On March 10, 2017 we hosted a seminar by Daniele Quercia in the Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano, on the topic: Good City Life Daniele Quercia leads the Social Dynamics group at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK). He has been named one of Fortune magazine's 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. … Continue reading Data Science for Good City Life
When people talk about smart cities, the tendency is to think about them in a technology-oriented or sociology-oriented manner. However, smart cities are the places where we leave and work everyday now. Here is a very broad perspective (in Italian) about the experience of big data analysis and smart city instrumentation for the town of Como, … Continue reading When a Smart City gets Personal
Within a completely new line of research, we are exploring the power of modeling for human behaviour analysis, especially within social networks and/or in occasion of large scale live events. Participation to challenges within social networks is a very effective instrument for promoting a brand or event and therefore it is regarded as an excellent … Continue reading Modeling and Analyzing Engagement in Social Network Challenges
CityOmeters, the complete solution proposed by Fluxedo for smart city management that includes social engagement via micro-planning and big data flow analytics over social content and IoT, has been presented today at EXPO 2015 in Milano, in the Samsung and TIM pavilion. See the slides below: [slideshare id=52747164&doc=fluxedocityometerssmartcitysocialnetworkandiotmeasurement-150914101736-lva1-app6891] CityOmeters: smartcity socialnetwork and IoT measurement from … Continue reading CityOmeters, our solution for smartcity analysis and management, presented at EXPO2015
My recent interview on the evolution of social media and its role in modern society is available on YouTube (in Italian only, sorry about that). While the 3+ minutes of speech necessarily had to be a general overview on the role and recent changes of social media, I wish to summarise here the some technical … Continue reading My interview on Social Media and Society: what I said (and what I didn’t)
Today Andrea Mauri presented our paper "Community-based Crowdsourcing" at the SOCM Workshop co-located with the WWW 2014 conference. SOCM is the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines and is an interesting venue for discussing instrumentation, tooling, and software system aspects of online social network. The full program of the event … Continue reading Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM
In this post I want to report on our paper on Reactive Crowdsourcing presented at the WWW 2013 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.Here is a quick summary of motivation and idea, together with some relevant materials:PresentationDemonstration VideoFull PaperNeed for controlWe believe that an essential aspect for building effective crowdsourcing computations is the ability of "controlling … Continue reading Multiplatform Reactive Crowdsourcing based on Social Networks – WWW2013
Expert selection is an important aspect of many Web applications, e.g., when they aim at matching contents, tasks or advertisement based on user profiles, possibly retrieved from social networks.This was crucial for our current research on crowdsourcing, and therefore we dedicated a specific research line to this aspect. The main idea we developed was to … Continue reading Expert finding in social networks and crowdsourcing
It's with great pleasure that I announce my invited post on the modeling-languages.com blog, curated by Jordi Cabot.First, I'm glad he invited me. Second, I'm happy that he asked for a post on Social-enabled Web application modeling.I mean, we all see how social technologies are transforming our life. And yet, the modeling community and the software … Continue reading My invited post on Modeling Social Web Apps (on www.modeling-languages.com)
V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland)As part of the Data Management in the Social Semantic Web workshop (DMSSW workshop) at the ASONAM 2012 conference in Istanbul, Turkey, V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland) gave an interesting talk on efficient subgraph matching on (social) networks.Queries are defined as graphs themselves, with some of the places defined as constants … Continue reading Efficient Subgraph Matching – Keynote by V.S. Subrahmanian at ASONAM 2012
