Veracity of Data

Dr. Laure Berti-Equille has been a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, since 2013. Prior to joining QCRI, Laure was a "Directeur de Recherche" at IRD, the French Institute of Research for Development (2011-2013), a tenured Associate Professor at University of Rennes 1 in France (2000-2010), and a visiting researcher at AT&T Labs-Research (NJ, USA) (2007-2009) when she received a Marie Curie fellowship of the European Commission (Grant FP6-MOIF-CT-2006-041000). Her research interests focus on developing novel data management and analytics techniques for truth discovery, anomaly detection, data fusion, and data curation. She has published one monograph, several book chapters, and over 80 research papers in refereed journals and conferences. She has served on the organization and program committees of over 50 international conferences and workshops. She is an associate editor of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ). Dr. Javier Borge-Holthoefer, currently a Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad bin Khalifa University, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) in 2011. Founded on interdisciplinary Physics, his research is focused on complex systems ranging from Cognitive Dynamics to Social Networks. Among other appointments, he taught at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics and at the Department of Psychology (both in URV). Before moving to Qatar in 2014, he was a member of the COSNET Lab and held a position as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), which belongs to the University of Zaragoza (Spain). With more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, his work has been published (among others) in the EPJ Data Science, Physical Review E, PLoS One, Scientific Reports and Europhysics Letters. Dr. Borge-Holthoefer has also contributed three chapters to different books around the problem of disease and information spreading on complex networks.

Introduction to Data Veracity.- Information Extraction.- Truth Discovery Computation.- Trust Computation.- Misinformation Dynamics.- Transdisciplinary Challenges of Truth Discovery.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.