Bots in social and interaction networks: detection and impact estimation

M Mendoza, M Tesconi, S Cresci - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The rise of bots and their influence on social networks is a hot topic that has aroused the
interest of many researchers. Despite the efforts to detect social bots, it is still difficult to …

Reconstructing an epidemic outbreak using steiner connectivity

R Mishra, J Heavey, G Kaur, A Adiga… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Only a subset of infections is actually observed in an outbreak, due to multiple reasons such
as asymptomatic cases and under-reporting. Therefore, reconstructing an epidemic cascade …

A dynamic data structure for temporal reachability with unsorted contact insertions

LFA Brito, MK Albertini, A Casteigts… - Social Network Analysis …, 2022 - Springer
Temporal graphs represent interactions between entities over the time. These interactions
may be direct (a contact between two nodes at some time instant), or indirect, through …

Risk-aware temporal cascade reconstruction to detect asymptomatic cases: For the cdc mind healthcare network

H Jang, S Pai, B Adhikari… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of detecting asymptomatic cases in a temporal contact
network in which multiple outbreaks have occurred. For many infections, asymptomatic …

Ensemble inference of unobserved infections in networks using partial observations

R Zhang, J Tai, S Pei - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Undetected infections fuel the dissemination of many infectious agents. However,
identification of unobserved infectious individuals remains challenging due to limited …

Risk-aware temporal cascade reconstruction to detect asymptomatic cases

H Jang, S Pai, B Adhikari, SV Pemmaraju - Knowledge and Information …, 2022 - Springer
This paper studies the problem of detecting asymptomatic cases in a temporal contact
network in which multiple outbreaks have occurred. We show that the key to detecting …

Social diffusion sources can escape detection

M Waniek, P Holme, M Cebrian, T Rahwan - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Influencing others through social networks is fundamental to all human societies. Whether
this happens through the diffusion of rumors, opinions, or viruses, identifying the diffusion …

Predicting partially observed processes on temporal networks by Dynamics-Aware Node Embeddings (DyANE)

K Sato, M Oka, A Barrat, C Cattuto - EPJ Data Science, 2021 - epjds.epj.org
Low-dimensional vector representations of network nodes have proven successful to feed
graph data to machine learning algorithms and to improve performance across diverse …

End-to-End Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning to Detect Asymptomatic Cases in Healthcare Facilities

Y Zhong, W Huang, B Adhikari - 2024 IEEE 12th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the problem of detecting asymptomatic cases in epidemic outbreaks
within healthcare facilities. Asymptomatic cases pose a significant obstacle in our fight …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring the Hidden Cascade Infection over Erdös-Rényi (ER) Random Graph

J Choi - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Finding hidden infected nodes is extremely important when information or diseases spread
rapidly in a network because hints regarding the global properties of the diffusion dynamics …