Andrea Ballatore

Biography

Research Interests:

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• semantic similarity
• volunteered geographic information (VGI)

General

Name and Title: 

Dr. Andrea Ballatore M.Sc., Ph.D.

Position: 

Research associate

Supervisor: 

Michela Bertolotto

Research Group: 

Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies

Phone: 

+353 1 716 2944

Email: 

Personal Website: 

https://sites.google.com/site/andreaballatore

Office: 

CSI / B2.17

 

• Biography
• Publications
• Research
• 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).

 

See my short cv.

Publications

>> See the updated list of my publications <<

 

Journal papers

• A. Ballatore, D.C. Wilson & M. Bertolotto, Computing the Semantic Similarity of Geographic Terms Using Volunteered Lexical Definitions, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Taylor & Francis, 2013, in press.
• A. Ballatore, D.C. Wilson & M. Bertolotto, Geographic Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Similarity in OpenStreetMap, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer, 2012. [pdf]
• A. Ballatore, G. McArdle, A. Tahir & M. Bertolotto, A Comparison of Open Source Geospatial Technologies for Web Mapping, International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology. Inderscience, 6(4), pp. 354-374. 2011. [pdf]

Book chapters

• A. Ballatore, D.C. Wilson & M. Bertolotto, A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web, in Quality Issues in the Management of Web Information, ISRL 50, pp. 93–120, Springer, 2013. [pdf]

Conference proceedings

• A. Ballatore, M. Bertolotto & D.C. Wilson, Grounding Linked Open Data in WordNet: The Case of the OSM Semantic Network, in The 12th International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7820, pp. 1-15, Banff, Canada, 2013. [pdf]
• A. Ballatore, D.C. Wilson & M. Bertolotto, The Similarity Jury: Combining expert judgements on geographic concepts, in The Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (SeCoGIS 2012), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7518, pp. 231-240, Florence, Italy, 2012. [pdf]
• A. Ballatore, D.C. Wilson & M. Bertolotto, A Holistic Semantic Similarity Measure for Viewports in Interactive Maps, in The 11th International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7236, pp. 151-166, Naples, Italy, April 12-14, 2012. [pdf]
• A. Ballatore & M. Bertolotto, Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis, in The 10th International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS), Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6574/2011, pp. 78-93. Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011. [pdf]
• A. Tahir, G. McArdle, A. Ballatore & M. Bertolotto, Collaborative Filtering - A Group Profiling Algorithm for Personalisation in a Spatial Recommender System. In Proceedings of Geoinformatik 2010, pp. 44-50. Kiel, Germany, March 17-19, 2010.
• G. McArdle, A. Ballatore, A. Tahir & M. Bertolotto, An Open-Source Web Architecture for Adaptive Location Based Services, in The 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), Vol. 38(2), pp. 296-301. Hong Kong, May 26-28, 2010.
• A. Ballatore, G. McArdle, C. Kelly & M. Bertolotto, RecoMap: An Interactive and Adaptive Map-Based Recommender. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC‘10), pp. 887-891. Sierre, Switzerland, March 22-26, 2010. [pdf]

 

Research

 See my research interests.

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)