CURRICULUM VITAE of WALTER QUATTROCIOCCHI He obtained the Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at the University of Siena and the Master Degree in Computer Science (Summa cum Laude) at the University of Parma. His research interests include dynamic networks, graph algorithms, complex networks (social and biological), complex systems' dynamics and cognitive sciences. He has more than 30 scientific papers on peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He serves as teacher and/or collaborator in courses of Algorithms, Programming, Distributed Computing, Social Networks for graduate and undergraduate students. Personal Data Name : Walter Surname : Quattrociocchi Date of Birth : 10 August 1980 In : Marino (Rome) - Italy Citizenship : Italian Address : Via L Aquila 74 Albano Laziale Roma Mobile : +39 339 29 22 276 E-mail : walter.quattrociocchi@unisi.it Web Page : www.istc.cnr.it/createhtml.php?nbr=136 EDUCATION Attending the Phd in Logic and Computer Sciences at the University of Siena. Master Degree Summa Cum Laude in Computer Sciences at University of Parma (Italy) Bachelor Degree in Sciences and Theory of Computer Sciences at University of Siena (Italy) RESEARCH INTERESTS Dynamic Networks, Social Networks and their Dynamics, Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Complex Systems' Dynamics, Cognitive Sciences, Social Simulation, Multi-agent based Simulation, Trust and Reputation, Opinion Dynamics. HONORS Special Mention at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2010), Lisbon - Portugal MEMBERSHIPS EATCS European Association for Theoretical Computer Science ESSA - European Social Simulation Agency CSC - Complex Systems Center - Siena AIIA Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
THEACHING ACTIVITIES 2011/2012 Algorithms - Contract Professor at the Master Degree in Bionformatics at University of Rome Tor Vergata 2010/2011 Algorithms - Contract Professor at the Master Degree in Bionformatics at University of Rome Tor Vergata 2010 Decision and Complexity - Contract Professor, Superior School of Public Administration (Caserta, Italy) 2009,2010,2011 Algorithms and Data Structures - Assistant at the Course of Bachelor Degree in Computer Sciences at The University of Siena 2009 Markov Modeling - at the Master in Bionformatics University of Siena MASTER STUDENDS Christian Mastromanco. Parallel Computation in Proteomics. Master Degree Summa Cum Laude in Bioinformatics University of Tor Vergata. INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES October 2007 Markov Modeling Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR Rome, Italy April 2009 Complexity - University of Parma, Italy December 2009 Communicating Risks CNR, Rome, Italy June 2010 Opinions and Gossip - Workshop Cognitive, Computational and Social Aspects of Gossip- Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR Rome, Italy January 2011 Time-Varying Graphs and Complex Systems - University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Siena September 2009 in progress Phd Student at University of Siena Rome July 2007 September 2010 Researcher at Labss (laboratory of agent based social simulation) at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council
Rome November 2008 Scientific advisor for Retis (www.retis.it) on the AVIC research Project for the development of a prototype of a search engine accounting for socio-cognitive dynamics and user profiling. Rome February 2006 July 2007 Technical director of Consortium-Egoverment in charge for the development of two Italian National Project for E-Goverment (www.intema2000.it and www.servizicomuni.it ) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES November 2011 Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Mobs-Lab with Prof. Alessandro Vespignani Opinion Dynamics and Social Contagion on Socio-technical systems October 2009 in progress PHD in Logic and Computer Sciences University of Siena with Prof. Elena Lodi Dynamic Monopolies and Consensus in Distributed Environments, Gossiping on Dynamic Networks University of Carleton, Ottawa - Canada with Prof. Nicola Santoro Dynamic Graphs and Social Networks University of Ottawa, Canada with Prof. Paola Flocchini - Consensus and Election through Interaction Based Distributed Environments University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France with Prof. Frederic Amblard Evolution of Socio- Cognitive Complex Networks July 2007 September 2010 Researcher at Labss - ISTC-CNR Reputation and Trust on On-Line Socio-Cognitive Dynamics, Opinion Dynamics with Rosaria Conte PUBLICATIONS LIST 2012 S.BRUNETTI, E.LODI, W.QUATTROCIOCCHI - Multicolored Dynamos on Toroidal Meshes arxiv:1012.4404 submitted to Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS) Springer S.BRUNETTI, G. CORDASCO, L. GARGANO, E. LODI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI -The wine tasting problem: minimum weight multicolor Dynamos submitted at the 6th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2012), Venice, Italy - 2012
2011 1) A.CASTEIGTS, P.FLOCCHINI, W.QUATTROCIOCCHI, N.SANTORO - Time-Varying Graphs and Dynamic Networks - arxiv:1012.0009 - International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (to appear) 2) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE, E. LODI - Opinions Manipulation: Media Power and Gossip Advances in Complex Systems (World Scientific Publishing). 3) N. SANTORO, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, P. FLOCCHINI, A. CASTEIGTS, F. AMBLARD 'On the temporal analysis of scientific networks evolution' - 3rd International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASON), Salamanca, Spain (2011) 4) A.CASTEIGTS, P.FLOCCHINI, W.QUATTROCIOCCHI, N.SANTORO - Time-Varying Graphs and Dynamic Networks invited paper at ADHOC-NOW 2011 10 th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless. 5) W.QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE - Exploiting Reputation in Distributed Virtual Environments The 7th European Social Simulation Association Conference - Montpellier France (2011). 6) F. GIARDINI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE - Understanding opinions. A cognitive and formal account - Cultural and opinion dynamics: Modeling, Experiments and Challenges for the future @ ECCS 2011 Vienna Austria 2011. 7) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, F. AMBLARD - Selection in Scientific Networks arxiv:1012.4396 Social Networks Analysis and Mining (Springer) - 2011 8) F.AMBLARD, W.QUATTROCIOCCHI - Social Networks and Spatial Distributions invited Chapter to the Handbook of Social Simulation - (in press) 9) S. BRUNETTI, E. LODI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Dynamic Monopolies in Colored Tori ' APDCM the 25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Anchorage (Alaska (Usa)) May 2011 10) F. GIARDINI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE - 'Rooting opinions in the minds: a cognitive model and a formal account of opinions and their dynamics ' - Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2011, York (England) April 2011 11) A. JOSANG, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Taste and Trust ' - 5 th International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM) 2011, Copenhagen (Denmark) June 2011 12) N. SANTORO, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, P. FLOCCHINI, A. CASTEIGTS, F. AMBLARD - 'Time-Varying Graphs and Social Network Analysis: Temporal Indicators and Metrics ' - Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) York (England) April 2011 2010 13) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI, R. CONTE - ' On the effects of informational cheating on social evaluations: image and reputation through gossip ' International Journal of Knowledge and Learning 2009 - Vol. 5, No.5/6 pp. 457-471 14) M. PAOLUCCI, S. PICASCIA, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Causality in Collective Filtering ' - Knowledge Federation 2010 workshop: "Self-Organizing Collective Mind", Dubrovnik (Croazia) October 2010 15) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, D. LATORRE, M. NANNI, E. LODI - 'Dealing with Interaction for Complex Systems Modelling and Prediction. ' - International Journal of Artificial Life Research, Vol.1, 1-15 16) M. PAOLUCCI, S. PICASCIA, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Electronic Reputation Systems ' in Web 2.0, 3.0 and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications, edited by San Murugesan. 17) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE, E. LODI - 'Simulating Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous
Communication Systems ',7 th European Conferece on Complex Systems (ECCS), Lisbon (Portugal) September 2010 18) S. BRUNETTI, E. LODI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Stubborn Entities in Colored Toroidal Meshes ' - Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), Camerino (Italy) September 2010 19) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, R. CONTE, E. LODI - 'Turning information into knowledge: the role of peer-to-peer communication ' - World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS), Kassel (Germany) September 2010 2009 20) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Classificazione e Previsione di Sistemi Complessi Dinamici: Simulazione Basata su Agente e Interaction Pattern. ' (s, 2009), 200 pagine; a cura di F. BERGENTI, M. NANNI, M. PAOLUCCI July 2009 21) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Decisions and Complexity: On the nature of information and evaluation ' Probability, Uncertainty and Rationality, Siena (Italia) November 2009 22) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI, R. CONTE - 'Image and Reputation coping differently with massive Informational Cheating ' - Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective (pp. 574-583). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg October 2009 23) T. BALKE, T. EYMANN, S. KONIG, M. PAOLUCCI, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'On the effects of Reputation in the Internet of Services ' -International Conference on Reputation (ICORE), Gargonza (AR) (Italy) March 2009 24) R. EGE, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, D. DRAGOMIRESCU, O. DINI - 'Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Systems - ICONS 2009 ' International Conference on Systems - Icons 2009, Guadaloupe (France) October 2009 25) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - ' Advanced Features in Bayesian Reputation Systems. Dexa - TRUSTBUS 2009 Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, Linz (Austria) September 2009 26) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI - 'Reputation and Uncertainty. A fairly optimistic society when cheating is total ' - International Conference on Reputation (ICORE), Gargonza (AR) (Italy) March 2009 27) T. BALKE, I. BRITO, T. BROEKHUIZEN, R. CONTE, T. EYMANN, W. JAGER, S. KOENIG, S. MARMO, M. PAOLUCCI, S. PICASCIA, I. PINYOL, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, J. SABATER-MIR, D. TRAMPE, M. TUK, D. VILLATORO - 'Social knowledge for egovernance ' (booklet, 2009) ISTC CNR April 2009. 2008 28) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Bruce Edmonds, Cesareo Hernandez, Klaus Troitzsch: Social Simulation Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries. ' - Journal of Management &; Governance (Springer), Vol.4, 219-223 29) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI, R. CONTE - 'Dealing with Uncertainty: Simulating Reputation in an Ideal Marketplace ' (atto di convegno, 2008), 1-1, AAMAS 2008 Trust Workshop, Lisbona- Cascais (Portugal) May 2008 30) S. DE LUCA, W. QUATTROCIOCCHI - 'Dynamic Contexts and Concepts as a Set of State Variations Under Emerging Functions: A Logical Model for Evolving Ontologies and Autopoietic Multi-Agent Systems ' in Application of Complex Adaptive Systems (igi global, 2008) 31) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI, R. CONTE - 'Reputation and Uncertainty Reduction: Simulating Partner Selection ' Trust in Agent Societies. 11th International Workshop, TRUST 2008, Revised Seleceted and Invited Papers (pp. 308-325). Springer. 32) W. QUATTROCIOCCHI, M. PAOLUCCI - 'Cognition in Information Evaluation. The effect of Reputation in Decisions Making and Learning Strategies for discovering good sellers in a base market ' - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS (EUMAS), HAMMAMET (Tunisia) December 2008.