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ASONAM 2024 - Program overview and sessions(last update: Aug 31)

September 2
Sala Mostre

Aula Magna

7:45

Sala ASala Stampa
OA/SG1
Transfers from the hotels to the conference venue
Workshop:
SMS

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Industrial
PhD Track: P1 Track: I1

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Industrial
PhD Track: P2 Track: I2

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Tutorial 1
Coffee breakWorkshop:
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Tutorial 1
Lunch @ canteen
Tutorial 2

Workshop:
MSNDS
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MSNDS

Workshop:
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Coffee breakWorkshop:
SAFE-SN

Welcome Cocktail @UnicalTransfers from the conference venue to the hotels

September 3
Sala Mostre

Aula Magna
Opening +Keynote 1Fabiana Zollo

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Coffee breakSponsorboothsResearch
Track: 1A

16:00

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16:30

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SponsorboothsFOSINT

Research
Multidisciplinary
Track: 1B
Workshop: AISS Track: M1
Lunch @ canteen

Workshop:
REINFORCE

Research
Track: 2B

Workshop:
REINFORCE

Multidisciplinary
Workshop: AISS Track: M2
Coffee break

FOSINT

Research Track: Multidisciplinary
R1 (remote)
Track: M3

18:00

Shuttle buses from the conference venue to the hotels

23:00

Citylife Dinner in Cosenza(w/ bus transfers from/to the hotels)September 4
Sala Mostre

Aula Magna

10:00

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Keynote 2 Kyriaki
Kalimeri

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Coffee break
Research
Track: 3A
Keynote 3 Ricardo
Baeza-Yates

Research
Track: 3B
Lunch @ canteen

FAB

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Workshop:
Journal Track: J1 HyperSCI

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Coffee break
FAB - HIBIBI

Research
Track: 4A

Multidisciplinary
Track: M4

Workshop:
Journal Track: J2 HyperSCI

18:00

Shuttle buses from the conference venue to the hotels

23:00

Conference Dinner at Villa Rendano (https://www.villarendano.it/)(w/ bus transfers from/to the hotels)

September 5
Sala Mostre

Aula Magna

10:00

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Keynote 4 Francesco
Bonchi

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Sponsorbooths

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Closingx

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Demo Track
Lunch @ canteenxxResearch Track:R2 (remote)xx

Keynotes
Fabiana Zollo

Information and Public Discourse in the Digital Era: Exploring
Challenges, Complexity, and Societal Ramifications

Assoc Professor of Computer Science, Ca' Foscari University of Venicehttps://www.unive.it/data/people/14075308

Keynote 1

Tue 03 9:00-10:00

Abstract: In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, the dissemination and consumption of information haveundergone transformative shifts, influencing our perception, understanding, and engagement with critical global
challenges such as the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media platforms have risen as primary channels
for news and information, shaping public opinion and discourse on these pressing issues. The digital ecosystem may also
exacerbate current societal challenges, such as the prevalence of misinformation and phenomena of polarization. This
keynote will draw on extensive data- driven analyses from social media platforms to delve deep into the complexities ofthe digital information ecosystem. It will also underscore the crucial role of interdisciplinary approaches in mapping andunderstanding the ever-evolving information landscape and its societal impact.

Kyriaki Kalimeri

Machine Learning for Social Good: Algorithmic & Data Challenges
when working with Vulnerable Populations

Senior Researcher at ISI Foundation and Senior Research Consultant at UNICEF
https://kyriakikalimeri.com/

Keynote 2

Wed 04 9:00-10:00

Abstract: The scale, reach, and real-time nature of the Internet is opening new frontiers for better serving humanity,and particularly for a deeper understanding of the vulnerabilities in our societies, including inequalities and fragility inthe face of a changing world. Vulnerable populations including children, elderly, racial or ethnic minorities,
socioeconomically disadvantaged, underinsured, or those with certain medical conditions, are often absent in commonlyused data sources. The aim of this talk will be to shed light on data and algorithmic biases, as well as methodologicalparticulars when addressing vulnerable populations, drawing insights from case studies in response to realhumanitarian crises.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

The Limitations of Data, ML & Us

Director of Research, Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University
https://roux.northeastern.edu/people/ricardo-baeza-yates/

Keynote 3

Wed 04 14:30-15:30

Abstract: Machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning, is being used everywhere. However, not always is used
well, ethically and scientifically. In this talk we first do a deep dive in the limitations of supervised ML and data, its key
component. We cover small data, datification, bias, predictive optimization issues, evaluating success instead of harm,and pseudoscience, among other problems. The second part is about our own limitations using ML, including different
types of human incompetence: cognitive biases, unethical applications, no administrative competence, copyrightviolations, misinformation, and the impact on mental health. In the final part we discuss regulation on the use of AI andresponsible AI principles, that can mitigate the problems outlined above.

Francesco Bonchi

Finding niches and connectors in networks: methods andapplications

Research Director, CENTAI
https://www.francescobonchi.com/

Keynote 4

Thu 05 9:00-10:00

Abstract: Suppose in a social network we know some sources of misinformation, as well as authoritative information
sources: how can we exploit this knowledge to identify polarization niches? Similarly, suppose we have a set of users thathave clicked on a specific ad: to which other users shall we show the same ad, driven by the principle of homophily?
Given a set of patients infected with a viral disease, which other people should we monitor? Each of these questions canbe modeled as a very general type of graph-query problems in which we are given some interesting nodes and we want
to use this information to drive the search for interesting structures in networks. In this talk we will provide an overview
of this very general class of problems, introducing several variants with their algorithmic solutions, as well as several
applications in social network analysis and other domains.

Research Track
Date/Time

Session 1A:
Methods in
Network Analysis

Session 1B:
Text analysis

Session 2A:
Machine learning
and RecSys

Tue 03 10.30-12.30

Tue 03 10.30-12.30

Tue 03 14.00 - 16.00

Authors

Title

Andrea D'Ascenzo and Mattia
D'Emidio

On Mining Dynamic Graphs for k Shortest Paths

FormatTime slot

LONG

20

Sebastiano A. Piccolo. Pasquale Evaluating and improving projects’ bus-factor: a
De Meo and Giorgio Terracina network analytical framework

LONG

20

Andrea Failla. Giulio Rossetti
and Francesco Cauteruccio

Beyond Boundaries: Capturing Social Segregation on
Hypernetworks

LONG

20

Federico Mazzoni. Andrea Failla FairNet: A Genetic Framework to Reduce
and Giulio Rossetti
Marginalization in Social Networks

LONG

20

Gordana Marmulla and Ulrik
Brandes

Centrality in Directed Networks

SHORT

15

Guillaume Moinard andMatthieu Latapy

Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street
Networks

SHORT

15

Nayoung Kim. David
Mosallanezhad. Lu Cheng.
Michelle Mancenido and Huan
Liu

Robust Stance Detection: Understanding Public
Perceptions in Social Media
LONG

20

Ioannis Lamprou. Alexander
Exploring Crisis-Driven Social Media Patterns: A
Shevtsov. Despoina Antonakaki.
Twitter Dataset of Usage During the Russo-Ukrainian
Polyvios Pratikakis and Sotiris
War
Ioannidis

LONG

20

Arman Irani. Ju Yeon Park.
Kevin Esterling and Michalis
Faloutsos

WIBA: What Is Being Argued? A Comprehensive
Approach to Argument Mining

LONG

20

Vitor Gaboardi dos Santos. Guto
Categorising Corruption in the Vaccine Discourse: A
Leoni Santos. Antonia Egli.
General Taxonomy. Data Set. and Evaluation of LLMs
Estatira Kahvazadeh. Bill
Doolin. Patricia Endo and Theo for Classifying Corruption Dialogue in Social Media
Lynn

LONG

20

Shubh Mittal. Tisha Chawla and You Must be a Trump Supporter: Political Identity
Ashiqur R. Khudabukhsh
Projections on the Social Web

LONG

20

Ahmad Zareie. Carolina Scarton A Lightweight Approach for User and Keyword
and Kalina Bontcheva
Classification in Controversial Topics

SHORT

15

Gabriel Damay and Mauro
Sozio

PARFAITE: PageRank-Matrix Factorization forInterpretable Graph Embeddings

LONG

20

Nathan Bartley. Keith
Impacts of Personalization on Social Network
Burghardt and Kristina Lerman Exposure

LONG

20

LONG

20

Antonino Ferraro. Antonio
Galli. Valerio La Gatta. Marco
Agent-Based Modelling Meets Generative AI in Social
Postiglione. Gian Marco
Orlando. Diego Russo. Giuseppe Network Simulations
Riccio. Antonio Romano andVincenzo Moscato
Flavio Chierichetti. Ravi Kumar.
Giuseppe Re and Andrew
RUMs with Ties
Tomkins

LONG

20

From Retweets to Follows: Facilitating Graph
Construction in Online Social Networks ThroughMachine Learning

SHORT

15

Meysam Alizadeh. Yasaman
Asgari. Zeynab Samei. Sara Yari.
Exploring the Correlation of Cryptocurrency
Shirin Dehghani. Mael Kubli.
Influencers and News Outlets Trading Signals on
Darya Zare. Juan Diego Bermeo.
Twitter and Market Prices
Veronika Batzdorfer andFabrizio Gilardi

LONG

20

Anahit Sargsyan and Jürgen
PfefferSession 2B:
Communities

Session 3A:
Text analysis 2

Session 3B:
Misinformation

Tue 03 14.00 - 16.00

Wed 04 10.30-12.30

Wed 04 10.30-12.30

Sharon Boddu and Maleq Khan

Scalable High-Performance Community Detection
Using Label Propagation in Massive Networks

LONG

20

Jiarui Wang and S. Felix Wu

Online Social Community Neighborhood Formation

LONG

20

Michael Benzinger. Raji Ghawi.
Lukas Zenk and Jürgen Pfeffer

Dynamic Inter-Organizational Communication
Network in a Post-Merger Integration

LONG

20

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15

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Sharon Boddu. Maleq Khan and VLP: A Label Propagation Algorithm for Community
Mais Nijim
Detection in Complex Networks
Martin Waffo Kemgne.
Fuzzy and Overlapping Communities Detection: An
Christophe Demko. Karell
Improved Approach Using Formal Concept Analysis
Bertet and Jean-Loup Guillaume
Hang Cui and Tarek Abdelzaher

Node Generation for Node Classification in SparselyLabeled Graphs

Alphaeus Dmonte. Tejas Arya.
Tharindu Ranasinghe andMarcos Zampieri

Towards Generalized Offensive Language
Identification

Salvatore Citraro. Giovanni
Mauro and Emanuele Ferragina
Guto Leoni Santos. Vitor
Gaboardi dos Santos. Colm
Kearns. Gary Sinclair. JackBlack. Mark Doidge. Thomas
Fletcher. Dan Kilvington. Katie
Liston. Patricia Takako Endoand Theo Lynn
Hong Zhang. Nguyen QuocNam. Prasanta Bhattacharya.
Wei Gao. Liang Ze Wong.
Brandon Siyuan Loh. Joseph J.
P. Simons and Jisun An
Yeonjung Lee. Yusuf Mucahit
Cetinkaya. Emre Kulah. Ismail
Hakkı Toroslu and Hasan
Davulcu

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

Detecting Homophobic Speech in Soccer Tweets
Using Large Language Models and Explainable AI

Enhancing Stance Classification with Quantified
Moral Foundations

Masking the Bias: From Echo Chambers to Large
Scale Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Cedric Waterschoot. Antal vanden Bosch and Ernst van den
Hemel

The Impact of Featuring Comments in Online
Discussions

Daman Deep Singh. Gaurav
Chauhan. Minh-Kha Nguyen.
Oana Goga and Abhijnan
Chakraborty

Weaponizing the Wall: The Role of Sponsored Newsin Spreading Propaganda on Facebook
LONG

20

Zeyu Zhang. Zhengyuan Zhu.
Haiqi Zhang and Chengkai Li

Exploring Behavioral Tendencies on Social Media: A
Perspective Through Claim Check-Worthiness

LONG

20

Demetris Paschalides. George
Pallis and Marios Dikaiakos

PARALLAX: Leveraging Polarization Knowledge
Graph for Misinformation Detection

LONG

20

Andrei Stoica and Mirela Riveni

Provenance for Longitudinal Analysis in Large Scale
Networks

SHORT

15

Yeonjung Choi. Lanyu Shangand Dong Wang

ClimateMiSt: Climate Change Misinformation andStance Detection Dataset

SHORT

15

SHORT

15

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15

Alireza Mohammadinodooshan Understanding Engagement Dynamics with (Un)and Niklas Carlsson
Reliable News Publishers on Twitter
Mitigating the Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation
Mustafa Alassad and Nitin
Using Agent-Based Modeling and Delays in
AgarwalInformation Diffusion

Maria J. Blesa. Alejandro
Thresholds as Mechanisms for Weighting Influence in
Dominguez-Besserer and Maria
the Linear Threshold Rank
Serna
Harumasa Tada. Masayuki
Murata and Masaki Aida
Jack Tacchi. Parisa Jamadi
Khiabani. Chiara Boldrini.
Andrea Passarella and Arkaitz
Zubiaga
Session 4A:
Opinion / diffusion

Wed 04 16.00 - 18.00

Emmanuel Kravitzch. Yezekael
Hayel. Vineeth Varma andAntoine Berthet
Pingjing Yang. Kanyao Han andJana Diesner
Sujan Dutta. Mallikarjuna
Tupakula. Sumeet Kumar andAshiqur R. Khudabukhsh
Emmanuel Addai. Niloofar
Yousefi and Nitin Agarwal

Erfan Samieyan Sahneh.
Gianluca Nogara. Matthew
DeVerna. Nick Liu. Luca Luceri.
Filippo Menczner. Francesco
Pierri and Silvia Giordano
Haoyang Gui. Thales Bertaglia.
Catalina Goanta. Sybe de Vries
and Gerasimos Spanakis

Session 5A: Newand alternative
platforms

Session 5B:
Text analysis 3

Thu 05 10.30-12.30

Thu 05 10.30-12.30

A Model of Net Flaming Caused by News Propagationin Online Social Networks

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15

Applying the Ego Network Model to Cross-Target
Stance Detection
Opinion and self-confidence in influence networks: acoupled dynamics model
Understanding User Perceptions of AI on Reddit
Anonymous Dissent in the Digital Age: A YouTube
Dislikes Dataset
Utilizing Fractional Order Epidemiological Model toUnderstand High and Moderate Toxicity Spread on
Social Media Platforms

The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An
Exploration of the Bluesky Social Ecosystem
Across Platforms and Languages: Dutch Influencers
and Legal Disclosures on Instagram. YouTube and
TikTokPeixian Zhang. Yupeng He.
Ehsan Ul Haq. Jiahui He andGareth Tyson

The Emergence of Threads: The Birth of a New Social
Network

Abanisenioluwa Orojo. Pranish
Bhagat. Michael Donahoo.
Nishant Vishwamitra and John
Wilburn

Leveraging Secure Social Media Crowdsourcing for
Gathering Firsthand Account in Conflict Zones
SHORT

15

Fernanda Gubert. Gustavo
Culture Fingerprint: Identification of Culturally
Santos. Myriam Delgado. Daniel
Similar Urban Areas Using Google Places Data
Silver and Thiago Silva

SHORT

15

Omar Hammad. Aniya Khalili.
Nicholas Clements. Shelly
Miller. Shivakant Mishra andEsther Sullivan

PUREmotion: Understanding the Impact of Highway
Construction on People's Wellbeing
SHORT

15

Lorenzo Alvisi. Serena Tardelliand Maurizio Tesconi

Unraveling the Italian and English Telegram
Conspiracy Spheres through Message Forwarding

SHORT

15

Ademola Adesokan. Sanjay
Madria and Long Nguyen

FReCS: A First Responder Classification System

LONG

20

Farouk Damoun. Hamida Seba
and Radu State

Federated Learning-Based Tokenizer for DomainSpecific Language Models in Finance

LONG

20

Yifan Liu. Yike Li. Yang Zhang
and Dong Wang
Surendrabikram Thapa.
Surabhi Adhikari. Imran ImranRazzak. Roy Ka-Wei Lee andUsman Naseem

Intertwined Biases Across Social Media Spheres:
Unpacking Correlations in Media Bias Dimensions

SHORT

15

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15

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15

Hate Speech Classification in Text-Embedded Images:
Integrating Ontology. Contextual Semantics. and
Vision-Language Representations

Yiming Zhu. Peixian Zhang.
Ehsan Ul Haq. Pan Hui andGareth Tyson

Exploring the Capability of ChatGPT to Reproduce
Human Labels for Social Computing Tasks

Shivansh Subramanian. Dhaval
Taunk. Manish Gupta andVasudeva Varma

OutlineGen: Multi-lingual Outline Generation forEncyclopedic Text in Low Resource Languages

Multicriteria Recommendation System by Leveraging
Predefined. Implicit. and Undefined Criteria

SHORT

15

Rebecca Dorn. Negar
Mokhberian. Julie Jiang. Jeremy
Non-Binary Gender Expression in Online Interactions
Abramson. Fred Morstatter andKristina Lerman

SHORT

15

Sai Puppala. Ismail Hossain. Md SocFedGPT: Federated GPT-based Adaptive Content
Jahangir Alam and Sajedul
Filtering System Leveraging User Interactions in
TalukderSocial Networks

SHORT

15

Mahsa Nooribakhsh. Marta
Fernández-Diego. Fernando
González-Ladrón-De-Guevaraand Mahdi Mollamotalebi

Improving the accuracy of community detection insocial network through a hybrid method
SHORT

15

Anna Stephens. Francisco
Santos. Pang-Ning Tan and
Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian

FOCI: Fair Cross-Network Node Classification via
Optimal Transport

Emrul Hasan and Chen Ding

Session R1:
Remote session

Session R2:
Remote session

Wed 03 16:30 - 18:00

SHORT

15

Soheila Farokhi. Arash Azizian
EDGE-UP: Enhanced Dynamic GNN Ensemble forFoumani. Xiaojun Qi. Tyler Derr
Unfollow Prediction in Online Social Networks
and Hamid Karimi

LONG

20*

Francisco Santos. Farzan
Masrour. Pang-Ning Tan and
Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian

DeepFairRank: A Multi-Objective Framework for Fair
Top-k Node Ranking in Network Data

LONG

20

Sina Abdidizaji. Alexander
Baekey. Chathura Jayalath.
Alexander Mantzaris. Ozlem
Ozmen Garibay and Ivan
Garibay

Analyzing X's Web of Influence: Dissecting News
Sharing Dynamics through Credibility and Popularity
with Transfer Entropy and Multiplex Network
Measures

LONG

20

Soroosh Shalileh

Gradient Descent Clustering with Regularization to
Recover Communities in Transformed Attributed
Networks

SHORT

15

Yihong Zhang and Takahiro
Hara
Huaisheng Zhu. Zongyu Wu.
Tianxiang Zhao and Suhang
Wang

Event Embedding Learning from Social Media Using
Graph Topic Model Autoencoder

SHORT

15

Paul Bouchaud

Browsing Amazon's Book Bubbles

Thu 05 10:30 - 12:30

AmGNN: A Framework for Adaptive Processing ofInter-layer Information in Multi-layer Graph

LONG

20

SHORT

15

FormatTime slot

Journal Track
Date/Time

Session J1

Session J2

Wed 04 10:30-12:30

Wed 04, 16:00 - 18:00

Authors
Aris Anagnostopoulos,
Valentina Arrigoni, Francesco
Gullo, Giorgia Salvatori andLorenzo Severini

Title
General-Purpose Query Processing on Summary
Graphs

LONG

20

Max-Emanuel Keller, Alexander
Intelligent Algorithm Selection for Efficient Update
Döschl, Peter Mandl, Alexander
Predictions in Social Media Feeds
Schill

LONG

20João Marcos Machado Couto,
Can Computer Network Attributes be Useful for
Julio Cesar Soares dos Reis and Identifying Low-Credibility Websites? A Case Study in
Fabrício Benevenuto
BrazilLONG

20

Houda Oufaida, Lynda Said
Lhadj, Souhila Oufaida, Alima
Grine and Naziha Smaili

Influence lifetime: modeling the temporal variation ofsocial influence through domains

LONG

20

João Paulo Oliveira Cruz, Lucia
C. Passaro, Jussara M. Almeida Characterizing Fashion Influencers' Behavior on
and Humberto Torres Marques- Instagram
Neto

LONG

20

Rajesh Kumar, Suchi Kumari
and Anubhav Mishra

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

Nur Dean

Effect of Perturbation and Topological Structure on
Synchronization Dynamics in Multilayer Networks
Influence-Based Techniques to Foster Cooperation in
Real-Life Social Networks Using the Prisoner's
Dilemma Game

Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md
A Visual Approach to Tracking Emotional Sentiment
Jahangir Alam and Sajedul
Dynamics in Social Network Commentaries
TalukderPhd Forum Track
Date/Time

Authors
Oscar Alvaro-Montes de Oca
and Laura Homman

Session P1

Mon 02, 14:00 - 16:00

Maxence Morin

Methodology for identifying social groups within atransactional graph

Mohamad Elhadi Abushofa,
Amir Atapour Abarghouei,
Matthew Forshaw and A.
Stephen McGough

Evaluating Deep Graph Network Performance by
Augmenting Node Features with Theoretical Features

Daniele De Vinco
Luigi Arminio and Luca Rossi

Mon 02, 16:30 - 18:00

Beyond the surface: navigating complex systems via
ABMs and Hypergraphs
Which Reveals Ideology Better? Comparing SelfPresentation and Public Rhetoric in the Facebook
Climate Debate via Embeddings Analysis
Using Social Network Analysis to Analyze Eyetracking Behavior Data in the Area of Education
Science

Pingjing Yang

Session P2

Title
From Prison Gang to Transnational Criminal
Organization. A Social Network Analysis of the Trende Aragua

Xinni Yang, Yuanyuan Wang,
Panote Siriaraya and Yukiko
Kawai

Route Recommendation for Healthcare by Reducing
Approach Bias as a Food Desire

Seb Appleby

Empirical study of the Sardex network

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Industrial Track
Date/Time

Session I1

Session I2

Mon 02, 14:00 - 16:00

Mon 02, 16:30 - 18:00

Authors

Title

Abdulaziz Alhamadani, Khadija
Althubiti, Jianfeng He, Shailik
Empowering Airline Route Decisions with LLMSarkar, Lulwah Alkulaib, Abdul
Generated Pseudo-Labels and Zero-Shot Review
Raheem Shaik, Seungwon Lee,
Prediction
Mahmood Khan and ChangTien Lu
HyperSMOTE-MC: Enhancing Multiclass Bot
Lulwah Alkulaib and ChangDetection on X through Hypergraph-based
Tien Lu
Resampling
Aadyant Khatri, Nicolas
Egierski, Ashutosh
IntelliSMART: Intelligent Semantic Machine-Assisted
Pochamreddy, Abdulaziz
Research Tool
Alhamadani, Shailik Sarkar andChang-Tien Lu
Silvestro Roberto Poccia, Sara
Foresta, Antonino Barone and Smart Human Resource Management System
Elmiro Tavolaro

LONG

20

SHORT

15

Seonhyeong Kim, Seonhwa Choi Searching Temporal Knowledge Graphs toand Young-Woo Kwon
Understand The Impacts of Disasters

SHORT

15

LONG

20

LONG

20

Jiayi Lian, Xueying Liu, KevinChoi, Balaji Veeramani, Sathvik
Murli, Alison Hu, Laura
Freeman, Edward Bowen and
Xinwei Deng
Abdul Raheem Shaik, Abdulaziz
Alhamadani, Shailik Sarkar andChang-Tien Lu

Data Composition for Continual Learning inApplication of Cyberattack Detection

Optimizing Airline Destinations with AIRNODE: A
Graph Attention Network Approach

Multidisciplinary Track
Date/Time

Session M1

Tue 03, 10:30 - 12:30

Authors
Fabio Malini, Francis Sodré,Athus Cavalini, Gabriel
Herkenhoff and Fabio Gouveia

Title

Yuze Sha, Nicholas Micallef and
Yan WuAnique Tahir, Lu Cheng, Manuel
Sandoval, Yasin Silva, Deborah
Hall and Huan Liu

Dissecting the Advocacy Discourse Behind the#StopAsianHate Movement on X/Twitter
Evaluating LLMs Capabilities Towards Understanding
Social Dynamics

Session M4

Wed 04, 16:00 - 18:00

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20

Melike Yildiz Aktas, Aadyant
Khatri, Mariam Almutairi,
Lulwah Alkulaib and ChangTien Lu

LONG

20

LONG

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LONG

20

Enhancing School Success Prediction with FRC andMerged GNN

LONG

20

Ahmad Zareie and Rizos
Sakellariou

A Novel Network Dataset Based on Football Players'
Co-Appearances

SHORT

15

Sachin Date

A Social Network Based Approach to Analyzing
Artistic Influences on American Stand-Up Comedians

LONG

20

LONG

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LONG

20

Making Social Platforms Accessible: Emotion-Aware
Speech Generation with Integrated Text Analysis
Whispers of Trauma: Leveraging Social Media for
Orchid Chetia Phukan, Rajesh
Assessing Mental Health in Victims of Childhood
Sharma and Arun Balaji Buduru
Sexual Abuse

Tue 03, 16:30 - 18:00

20

LONG

Suparna De, Ionut Bostan andNishanth Sastry

Session M3

LONG

Joshua Melton, Shannon Reid,
Two-Stage Stance Labeling: User-Hashtag Heuristics
Gabriel Terejanu and Siddharthwith Graph Neural Networks
Krishnan

Victoria Ferro, Athus Cavalini,
Insights About Radicalism on the Digital Era: A
Fabio Gouveia and Fabio Malini Sociological Approach
Manuel Sandoval Madrigal,
Mohammed Abuhamad, Patrick
Identifying Cyberbullying Roles in Social Media
Furman, Mujtaba Nazari,
Deborah Hall and Yasin Silva
Tue 03, 14:00 - 16:00

Time slot

Five Patterns of Vaccine Misinformation on Telegram

Yuto Tamura, Sho Tsugawa and Analyzing Characteristics of Nontrivial Information
Kohei Watabe
Diffusion via Implicit Links on Social Media

Session M2

FormatJiarui Wang and S. Felix Wu

Online Social Community City Classification

LONG

20

Faten Hajjej, Monia Hamdi andMourad Zaied
Mohamed Mahmoud Amar,
Mohamed Bouguessa andAbdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Multi Objective Optimization Approach for WSN
based on Reinforcement Learnings

LONG

20

LONG

20

Navapat Nananukul andMayank Kejriwal

Balancing Efficiency and Quality in LLM-Based Entity
Resolution on Structured Data

LONG

20

Sj Dillon, Yueqing Liang, H.
Russell Bernard and Kai Shu

Investigating Gender Euphoria and Dysphoria on
TikTok: Characterization and Comparison

LONG

20

LONG

20

MLCDG: Multi-Level Contrastive Graph Clustering in
Dynamic Graphs

Rahul Ravi, Gouri Ginde and Jon
PRAGyan - Connecting the Dots in Tweets
Rokne
Muhammad Asif Suryani,
Exploration of Hugging Face Models by
Saurav Karmakar and Brigitte Heterogeneous Information Network and linking
Mathiak
across Scholarly Repositories

LONG

20

Yayati Gupta, Aaditeshwar Seth Network Analysis of Indian Corporate Interlocks:
and Sanatan Sukhija
Patterns, Players and Sectors

LONG

20

Takayasu Fushimi and Yuki
Kawasaki

LONG

20

Path2Vec: Representation Learning for NodeSequences Based on Contrastive Learning

Tutorials
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2

Mon 02, 8:30 - 12:30

Alessia Galdeman andLucio La Cava

Mining, Modeling, and Analyzing Decentralized Social MediaMon 02, 14:00 - 16:00

Muhammad Ahmad andIshida Yuri

Unraveling History's Threads: Leveraging Social Network Analysis to
Explore History

Demo Track

Demos

Thu 05 10.30-12.30

Ishmam Solaiman and Nitin
AgarwalMulti-agent Analytics-Driven Content Discovery: A Narrative Contagion
Approach

Shadi Shajari, Ridwan Amureand Nitin Agarwal
Navapat Nananukul, Khanin
Sisaengsuwancha and Mayank
Kejriwal

Navigating the Anomalies: A Comprehensive Analysis of YouTube Channel
Behavior
ISAC: An Interactive Hierarchical Interface for Efficient Structural Analysis
and Vertex Search in Complex Networks

Track Session Chairs

Research Track

Journal Track
Phd Forum Track

Industrial Track
Multidisciplinary
Track

Session ID
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
4A
5A
5B
R1
R2
J1 - J2
P1 - P2
I1 - I2
M1
M2 - M3
M4

Chair
Rajesh Sharma
Maleq Khan
Farouk Damoun
Giulio Rossetti
Maleq Khan
Sanjay Madria
Sebastiano Piccolo
Lucio La Cava
Fabrizio Marozzo
Pingjing Yang
Alessia Antelmi
Brahim Ouhbi
Domenico Mandaglio
Liliana Martirano
Ester Zumpano
Eugenio Vocaturo
Carmela Comito

Affiliation
University of Tartu, Estonia
Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville
University of Luxembourg
CNR-ISTI
Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville
Missouri Uni of Sc and Tech, USA
University of Calabria
University of Calabria
University of Calabria
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Turin
Moulay Ismail University
University of Calabria
ICAR-CNR
University of Calabria
CNR-NANOTECICAR-CNR

Workshops

AISS

Please check for possible updates on the workshops websites:

https://asonam.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/2024/Workshops.php

Date/TimeTitle

Tue 03 10:30 - 12:30,
14:00 - 16:00

Authors
Victoria Popa, Andrea Morelli,
Christian Di Maio, Luca Dini,
Cristian Cosci, and Emanuele
Fulvio PerriMon 02 8:30 - 10:00,
10:30 - 12:30

LONG

20

Ext Abs

15

Geo-Localization Using Multimodal Large Language
ModelsArgentina Anna Rescigno,
Beatrice Melis, Francesco Di
Cursi, Gianluca De Ninno,
Gianmarco Pastore and Paolo
De Biase

Popping the Social Bubble: Using AI to Increase
Transparency in Harmful Content Moderation
Ext Abs

15

Diwash Poudel, Mert Can
Cakmak, Nitin Agarwal

Beyond the Click: How YouTube Thumbnails Shape
User Interaction and Algorithmic Recommendations

LONG

20

Omran Berjawi, Danilo
Cavaliere and Giuseppe Fenza

A multi-aspect analysis of echo chambers on videosharing social media

LONG

20

Md Jahangir Alam, Md.
Shohanur Rahman Shohan,
Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala,
Sajedul Talukder

Bangla Emotion Detection Dataset With An Extended
Taxonomy And Its Evaluation
LONG

20

Carmela Bernardo, Dora Ricci,
Francesco Vasca

Homophily Detection in Opinion Dynamics from
Reddit Discussions

LONG

20

Ext Abs

15

LONG

20

LONG

20

Ext Abs

15

LONG

20

LONG

20

Keynote

55

LONG

20

smail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md
Jahangir Alam, Sajedul
TalukderSmile for the Camera, Act Green: Corporate Social
Media's Deceptive Sustainability Charade
SocialRec: User Activity Based Post Weighted
Dynamic Personalized Post Recommendation System
in Social MediaSai Puppala, Ismail Hossain, Md FLASH: Federated Learning-Based LLMs for
Jahangir Alam, Sajedul
Advanced Query Processing in Social Networks
Talukderthrough RAG

Keynote - Timothy LaRock
Vincenzo Auletta, Francesco
Cauteruccio, and Diodato
Ferraioli
Daniele De Vinco

Investigating Gender Bias in StackOverflow with
LLMs
4WHContext: A Context Based Hate Speech Detection
Framework From Social Media Posts
Measuring the Sociolinguistic Patterns of Climate
Debate Polarization in the Facebook Context

Heuristics for the Influence Maximization Problem onHypergraphs
Fifty Shapes of Reddit: Do Prolife Activists Have theSame Interaction Patterns of Gun Fanatics?

Keynote - Jussara Almeida
Wed 04 16:00 - 18:00

15

Lorenzo Alvisi

Luigi Arminio, Luca Rossi

Wed 04 10:30 - 12:30

Ext Abs

CantastorIA: Enhancing Audiobook Engagement
through Adaptive Soundtracks and Voice Cloning

Detecting Jailbreaking Prompts: an Anti-Persuation
Filter Framework

Maddalena Amendola, Andrea
Passarella, Raffaele Perego
Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail
Hossain, Sai Puppala, Sajedul
TalukderHyperSCI

Time slot

Giuseppe Fenza, Mariacristina
Gallo, Vincenzo Loia,
Alessandro Nicolosi, andClaudio Stanzione

Qudus Afolabi

SMS

FormatAlessia Antelmi and Andrea
FaillaCoding hypergraphs

LONG

20

Keynote

55

LONG*

50

Francesco Buccafurri
Shadi Shajari, Ridwan Amureand Nitin Agarwal
Mon 02 14:30 - 16:00

Emmanuel Ainoo, Christie
Ezeife and Abdulrauf Gidado

Mon 02 16:30 - 18:00

Detecting and Measuring Anomalous Behaviors on
YouTubeMining Likes and Transactions per User for CrossDomain Product Recommendation in Social Network
and E-Commerce

SHORT

15

Sara Lazzaro

Beyond Likes: Enhancing Social Media Engagement
Metrics

SHORT

15

A Router-based Parental Control Tool for Safe Social
Network Usage,

SHORT

15

On Understanding the Dark Web through Graph
Analytics
SHORT

15

Giuseppe Fenza, Domenico
Furno, Mariacristina Gallo,
Claim Verification Leveraging In-Context Learning
Vincenzo Loia and Pio Pasquale and Retrieval Augmented Generation
TrottaLONG

20

Irene Amerini, Mauro Barni,
Sebastiano Battiato, Paolo
Bestagini, Giulia Boato, Tania
Sari
Bonaventura, Vittoria Bruni,
Roberto Caldelli, Francesco De
Natale, Rocco De Nicola,
Luca Guarnera, Sara Mandelli,Gian Luca Marcialis, Marco
Micheletto, Andrea
Montibeller, Giulia Orrù,Alessandro Ortis, Pericle
Perazzo, Davide Salvi, Stefano
Tubaro,Claudia Melis Tonti, Massimo
Villari and Domenico Vitulano

Deepfake Media Forensics: State of the Art andChallenges Ahead

LONG

20

Carmela Bernardo, Marta
Catillo, Antonio Pecchia,
Francesco Vasca and Umberto
VillanoBipartite Graph Modeling for the Analysis of Fake
News Propagation
LONG

20

Keynote

50

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

LONG

20

SHORT

15

LONG

20

Annalisa Socievole and Clara
PizzutiGraph Learning for Bidirectional Disease Contact
Tracing on Real Human Mobility Data
Community Detection in Complex Networks
exploiting Spectral Graph Sparsification for Efficient
Disaster Response
A Deep Neural Framework for Fault Detection in IoTbased Sensor Networks

Elena Cardillo, Alessio Portaro
and Maria Taverniti

Combining Knowledge graph and LLM to extract
thesaural relationship and concepts on Cybersecurity
A Thesaurus for the Cybersecurity domain to
Claudia Lanza and Erika Pasceri specialized knowledge management and indexing
operations
Raffaele Guarasci
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Abderraouf
Hafsaoui and Ismail Benlaredj

SI

Mon 02 8:30 - 10:00,
10:30 - 12:30

20

20

Simona Cicero, Massimo
Guarascio, Antonio Guerrieri,
Simone Mungari and Andrea
Vinci

Tue 03 14:00 - 16:00

LONG

LONG

Sofia Hurtado and Radu
Marculescu

REINFORCE

20

Towards Systemic Risk Evaluation, Attribution, andMitigation in Networked Systems: Work in Progress.

Keynote - Max Falkenberg

Tue 03 10:30 - 12:30

KeynoteVladimir Marbukh

Aurelio Loris Canino, Vincenzo
De Angelis and Gianluca Lax
Kleanti Bashalli, Alexandros
Karakasidis, Sophia
Karagiorgou and George
Pantelis
SAFE-SN

The PNRR-NextGenerationEU initiative SERICS(Security and Rights in the Cyberspace): the STRIDE
project on Secure and Traceable Identities inDistributed Environments

Robert Bao, Chris J. Kuhlman,
and S. S. Ravi
Sonia Laudanna, Matteo
Cardaioli, Andrea Di Sorbo,
Corrado Aaron Visaggio andMauro Conti
Poonam Sharma and Suman
Banerjee

Sentiment Analysis for Early Warnings and Disaster
Management: a Survey
Turning Multidimensional Big Data Analytics into
Practice: Design and Implementation of ClustCube
Big-Data Tools in Real-Life Scenarios
Blocking Social Contagions via Dominating Sets Usinga Modified Linear Integer Programming Formulation
Exploring Writing Style Consistency to Timely
Identify Heterogeneous Social Bots
Profit Maximization in Signed Social Networks

Mon 02, 10:30 - 12:30

I-Hsien Ting, Mei-Yun Hsu, Chia Applying Opinion Mining and Social Volume Analysis
Sung Yen and Chian-Hsueng
for Enhanced Visitor Relationship Management in A
Chao
Museum: An Empirical Study

LONG

20

Learning Effectiveness of Natural Science Education
Chia-Sung Yen and I-Hsien Ting in the Context of Social Networks: A Case Study ofPlant Identification Application

LONG

20

Research on the Detection and Rephrasing of Toxic
Text Based on Large-scale Pre-training Language
Models

LONG

20

LONG

20

Shih-Hung Wu, Tsung Hsun
Tsai and Ping-Hsuan Lee
MSNDS

Mon 02, 14:00 - 16:00

Jun-Yu Wu, Vidhya Nataraj and
Min-Yuh Day
Hao He, Xueying Liu, Neil
Kattampallil, Vicki Lancaster,Gizem Korkmaz, Chris J.
Kuhlman and Xinwei Deng

Generative AI in ESG Reporting: A Systematic Review
A Successive Analysis of Online Networked Common
Knowledge Experiments

LONG

20

Ismail Hossain, Sai Puppala, Md EVOLVE: Predicting User Evolution and Network
Jahangir Alam and Sajedul
Dynamics in Social Media Using Fine-Tuned GPT-like
Talukder
Model

LONG

20

Md Jahangir Alam, Ismail
Hossain, Sai Puppala and
Sajedul Talukder

LONG

20

CAMERA: Context Based Emotion Detection
Framework And Its Evaluation

Symposiums
Date/Time

FOSINTFOSINTFAB

FABHIBIBITue 03, 14:00 - 16:00

Tue 03, 16:30 - 18:00

Wed 04 10:30 – 12:30

Wed 04 16:00 – 17:00

Wed 04 17:00 – 18:00

Authors

Title

Noelle Warkentin and Richard
Frank

Hidden in Plain Sight: Using Contact Information to Identify Sex Trafficking
in Online Advertisements

Dhwani Jakhaiya andMaunendra Desarkar

Analyzing the Dynamics of Hate Speech on Online Platforms

Mayor Inna Gurung, Nitin
Agarwal and Ahmed Al-Taweel
Frank Guldstrand, Sandra
Lindström, Linn Mattsson andJonatan Westman

Are Narratives Contagious? Modeling Narrative Diffusion Using
Epidemiological Theories

Christopher Lowetz and Ian
Mcculloh

Russian Invaders on the Internet’s Front Page – A Survey of Behaviors in
Ukraine-Related Subreddits

Ian Mcculloh, Ryan Bergamini
and Charles Mackey

Echoes of War: How Reddit Narratives Shape Sectarian Views of the IsraelHamas War

Henna Paakki and Faeze
Ghorbanpour

Computational Analysis of Communicative Acts for Understanding Crisis
News Comment Discourses

Ying Zhao

Knowledge Graphs (KG) Assisted Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for LargeScale Anomaly and Event Detection

Arshpreet Buttar, Jiawei Fanand Carson Leung

A Real-Time Sentiment Feedback System: Binary Categorization and Context
Understanding Based on Amazon Reviews

Marco Roccetti, Marco Tenace
and Giuseppe CappielloMd Jahangir Alam, Ismail
Hossain, Sai Puppala and
Sajedul Talukder

Prescient Perspectives on Football Tactics: A Case with Liverpool FC,
Corners and AI

Alvaro Figueira and Bruna
Rocha
Murat Ucan, Buket Kaya,
Mehmet Kaya and Reda Alhajj
Iris Ho, Paul Anderson, JeanDavidson, Jeffrey Lotz and
Theresa Migler
Aya Alhajj, Zehra Bayindir,
Sleiman Alhajj, Lama Alhajj,
Kashfia sailunaz, Mehmet Kayaand Reda Alhajj

A Longitudinal Network Analysis of the Space Sector Using International
Trade Data

Combating Echo Chambers in Online Social Network by Increasing Content
Diversity In Recommendation
Comparing Higher Education Rankings with Social Media Posting Strategies
Medical Report Generation from Medical Images Using Vision Transformer
and Bart Deep Learning Architectures
A Measure of the Robustness of Clusters in a Network with No Ground Truth- A Chronic Lower Back Pain Case Study
Predicting the Role of Temozolomide Drug in Glioma By integrating
Available Genomic Databases and Computational Methods