I am Research and Teaching staff at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and a member of the Software and Database Systems Laboratory (SoDa.Lab) at the University of the Peloponnese in Greece since August 2008. Since July 2011, I am also, acting as an External evaluator for the FET-Open ICT Research Proposals in FP7 at the European Commission. During the periods October 2007 - December 2007 and March 2008 - July 2008, I joined the Databases and Information Systems Department at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) in Germany as a visiting researcher under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Weikum. My research interests lie in the meeting of distributed systems and (big) data management, with extensions to social networks, data mining, databases, and digital libraries. Lately, I am also working on the application of the above research fields on anonymisation, smart cities, transportations, and smart agriculture domains. Since 2002 I have (co-) authored more than 25 papers in these fields. Most of them can be found here or (uncurated) at Google Scholar. I received my BSc degree in Computer Science from University of Crete in 2000. In 2003 I received a MSc degree in Computer Engineering and in 2009 I received my PhD degree in Information Management, both from Technical University of Crete.
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A Novel AI Framework for PM Pollution Prediction Applied to a Greek Port City. Atmosphere, 14(9), 1413, September 2023. [DOI]
Exploring Instagram and Youtube Data to Extract User Insights: The Greek Paradigm. Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS), p. 90--113, vol. 1860, July 2023, Springer. [DOI]
Editorial for the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Digitizing Cultural Heritage. Applied Sciences, 13(10), 5873, May 2023. [DOI]
Hydria: An Online Data Lake for Multi-Faceted Analytics in the Cultural Heritage Domain. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 4(2), 7, April 2020. [DOI] [bib]
Distributed Large-Scale Information Filtering. LNCS Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems (TLDKS), Springer, 13(91-122), 2014. [pdf] [bib]
Rewiring Strategies for Semantic Overlay Networks. Distributed and Parallel Databases (APD), 26(2-3), 181-205, December 2009. [pdf] [bib]
X-Similarity: Computing Semantic Similarity between Concepts from Different Ontologies. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), December 2006. [pdf] [bib]
Fair Resource Allocation in a Simple Multi-Agent Setting: Search Algorithms and Experimental Evaluation. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), 14(6), December 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Comparison of full-text search performance in relational and non-relational database systems. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Rome, Italy, 13-15 July 2023. (Short paper) [pdf] [bib]
EnQuest: A Cloud Datalake Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Analytics in Maritime and Tourism Domains. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Rome, Italy, 13-15 July 2023. (Demo track) [pdf] [bib]
Towards a General Forecasting Framework for Particulate Matter within Urban Environments. In Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Conference (AGU), Chicago, USA, December 2022. (Poster) [pdf] [bib]
From digital footprints to facts: Mining marketing policies of the Greek community on Instagram and Youtube. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Lisbon, Portugal, 11-13 July 2022. (Short paper) [pdf] [bib]
DaST: An Online Platform for Automated Exercise Generation and Solving in the Data Science Domain. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Computer Science Education Research (CSERC), Larnaca, Cyprus, November 2019. [pdf] [bib]
Towards Content-Based Publish/Subscribe for Distributed Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), Oslo, Norway, 29 June - 3 July 2015. [pdf] [bib]
DS4: Introducing Semantic Friendship in Distributed Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Graz, Austria, September 2013. [pdf] [bib]
DS4: A Distributed Social and Semantic Search System. In Proceedings of the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013. (Demo paper) [pdf] [bib] [web page]
Peer Rewiring in Semantic Overlay Networks. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Crete, Greece, 27-19 October 2010. (Short paper) [pdf] [bib]
Information Retrieval and Filtering over Self-Organising Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Aarhus, Denmark, 14-19 September 2008. [pdf] [bib]
iCluster: a Self-Organizing Overlay Network for P2P Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 30 March - 3 April, Glasgow, Scotland, 2008. [pdf] [bib]
Information Alert in Distributed Digital Libraries: The Models, Languages, and Architecture of DIAS. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), pages 527-542, Rome, Italy, September 2002. [pdf] [bib]
RoG: A Pipeline for Automated Sensitive Data Identification and Anonymisation. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS @ IEEE CSR), Venice, Italy, 31 July - 02 August, 2023. [pdf] [bib]
Employing social network analysis to dark web communities. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS @ IEEE CSR), Virtual Conference, 27-29 July, 2022. [pdf] [bib]
A System for Collecting, Managing, Analyzing and Sharing Diverse, Multi-faceted Cultural Heritage and Tourism Data. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization , 4-5 November, 2021. [pdf] [bib]
Social Media Monitoring for IoT Cyber-Threats. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Science for Cyber Security (DS4CS @ IEEE CSR) , Rhodes, Greece, July 2021. [pdf] [bib]
A Measure for Cluster Cohesion in Semantic Overlay Networks. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR), Napa Valley, California, October 2008. [pdf] [bib]
Design and Evaluation of Semantic Similarity Measures for Concepts Stemming from the Same or Different Ontologies. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Multimedia Semantics (WMS), Chania, Crete, Greece, 19-21 June 2006. [pdf] [bib]
Semantic Similarity Methods in WordNet and their Application to Information Retrieval on the Web. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 5 November, Bremen, Germany, 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Data Models and Languages for Agent-Based Textual Information Dissemination. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA), volume 2446 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 179-193, Madrid, Spain, September 2002. Springer. [pdf] [bib]
Agents in Decentralised Information Ecosystems: The DIET Approach. In Proccedings of the Symposium on Information Agents for E-Commerce, AISB Convention, York, UK, March 2001. [pdf] [bib]
Efficient Agent-Based Dissemination of Textual Information. In Proceedings of the 2nd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN), Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2002. [pdf] [bib]
Rewiring Peer Connections over Semantic Overlay Networks. Ph.D. Thesis at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, December 2009. [pdf] [bib]
Semantic Similarity Measures: A Comparison Study. Technical Univ. of Crete (TUC), Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chania, Crete, Greece. (Technical Report TR-TUC-ISL-04-2005) [pdf] [bib]
Fair Resource Allocation in P2P Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Results. MSc thesis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, June 2003. [pdf] [bib]
Design and Implementation of a Project Management System using Relational Databases. Diploma thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece, 2000. [bib]
Teaching and performing research at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, being member of the Software and Database Systems Laboratory at the same university.
Review of EU-funded projects.
Evaluating FET-Open ICT research proposals submitted in response to the H2020-2014/2015 call.
Evaluating FET-Open ICT research proposals submitted in response to the FP7 call.
Evaluating FET-Open ICT pesearch proposals submitted in response to the FP7 call at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Performing part of my Ph.D. research under the supervision of Prof. Gerhard Weikum at the Databases and Information Systems Department, Germany.
Preparing educational material and guiding the instructors of the program ''Diktiothite''. More information about the program is available at www.go-online.gr.
Preparing of educational material and participating at the 3rd Multi-Mine Seminar Series with title ''Knowledge Extraction with Emphasis in Medical Applications''. More information about the program is available at www.multimine.gr.
Designing and implementing database applications for Istos ltd. at Heraklion, Crete.
Member of the research team of the project "REHABOTICS - Integrated Rehabilitation System for People with Motor Disabilities”, funded by by the Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Operational Programme 2014-2020 (EPAnEK). More information about the project is available at rehabotics.eu.
Member of the research team of the project "SodaSense: Advanced big data management with applications in travel, climate and agriculture", funded by the Partnership Agreement (PA) 2021-2027, with the contribution of significant resources originating from the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) of the European Union; co-funded by the Peloponnese Prefecture. More information about the project is available at sodasense.uop.gr.
Member of the research team of the project "Intelligent Research Infrastructure for Shipping, Supply Chain, Transport and Logistics Plus (ENIRISST+)", funded by the Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Operational Programme 2014-2020 (EPAnEK). More information about the project is available at www.enirisst-plus.gr.
Member of the research team of the project "FORESIGHT - Advanced cyber-security simulation platform for preparedness training in Aviation, Power-grid and Naval environments”, funded by the H2020 - Research and Innovation Action 2019-2022. More information about the project is available at foresight-h2020.eu.
Member of the research team of the project “Intelligent Research Infrastructure for Shipping, Supply Chain, Transport and Logistics (ENIRISST)”, funded by the Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Operational Programme 2014-2020 (EPAnEK). More information about the project is available at www.enirisst.gr.
Member of the research team of the project “Quality Assurance Unit of the University of the Peloponnese”, funded by the Ministry of Education, Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training, Greece. More information about the project is available at www.espa.gr.
Member of the research team of the project "Intelligent Systems Laboratory", funded by the Technical University of Crete, Greece. One of its main objectives was the development of peer-to-peer algorithms and systems.
Principal researcher (together with Prof. Euripides Petrakis) in the project "Heraclitus", funded by the Greek Ministry of Education. More information about the project is available at www.epeaek.gr.
Member of the research team of the project EVERGROW - "ever-growing, global, scale-free networks, their provisioning, repair and unique functions" (EU 6th Framework Programme IST/FET). More information about the project is available at www.evergrow.org.
Member of the research team of the project BIOPATTERN (EU 6th Framework Programme IST/FET). More information about the project is available at www.biopattern.org.
Member of the research team of the project "DIET - Decentralised Information Ecosystem Technologies" (EU 5th Framework Programme IST/FET). More information about the project is available at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/57122_en.html.
Postgraduate course taught since 2023 at the MSc in Data Science program, collaboration between the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of the Peloponnese
4th year graduate course taught since 2017 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
3rd year graduate course taught since 2023 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Postgraduate course taught in 2019 at the MSc in Computer Science and Technology, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Postgraduate course taught in 2018 at the MSc in Computer Science and Technology, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
3rd year graduate course taught in 2013 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Postgraduate course taught in 2011 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
1st year graduate course taught in 2011 at the Department of Economic Science
1st year graduate course taught since 2009 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
3rd year graduate course taught since 2008 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
2nd year graduate course taught in 2008-2012 and since 2022 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
3rd year graduate course taught in 2010-2013 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
3rd year graduate course taught in 2009-2010 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
4rd year graduate course taught in 2009-2010 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
3rd year graduate course taught in 2009 at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
Teaching assistant at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering in the following courses: