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Overview

Salvatore Scellato is affiliated with Google in the United States, actively contributing to research in areas that intersect physics, social sciences, and geographic analysis. Their work predominantly focuses on complex network analysis and human mobility patterns, with a notable emphasis on location-based social networks and online social interactions.

The scientist's research spans several main fields of study including:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of particular interest encompass statistical and nonlinear physics, transportation, computer science applications, computer networks and communications, and geography, planning, and development.

Within these domains, key research topics addressed by Salvatore Scellato include:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Social Media and Politics

Salvatore Scellato has multiple publications featured in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, illustrating consistent involvement with this venue. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "An Empirical Study of Geographic User Activity Patterns in Foursquare," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Socio-Spatial Properties of Online Location-Based Social Networks," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Clustering Geographic Areas and Users in Location-based Social Networks," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "The Length of Bridge Ties: Structural and Geographic Properties of Online Social Interactions," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Where Online Friends Meet: Social Communities in Location-Based Networks," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

The scientist frequently collaborates with several other researchers, with notable co-authors being:

  • Cecilia Mascolo
  • Anastasios Noulas
  • Massimiliano Pontil
  • Renaud Lambiotte
  • Yana Volkovich

Salvatore Scellato's work centers on examining geographic user activity and socio-spatial properties within online networks, often exploring semantic annotations and structural properties related to social ties and communities. This research contributes to understanding spatial and social dynamics in digital environments, combining methods from physics and social sciences with applications to technology and social media platforms.

Best Publications

  • A tale of many cities: universal patterns in human urban mobility.

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Renaud Lambiotte;Massimiliano Pontil

  • An Empirical Study of Geographic User Activity Patterns in Foursquare.

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Cecilia Mascolo;Massimiliano Pontil

  • Exploiting place features in link prediction on location-based social networks

    Salvatore Scellato;Anastasios Noulas;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Socio-Spatial Properties of Online Location-Based Social Networks.

    Salvatore Scellato;Anastasios Noulas;Renaud Lambiotte;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Structural properties of planar graphs of urban street patterns.

    Alessio Cardillo;Salvatore Scellato;Vito Latora;Sergio Porta

  • Mining User Mobility Features for Next Place Prediction in Location-Based Services

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Neal Lathia;Cecilia Mascolo

  • NextPlace: a spatio-temporal prediction framework for pervasive systems

    Salvatore Scellato;Mirco Musolesi;Cecilia Mascolo;Vito Latora

  • Small-world behavior in time-varying graphs.

    J. Tang;S. Scellato;M. Musolesi;C. Mascolo

  • Geo-spotting: mining online location-based services for optimal retail store placement

    Dmytro Karamshuk;Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Vincenzo Nicosia

  • SIFT Features Tracking for Video Stabilization

    S. Battiato;G. Gallo;G. Puglisi;S. Scellato

  • Distance matters: geo-social metrics for online social networks

    Salvatore Scellato;Cecilia Mascolo;Mirco Musolesi;Vito Latora

  • YouTube around the world: geographic popularity of videos

    Anders Brodersen;Salvatore Scellato;Mirjam Wattenhofer

  • Exploiting semantic annotations for clustering geographic areas and users in location-based social networks

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Cecilia Mascolo;Massimiliano Pontil

  • A Random Walk around the City: New Venue Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Neal Lathia;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Evolution and sustainability of a wildlife monitoring sensor network

    Vladimir Dyo;Stephen A. Ellwood;David W. Macdonald;Andrew Markham

  • Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades

    Salvatore Scellato;Cecilia Mascolo;Mirco Musolesi;Jon Crowcroft

  • WILDSENSING: Design and deployment of a sustainable sensor network for wildlife monitoring

    Vladimir Dyo;Stephen A. Ellwood;David W. Macdonald;Andrew Markham

  • Correction: A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility

    Anastasios Noulas;Salvatore Scellato;Renaud Lambiotte;Massimiliano Pontil

  • Evolution of a location-based online social network: analysis and models

    Miltiadis Allamanis;Salvatore Scellato;Cecilia Mascolo

  • Traffic optimization in transport networks based on local routing

    Salvatore Scellato;Luigi Fortuna;Luigi Fortuna;Mattia Frasca;Mattia Frasca;Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes;Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes;Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

  • Evaluating Temporal Robustness of Mobile Networks

    S. Scellato;I. Leontiadis;C. Mascolo;P. Basu

Frequent Co-Authors

Cecilia Mascolo
Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge
Vito Latora
Vito Latora Queen Mary University of London
Mirco Musolesi
Mirco Musolesi University College London
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes University of Zaragoza
Ilias Leontiadis
Ilias Leontiadis Facebook (United States)
Fahui Wang
Fahui Wang Louisiana State University
Massimiliano Pontil
Massimiliano Pontil Italian Institute of Technology
Mattia Frasca
Mattia Frasca University of Catania
Renaud Lambiotte
Renaud Lambiotte University of Oxford
Sebastiano Battiato
Sebastiano Battiato University of Catania

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