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Too Quiet in the Library: An Empirical Study of Security Updates in Android Apps' Native Code

Android apps include third-party native libraries to increase performance and to reuse functionality. Native code is directly executed from apps through the Java Native Interface or the Android Native Development Kit. Android developers add precompiled nat ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Keep calm and carry on vaccinating: Is anti-vaccination sentiment contributing to declining vaccine coverage in England?

Marcel Salathé, Martin Müller

Background: In England, coverage for childhood vaccines have decreased since 2012/13 in the context of an increasingly visible anti-vaccination discourse. We determined whether anti-vaccination sentiment is the likely cause of this decline in coverage. Met ...

2020

Examining the Effects of Privacy-Aware Blended Learning Scenarios in Executive Training for Policymakers and Government Officials

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Juan Carlos Farah, Maria Gaci

Enabling blended learning scenarios that foster participation and interaction is an important consideration in the design of executive training programs. To investigate this design process, our study focuses on two aspects that are present in such scenario ...

Springer2020

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Social platforms became a major source of rumours. While rumours can have severe real-world implications, their detection is notoriously hard: Content on social platforms is short and lacks semantics; it spreads quickly through a dynamically evolving netwo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Les retours d’une exploration méthodologique croisant données Twitter, recrutement via Facebook et questionnaires web

Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Jean-François Lucas, Antoine Lohou

La présence de certaines catégories de population sur internet et l’activité importante qu’ils génèrent suggèrent aux chercheurs en sciences sociales de réfléchir aux perspectives méthodologiques qui permettent de capter l’information ainsi à disposition. ...

2018

An ecological and digital epidemiology analysis on the role of human behavior on the 2014 Chikungunya outbreak in Martinique

Marcel Salathé

Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic infections is of critical importance for a deeper understanding of pathogen transmission, and for the design of more efficient public health strategies. However, very few studies in this domain have foc ...

2017

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital in Small Teams: Insights from three crowdsourcing exercises in higher education

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

In this work we aim to study “crowd” dynamics in small teams. To this end, we use the typology of crowds discussed in Viscusi and Tucci [2015] as an interpretive framework, arguing that other characteristics are relevant to identify crowds than the number ...

2017

Data Summarization with Social Contexts

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo, Rameez Rahman, Hao Zhuang, Xia Hu

While social data is being widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and trend prediction, its sheer size also presents great challenges for storing, sharing and processing such data. These challenges can be addressed by data summariza ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

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