Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) is an interdisciplinary field that targets
engineering applications based on emergent synergies between ICT and the cognitive …

Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, partners, friends,
and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse …

Recently, numerous approaches have emerged in the social sciences to exploit the
opportunities made possible by the vast amounts of data generated by online social …

By modeling macro-economical indicators using digital traces of human activities on mobile
or social networks, we can provide important insights to processes previously assessed via …

This paper proposes an open-source algorithm that performs parallel processing of spatial
queries, during which an initial selection of objects to be subjected to spatial relationship …

Social connections that span across diverse urban neighborhoods can support prosperity by
mobilizing social capital. However, there is limited evidence on the spatial structure of …

Human interaction networks inferred from country-wide telephone activity recordings were
recently used to redraw political maps by projecting their topological partitions into …

We address the problem of recommending highly volatile items for users, both with
potentially ambiguous location that may change in time. The three main ingredients of our …

The interrelation between the fluctuations of stock prices of football clubs and the social
media activity of their fans is of major economic interest. The results in this research provide …

As more and more users access social network services from smart devices with GPS
receivers, the available amount of geo-tagged information makes repeating classical …