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Dark-Web Cyber Threat Intelligence: From Data to Intelligence to Prediction by Shakarian, Paulo

“…Scientific work that leverages information about communities on the deep and dark web has opened up new angles in the field of security informatics. [...]…”
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Use of a controlled experiment and computational models to measure the impact of sequential peer exposures on decision making by Sarkar, Soumajyoti, Shakarian, Paulo, Sanchez, Danielle, Armenta, Mika, Lakkaraju, Kiran, Xin, Baogui

“…It is widely believed that one's peers influence product adoption behaviors. This relationship has been linked to the number of signals a decision-maker…”
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Finding near-optimal groups of epidemic spreaders in a complex network by Moores, Geoffrey, Shakarian, Paulo, Macdonald, Brian, Howard, Nicholas

“…In this paper, we present algorithms to find near-optimal sets of epidemic spreaders in complex networks. We extend the notion of local-centrality, a…”
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Introduction to Cyber-Warfare by Andrew Ruef, Jana Shakarian, Paulo Shakarian

“…Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach, written by experts on the front lines, gives you an insider's look into the world of cyber-warfare…”
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Argumentation-Based Query Answering under Uncertainty with Application to Cybersecurity by Leiva, Mario A., García, Alejandro J., Shakarian, Paulo, Simari, Gerardo I.

“…Decision support tools are key components of intelligent sociotechnical systems, and their successful implementation faces a variety of challenges, including…”
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Similar pathogen targets in Arabidopsis thaliana and homo sapiens protein networks by Shakarian, Paulo, Wickiser, J Kenneth

“…We study the behavior of pathogens on host protein networks for humans and Arabidopsis - noting striking similarities. Specifically, we preform [Formula: see…”
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Early Warnings of Cyber Threats in Online Discussions by Sapienza, Anna, Bessi, Alessandro, Damodaran, Saranya, Shakarian, Paulo, Lerman, Kristina, Ferrara, Emilio

“…We introduce a system for automatically generating warnings of imminent or current cyber-threats. Our system leverages the communication of malicious actors on…”
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A review of evolutionary graph theory with applications to game theory by Shakarian, Paulo, Roos, Patrick, Johnson, Anthony

“…Evolutionary graph theory (EGT), studies the ability of a mutant gene to overtake a finite structured population. In this review, we describe the original…”
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Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Shakarian, Paulo, Shakarian, Jana, Ruef, Andrew

“…Introduction to Cyber-Warfare: A Multidisciplinary Approach, written by experts on the front lines, gives you an insider's look into the world of cyber-warfare…”
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Using network motifs to characterize temporal network evolution leading to diffusion inhibition by Sarkar, Soumajyoti, Guo, Ruocheng, Shakarian, Paulo

“…Network motifs are patterns of over-represented node interactions in a network which have been previously used as building blocks to understand various aspects…”
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A scalable heuristic for viral marketing under the tipping model by Shakarian, Paulo, Eyre, Sean, Paulo, Damon

“…In a “tipping” model, each node in a social network, representing an individual, adopts a property or behavior if a certain number of his incoming neighbors…”
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Mining user interaction patterns in the darkweb to predict enterprise cyber incidents by Sarkar, Soumajyoti, Almukaynizi, Mohammad, Shakarian, Jana, Shakarian, Paulo

“…With the rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of…”
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A novel analytical method for evolutionary graph theory problems by Shakarian, Paulo, Roos, Patrick, Moores, Geoffrey

“…Evolutionary graph theory studies the evolutionary dynamics of populations structured on graphs. A central problem is determining the probability that a small…”
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Understanding and forecasting lifecycle events in information cascades by Sarkar, Soumajyoti, Guo, Ruocheng, Shakarian, Paulo

“…Most social network sites allow users to reshare a piece of information posted by a user. As time progresses, the cascade of reshares grows, eventually…”
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Exploring geographic hotspots using topological data analysis by Zhang, Rui, Lukasczyk, Jonas, Wang, Feng, Ebert, David, Shakarian, Paulo, Mack, Elizabeth A., Maciejewski, Ross

“…This article describes a scalar field topology (SFT)‐based methodology for the interactive characterization and analysis of hotspots for density fields defined…”
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Belief revision in structured probabilistic argumentation: Model and application to cyber security by Shakarian, Paulo, Simari, Gerardo I., Moores, Geoffrey, Paulo, Damon, Parsons, Simon, Falappa, Marcelo A., Aleali, Ashkan

“…In real-world applications, knowledge bases consisting of all the available information for a specific domain, along with the current state of affairs, will…”
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Proceedings 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (Technical Communications): Probabilistic Defeasible Logic Programming: Towards Explainable and Tractable Query Answering (Extended Abstract) by Leiva, Mario A., García, Alejandro J., Shakarian, Paulo, Simari, Gerardo I.

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Toward early and order-of-magnitude cascade prediction in social networks by Guo, Ruocheng, Shaabani, Elham, Bhatnagar, Abhinav, Shakarian, Paulo

“…When a piece of information (microblog, photograph, video, link, etc.) starts to spread in a social network, an important question arises: will it spread to…”
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A quantitative approach to belief revision in structured probabilistic argumentation by Simari, Gerardo I., Shakarian, Paulo, Falappa, Marcelo A.

“…Many real-world knowledge-based systems must deal with information coming from different sources that invariably leads to incompleteness, overspecification, or…”
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Hawkes Process for Understanding the Influence of Pathogenic Social Media Accounts by Alvari, Hamidreza, Shakarian, Paulo

“…Over the past years, political events and public opinion on the Web have been allegedly manipulated by accounts dedicated to spreading disinformation and…”
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