Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

I'm really proud to announce that our paper "Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications" has received the BEST PAPER award at ICWE 2014 (International Conference on Web Engineering), held in Toulouse in July 2014. The paper was authored by Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Mauri, and Riccardo Volonterio. The work addresses the fact that … Continue reading Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

Featured on CrowdResearch blog (Follow the Crowd)

I'm happy to report that a post of ours on Reactive and Multiplatform Crowdsourcing has been featured on the renowned CrowdResearch blog (Follow the Crowd).The editorial and advisory team of the blog is an exceptional one, including:Michael Bernstein, Stanford UniversityAlex Quinn, University of MarylandEd H. Chi, Google ResearchRob Miller, MITand many others.The post puts the … Continue reading Featured on CrowdResearch blog (Follow the Crowd)

Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012

Our paper: Answering search queries with CrowdSearcherhas been accepted and presented at WWW 2012 in Lyon.Here is the abstract:Web users are increasingly relying on social interaction to complete and validate the results of their search activities. While search systems are superior machines to get world-wide information, the opinions collected within friends and expert/local communities can ultimately … Continue reading Answering search queries with CrowdSearcher – WWW2012