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  1. Comparing Higher Education Rankings with Social Media Posting Strategies

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  2. Emotional Sequencing as a Marker of Manipulation in Social Media Disinformation

    Article • Future Internet, November 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  3. Incremental Repair Feedback on Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments

    Article • Electronics, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  4. Post, Predict, and Rank: Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media Strategy and Higher Education Institution Rankings

    Article • Informatics, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  5. Clustering source code from automated assessment of programming assignments

    Article • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  6. GANs in the Panorama of Synthetic Data Generation Methods

    Article • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  7. Topic Extraction: BERTopic’s Insight into the 117th Congress’s Twitterverse

    Article • Informatics, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  8. Comparing semantic graph representations of source code: The case of automatic feedback on programming assignments

    Article • Computer Science and Information Systems, January 2024, National Library of Serbia

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  9. New Insights in Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks

    Article • November 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  10. On the Quality of Synthetic Generated Tabular Data

    Article • Mathematics, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  11. Bibliometric Analysis of Automated Assessment in Programming Education: A Deeper Insight into Feedback

    Article • Electronics, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  12. PROGpedia: Collection of source-code submitted to introductory programming assignments

    Article • Data in Brief, February 2023, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  13. Automated Assessment in Computer Science: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  14. A WebApp for Reliability Detection in Social Media

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2023, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  15. An NLP Approach to Understand the Top Ranked Higher Education Institutions’ Social Media Communication Strategy

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  16. Survey on Synthetic Data Generation, Evaluation Methods and GANs

    Article • Mathematics, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  17. Automated Assessment in Computer Science Education: A State-of-the-Art Review

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Carlos Paiva, Prof Alvaro Figueira

  18. Do Top Higher Education Institutions’ Social Media Communication Differ Depending on Their Rank?

    Article • January 2022, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  19. On Creation of Synthetic Samples from GANs for Fake News Identification Algorithms

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  20. What Makes a Movie Get Success? A Visual Analytics Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  21. Analysis of Top-Ranked HEI Publications’ Strategy on Twitter

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  22. Can Fake News Detection Models Maintain the Performance through Time? A Longitudinal Evaluation of Twitter Publications

    Article • Mathematics, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  23. Towards a pragmatic detection of unreliable accounts on social networks

    Article • Online Social Networks and Media, July 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  24. Profiling Accounts Political Bias on Twitter

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  25. A Mixed Model for Identifying Fake News in Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

    Article • January 2021, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  26. Covid-19 Impact on Higher Education Institution’s Social Media Content Strategy

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  27. A METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS LEARNING PATTERNS IN ONLINE COURSES MEDIATED BY AN LMS

    Article • July 2020, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  28. REPORT ON THE SELF-STUDY BEHAVIOR IN LEARNING FROM VIDEO LECTURES DURING A CONFINEMENT PERIOD

    Article • July 2020, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  29. Analysis and Detection of Unreliable Users in Twitter: Two Case Studies

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  30. Contribution of Social Tagging to Clustering Effectiveness Using as Interpretant the User’s Community

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  31. Identifying journalistically relevant social media texts using human and automatic methodologies

    Article • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, January 2020, Inderscience Publishers

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  32. Knowledge-based Reliability Metrics for Social Media Accounts

    Article • January 2020, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  33. A Machine Learning Model to Early Detect Low Performing Students from LMS Logged Interactions

    Article • December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  34. A Brief Overview on the Strategiesto Fight Back the Spreadof False Information

    Article • Journal of Web Engineering, January 2019, River Publishers

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  35. A System to Automatically Predict Relevance in Social Media

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  36. On the Development of a Model to Prevent Failures, Built from Interactions with Moodle

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  37. Preventing Failures by Predicting Students’ Grades through an Analysis of Logged Data of Online Interactions

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  38. A Three-Step Data-Mining Analysis of Top-Ranked Higher Education Institutions' Communication on Facebook

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  39. Contributions to the Detection of Unreliable Twitter Accounts through Analysis of Content and Behaviour

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  40. Current State of the Art to Detect Fake News in Social Media: Global Trendings and Next Challenges

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  41. Human vs. Automatic Annotation Regarding the Task of Relevance Detection in Social Networks

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  42. Twitter as a Source for Time- and Domain-Dependent Sentiment Lexicons

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  43. Uncovering Social Media Content Strategies for Worldwide Top-Ranked Universities

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  44. Automatically Finding Matches Between Social Media Posts and News Articles

    Article • November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  45. Building a Semi-Supervised Dataset to Train Journalistic Relevance Detection Models

    Article • November 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  46. Mining Moodle Logs for Grade Prediction

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  47. A System for Visualization and Analysis of Online Pedagogical Interactions

    Article • September 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  48. Measuring the return on communication investments on social media

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  49. Using AI to spot newsworthy social-media posts for journalists.

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  50. Predicting the Relevance of Social Media Posts Based on Linguistic Features and Journalistic Criteria

    Article • New Generation Computing, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  51. Communication and resource usage analysis in online environments: An integrated social network analysis and data mining perspective

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  52. Visualization of sentiment spread on social networked content: Learning analytics for integrated learning environments

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  53. A LEARNING AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – VERSION 3.0

    Article • March 2017, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  54. WHATSAPPENING OUTSIDE YOUR LMS? ANALYZING A SOCIAL MEDIA INSTANT MESSAGING POWERED LEARNING COMMUNITY

    Article • March 2017, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  55. Improving the benchmarking of social media content strategies using clustering and KPI

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  56. Social Network Analytics in Formal and Informal Learning Environments with EduBridge Social

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  57. The Complementary Nature of Different NLP Toolkits for Named Entity Recognition in Social Media

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  58. The current state of fake news: challenges and opportunities

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  59. Journalistic Relevance Classification in Social Network Messages: an Exploratory Approach

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  60. Predicting Grades by Principal Component Analysis: A Data Mining Approach to Learning Analyics

    Article • July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  61. ANALYSING RELEVANT INTERACTIONS BY BRIDGING FACEBOOK AND MOODLE

    Article • March 2016, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  62. DISCOVERING SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES USING CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING

    Article • March 2016, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  63. An Approach to Relevancy Detection: Contributions to the Automatic Detection of Relevance in Social Networks

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  64. Analyzing Social Media Discourse - An Approach using Semi-supervised Learning

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  65. EduBridge Social - Bridging Social Networks and Learning Management Systems

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  66. Lexicon Expansion System for Domain and Time Oriented Sentiment Analysis

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  67. Social Media Content Analysis in the Higher Education Sector

    Article • International Journal of Web Portals, April 2015, IGI Global

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  68. Benchmarking Analysis of Social Media Strategies in the Higher Education Sector

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  69. Predicting Results from Interaction Patterns During Online Group Work

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  70. Managing and assessing group work from a distance

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  71. Creating interopearable e-portfolios for different educational levels

    Article • March 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  72. Clustering and Classifying Text Documents - A Revisit to Tagging Integration Methods

    Article • January 2013, Scitepress

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  73. Community Detection by Local Influence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  74. Creating and Analysing a Social Network Built from Clips of Online News

    Article • January 2013, IGI Global

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  75. Temporal Visualization of a Multidimensional Network of News Clips

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  76. The community structure of a multidimensional network of news clips

    Article • International Journal of Web Based Communities, January 2013, Inderscience Publishers

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  77. Automatic Clustering Assessment through a Social Tagging System

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  78. Visual Analysis of Online Interactions through Social Network Patterns

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  79. Adaptive spatial hypermedia in computational journalism

    Article • June 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  80. Using the overlapping community structure of a network of tags to improve text clustering

    Article • June 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  81. Online news relations as a business model

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  82. Depicting online interactions in learning communities

    Article • April 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  83. Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems Using the SCORM 2004 Specification - A Conceptual Framework for Implementing SCORM Compliant Intelligent Web-Based Learning Environments

    Article • July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  84. An Integrated System for Submission, Assessment, Feedback and Publication of Online Digital Portfolios

    Article • January 2010, ACTA Press

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  85. Work in progress - W2: an easy-to-use Workshop module

    Article • October 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  86. Temporal Online Interactions Using Social Network Analysis

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  87. Work in progress — iGraphs for characterization of online communities

    Article • October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  88. A Repository with Semantic Organization for Educational Content

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  89. Interaction visualization in web-based learning using igraphs

    Article • September 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Alvaro Figueira

  90. A concurrent programming environment with support for distributed computations and code mobility

    Article • January 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fernando Silva, Prof Alvaro Figueira