Smart City Semantics - Data Analytics and Human Computation to understand the...Irene Celino
Smart City Semantics: Data Analytics and Human Computation to understand the Living Land Use. Presentation at the "Comitato Italo-Svizzero per la Geoinformatica"
Towards a Semantic City Service EcosystemIrene Celino
Presentation at the 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities @ ISWC 2014
We introduce the concept of City Service Ecosystem (CSE) as digital environment for the governance of urban services. We trace the research challenges and opportunities of adding semantics to improve the management of such ecosystems, especially in relation to description, publication and retrieval of urban-related Web services. We explain the peculiarities and distinct characteristics of CSEs resulting from their relation to the city space.
Living Land Use - Telecom Big Data Challenge - Trento ICT Days 2014Irene Celino
Short presentation of the Living Land Use application (http://livinglanduse.cefriel.com/), finalist in the Application track of the Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge (http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en/bigdatachallenge.html) @ Trento ICT Days - April 3rd 2014
Smart City Semantics - Data Analytics and Human Computation to understand the...Irene Celino
Smart City Semantics: Data Analytics and Human Computation to understand the Living Land Use. Presentation at the "Comitato Italo-Svizzero per la Geoinformatica"
Towards a Semantic City Service EcosystemIrene Celino
Presentation at the 5th Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities @ ISWC 2014
We introduce the concept of City Service Ecosystem (CSE) as digital environment for the governance of urban services. We trace the research challenges and opportunities of adding semantics to improve the management of such ecosystems, especially in relation to description, publication and retrieval of urban-related Web services. We explain the peculiarities and distinct characteristics of CSEs resulting from their relation to the city space.
Living Land Use - Telecom Big Data Challenge - Trento ICT Days 2014Irene Celino
Short presentation of the Living Land Use application (http://livinglanduse.cefriel.com/), finalist in the Application track of the Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge (http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en/bigdatachallenge.html) @ Trento ICT Days - April 3rd 2014
Cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. VRGIS and big data for smarter, healthier cities (within the Invited Session on 'Digital technologies and the impact in biometry', Chair: R Assunção, Discussant: A Charpentie, Presenters: MN Kamel Boulos, J Mills Flemming, G Câmara). XXIXth International Biometric Conference, Barcelona International Convention Centre, Barcelona, Spain, 10 July 2018.
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The latest generation of virtual and mixed reality hardware has rekindled interest in VRGIS (Virtual Reality GIS) and ARGIS (Augmented Reality GIS) applications in health, and opened up new and exciting opportunities and possibilities for using these technologies in the personal and public health arenas (Kamel Boulos et al., 2017). This presentation will offer a snapshot of some of the most remarkable VRGIS and ARGIS solutions that rely on big data, including real-time data, to deliver the vision of smart healthy cities (Kamel Boulos et al., 2015).
1. Kamel Boulos et al. From urban planning and emergency training to Pokémon Go: applications of virtual reality GIS (VRGIS) and augmented reality GIS (ARGIS) in personal, public and environmental health. Int J Health Geogr. 2017, 16:7. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-017-0081-0
2. Kamel Boulos et al. 'Social, innovative and smart cities are happy and resilient': insights from the WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference. Int J Health Geogr. 2015, 14:3. DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-14-3
8. City Science: Urban Big Data and New Urban SystemsMITEF México
Data-driven analysis of economic
activity, human behavior, mobility
patterns, resource consumption, etc.
in order to inform an evidence-based
process of designing new cities
Why are cities smart? Answering means defining what we mean by a smart city. Do smart cities: Use technology to make the city operate more efficiently? Have centralized control centers to monitor and manage infrastructure and services? Or do they use technology to increase public participation? A really smart city does all three. Since most discussion centers on the first two, this presentation focuses on public participation.
The first thing to realize about public participation is that information technologies, especially social media and applications, have vastly increased the ability of people to participate in all types of activities - including almost everything a city does. Public participation includes: providing input, analyzing data, collaborative planning, educating themselves and others, and taking action.
Public participation is especially good because residents have detailed local knowledge and fresh perspective. They can provide political support and the participation process helps create people willing to take action. Many information technology applications have been developed to support public participation. The presentation describes the main categories of public participation applications and illustrates these categories with examples.
So, another way to look at the question might be: How are cities smart? The answer is: when they actively involve the public in managing the city, provide open data to increase understanding, use applications to harness public energy efficiently, and recognize that if they don’t do it, someone else will.
Presentation 'about the (very nearby) future of GIS' for GeoScience students, Universiteit Utrecht. I had a few recommended skill and recommendations as well, will blog about that later.
Spatial enrichment gives us the possibility of not only mapping the data, but further run spatial
operators. Creating overlays or buffers, route data networks, or cluster point data to name just a
few.
The array of possible interaction via the geographical context with data like state boundaries,
business data, demographic and environmental data can further add value to datasets. Suddenly
data can be seen in reference.
GIS systems enable the electronic management of spatial data and facilitate its visualisation; they are specialised forms of information systems that are conceived solely for use with spatial data. Their purpose is the collection, modelling, storage, manipulation, analysis, retrieval and presentation of geodata. During the Smart Cities Project we examined the geobased services that were being used by the project’s six municipal partners. This guide provides a detailed review of the systems that are being used by two of these partners – the City of Edinburgh Council in Scotland, and Kristiansand Kommune in Norway – who had the most advanced geobased infrastructures in the Smart Cities partnership.
A tecnologia está cada vez mais presente no dia a dia das pessoas e tem provocado uma corrida nas empresas pela modernização de aplicações. Durante essa palestra sobre com o tema “O futuro do software” realizada pelo Ramon Durães que é CEO na DevPrime e Microsoft MVP é discutido insgiths importantes sobre o atual momento do mercado e a importância de se adequar o desenvolvimento de aplicações para essa nova dinâmica do mercado.
Algumas iniciativas como o desenvolvimento de microservices se tornarem estratégicas nesse novo cenário de cloud-native application development.
Presentation to Digital Humanities class at Pratt Institute on the history of computing in the field of archaeology and current digital humanities projects.
From OpenStreetMap to PhillyTreeMap - Esri Dev SummitAzavea
Presentation at Esri Dev Meetup Philadelphia in June 2011 on OpenStreetMap and other crowd-sourced data projects as well as an introduction to the PhillyTreeMap project for inventorying and documenting trees.
Urbanopoly: a Social and Location-based Game with a Purpose to Crowdsource your Urban Data
presentation given in Amsterdam on 2012/09/03 during SocialCom 2012
Cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. VRGIS and big data for smarter, healthier cities (within the Invited Session on 'Digital technologies and the impact in biometry', Chair: R Assunção, Discussant: A Charpentie, Presenters: MN Kamel Boulos, J Mills Flemming, G Câmara). XXIXth International Biometric Conference, Barcelona International Convention Centre, Barcelona, Spain, 10 July 2018.
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Abstract:
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The latest generation of virtual and mixed reality hardware has rekindled interest in VRGIS (Virtual Reality GIS) and ARGIS (Augmented Reality GIS) applications in health, and opened up new and exciting opportunities and possibilities for using these technologies in the personal and public health arenas (Kamel Boulos et al., 2017). This presentation will offer a snapshot of some of the most remarkable VRGIS and ARGIS solutions that rely on big data, including real-time data, to deliver the vision of smart healthy cities (Kamel Boulos et al., 2015).
1. Kamel Boulos et al. From urban planning and emergency training to Pokémon Go: applications of virtual reality GIS (VRGIS) and augmented reality GIS (ARGIS) in personal, public and environmental health. Int J Health Geogr. 2017, 16:7. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-017-0081-0
2. Kamel Boulos et al. 'Social, innovative and smart cities are happy and resilient': insights from the WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference. Int J Health Geogr. 2015, 14:3. DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-14-3
8. City Science: Urban Big Data and New Urban SystemsMITEF México
Data-driven analysis of economic
activity, human behavior, mobility
patterns, resource consumption, etc.
in order to inform an evidence-based
process of designing new cities
Why are cities smart? Answering means defining what we mean by a smart city. Do smart cities: Use technology to make the city operate more efficiently? Have centralized control centers to monitor and manage infrastructure and services? Or do they use technology to increase public participation? A really smart city does all three. Since most discussion centers on the first two, this presentation focuses on public participation.
The first thing to realize about public participation is that information technologies, especially social media and applications, have vastly increased the ability of people to participate in all types of activities - including almost everything a city does. Public participation includes: providing input, analyzing data, collaborative planning, educating themselves and others, and taking action.
Public participation is especially good because residents have detailed local knowledge and fresh perspective. They can provide political support and the participation process helps create people willing to take action. Many information technology applications have been developed to support public participation. The presentation describes the main categories of public participation applications and illustrates these categories with examples.
So, another way to look at the question might be: How are cities smart? The answer is: when they actively involve the public in managing the city, provide open data to increase understanding, use applications to harness public energy efficiently, and recognize that if they don’t do it, someone else will.
Presentation 'about the (very nearby) future of GIS' for GeoScience students, Universiteit Utrecht. I had a few recommended skill and recommendations as well, will blog about that later.
Spatial enrichment gives us the possibility of not only mapping the data, but further run spatial
operators. Creating overlays or buffers, route data networks, or cluster point data to name just a
few.
The array of possible interaction via the geographical context with data like state boundaries,
business data, demographic and environmental data can further add value to datasets. Suddenly
data can be seen in reference.
GIS systems enable the electronic management of spatial data and facilitate its visualisation; they are specialised forms of information systems that are conceived solely for use with spatial data. Their purpose is the collection, modelling, storage, manipulation, analysis, retrieval and presentation of geodata. During the Smart Cities Project we examined the geobased services that were being used by the project’s six municipal partners. This guide provides a detailed review of the systems that are being used by two of these partners – the City of Edinburgh Council in Scotland, and Kristiansand Kommune in Norway – who had the most advanced geobased infrastructures in the Smart Cities partnership.
A tecnologia está cada vez mais presente no dia a dia das pessoas e tem provocado uma corrida nas empresas pela modernização de aplicações. Durante essa palestra sobre com o tema “O futuro do software” realizada pelo Ramon Durães que é CEO na DevPrime e Microsoft MVP é discutido insgiths importantes sobre o atual momento do mercado e a importância de se adequar o desenvolvimento de aplicações para essa nova dinâmica do mercado.
Algumas iniciativas como o desenvolvimento de microservices se tornarem estratégicas nesse novo cenário de cloud-native application development.
Presentation to Digital Humanities class at Pratt Institute on the history of computing in the field of archaeology and current digital humanities projects.
From OpenStreetMap to PhillyTreeMap - Esri Dev SummitAzavea
Presentation at Esri Dev Meetup Philadelphia in June 2011 on OpenStreetMap and other crowd-sourced data projects as well as an introduction to the PhillyTreeMap project for inventorying and documenting trees.
Urbanopoly: a Social and Location-based Game with a Purpose to Crowdsource your Urban Data
presentation given in Amsterdam on 2012/09/03 during SocialCom 2012
EventMedia Live: Exploring Events Connections in Real-Time to Enhance ContentRaphael Troncy
"EventMedia Live: Exploring Events Connections in Real-Time to Enhance Content" presented at the Semantic Web Challenge, Open Track, of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, USA, November 2012
The International Journal of Engineering & Science is aimed at providing a platform for researchers, engineers, scientists, or educators to publish their original research results, to exchange new ideas, to disseminate information in innovative designs, engineering experiences and technological skills. It is also the Journal's objective to promote engineering and technology education. All papers submitted to the Journal will be blind peer-reviewed. Only original articles will be published.
The papers for publication in The International Journal of Engineering& Science are selected through rigorous peer reviews to ensure originality, timeliness, relevance, and readability.
BOTTARI: Location based Social Media Analysis with Semantic WebEmanuele Della Valle
Bottari is a LarKC application http://www.larkc.eu/. It offers a real-time personalized recommendation service for restaurants in Insa-dong(Seoul) listening to the reputation of the restaurants on social media. Social media anlytics is powered by LarKC inductive and deductive stream reasoning solution. Learn more at http://larkc.cefriel.it/lbsma/bottari/ .
Presentation examining the strategies (why?), data and maps (what? where?), and tools (how?) for awesome nonprofit mapping and geographic information projects.
With the increasing needs of intelligent and autonomous systems to sense, move and react with the surroundings, it is a clear necessity to train such systems with as much relevant data as can be obtained. However, there are many challenges in obtaining real world data, particularly in a 3D environment. In this talk, I will cover some of the recent advances in Graphics and Computing techniques in 3D processing and their possible application in dynamic settings for autonomous systems. A vision of how synthetic data could be relevant in the future of intelligent systems is presented, along with the challenges. Backup material covers latest papers on the subject
Knowledge Technologies group at CefrielIrene Celino
Main research and innovation interests of the Knowledge technologies groups at Cefriel: Semantic Interoperability and Human Computation. Summary of our research lines,our approach, our offer and our experience in cooperative R&D projects.
Interplay of Game Incentives, Player Profiles and Task Difficulty in Games with ...Irene Celino
presentation of my paper at EKAW 2018 in Nancy - How to take multiple factors into account when evaluating a Game with a Purpose? How is player behaviour or participation influenced by different incentives? How does player engagement impact their accuracy in solving tasks? In this paper, we present a detailed investigation of multiple factors affecting the evaluation of a GWAP and we show how they impact on the achieved results. We inform our study with the experimental assessment of a GWAP designed to solve a multinomial classification task.
Involving people in Citizen Science through game incentives: the case of the ...Irene Celino
presentation of the STARS4ALL project for the Project networking workshop at the 6th AAAI Conference on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018) - July 5th 2018, Zurich
Ninja Riders: sensibilizzare i giovani a una mobilità più sicura attraverso i...Irene Celino
Presentazione dl progetto Ninja Riders all'evento "Behavioural change e sostenibilità ambientale: innovazione, strumenti, tecnologie" organizzato da Poliedra presso il Politecnico di MIlano - 16 maggio 2018
invited talk about my experience on Human Computation and Games with a Purpose for VGI at the Workshop on "Volunteered Geographic Information: Enabling VGI creation, management and sharing", at CNR in MIlano on April 16th 2018
Seminar about Human Computation and Games with a Purpose in the context of the Data Semantics course (Data Science Master course) at the University of Milano Bicocca
BotDCAT-AP: An Extension of the DCAT Application Profile for Describing Datas...Irene Celino
presentation of the paper at the PROFILES workshop @ ISWC-2017 in Vienna
Abstract: Although it is still an emerging technology, the increasing usage of chatbots (also known as bots) has opened a promising touchpoint for citizen and customer engagement. A chatbot consists of a computer program aimed at simulating a conversation between humans and machines through the formulation of appropriate answers making use of external knowledge. Therefore, managing external knowledge is a crucial task for the design and development of chatbots. To facilitate the reuse of existing data sources in chatbot applications, in this paper we propose BotDCAT-AP, an extension of the Data Catalogue (DCAT) Application Profile for describing datasets for chatbots. BotDCAT-AP enables the description of intents (i.e., the actions users want to accomplish by interacting with a chatbot) and entities (i.e., individual information units associated to an intent) supported by a dataset and the method to access it. A practical usage of BotDCAT-AP is shown to demonstrate the value of its adoption.
Night Knights: exploiting games to engage people in a citizen science campaignIrene Celino
Presentation from the STARS4ALL project at the DSI Fair 2017, during the Collective Sensing and Action workshop. Focus on the Night Knights classification game, available at http://www.nightknights.eu
Presentation about the STARS4ALL project I gave at the CAPSSI Workshop organized in Bratislava by the ChiC CSA project: https://capssi.eu/event/capssi-community-workshop/?instance_id=17
Towards Talkin'Piazza: Engaging Citizens through Playful Interaction with Urb...Irene Celino
presentation of the paper "Towards Talkin'Piazza: Engaging Citizens through Playful Interaction with Urban Objects" at the International Smart City Conference (IEEE ISC2) about citizen engagement, playful design, smart cities
Linking Smart Cities Datasets with Human Computation - the case of UrbanMatchIrene Celino
The presentation I gave at ISWC 2012 on November 13th 2012 about the UrbanMatch game.
Now the full video of this presentation is available on Videolectures at: http://videolectures.net/iswc2012_celino_urbanmatch/: enjoy!
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...
Urbanopoly: Collection and Quality Assessment of Geo-spatial Linked Data via a Human Computation Game
1. Urbanopoly: Collection and Quality
Assessment of Geo-spatial Linked Data
via a Human Computation Game
Irene Celino, Dario Cerizza, Simone Contessa,
Marta Corubolo, Daniele Dell’Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle,
Stefano Fumeo and Federico Piccinini
Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2012 - 2012/11/14
3. What about those citizens?
Gareth 1953 http://www.flickr.com/photos/gareth1953/6786545520/ paul_houle http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_houle/3301438074/
Boris van Hoytema http://www.flickr.com/photos/borisvanhoytema/685879933/ graziano88 http://www.flickr.com/photos/8482460@N06/6884509346/
Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2012 - 2012/11/14 3 Urbanopoly
4. Citizen Computation
Human Computation Citizen Science
exploiting human capabilities exploiting volunteers
to solve computational tasks to collect scientific data or
difficult for machines to conduct experiments
"in the world"
Citizen Computation
exploiting human capabilities
to contribute to a mixed
computational system
by living "in the world"
Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2012 - 2012/11/14 4 Urbanopoly
5. Human Computation Games with a Purpose
Purpose
within
the game:
Purpose outside the game:
You help image search engines by manually tagging images
Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2012 - 2012/11/14 5 Urbanopoly
6. Citizen Computation Game with a Purpose
Purpose within Create your venues' portfolio and become
the game: the greatest landlord ever!
Purpose outside Collect and verify information about your city
the game: by playing with the neighborhood around you
http://bit.ly/urbanopoly
Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2012 - 2012/11/14 6 Urbanopoly
7. Urbanopoly – high-level view
Game purpose: check and correct geo-spatial data
from pre-existing sources + collect missing data
game to buy / sell 2
LinkedGeoData + venues with missions
players
Lombardia Open Data
data about
1 venues as
missions
bootstrap of
"venues" data
GWAP approach to
consolidate data 3
verified / improved data
+ new data
4
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8. Urbanopoly Input Data
OpenStreetMap (OSM)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
via LinkedGeoData (LGD)
http://linkedgeodata.org/
data as linked data, described by an ontology
Lombardia Open Data
https://dati.lombardia.it
data about "agriturismo" places as CSV converted to RDF
Urbanopoly data bootstrap: venues are "instances" of
selected LGD "classes" with their OSM tags as features,
thus Urbanopoly data are RDF statements of the form:
<venue> <feature> <value>
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10. Urbanopoly mini-games for Data Collection
data acquisition challenges as data validation challenges to check
contributions to an advertising campaign pre-existing data or other players’
– left: inserting a value, contribution – left: answering a quiz,
right: taking a picture right: rating a poster
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11. Urbanopoly Data Consolidation
Each statement has a confidence score:
{ <venue> <feature> <value> . } <confidence>
which indicates the probability of the statement to be true
Each player action is taken as an evidence of the associated
knowledge and alters the confidence score
A weighted majority voting algorithm aggregates the evidences:
Difficulty to acquire the contribution (e.g., typing vs. check box)
Player’s reputation (e.g., number of errors)
Player’s distance to the venue at contribution time (as sensed by the device)
When the confidence score overcomes a threshold, the triple
<venue> <feature> <value> gets consolidated
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12. Urbanopoly Data Publication
True statements published as linked open data
If a statement's confidence overcomes the threshold, the statement
is asserted: <venue> <feature> <value> (as in LGD/OSM)
But there's more interesting information to publish!
False statements, statements' confidence, provenance info, etc.
provo:Entity
We created a Human Computation contributionFrom aggregatedFrom Consolidated
ontology (http://swa.cefriel.it/ontologies/hc) Contribution
Information
extending the W3C PROV-O ontology
solutionTo
aggregatedBy
provo:Agent Contributor
We published this further
knowledge as annotations to the reified Human
Computation
enabledBy Human
Computation
<venue> <feature> <value> statements solvedBy Task Algorithm
provo:Activity
Cf. http://swa.cefriel.it/linkeddata/
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13. Urbanopoly Evaluation (1/2)
"Enjoyability" of the game (engagement potential):
Average life play: ALP = Played Time / Active Players
~ 100 minutes very good result
"Effectiveness" of the GWAP mechanism:
Throughput = Solved Problems / Played Time
~ 287 collected evidences / hour very good
~ 5 consolidated statements / hour can be improved
"Precision" of the results (measured on results' subset)
Accuracy = ( (P – FP) + (N – FN) ) / (P + N)
~ 92 % very good result
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14. Urbanopoly Evaluation (2/2)
"Playability" of the game
Evaluation survey at http://bit.ly/u-survey, with questions about
usability, social aspects, physical presence, motivation, etc.
Feedbacks very encouraging
"Sociability" through Facebook channel
With Facebook Insights (http://www.facebook.com/insights/),
tracking of installs, demographics,
log-ins, content sharing, etc.
Example of published "story" on
Facebook Timeline:
Statistics about "stories" and
"impressions":
Interesting results, but channel to be further exploited
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15. Conclusions
Urbanopoly is an end-user mobile application with
a multi-language attractive user interface
Urbanopoly manages urban data at a real scale
(ca. 50,000 venues) from heterogeneous sources
The meaning of data is core to the application and
consolidated data are published as linked open data
Urbanopoly is aimed at geo-spatial data collection and
quality assurance, especially for dynamic data
Our rigorous evaluation shows the high accuracy of results
and feasibility of the approach
Urbanopoly shows a clear commercial potential: further
data collection or validation needs can be added as further
mini-games or challenges within the game
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16. Thanks for your attention!
Questions?
Keep on playing
Urbanopoly!
Irene Celino – CEFRIEL, ICT Institute Politecnico di Milano
email: Irene.Celino@cefriel.it – web: http://swa.cefriel.it
slides at: http://www.slideshare.net/iricelino
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