Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
About Me
I am currently research analyst contractor at the Wikimedia Foundation.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Informatics from Università della Svizzera Italiana (also known as University of Lugano) in December 2011. My research was supervised jointly by Luca Maria Gambardella (IDSIA), Alberto Vancheri (co-advisor, SUPSI) and Paolo Giordano (co-advisor, Uni Wien).
Here is a link to my curriculum vitae and to my software developer portfolio.
My research is about user participation to peer-production systems (such as Wikipedia). In general, I am interested in social informatics, social information processing, and the nowadays ubiquitous social media.
I work a lot with agent-based modeling, a simulation paradigm that is well-known in the complex systems community and that is increasingly common in the social sciences too. Not so long ago, I used to work on models of urban growth too.
Contact Information
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Bertastraße 36,
CH-8003 Zürich,
Switzerland - ✆
+41 43 817 20 75 - @
ciampagg (AT) usi.ch (remove the caps)
News
12 Apr. 2012: Last December I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. The revised version is now online on this page. See below for the full reference information. UPDATE (24/04): The thesis is now available on RÉRO Doc.
10 Oct. 2011: Notabilia has been included for exposition at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. You can find it here. The exhibit curator is Thomas Goetz, Wired.
01 Jul. 2011: I will spend two months at the Community department of the Wikimedia Foundation, doing research on the Wikipedia community.
10 Jan. 2011: Notabilia, a visualization of the longest AfD discussions on the English Wikipedia, is now public. Notabilia is a joint project with Moritz Stefaner (design and visualization) and Dario Taraborelli (data analysis and research). Notabilia has been featured on the Dutch magazine Bright Magazine, German magazine Page, on visualization blogs Infosthetics and Flowing data, and on technology blogs such as Boing boing and many more. Go have a look at it and… after that don't forget to wish Wikipedia happy birthday, because it's turning 10 soon!
04 Jan. 2010: I will be visiting Dirk Helbing's group at ETH Zurich for the next three months!
08-12 Jun. 2009: Attended the International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems (website), and presented my work on opinion dynamics and wikis. Slides are here in PDF format. A video of the talks is also available on videolectures.
01 Jul. 2008: Attended the Complex Systems Summer School 2008 at the Santa Fe Institute! Pictures are on Picasa.
Peer-reviewed Publications *
- G. L. Ciampaglia. A Bounded Confidence Approach to Understanding User Participation in Peer Production Systems. LNCS, 2011, Vol. 6984, pp. 269-282, Springer. [Paper: doi, preprint, Slides: pdf, (2.0 MB)]
- D. Taraborelli and G. L. Ciampaglia. Beyond notability. Collective deliberation on content inclusion in Wikipedia. In Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW 2010), Budapest, September 27-October 1 2010. [doi]
- G. L. Ciampaglia, A. Vancheri. Empirical Analysis of User Participation in Online Communities: the Case of Wikipedia. In Proc. of 4th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010) May 23-26, 2010, George Washington University, Washington, DC [pdf]
- G. L. Ciampaglia, B. Tirozzi. Go East: A residential land use model for the periphery of Rome. Proceedings of iEMSs 2008: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. [Paper: pdf, Slides: pdf (9.1 MB)]
- R. Rebiha, G. L. Ciampaglia. An Ant Colony Verification Algorithm. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications [pdf]
*These digital copies are provided here for archival reasons only. The copyright of the respective publishers is acknowledged.
Theses & working papers
- G. L. Ciampaglia. User Participation and Community Formation in Peer Production Systems. PhD thesis. University of Lugano, 2011. [link]
- A. Millner, G. L. Ciampaglia, N. Aravamudan, J. Foster: The cost of strategic adaptation in a simple conceptual model of climate change. Working Paper for the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 2008 [pdf]
- G. L. Ciampaglia. Modello di Crescita Urbana Mediante Automi Cellulari e Sistemi Multi-Agente. Tesi di Laurea in Informatica, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2006. (In Italian) [pdf]
Teaching
Taught 851-0585-04L — Lecture with Computer Exercises: Modelling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB at ETH Zürich during the fall semester 2010/11
Assisted Luca Maria Gambardella for the course "Information and Knowledge Management I - AI" during the spring semester 07/08. The course's page is here.
Assisted Antonio Carzaniga for the Computer Networking course during the spring semester 06/07.
Links, Friends & Past Affiliations
The Neural networks and asymptotic analysis group, at the Physics Department, University of Rome, where I did my master thesis.