no code implementations • 26 May 2023 • Fabio Anselmi, Mauro Castelli, Alberto D'Onofrio, Luca Manzoni, Luca Mariot, Martina Saletta
In recent years, a new mutation operator, Geometric Semantic Mutation with Local Search (GSM-LS), has been proposed to include a local search step in the mutation process based on the idea that performing a linear regression during the mutation can allow for a faster convergence to good-quality solutions.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Lorenzo Basile, Nikos Karantzas, Alberto D'Onofrio, Luca Bortolussi, Alex Rodriguez, Fabio Anselmi
Despite their impressive performance in classification, neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
no code implementations • 24 Mar 2023 • Rossella Della Marca, Alberto D'Onofrio, Mattia Sensi, Sara Sottile
In contemporary society, social networks accelerate decision dynamics causing a rapid switch of opinions in a number of fields, including the prevention of infectious diseases by means of vaccines.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2021 • Michel Fliess, Cédric Join, Alberto D'Onofrio
Social distancing has been enacted in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2021 • Bruno Buonomo, Rossella Della Marca, Alberto D'Onofrio, Maria Groppi
In particular, the hesitancy and refusal of vaccination is better contained in case of large information coverage and small memory characteristic time.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Samantha Ajovalasit, Veronica Dorgali, Angelo Mazza, Alberto D'Onofrio, Piero Manfredi
Using a sentiment analysis on tweets posted in Italian during 2018, we aimed to: (i) characterize the temporal flow of vaccines communication on Twitter (ii) evaluate the polarity of vaccination opinions and usefulness of Twitter data to estimate vaccination parameters, and (iii) investigate whether the contrasting announcements at the highest political level might have originated disorientation amongst the Italian public.