Mirco Musolesi




E-mail: mirco [AT] cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Postal mail address:
School of Computer Science
University of St. Andrews
North Haugh St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SX United Kingdom

Office: Jack Cole Building - Room 1.24

Office phone number: +44 (0) 1334 463335


Office hours

I have an open-door policy. If I am in the office and my door is open, please feel free to drop by. However, I suggest to try to arrange a meeting in advance by email (mirco [AT] cs.st-andrews.ac.uk) in order to maximise the likelihood of finding me available.


What's new

5 July 2010
Our paper on the analysis of the energy-accuracy tradeoffs in querying sensor data for mobile sensing systems has been accepted at the Workshop on Mobile Context Awareness colocated with UbiComp'10. You can download the submitted version of the paper here.

26 May 2010
Our paper on EmotionSense has been accepted at UbiComp'10. The paper is available here.

22 May 2010
Our work on the definition of geo-social metrics for social network analysis will be presented at the 3rd Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'10) colocated with USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2010. You can download the paper here.

20 May 2010
The slides of my talk at Pervasive'10 are available here. The dataset used in this paper will be soon available in the CRAWDAD archive.

2 May 2010
Our work on the analysis of small-world effects in temporal graphs has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E as a Rapid Communication article. The final version of the manuscript is also available on ArXiv.

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Profile

Since November 2009, I have been a Lecturer (the British equivalent of an Assistant Professor in the North-American academic system) at the School of Computer Science at the University of St. Andrews.

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Research Interests

The aim of my research work is to explore the design of efficient and intelligent networked systems that rely on novel theoretical models and algorithms, working at the interface of different areas - including computer networking, mobile systems, social computing, distributed systems, network science, machine learning, data mining and social sciences.

More specifically, one of the main goals of my research work is to devise models as basis for the practical design and implementation of systems (in particular, mobile and social computing systems) that 1) are able to exploit the availability of the exponentially increasing amount of multi-dimensional information about users and their environment (such as location, personal profiles, social network data and so on) and 2) are based on the analysis and characterisation of the structure of the underlying networks (social, technological, etc.) and the dynamics of the processes happening over them, such as data and information exchange.

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Research Opportunities

Ph.D. Students I am looking for excellent Ph.D. students that would like to work under my supervision. I am particularly interested in supervising students willing to work in the areas of 1) network science (in particular, network models, large network data mining and applications of complex network theory to social networks and technological networks) and 2) "intelligent" mobile systems (in particular, applications of machine learning to the design of mobile systems). Please contact me well in advance in order to identify potential ways of funding your studies. More information about the Ph.D. program of our School can be found here. More details about my research interests can be found here.

Visiting Students, Researchers and Industrial Collaborations Other opportunities include visiting research periods for postgraduate students, researchers and academics. I am also happy to discuss potential collaborations with companies and other organisations interested in our research work.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please do not hesitate to drop me an email (mirco [AT] cs.st-andrews.ac.uk).


Recent Papers

EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Jason Rentfrow, Chris Longworth and Andrius Aucinas
In Proceedings of 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Energy Accuracy Trade-offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo
In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Mobile Context Awareness: Capabilities, Challenges and Applications. Colocated with ACM UbiComp'10. Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Distance Matters: Geo-social Metrics for Online Social Networks
Salvatore Scellato,  Cecilia Mascolo , Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'10). Colocated with USENIX'10. Boston, MA, USA. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

On Nonstationarity of Human Contact Networks
Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX'10). Colocated with IEEE ICDCS'10. Genova, Italy. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

MetroTrack: Predictive Tracking of Mobile Events using Mobile Phones
Gahng-Seop Ahn, Mirco Musolesi, Hong Lu, Reza Olfati-Saber and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'10). Santa Barbara, California, USA. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Small-world Behavior in Time-varying Graphs
John Tang, Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
Physical Review E. Volume 81, Number 5.  055101(R). May 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
Mirco Musolesi, Mattia Piraccini, Kristof Fodor, Antonio Corradi and Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'10). Helsinki, Finland. May 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Analysing Information Flows and Key Mediators through Temporal Centrality Metrics
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora and Vincenzo Nicosia.
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS'10). Colocated with ACM SIGOPS EuroSys'10. Paris, France. April 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Characterising Temporal Distance and Reachability in Mobile and Online Social Networks
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora.
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Volume 40. Number 1. January 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions
Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi, Massimiliano Pontil and Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs. Colocated with NIPS'09. Whistler, Canada. December 2009.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Temporal Distance Metrics for Social Network Analysis
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora.
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'09). Colocated with ACM SIGCOMM'09. Barcelona, Spain. August 2009. Selected as best paper for publication in ACM Computer Communication Review. The extended versiono of the workshop paper can be found here.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

CAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo.
In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 8 No. 2. February 2009.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Mobility Models for Systems Evaluation. A Survey
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo.
Book Chapter in Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Benoît Garbinato, Hugo Miranda and Luís Rodrigues Editors. Springer. February 2009.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application
Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristof Fodor, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi, Shane B. Eisenman, Xiao Zheng, Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08). Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. November 2008. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

A Framework for Multi-region Delay Tolerant Networking 
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS-DR'08). Colocated with ACM MobiCom'08. San Francisco, California, USA. September 2008. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

The Rise of People-Centric Sensing
Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Xiao Zheng, Mirco Musolesi, Kristof Fodor and Gahng-Seop Ahn.
In IEEE Internet Computing. Special Issue on Mesh Networks. July/August 2008.  
[PDF]  [BibTex]

The Second Life of a Sensor: Integrating Real-world Experience in Virtual Worlds using Mobile Phones
Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane,  Shane B. Eisenman, and Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008). Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. June 2008. 
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Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Gian Pietro Picco.
In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Volume 26, Number 5. June 2008.
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Writing on the Clean Slate: Implementing a Socially-Aware Protocol in Haggle
Mirco Musolesi, Pan Hui, Cecilia Mascolo and Jon Crowcroft.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2008). Newport Beach, CA. June 2008. IEEE Press. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Urban Sensing Systems: Opportunistic or Participatory?
Nicholas T. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo and Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOBILE HotMobile'08. Napa Valley, CA, USA. February 2008. ACM Press. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

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Some Ads

I am workshop co-chair of Pervasive'11. The Call for Workshop Proposals will be published soon. In the meanwhile, if you have any questions about the organisation of workshops at Pervasive'11 please drop me an email.

I am currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events as Program Committee Member. Please consider submitting your work to these conferences and workshops:

- 5th ACM International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'10) at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware'10
- 9th ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM'10)
- 5th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'10) at ACM MobiCom'10
- 1st IEEE BioSense 2010: Networking and Environmental Sensing Meet Epidemiology and Biology at IEEE MASS'10
- 2nd IEEE Workshop on SCEnarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES'10) at IEEE MASS'10
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2010)
- 2nd Internationa Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-Cube 2010)
- 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010)
- 21th International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010)

[Past ads]

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Then we have computer science. It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with "bits" in a flow of information traveling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

Italo Calvino, from Lightness in Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988).


Ideas as made up of several simple ones put together I call Complex; such as are Beauty, Gratitude, a Man, an Army, the Universe.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).

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