People

Ciro Cattuto

Scientific Director

ISI Foundation

Fields of study:
Measure and modeling of complex phenomena in technological and social systems

Association of close-range contact patterns with SARS-CoV-2: a household transmission study

J. Kleynhans, L. Dall'Amico, L. E. Gauvin, M. Tizzoni, L. Maloma, S. Walaza, N. A. Martinson, A. Von Gottberg, N. Wolter, M. Makhasi, C. Cohen, C. Cattuto, S. Tempia

eLife 12:e84753 (2023)

Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia

D. Sartirano, K. Kalimeri, C. Cattuto, E. Delamónica, M. Garcia-Herranz, A. Mockler, D. Paolotti, R. Schifanella

Frontiers in Big Data 6 (2023)

Potential role of biologgers to automate detection of lame ewes and lambs

K. E. Lewis, E. Price, D. P. Croft, L. E. Green, L. Ozella, C. Cattuto, J. Langford

Applied Animal Behaviour Science 259 (2023)

Social behaviour and transmission of lameness in a flock of ewes and lambs

K. E. Lewis, E. Price, D. P. Croft, J. Langford, L. Ozella, C. Cattuto, L. E. Green

Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9:1027020 (2022)

Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID‑19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions

F. Marazzi, A. Piano Mortari, F. Belotti, G. Carrà, C. Cattuto, J. Kopinska, D. Paolotti, V. Atella

Scientific Reports 12, 19336 (2022)

Association networks and social temporal dynamics in ewes and lambs

L. Ozella, E. Price, J. Langford, K. E. Lewis, C. Cattuto, D. P. Croft

Applied Animal Behaviour Science 246 / 105515 (2022)

Interplay between mobility, multi-seeding and lockdowns shapes COVID-19 local impact

M. Mazzoli, E. Pepe, D. Mateo, C. Cattuto, L. E. Gauvin, P. Bajardi, M. Tizzoni, A. Hernando, S. Meloni, J. J. Ramasco

PLoS Computational Biology 17(10): e1009326 (2021)

Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi

L. Ozella, D. Paolotti, G. Lichand, J. P. Rodríguez, S. Haenni, J. Phuka, O. L. Neto, C. Cattuto

EPJ Data Science 10:46 (2021)

Spatial and temporal variation in proximity networks of commercial dairy cattle in Great Britain

H. R. Fielding, M. J. Silk, T. J. McKinley, R. J. Delahay, J. K. Wilson-Aggarwal, L. E. Gauvin, L. Ozella, C. Cattuto, R. A. McDonald

Book: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 194/105443 (2021)

Early social distancing policies in Europe, changes in mobility & COVID-19 case trajectories: Insights from Spring 2020

L. R. Woskie, J. Hennessy, V. Espinosa, T. C. Tsai, S. Vispute, B. H. Jacobson, C. Cattuto, L. E. Gauvin, M. Tizzoni, A. Fabrikant, A. Boulanger, A. Pearce, C. Kamath, A. Schlosberg, C. Stanton, S. Bavadekar, M. Abueg, M. Hogue, A. Oplinger, K. Chou, G. Corrado, T. Shekel, A. K. Jha, G. A. Wellenius, E. Gabrilovich

Plos One 16(6):e0253071 (2021)

Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth

L. Pappalardo, L. Ferres, M. Sacasa, C. Cattuto, L. Bravo

EPJ Data Science 10:29 (2021)

Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data

A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, M. Kivela, S. Lehmann, J. Saramäki

Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18: 20201000 (2021)

Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control

G. Cencetti, G. Santin, A. Longa, E. Pigani, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, S. Lehmann, M. Salathé, B. Lepri

Nature Communications 12, 1655 (2021)

Combining Wearable Devices and Mobile Surveys to Study Child and Youth Development in Malawi: Implementation Study of a Multimodal Approach

O. L. Neto, S. Haenni, J. Phuka, L. Ozella, D. Paolotti, C. Cattuto, D. Robles, G. Lichand

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 7 (3), e23154 (2021)

Time to evaluate COVID-19 contact-tracing apps

V. Colizza, E. Grill, R. Mikolajczyk, C. Cattuto, A. Kucharski, S. Riley, M. Kendall, K. Lythgoe, D. Bonsall, C. Wymant, L. Abeler-Dörner, L. Ferretti, C. Fraser

Nature Medicine (2021)

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

M. Nanni, G. Andrienko, M. Nanni, A. Barabási, C. Boldrini, F. Bonchi, C. Cattuto, F. Chiaromonte, G. Comandé, M. Conti, M. Coté, V. Dignum, J. Domingo-Ferrer, P. Ferragina, F. Giannotti, R. Guidotti, D. Helbing, K. Kaski, J. Kertesz, S. Lehmann, B. Lepri, P. Lukowicz, S. Matwin, D. MegíasJiménez, A. Monreale, K. Morik, N. Oliver, A. Passarella, A. Passerini, D. Pedreschi, A. Pentland, F. Pianesi, F. Pratesi, S. Rinzivillo, S. Ruggieri, A. Siebes, V. Torra, R. Trasarti, J. van den Hoven, A. Vespignani

Ethics and Information Technology (2021)

Span-core Decomposition for Temporal Networks: Algorithms and Applications

E. Galimberti, M. Ciaperoni, A. Barrat, F. Bonchi, C. Cattuto, F. Gullo

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 15 (1) (2020)

Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study

A. Urbinati, K. Kalimeri, A. Bonanomi, A. Rosina, C. Cattuto, D. Paolotti

Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series LNCS, Vol. 12467 (2020)

Relevance of temporal cores for epidemic spread in temporal networks

M. Ciaperoni, E. Galimberti, F. Bonchi, C. Cattuto, F. Gullo, A. Barrat

Scientific Reports 10:12529 (2020)

COVID-19 outbreak response, a dataset to assess mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown

E. Pepe, P. Bajardi, L. E. Gauvin, F. Privitera, B. Lake, C. Cattuto, M. Tizzoni

Scientific Data 7, 230 (2020)

Gender gaps in urban mobility

L. E. Gauvin, M. Tizzoni, S. Piaggesi, A. Young, N. Adler, S. G. Verhulst, L. Ferres, C. Cattuto

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7/11 (2020)

Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle

N. Oliver, B. Lepri, H. Sterly, R. Lambiotte, S. Delataille, M. De Nadai, E. Letouzé, A. Ali Salah, R. Benjamins, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, N. De Cordes, S. P. Fraiberger, T. Koebe, S. Lehmann, J. Murillo, A. Pentland, P. N. Pham, F. Pivetta, J. Saramäki, S. Scarpino, M. Tizzoni, S. Verhulst, P. Vinck

Science Advances 6, 23 (2020)

The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic

M. Tizzoni, A. Panisson, D. Paolotti, C. Cattuto

PloS Computational Biology 16(3): e1007633 (2020)

The effect of age, environment and management on social contact patterns in sheep

L. Ozella, J. Langford, L. E. Gauvin, E. Price, C. Cattuto, D. P. Croft

Applied Animal Behaviour Science 225, 104964 (2020)

Predicting City Poverty Using Satellite Imagery

S. Piaggesi, L. E. Gauvin, M. Tizzoni, C. Cattuto, N. Adler, S. Verhulst, A. Young, R. Price, L. Ferres, A. Panisson

In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (2019)

High-resolution contact networks of free-ranging domestic dogs Canis familiaris and implications for transmission of infection

J. K. Wilson-Aggarwal, L. Ozella, M. Tizzoni, C. Cattuto, G. J.F. Swan, T. Moundai, M. J. Silk, J. A. Zingeser, R. A. McDonald

Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(7): e0007565 (2019)

Human Values and Attitudes towards Vaccination in Social Media

K. Kalimeri, M. Beiró, A. Urbinati, A. Bonanomi, A. Rosina, C. Cattuto

Proceeding WWW '19 Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference (2019)

Wearable Proximity Sensors for Monitoring a Mass Casualty Incident Exercise: Feasibility Study

L. Ozella, L. E. Gauvin, L. Carenzo, M. Quaggiotto, P. L. Ingrassia, M. Tizzoni, A. Panisson, D. Colombo, A. Sapienza, K. Kalimeri, F. Della Corte, C. Cattuto

Journal of Medical Internet Research 21, 4 e12251 (2019)

Unsupervised extraction of epidemic syndromes from participatory influenza surveillance self-reported symptoms

K. Kalimeri, M. Delfino, C. Cattuto, D. Perrotta, V. Colizza, C. Guerrisi, C. Turbelin, J. Duggan, J. Edmunds, C. Obi, R. Peabody, A. Franco, Y. Moreno, S. Meloni, C. Koppeschaar, C. Kjelsø, R. Mexia, D. Paolotti

PLOS Computational Biology 15(4): e1006173 (2019)

How Search Engine Data Enhance the Understanding of Determinants of Suicide in India and Inform Prevention: Observational Study

N. Adler, C. Cattuto, K. Kalimeri, D. Paolotti, M. Tizzoni, S. Verhulst, E. Yom-Tov, A. Young

Journal of Medical Internet Research 21(1): e10179 (2019)

Mining (maximal) span-cores from temporal networks

E. Galimberti, C. Cattuto, A. Barrat, F. Gullo, F. Bonchi

CIKM2018 (2018)

Shopping mall attraction and social mixing at a city scale

M. Beiró, L. Bravo, D. Caro, C. Cattuto, L. Ferres, E. Graells-Garrido

EPJ Data Science 7:28 (2018)

Close encounters between infants and household members measured through wearable proximity sensors

L. Ozella, F. Gesualdo, M. Tizzoni, C. Rizzo, E. Pandolfi, I. Campagna, A. E. Tozzi, C. Cattuto

Plos One 13(6):e0198733 (2018)

Robust Modeling of Human Contact Networks Across Different Scales and Proximity-Sensing Techniques

M. Starnini, B. Lepri, A. Baronchelli, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, R. Pastor-Satorras

International Conference on Social Informatics SocInfo 2017: Social Informatics (2017)

Understanding Youth Unemployment in Italy via Social Media Data

A. Bonanomi, A. Rosina, C. Cattuto, K. Kalimeri

International Population Conference (2017)

Predicting human mobility through the assimilation of social media traces into mobility models

M. Beiró, A. Panisson, M. Tizzoni, C. Cattuto

EPJ Data Science — doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0092-2 (2016)

School closure policies at municipality level for mitigating influenza spread: a model-based evaluation

C. Ciavarella, L. Fumanelli, S. Merler, C. Cattuto, M. Ajelli

BMC Infectious Diseases — doi:10.1186/s12879-016-1918-z (2016)

Contact diaries versus wearable proximity sensors in measuring contact patterns at a conference: method comparison and participants’ attitudes

T. Smieszek, S. Castell, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, P. J. White, G. Krause

BMC Infectious Diseases — doi:10.1186/s12879-016-1676-y (2016)

Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors

M. Kiti, M. Tizzoni, T. M. Kinyanjui, D. C. Koech, P. K. Munywoki, M. Meriac, L. Cappa, A. Panisson, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, J. Nokes

EPJ Data Science 20165:21 (2016)

Detecting Anomalies in Time-Varying Networks Using Tensor Decomposition

A. Sapienza, A. Panisson, J. Wu, L. E. Gauvin, C. Cattuto

2015 IEEE International Conf. on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW) (2015)

Compensating for population sampling in simulations of epidemic spread on temporal contact networks

C. Vestergaard, M. Génois, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto

Nature Communications 6 (2015)

Anomaly Detection in Temporal Graph Data: An Iterative Tensor Decomposition and Masking Approach

A. Sapienza, A. Panisson, J. Wu, L. E. Gauvin, C. Cattuto

Proceedings of AALTD 117 (2015)

Combining High-Resolution Contact Data with Virological Data to Investigate Influenza Transmission in a Tertiary Care Hospital

N. Voirin, C. Payet, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, N. Khanafer, C. Régis, B. Kim, B. Comte, J. Casalegno, B. Lina, P. Vanhems

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (2015)

Complex Systems, Infectious diseases, Network Science

Mining Concurrent Topical Activity in Microblog Streams

A. Panisson, L. E. Gauvin, M. Quaggiotto, C. Cattuto

Proceedings of the 4th workshop on \'Making Sense of Microposts\', World Wide Web Conference 2014 (2014)

O023: Combining electronic contacts data and virological data for studying the transmission of infections at hospital

C. Payet, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, C. Régis, N. Khanafer, J. Pinton, B. Kim, B. Comte, B. Lina, P. Vanhems, N. Voirin

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2:O23 (2013)

Time-varying social networks in a graph database: a Neo4j use case

A. Averbuch, C. Cattuto, A. Panisson, M. Quaggiotto

Proceeding GRADES \'13 First International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences and Systems Article No. 11 (2013)

Gender homophily from spatial behavior in a primary school: A sociometric study

J. Stehlé, F. Charbonnier, T. Picard, C. Cattuto, A. Barrat

Social Networks 35,4 (2013)

Complex Systems, Network Science

Immunization strategies for epidemic processes in time-varying contact networks

M. Starnini, T. Picard, A. Machens, C. Cattuto, A. Barrat, R. Pastor-Satorras

Journal of Theoretical Biology 337 (2013)

Contact Networks

Empirical temporal networks of face-to-face human interactions

A. Barrat, M. Nornberg, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, F. Gesualdo, L. Isella, E. Pandolfi, J. Pinton, L. Ravà, C. Rizzo, M. Romano, J. Stehlé, A. E. Tozzi, W. Van den Broeck

EPJ Special Topics 222(6) (2013)

Fingerprinting temporal networks of close-range human proximity

A. Panisson, L. E. Gauvin, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto

Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (San Diego) (2013)

Network Science

An infectious disease model on empirical networks of human contact: bridging the gap between dynamic network data and contact matrices

A. Machens, F. Gesualdo, C. Rizzo, A. E. Tozzi, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto

BMC Infectious Diseases 13:185 (2013)

Estimating potential infection transmission routes in hospital wards using wearable proximity sensors

P. Vanhems, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, J. Pinton, N. Khanafer, C. Régis, B. Kim, B. Comte, N. Voirin

PLoS ONE 8(9) (2013)

Infectious diseases

New Insights and Methods for Predicting Face-to-Face Contacts

C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, G. Stumme, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto

International Conference of Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13) (2013)

Wearable sensor networks for measuring face-to-face contact patterns in healthcare settings

A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, L. Isella, C. Rizzo, A. E. Tozzi, W. Van den Broeck

Proceedings of the eHealth 2010 Conference Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 69 (2012)

Complex Systems

Friendship prediction and homophily in social media

L. M. Aiello, A. Barrat, R. Schifanella, C. Cattuto, B. Markines, F. Menczer

ACM Transactions on the Web volume 6(2), article 9 (2012)

On the dynamics of human proximity for data diffusion in ad-hoc networks

A. Panisson, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, W. Van den Broeck, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella

Ad Hoc Networks 10, 9 (2012)

Digital Epidemiology

M. Salathé, L. Bengtsson, T. J. Bodnar, D. D. Brewer, J. S. Brownstein, C. Buckee, E. Campbell, C. Cattuto, S. Khandelwal, P. Mabry, A. Vespignani

PLoS Computational Biology 8(7) (2012)

Dynamical classes of Collective Attention in Twitter

J. Lehmann.., B. Gonçalves, J. J. Ramasco, C. Cattuto

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web WWW2012 (2012)

Close encounters in a pediatric ward: measuring face-to-face proximity and mixing patterns with wearable radio frequency devices

W. Van den Broeck, V. Colizza, L. Ravà, L. Isella, F. Gesualdo, E. Pandolfi, C. Cattuto, A. E. Tozzi, A. Barrat, M. Romano, C. Rizzo

PLoS ONE 6(2), e17144 (2011)

Infectious diseases, Information Dynamics

What\' s in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

L. Isella, J. Stehlé, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, J. Pinton, W. Van den Broeck

Journal of Theoretical Biology 271 (2011)

Contact Networks, Information Dynamics

High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School

J. Stehlé, N. Voirin, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, L. Isella, J. Pinton, M. Quaggiotto, W. Van den Broeck, C. Régis, B. Lina, P. Vanhems

PLoS ONE 6(8), e23176 (2011)

Infectious diseases

Simulation of an SIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees

J. Stehlé, N. Voirin, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, V. Colizza, L. Isella, C. Régis, J. Pinton, N. Khanafer, W. Van den Broeck, P. Vanhems

BMC Medicine 9 (2011)

Folks in folksonomies: Social link prediction from shared metadata

R. Schifanella, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, B. Markines, F. Menczer

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Search and Web (2010)

Complex Systems

Semantics, Sensors, and the Social Web: The Live Social Semantics experiments

M. Szomszor, C. Cattuto, W. Van den Broeck, A. Barrat, H. Alani

Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC10 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6089 (2010)

Information Networks, Internet Traffic

Link creation and profile alignment in the aNobii social network

L. M. Aiello, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, G. Ruffo, R. Schifanella

Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing SocialCom 2010, Minneapolis, USA, August 20-22, 2010 (2010)

Information Networks, Internet Traffic

The Live Social Semantics application: a platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking

G. Correndo, H. Alani, A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, W. Van den Broeck, M. Szomszor

Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (2010)

Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks

C. Cattuto, W. Van den Broeck, A. Barrat, V. Colizza, J. Pinton, A. Vespignani

PLoS ONE 5(7) (2010)

Social Systems

Social dynamics in conferences: analyses of data from the Live Social Semantics application

A. Barrat, C. Cattuto, M. Szomszor, W. Van den Broeck, H. Alani

The Semantic Web – ISWC 2010 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6497 (2010)

Social Dynamics

Collective dynamics of social annotation

C. Cattuto, A. Barrat, A. Baldassarri, G. Schehr, V. Loreto

PNAS 106 (2009)

Network Science

Complex systems approach to the emergence of language

A. Baronchelli, C. Cattuto, V. Loreto, A. Puglisi

Language, Evolution, and the Brain. Hong Kong : City University of Hong Kong Press. (2009)

Language Dynamics

Social Spam Detection

B. Markines, C. Cattuto, F. Menczer

AIRWeb \'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (2009)

Social Systems

Evaluating Similarity Measures for Emergent Semantics of Social Tagging

B. Markines, C. Cattuto, F. Menczer, D. Benz, A. Hotho, G. Stumme

WWW \'09 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web (2009)

Complex Systems

People

Ciro Cattuto

Scientific Director

ISI Foundation

Publications

Anomaly Detection in Temporal Graph Data: An Iterative Tensor Decomposition and Masking Approach

New Insights and Methods for Predicting Face-to-Face Contacts