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Community detection is an important task in network analysis, in which we aim to learn a network partition that groups together vertices with similar community-level connectivity patterns. By finding such groups of vertices with similar…

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A key step in influence maximization in online social networks is the identification of a small number of users, known as influencers, who are able to spread influence quickly and widely to other users. The evolving nature of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Weihua Li , Yuxuan Hu , Shiqing Wu , Quan Bai , Edmund Lai

Modeling human behavioral data is challenging due to its scale, sparseness (few observations per individual), heterogeneity (differently behaving individuals), and class imbalance (few observations of the outcome of interest). An additional…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Peter G Fennell , Zhiya Zuo , Kristina Lerman

In recent years, researchers attempt to utilize online social information to alleviate data sparsity for collaborative filtering, based on the rationale that social networks offers the insights to understand the behavioral patterns.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Xiaoling Long , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Huance Xu , Peng Dai , Lianghao Xia , Liefeng Bo

This paper presents SYMBIOSIS, an AI-powered framework and platform designed to make Systems Thinking accessible for addressing societal challenges and unlock paths for leveraging systems thinking frameworks to improve AI systems. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sameer Sethi , Donald Martin , Emmanuel Klu

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a popular tool in the social and behavioural sciences, where it is being applied to ever more complex data types. The high-dimensional data produced by modern sensors, brain images, or (epi)genetic…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-11 Erik-Jan van Kesteren , Daniel L. Oberski

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

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Subjective self-disclosure is an important feature of human social interaction. While much has been done in the social and behavioural literature to characterise the features and consequences of subjective self-disclosure, little work has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Henry Powell , Guy Laban , Emily S. Cross

As research into community finding in social networks progresses, there is a need for algorithms capable of detecting overlapping community structure. Many algorithms have been proposed in recent years that are capable of assigning each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-18 Aaron F. McDaid , Neil J. Hurley

Swarming systems, such as drone fleets and robotic teams, exhibit complex dynamics driven by both individual behaviors and emergent group-level interactions. Unlike traditional multi-agent domains such as pedestrian crowds or traffic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minah Lee , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for social networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks obtained…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-11 Hui-Jia Li , J J. Daniels

Botnet is one of the numerous attacks ravaging the networking environment. Its approach is said to be brutal and dangerous to network infrastructures as well as client systems. Since the introduction of botnet, different design methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Maxwell Scale Uwadia Osagie , Amenze Joy Osagie

Our recent paper [Grauwin et al. Sci. Rep. 7 (2017)] demonstrates that community and hierarchical structure of the networks of human interactions largely determines the least and should be taken into account while modeling them. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Stanislav Sobolevsky

An abundance of literature has shown that the injection of noise into complex socio-economic systems can improve their resilience. This study aims to understand whether the same applies in the context of information diffusion in social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-21 Diana Riazi , Giacomo Livan

The stochastic block model (SBM) is widely studied as a benchmark for graph clustering aka community detection. In practice, graph data often come with node attributes that bear additional information about the communities. Previous works…

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Capturing both the structural and temporal aspects of interactions is crucial for many real world datasets like contact between individuals. Using the link stream formalism to capture the dynamic of the systems, we tackle the issue of…

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The rapid evolution of cyberattacks continues to drive the emergence of unknown (zero-day) threats, posing significant challenges for network intrusion detection systems in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Existing machine learning and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shan Ali , Feifei Niu , Paria Shirani , Lionel C. Briand

We present a real-time, data-driven algorithm to enhance the social-invisibility of robots within crowds. Our approach is based on prior psychological research, which reveals that people notice and--importantly--react negatively to groups…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Aniket Bera , Tanmay Randhavane , Emily Kubin , Austin Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Kurt Gray

Networks are central to many economic and organizational applications, including workplace team formation, social platform recommendations, and classroom friendship development. In these settings, networks are modeled as graphs, with agents…

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