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Domain-based Latent Personal Analysis (LPA) and its uses
LPA is an easy-to-use and fast domain-based spectral signature that can be used in a variety of domains that is tailored for big-data...


Exploration in an emotional space - Movie Emotion Map
Movie Emotion Map is a novel system that enables users to view and browse through a large collection of movies according to the movies'...


Emotional experiences extracted from user-generated content
What are the emotions felt while experiencing experience goods such as a film, a song, or a restaurant? We found that these emotions can...


Trends in evolving networks
The popularity of nodes changes with time, with nodes losing and regaining popularity. We find and show that the recent trend of a node’s...


The opinions of a few: A cross-platform study quantifying usefulness of reviews
Review platforms employ a voting mechanism, in which the crowd is invited to upvote reviews that they find useful. In this research, we...


Size agnostic Change Point Detection (CPD) framework
Inference statistic helps determine points of change in the evolution of networks; The framework does not use historic data nor imposes...


Constant state of change: engagement inequality in temporal dynamic networks
The temporal changes in complex systems of interactions have excited the research community in recent years as they encompass...


Activemap: Visual analysis of temporal activity in social media sites
ActiveMap: Visual Analysis of Temporal Activity in Social Media Sites ActiveMap shows user engagement over units-of-activity, giving both...
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