Analysis of user behaviour and social media content for art and culture events

In our most recent study, we analysed the user behaviour and profile, as well as the textual and visual content posted on social media for art and culture events. The corresponding paper has been presented at CD-MAKE 2017 in Reggio Calabria on August 31st, 2017. Nowadays people share everything on online social networks, from daily … Continue reading Analysis of user behaviour and social media content for art and culture events

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

Web Information Retrieval – the book

We are finally ready to announce our new book: Web Information Retrieval Publisher: Springer Verlag Series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications Authors: Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Emanuele Della Valle, Piero Fraternali, Silvia Quarteroni. 282 pages, 120 illustrations.   The book will be launched at VLDB in August 2013, but you are able to preorder … Continue reading Web Information Retrieval – the book

Success story paper: Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction with WebML and WebRatio

Our paper "Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction: The WebML and WebRatio experience" has been published online on Elsevier's journal: Science of Computer Programming, in the special issue Success Stories in Model Driven Engineering (edited by Davide Di Ruscio, Richard Paige, Alfonso Pierantonio).The history we report spans across a decade that has seen a … Continue reading Success story paper: Large-scale Model-Driven Engineering of Web User Interaction with WebML and WebRatio

Andrei Broder, Yahoo! VP on computational advertising: Seminar on Targeted Advertising.

Andrei Broder, Yahoo! ResearchAndrei Broder from Yahoo! Research gave two seminars at Politecnico di Milano on introduction to internet monetization (in Como) and on targeted advertising (in Milano) as a branch of computational advertising.Computational advertising is about finding the best match between a given user in a given context and a suitable advertisement.The context can … Continue reading Andrei Broder, Yahoo! VP on computational advertising: Seminar on Targeted Advertising.

On mobile application development: native, web or both?

I've been solicited to write this short post by the interesting reading of the article "Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native" by Andre Charland, Brian Leroux that recently appeared on Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 5.Let me first clarify the definitions:Native mobile application: application developed for a specific mobile platform (e.g., iPhone, iPad, … Continue reading On mobile application development: native, web or both?

Thesis and Project proposals for students from Politecnico

[ENG] Here are some recent proposals for theses and projects for students:implementation, using AJAX and other rich internet technologies, of online web engineering tools. The tools will allow to draw diagrams of web sites and web applications, and will dynamically deploy/update the corresponding web applicationintegration of web application model transformations (MDD/MDA) with existing verification framework, … Continue reading Thesis and Project proposals for students from Politecnico