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The year 2020 will be remembered for two events of global significance: the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. In this chapter, we summarize recent studies using large public Twitter data sets on these issues. We have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Ho-Chun Herbert Chang , Emily Chen , Meiqing Zhang , Goran Muric , Emilio Ferrara

It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant impact on the outcomes of national events. It is important to raise public awareness about the threat of bots on social media during these important events, such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Kai-Cheng Yang , Pik-Mai Hui , Filippo Menczer

The past two years have witnessed the evolution of large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems from labor-intensive manual design to partial automation (\textit{e.g.}, prompt engineering, communication topology) and eventually to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Guibin Zhang , Kaijie Chen , Guancheng Wan , Heng Chang , Hong Cheng , Kun Wang , Shuyue Hu , Lei Bai

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many dashboards have emerged as useful tools to monitor the evolution of the pandemic, inform the public, and assist governments in decision making. Our goal is to develop a globally applicable…

Participants in online experiments often enroll over time, which can compromise sample representativeness due to temporal shifts in covariates. This issue is particularly critical in A/B tests, online controlled experiments extensively used…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-30 Chen Wang , Shichao Han , Shan Huang

Background: Abstracts are a particularly valuable element in a software engineering research article. However, not all abstracts are as informative as they could be. Objective: Characterize the structure of abstracts in high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Lutz Prechelt , Lloyd Montgomery , Julian Frattini , Franz Zieris

This dissertation explores classes of compiler optimization techniques that are applicable late in the compilation process, after all executable code for a program has been linked. I concentrate on techniques which, for various reasons,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Clinton F. Goss

This short paper discusses continually updated causal abstractions as a potential direction of future research. The key idea is to revise the existing level of causal abstraction to a different level of detail that is both consistent with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Matej Zečević , Moritz Willig , Jonas Seng , Florian Peter Busch

Academic Search is a timeless challenge that the field of Information Retrieval has been dealing with for many years. Even today, the search for academic material is a broad field of research that recently started working on problems like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Philipp Schaer , Johann Schaible , Leyla Jael Garcia Castro

LitCovid (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/), first launched in February 2020, is a first-of-its-kind literature hub for tracking up-to-date published research on COVID-19. The number of articles in LitCovid has increased…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Qingyu Chen , Alexis Allot , Robert Leaman , Chih-Hsuan Wei , Elaheh Aghaarabi , John J. Guerrerio , Lilly Xu , Zhiyong Lu

This volume contains the proceedings of PLACES 2026, the 17th edition of the Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software. The workshop is scheduled to take place in Turin, Italy, on April…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kirstin Peters , Lorenzo Gheri

This study investigates whether the virtualization of academic conferences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the gender structure of conference participants. We explored this question utilizing authorship data from the Web of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Agnieszka Olechnicka , Adam Ploszaj , Ewa Zegler-Poleska

This volume contains the papers presented at the 23rd International Overture Workshop, held on the 11th of June 2025. This event was the latest in a series of workshops around the Vienna Development Method (VDM), the open-source project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Hugo Daniel Macedo , Ken Pierce

This volume contains the papers accepted at the 7th Systems Software Verification Conference (SSV 2012), held in Sydney, November 28-30, 2012. The aim of SSV workshops and conference series is to bring together researchers and developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Franck Cassez , Ralf Huuck , Gerwin Klein , Bastian Schlich

ECHO (Evaluation of Chat, Human behavior, and Outcomes) is an open research platform designed to support reproducible, mixed-method studies of human interaction with both conversational AI systems and Web search engines. It enables…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jiqun Liu , Nischal Dinesh , Ran Yu

We review epidemiological models for the propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic during the early months of the outbreak: from February to May 2020. The aim is to propose a methodological review that highlights the following characteristics:…

Using a robotic platform for telepresence applications has gained paramount importance in this decade. Scenarios such as remote meetings, group discussions, and presentations/talks in seminars and conferences get much attention in this…

Reconstructing pathogen dynamics from genetic data as they become available during an outbreak or epidemic represents an important statistical scenario in which observations arrive sequentially in time and one is interested in performing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-04 Mandev S. Gill , Philippe Lemey , Marc A. Suchard , Andrew Rambaut , Guy Baele

This volume constitutes the proceedings of WoF'15, the First International Workshop on Focusing, held on November 23rd, 2015 in Suva, Fiji. The workshop was a half-day satellite event of LPAR-20, the 20th International Conferences on Logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Iliano Cervesato , Carsten Schürmann