Category: News

The Lab at the Collegium Helveticum | Themenwoche 5-12 October 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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AAMAS’18 Best Student Paper Award

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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PRECOBS Workshop at Cantonal Police of Aargau

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

Presentation of our research at the 5th Swiss Conference on Data Science

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.

Presentation of our work in ECCA Symposium

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!

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!

Paper at the 28th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development

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.

Paper at EcoMod2018

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.

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!

Paper at IEEE BigData 2017

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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