Publications related to Social web

Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media

Social media is increasingly being employed to develop Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) indicators. The image-sharing platform Flickr has been one of the most popular sources of data. Most large-scale studies, however, tend to only use the number of image ...

2024

Touch and Closeness in Naturally Organized Activities

Countless aspects of touch and closeness have been questioned in an unprecedented way during the recent Covid epidemic. Social practices as banal as greetings were both reflexively and practically challenged and sometimes deeply altered, resulting in painf ...

2024

HyperLogLog: Exponentially Bad in Adversarial Settings

Mathilde Aliénor Raynal

Computing the count of distinct elements in large data sets is a common task but naive approaches are memory-expensive. The HyperLogLog (HLL) algorithm (Flajolet et al., 2007) estimates a data set's cardinality while using significantly less memory than a ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

MINERVA: Browser API Fuzzing with Dynamic Mod-Ref Analysis

Mathias Josef Payer, Yu Jiang, Chijin Zhou

Browser APIs are essential to the modern web experience. Due to their large number and complexity, they vastly expand the attack surface of browsers. To detect vulnerabilities in these APIs, fuzzers generate test cases with a large amount of random API inv ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Smart Toys plus plus : Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning

Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Under the umbrella of smart toys, a myriad of interactive systems have addressed a variety of scenarios considering entertainment, education, sustainability, social and environmental learning through play. Tangibles and small toy robots prevail; but intera ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Dynamic pattern recognition in large-scale graphs with applications to social networks

Volodymyr Miz

A graph is a versatile data structure facilitating representation of interactions among objects in various complex systems. Very often these objects have attributes whose measurements change over time, reflecting the dynamics of the system. This general da ...

EPFL2020

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

On (The Lack Of) Location Privacy in Crowdsourcing Applications

Carmela González Troncoso, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Crowdsourcing enables application developers to benefit from large and diverse datasets at a low cost. Specifically, mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) leverages users' devices as sensors to perform geo-located data collection. The collection of geo-located data r ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Vlogging Over Time: Longitudinal Impressions and Behavior in YouTube

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Dairazalia Sanchez Cortes

YouTube vlogging, as a popular genre of ubiquitous social video, engages people in entertainment, civic, and social activities. Although several aspects of vlogging have been studied in media studies and multimedia analysis, the longitudinal angle of vlogg ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Auction Based Mechanisms for Dynamic Task Assignments in Expert Crowdsourcing

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar

Crowdsourcing marketplaces link large populations of workers to an even larger number of tasks. Thus, it is necessary to have mechanisms for matching workers with interesting and suitable tasks. Earlier work has addressed the problem of finding optimal wor ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Capturing the Moment: Lightweight Similarity Computations

Rachid Guerraoui, Rhicheek Patra, Georgios Damaskinos

Similarity computations are crucial in various web activities like advertisements, search or trust-distrust predictions. These similarities often vary with time as product perception and popularity constantly change with users' evolving inclination. The hu ...

IEEE2017

Visual prominence vs architectural sensitivity of solar applications in existing urban areas: an experience with web-shared photos

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Architectural integration of solar technologies in the built environment is a challenge: one of the key tasks is the identification of homogeneous zones of intervention as a function of the solar energy potential and “criticity”, a combination of the socio ...

Elsevier2017

A Motion Capture Study to Measure the Feeling of Synchrony in Romantic Couples and in Professional Musicians

Pierre Magistretti, Delphine Preissmann, Joan Llobera Mahy

The feeling of synchrony is fundamental for most social activities and prosocial behaviors. However, little is known about the behavioral correlates of this feeling and its modulation by intergroup differences. We previously showed that the subjective feel ...

Frontiers Media2016

Mining Crowdsourced First Impressions in Online Social Video

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

While multimedia and social computing research have used crowdsourcing techniques to annotate objects, actions, and scenes in social video sites like YouTube, little work has ad- dressed the crowdsourcing of personal and social traits in online social vide ...

2014

Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Vincent Etter

Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter are becoming increasingly popular, allowing project creators to raise hundreds of millions of dollars every year. However, only one out of two Kickstarter campaigns reaches its funding goal and is successful. It is ...

ACM2013

Comparative Study of Trust Modeling For Automatic Landmark Tagging

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

Many images uploaded to social networks are related to travel, since people consider traveling to be an important event in their life. However, a signiﬁcant amount of travel images on the Internet lack proper geographical annotations or tags. In many cases ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Privacy of Community Pseudonyms in Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Murtuza Jadliwala, Julien Freudiger, Valtteri Niemi

Wireless networks offer novel means to enhance social interactions. In particular, peer-to-peer wireless communications enable direct and real-time interaction with nearby devices and communities and could extend current online social networks by providing ...

Springer2013

Decentralized polling with respectable participants

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Maxime Monod, Kévin Clément Huguenin

We consider the polling problem in a social network: participants express support for a given option and expect an outcome reflecting the opinion of the majority. Individuals in a social network care about their reputation: they do not want their vote to b ...

Elsevier2012