Publications
Articles in Peered Reviewed Journal
published by Dr. Alon Sela and his team
2016
Comparing the diversity of information by word-of-mouth vs. web spread
Sela A.**, Shekhtman L., Havlin S., Ben-Gal I.
European Physics Letters (EPL) Vol 114, 5.
IF – 1.8, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Q2, ranked 29/98
2018
"Spread-It”: A Strategic Game of Competitive Diffusion through Social Networks
Ben-IshayS S., Sela A., Ben-Gal I.
IEEE Transactions on Games-Manuscript ID: TCIAIG, 0046
IF 1.7, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Q2, ranked 48/127
2018
Active viral marketing: Incorporating continuous active seeding efforts into the diffusion model.
Sela, A.**, Goldenberg D., Ben-Gal I., Shmueli E.
Expert Systems with Applications 107 (2018): 45-60.
IF – 7.5, Operations Research & Management Science, Q1, ranked 7/84.
2018
"Spread-It”: A Strategic Game of Competitive Diffusion through Social Networks
Ben-IshayS S., Sela A., Ben-Gal I.
IEEE Transactions on Games-Manuscript ID: TCIAIG, 0046
IF 1.7, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Q2, ranked 48/127
2018
Timing Matters: Influence Maximization in Social Networks Through Scheduled Seeding
Goldenberg D., Sela A., Shmueli E.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 99, 1-18.
IF – 4.5, Computer Science, Information Systems, Q1, ranked 6/32.
2019
Improving information spread by spreading groups, Online Information Review, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 24-42.
Sela A.**, Milo O., Kagan E., Ben-Gal I.
Online Information Review, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 24-42.
IF –3.1, Information Science, Computer Science, Q1, ranked 86/223
2020
Spatio-temporal propagation of COVID-19 pandemics
Gross B, Zheng Z, Shiyan L., Xiaoqi C., Sela A, Jianxin L., Daqing L., Havlin S.
Europhysics Letters (EPL), 2020, 131 58003, DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/131/58003.
IF – 1.8, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Q2, ranked 46/111, (144 citations
2020
Realistic modelling of information spread using peer-to-peer diffusion patterns
Zhou B., Pei S., Muchnik L., Meng X., Xu X, Sela A, Havlin S, Stanley E
Nature Human Behaviour, (2020): 1-10.
IF – 22.3, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Q1, ranked 6/72.
2018
Timing Matters: Influence Maximization in Social Networks Through Scheduled Seeding
Goldenberg D., Sela A., Shmueli E.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 99, 1-18.
IF – 4.5, Computer Science, Information Systems, Q1, ranked 6/32.
2021
Optimal COVID-19 infection spread under low temperature, dry air, and low UV radiation
Asher E., Ashkenazy Y., Havlin, S., Sela, A.
New Journal of Physics, 23(3), 033044.
IF – 2.8, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Q2, 33/86.
2022
Smartphone use behavior and quality of life: What is the role of awareness
Sela A.**, Rozenboim N.s, Chalutz Ben-Gal H*.
PloSOne 17 (3), e0260637
IF – 2.9, Multidisciplinary, Q1, 32/134.
2023
Percolation framework reveals limits of privacy in conspiracy, dark web, and blockchain networks
Shekhtman L., Sela A., Havlin S.
EPJ Data Science 12, no. 1 (2023): 16.
IF - 3, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications, Q1, 22/135.
2024
Signals of Propaganda - Detecting and Estimating Political Influences in Information Spread in Social Networks
Neter O.s, Lohr V. Cihelka P. Wang Fs, Zwilling M., Sabou J.P., Ulman, M.
PloS one 20 (1), e0309688
IF – 2.9, Multidisciplinary, Q1, 32/134.
2024
Self-Liking Group in Networks With Multi-Class Nodes
Wang, F., Smolyak, A., Dong, G., Tian, L., Havlin, S. and Sela, A.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
IF – 6.7, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications, Q1, 3/135.
2025
Exposure to air pollutants contributes to increased rate of neovascular age-related macular degeneration in Israel Effect of air pollutants on AMD
Sela A. **, Levinshtein R., Shulman S.
PLoS One, 20(4), e0317436
IF – 2.9, Multidisciplinary, Q1, 33/135.
Book Chapters
2014
Probabilistic Control and Swarm Dynamics in Mobile Robots and Ants
Kagan ., Rybalov A., Sela A., Siegelmann, H., Steshenko, J.
2019
Using Connected Accounts to Enhance Information Spread in Social Networks
Sela A., Cohen-Milo O., Kagan E., Zwilling M., Ben-Gal I.
Cherifi H., Gaito S., Mendes J., Moro E., Rocha L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 881. Springer, Cham.
Proceedings in Symposia (partial)
2014
Information spread in the age of the internet
Sela, A, Ben-Gal, I.
28th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI)., DOI. , 10.1109/EEEI.2014.7005757
2014
Information Spread in a Connected World
Sela A., Oved H., Ben-Gal I.
MIT Collective intelligence Conference. MIT.
2015
Information Seeding Scheduling for Improved Spread
Sela Alon, Irad Ben-Gal, Erez Shmueli
NetSci 2015.
2015
mproving Information Spread through a Scheduled Seeding Approach
Sela A., Ben-Gal I., Pentland A., Shmueli E.
ASONAM 2015, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Paris, pp 629-632
2016
Why Spending More Might Get You Less, Dynamic Selection of Influencers in Social Networks
Sela A, Shmueli E., Goldenberg D., Ben-Gal I.
IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering (ICSEE) (pp. 1-4)
2016
Scheduled Seeding for Latent Viral Marketing
Sela A., Dimitri G., Shmueli E., Ben-Gal I.
ASONAM 2016, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, San-Francisco
2018
Big Data Analysis of Employee Turnover in Global Media Companies, Google, Facebook & Others
Sela, A., Chalutz Ben-Gal, H.
ICSEE2018, International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering
2020
Everything but social: a study of Twitter accounts and social media management tools
Sela A., Sabou J., Cihelka P., Ganiyev M., Ulman M.
Agrarian Perspectives XXVIII, Prague.
Active Participation in Meetings (partial)
International
Role | Place | Title of the Meeting | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Participant | Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. | AGENG2024 – Agricultural Engineering Conference | 2024 |
2 Lecture, remote – Covid 19 | Rome, Italy | Netsci2021 | 2021 |
2 Lectures, remote – Covid 19. | Leiden University, Netherland | 2nd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media MISDOOM2020, Netherland | 2020 |
Lecture | Lisbon, Portugal | Annual Conference of European Academy of Management EURAM | 2019 |
Lecture | Zaragoza, Spain | NetSci - Network Science Conference | 2015 |
Lecture | Corfu, Greece | European Dynamic Days 2016 | 2016 |
Poster & published abstract | MIT Boston | MIT collective intelligence conference. | 2014 |
Lecture | San Francisco | Informs - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2014 |
Poster | Berkley | International School and Conference on Network Science, NetSci – Network Science Conference | 2014 |
National
Role | Title of the Meeting | Date |
|---|---|---|
Lecture | Proc. 17th Industrial Engineering & Management Conference (IE&M’12), Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2012 |
Lecture | Animal Swarms conference, Kfar-Blum Israel. | 2014 |
Lecture | IEMC 18th Industrial Engineering and Management Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2014 |
Lecture | Cyber Security Week, Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2015 |
Lecture | Industrial Engineering Conference, Azrieli College – Jerusalem, Israel | 2017 |
Lecture | WITS - International Conference on Information Systems conference, Bar Ilan University, Israel | 2017 |
Lecture | Commercial Communication Conference the 24th International Conference on Corporate and Marketing Communications, (CMC2019), Ariel, Israel. | 2019 |
Lecture | Bar-Ilan Cyber Retreat & Conference, Herzliya, Israel. | 2019 |
Lecture | IEMC 19th Industrial Engineering and Management Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2021 |
Lecture | The 1st Israel Conference on Medical Informatics (ICMI 2021), Ariel University, Israel. | 2021 |
Lecture | The 22 Industrial engineering Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2021 |
Lecture | ISRA_HCI2021, The 11th Israeli Human-Computer Interaction
Research Conference, Haifa University, Israel | 2021 |
Lecture | Afeka College, Industrial Engineering Collaboration Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. | 2023 |
Lecture | Industrial Engineering Yearly conference, Media Usage in Disasters and Regular days., Beer Sheva, Israel. | 2024 |
Lecture | IDSAI – Israel Data Science Artificial Intelligence Conference, Zikhron Yaakov, Israel. | 2024 |
Agri-related
Role | Venue | Title of the Meeting | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Lecture | Mop Tsafon | Fungus - Trees interactions | 2024 |
Lecture | Volcani Center | Sensitivity of food networks to cascading failures | 2024 |
* Lecture / poster presented by an active student
RESEARCH GRANTS
***PI = Principal Investigator; LPI =Local Principal Investigator; CI = Cooperating Investigator***
Title (short) | Role* | Duration (years) | Granting Source | Status | Active / Seeking Students? | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I-CETNET: Integrating Climate dynamics, clouds, and Extreme events through Teleconnections in climate NETworks | PI | 4 | Vatat Climate Center Initiative | Active | Seeking excellent Phd and MA students with background in Computer Science, or better, Geophysics / Climate Modeling | 2024 |
OMINO | LPI | 4 | HORIZON-MSCA-SE | Active | MA with interest in Large Language Models | 2023 |
Inspecting Bots Operation in social Networks | PI | 2 | Ariel Cyber Innovation Center | Finished | No | 2019-2020 |
Inspecting medical data of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) eye records through machine learning methods | PI | 2 | Ariel-Assuta Joint Research Grant | Finished | No | 2019 |
Social Bots Involvement in Czech Politics Dialogue of Agricultural | PI | 1 | Ariel-CULS Collaboration Grant | Finished | No | 2019 |
Scheduling Seeding in Social Networks | CI | 3 | Kamin Grant, Israeli Chief Scientist | Finished | No | 2015-2017 |