Emanuele Pio Barracchia

University of Bari Aldo Moro | Università di Bari · Department of Computer Science

The massive adoption of social networks increased the need to analyze users’ data and interactions to detect and block the spread of propaganda and harassment behaviors, as well as to prevent actions influencing people towards illegal or immoral activities. In this paper, we propose HURI, a method for social network analysis that accurately classif...

E-procurement platforms are marketplaces where manufacturing companies, termed buyers, frequently interact with tens of thousands of suppliers. Conversely, different suppliers compete against each other to be selected, by one or more buyers, as those to be commissioned with procuring goods and services. However, such interactions are risky because...

Both large and medium-sized companies are concerned with maintaining good procurement relationships with their preferred suppliers and engaging previously unknown ones. To this end, potentially interesting suppliers are periodically monitored and evaluated by interacting with them via e-procurement platforms. Such a task rapidly becomes time-consum...

In many real-world domains, data can naturally be represented as networks. This is the case of social networks, bibliographic networks, sensor networks and biological networks. Some dynamism often characterizes these networks as their structure (i.e., nodes and edges) continually evolves. Considering this dynamism is essential for analyzing these n...

E-procurement involves the set of activities, performed in the manufacturing business, to requisite, order, and purchase goods and services online, usually on a periodic and large-scale basis from a supply chain. Every activity is a decision-making process that rapidly becomes infeasible by human procurement experts, often due to a large amount of...

Background. The study of functional associations between ncRNAs and human diseases is a pivotal task of modern research to develop new and more effective therapeutic approaches. Nevertheless, it is not a trivial task since it involves entities of different types, such as microRNAs, lncRNAs or target genes whose expression also depends on endogenous...