From 11 to 22 March, the exhibition “goMATH – going the MATH way” in the main hall of ETH Zurich presents a number of portraits of contemporary female mathematicians at different stages in their career – from academia as well as business. The exhibition is part of a series of events organized by the Department of Mathematics…
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Lab results showing that SMEs with patents grow 10% stronger in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/schweizer-firmen-vernachlaessigen-oft-patentfragen-und-gehen-damit-grosse-risiken-ein-ld.1432143
More success for SME with patents and women developers. New results of the Lab published. https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2018/10/mueller-meins-11-2018/
Last week, the Lab participated in the Collegium Helveticum Themenwoche on ‘Algorithmen und ihre Anwendung’. Organized in daily workshops, lectures and public events, the Themenwoche had as goal the discussion of questions, challenges and problems arising from the conception and use of algorithms in contemporary digital societies. Raquel (PhD student at the Lab) gave a…
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Last week our paper “Agent-Based Simulation of Offender Mobility: Integrating Activity Nodes from Location-Based Social Networks” presented at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018) authored by Raquel Rosés, Cristina Kadar, Charlotte Gerritsen, and Chris Ovi Rouly won the Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper AWARD! AAMAS is part of the Federated AI Meeting…
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During this workshop about PRECOBS we learned about the new software functionalities and about the experinece of different police forces with the software.
Our work-in-progress on “Simulating robbery and larceny patterns with location based social networks data” was accepted at the International Symposium on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (ECCA) held in Elche, Spain. We enjoyed presenting our work and enjoyed all the discussions with the experts!
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!
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!
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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