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2013
  • D. Hristova, G. Quattrone, A. Mashhadi and L. Capra. "The Life of the Party: Impact of Social Mapping in OpenStreetMap". In 7th AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013) [PDF]
  • C. Smith, A. Mashhadi and L. Capra. "Ubiquitous Sensing for Mapping Poverty in Developing Countries". In 3rd International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (netMob 2013) - Data for Development (D4D) challenge [PDF]
  • C. Smith and L. Capra. "Monitoring Neighbourhood Health". In 1st Workshop on Geographic Human-Computer Interactions (geoHCI). Co-located with CHI. Paris, France. April 2013. [PDF]
  • A. Mashhadi, G. Quattrone and L. Capra. "Putting Ubiquitous Crowd-sourcing into Context". In 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). San Antonio, Texas. February 2013. [PDF]
  • C. Smith, D. Quercia and L. Capra. "Finger On The Pulse: Identifying Deprivation Using Transit Flow Analysis". In 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). San Antonio, Texas. February 2013. [PDF]
2012
  • N. Lathia, C. Smith, J. Froehlich, L. Capra. "Individuals Among Commuters: Building Personalised Transport Information Services from Fare Collection Systems". In Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Special Issue on Pervasive Urban Applications. Accepted October 2012. To appear.
  • S. Chan and L. Capra. "From Online Browsing to Offline Purchases: Analyzing Contextual Information in the Retail Business". In 4th Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS). Dublin, Ireland. September 2012. [PDF]
  • A. Mashhadi, G. Quattrone, L. Capra, and P. Mooney. "On the Accuracy of Urban Crowd-Sourcing for Maintaining Large-Scale Geospatial Databases". In 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym). Linz, Austria. August 2012 [PDF]
  • I. Ceapa, C. Smith, L. Capra. "Avoiding the Crowds: Understanding Tube Station Congestion Patterns from Trip Data". In ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2012). August 2012. [PDF]
  • C. Smith, D. Quercia, and L. Capra. "Anti-gravity Underground?". In 2nd Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), in conjunction with Pervasive. Newcastle, UK. June 2012 [PDF]
  • D. Hristova, A. Mashhadi, G. Quattrone, and L. Capra. "Mapping Community Engagement with Urban Crowd-Sourcing". In When the City Meets the Citizen Workshop (WCMCW), in conjunction with ICWSM. Dublin, Ireland. June 2012 [PDF]. 
  • D. Quercia, L. Capra, and J. Crowcroft. "The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions". In 6th AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2012. [PDF]
  • N. Lathia, S. Ahmed, L. Capra. "Measuring the Impact of Opening the London Shared Bicycle Scheme to Casual Users". In Elsevier Transportation Research Part C. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia,  J. Ellis,  L. Capra,  and J. Crowcroft. "Tracking Gross Community Happiness from Tweets". In 15th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Seattle, Washington, USA. Feb 2012. [PDF]
2011
  • L. Capra and D. Quercia. "Middleware for Social Computing: A Roadmap". In Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA). Special Issue on The Future of Middleware (FOME). Dec 2011. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia,  J. Ellis,  L. Capra,  and J. Crowcroft. "In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter". In 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom). MIT, Boston, USA. Oct 2011. [PDF]
  • G. Quattrone, L. Capra, E. Ferrara, P. De Meo, and D. Ursino. "Effective Retrieval of Resources in Folksonomies Using a New Tag Similarity Measure". In 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Glasgow, UK. Oct 2011. [PDF]
  • A. Mashhadi and L. Capra. "Quality Control for Real-time Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing". In 2nd Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing (UbiCrowd). In conjunction with 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Beijing, China. Sept 2011. [preprint]
  • N. Lathia and L. Capra. "How Smart is Your Smartcard? Measuring Travel Behaviours, Perceptions, and Incentives". In 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Beijing, China. Sept 2011. [preprint]
  • V. Zanardi and L. Capra. "A Scalable Tag-based Recommender System for New Users of the Social Web". In 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA). Toulouse, France. Sept 2011. [PDF]
  • A. Mashhadi, S. Ben Mokhtar and L. Capra. "Fair Content Dissemination in Participatory DTNs". In Elsevier Ad-Hoc Networks Journal. Accepted for publication, 2011. [preprint]
  • N. Lathia and L. Capra. "Mining Mobility Data to Minimise Travellers' Spending on Public Transport". In ACM SIGKDD 2011 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. San Diego, California, USA. August 21-24, 2011. [preprint]
  • G. Quattrone, P. De Meo, E. Ferrara, and L. Capra. "Measuring Similarity in Large-scale Folksonomies". In 23rd Intl. Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011). Miami, USA. July 7-9, 2011. [PDF]
  • A. J. Mashhadi and L. Capra. "Priority Scheduling for Participatory Delay Tolerant Networks". In 12th IEEE Intl. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM2011). Work in Progress. Lucca, Italy. June 2011. [preprint]
  • V. Zanardi and L. Capra. "Dynamic Updating of Online Recommender Systems via Feed-Forward Controllers". In 6th Intl. Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2011). Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. May 2011. [PDF]
2010
  • N. Lathia, J. Froehlich, and L. Capra. "Mining Public Transport Usage For Personalised Intelligent Transport Systems". In 10th  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010). Sydney, Australia. Dec. 2010 [preprint]
  • P. Papakos, L. Capra and D. S. Rosenblum. "VOLARE: Context-Aware Adaptive Cloud Service Discovery for Mobile Systems". In 9th Intl. Workshop on Adaptive and reflective Middleware. Bangalore, India. Dec 2010.
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "Temporal Defences for Robust Recommendations". In ECML/PKDD Workshop on Privacy and Security issues in Data Mining and Machine Learning. Barcelona, Spain. Sept. 2010. [preprint] 
  • M. Dell'Amico and L. Capra. "Dependable Filtering: Philosophy and Realisations". In ACM Transactions on Information Systems. To appear. [preprint]
  • G. Lo Giusto, A. J. Mashhadi, and L. Capra. "Folksonomy-based Reasoning for Content Dissemination in Mobile Settings". In Proc. of  6th ACM Workshop on Challenged Netwotrks (CHANTS). Co-located with Mobicom. Chicago, Illinois, USA. Sept. 2010. [preprint]
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, L. Capra, and X. Amatriain. "Temporal Diversity in Recommender Systems". In Proc. of  33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Geneva, Switzerland. July 2010 [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, J. Ellis and L. Capra. "Nurturing Social Networks Using Mobile Phones". In IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, Special Issue on Connected Youth. July-Sept 2010. [preprint]
  • R. Bahsoon, L. Capra, W. Emmerich and M. E. Fayad (Eds). "Software Architecture and Mobility", special issue of Journal of Systems and Software. Volume 83, Issue 6. June 2010. [link]
  • S. Ben Mokhtar, L. McNamara, A. J. Mashhadi and L. Capra. "A Self-Organising Directory and Matching Service for Opportunistic Social Networking". In Proc. of 3rd Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS 2010). Paris, France. April 2010 [PDF]
  • L. del Prete and L. Capra. "diffeRS: a Mobile Recommender Service". In 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). Kansas City, Missouri USA. May 2010 [PDF]

2009

  • S. Ben Mokhtar, L. McNamara, and L. Capra. "A Middleware Service for Pervasive Social Networking". In International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC). Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA. Dec 2009. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia and L. Capra. "FriendSensing: Recommending Friends Using Mobile Phones". In 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. New York City, NY. Oct 2009 [extended PDF] Visit the project page.
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, and L. Capra. "Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Over Time." In ACM SIGIR Workshop on the Furture of IR Evaluation. Boston, Massachusetts. July 2009. [PDF]
  • S. Ben Mokhtar and L. Capra. "From Pervasive To Social Computing: Algorithms and Deployments". In 6th ACM International  Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 09). London, UK. July 2009. [PDF]
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, and L. Capra. "Temporal Collaborative Filtering With Adaptive Neighbourhoods." In 32nd ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009). Boston, Massachusetts. July 2009. [PDF] [extended PDF]
  • P. Papakos, D.S. Rosenblum, A. Mukhija and L. Capra. "VOLARE: Adaptive Web Service Discovery Middleware for Mobile Systems". In Proc. of 2nd International DisCoTec Workshop on Context-Aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services (CAMPUS 2009). Lisbon, Portugal. June 2009. [PDF]
  • A. J. Mashhadi, S. Ben Mokhtar and L. Capra. "Habit: Leveraging Human Mobility and Social Network for Efficient Content Dissemination in DTN". In 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM09). Kos, Greece. June 2009. [extended PDF]

2008

  • L. Del Prete and L. Capra. "MoSCA: Seamless Execution of Mobile Composite Services". In 7th ACM Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM). Leuven, Belgium, December 2008. [PDF] (A poster version was also presented at the 9th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference [poster PDF])
  • V. Zanardi and L. Capra. "Social Ranking: Uncovering Relevant Content Using Tag-based Recommender Systems". In 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2008. [Conference PDF]. (A preliminary version of the paper appeared at the related Workshop on Recommender Systems, co-located with 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). Patras, Greece. July 2008. [Workshop PDF])
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, and L. Capra. "kNN CF: A Temporal Social Network." In 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2008. [PDF]
  • L. McNamara, C. Mascolo and L. Capra. "Media Sharing based on Colocation Prediction in Urban Transport". In 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom). San Francisco, CA, USA. September 2008. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "MobiRate: Making Mobile Raters Stick to their Word". In 10th Intl. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). Seoul, South Korea. September 2008. [PDF]
  • L. Del Prete and L. Capra. Reliable Discovery and Selection of Composite Services in Mobile Environments. In 12th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC). Munich, Germany. September 2008. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, L. Capra and V. Zanardi. Selecting Trustworthy Content Using Tags. Invited paper at SECRYPT, Special Session on Trust in Pervasive Systems and Networks. Porto, Portugal. July 2008. [PDF]
  • M. Dell'Amico and L. Capra. "SOFIA: Social Filtering for Robust Recommendations". In IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust management and Security. Trondheim, Norway. June 2008. [PDF]
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, and L. Capra. "Trust Based Collaborative Filtering". In IFIPTM 2008: Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust management and Security. Trondheim, Norway. June 2008. [PDF]
  • R. Bahsoon, L. Capra, W. Emmerich and M.E. Fayad. "The International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility (SAM 2008)" (Workshop Summary). In  Proc. of 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Leipzip, Germany. May 2008. [PDF]
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes, and L. Capra. "The Effect of Correlation Coefficients on Communities of Recommenders". In 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Trust, Recommendations, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK) Track. Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. March 2008. [PDF]

2007

  • D. Quercia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "Lightweight Distributed Trust Propagation". In 7th IEEE Int. Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). Omaha, Nebraska, USA. October 2007. [PDF]
  • N. Lathia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "Private Distributed Collaborative Filtering using Estimated Concordance Measures".  In 1st ACM Intl. Conference on Recommender Systems. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.  October 2007. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "TRULLO - local trust bootstrapping for ubiquitous devices". In 4th Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS). Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 2007. [PDF]
  • L. McNamara, C. Mascolo and L. Capra. "Content Source Selection in Bluetooth Networks". In 4th Int. Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS). Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 2007. [PDF]
  • L. Capra. "MaLM: Machine Learning Middleware to Tackle Ontology Heterogeneity". In IEEE 4th Int. Workshop on Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing (PerWare). White Plains, New York. March 2007. [PDF]
2006
  • D. Quercia, M. Lad, S. Hailes, L. Capra, S. Bhatti. "Survivable Wireless Networking: Autonomic Bandwidth Sharing in Mesh Networks". In BT Technology Journal. Kluwer. 2006. [PDF]
  • L. Mcnamara, C. Mascolo, and L. Capra. "Trust and Mobility aware Service Provision for Pervasive Computing". In Int. Workshop on Requirements and Solutions for Pervasive Software Infrastructures (co-located with Pervasive 2006). Dublin, Ireland. May 2006. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "B-trust: Bayesian Trust Framework for Pervasive Computing". In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust). May 2006, Pisa, Italy. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, S. Hailes and L. Capra. "TATA: Towards Anonymous Trusted Authentication". In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust). May 2006, Pisa, Italy. [PDF]
  • L. Capra and M. Musolesi. "Autonomic Trust Prediction for Pervasive Systems". In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS-06), in conjunction with 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006). April 2006, Vienna, Austria. [PDF]
  • D. Quercia, M. Lad, S. Hailes, L.Capra and S. Bhatti. "STRUDEL: Supporting Trust in the Dynamic Establishment of peering coaLitions". In Proc. of 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. April 2006, Dijon, France. [PDF]
2005
  • L. Capra. "Reasoning about Trust Groups to Coordinate Mobile Ad-Hoc Systems".  In Proc. of the 1st IEEE Workshop on the Value of Security Through Collaboration, in conjunction with IEEE/CreateNet SecureComm 2005, September 2005, Athens, Greece. [PDF]
  • L. Capra, S. Zachariadis and C. Mascolo. "Q-CAD: QoS and Context Aware Discovery Framework for Mobile Systems". In Proc. of International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'05). July 2005. Santorini, Greece. [PDF] [extended PDF]
2004
  • C. Mascolo, L. Capra and W. Emmerich. "Principles of Mobile Computing Middleware". In Q. Mahmoud (ed): Middleware for Communications, John Wiley. 2004.
  • L. Capra. "Engineering Human Trust in Mobile System Collaborations".  In Proc. of the 12th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12), pages 107-116. November 2004, Newport Beach, CA, USA. [PDF]
  • L. Capra. "Towards a Human Trust Model for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks". In Proc. of 2nd UK-UbiNet Workshop. May 2004, London, United Kingdom. [PDF]
2003
  • L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo. "CARISMA: Context-Aware Reflective mIddleware System for Mobile Applications". In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(10):929-945. October 2003. [Bibtex] [PDF]
2002
  • L. Capra, G. S. Blair, C. Mascolo, W. Emmerich and P. Grace. "Exploiting Reflection in Mobile Computing Middleware". In ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 6(4):34-44. October 2002. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • C. Mascolo, L. Capra, S. Zachariadis and W. Emmerich. "XMIDDLE: A Data-Sharing Middleware for Mobile Computing". In International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, 21(1):77-103. Kluwer Academic Publisher. April 2002. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • C. Nentwich, L. Capra, W. Emmerich and A. Finkelstein. "xlinkit: A Consistency Checking and Smart Link Generation Service". In ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2(2):151-185. May 2002. ACM Press. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • L. Capra, W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo. "A Micro-Economic Approach to Conflict Resolution in Mobile Computing". In Proc. of the Foundations of Software Engi-neering (ACM SIGSOFT/FSE-10), pages 31-40, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. November 2002. [Bibtex] [PS]
  • C. Mascolo, L. Capra and Wolfgang Emmerich. "Middleware for Mobile Computing (A Survey)". In Advanced Lectures on Networking - Networking 2002 Tutorials, Pisa, Italy. volume 2497 of LNCS, pages 20-58, Springer Verlag. May 2002. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • L. Capra. "Mobile Computing Middleware for Context-Aware Applications". In Proc. of the 24th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2002), Doctoral Synposium, pages 723-724. Orlando, Florida, May 2002. ACM Press. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • S. Zachariadis, L. Capra, C. Mascolo, and W. Emmerich. "XMIDDLE: Information Sharing Middleware for a Mobile Environment". In Proc. of the 24th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2002), Demo Session, page 712. Orlando, Florida, May 2002. ACM Press. [Bibtex] [PDF]
2001
  • L. Capra , W. Emmerich and Cecilia Mascolo. "Exploiting Reflection and Metadata to build Mobile Computing MIddleware". In Proc. of Workshop on Middleware for Mobile Computing. Co-located with Middleware 2001. Heidelberg, Germany. November 2001. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • L. Capra, C. Mascolo, S. Zachariadis and W. Emmerich.  "Towards a Mobile Computing Middleware: a Synergy of Reflection and Mobile Code Techniques".  In Proc. of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2001), pages 148-154. Bologna, Italy. October 2001. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • C. Mascolo, L. Capra and W. Emmerich. "An XML-based Middleware for Peer-to-Peer Computing". In Proc. of the International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2001), pages 69-74. Linkoping, Sweden, August 2001. IEEE Computer Society Press. [Bibtex] [PDF]
  • L. Capra , W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo. "Reflective Middleware Solutions for Context-Aware Applications". In Proc. of REFLECTION 2001. The Third International Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns. September 2001. Kyoto, Japan. LNCS (Springer-Verlag). [Bibtex] [PDF] [Extended version (PDF)]
  • L. Capra , W. Emmerich and C. Mascolo. "Middleware for Mobile Computing: Awareness vs. Transparency (Position Summary)". In Proc. of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII). Schloss Elmau, Germany. May 2001. page 142. IEEE Computer Society Press. [Bibtex] [PS] [Extended version (PDF)]

 Thesis

  • "Reflective Mobile Middleware for Context-Aware Applications". Ph.D. Thesis. Licia Capra. October 2003. [PDF]
  • "Il problema del dimensionality curse nelle basi di dati multi-dimensionali" (in Italian). Licia Capra. Tesi di Laurea in Informatica (Master Thesis). March 2000.