News
Latest updates from our project:
13/02/2026 - Final CODE workshop @ CREF
The final workshop of the CODE project will be held at CREF. Invited speakers include Giulia Andrighetto (CNR-ISTC), Claudio Castellano (CNR-ISC), Elisabetta Colosi (Bocconi), Mattia Mazzoli (ISI), Michele Tizzani (DTU), Lorenzo Lucchini (Bocconi, FBK) and Lorenzo Dall'Amico (ISI). Project members will present the main activities and results.
12/11/2025 - Paper published on PRE
The paper “Random hyperbolic graphs with arbitrary mesoscale structures” has been published on Physical Review E, introducing the random hyperbolic block model within a maximum-entropy framework.
15/10/2025 - Paper published on Proc. A.
We published “A data-driven analysis of the impact of non-compliant individuals on epidemic diffusion in urban setting”, showing how even small fractions of non-compliance can strongly affect epidemic dynamics.
01–05/09/2025 - Participation @ CCS 2025
CODE members presented three contributions at CCS 2025 and organized the BeSAFE satellite workshop on Behavioral and Social Aspects in Fighting Epidemics.
06/08/2025 - Paper published on PRR
The paper “When to boost: How dose timing determines the epidemic threshold” has been published on Physical Review Research, identifying optimal vaccination strategies across regimes.
02–06/06/2025 - Participation @ NetSci 2025
Project members participated in NetSci 2025, with presentations by Fabio Mazza and Stefano Guarino on epidemic dynamics and random hyperbolic graphs.
11/12/2024 - Presentation @ Complex Networks 2024
Today Fabio Mazza will present our paper at Complex Networks 2024. In the paper, we show that the presence of a group of misbehaving individuals gi...
30/11/2024 - First data release
The first set of data collected and used in the CODE project to simulate epidemic dynamics with heterogeneous user behavior at the urban scale has ...
12/11/2024 - Presentation @ CS2Italy
Sandro Meloni will present our dynamic heterogeneous SIR model at CS2Italy, the 1st Italian Conference On Computational Social Science!
04/10/2024 - Submission to Complex Networks 2024
We received the news today that the paper we presented to Complex Networks 2024 has been accepted! In this latest work, we present a modified SIR m...
01/06/2024 - New CODE project member
After his last experience at IFISC, Dr. Sandro Meloni just joined the CODE team!
15/05/2024 - New article submission
We submitted a paper to EPJ Data Science, introducing a framework for detecting ideological/political communities in online social debates.
01/03/2024 - The CODE team grows!
Dr. Fabio Mazza just joined the project after completing his PhD at PoliTo!