Publications associées à PerContRep: a practical reputation system for pervasive content services

The impact of NFT profile pictures within social network communities

This paper presents an analysis of the role of social media, specifically Twitter, in the context of non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs. Such emerging technology framing the creation and exchange of digital object, started years ago with early proje ...

ACM2022

Opinion Formation over Adaptive Networks

Virginia Bordignon

An adaptive network consists of multiple communicating agents, equipped with sensing and learning abilities that allow them to extract meaningful information from measurements. The objective of the network is to solve a global inference problem in a decent ...

EPFL2022

True scale-free networks hidden by finite size effects

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan

We analyze about 200 naturally occurring networks with distinct dynamical origins to formally test whether the commonly assumed hypothesis of an underlying scale-free structure is generally viable. This has recently been questioned on the basis of statisti ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Exponential Collapse Of Social Beliefs Over Weakly-Connected Heterogeneous Networks

Ali H. Sayed, Augusto José Rabelo Almeida Santos

We consider a distributed social learning problem where a network of agents is interested in selecting one among a finite number of hypotheses. The data collected by the agents might be heterogeneous, meaning that different sub-networks might observe data ...

IEEE2019

From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms

Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

Social platforms became a major source of rumours. While rumours can have severe real-world implications, their detection is notoriously hard: Content on social platforms is short and lacks semantics; it spreads quickly through a dynamically evolving netwo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Can Who-Edits-What Predict Edit Survival?

Matthias Grossglauser, Lucas Maystre, Victor Kristof

As the number of contributors to online peer-production systems grows, it becomes increasingly important to predict whether the edits that users make will eventually be beneficial to the project. Existing solutions either rely on a user reputation system o ...

ACM2018

Discovering Interaction Patterns in Online Learning Environments : A Learning Analytics Research

Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

The increasing amount of data collected in online learning environments provides unique opportunities to better understand the learning processes in different educational settings. Learning analytics research aims at understanding and optimizing learning a ...

EPFL2018

Automatic Online Fake News Detection Combining Content and Social Signals

Stefano Moret, Gabriele Ballarin

The proliferation and rapid diffusion of fake news on the Internet highlight the need of automatic hoax detection systems. In the context of social networks, machine learning (ML) methods can be used for this purpose. Fake news detection strategies are tra ...

IEEE2018

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

Dynamics of MOOC Discussion Forums

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

In this integrated study of dynamics in MOOCs discussion forums, we analyze the interplay of temporal patterns, discussion content, and the social structure emerging from the communication using mixed methods. A special focus is on the yet under-explored a ...

2017

From recommender systems to spatio-temporal dynamics with network science

Kirell Maël Benzi

Networks are data structures that are fundamental for capturing and analyzing complex interactions between objects. While they have been used for decades to solve problems in virtually all scientific fields, their usage for data analysis in real-world prac ...

EPFL2017

EHR: a Sensing Technology Readiness Model for Lifestyle Changes

Pearl Pu Faltings, Yu Chen, Danni Le, Zerrin Yumak

Interest in developing user-centered sensing technologies for personalized behavior change has gained significant momentum. However, very little research work has been done to understand issues relative to user readiness and adoption of the sensing technol ...

Springer2017

Elicitation and Aggregation of Crowd Information

Goran Radanovic

This thesis addresses challenges in elicitation and aggregation of crowd information for settings where an information collector, called center, has a limited knowledge about information providers, called agents. Each agent is assumed to have noisy private ...

EPFL2016

Analyzing Large-Scale Public Campaigns on Twitter

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Roman Prokofyev, Julia Proskurnia

Social media has become an important instrument for running various types of public campaigns and mobilizing people. Yet, the dynamics of public campaigns on social networking platforms still remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we present an in-depth ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Padoc: Enabling social networking in proximity

Denis Gillet, Jonny Quarta, Sven Reber, Adrian Christian Holzer

Apps supporting social networking in proximity are gaining momentum as they enable both augmenting face-to-face interaction with a digital channel (e.g. classroom interaction systems) and augmenting digital interaction by providing a local real life feelin ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Public Key Infrastructure

Touradj Ebrahimi, David Mc Nally, Lin Yuan

A significant number of pictures are posted to social media sites or exchanged through instant messaging and cloud-based sharing services. Most social media services offer a range of access control mechanisms to protect users privacy. As it is not in the b ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Privacy-Preserving Function Computation by Exploitation of Friendships in Social Networks

Patrick Thiran, Martin Vetterli, Farid Movahedi Naini, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

We study the problem of privacy-preserving computation of functions of data that belong to users in a social network under the assumption that users are willing to share their private data with trusted friends in the network. We demonstrate that such trust ...

Ieee2014

On Multi-Dimensional Privacy in Context-Aware Mobile Networks

Igor Bilogrevic

By the end of 2013, the number of internet-connected mobile devices is expected to exceed that of humans. Omnipresent and context-aware, mobile devices enable people to communicate and exchange data anytime and almost anywhere. The myriad of ”digital footp ...

EPFL2014

Population Sensing Using Mobile Devices : a Statistical Opportunity or a Privacy Nightmare?

Farid Movahedi Naini

In our daily lives, our mobile phones sense our movements and interactions via a rich set of embedded sensors such as a GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers, and microphones. This enables us to use mobile phones as agents for collecting spatio-temporal data. The ...

EPFL2014

Comparing the Predictive Capability of Social and Interest Affinity for Recommendations

Karl Aberer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Alexandra Olteanu

The advent of online social networks created new prediction opportunities for recommender systems: instead of relying on past rating history through the use of collaborative filtering (CF), they can leverage the social relations among users as a predictor ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014