Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds

A Stefanidis, A Crooks, J Radzikowski - GeoJournal, 2013 - Springer
Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and
provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social …

Computational advertising: Techniques for targeting relevant ads

K Dave, V Varma - Foundations and Trends® in Information …, 2014 - nowpublishers.com
Computational Advertising, popularly known as online advertising or Web advertising, refers
to finding the most relevant ads matching a particular context on the Web. The context …

Twitter rumour detection in the health domain

R Sicilia, SL Giudice, Y Pei, M Pechenizkiy… - Expert Systems with …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last years social networks have emerged as a critical mean for information spreading
bringing along several advantages. At the same time, unverified and instrumentally relevant …

Virality and susceptibility in information diffusions

TA Hoang, EP Lim - Proceedings of the international AAAI conference …, 2012 - ojs.aaai.org
Viral diffusion allows a piece of information to widely and quickly spread within the network
of users through word-ofmouth. In this paper, we study the problem of modeling both item …

Health-related rumour detection on Twitter

R Sicilia, SL Giudice, Y Pei… - … on bioinformatics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last years social networks have emerged as a critical mean for information spreading.
In spite of all the positive consequences this phenomenon brings, unverified and …

Inferring the underlying structure of information cascades

B Zong, Y Wu, AK Singh, X Yan - 2012 IEEE 12th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In social networks, information and influence diffuse among users as cascades. While the
importance of studying cascades has been recognized in various applications, it is difficult to …

Rule-based space characterization for rumour detection in health

R Sicilia, M Merone, R Valenti, P Soda - Engineering Applications of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Last decades have witnessed a radical change in the way information spreads. Social
networks provide a constantly updated pool of news to the end-users but the absence of …

Challenging social media analytics: web science perspectives

R Tinati, O Phillipe, C Pope, L Carr… - Proceedings of the 2014 …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we outline some of the challenges for social media analytics and--at the same
time-challenge existing approaches to social media analysis. Specifically, we suggest that …

Finding polarised communities and tracking information diffusion on Twitter: The Irish Abortion Referendum

C Pena, P MacCarron, DJP O'Sullivan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09196, 2023 - arxiv.org
The analysis of social networks enables the understanding of social interactions,
polarisation of ideas, and the spread of information and therefore plays an important role in …

Content delivery simulations supported by social network-awareness

I Kilanioti, GA Papadopoulos - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study we conduct experiments on a modified content delivery simulation framework,
as we aspire to compare miscellaneous policies for dynamic OSN-aware content delivery …