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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Data Mining and Seasonal Influenza Forecasts: The FluOutlook Platform
FluOutlook is an online platform where multiple data sources are integrated to initialize and train a portfolio of epidemic models for influenza forecast. During the 2014/15 season, the system has been used to...
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Article
Algorithmic Computation and Approximation of Semantic Similarity
Automatic extraction of semantic information from text and links in Web pages is key to improving the quality of search results. However, the assessment of automatic semantic measures is limited by the coverag...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Traceroute-Like Exploration of Unknown Networks: A Statistical Analysis
Map** the Internet generally consists in sampling the network from a limited set of sources by using traceroute-like probes. This methodology has been argued to introduce uncontrolled sampling biases that might...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Traffic-Driven Model of the World Wide Web Graph
We propose a model for the World Wide Web graph that couples the topological growth with the traffic’s dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple traffic-driven dynamics and generates weighted directe...