2023
Authors
Tabassum, S; Gama, J; Azevedo, PJ; Cordeiro, M; Martins, C; Martins, A;
Publication
EXPERT SYSTEMS
Abstract
Influence Analysis is one of the well-known areas of Social Network Analysis. However, discovering influencers from micro-blog networks based on topics has gained recent popularity due to its specificity. Besides, these data networks are massive, continuous and evolving. Therefore, to address the above challenges we propose a dynamic framework for topic modelling and identifying influencers in the same process. It incorporates dynamic sampling, community detection and network statistics over graph data stream from a social media activity management application. Further, we compare the graph measures against each other empirically and observe that there is no evidence of correlation between the sets of users having large number of friends and the users whose posts achieve high acceptance (i.e., highly liked, commented and shared posts). Therefore, we propose a novel approach that incorporates a user's reachability and also acceptability by other users. Consequently, we improve on graph metrics by including a dynamic acceptance score (integrating content quality with network structure) for ranking influencers in micro-blogs. Additionally, we analysed the topic clusters' structure and quality with empirical experiments and visualization.
2023
Authors
Almeida, PS;
Publication
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS
Abstract
In a partitioned Bloom Filter (PBF) the bit vector is split into disjoint parts, one per hash function. Contrary to hardware designs, where they prevail, software implementations mostly ignore PBFs, considering them worse than standard Bloom filters (SBF), due to the slightly larger false positive rate (FPR). In this paper, by performing an in-depth analysis, first we show that the FPR advantage of SBFs is smaller than thought; more importantly, by deriving the per-element FPR, we show that SBFs have weak spots in the domain: elements that test as false positives much more frequently than expected. This is relevant in scenarios where an element is tested against many filters. Moreover, SBFs are prone to exhibit extremely weak spots if naive double hashing is used, something occurring in mainstream libraries. PBFs exhibit a uniform distribution of the FPR over the domain, with no weak spots, even using naive double hashing. Finally, we survey scenarios beyond set membership testing, identifying many advantages of having disjoint parts, in designs using SIMD techniques, for filter size reduction, test of set disjointness, and duplicate detection in streams. PBFs are better, and should replace SBFs, in general purpose libraries and as the base for novel designs.
2023
Authors
Cunha, A; Macedo, N; Kang, E;
Publication
RIGOROUS STATE-BASED METHODS, ABZ 2023
Abstract
This paper describes a methodology for task model design and analysis using the Alloy Analyzer, a formal, declarative modeling tool. Our methodology leverages (1) a formalization of the HAMSTERS task modeling notation in Alloy and (2) a method for encoding a concrete task model and compose it with a model of the interactive system. The Analyzer then automatically verifies the overall model against desired properties, revealing counter-examples (if any) in terms of interaction scenarios between the operator and the system. In addition, we demonstrate how Alloy can be used to encode various types of operator errors (e.g., inserting or omitting an action) into the base HAMSTERS model and generate erroneous interaction scenarios. Our methodology is applied to a task model describing the interaction of a traffic air controller with a semi-autonomous Arrival MANager (AMAN) planning tool.
2023
Authors
Macedo, N; Brunel, J; Chemouil, D; Cunha, A;
Publication
RIGOROUS STATE-BASED METHODS, ABZ 2023
Abstract
This short paper summarizes an article published in the Journal of Automated Reasoning [7]. It presents Pardinus, an extension of the popular Kodkod [12] relational model finder with linear temporal logic (including past operators) to simplify the analysis of dynamic systems. Pardinus includes a SAT-based bounded model checking engine and an SMV-based complete model checking engine, both allowing iteration through the different instances (or counterexamples) of a specification. It also supports a decomposed parallel analysis strategy that improves the efficiency of both analysis engines on commodity multi-core machines.
2023
Authors
Brunel, J; Chemouil, D; Cunha, A; Macedo, N;
Publication
RIGOROUS STATE-BASED METHODS, ABZ 2023
Abstract
Records are a composite data type available in most programming and specification languages, but they are not natively supported by Alloy. As a consequence, users often find themselves having to simulate records in ad hoc ways, a strategy that is error prone and often encumbers the analysis procedures. This paper proposes a conservative extension to the Alloy language to support record signatures. Uniqueness and completeness is imposed on the atoms of such signatures, while still supporting Alloy's flexible signature hierarchy. The Analyzer has been extended to internally expand such record signatures as partial knowledge for the solving procedure. Evaluation shows that the proposed approach is more efficient than commonly used idioms.
2023
Authors
Martínez, MP; Paulo, J;
Publication
DAIS
Abstract
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