games, where players have to impersonate specific roles and their behaviors are…
Discovering patterns of online popularity from time series
Mert Ozer, Anna Sapienza, Andrés Abeliuk +2
How is popularity gained online? Is being successful strictly related to rapidly becoming viral in an online platform or is it possible to acquire popularity in a steady and discip…
The Influence of Social Ties on Performance in Team-based Online Games
Yilei Zeng, Anna Sapienza, Emilio Ferrara
Social ties are the invisible glue that keeps together human ecosystems. Despite the massive amount of research studying the role of social ties in communities (groups, teams, etc.…
Wearable proximity sensors for monitoring a mass casualty incident exercise: a feasibility study
Laura Ozella, Laetitia Gauvin, Luca Carenzo +9
Over the past several decades, naturally occurring and man-made mass casualty incidents (MCI) have increased in frequency and number, worldwide. To test the impact of such event on…
Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Team Composition
Anna Sapienza, Palash Goyal, Emilio Ferrara
Cooperation is a fundamental social mechanism, whose effects on human performance have been investigated in several environments. Online games are modern-days natural settings in w…
Extracting the multi-timescale activity patterns of online financial markets
Teruyoshi Kobayashi, Anna Sapienza, Emilio Ferrara
Online financial markets can be represented as complex systems where trading dynamics can be captured and characterized at different resolutions and time scales. In this work, we d…
Performance Dynamics and Success in Online Games
Anna Sapienza, Hao Peng, Emilio Ferrara
Online data provide a way to monitor how users behave in social systems like social networks and online games, and understand which features turn an ordinary individual into a succ…
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…
Estimating the outcome of spreading processes on networks with incomplete information: a mesoscale approach
Anna Sapienza, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto +1
Recent advances in data collection have facilitated the access to time-resolved human proximity data that can conveniently be represented as temporal networks of contacts between i…
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…