Author: News

Paper accepted to EPJ Data Science!

Wonderful news! Our lab’s journal publication on mining large-scale mobility data for long-term crime prediction has been accepted to EPJ Data Science in their special edition on Human Mobility. To learn about the main findings, watch the sneak peak video that Cristina has prepared!

AAMAS’18 paper accepted

Our latest paper on Agent-Based Simulation of Offender Mobility: Integrating Activity Nodes from Location-Based Social Networks, has been accepted as a full paper for publication in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems – AAMAS ’18 . We are excited to be presenting it in Stockholm mid July 2018!

Papers at CHI ’16 and ECIS ’16

Our preliminary results on assessing the effectiveness of crime prevention information systems were published as work-in-progress papers: “Digital Neighborhood Watch: To share or not to share?” at the 2016 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction – CHI ’16 in San Jose, US and “Human versus Technology: Comparing the effect of private security patrol and crime prevention information system over the crime level…
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SALUS Media Coverage

Our work on using the SALUS mobile app to make our neighborhoods safer has been featured in university and local news. References: Study homepage. News on the D-MTEC website. Cristina’s interview with SRF.

Paper at ICIS ’15

Our paper titled “Prevention or Panic: Design and Evaluation of a Crime Prevention IS” was accepted as a full paper at the 2015 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015) in Fort Worth, US. See more details about ICIS 2015.

Best short paper and poster award at SocInfo’18

Our team won the best short paper and poster award for “Towards Simulating Criminal Offender Movement Based on Insights from Human Dynamics and Location-Based Social Networks” at the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics – SocInfo’18 in Oxford.

Doctoral Symposium in EPIA’17

Great opportunity to get feedback on the PhD plan of Raquel Rosés at the Doctoral Symposium at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence – EPIA’17: An Agent-Based Approach towards Crime Prediction: Evaluating the Potential of Environmental Factors and Human Dynamics to Model Offender Behavior

Short paper accepted at SocInfo’17

Our paper “Towards Simulating Criminal Offender Movement Based on Insights from Human Dynamics and Location-Based Social Networks” has been accepted as a short paper at the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics – SocInfo’18 and will be presentid in Oxford next September!

Work in progress on agent-based modeling and cirme accepted at SummerSim’16

We are exited to present our latest work at Summer Simulation Multi-Conference, in Montreal! Find our work in progress on Design of an Agent-Based Model to Predict Crime (WIP)  in the conference proceedings.  

Paper at WISE ’15

Our paper entitled “Towards a Burglary Risk Profiler Using Demographic and Spatial Factors” was accepted for publication at the 2015 Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2015) to be held in the period of November 1-3 in Miami, Florida, USA. We are looking forward to knowledge exchange with other researches working on similar topics. See more…
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