Andrea Ballatore

PhD student, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Human-Computer Interaction
Location-Based Services, Human-Computer Interaction, Geographic Information Systems and Implicit Feedback Analysis

Publications

Journal Article (1)
- Andrea Ballatore, Ali Tahir, Gavin Mcardle et al. (2011) A comparison of open source geospatial technologies for web mapping, 354-374. In Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology 6 (4).
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Conference Proceedings (4)
- Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto (2011) Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis, 78-93. In Proceedings of the Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems International Symposium (W2GIS 2011).
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- Gavin McArdle, Andrea Ballatore, Ali Tahir et al. (2010) An open-source web architecture for adaptive location-based services. In 14th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH).
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- Ali Tahir, Gavin McArdle, Andrea Ballatore et al. (2010) Collaborative Filtering - A Group Profiling Algorithm for Personalisation in a Spatial Recommender System, 44-50. In Proceedings of Geoinformatik 2010.
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- Andrea Ballatore, Gavin McArdle, Caitriona Kelly et al. (2010) RecoMap: An Interactive and Adaptive Map-Based Recommender. In 25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC).
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Biographical Information

Andrea Ballatore is a PhD student 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".