no code implementations • 18 Jun 2021 • Túlio Marcondes Moreira, Jackson Geraldo de Faria Jr, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Luiz Chaimowicz, Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro
Tidal Range Structures (TRS) have been considered for large-scale electricity generation for their potential ability to produce reasonably predictable energy without the emission of greenhouse gases.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2021 • Jeancarlo Campos Leão, Alberto H. F. Laender, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo
In our approach, we measure the quality of a community by applying the structural and functional strategies, and the combination of both, to obtain different pieces of evidence.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2019 • Jeancarlo Campos Leão, Alberto H. F. Laender, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo
Community detection is key to understand the structure of complex networks.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2018 • Flavio Figueiredo, Guilherme Borges, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Renato M. Assunção
Regarding accuracy, GrangerBusca is three times more accurate (in Precision@10) than the state of the art for the commonly explored subsets Memetracker.
no code implementations • 4 May 2018 • Lucas S. Oliveira, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Marcelo S. Amaral, José Antônio. G. Pinho
Since June 2013, when Brazil faced the largest and most significant mass protests in a generation, a political crisis is in course.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2016 • Rodrigo A. S. Alves, Renato Assunção, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo
From one side, the Poissonian processes, of which consecutive events follow each other at a relatively regular time and should not be correlated.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2015 • Julio Reis, Fabricio Benevenuto, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Raquel Prates, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An
In order to discover strategies that could be used to attract clicks, we extracted features from the text of the news headlines related to the sentiment polarity of the headline.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2014 • Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Christos Faloutsos, Renato Assunção, Rodrigo Alves, Antonio A. F. Loureiro
We show the potential application of SFP by proposing a framework to generate a synthetic dataset containing realistic communication events of any one of the analyzed means of communications (e. g. phone calls, e-mails, comments on blogs) and an algorithm to detect anomalies.