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Studying network dynamics in digital ecosystems

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Maria Chiara Caschera,

Arianna D'Ulizia,

Fernando Ferri,

Patrizia GrifoniAuthors Info & Claims

MEDES '09: Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

Article No.: 4, Pages 21 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/1643823.1643829

Published: 27 October 2009 Publication History

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One of the main fields in which the research on Digital Ecosystems has been fruitfully applied is the networking field, with the aim of discovering the dynamics of relationships among the entities of the ecosystems. Following this research direction, this paper addresses the problem of predicting social dynamics of a network in order to emphasize the relationships and the potentials for collaboration and transmission of knowledge, as well as the nature and intensity of the inner sub-networks. To do this, a multi-layer Hidden Markov Model has been applied, which allows predicting the evolution of the interests and intensity of the overall network, based on the most probable evolution of each sub-network (e.g., if it increases, decreases, appears, etc.). This model has been tested using data from a large, realistic network and the prediction accuracy rate has been evaluated.

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Caschera MFerri FGrifoni PChbeir RAgrawal RBiskri I(2016)Sentiment analysis from textual to multimodal features in digital environmentsProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems10.1145/3012071.3012089(137-144)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2016
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Ferri FGrifoni PCaschera MD'Andrea AD'Ulizia AGuzzo TAl Motairy OChbeir RAlodib MLaouamer LBadr YBenyoucef MHarous SBiskri I(2014)An Ecosystemic Environment for Knowledge and Services Sharing on Creative EnterprisesProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems10.1145/2668260.2668308(27-33)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2014
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MEDES '09: Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems

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ISBN:9781605588292

DOI:10.1145/1643823

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Universite Paris-Sud, France
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University of Westminster, UK
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University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3012071.3012089
Ferri FGrifoni PCaschera MD'Andrea AD'Ulizia AGuzzo TAl Motairy OChbeir RAlodib MLaouamer LBadr YBenyoucef MHarous SBiskri I(2014)An Ecosystemic Environment for Knowledge and Services Sharing on Creative EnterprisesProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems10.1145/2668260.2668308(27-33)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2668260.2668308
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