Balietti, Stefano

Short CV

PhD student at the Chair of Sociology, in particular Modeling and Simulation since Nov 2011.

Stefano Balietti is co-author of the series of VISIONEER white papers (http://www.visioneer.ethz.ch). Among them, "How to Build an Innovation Accelerator" (Helbing and Balietti, 2011).

He is the creator of a javascript platform for conducting on line social experiments called nodeGame (http://www.nodegame.org).

Stefano Balietti was also project leader of the QScience platform for the QLectives project (http://www.qlectives.eu).

His main research interests are new incentives schemes for peer review systems, consensus formation and social influence in scientific communities. He has a passionate interest for the philosophy of science.

His methodology of investigation aims at bringing together computer simulations and experimental methods.

Publications List

2012

• Agent-Based Modeling
  D. Helbing, S. Balietti
  _{book chapter in 'Social Self-Organization'. Series: Understanding Complex Systems. Helbing, Dirk (Ed.) Springer, (2012) 25-70}

2011

• Understanding, creating, and managing complex techno-socio-economic systems: Challenges and perspectives
  D. Helbing, S. Balietti, S. Bishop and P. Lukowicz
  _{The European Physical Journal - Special Topics. Volume 195, Number 1 (2011), 165-186}
• From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises
  D. Helbing and S. Balietti
  _{The European Physical Journal - Special Topics. Volume 195, Number 1 (2011), 3-68}
• From social simulation to integrative system design
  D. Helbing and S. Balietti
  _{The European Physical Journal - Special Topics. Volume 195, Number 1 (2011), 69-100}
• How to create an innovation accelerator
  D. Helbing and S. Balietti
  _{The European Physical Journal - Special Topics. Volume 195, Number 1 (2011), 101-136}

2010

• Fundamental and real-world challenges in economics.
  D. Helbing and S. Balietti
  _{Science and Culture 76(9-10), 399-417}

Book Reviews

• Models of Science Dynamics: Encounters Between Complexity Theory and Information Sciences (Understanding Complex Systems)
  Scharnhorst, Andrea, Börner, Katy and Besselaar, Peter van den (eds.)
  Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 2012 [LINK]

Conferences

• "Online social experiments with nodeGame" (tutorial presentation)
  SocInfo 2012, Dec 05th - 07th, 2012
• "nodeGame: Social experiments in the browser" (poster)
  New Developments in Signaling and Game Theory, Oct 14th - 19th, 2012
• "A model of adaptive convergence in science"
  DPG-2013 Regensburg, Mar 11th - 15th, 2013
• "On Fragmentation and Scientific Progress"
  Social Simulation Conference SSC-2014 Barcelona, Sep 1st - 5th, 2014
• "On Fragmentation and Scientific Progress"
  European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS-2014 Lucca, Sep 22st - 26th, 2014

Workshops

• Lorentz workshop "Simulating the Social Processes of Science"
  Leiden (NL), 7-11 Apr 2014

Reviewer for

• Journals:
• PLoS ONE
• JASSS
• Frontiers in Psychology, section Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
• EPJ Data Science
• Conferences:
• Social Simulation 2014
• World Congress Social Simulation 2014
• ESSA 2013
• ICACI 2012

Invited Presentations

• "HTML5 nice to meet you"
  QLectives winter workshop on web technologies, Fribourg 2010-10-19
• "Scholarly peer-review process (pros and cons) and possible alternatives for the selection of quality in Science"
  International MSc and PhD Programs in Complexity Sciences ISCTE Seminar, Lisbon 2010-10-30
• "Imitation and innovation in networked groups, and a new experimental framework for collective behavior experiments"
  Percepts and Concepts Laboratory Colloquium (IU), Bloomington (IN) 2012-10-05

Teaching

• Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  _{2010 Fall Semester}
• Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  _{2011 Spring Semester}
• Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  _{2011 Fall Semester}
• Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  _{2012 Spring Semester}
• Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  _{2012 Fall Semester}

Software Development

• QScience
  http://www.github.com/QScience
• Patterns
  http://drupal.org/project/patterns
• nodeGame
  http://www.nodegame.org
• NDDB.JS - Javascript N-Dimensional Database
  http://www.nddbjs.org
• JSUS - Javascript Utils (JSUS Helps!)
  http://www.jsus.org
• msssm - Modeling and Simulating Social Systems with MATLAB
  http://www.github.com/msssm

EU Projects

• VISIONEER: Envisioning a socio-economic knowledge collider
  http://www.visioneer.ethz.ch
• QLectives: Quality Colletives
  http://www.qlectives.eu
• FuturICT: Participatory Computing for Our Complex World
  http://www.futurict.eu
• COST Action PEERE: New Frontieers of Peer Review
  http://www.peere.org

Art Projects

• Faces of change. Ten Percent White, Warsaw Center for Contemporary Art
  _{December 18, 2012 – February 10, 2013}

Media Coverage

• Wikileaks wirft ethische Grundfragen auf, William-tell.com. (May 15, 2011)
• Quando l'economia incontra la fisica, Il Blog di Caccia al Fotone. (Jan 7, 2011)
• Geheimhaltung ist für das Wohl einer Gesellschaft entscheidend, Tages Anzeiger. (Dec 12, 2010)
• The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet, MIT Technology Review. (Dec 3, 2010)