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CONTACT INFORMATION Ioannis Christou / Resident Associate Professor Athens Information Technology PO Box 68, 19.5 km, Markopoulo Avenue Peania 19002, Athens, Greece Tel: (+) 30-210-668-2725 Fax: (+) 30-210-668-2703 Email: ichr (at) ait dot edu dot gr Adjunct Professor, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

PERSONAL DATA Languages: Greek, English, Italian LinkedIn web page: click here

 
EDUCATION

DEGREES
Ph.D., M.Sc., MBA, Dipl. Ing.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

Spring 2012: Structured Systems Development, and Methods and Tools for Program Development, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Program, Aalborg University and AIT

Fall 2011: Systems Analysis & Design, MBIT graduate program, AIT

Fall 2010: Systems Analysis & Design, MBIT graduate program, AIT

Spring 2010: Modern Methods for Network Optimization, Aalborg University Ph.D. Program Course (with L. C. Polymenakos)

Spring 2010: Information Systems Modelling, MSIN graduate program, AIT (with J. Soldatos)

Fall 2009: Business Management: MSIN graduate program, AIT (online CMU course with D. Lamont and G. Yovanof)

Spring 2009: Information Systems Modelling, MSIN graduate program, AIT (with J. Soldatos)

Fall 2008: Secure Software Engineering, MSIN graduate program, AIT (online CMU course with R. Seacord and S. Efremidis)

Summer 2008:Logistics & Supply Chain Management, MBIT graduate program, AIT

Spring 2008: Business Management: MSIN graduate program, AIT (online CMU course with D. Lamont and G. Yovanof)

Fall 2007: Information Systems Modeling, MSIN graduate program, AIT (with J. Soldatos)

Summer 2007: Logistics & Supply Chain Management, MBIT graduate program, AIT

Spring 2007: Business Management & Engineering Economics: MSIN graduate program, AIT (online CMU course)

Fall 2006: Programming & Data Structures in C: MSITT graduate program, AIT, Information Systems Modeling, MSIN graduate program, AIT (with J. Soldatos)

Summer 2006: Logistics & Supply Chain Management, MBIT graduate program, AIT

Fall 2005: Programming & Data Structures in C: MSITT graduate program, AIT

Fall 2004: Programming & Data Structures in C: MSITT graduate program, AIT

Sep. 2003-Sep. 2004: Software Programming Laboratory, Software Engineering courses taught at Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jan. 2008 - present: Adjunct Professor, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Dec. 2007 - present: Associate Professor, Athens Information Technology

Sep. 2004 - Nov. 2007: Assistant Professor, Athens Information Technology

Sep. 2003 - Sep. 2004: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras, Greece

Dec. 2001 - Mar. 2006: Independent Contractor, Athens, Greece

Jun. 2001 - Nov. 2001: Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Hellas, Greece

Jan. 2000 - Jun. 2001: Area Leader, Knowledge & Data Engineering, INTRACOM S.A., Greece

May 1997 - Jan. 2000: Senior Developer, Delta Technology Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA 

May 1996 - May 1997: Senior Developer Transquest, Crawfords Corner Rd. AT&T Bell Labs, NJ, USA 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Project Leader, "Bidline Generation System", resulted in estimated savings annually of USD $44 million.

Technical Manager, "ARCHEOGUIDE" EU IST program.

Project Manager, "Activity-based Budgeting and Planning Information System", consultant for ΔΕΗ Α.Ε.

Technical Manager, "Porting JME Mobile Applications".

Technical Manager, "Greek Business Network Site for INFOTE S.A".

Project and Technical Manager, "Fraud Detection in Games of Chance"

Participation in EU IST Projects ELeGI, DESEREC, INMOTOS  

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Business Intelligence, Optimization Methods in Data Mining, Machine Learning and Supply Chain Management, Intelligent Information Retrieval
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
ARCHEOGUIDE, UP-TV, ELeGI, DESEREC, INMOTOS
ONGOING AND RECENT INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
Fraud Detection in Games of Chance, Identity Management, AIT Content Management System
TUTORIALS / SHORT COURSES / EXECUTIVE TRAINING

 

RESEARCH SOFTWARE

Decision Support Systems and Optimization: MATLAB code for (r,nQ,T) and (s,S,T) periodic review policy optimization (exact and heuristic methods)

Clustering Optimization: Java code for Minimum Sum of Squares Clustering (MSSC) using a Set Covering formulation to coordinate cluster ensembles. (You must separately download the open-source SCIP solver. It is recommended to simply download the binary file)

Data Mining and Machine Learning: SVM_ODT Java code for a hybrid Decision Tree that considers Support Vectors when branching (the code is embedded within the free Open Source WEKA framework, and is released together with WEKA version 3.5 as an eclipse project)

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS
Ioannis T. Christou, Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management: Models and Algorithms, Springer Engineering, 2011.
CITATIONS
more than 350 citations.
 

Journal Publications

1. E. Amolochitis, I.T. Christou, Z.-H. Tan, R. Prasad, A Heuristic Hierarchical Scheme for Academic Search and Retrieval, Information Processing and Management, Provissionally Accepted with Major Changes, 2012.

2. S. Ponis, I.T. Christou, "Enhancing SME's Competitive Intelligence: a Web-based Decision Support System Architecture", Intl. Journal of Business Information Systems, To Appear, 12(3), 2013.

3. P. Spanos, S. Ponis, I. Tatsiopoulos, I.T. Christou, "A New Hybrid Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem", Intl. Transactions in Operational Research, Provissionally Accepted with Major Changes, 2012.

4. I.T. Christou, G. Gekas, A. Kyrikou, A Classifier Ensemble Approach to the TV-Viewer Profile Adaptation Problem, Intl. Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, DOI: 10.1007/s13042-011-0066-4 published online Jan. 8, 2012.

5. A.G. Lagodimos, I.T. Christou, K. Skouri, Computing Globally Optimal (s,S,T) Inventory Policies, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 40, no. 5, Oct. 2012, pp. 660-671.

6. A.G. Lagodimos, I.T. Christou, K. Skouri, Optimal (r,nQ,T) Batch Ordering with Quantized Supplies, Computers and Operations Research, vol. 39, no. 2, 2012, pp. 259-268.

7. I.T. Christou, M. Bakopoulos et al, Detecting Fraud in Online Games of Chance and Lotteries, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 38, no. 10, 2011, pp. 13158-13169

8. A.G. Lagodimos, I.T. Christou, K. Skouri, Optimal (r,nQ,T) Policies under Stationary Demand, Intl. Journal of Systems Science. DOI: DOI:10.1080/00207721.2011.555010. Published online, 17 Feb. 2011

9. Ioannis T. Christou, “Coordination of Cluster Ensembles via Exact Methods”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 2, 2011. Published online, 30 Mar. 2010, IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2010.85., pp. 279-293.

10. K. Mourtzoukos, I.T. Christou, S. Efremidis, "Experiences with G2G: a location-aware mobile social networking system", Intl. Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 7(2), pp. 98-113, 2011.

11. Ioannis T. Christou et. al., “Grid-based Interactive Virtual Experiments for Distributed Virtual Communities”, Intl. Journal on Continuous Engineering Education & Life-long Learning, vol. 20, no. 6, 2010, pp. 443-464

12. Ioannis T. Christou, S. Efremidis, A. Roukounaki, A CASE Tool for Java Mobile Computing Applications, Intl. Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, 2010, pp. 34-48

13. Ioannis T. Christou and S. Michalakos, “G2G: Location-aware Mobile Social Networking with Application in Personalized Recommender Systems”, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, vol 6, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 73-94

14. Ioannis T. Christou, S. Ponis, E. Palaiologou, Using the Agile Unified Process in Banking, IEEE Software, vol. 27 no. 3, May-June 2010, pp. 72-79

15. Ioannis T. Christou and Stavros Ponis, “A Hierarchical System for Efficient Coordination of Available-To-Promise Logic Mechanisms”, International Journal of Production Research, vol. 47, no. 11, 2009, pp. 3063-3078. Online version first published March 2008.

16. Ioannis T. Christou and S.T. Ponis, “Enhancing Traditional ATP Functionality in Open Source ERP Systems: A Case-Study from the Food & Beverages Industry”, Intl. Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, 2008, pp. 18-33

17. S.T. Ponis, I.P. Tatsiopoulos, K.C. Tsitsiriggos, and Ioannis T. Christou, “Integrating Enterprise Resource Planning vendor evaluation into a proposed ERP selection methodology”, Intl. Journal of Integrated Supply Management, vol. 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 364-384.

18. Ioannis T. Christou, Athanasios G. Lagodimos, and Dimitra Lycopoulou, “Hierarchical Production Planning for Multi-product Lines in the Beverage Industry”, Production Planning and Control, vol. 18, no. 5, Jul. 2007, pp. 367-376

19. Ioannis T. Christou et. al., “GRID-based Virtual Laboratory Experiments for a Graduate Course on Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 50, no. 1, Feb. 2007, pp. 17-26. Special issue on “Grid-based Technologies Applied to Education”.

20. D. Papageorgiou, N. Ioannidis, I. T. Christou, M. Papathomas and M. Diorinos, “ARCHEOGUIDE: An Augmented Reality based System for Personalized Tours in Cultural Heritage Sites”, Cultivate Interactive, Issue 1, Jun. 2000. (Electronic journal publication: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue1/archeo/ )

21. Ioannis T. Christou, Armand Zakarian, Jun-Min Liu and Helen Carter, "A Two Phase Genetic Algorithm for Solving Large Scale Bid-Line Generation Problems", Interfaces, vol. 29, no. 5, Sep 1999, pp. 51-65. Special issue on finalist papers for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize.

22. Ioannis T. Christou, Wayne Martin, and Robert R. Meyer, "Genetic Algorithms as Multi-Coordinators in Large Scale Optimization", Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 111 – Evolutionary Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 1-15. Also Proc. of Evolutionary Algorithms Workshop, eds. L.D. Davis, L.D. Whitley, K. DeJong and M. Vose,1999.

23. Ioannis T. Christou, William W. Donaldson and Robert R. Meyer, "Large Scale Structured Discrete Optimization via Parallel Genetic Algorithms", Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 109 - Parallel Processing of Discrete Problems, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

24. Jonathan Yackel, Robert R. Meyer and Ioannis T. Christou, "Minimum Perimeter Domain Assignment", Math. Programming, vol. 78, no 2, pp. 283-303, Aug. 1997.

25. Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer, "Optimal Equi-partition of Rectangular Domains for Parallel Computation", Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 8, pp. 15-34, Jan. 1996.

Submitted Journal Publications pending review

26. I.T. Christou, A.G. Lagodimos, K. Skouri, "Fast Heuristic Global Optimization of Stochastic Inventory Control Policies", submitted.

27. I.T. Christou, S. Vasillaras, "A Parallel Distributed Hybrid GRASP and Branch & Bound Scheme for the Maximum Distance-2 Matching Problem", submitted.

Book Chapter Publications

28. C. Manolarakis, I.T. Christou, G. Yovanof, Avoiding Risks Related with Strategic Pricing in Virtual Enterprise Networks: An Agent-based Approach, in S. Ponis (ed.): Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, IGI Global, Hershey, NY, 2010. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-607-0.ch014.

29. Ioannis T. Christou et. al., “Grid-based Interactive Virtual Experiments for Distributed Virtual Communities”, in The Learning Grid Handbook, eds. Saverio Salerno et. al., IOS Press, 2008.

30. Stefanos Koutsoutos, Ioannis T. Christou, and Sofoklis Efremidis, “A Classifier Ensemble Approach to Intrusion Detection for Network-Initiated Attacks”, invited contributed chapter in Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering, eds. John Soldatos et al, IOS Press, 2007.

31. Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer, "Decomposition Algorithms for Communication Minimization in Parallel Computing", invited contributed chapter in Non-Linear Assignment Problems: Theory & Applications, ed. Panos Pardalos and Leo Pitsoulis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

32. Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer, "Optimal and Asymptotically Optimal Equi-partition of Rectangular Domains via Stripe Decomposition", in Applied Mathematics and Parallel Computing - Festchrift for Klaus Ritter, eds. H. Fischer, B. Riedmuller, and S. Schaffler, pp. 77-96, Physica-Verlag, 1996.

Peer-reviewed Conference Publications

33. E. Amolochitis, I.T. Christou, Z.-H. Tan, PubSearch: A Hierarchical Heuristic Scheme for Ranking Academic Search Results, Proc. 1st Intl Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2012), Vilamura, Argave, Portugal, Feb. 6-8, 2012.

34. S. Vassilaras, I.T. Christou, On the Optimal MAC Layer Capacity of Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with a Finite Number of Nodes, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 2011 (PIMRC 2011), Sep. 11-14, Toronto, Canada.

35. A.G. Lagodimos, I.T. Christou, K. Skouri, A Simple Procedure to Determine Optimal (s,S,T) Inventory Policy under Stationary Demand, Proc. Challenges in Statistics and Operations Research Conference, Kuwait, Mar. 2011.

36. K. Mourtzoukos, I.T. Christou, Experiences Running G2G: A Prototype Location-aware Mobile Social Networking System, ACM 8th Intl. Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2010, Paris, France, Nov. 2010.

37. A.G. Lagodimos, I.T. Christou, K. Skouri, Optimal (r,nQ,T) Inventory Control under Stationary Demand, Proc. 3rd Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Modeling, StochMod 2010, June 7-9, 2010, Nafplio, Greece.

38. C. Manolarakis, Ioannis T. Christou, G. Yovanof, “Mapping Consumer Perception and Market Distribution of Consumer Products Using Agent-based Modeling”, Intl. Congress on Pervasive Computing & Management, New Delhi, India, Dec. 2008.

39. S. Michalakos and Ioannis T. Christou, “G2G: Location-aware Mobile Social Networking with Applications in Recommender Systems and Gaming”, ACM 6th Intl. Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2008, Linz, Austria, Nov. 2008.

40. V. Menkovski, Ioannis T. Christou, and S. Efremidis, “Oblique Decision Trees using Embedded Support Vector Machines in Classifier Ensembles”, IEEE Cybernetic Intelligent Systems Conf., London, UK, Sep. 2008.

41. S. Tsekeridou, T. Tiropanis, Ioannis T. Christou, and H. Vakilzadeh, “Toward Virtual Campuses: Collaborative Virtual Labs & Personalized Learning Services in a Real-life Context”, IASTED Web-based Education Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, Mar. 2008.

42. Ghassan Karame, Ioannis T. Christou and Tassos Dimitriou, “A Secure Hybrid Reputation Management System for Super-Peer Networks”, 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE-CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 2008.

43. Tassos Dimitriou, Ghassan Karame, and Ioannis T. Christou, “SuperTrust: A Secure and Efficient Framework for Handling Trust in Super Peer Networks”, IEEE CDNC, India, Jan. 2008.

44. Ioannis T. Christou & Sofoklis Efremidis, “An Evolving Oblique Decision Tree Ensemble Architecture for Continuous Learning Applications”, 4th IFIP Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Athens Greece, Sep. 2007.

45. Ioannis T. Christou, Sofoklis Efremidis, Aikaterini Roukounaki & Marios Anapliotis, “An Intelligent CASE Tool for Porting Mobile Java Applications”, 4th IFIP Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Athens Greece, Sep. 2007.

46. Tassos Dimitriou, Ghassan Karame, and Ioannis T. Christou, “SuperTrust: A Secure and Efficient Framework for Handling Trust in Super Peer Networks”, ACM SIGACT-SIGOPT Conf. on Principles of Distributed Computing (ACM PODC) Brief Announcement, 2007.

47. Ioannis T. Christou, and Spyridon Potamianos, “A Distributed Planning & Control Management Information System for Multi-site Organizations”, Intl. Conf. on Computing Sciences and Software Engineering CISSE 06, Univ. of Bridgeport, Dec. 2006.

48. Anna Pieri, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ioannis T. Christou, Sofia Tsekeridou and Bill Vassiliadis, “Application of a Virtual Scientific Experiment Model in Different Educational Contexts”, e-challenges e-2006 Conf., Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2006. Published in “Exploiting the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies”, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IOS Press, 2006 Amsterdam, ISBN: 1-58603-682-3

49. Stefanos Koutsoutos, Ioannis T. Christou, and Sofoklis Efremidis, “An Intrusion-Detection System for Network-Initiated Attacks Using a Hybrid Neural Network”. 3rd IFIP Intl. Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Athens Greece, May 2006.

50. Ioannis T. Christou, “Load-Balancing Issues in Super-peer-based Pub/Sub Digital Libraries”, Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-To-Peer Computing, Constanz, Germany, Sep. 2005.

51. Vasilios Vlahakis, John Karigiannis, Manolis Tsotros, Michael Gounaris, Luis Almeida, Didier Stricker, Tim Gleue, Ioannis T. Christou, Renzo Carlucci, Nikos Ioannidis, “ARCHEOGUIDE: First Results from an Augmented Reality, Mobile Computing System in Cultural Heritage Sites”, Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Intl. Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques VAST 2001: “Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage”, pp. 131-140, ACM Press, Athens, Greece, Nov.2001.

52. Didier Stricker, John Karigiannis, Ioannis T. Christou, Tim Gleue, Nikos Ioannidis, “Augmented Reality for Visitors of Cultural Heritage Sites”, Proc. of CAST 2001: Intl. Conf. on Artistic, Cultural & Scientific Aspects of Experimental Media Spaces, Bonn, Germany, Sep. 2001.

53. Didier Stricker, Patrick Daehne, Frank Seibert, Ioannis T. Christou, Luis Almeida, Renzo Carlucci and Nikos Ioannidis: “Design & Development Issues in ARCHEOGUIDE: An Augmented Reality based Cultural Heritage On-site Guide”, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Augmented Virtual Environments and 3D Imaging (EuroImage 2001), pp. 1-7,IEEE Press, Myconos, Greece, May 2001.

54. Ioannis T. Christou and Armand Zakarian, "Domain Knowledge and Representation Issues in Genetic Algorithms for Scheduling Problems", Proc. of the Genetics and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2000 (GECCO 2000), pp. 681-687, Morgan-Kaufmann Press, Las Vegas, Jun. 2000.

55. Ioannis T. Christou and Robert R. Meyer, "Fast Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Uniform Grids", Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems (Irregular 96). Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 1117, Springer-Verlag 1996.

56. Spyros Tzafestas, Paraskevas Dalianis and Ioannis T. Christou, " Diagnosis of Multiple Simultaneous Faults in Complex Systems: An Expert System Implementation for the Automotive Domain", Proc. of the 1st European Congress on Fuzzy and Intelligent Technologies, Aachen, Germany, 1993.

57. Spyros Tzafestas, Ioannis T. Christou and Y.-J. Yip, Multiple Fault Diagnosis of Digital Circuits Using Non-monotonic Reasoning, Proc. of the 31st IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Corfu, Greece, 1991.

Technical Reports

58. Ioannis T. Christou, " Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Partitioning Uniform Grids", Ph.D. thesis, UW-Madison, Comp. Sci. Tech. Report MP-TR-96-09. Madison, Wisconsin, 1996.

In Preparation

59. Ioannis T. Christou, “Graph-based Algorithms for Linked-Data Clustering”.

INVITED LECTURES / CHAIRED SESSIONS / PANELS
"Το Συμμετοχικό Διαδίκτυο και οι Ανθρώπινες Σχέσεις", ομιλία και συμμετοχή σε panel, ATHENS DIGITAL WEEK, Oct. 2008, Athens Technopolis Center, Gkazi, Athens Greece

chair: Technical Session "Location & Context Aware Applications", 6th Intl. Conference on Advances in Mobile & Multimedia Computing Systems, Nov. 2008, Linz, Austria (MoMM 2008)

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CONFERENCE/ SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Co-organizer, Intl. Conference on "Data Mining in Bio-medicine 2009", May 7-8, 2009, Athens Greece.

Organized by Prof. Panos Pardalos, Prof. Damianos Sakas, Prof. Ioannis T. Christou 

PATENTS
 

C. Dimitriadis, I.T. Christou, M. Bakopoulos: METHODS AND A SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUD IN BETTING AND LOTTERY GAMES. Patent Filed with the US Patents and Trademark Office on May 25, 2010 assigned patent application serial no. 12/787,024.

C. Dimitriadis, M. Bakopoulos, I.T. Christou: METHODS AND A SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUD IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS. European Patent Office. Patent no: 10168757.2 - 2212. Date: 30/Aug/2010
STUDENT THESES SUPERVISED
Yong-Min Luo, MSIN 2010. Title: Time-series Forecasting Using Forecasting Ensembles
Aigli Rizou, MSITT 2010 (jointly supervised with J. Soldatos). Title: Application of Fraud Detection Methods in Banking
Eirini Fourli, MBIT 2010. Title: Business Model for Mobile Social Networks
George Magiafas, MSITT 2010 (jointly supervised with S. Efremidis). Title: Parallelizing a State-of-the-Art Contstraint Integer Program Solver
Osama Maki, MBIT 2010. Title: Cost Optimization in Single-Echelon Stochastic Inventory Systems
Emmanouil Amolochitis, MSITT 2009. Title: Design and Implementation of a Focused Crawler
Stefanos Moshoyiannis, MSITT 2009. Title: Online Classification Ensembles: A Supervised System for Natural Language Classification
Dimitrios Skoutelas, MBIT 2009. Title: Performance Evaluation of e-Procurement Initiatives and an Associated Case-Study
Sotiris Michalakos, MSIN 2008. Title: GetTogether: A Location-aware Mobile Social Networking System
Christos Manolarakis, MBIT 2008. Title: Cluster Ensemble Methods for the P-Median Problem
Panagiotis Apostolopoulos, MBIT 2008. Title: A Model for Optimal Rationalization of Time in a Decision Support System for the Pull-based Part of the Available-To-Promise Strategy
Eleni Palaiologou, MBIT 2008. Title: A Hybrid Analysis and Design Approach Based on RUP and Agile Methodologies
Adamantios Maragos, MBIT 2008. Title: Supply Chain and Service Management.
Despoina Savvopoulou, MBIT 2008. Title: Web 2.0 Services and CRM Interactivity and its Impact on the Business World
Christos Portozoudis, MSITT 2007. Title: Algorithms for Clustering and Classification of Hyperlinked Documents
Ghassan Karame, MSIN 2006 (jointly supervised with T. Dimitriou). Title: Security Issues in Peer-To-Peer Systems
George Gekas, MSIN 2006. Title: Personalized TV Content Delivery through Continuous User Profile Adaptation
Petros Boukouris, (Valedictorian) MSITT 2005. Title: From XML to RDBMS Translation

SOCIETIES
ACM, IEEE, Technical Chamber of Greece
HONOURS/NOMINATIONS/DISTINCTIONS
Nominated for the 1999 Daniel H. Wagner Award in Excellence in Operations Research Practice
EDITORIAL WORK / PAPER REVIEWING
referree for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Data & Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, Omega Journal, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Journal of Systems and Software, Computational Intelligence, etc.