Category: News

During this workshop about PRECOBS we learned about the new software functionalities and about the experinece of different police forces with the software.

Our latest work-in-progress about Predicting the revenue growth of hotels in Switzerland has been accepted for presentation at the 5th Swiss Conference on Data Science. We were excited to present at this faboulous event and discuss trends and challenges we experienced with data scientist from Switzerland.

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 paper titled “Predicting the Growth of Restaurants using Web Data” was accepted as a full paper at the 28th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development in Paris, France. More information about the conference here.

Our paper titled “Analysis of Web Data for the Purpose of Predicting Financial Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises” was accepted as a full paper at the International Conference on Economic Modeling in Venice, Italy. More information about the conference here.

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 paper titled “Towards high precision gender categorization” was accepted as a full paper at the 2017 IEEE BigData 2017 conference workshop #6 in Boston, US. We will present our findings on Dec, 14th in the Big Data Quality workshop. Together with data quality researchers and industry practitioners who share their ideas and best practices,…
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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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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.