- We are organizing a Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science colocated with ACM MobiSys'12. Please consider attending it!

- If you work in the area of applications of machine learning to mobile and interactive systems, you might be interested in this Summer School on Inference and Dynamics in Interaction that will take place in Glasgow from 11th to 15th June 2012.

- I will give a keynote talk at the 3rd IEEE International NESEA Conference (NESEA 2012).

- I am also currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events. Please consider submitting your work to and attending these conferences and workshops:

- 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012) [PC Member]
- 4th International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2012) at Pervasive 2012 [PC Member]
- 1st International Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing at Pervasive 2012 [PC Member]
- 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing [PC Member]
- 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2012) [PC Member]
- 1st When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop (WCMCW 2012) at ICWSM 2012 [PC Member]
- 3rd IEEE Workshop on User-Centric Networking (U-NET 2012) at IEEE ICC 2012 [PC Member]
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) [PC Member]
- 26th British Computer Society HCI Conference (HCI 2012) [Panel co-Chair]
- 21th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Networks (ICCCN 2012) [PC Member]
- 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2012) [PC Member]
- 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2012) - Social Network Track [PC Member]

[Past events]


Research Interests

The scope of my research interests is fairly broad and rather interdisciplinary. In particular, I am currently working in the following areas:

- Social and ubiquitous computing
- Large-scale data mining, with a focus on social and technological networks
- Network science
- Complex systems

[More on Research Interests, My Research Group, Funding and Projects]


Research Opportunities

Undergraduate and Master Students at Birmingham If you are a first or second year Undergraduate student at the University of Birmingham and if you are interested in working in my group during the summer (also in order to explore the possibility of doing a PhD after your degree) please do not hesitate to contact me: various vacation bursaries are available - see for example here. I am also offering Final Year and Master projects with topics related to our current research work.

Ph.D. Students I am looking for excellent Ph.D. students interested in working in my group. If you are interested please contact me by email (m.musolesi [@] cs.bham.ac.uk). Please include a brief description of your qualifications and a concise research proposal in your message.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows I am going to advertise a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Network Science in Summer/Autumn 2012. Please contact me if you are interested in the meanwhile. There are potentially several other funding opportunities, including independent fellowships such as those supported by the Marie Curie Actions.

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


Recent Papers


Community Detection in Social and Biological Networks using Differential Evolution
Guanbo Jia, Zixing Cai, Mirco Musolesi, Yong Wang, Dan Tennant, Ralf Weber, John Heath and Shan He.
Proceedings of the 6th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 6). Paris, France. Springer. January 2012.
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SociableSense: Exploring the Trade-offs of Adaptive Sampling and Computation Offloading for Social Sensing
Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, and Peter J. Rentfrow
In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'11), Las Vegas, USA. September 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems
Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'11). San Francisco, California, USA. June 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Exploiting Temporal Complex Network Metrics in Mobile Malware Containment
John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM'11). Lucca, Italy. June 2011.
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Track Globally, Deliver Locally: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Jon Crowcroft.
In Proceedings of the 20th World Wide Web Conference  (WWW'11). Hyderabad, India. March 2011.
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EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth and Andrius Aucinas
In Proceedings of 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[Complete list of my publications]

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 travelling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

Italo Calvino, from Leggerezza - Lightness in Lezioni Americane - 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).