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Pasquale De Meo

Pasquale De Meo

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4513
World Ranking
11791
National Ranking
398

Overview

Pasquale De Meo is affiliated with the University of Messina in Italy and has an extensive publication record primarily in computer science and physics and astronomy. Their recent work spans a diverse range of topics including complex network analysis, advanced graph neural networks, and crime-related studies in computational social science.

Their well-cited recent papers include:

  • Disrupting resilient criminal networks through data analysis: The case of Sicilian Mafia, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Link prediction approach combined graph neural network with capsule network, 2022, Expert Systems with Applications
  • Robust link prediction in criminal networks: A case study of the Sicilian Mafia, 2020, Expert Systems with Applications
  • DFMKE: A dual fusion multi-modal knowledge graph embedding framework for entity alignment, 2022, Information Fusion
  • Information Propagation Prediction Based on Spatial-Temporal Attention and Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Networks, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

De Meo's frequent co-authors include Giacomo Fiumara, Xiaoyang Liu, Annamaria Ficara, Antonio Liotta, and Lucia Cavallaro.

The primary venues where this researcher publishes are:

  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Computer Journal

De Meo's research covers both broad and specialized fields, mainly:

  • Computer Science
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these areas, their work focuses on several subfields:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Key topics addressed in their published research are:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Topic Modeling
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Best Publications

  • Generalized Louvain method for community detection in large networks

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

  • Web data extraction, applications and techniques

    Emilio Ferrara;Pasquale De Meo;Giacomo Fiumara;Robert Baumgartner

  • Crawling Facebook for social network analysis purposes

    Salvatore A. Catanese;Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara

  • Detecting criminal organizations in mobile phone networks

    Emilio Ferrara;Pasquale De Meo;Salvatore Catanese;Giacomo Fiumara

  • On Facebook, most ties are weak

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

  • Mixing local and global information for community detection in large networks

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

  • A novel measure of edge centrality in social networks

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Angela Ricciardello

  • Recommendation of similar users, resources and social networks in a Social Internetworking Scenario

    Pasquale De Meo;Antonino Nocera;Giorgio Terracina;Domenico Ursino

  • A machine learning-based approach for predicting the outbreak of cardiovascular diseases in patients on dialysis

    Sabrina Mezzatesta;Claudia Torino;Pasquale De Meo;Giacomo Fiumara

  • Enhancing community detection using a network weighting strategy

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

  • Trust and Compactness in Social Network Groups

    Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Domenico Rosaci;Giuseppe M. L. Sarne

  • Network structure and resilience of Mafia syndicates

    Santa Agreste;Salvatore Catanese;Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara

  • Crawling Facebook for Social Network Analysis Purposes

    Salvatore A. Catanese;Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara

  • A query expansion and user profile enrichment approach to improve the performance of recommender systems operating on a folksonomy

    Pasquale De Meo;Giovanni Quattrone;Domenico Ursino

  • Extraction and Analysis of Facebook Friendship Relations

    Salvatore Catanese;Pasquale De Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Giacomo Fiumara

  • There's No Such Thing as the Perfect Map: Quantifying Bias in Spatial Crowd-sourcing Datasets

    Giovanni Quattrone;Licia Capra;Pasquale De Meo

  • Disrupting resilient criminal networks through data analysis: The case of Sicilian Mafia.

    Lucia Cavallaro;Annamaria Ficara;Pasquale De Meo;Giacomo Fiumara

  • Analyzing user behavior across social sharing environments

    Pasquale de Meo;Emilio Ferrara;Fabian Abel;Lora Aroyo

  • Using Centrality Measures to Predict Helpfulness-Based Reputation in Trust Networks

    Pasquale De Meo;Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys;Domenico Rosaci;Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè

  • Exploitation of semantic relationships and hierarchical data structures to support a user in his annotation and browsing activities in folksonomies

    Pasquale De Meo;Giovanni Quattrone;Domenico Ursino

  • Link prediction approach combined graph neural network with capsule network

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  • Adaptively controlling the QoS of multimedia wireless applications through "user profiling" techniques

    G. Araniti;Pasquale De Meo;A. Iera;D. Ursino

  • Robust link prediction in criminal networks: A case study of the Sicilian Mafia

    Francesco Calderoni;Salvatore Catanese;Pasquale De Meo;Annamaria Ficara

  • The role of strong and weak ties in Facebook: a community structure perspective

    Emilio Ferrara;Pasquale De Meo;Giacomo Fiumara;Alessandro Provetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio Ferrara
Emilio Ferrara University of Southern California
Antonio Liotta
Antonio Liotta Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Mark Levene
Mark Levene Birkbeck, University of London
Licia Capra
Licia Capra University College London
Antonio Iera
Antonio Iera University of Calabria
Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Athanasios V. Vasilakos University of Agder
Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo Google (United States)
Geert-Jan Houben
Geert-Jan Houben Delft University of Technology
Giuseppe Araniti
Giuseppe Araniti University of Reggio Calabria
Giuseppe Piccione
Giuseppe Piccione University of Messina

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