Andrea Ballatore

Biography

Research Interests:

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Location Based Services (LBS)
• open source software
• semantic web
• volunteered geographic information (VGI)

General

Name and Title: 

Mr. Andrea Ballatore M.Sc.

Position: 

PhD student

Supervisor: 

Michela Bertolotto

Research Group: 

Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies

Phone: 

+353 1 716 2944

Email: 

Personal Website: 

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/andrea-ballatore/

Office: 

CSI / B2.17

 

• Biography
• Publications
• Teaching

Biography

Andrea Ballatore is a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin.

His research interests include Location-Based Services, Human-Computer Interaction, Geographic Information Systems and Implicit Feedback Analysis.

He received his MSc degree from the University of Turin (Italy) in 2006 in Virtual Reality and Multimedia.

In 2007 he worked as a software developer of large-scale information systems for a major Italian insurance company.

From 2007 until 2009, he worked for design company 3dcadsoft in Dublin, developing and maintaining CAD tools for interior design.

Since 2007 he has been a columnist and web master for the Italian magazine "Il Contesto" (in Italian).

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journals

• Ballatore, A. Tahir, G. McArdle, M. Bertolotto (2011) "A Comparison of Open Source Geospatial Technologies for Web Mapping", International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, Inderscience, Vol. 6, No.4 pp. 354 - 374 PDF

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

• A. Ballatore, and M. Bertolotto (2011) “Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis.” In Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems International Symposium (W2GIS 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer PDF
• A. Ballatore, G. McArdle, C. Kelly, and M. Bertolotto (2010) “RecoMap: An Interactive and Adaptive Map-Based Recommender.” In 25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC). Sierre, Switzerland, ACM. PDF
• G. McArdle, A. Ballatore, A. Tahir, and M. Bertolotto (2010) “An open-source web architecture for adaptive location-based services.” In 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH). Hong Kong. PDF
• A. Tahir, G. McArdle, A. Ballatore, and M. Bertolotto (2010) “Collaborative Filtering - A Group Profiling Algorithm for Personalisation in a Spatial Recommender System.” In Proceedings of Geoinformatik 2010. PDF

 

Teaching

2011:  Demonstrator for:

• Computer Science in Practice (COMP10130)
• Databases and Information Systems I (COMP20070)
• Introduction to Computer Architecture (COMP10040)

2010:  Demonstrator for:

• Software Engineering II (COMP20050)
• Software Engineering III (COMP30050)
• Databases and Information Systems I (COMP20070)