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2018

Contributions to the Detection of Unreliable Twitter Accounts through Analysis of Content and Behaviour

Authors
Guimarães, N; Figueira, A; Torgo, L;

Publication
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2018, Volume 1: KDIR, Seville, Spain, September 18-20, 2018.

Abstract
Misinformation propagation on social media has been significantly growing, reaching a major exposition in the 2016 United States Presidential Election. Since then, the scientific community and major tech companies have been working on the problem to avoid the propagation of misinformation. For this matter, research has been focused on three major sub-fields: the identification of fake news through the analysis of unreliable posts, the propagation patterns of posts in social media, and the detection of bots and spammers. However, few works have tried to identify the characteristics of a post that shares unreliable content and the associated behaviour of its account. This work presents four main contributions for this problem. First, we provide a methodology to build a large knowledge database with tweets who disseminate misinformation links. Then, we answer research questions on the data with the goal of bridging these problems to similar problem explored in the literature. Next, we focus on accounts which are constantly propagating misinformation links. Finally, based on the analysis conducted, we develop a model to detect social media accounts that spread unreliable content. Using Decision Trees, we achieved 96% in the F1-score metric, which provides reliability on our approach. Copyright 2018 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved

2018

Current State of the Art to Detect Fake News in Social Media: Global Trendings and Next Challenges

Authors
Figueira, A; Guimarães, N; Torgo, L;

Publication
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2018, Seville, Spain, September 18-20, 2018.

Abstract
Nowadays, false news can be created and disseminated easily through the many social media platforms, resulting in a widespread real-world impact. Modeling and characterizing how false information proliferates on social platforms and why it succeeds in deceiving readers are critical to develop efficient algorithms and tools for their early detection. A recent surge of researching in this area has aimed to address the key issues using methods based on machine learning, deep learning, feature engineering, graph mining, image and video analysis, together with newly created data sets and web services to identify deceiving content. Majority of the research has been targeting fake reviews, biased messages, and against-facts information (false news and hoaxes). In this work, we present a survey on the state of the art concerning types of fake news and the solutions that are being proposed. We focus our survey on content analysis, network propagation, fact-checking and fake news analysis and emerging detection systems. We also discuss the rationale behind successfully deceiving readers. Finally, we highlight important challenges that these solutions bring. Copyright

2018

The impact of knowledge management factors in organizational sustainable competitive advantage

Authors
Torres, AI; Ferraz, SS; Santos Rodrigues, H;

Publication
JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the relations among different knowledge management (KM) factors, such as human capital (HC), processes and information systems (IS) on organizational sustainable competitive advantage (CA), within the SMEs context. Design/methodology/approach Structured questionnaires were distributed to CEOs and managers of Portuguese organizations through an electronic survey. Partial least squares software was utilized to analyze the data. Findings The measurement model results identify and validate the dimensions of HC, processes and IS representing the KM construct. The structural model results demonstrate that HC and processes have a direct and significant impact on organizational CA, on the customer and financial dimensions, respectively. IS indirectly and significantly influence organizational CA, mediated by HC and processes. Research limitations/implications The sample size includes mostly service business and SMEs. Other organizations sectors, such as industry, should be analyzed in order to develop a comparative cross-sectorial study. Practical implications This study establishes suggestions for managers to make legitimate decisions concerning investments on knowledge assets and organizational capabilities that can foster business growth and sustainable CA within a SMEs context. Originality/value The authors propose a mediation mechanism showing that the relationship between IS and sustainable CA is not direct, but it is mediated by HC and processes. This mechanism points out some critical issues for the strategic knowledge and intellectual capital assets, as a source of organizational CA.

2018

Process Mining for Analyzing Customer Relationship Management Systems: A Case Study

Authors
Fares, A; Gama, J; Campos, P;

Publication
Studies in Big Data - Learning from Data Streams in Evolving Environments

Abstract

2018

An Approach to Extract Proper Implications Set from High-dimension Formal Contexts using Binary Decision Diagram

Authors
Santos, P; Neves, J; Silva, P; Dias, SM; Zárate, L; Song, M;

Publication
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Abstract

2018

ImplicPBDD: A New Approach to Extract Proper Implications Set from High-Dimension Formal Contexts Using a Binary Decision Diagram

Authors
Santos, PG; Ruas, PHB; Neves, JCV; Silva, PR; Dias, SM; Zarate, LE; Song, MAJ;

Publication
INFORMATION

Abstract
Formal concept analysis (FCA) is largely applied in different areas. However, in some FCA applications the volume of information that needs to be processed can become unfeasible. Thus, the demand for new approaches and algorithms that enable processing large amounts of information is increasing substantially. This article presents a new algorithm for extracting proper implications from high-dimensional contexts. The proposed algorithm, called ImplicPBDD, was based on the Proplm algorithm, and uses a data structure called binary decision diagram (BDD) to simplify the representation of the formal context and enhance the extraction of proper implications. In order to analyze the performance of the ImplicPBDD algorithm, we performed tests using synthetic contexts varying the number of objects, attributes and context density. The experiments show that ImplicPBDD has a better performance-up to 80% faster-than its original algorithm, regardless of the number of attributes, objects and densities

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