Category: News

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!

Mobiliar buys stake in Scout24 (Switzerland)

Swiss Mobiliar (alongside with Ringier AG) will become the new joint shareholder in Scout24 Schweiz AG (Scout24 Schweiz), the leading network of online marketplaces for motor vehicles, real estate and general classifieds. Swiss Mobiliar acquires a fifty per cent stake in Scout24 Schweiz, previously held by KKR and other shareholders. Our lab appreciates to have…
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Our presentation at the 2016 IEEE World Congress on Services

We recently had the chance to present our paper entitled “An E-Government Service as PaaS Application to Serve Switzerland’s Municipalities”  at the 2016 IEEE World Congress on Services held in San Francisco, CA. We were very thankful for the opportunity to discuss our findings with other researches working on similar topics. See more details about Services (SERVICES),…
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Paper at CSIT ’16

Our paper entitled “Towards data driven decision support for financial institutions: Predicting small companies business volume in Switzerland” was accepted for publication at the Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), 2016 7th International Conference on to be held in the period of 13-14 July 2016, Amman, Jordan. We are looking forward to knowledge exchange with other researches working…
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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.