Fabrício Benevenuto Associate Professor (Professor Adjunto) Computer Science Department Federal University of Minas Gerais Room 7317 – DCC - ICEx +55 31 3409-7598 fabricio (at) dcc (dot) ufmg (dot) br

Bio

I am associate professor in the Computer Science Department of Federal University at Minas Gerais (UFMG). I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UFMG, in 2010, and my thesis received the CAPES award as the best Brazilian thesis in computer science for that year. During my Ph.D., I held research intern positions at HP Labs (USA) and MPI-SWS (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems). Then, I worked for two years as assistant professor on Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP). I was elected an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Science from 2013 to 2017 and, more recently, I received a prestigious scholarship from Humboldt foundation through which I was visiting faculty at MPI-SWS (2017-2018). I am currently a member of the TikTok Safety Advisory Council. I am actively working on projects related to social media, including social computing, sentiment analysis, and computational journalism. My projects are usually interdisciplinary and involve areas from computer science related to data science, including complex networks, data mining, machine learning and natural language processing. Currently, I am leading a large project against Fake News. My work on these topics has led to a number of important publications, widely cited papers and systems with societal impact.

I am keen to accept PhD., MSc. and undergrad students to work in topics that align with my research interests. Feel free to contact me about this to discuss possible topics of mutual interests.

Students

I'm delighted to be advisor of many talented students from UFMG:

• Marcio Silva (PhD.)
• Samuel Guimarães (PhD.)
• Daniel Kansaon (PhD.)
• Francielle Vargas (PhD from USP, coadvisor)
• Bruno Hott (Phd., coadvisor)
• João Marcos Couto (Msc.)
• Isadora Salles (Msc.)
• Isadora Cristina (Msc.)
• Beatriz Souza (Msc.)
• Breno Matos (Msc. coadvisor)
• Vitor Mafra (Msc.)
• Jonatas Henrique (Msc.)

Some Former Students (with their first employment):

• Philipe Melo (PhD.) joined Federal University of Viçosa as assistant professor.
• Júlio César Reis (PhD.) joined Federal University of Viçosa as assistant professor.
• Filipe Ribeiro (PhD.) joined Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) as assistant professor.
• Matheus Araújo (Msc.) joined the University of Minnesota as PhD. student.
• Johnnatan Messias (Msc.) joined Max Planck Institute as PhD. Student.
• Carolina Coimbra (Msc.) joined Max Planck Institute as PhD. Student.
• Helen Costa (did Msc.) joined Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) as assistant professor.
• Theo Lins (did Msc.) joined Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) as assistant professor.
• Carlos Freitas (did Msc.) joined Google Brazil (Belo Horizonte).
• Leandro Araújo (did Msc.) joined Kunumi, a cognitive computing startup (Belo Horizonte).
• Manoel Júnior (Msc.) joined Take Blip (Belo Horizonte).
• Lucas Henrique Lima (Msc.) joined CEFET as substitute professor.
• Pollyanna Gonçalves (did Msc.) joined Aditi (Belo Horizonte).
• Bruno Leite Alves (did Msc.) joined ThoughtWorks (Belo Horizonte).
• Antônio Leite (Msc.) joined SERPRO (Belo Horizonte).

Opinion Articles

· Fake news e a crônica do caixa 2 anunciado. In Folha de São Paulo on April 2018.

· Fake News Is Poisoning Brazilian Politics. WhatsApp Can Stop It. In New York Times on November 2018.

Systems and Applications

Some of our papers are about novel systems.

• Eleições sem Fake: Many systems to provide transparency along the Brazilian elections and counter misinformation.
• Media Bias Monitor: We designed a system to quantify the political leaning of thousands of news outlets. Check our ICWSM’18 paper for details.
• Purple Feed: Identifying High Consensus News Posts on Social Media.
• ScienceTree. Check your Academic Genealogical Tree.
• Who Makes Trends: Allow users to check demographics behind hashtags in Twitter.
• Ifeel: A sentiment analysis tool. You can label your dataset with the most important sentiment analysis methods.
• Cognos: Find experts in topics in Twitter.
• Who is who in Twitter. Word Cloud describing how users are listed in Twitter.

Conference Publications

• Anatomy of Hate Speech Datasets: Composition Analysis and Cross-dataset Classification.
  Samuel Guimarães, Gabriel Kakizaki, Philipe Melo, Márcio Silva, Fabricio Murai, Julio CS Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Roma, Itália. 2023.
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• Predicting Sentence-Level Factuality of News and Bias of Media Outlets
  Francielle Vargas, Kokil Jaidka, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Varna, Bulgaria. September, 2023.
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• Socially Responsible Hate Speech Detection: Can Classifiers Reflect Social Stereotypes?
  Francielle Vargas, Isabelle Carvalho, Ali Hurriyetoglu, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Varna, Bulgaria. September, 2023.
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• NoHateBrazil: A Brazilian Portuguese Text Offensiveness Analysis System.
  Francielle Vargas, Isabelle Carvalho, Wolfgang S. Schmeisser-Nieto, Fabrício Benevenuto, Thiago A. S. Pardo.
  In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Varna, Bulgaria. September, 2023.
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• YouNICon: YouTube’s CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos.
  Shao Yi Liaw, Fan Huang, Fabricio Benevenuto, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’23). Limassol, Cyprus. June, 2023.
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• Characterizing Low Credibility Websites in Brazil through Computer Networking Attributes.
  Joao M. M. Couto, Julio C. S. Reis, Italo Cunha, Leandro Araujo, and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proc. of IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). 2022.
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• Telegram Monitor: Monitoring Brazilian Political Groups and Channels on Telegram.
  Shao Yi Liaw, Fan Huang, Fabricio Benevenuto, Haewoon Kwak, and Jisun An.
  In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22). Barcelona, Spain. June, 2022.
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• Characterizing Sponsored Content in Facebook and Instagram.
  Emanuelle Martins, Isadora Salles, Fabrício Benevenuto and Olga Goussevskaia.
  In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22). Barcelona, Spain. June, 2022.
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• Understanding Effects of Moderation and Migration on online Video Sharing Platforms.
  Gabriel Luís Santos Freire, Tales Panoutsos, Lucas Perez Santos, Fabricio Benevenuto and Flavio Figueiredo.
  In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22). Barcelona, Spain. June, 2022.
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• EarlyAd: A System for Real-Time Surveillance of Brazilian Early Electoral Ads on Twitter.
  Marcelo M. R. Araújo, Samuel Guimarães, Marcio Silva, Josemar Caetano, Jonatas Santos, Julio C. S. Reis, Ana P. C. Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto and Jussara M. Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’22). Barcelona, Spain. June, 2022.
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• Can Online Attention Signals Help Fact-Checkers to Fact-Check?
  Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Savvas Zannettou, Oana Goga, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Robert West.
  In Proceedings of the 3rd MEDIATE Workshop as part of ICWSM’22. Atlanta, USA. June, 2022.
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• HateBR: Large Expert Annotated Corpus of Brazilian Instagram Comments for Abusive Language Detection.
  Francielle A. Vargas, Isabelle Carvalho, Fabiana Rodrigues de Góes, Thiago A. S. Pardo, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marseille, France. June, 2022.
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• Rhetorical Structure Approach for Online Deception Detection: A Survey.
  Francielle Vargas, Jonas D’Alessandro, Zohar Rabinovich, Fabrício Benevenuto, Thiago A. S. Pardo.
  In Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marseille, France. June, 2022.
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• Contextual-Lexicon Approach for Abusive Language Detection.
  Francielle Vargas, Fabiana Goes, Isabelle Carvalho, Fabrício Benevenuto, Thiago A. S. Pardo.
  In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Virtual Event. September, 2021.
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• Toward Discourse-Aware Models for Multilingual Fake News Detection.
  Francielle Vargas, Fabrício Benevenuto, Thiago A. S. Pardo.
  In Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)- Student Workshop. Virtual Event. September, 2021.
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• Characterizing (Un)moderated Textual Data in Social Systems.
  Lucas Lima, Julio C. S. Reis, Fabrício Murai, and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2020). Virtual Event. November, 2020.
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• Identifying and Characterizing Alternative News Media on Facebook.
  Samuel S. Guimaraes, Julio C. S. Reis, Lucas Lima, Filipe N. Ribeiro, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2020). Virtual Event. November, 2020.
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• Demystifying the Messaging Platforms' Ecosystem Through the Lens of Twitter.
  Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Manoel Júnior, Fabrício Benevenuto, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Anja Feldmann, and Savvas Zannettou.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2020). Virtual Event. October, 2020.
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• Understanding Targeted Video-Ads in Children's Content.
  Flavio Figueiredo, Felipe Giori, Guilherme Soares, Mariana Arantes, Jussara M. Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’20). Virtual Event. July, 2020.
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• Anonymity Effects: A Large-Scale Dataset from an Anonymous Social Media Platform.
  Mainack Mondal, Denzil Correa and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’20). Virtual Event. July, 2020.
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• How Biased is the Population of Facebook Users? Comparing the Demographics of Facebook Users and Census Data to Generate Correction Factors.
  Filipe N. Ribeiro, Fabrício Benevenuto and Emilio Zagheni.
  In Proceedings of the Web Science Conference (WebSci’20). Atlanta, USA. July, 2020.
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• A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections.
  Julio C. S. Reis, Philipe Melo, kiran Garimella, Jussara M. Almeida, Dean Eckles and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’20). Atlanta, USA. June, 2020.
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• Facebook Ads Monitor: An Independent Auditing System for Political Ads on Facebook.

Márcio Silva, Lucas S. Oliveira, Athanasios Andreou, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Oana Goga, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW’20), Taipei, Taiwan. April 2020. Best Paper Nominee at WWW and Winner of the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Prize.
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• Analyzing the Use of Audio Messages in WhatsApp Groups.

Alexandre Maros, Jussara Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Marisa Vasconcelos.
In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW’20), Taipei, Taiwan. April 2020.
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• Using Facebook Data to Measure Cultural Distance between Countries: the Case of Brazilian Cuisine.

Carolina C. Vieira, Filipe N. Ribeiro, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto, and Emilio Zagheni.
In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW’20), Taipei, Taiwan. April 2020.
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• Can WhatsApp Counter Misinformation by Limiting Message Forwarding?
  Philipe Melo, Carolina Vieira, Kiran Garimella, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications. Lisbon, Portugal. December, 2019.
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• Analyzing Textual (Mis)Information Shared in WhatsApp Groups.
  Gustavo Resende, Philipe Melo, Julio C. S. Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’19). Boston, USA June, 2019.
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• Explainable Machine Learning for Fake News Detection.
  Julio Reis, André Correia, Fabrício Murai, Adriano Veloso and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci’19). Boston, USA June, 2019.
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• WhatsApp Monitor: A Fact-Checking System for WhatsApp.
  Philipe Melo, Johnnatan Messias, Gustavo Resende, Kiran Garimella, Jussara Almeida, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’19). Munich, Germany. June, 2019.
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• (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures.
  Gustavo Resende, Philipe Melo, Hugo Sousa, Johnnatan Messias, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW’19), San Francisco, USA. May 2019.
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• Measuring the Facebook Advertising Ecosystem.
  Athanasios Andreou, Márcio Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Oana Goga, Patrick Loiseau, and Alan Mislove.
  Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'19), San Diego, USA. February 2019.
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• On Microtargeting Socially Divisive Ads: A Case Study of Russia-Linked Ad Campaigns on Facebook.
  Filipe N. Ribeiro, Koustuv Saha, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Lucas Henrique, Johnnatan Messias, Fabrício Benevenuto, Oana Goga, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Elissa M. Redmiles.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*'19), Atlanta, Georgia. January 2019.
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• Inside the Right-Leaning Echo Chambers: Characterizing Gab, an Unmoderated Social System.
  Lucas Lima, Julio Reis, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Murai, Leandro Araújo, Pantelis Vikatos and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018). Barcelona, Spain. August, 2018
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• Socialbots' First Words: Can Automatic Chatting Improve Influence in Twitter?
  Pantelis Vikatos, Alkiviadis Savvopoulos and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018). Barcelona, Spain. August, 2018
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• Media Bias Monitor: Quantifying Biases of Social Media News Outlets at Large-Scale.
  Filipe Ribeiro, Lucas Henrique, Fabrício Benevenuto, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mahmoudreza Babaei and Krishna P. Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’18). Stanford, USA. June, 2018
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• Potential for Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising.
  Till Speicher, Muhammad Ali, Giridhari Venkatadri, Filipe Ribeiro, George Arvanitakis, Fabrício Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, and Alan Mislove.
  In Proceedings of the First Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*). New York, USA. February 2018.
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• Purple Feed: Identifying High Consensus News Posts on Social Media.
  Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Adrian Weller.
  In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). New Orleans, USA. February 2018.
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• White, Man, and Highly Followed: Gender and Race Inequalities in Twitter.
  Johnnatan Messias, Pantelis Vikatos, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). Leipzig, Germany. August, 2017
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• Characterizing Internet Radio Stations at Scale.
  Gustavo Silva, Lucas Oliveira, Rafael Medeiros, Olga Goussevskaia, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). Leipzig, Germany. August, 2017
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• Building the Brazilian Academic Genealogy Tree.
  Wellington Dores, Elias Soares, Fabrício Benevenuto and Alberto Laender.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). Thessaloniki, Greece. September, 2017
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• A Measurement Study of Hate Speech in Social Media.
  Mainack Mondal, Leandro A. A. Silva, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT). Prague, Czech Republic. July, 2017
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• Demographics of News Sharing in Twitter.
  Julio Reis, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Johnnatan Messias, and Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT). Prague, Czech Republic. July, 2017
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• Linguistic Diversities of Demographic Groups in Twitter.
  Pantelis Vikatos, Johnnatan Messias, Manoel Miranda, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT). Prague, Czech Republic. July, 2017
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• The Emergence of Crowdsourcing among Pokémon Go Players.
  Priscila Martins, Manoel Júnior, Jussara Almeida, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Narrative and Hypertext’17 (NHT17). Prague, Czech Republic. July, 2017
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• Using Facebook Ads Audiences for Global Lifestyle Disease Surveillance: Promises and Limitations.
  Matheus Araujo, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci). Troy, USA. June, 2017
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• Who Makes Trends? Understanding Demographic Biases in Crowdsourced Recommendations.
  Abhijnan Chakraborty, Johnnatan Messias, Fabrício Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly and Krishna P. Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’17). Montreal, Canada. May, 2017
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• From Migration Corridors to Clusters: The Value of Google+ Data for Migration Studies.
  Johnnatan Messias, Fabrício Benevenuto, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’16). San Francisco, USA. August 2016.
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• Towards Sentiment Analysis for Mobile Devices.
  Johnnatan Messias, João P. Diniz, Elias Soares, Miller Ferreira, Matheus Araújo, Lucas Bastos, Manoel Miranda, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’16). San Francisco, USA. August 2016.
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• Using FIFA Soccer Video Game Data for Soccer Analytics.
  Leonardo Cota, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Fabrício Benevenuto, Antônio A. F. Loureiro.
  In Proceedings of the KDD Workshop on Large Scale Sports Analytics. San Francisco, CA, USA. August 2016.
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• Extracting Academic Genealogy Trees from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
  Wellington Dores, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Alberto Laender.
  In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’16). Newark, NJ, USA. June 2016.
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• iFeel 2.0: A Multilingual Benchmarking System for Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis.
  Matheus Araújo, João P. Diniz, Lucas Bastos, Elias Soares, Manoel Júnior, Miller Ferreira, Filipe Ribeiro, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social (ICWSM’16). Cologne, Germany. May 2016. (Demo Paper).
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• Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media.
  Leandro Silva, Mainack Modal, Denzil Correa, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Ingmar Weber.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social (ICWSM’16). Cologne, Germany. May 2016.
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• Fusing Audio, Textual and Visual Features for Sentiment Analysis of News Videos.
  Moisés Pereira, Flávio Pádua, Adriano Pereira, Fabrício Benevenuto, Daniel Dalip.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social (ICWSM’16). Cologne, Germany. May 2016.
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• An Evaluation of Machine Translation for Multilingual Sentence-level Sentiment Analysis.
  Matheus Araújo, Julio Reis, Adriano Pereira and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’16). Pisa, Italy. April 2016.
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• On the Combination of "Off-The-Shelf" Sentiment Analysis Methods.
  Pollyanna Gonçalves, Daniel Hasan Dalip, Helen Costa, Marcos André Gonçalves and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’16). Pisa, Italy. April 2016.
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• Exploiting New Sentiment-Based Meta-level Features for Effective Sentiment Analysis.
  Sérgio Canuto, Marcos André Gonçalves and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’16). San Francisco, USA. February 2016.
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• Reverse Engineering Socialbot Infiltration Strategies in Twitter.
  Carlos Freitas, Fabrício Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghoshi, and Adriano Veloso.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’15). Paris, France. August 2015.
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• Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News.
  Julio Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Raquel Prates, Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’15). Oxford, UK, May, 2015.
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• The Many Shades of Anonymity: Characterizing Anonymous Social Media Content.
  Denzil Correa, Leandro Silva, Mainack Mondal, Fabrício Benevenuto and Krishna Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’15). Oxford, UK, May, 2015.
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• iFeel: A System that Compares and Combines Sentiment Analysis Methods.
  Matheus Araujo, Pollyanna Goncalves, Meeyong Cha, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW’14). Seoul, Korea. April 2014. (Demo Paper).
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• Working with Friends: Unveiling Working Affinity Features from Facebook Data.
  Douglas Castilho, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Daniele Quercia, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’14). Ann Arbor, MI, USA. June, 2014.
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• Magnet News: You Choose the Polarity of What you Read.
  Julio Reis, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Raquel Prates, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’14). Ann Arbor, MI, USA. June, 2014. (Demo Paper)
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• Improving information dissemination in vehicular networks by selecting appropriate disseminators.
  Fabrício A. Silva, Thais R. M. B. Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Linnyer B Ruiz, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
  In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’14). Victoria, Canada, May 2014.
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• Does Content Determine Information Popularity in Social Media?
  Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto, Krishna Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’14). Toronto, Canada. April 2014 (Short Paper).
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• Comparing and Combining Sentiment Analysis Methods.
  Pollyanna Goncalves, Matheus Araujo, Fabrício Benevenuto, Meeyong Cha.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Social Netowrks (COSN’13). Boston, USA. Oct 2013.
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• The Role of Research Leaders on the Evolution of Scientific Communities.
  Bruno Alves, Fabrício Benevenuto, Alberto Laender.
  In Proceedings of the WWW 2013 companion volume. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013.
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• Detecting Tip Spam in Location-based Social Networks.
  Helen Costa, Fabricio Benevenuto and Luiz Merschmann.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'13). Coimbra, Portugal, March 2013.
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• Cognos: Crowdsourcing Search for Topic Experts in Microblogs.
  Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Sharma, Fabrício Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Int’l SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’12). Portland, USA. August 2012.
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• Finding Trendsetters in Information Networks.
  Diego Saez-Trumper, Giovanni Comarela, Virgílio Almeida, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’12). Beijing, China. August 2012.
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• Inferring Who-is-Who in the Twitter Social Network.
  Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Sharma, Fabrício Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN’12). Helsinki, Finland. August 2012.
  Best paper – selected to appear on Computer Communications Review!
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• Object Popularity Distributions in Online Social Networks.
  Theo Lins, Fabrício Benevenuto, Wellington Dores, Fabrício Barth.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGWEB Web Science Conference (WebSci’12). Evaston, IL, USA. June 2012.
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• Towards integrating Online Social Networks and Business Intelligence.
   Paulo R. Santos, Fernando F. Souza, Valéria C. Times, and Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media (WBC’12). Lisbon, Portugal, July 2012.
  Best paper award!
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Understanding factors that affect response rates in Twitter.
  Giovanni Comarela, Mark Crovella, Virgílio Almeida and Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGWEB Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’12). Milwaukee, WI, USA, June 2012.
  Best paper nominee (among 3)
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• A Gender Based Study of Tagging Behavior in Twitter (short paper).
  Evandro Cunha, Gabriel Magno, Virgilio Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves and Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGWEB Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’12). Milwaukee, USA, June 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Understanding and Combating Link Farming in the Twitter Social Network.
  Saptarshi Ghosh, Bimal Viswanath, Farshad Kooti, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Korlam Gautam, Fabricio Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’12). Lyon, France, April 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Data]
• Tips, Dones and To-Dos: Uncovering User Profiles in FourSquare.
  Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto and Virgilio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’12). Seattle, USA. February, 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• On Word-of-Mouth Based Discovery of the Web.
  Tiago Rodrigues, Fabricio Benevenuto, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’11), Berlin, Germany, November 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Phi.sh/$oCiaL: The Phishing Landscape through Short URLs.
  Sidharth Chhabra, Anupama Aggarwal, Fabricio Benevenuto, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS’11). Perth, Australia. September, 2011.
  Best paper award!
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Characterizing Interactions among Members of Deaf Communities in Orkut.
  Glívia Barbosa, Ismael Santana, Glauber Gonçalves, Raquel Prates, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida
  In Proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact’11). Lisbon, Portugal. September, 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Analyzing the Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: a Language-Based Approach.
  Evandro Cunha, Gabriel Magno, Giovanni Comarela, Virgilio Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves and Fabricio Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011), pages 58–65, Portland, Oregon, USA. June 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Dengue surveillance based on a computational model of spatio-temporal locality of Twitter.
  Janaína Gomide, Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr., Virgílio Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto, Fernanda Ferraz, Mauro Teixeira.
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGWEB Web Science Conference (WebSci). Koblenz, Germany. June 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Online System]
• The Tube over Time: Characterizing Popularity Growth of YouTube Videos.
  Flavio Figueiredo, Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’11), Hong Kong, February, 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Data]
• Detecting Spammers on Twitter.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Gabriel Magno, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS’10). Redmond, Washington, USA. July, 2010.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Data]
• Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy.
  Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabrício Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi.
  In Proceedings of the Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’10). Washington DC, USA. May, 2010.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Data] Test-of-Time Award at ICWSM’20
• Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Meeyoung Cha, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’09), Chicago, USA. November, 2009.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)]
• Detecting Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Social Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida and Marcos Gonçalves.
  In Proceedings of the Annual Int’l SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’09). Boston, MA, USA, July 2009.
  Brief Announcement appeared at IEEE INFOCOM Student Workshop. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Data]
• Understanding Video Interactions in YouTube.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Fernando Duarte, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Keith Ross.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Int'l Conference on Multimedia (MM'08). Vancouver, Canada, October, 2008.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Identifying Spammers in Online Video Social Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang, and Keith W. Ross.
  In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web (AirWeb’08). Beijing, China, April 2008.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Geographical Characterization of YouTube: a Latin American View.
  Fernando Duarte, Fabricio Benevenuto, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Latin American Web Congress (LAWEB'07). Santiago, Chile, November 2007.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• A Quantitative Analysis of the Xen Virtualization Overhead.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Cesar Teixeira, Matheus Caldas, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Int’l Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'07). Iquique, Chile, November 2007.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Performance Models for Applications on Xen.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Cesar Teixeira, Matheus Caldas, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Jose Renato Santos and G. (John) Janakiraman.
  In Proceedings of ISPA Workshops, Springer-Verlag LNCS 4331. Sorrento, Italy, Dec, 2006.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Locality of Reference in a Hierarchy of Web Caches.
  Fernando Duarte, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'06), Springer-Verlag LNCS 3976. Coimbra, Portugal, May, 2006.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Impact of Peer Incentives on the Disseminations of Polluted Content.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Cristiano Costa, Marisa Vasconcelos, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Miranda Mowbray.
  In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'2006). Dijon, France, April 2006.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Web Cache Replacement Policies: Properties, Limitations and Implications.
  Fabricio Benevenuto, Fernando Duarte, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Latin American Web Congress (LAWEB'2005). Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2005.
  [PS] [BibTeX]
• Quantitative Evaluation of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Architectures.
  Fabricio Benevenuto, José Ismael Jr., Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems. Volendam, The Netherland, October 2004.
  [PS] [BibTeX]

International Journal Publications

• The Interplay of Migration and Cultural Similarity Between Countries: Evidence from Facebook Data on Food and Drink interests.
  Carolina C. Vieira, Sophie Lohmann, Emilio Zagheni, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Fabrício Benevenuto, and Filipe N. Ribeiro.
  In PLoS One. Volume 17, Issue 2. February 2022, e0262947.
  [DOI]
• Characterizing political bias and comments associated with news on Brazilian Facebook.
  Samuel S. Guimarães, Julio C. S. Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos & Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Social Network Analysis and Mining. Volume 11, Article number 94. 2021.
  [DOI]
• Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data.
  Irene V. Pasquetto, Briony Swire-Thompson, Michelle A. Amazeen, Fabrício Benevenuto, Nadia M. Brashier, Robert M. Bond, Lia C. Bozarth, Ceren Budak, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lisa K. Fazio, Emilio Ferrara, Andrew J. Flanagin, Alessandro Flammini, Deen Freelon, Nir Grinberg, Ralph Hertwig, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kenneth Joseph, Jason J. Jones, R. Kelly Garrett, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Jasmine McNealy, Drew Margolin, Alice Marwick, FiIippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Seungahn Nah, Stephan Lewandowsky, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Pablo Ortellado, Gordon Pennycook, Ethan Porter, David G. Rand, Ronald E. Robertson, Francesca Tripodi, Soroush Vosoughi, Chris Vargo, Onur Varol, Brian E. Weeks, John Wihbey, Thomas J. Wood, & Kai-Cheng Yang
  In The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. Volume 1, Issue 8. December 2020, Pages 1-14.
  [PDF] [DOI]
• Can WhatsApp benefit from debunked fact-checked stories to reduce misinformation?
  Julio S. Reis, Philipe Melo, Kiran Garimela, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. Volume 1, Issue 5. August 2020, Pages 1-11.
  [PDF] [DOI]
• Neutrality May Metter: Sentiment analysis in reviews of Airbnb, Booking, and Couchsurfing in Brazil and USA.
  Gustavo Santos, Vinícius F. S. Mota, Fabrício Benevenuto, Thiago Henrique Silva.
  In Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining, Volume 10, Issue 45, June 2020, Pages 1-21.
  [PDF] [DOI]
• A Comparative Study of Machine Translation for Multilingual Sentence-level Sentiment Analysis.
  Matheus Araújo, Adriano Pereira, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Elsevier Information Sciences, Volume 512, February 2020, Pages 1078-1102.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Multimodal approach for tension levels estimation in news videos.
  Moisés Pereira, Flávio Pádua, Daniel Dalip, Fabrício Benevenuto, Adriano Pereira, Anísio Lacerda.
  In Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 78, Issue 16. 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• 10SENT: A Stable Sentiment Analysis Method Based on the Combination of Off-the-Shelf Approaches.
  Philipe F. Melo, Daniel H. Dalip. Manoel M. Junior, Marcos A. Gonçalves, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 70, Issue 3. 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Supervised Learning for Fake News Detection.
  Julio Reis, André Correia, Fabrício Murai, Adriano Veloso, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In IEEE Intelligent Systems. Volume 34, Number 2. March 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Urban Computing Leveraging Location-Based Social Network Data: a Survey.
  Thiago Silva, Aline Viana, Fabricio Benevenuto, Leandro Villas, Juliana Salles, Antonio Loureiro, and Daniele Quercia.
  In ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 52. Issue 1. Number 17. February 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Characterizing Usage of Explicit Hate Expressions in Social Media.
  Mainack Mondal, Leandro A. A. Silva, Denzil Correa, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining. Volume 7, Number 1. 2018.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Potential for Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising.
  Till Speicher, Muhammad Ali, Giridhari Venkatadri, Filipe Ribeiro, George Arvanitakis, Fabrício Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau, and Alan Mislove.
  In Journal of Machine Learning Research. Volume 81. Number 1. Pages 5—19. 2018.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• An Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis for Mobile Devices.
  Johnnatan Messias, Joao P. Diniz, Elias Soares, Miller Ferreira, Matheus Araújo, Lucas Bastos, Manoel Miranda, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining. Volume 7, Number 1. 2017.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• The Strength of the Work Ties.
  Douglas Castilho, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Elsevier Information Sciences. January 2017. Volume 375, Number 1, Pages 155–170.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• SentiBench - A Benchmark Comparison of State-of-the-Practice Sentiment Analysis Methods.
  Filipe Nunes Ribeiro, Matheus Araújo, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In EPJ Data Science. July 2016. Volume 5, Number 1, Pages 1-29.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• An Empirical Study of Socialbot Infiltration Strategies in the Twitter Social Network.
  Carlos Freitas, Fabrício Benevenuto, Adriano Veloso, and Saptarshi Ghoshi.
  In Social Network Analysis and Mining. December 2016. Volume 6. Number 23.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• TrendLearner: Early Prediction of Popularity Trends of User Generated Content.
  Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Elsevier Information Sciences. July 2016. Volume 349-350. Pages 172-187.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• The H-Index Paradox: Your Coauthors Have a Higher H-index than You Do.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Alberto H. F. Laender and Bruno L. Alves.
  In Scientometrics. Volume 106. Number 1. January 2016. Pages 469-474.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• How Connected are the ACM SIG Communities?
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Alberto H. F. Laender and Bruno L. Alves.
  In ACM SIGMOD Record. Volume 44, Number 4, December 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• ODCRep: Origin-Destination-based Content Replication for Vehicular Networks.
  Fabrício Silva, Azzedine Boukerche, Thaís Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Linnyer B. Ruiz, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
  In IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Volume 64. Issue 12. December 2015. Pages 5563 - 5574.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Structural Properties of the Brazilian Air Transportation Network.
  Guilherme Couto, Ana Paula Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Linnyer B. Ruiz.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Academy of Science. Volume 87. Number 3. September 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• On the Dynamics of Social Media Popularity: A YouTube Case Study.
  Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). Volume 14. Issue 4. December 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Pollution, Bad-mouthing, and Local Marketing: The Underground of Location-based Social Networks.
  Helen Costa, Luiz H Merschmann, Fabrício Barth, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Elsevier Information Sciences. Volume 279, Number 20, September 2014. Pages 123-137.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Workload Characterization of a Location Based Social Network.
  Theo Lins, Adriano C. M. Pereira, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining. June 2014, 4:209.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• You followed my bot! Transforming robots into influential users in Twitter.
  Johnnatan Messias, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Rabelo, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In First Monday. Volume 18, Number 7, July, 2013.
  [Link] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Inferring Who-is-Who in the Twitter Social Network.
  Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Sharma, Fabrício Benevenuto, Niloy Ganguly, and Krishna Gummadi.
  In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Volume 42, Number 4. October 2012. Pages 533-538.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Characterizing User Navigation and Interactions in Online Social Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Meeyoung Cha, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Elsevier Information Sciences. Volume 195, Number 15, July 2012, Pages 1–24.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• The world of connections and information flow in Twitter.
  Meeyoung Cha, Fabrício Benevenuto, Hamed Haddadi and Krishna Gummadi.
  In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A. Volume 42, Number 4. July 2012. Pages 991-998.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Practical Detection of Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Sharing Systems.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Adriano Veloso, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, Virgílio Almeida.
  In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B. Volume 42, Number 3. June 2012. Pages 688-701.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• Delayed Information Cascades in Flickr: Measurement, Analysis, and Modeling.
  Meeyoung Cha, Fabrício Benevenuto, Young-Yeol Ahn and Krishna Gummadi.
  In Elsevier Computer Networks. Volume 56, Number 3, February 2012, Pages 1066—1076.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [DOI]
• A Multi-view Approach for Detecting Non-cooperative Users in Online Video Sharing Systems.
  Hendrickson Langbehn, Saulo Ricci, Marcos Gonçalves, Jussara Almeida, Gisele Pappa, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM). Volume 1, Number 3, October 2010, Pages 1-16.
  Best paper award on SBBD 2010
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Characterization and Analysis of User Profiles in Online Video Sharing Systems.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Adriano Pereira, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, and Marcos Gonçalves.
  Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM). Volume 1, Number 2, June 2010, Pages 115-129.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Equal but Different: A Contextual Analysis of Duplicated Videos on YouTube.
  Tiago Rodrigues, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, and Marcos Gonçalves.
  Springer Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCOS). Volume 16, Number 3. September, 2010.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Video Pollution on the Web.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, Keith Ross.
  First Monday, Volume 15, Number 4. April, 2010.
  [HTML] [BibTeX]
• Video Interactions in Online Video Social Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Keith Ross.
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP). 5, 4, Article 30. October, 2009.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

Brazilian Venues

• Helping Fact-Checkers Identify Fake News Stories Shared through Images on WhatsApp.

Julio C. S. Reis, Philipe Melo, Fabiano Belém, Fabricio Murai, Jussara M. Almeida, and Fabricio Benevenuto.
In Proceedings of the 29th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web. 2023.
[PDF]

• Desinformação em Plataformas Digitais: Conceitos, Abordagens Tecnológicas e Desafios.

Julio C. S. Reis, Philipe Melo, Márcio Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto.
In Jornada de Atualização em Informática (JAI). Conferência da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (CSBC). 2022.
[PDF]

• Detecção Automática de Desinformação Relacionada à Covid-19 no Brasil. João M. M. Couto, Isadora Salles, Breno Pimenta, Samuel Assis, Leandro Araújo, Julio C.S. Reis, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados. (SBBD). Armação de Búzios, Brazil, Setembro 2022.
  [PDF]
• Towards Understanding the Use of Telegram by Political Groups in Brazil.
  Manoel Júnior, Philipe Melo, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Evento Virtual. Novembro, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Supervised Learning for Misinformation Detection in WhatsApp.
  Julio C.S. Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Evento Virtual. Novembro, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best Paper Nominee!
• Central de Fatos: Um Repositório de Checagens de Fatos.
  João M. M. Couto, Breno Pimenta, Igor M. de Araújo, Samuel Assis, Julio C.S. Reis, Ana Paula C. da Silva, Jussara M. Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD). Evento Virtual. Outubro, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best Paper Nominee!
• Propaganda Eleitoral Antecipada: Uma Análise de Postagens em Mídias Sociais.
  Márcio Silva, Samuel Guimarães, Josemar Caetano, Marcelo Araújo, Jonatas Santos, Julio CS Reis, Ana Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Evento Virtual. Julho, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• A Nudez como Estereótipo de Beleza através das Lentes do Instagram.
  Breno Matos, Fabrício Benevenuto, Ana Paula Couto da Silva.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Evento Virtual. Julho, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best short Paper Award!
• Towards automatic fake news detection in digital platforms: properties, limitations, and applications.
  Julio CS Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Anais do XXXIV Concurso de Teses e Dissertações (CTD-CSBC). Evento Virtual. Julho, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] 3rd place PhD. Thesis Award!
• Rumo à Detecção Automática de Notícias Falsas em Plataformas Digitais: Propriedades, Limitações e Aplicações.
  Julio CS Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Anais Estendidos do XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (CTD-SBSI). Evento Virtual. Junho, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best PhD. Thesis Award!
• Characterizing Reactions and Comments Associated with News on Facebook.
  Samuel Guimarães, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Anais Estendidos do XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (CTD-SBSI). Evento Virtual. Junho, 2021.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best Msc. Dissertation Award!
• Analyzing the Use of COVID-19 Ads on Facebook.
  Márcio Silva and Fabrício Benevenuto.

In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). São Luiz, Brazil. October 2020.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

• Mining Portuguese Comparative Sentences in Online Reviews.
  Daniel Kansaon, Michele A. Brandão, Julio C. S. Reis, Matheus Barbosa, Breno Matos, and Fabrício Benevenuto.

In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). São Luiz, Brazil. October 2020.
[PDF] [BibTeX][Data]

• Leveraging the Facebook Ads Platform for Election Polling.
  Filipe N. Ribeiro, Daniel Kansaon and Fabrício Benevenuto

In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2019.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

• O Paradoxo da Viralização de Informação Criptografada no WhatsApp.
  Carolina Vieira, Philipe Melo, Pedro Olmo Vaz de Melo and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Gramado, Brazil, May 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Analisando o Uso de uma Grande Rede de Streaming de Vídeos na Divulgação de Conteúdo Político.
  Felipe Giori and Flavio Figueiredo and Guilherme Soares and Jussara Almeida and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Gramado, Brazil, May 2019.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Neutral or Negative? Sentiment Evaluation in Reviews of Hosting Services.
  Gustavo Santos, Marcelo Santos, Vinícius Mota, Fabricio Benevenuto, and Thiago H Silva.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Salvador. Outubro, 2018.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• A System for Monitoring Public Political Groups in WhatsApp.
  Gustavo Resende, Johnnatan Messias, Márcio Silva, Jussara Almeida, Marisa Vasconselos, and Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web. (Webmedia). Salvador. Outubro, 2018.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Detecção de Posicionamento em Tweets sobre Política no Contexto Brasileiro.
  William Christhie, Julio Reis, Fabricio Benevenuto, Mirella Moro, and Virgilio A. F. Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Julho, 2018.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Assinatura Emocional de Autores em Obras Literárias.
  Matheus Araújo, Iuro Nascimento, Gustavo Rafael, Raquel Melo-Minardi, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web. (Webmedia). Teresina, Piauí. November, 2016.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Análise da Polaridade Expressa nas Manchetes de Notícias Brasileiras.
  Pedro Ramos, Julio Reis, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Por Alegre, Brasil. July, 2016.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Análise do Impacto do Anonimato em Comentários de Notícias Online.
  Julio Reis, Manoel Júnior, Lucas Miranda, Raquel Prates, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos (SBSC). Porto Alegre, Brasil. July, 2016.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best Paper Award!
• Carona Universitária App: Investigando as Relações de Troca, Segurança e Recompensa no Desenvolvimento de uma Aplicação Móvel Voltada a uma Comunidade.
  Antônio Henrique Gonçalves Leite, Luiz Paulo Damilton Corrêa, Raquel Prates, Fabrício Benevenuto, Pedro Olmo Vaz de Melo.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos (SBSC). Porto Alegre, Brasil. July, 2016
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Métodos para Análise de Sentimentos em Mídias Sociais.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Filipe Ribeiro, Matheus Araújo
  Short course in the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Manaus, Brazil. October 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Brasil Pelo Mundo: Caracterizando e Detectando Emigrantes Brasileiros.
  Johnnatan Messias, Gabriel Magno, Fabrício Benevenuto, Adriano Veloso, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web. (Webmedia). Manaus, Brazil. October 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Abordagem para Análise de Sentimentos de Aplicações da Web em Língua Portuguesa.
  Renato Martins, Adriano Pereira, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web. (Webmedia). Manaus, Brazil. October 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Análise Multimodal de Sentimentos para Estimação da Polaridade Tensiva de Notícias em Vídeos de Telejornais.
  Moisés Pereira, Flávio Pádua, Adriano Pereira, Giani Silva, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (Webmedia). Manaus, Brazil. October 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Algoritmos de Aprendizado de Máquina para Predição de Resultados das Lutas de MMA.
  Leandro A. A. Silva, Johnnatan Messias, Mirella M. Moro, Pedro O. S Vaz de Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the 30th Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD'15). Petrópolis, Brazil. October, 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Índice Gilberto-Arruda: Avaliação do Impacto Social-acadêmico de Pesquisadores.
  Lucas Lima, Gilderlanio Araújo, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Fabrício Benevenuto, Ana Paula Couto da Silva
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Recife, Brasil. July, 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Caracterizando e Detectando Sarcasmo e Ironia no Twitter.
  Pollyanna Gonçalves, Daniel Dalip, Julio Reis, Johnnatan Messias, Filipe Ribeiro, Philipe Melo, Marcos Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Recife, Brasil. July, 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Abordagem Multilíngue para Análise de Sentimentos.
  Matheus Araújo, Júlio Reis, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Adriano Pereira, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Recife, Brasil. July, 2015.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Medindo Sentimentos no Twitter por meio de uma Escala Psicométrica.
  Pollyanna Gonçalvez, Wellington Dores, Fabrício Benevenuto
  Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação, v. 14, n. 2, mai-ago 2015, artigo 3.
  [PDF] [BibTeX][DOI][Link]
• Bots Socias: Como Robôs podem se tornar influentes no Twitter.
  Johnnatan Messias, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Oliveira, Fabricio Benevenuto
  Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação, v. 14, n. 2, mai-ago 2015, artigo 4.
  [PDF] [BibTeX][DOI][Link] Best Paper Finalist on CTIC’13 (among 3).
• A Percepção dos Usuários sobre a Utilização da Análise de Sentimentos como Apoio à Seleção de Notícias.
  Júlio Reis, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Lucas Bastos, Raquel Prates, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the XIII Simpósio Brasileiro Sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (IHC). Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. October, 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Detectando Avaliações Spam em uma Rede Social Baseada em Localização.
  Helen Costa, Fabrício Benevenuto, Luiz Henrique Merschmann.
  In Proceedings of the XXVII Concurso de teses e dissertações (CTD). Brasília, Brazil. July, 2014.
  [PDF] Best MSc thesis finalist (among 10).
• A Malha Aérea Brasileira sob a Perspectiva de Redes Complexas.
  Guilherme Couto, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Linnyer Ruiz, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the XXXIX Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (Semish). Brasília, Brazil, July 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Socialbots: Implicações na segurança e na credibilidade de serviços baseados no Twitter.
  Carlos S. Freitas, Adriano Veloso, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2014.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] Best Paper Award!
• Métodos para Análise de Sentimentos no Twitter.
  Matheus Araújo, Pollyanna Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WEBMEDIA). Salvador, Brasil. November, 2013.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Comer, Comentar e Compartilhar: Análise de uma Rede de Ingredientes e Receitas.
  Willyan Ferreira, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Luiz Henrique Merschmann, Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos (SBSC). Manaus, Brasil. October, 2013.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• TripTag: Ferramenta de planejamento de viagens baseada em experiências de usuários de redes sociais (demo paper).
  Antonio H. G. Leite, Fabricio Benevenuto, Mirella M. Moro
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados (SBBD). Recife, Brasil. September, 2013.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Online System]
• O Que Tweets Contendo Emoticons Podem Revelar Sobre Sentimentos Coletivos?
  Pollyanna Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Maceió, Brasil. July, 2013.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Twittraffic: Uma Plataforma de Monitoração, Visualização e Identificação de Ocorrências no Trânsito
  Lucas Schmidt, Jeferson Ferreira, Vicente Peixoto, Ricardo R. Oliveira, Fabricio Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the XXXIX Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (Semish). Maceió, Brazil, July 2013.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Busca de Caminhos em Redes Sociais Geolocalizadas em Tempo Real
  Wladston Viana, Mirella Moro, Fabrício Benevenuto
  In the Journal of Scientific Initiation (REIC). To appear, 2013.
  Best Paper Finalist on CTIC’13 (among 3).
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• BESHORT: Uma abordagem segura para encurtamento de URLs
  Pedro Freitas, Wellington Dores, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Revista Brasileira de Sistemas de Informação (iSys), Volume 1. 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX] [Link]
• Uma abordagem descentralizada para o encurtamento de URLs.
  Wellington Dores, Pedro Freitas, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In the Journal of Scientific Initiation (REIC), Volume 12, Number 3, 2012.
  Best Paper Finalist on CTIC’12 (among 10).
  [PDF] [Link] [BibTeX]
• Coleta e Análise de Grandes Bases de Dados de Redes Sociais Online.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida, Altigran Silva.
  Book Chapter in Jornada de Atualizações em Informática (JAI), Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (CSBC). Curitiba, Brasil. Julho 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Sigam-me os bons! Transformando robôs em pessoas influentes no Twitter.
  Johnnatan Messias, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Rabelo, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Curiba, Brasil. Julho, 2012.
  Best paper nominee (among 4).
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• PANAS-t: Uma Escala Psicométrica para Medição de Sentimentos no Twitter.
  Pollyanna Gonçalves, Wellington Dores, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM). Curiba, Brasil. Julho, 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Caracterização e Modelagem do Tráfego e da Navegação dos Usuários do Apontador.
  Theo Lins, Helen Costa, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the IX Workshop em Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Computacionais e de Comunicação (WPerformance). Curiba, Brasil. Julho, 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Caracterização e Influência do Uso de Tips e Dones no FourSquare.
  Marisa Vasconcelos, Saulo Ricci, Jussara Almeida, Virgílio Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Ouro Preto, Brasil. Abril, 2012.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Entendendo a Twitteresfera Brasileira.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Diego Silveira, Leonardo Bombonato, Thalisson Oliveira, Reinaldo Fortes, Álvaro Pereira Jr.
  In Proceedings of the VIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos (SBSC). Paraty, Brasil. Outubro, 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Content Popularity Evolution in Online Social Networks.
  Flavio Figueiredo, Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida..
  In Proceedings of the Workshop de Teses e dissertações (WTD-Webmedia). Florianópolis, Brasil. Outubro, 2011.
  [PDF]
• Coleta e Análise de Grandes Bases de Dados de Redes Sociais Online.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida, Altigran Silva.
  Book Chapter in Jornada de Atualizações em Informática (JAI), Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (CSBC). Natal, Brazil. July 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Análise Empírica de Interações em Redes Sociais.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the XXIV Concurso de teses e dissertações (CTD). Natal, Brazil. July, 2011.
  [PDF] Best thesis finalist (among 6).
• GreenWeb: Melhorando a Qualidade da Informação na Web 2.0.
  Jussara M. Almeida, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Raquel O. Prates, Daniel Hasan, Dílson Guimarães, Diogo R. de Oliveira, Fabiano Belém, Flavio Figueiredo, Hendrickson Langbehn, Henrique Pinto, Raquel Lara, Saulo Ricci, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the XXXVIII Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (Semish). Natal, Brazil, July 2011
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Explorando Redes Sociais Online: Da Coleta e Análise de Grandes Bases de Dados às Aplicações.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida, Altigran Silva.
  Short course (book chapter) in Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Campo Grande, Brazil. May 2011.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Redes Sociais Online: Técnicas de Coleta, Abordagens de Medição e Desafios Futuros.
  Fabrício Benevenuto.
  Short course (book chapter) in SBSC’10, Webmedia’10, IHC’10 and SBBD’10, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 2010.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Avaliação do Perfil de Acesso e Navegação de Usuários em Ambientes Web de Compartilhamento de Vídeos.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Adriano Pereira, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, and Marcos Gonçalves.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WEBMEDIA). Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2009.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Uma Análise Contextual de Conteúdo Duplicado no YouTube.
  Tiago Rodrigues, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida and Marcos Gonçalves.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WEBMEDIA). Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2009.
  Best paper finalist (among 3).
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Analisando Diferenças Contextuais entre Vídeos Duplicados.
  Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In the Journal of Scientific Initiation (REIC'09).
  Best Paper Finalist on CTIC’09 (among 10).
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Detectando Usuários Maliciosos em Interações via Vídeos no YouTube.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida and Marcos Gonçalves.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WEBMEDIA). Vila Velha, Brazil, October 2008.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Medindo e Modelando o Desempenho de Aplicações em um Ambiente Virtual.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, César Teixeira, Matheus Caldas, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2008.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• VEPMon: Uma Ferramenta de Monitoração de Desempenho para Ambientes Virtuais.
  Matheus Caldas, César Teixeira, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida, Jussara Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC) – Salão de Ferramentas. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2008.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Disseminação de Poluição em Redes Peer-to-Peer.
  Cristiano Costa, Vanessa Soares, Fabrício Benevenuto, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida, Virgílio Almeida, Miranda Mowbray.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Curitiba, Brazil, May 2006.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Entendendo os Efeitos da Localidade de Referência em Hierarquias de Caches na Web.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Fernando Duarte, Virgílio Almeida.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Fortaleza, Brazil, May 2005.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• Entendendo os Efeitos da Localidade de Referência em Hierarquias de Caches na Web.
  Fernando Duarte, Virgílio Almeida, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In the Journal of Scientific Initiation (REIC'05).
  Best paper finalist on CTIC’05 (awarded second place).
• Avaliação de Mecanismos Avançados de Recuperação de Conteúdo em Sistemas P2P.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, José Ismael Júnior, Jussara Almeida..
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Fortaleza, Brazil, May 2005.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]
• A Scalable Approach for the Distribution of E-commerce Services Based on Application Level Active Networks.
  Fabrício Benevenuto, Breno Vitorino, Bruno Coutinho, Dorgival Guedes, Wagner Meira Jr.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. (SBRC). Gramado, Brazil, May 2004.
  [PS] [BibTeX]
• Evaluating Cache-Layering to Improve Web Cache System Performance.
  Bruno Abrahão, Fabrício Benevenuto.
  In Proceedings of the Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WEBMEDIA). Salvador, Brazil, August 2003.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

Press Coverage

There has been some coverage of our recent research on important blogs, magazines, newspapers, and TV. I like to keep a track of some of them (some in Portuguese).

Projeto Eleições sem Fake

• O Globo: GLOBO testa funcionamento de compra de curtidas nas redes sociais
• O Globo: Aplicativo que multiplica conteúdo cria risco de ‘guerra sujaʼ nas eleições
• O Globo: MBL usa aplicativo irregular para compartilhar conteúdo no Facebook
• Estadão: Escândalo do Facebook expõe riscos da violação de dados pessoais
• UOL e BBC: Exclusivo: Investigação revela como blog defendia Dilma com rede de fakes em 2010
• G1 e BBC: Como 'comportamento de manada' permite manipulação da opinião pública por fakes
• BBC: Robôs e 'big data': as armas do marketing político para as eleições de 2018
• Nexo: Como funcionam os robôs que 'discutem' política nas redes sociais

Twitter Glass Ceiling – paper on WI’17.

• Nexo: Como o Twitter reproduz desigualdades de gênero e raça do mundo offline
• MIT Tech Review: Twitter’s Glass Ceiling Revealed for Women and Minority Races

iFeel – paper on ICWSM’16.

• Gazeta do Povo. As máquinas sabem o que você faz. Agora querem saber o que você sente

Breaking the News – paper on ICWSM’15.

• Engadget. Clickbait, fake news and the power of feeling.
• O Globo. Pesquisadores da UFMG publicam estudo sobre sentimentos gerados por manchetes on-line.
• Zero Hora: Eles cansaram de notícias ruins e agora espalham histórias positivas no Facebook

Reverse Engineering SocialBot Strategies – ASONAM’14.

• BBC. How online 'chatbots' are already tricking you.
• Fast Company. How Twitter Bots Fool You Into Thinking They are Real People.
• MIT Technology Review: How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter
• The Times of India: How 'socialbots' are infiltrating your Twitter account.

Making a bot influential in Twitter - paper on First Monday’13

• The New York Times: I Flirt and Tweet. Follow Me at #Socialbot.
• Huffington Post Tech: Twitter Bots Have No Trouble Fooling You, Getting More Influence Than Oprah
• Huffington Post Business: Twitter Bots Have No Trouble Fooling You, Getting More Influence Than Oprah
• San Francisco Chronicle: How do you know I'm not a bot?
• GizmodoBR: Como um bot brasileiro se tornou uma pessoa influente no Twitter
• AOL Tech News: Twitter bots gain real influence, Analysts Find
• G1 – Instante posterior. Feitos um para o outro
• Folha de São Paulo. Robô Social
• Dayly Dot: The new generation of Twitter bots are disturbingly human
• TheWeek: Robot 'pals' are invading social media — and it's time to unfriend them

Link farming in Twitter - paper on WWW'12

• GIGAOM: Who’s to blame for Twitter spam? Obama, Gaga and you

Dengue Surveillance - paper on WebSci'11

• New Scientist: Twitter to track dengue fever outbreaks in Brazil
• Revista Época: Projeto monitora casos de dengue via Twitter
• Revista Galileu: Twitter poderá ajudar no combate à dengue
• Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência: Twitter e Facebook podem ser usados para prever epidemia de dengue

The Million Follower Fallacy - paper on ICWSM'10

• The New York Times: The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter
• ReadWriteWeb: The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter
• Harvard Business Review: On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence
• TheWrap: Size Doesn't Matter: Why Ebert Beats Oprah on Twitter
• Live interview on MTV: Video on MTV Video on YouTube
• Revista Info. Agosto 2010: Mais Seguidores, mais influência?
• Notícias UFMG: The New York Times destaca estudo sobre influência no Twitter feito por pesquisador da UFMG
• O Tempo: Ter seguidores no Twitter não é sinônimo de influência
• Estadão: Quantos seguem você?
• Info Online: Seguidores não medem influência no Twitter
• Info Plantão: Como usar o Twitter de modo útil?
• Tweets from Marcelo Tas, Jorge Pontual, and Cazé.

Thesis and SIGIR’09 paper on detection of spammers and promoters

• Alunos do ICEx são premiados pela Capes
• Pesquisa com redes sociais garante prêmio da Capes para professor da UFOP
• Pesquisas da UFMG são agraciadas com prêmio Capes de teses
• UFMG anuncia os vencedores do grande prêmio de teses
• O Tempo: Mineiro cria ferramenta que identifica emissores de spam
• Boletim UFMG: Tese do DCC estuda interações mantidas em sites como YouTube e Orkut

Awards

• Best PhD. and Msc. on the CTD-SBSI’21 as advisor
• Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers.
• Affiliated Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science.
• Capes Thesis Award 2011: Best PhD. Thesis in Computer Science.
• Best PhD. Thesis from UFMG in computer science in 2010 and honorable mention in the exact area.
• Test of Time award of ICWSM’2020.
• Best paper award SBSC’16, SBRC’14, WOSN’12, WBC’12, CEAS’11 and SBBD’10.
• Best paper nominee: WWW’20, HT’17, CTD’14, CTIC’13, BraSNAM’12, HT’12, CTIC’12, CTD’11, Webmedia’09, CTIC’09, CTIC’05.
• Honored Professor in 2013 at UFOP
• ACM Programming contests: Member of the UFMG team as programmer in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and as coach in 2005.

CV and Citations

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