CITREC

This manifesto summarises the outcomes of the 1st Workshop on Recommender Systems for Citizens (CitRec'17), held at the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, in August 2017 in Como, Italy. We discuss challenges and opportunities for the ...

Trajectory recommendation is the problem of recommending a sequence of places in a city for a tourist to visit. It is strongly desirable for the recommended sequence to avoid loops, as tourists typically would not wish to revisit the same location. ...

Leisure activities are essential in the individual's pursuit of well-being and higher satisfaction with life. In the last few years, the event-based social networks and event-promoting services on Face-book, Couchsurfing etc., have seen a boosting use. ...

Several citizen science projects engage with the public around pollinator species, typically requesting data (e.g. in the form of photo-records of different species tagged by place and date). While such projects help scientists collect data, these data ...

In e-participation platforms, citizens suggest, discuss and vote online for initiatives aimed to address a wide range of issues and problems in a city, such as economic development, public safety, budges, infrastructure, housing, environment, social ...

In this paper, we outline the vision of chatbots that facilitate the interaction between citizens and policy-makers at the city scale. We report the results of a co-design session attended by more than 60 participants. We give an outlook of how some ...

E-governance can be considered as the core and most important challenge of smart cities initiatives. It refers to the use of information and communication technologies in the public sector with the aim of improving information and service delivery, ...