Mercoledì 27 April 2016 – On information propagation, social influence, and communities

Presso la “Sala riunioni”, primo piano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Via della Vasca Navale 79, 00149 Roma, Italy
Mercoledì 27 April 2016
Dalle ore 12:00 alle 13:00
The seminar will feature a presentation by Francesco Bonchi on his recent research in this area. 
 
Abstract: With the success of online social networks and microblogging platforms such as Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, the phenomenon of influence-driven propagations, has recently attracted the interest of computer scientists, sociologists, information technologists, and marketing specialists. In this talk we will take a data mining perspective, discussing what (and how) can be learned from a social network and a database of traces of past propagations over the social network. Starting from one of the key problems in this area, i.e. the identification of influential users, we will provide a brief overview of our recent contributions in this area. We will expose the connection between the phenomenon of information propagation and the existence of communities in social network, and we will go deeper in this new research topic arising at the overlap of information propagation analysis and community detection.