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Salvatore Catanese
Researcher at University of Messina
Publications - 25
Citations - 922
Salvatore Catanese is an academic researcher from University of Messina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social network analysis (criminology) & Social network analysis. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 23 publications receiving 775 citations. Previous affiliations of Salvatore Catanese include Indiana University & University of Catania.
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Crawling Facebook for Social Network Analysis Purposes
TL;DR: A set of tools that are developed to analyze specific properties of social-network graphs, i.e., among others, degree distribution, centrality measures, scaling laws and distribution of friendship, are described.
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Detecting criminal organizations in mobile phone networks
TL;DR: This work provides a theoretical framework for the problem of detecting and characterizing criminal organizations in networks reconstructed from phone call records and introduces an expert system to support law enforcement agencies in the task of unveiling the underlying structure of criminal networks hidden in communication data.
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Crawling Facebook for social network analysis purposes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a set of tools that can analyze specific properties of social-network graphs, i.e., degree distribution, centrality measures, scaling laws and distribution of friendship.
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Network structure and resilience of Mafia syndicates
TL;DR: The study investigates the network structure of a Mafia syndicate, describing its evolution and highlighting its plasticity to membership-targeting interventions and its resilience to disruption caused by police operations.
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Extraction and Analysis of Facebook Friendship Relations
Salvatore Catanese,Pasquale De Meo,Emilio Ferrara,Giacomo Fiumara,Alessandro Provetti,Alessandro Provetti +5 more
TL;DR: This work presents its long-term research effort in analyzing Facebook, the largest and arguably most successful OSN today, and developed a specific tool for analyzing quantitative and qualitative properties of social networks, adopting and improving existing Social Network Analysis techniques and algorithms.