Flavio Figueiredo

Flavio Vinicius Diniz de Figueiredo

Hello, and welcome to my home page. Currently, I work as a Professor @ UFMG. Mostly, I perform research in data science and machine learning focused on complex datasets, mainly on human and social behavior. My research is performed an LabUAI. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), as well as a BSc also in Computer Science from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG).

Publications (sorted by year)

Conference, journal and workshop papers (English)

Measuring disruption in song similarity networks
Felipe Falcão, Nazareno Andrade, Flavio Figueiredo, Diego Silva and Fabio Morais
International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2020
Understanding Targeted Video-Ads in Children’s Content
Flavio Figueiredo, Felipe Giori, Guilherme Soares, Mariana M. Arantes, Fabricio Benevenuto and Jussara M Almeira
ACM Hypertext Conference - HT 2020
Networked Point Process Models Under the Lens of Scrutiny
Guilherme Borges, Flavio Figueiredo, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Renato M. Assunção
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery - ECML/PKDD 2020
Quantifying Disruptive Influence in the AllMusic Guide
Flavio Figueiredo and Nazareno Andrade
International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2019
We fixed some minor typos found in the published version
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Analyzing and Modeling User Curiosity in Online Content Consumption: A LastFM Case Study
Alexandre M. Souza, Flavio Figueiredo and Jussara M. Almeida
Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining - ASONAM 2019
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Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram.
Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago, Marco Mellia, Fabricio Murai, Flavio Figueiredo, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Jussara M. Almeida
ACM Hypertext Conference - HT 2019
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The Effect of Audiences on the User Experience with Conversational Interfaces in Physical Spaces
Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Mauro Pichiliani, Paulo Cavalin, Flavio Figueiredo, Marisa Vasconcelos, Haylla Do Carmo
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing - CHI 2019
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Fast Estimation of Causal Interactions using Wold Processes
Flavio Figueiredo, Guilherme Borges, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Renato M. Assunção
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) - 2018
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Towards Understanding the Consumption of Video-Ads on YouTube
Mariana Arantes, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida
The Journal of Web Science, 2018
Invited Submission
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An Investigation of User Actions and Experiences when Exposed to YouTube Video Ads
Mariana Arantes, Flavio Figueiredo, Raquel O. Prates, Jussara M. Almeida
Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - 2018
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Mining and modeling web trajectories from passive traces
Luca Vassio, Marco Mellia, Flavio Figueiredo, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Jussara M Almeida
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2017)
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Multiple Images of the City: Unveiling Group-Specific Urban Perceptions through a Crowdsourcing Game
David Candeia, Flavio Figueiredo, Nazareno Andrade, Daniele Quercia
ACM Conference on Hypertext - HT 2017
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Typefaces and the Perception of Humanness in Natural Language Chatbots
Heloisa Candello, Claudio Pinhanez, Flavio Figueiredo
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing - CHI 2017
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TribeFlow: Mining & Predicting User Trajectories
Flavio Figueiredo, Bruno Ribeiro, Jussara M. Almeida, Christos Faloutsos
ACM World Wide Web Conference - WWW 2016
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A Summary of the TribeFlow Model for Music Discovery Applications
Flavio Figueiredo, Bruno Ribeiro, Jussara M. Almeida, Christos Faloutsos
Machine Learning for Music Discovery Workshop @ ICML 2016
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Mining Online Music Listening Trajectories
Flavio Figueiredo, Bruno Ribeiro, Jussara M. Almeida, Nazareno Andrade, Christos Faloutsos
International Society for Music Information Retrieval - ISMIR 2016.
There is a mistake in Figure 3 on the conference proceedings. The axis are normalized and the text considers un-normalized values Please use this version.
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Exploring the Latent Structure of Collaborations in Music Recordings: A Case Study in Jazz
Nazareno Andrade, Flavio Figueiredo
International Society for Music Information Retrieval - ISMIR 2016.
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Understanding Video-Ad Consumption on YouTube: A Measurement Study on User Behavior, Popularity, and Content Properties.
Mariana Arantes, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida
ACM Web Science Conference - WebSci 2016
Best Student Paper Award
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TrendLearner: Early Prediction of Popularity Trends of User Generated Content
Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida, Marcos André Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto
Elsevier Information Sciences
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Building a Question-Answering Corpus using Social Media and News Articles
Paulo Cavalin, Flavio Figueiredo, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Luis Moyano, Heloisa Candello, Ana Appel and Renan Souza
International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese Language - PROPOR 2016
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Organizing Images from Social Media to Monitor Real World Events
Paulo Cavalin, Flavio Figueiredo, Maira Gatti de Bayser, Claudio Pinhanez
Workshop of Industry Applications @ SIBGRAPI 2016
Best Workshop Paper Award
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Modeling and Mining Information Popularity Online
Flavio Figueiredo
Netsci-X (Presentation only) - 2015
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On the Dynamics of Social Media Popularity: A YouTube Case Study
Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida, Marcos André Gonçalves, Fabrício Benevenuto
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
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Improving the Effectiveness of Content Popularity Prediction Methods using Time Series Trends
Flavio Figueiredo, Marcos André and Jussara M. Almeida
ECML/PKDD Predictive Analytics Challenge - 2014
First Place in 2 out of 3 tasks of the challenge
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Characterizing Scholar Popularity: A Case Study in the Computer Science Research Community
Glauber D. Gonçalves, Flavio Figueiredo, Marcos André and Jussara M. Almeida
ACM Conference on Digital Libraries - DL 2014
Honarable Mention for Best Student Paper
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Revisit Behavior in Social Media: The Phoenix-R Model and Discoveries
Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida, Yasuko Matsubara, Bruno Ribeiro, Christos Faloutsos
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery - ECML/PKDD 2014
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Does Content Determine Information Popularity in Social Media?
Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi.
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing - CHI 2014
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On the Prediction of Popularity Trends for User Generated Videos
Flavio Figueiredo
International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM 2013
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Assessing the Quality of Textual Features in Social Media
Flavio Figueiredo, Fabiano Belém, Henrique Pinto, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, David Fernandes, Edleno Moura.
Information Processing Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2012.03.003
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The Tube over Time: Characterizing Popularity Growth of YouTube Videos
Flavio Figueiredo, Fabricio Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining - WSDM 2011
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Content Popularity Evolution in OSNs
Flavio Figueiredo, Fabricio Benevenuto, Jussara Almeida
In Thesis and Disserations Workshop - WebMedia 2011
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On the Quality of Information for Web 2.0 Services
Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, Flavio Figueiredo, Fabiano Belém, Henrique Pinto
IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 47-55, Nov./Dec. 2010, http://doi:10.1109/MIC.2010.102
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Assessing the Value of Contributions in Tagging Systems
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Miranda Mowbray, Marcos Gonçalves, Matei Ripeanu
IEEE International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking - SIN’2010
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Evidence of Quality of Textual Features on the Web 2.0
Flavio Figueiredo, Fabiano Belém, Henrique Pinto, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, David Fernandes, Edleno Moura, Marco Cristo.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2009
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On the Planning of a Hybrid IT Infrastructure
Paulo Ditarso, Flavio de Figueiredo, David Candeia, Francisco Brasileiro, Alvaro Coelho.
Network Operations and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008
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On the Impact of Choice in Multi-Service P2P Grids
Alvaro Coelho, Paulo Ditarso., Flavio de Figueiredo, David Candeia, Francisco Brasileiro
Workshop on Business Driven IT Management held in conjunction with the Network Operations and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008
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Bridging the High Performance Computing Gap: the OurGrid Experience
Francisco Brasileiro, Eliane Araújo, William Voorsluys, Milena Oliveira, Flavio Figueiredo Latin America Grid Workshop - LAGrid07, held in conjunction with CCGrid 2007
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Implementing a Distributed Execution Service for a Grid Broker
Flavio Figueiredo, Francisco V. Brasileiro, Andrey E. Brito.
Fault Tolerance Workshop in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium of Computer Networks PDF

Tech Reports

Assessing the Value of Peer-Produced Information for Exploratory Search
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Nigini Oliveira, Nazareno Andrade, Jussara Almeida, Matei Ripeanu
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Conference papers (Portuguese)

Uma Caracterização dos Padrões de Navegação de Usuários em uma Aplicação Social de Streaming de Vídeo
Mariana Arantes, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. Almeida
Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM)
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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.
Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware (Semish) - 2011
Caracterizando o Uso e a Qualidade dos Atributos Textuais da Web 2.0
Flavio Figueiredo, Fabiano Belém, Henrique Pinto, Jussara Almeida, Marcos Gonçalves, David Fernandes, Edleno Moura, Marco Critso.
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web - Webmedia 2009
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Um portifolio de segurança para um sistema de grade entre pares de livre entrada
Flavio Figueiredo, Matheus Gaudêncio, Thiago Emmanuel, Rodrigo Miranda, Francisco Brasileiro.
Workshop on Grid Computing and Applications
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Girafas: Uma Ferramenta Computacional para Apoio no Ensino de Algoritmos Genéticos
Flávio Roberto Santos, Flavio Figueiredo, Vinicius F. C. Florentino, Joseana Macêdo Fechine
Proceedings of the III Brazilian Symposium of Information Systems
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Dissertations

(PhD) Understanding, Modeling and Predicting the Popularity of Online Content on Social Media Applications
Flavio Figueiredo
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(MsC) Evidências de Qualidade de Atributos Textuais na Web 2.0
Portuguese only, but check out this paper for a version (journal paper style) in english.
Flavio Figueiredo
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Experience

Professor @ Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
- Summary: Computer Science Professor and Data Science Researcher @ ufmg.br.
Research Staff Member @ IBM Research Brazil
- Summary: Part of the social media and conversational analytics group. At IBM I did research related to data science, social media, and data mining. More specifically, I researched machine learning and information retrieval techniques for chatbot technology. Please check my publications for more information.
- Manager: Claudio Pinhanez
Pos-doc Researcher/Developer
- Summary: Supervised students in research projects related to data mining. Also performed post-graduate research on: data mining, tensor decomposition and graphical models.
- Supervisor: Nazareno Andrade
PhD Student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Summary: Researching social media popularity, time series, and user behavior online. Research done as part of Brazil’s National Institute for Web Research(http://www.inweb.org.br).
- Supervisor: Jussara Almeida
Visiting Scholar - Databases Group at Carnegie Mellon University
- Summary: One year as a visiting scholar working on time series and social media data mining.
- Supervisor: Christos Faloutsos
Visiting Researcher at the Networked Systems Laboratory
- Summary: Six months as a visiting researcher working on information retrieval, incentive models and a lot of tagging data.
- Supervisor: Matei Ripeanu
MSc Student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
- Summary: Research done on social network and Web 2.0 sites, with the main objective of extracting evidence of textual data (i.e. tags) data when applied to information retrieval (IR) tasks. Research done for Brazil’s National Institute for Web Research.
- Supervisor: Jussara Almeida
Developer for the OurGrid Project at the Distributed Systems Lab.
- Summary: During my undergrad studies I was a developer at the Ourgrid project. I worked on developing Ourgrid and also on researching Grid Security, Failure Detection, Business Driven IT Management, and Business Driven Grid Management.
- Supervisor: Francisco Brasileiro
BSc Student at the Federal University of Campina Grande
- Summary: This is a 4 year degree in Computer Science. During my time at UFCG I was scientific initiation student which translates to: teaching assistant, as well as developer and researcher at the OurGrid project.

Open Source

Code used in publication can be found above, in the Publications section. You can find most of my other code on Github. I try my best to have code and data available with publication, but if you think something is missing, let me know.