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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our first speaker at #TENET is Salvatore Citraro, who explores how to estimate node-level temporal homophily to capture heterogeneous mixing patterns in temporal networks. How? He uses a multi scale path-aware measure!

#CCS2025

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Jul 18

How do recommender systems shape our behavior?

📄 We review 144 studies across domains, from social media to GenAI.

🧭 With the EU Digital Services Act, data access is now possible. Our survey offers a guide to studying recommender-driven risks.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01630

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Jul 15

Salvatore Citraro, Edith Haim, Alessandra Carini, Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Giulio Rossetti, Massimo Stella
SpreadPy: A Python tool for modelling spreading activation and superdiffusion in cognitive multiplex networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09628

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Salvatore Citraro @dsalvaz.bsky.social · Jul 15

New pre-print! #SpreadPy, a Python implementation of spreading activation for both single-layer and multiplex networks.

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09628
GitHub: github.com/dsalvaz/Spre...

@massimost.bsky.social @giuliorossetti.bsky.social @et al.
#kddlab #sobigdata #isticnr #dipsco

SpreadPy: A Python tool for modelling spreading activation and superdiffusion in cognitive multiplex networks

We introduce SpreadPy as a Python library for simulating spreading activation in cognitive single-layer and multiplex networks. Our tool is designed to perform numerical simulations testing structure-...

arxiv.org

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Valentina Pansanella @vpansanella.bsky.social · Mar 25

Call for Papers! 📣 📜

Join us in unraveling the impact of social media on human behavior 💻🙋🤳 for the 2nd edition of The Social Media Sway Workshop!

📅 Submit your papers by July 1st, 2025 (AoE). #SocialMedia #SMS25 #ASONAM25 #CFP

sms-workshop.github.io.

The Social Media Sway | Home

The SMS International Workshop website.

sms-workshop.github.io

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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚀 The TENET @ @netsciconf.bsky.social program is live!
Talks, posters & discussions all about temporal networks—don’t miss it!

🗓 Full program: sites.google.com/view/tenet-n...

#NetSci2025 #TENET #TemporalNetworks #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

TENET@Netsci25

Temporal networks are powerful models for understanding dynamical systems where entities and interactions appear and vanish as time goes by. Unlike static networks, which simply provide a snapshot of ...

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Alessia Galdeman @alessianetwork.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 TENET@ @netsciconf.bsky.social (June 2) Speaker announcement:

🎤 @martonkarsai.bsky.social, Central European University, Austria
"Static representations of temporal networks and what they are good for"

📅 Submit your abstract by Feb 7 (info here: tinyurl.com/27ntstep)
#NetSci2025 #Tenet2025

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Salvatore Citraro @dsalvaz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Information Diffusion and Opinion Dynamics on Node-Attributed Graphs: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

With @vpansanella.bsky.social and @giuliorossetti.bsky.social

Structure-Attribute Similarity Interplay in Diffusion Dynamics on Social Networks

Social interactions are shaped by homophily, the tendency for individuals to connect with others who share similar attributes. Exploring this phenomenon is crucial for understanding a wide spectr...

link.springer.com

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Salvatore Citraro @dsalvaz.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our latest paper online (co-authored with @gmauro10.bsky.social and Emanuele Ferragina) explores emotional patterns in online behavior across 40 soccer fandoms during the 2023–24 Serie B and Lega Pro seasons.

Read more: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

More leagues and analyses coming soon :)

Burstiness in Emotions: A Case Study on Collective Affective Responses in Italian Soccer Fandoms

The bursty nature of emotions is rarely investigated outside cognitive and psychological studies. Therefore this work addresses a gap in the literature, investigating the phenomenon of emotional burst...

link.springer.com

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Salvatore Citraro @dsalvaz.bsky.social · Nov 21

I would like to join, thanks!

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Giulio Rossetti @giuliorossetti.bsky.social · Nov 16

A few months back we released #YSocial, a next-generation platform harnessing the power of LLM to create digital twins for social simulations.

ysocialtwin.github.io
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Home | Y Social

Where the Digital World Comes to Life - What is Y Social? Y Social is a cutting-edge Digital Twin of...

ysocialtwin.github.io

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Andrea Failla @andreajpg.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited to share our new work on #MachineLearning!

We reimagine group evolution in temporal data with "archetypes" and "facets".
Check out the paper for more👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

W/ Rémy Cazabet, Giulio Rossetti & Salvatore Citraro
#netsci #clustering #academicsky #science

Describing group evolution in temporal data using multi-faceted events - Machine Learning

Groups—such as clusters of points or communities of nodes—are fundamental when addressing various data mining tasks. In temporal data, the predominant approach for characterizing group evolution has b...

link.springer.com

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · Jul 17

How do our minds remember words? The answer: layers like an onion! A review by @massimost.bsky.social, Salvatore Citraro, Giulio Rossetti, Daniel Marinazzo, Yoed Kenett, & Mike V., shows why multilayer networks are best for modeling the mental lexicon. bit.ly/465obnv #psynomPBR Post by Daniel Pfaff

Mental lexicon as layers like an onion

Have you ever had a moment where a word was on the tip of your tongue, but you couldn’t quite remember it? For a bit of fun, here are two questions that might generate this feeling for you: What is th...

bit.ly

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