Search Results - "Checco, Alessandro"

AI-assisted peer review by Checco, Alessandro, Bracciale, Lorenzo, Loreti, Pierpaolo, Pinfield, Stephen, Bianchi, Giuseppe

“…Abstract The scientific literature peer review workflow is under strain because of the constant growth of submission volume. One response to this is to make…”
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On the Interactions Between Multiple Overlapping WLANs Using Channel Bonding by Bellalta, Boris, Checco, Alessandro, Zocca, Alessandro, Barcelo, Jaume

“…Next-generation wireless local area networks (WLANs) will support the use of wider channels, which is known as channel bonding, to achieve higher throughput…”
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Integrating Virtual Walkthroughs for Subjective Urban Evaluations: A Case Study of Neighbourhoods in Sheffield, England by Roychowdhury, Sneha, Mazumdar, Suvodeep, Thakker, Dhavalkumar, Checco, Alessandro, Lanfranchi, Vitaveska, Goodchild, Barry

“…This study explores the correlation between residents’ subjective assessments of urban neighbourhoods, obtained through virtual walkthroughs, and objective…”
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Information Security Methodology, Replication Studies and Information Security Education by Wendzel, Steffen, Caviglione, Luca, Checco, Alessandro, Mileva, Aleksandra, Lalande, Jean-Francois, Mazurczyk, Wojciech

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Adversarial Attacks on Crowdsourcing Quality Control by Checco, Alessandro, Bates, Jo, Demartini, Gianluca

“…Crowdsourcing is a popular methodology to collect manual labels at scale. Such labels are often used to train AI models and, thus, quality control is a key…”
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The Impact of Task Abandonment in Crowdsourcing by Han, Lei, Roitero, Kevin, Gadiraju, Ujwal, Sarasua, Cristina, Checco, Alessandro, Maddalena, Eddy, Demartini, Gianluca

“…Crowdsourcing has become a standard methodology to collect manually annotated data such as relevance judgments at scale. On crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon…”
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The Unintended Consequences of Automated Scripts in Crowdwork Platforms: A Simulation Study in MTurk by Xie, Haoyu, Checco, Alessandro, Zamani, Efpraxia D.

“…Crowdworkers on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk face growing competition as a result of the global excess supply of digital labour. As a result, many…”
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The Dark Side of Recruitment in Crowdsourcing: Ethics and Transparency in Micro-Task Marketplaces by Xie, Haoyu, Maddalena, Eddy, Qarout, Rehab, Checco, Alessandro

“…Micro-task crowdsourcing marketplaces like Figure Eight (F8) connect a large pool of workers to employers through a single online platform, by aggregating…”
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Addressing labour exploitation in the data science pipeline: views of precarious US-based crowdworkers on adversarial and co-operative interventions by Bates, Jo, Gerakopoulou, Elli, Checco, Alessandro

“…Purpose Underlying much recent development in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) is a dependence on the labour of precarious crowdworkers via…”
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Fast, Responsive Decentralized Graph Coloring by Checco, Alessandro, Leith, Doug J.

“…Graph coloring problem arises in numerous networking applications. We solve it in a fully decentralized way (ı.e., with no message passing). We propose a novel…”
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Learning-Based Constraint Satisfaction With Sensing Restrictions by Checco, Alessandro, Leith, Douglas J.

“…In this paper we consider graph-coloring problems, an important subset of general constraint satisfaction problems that arise in wireless resource allocation…”
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Network Connectivity and Sensor Response of an OpenThread WSN Platform for Crop Monitoring by Checco, Alessandro, Fabiani, Vasco, Palmisano, Maurizio, Polese, Davide

“…Wireless sensor networks can be a low-cost and efficient solution for monitoring environmental parameters in agriculture. In this work, we analyze the…”
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The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits by Sarasua, Cristina, Checco, Alessandro, Demartini, Gianluca, Difallah, Djellel, Feldman, Michael, Pintscher, Lydia

“…Knowledge bases are becoming a key asset leveraged for various types of applications on the Web, from search engines presenting ‘entity cards’ as the result of…”
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Criteria of quality in fiction-based research to promote debate about the use of AI and robots in Higher Education by Cox, Andrew, Cameron, David, Checco, Alessandro, Herrick, Tim, Mawson, Maria, Steadman-Jones, Richard

“…AI and robots have the potential to transform Higher Education (HE) but pose many ethical and implementation challenges. To ensure the widest debate about our…”
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Fair Virtualization of 802.11 Networks by Checco, Alessandro, Leith, Douglas J.

“…We consider virtualization of network capacity in 802.11 WLANs and mesh networks. We show that allocating total airtime slices to ISPs is analogous to…”
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OpenNym: Privacy preserving recommending via pseudonymous group authentication by Checco, Alessandro, Bracciale, Lorenzo, Leith, Douglas J., Bianchi, Giuseppe

“…A user accessing an online recommender system typically has two choices: either agree to be uniquely identified and in return receive a personalized and rich…”
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Recommending access points to individual mobile users via automatic group learning by Partov, Bahar, Leith, Douglas J., Checco, Alessandro

“…We consider user to cell association in a heterogeneous network with a mix of LTE/3G and WiFi cells. Individual user preferences are often neglected when a…”
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A OpenThread WSN Prototype for the Monitoring of Crops by Fabiani, Vasco, Palmisano, Maurizio, Checco, Alessandro, Polese, Davide

“…Wireless sensor networks can be an low-cost and efficient solution for monitoring environmental parameters in agriculture. In this work, we analyze the…”
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Pairwise, Magnitude, or Stars: What's the Best Way for Crowds to Rate? by Checco, Alessandro, Demartini, Gianluca

“…We compare three popular techniques of rating content: the ubiquitous five star rating, the less used pairwise comparison, and the recently introduced (in…”
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Updating Neighbour Cell List via Crowdsourced User Reports: a Framework for Measuring Time Performance by Checco, Alessandro, Lancia, Carlo, Leith, Douglas J

“…In this paper we introduce the idea of estimating local topology in wireless networks by means of crowdsourced user reports. In this approach each user…”
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