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Home page of Dimitrios Katsaros

BIO [English] (September 2009)
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World (2010 Edition)

Postal mail address

Dimitrios Katsaros
Department of Computer and Communication Engineering
37 Gklavani str.
(Deligiorgi Building, 4th floor)
Volos 38221, Greece

Lecturer at the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering
University of Thessaly, Hellas

Research interests

  1. Mobile/Pervasive Computing
    1. Data Management (indexing, caching) and Data Dissemination (broadcast scheduling)
  2. Distributed Systems over Wireless Networks (MANETs, WSNs, VANETs)
    1. Broadcasting/Routing in Ad Hoc Networks, Data Retrieval/Dissemination Wireless Sensor Networks, InterVehicle communications
  3. Wide-Area Distributed Systems
    1. Data Centers and Cloud Computing, Content Distribution Networks, Media Distribution in the Web (caching, replication, prefetching)
  4. Web Information Retrieval
    1. Web Ranking, Social Network Analysis
The following are research papers I have authored or coauthored. (See also my DBLP entry for a partial list of publications)

Edited monograph

Our Metasearch Engine
Dimitrios Katsaros, A. Nanopoulos, Y. Manolopoulos.
"Wireless Information Highways"
IDEA Group Publishing
ISBN: 1-59140-568-8.
Book information from Amazon's site.
Coverage by the popular greek press (PC-magazine) for QuadSearch in an August 2007 article.
An article comparing the performance of Quadsearch, Dogpile, Mamma.

Publications

Editorials

  1. George Papadimitriou, Petros Nicopolitidis, Dimitrios Katsaros. "Special Issue: Recent Advances in Wireless Data Broadcasting", International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2010.
    [Call for papers]
  2. Marios D. Dikaiakos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Pankaj Mehra, George Pallis, Athena Vakali. "Guest Editors' Introduction: Cloud Computing, Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research", IEEE Internet Computing magazine, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 10-13, September/October, 2009.
    [pdf]
    This editorial is cited in Wikipedia, here.
    It was among the top100 articles of IEEEXplore,
          for September 2009 (ranked 32nd), for October 2009 (ranked 3rd), for November 2009 (ranked 4th), for December 2009 (ranked 3rd), and for January 2010 (ranked 3rd).
    It was among the top10 articles of IEEE Internet Computing magazine,
          for September 2009 (ranked 1st), for October 2009 (ranked 1st), for November 2009 (ranked 1st), for December 2009 (ranked 1st), and for January 2010 (ranked 1st).

Journal and magazine papers

  1. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Leandros Tassiulas, Yannis Manolopoulos. "High Performance, Low Complexity Cooperative Caching for Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Wireless Networks, accepted, pending minor revisions, February, 2010.
    [pdf]
  2. Konstantinos Stamos, George Pallis, Athena Vakali, Dimitrios Katsaros, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "CDNSim: A Simulation Tool for Content Distribution Networks", ACM Transactions On Modeling And Computer Simulation, accepted, October, 2008.
    [pdf]
  3. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Energy-Efficient Distributed Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Academic Press/Elsevier), vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 371-383, April, 2010.
    [pdf]
    This article was among the top25 articles of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing,
          for October-December 2009 (ranked 11th).
  4. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cache Consistency in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 214-240, March, 2010.
    [pdf]
    This article was among the top25 articles of the Ad Hoc Networks journal,
          for October-December 2009 (ranked 9th).
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros, Leonidas Akritidis, Panayiotis Bozanis. "The f index: Quantifying the Impact of Coterminal Citations on Scientists' Ranking", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Wiley), vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1051-1056, May, 2009.
    [pdf | link to article from publisher's site]
  6. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Prediction in Wireless Networks by Markov Chains", IEEE Wireless Communications magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 56-64, April, 2009.
    [pdf]
    This article was among the top10 articles of IEEE Wireless Communications magazine,
          for May 2009 (ranked 3rd) and for June 2009 (ranked 6th).
  7. Dimitrios Katsaros, George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized Communities", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 137-151, January, 2009.
    [pdf]
  8. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cooperative Caching in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, Special issue on Multimedia in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, vol. 13, no. 3-4, pp. 337-356, August, 2008.
    [pdf]
  9. Ioannis Karydis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Music Retrieval over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 152-162, August, 2008.
    [pdf]
  10. Antonis Sidiropoulos, George Pallis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Prefetching in Content Distribution Networks via Web Communities Identification and Outsourcing", World Wide Web Journal (Springer), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 39-70, March, 2008.
    [pdf]
  11. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Generalized Hirsch h-index for Disclosing Latent Facts in Citation Networks", Scientometrics (Springer), vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 253-280, 2007.
    [pdf]
    This article is cited in Wikipedia, here
    Some of the article's ideas have been implemented here
  12. Gokhan Yavas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Ozgur Ulusoy, Yannis Manolopoulos. "A Data Mining Approach for Location Prediction in Mobile Environments", Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier), vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 121-146, August, 2005.
    [pdf | slides]
    This article was among the top25 articles of Data and Knowledge Engineering journal,
          for April-June 2005 (ranked 9th), for July-September 2005 (ranked 6th), and for October-December 2005 (ranked 21st).
  13. Dimitrios Katsaros, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Fast Mining of Frequent Tree Structures by Hashing and Indexing", Information and Software Technology (Elsevier), vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 129-140, February, 2005.
    [pdf]
  14. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Web Caching in Broadcast Mobile Wireless Environments", IEEE Internet Computing magazine, Special issue on Data Dissemination on the Web, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 37-45, May/June, 2004.
    [pdf]
  15. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Broadcast Program Generation for Webcasting", Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 1-21, April, 2004.
    [pdf]
  16. Alexandros Nanopoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "A Data Mining Algorithm for Generalized Web Prefetching", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1155-1169, September/October, 2003.
    [pdf]

International (refereed) conferences

  1. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos, Alexis Papadimitriou. "EBC: A Topology Control Algorithm for Achieving High QoS in Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST), The joint proceedings series of Springer and ICST, vol. 22, pp. 613-626, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain), November 23-25, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  2. George Pallis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Nicholas Loulloudes, Leandros Tassiulas. "On the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks", In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), IEEE Press, pp. 502-511, London, UK, September 21-23, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  3. Leonidas Akritidis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Panayiotis Bozanis. "Identifying Influential Bloggers: Time Does Matter", In Proceedings of the IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), IEEE Press, pp. 76-83, Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  4. Alexis Papadimitriou, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Social Network Analysis and its Applications in Wireless Sensor and Vehicular Networks", In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference for the e-Democracy, Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST), The joint proceedings series of Springer and ICST, vol. 26, pp. 411-420, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  5. Leandros Maglaras, Dimitrios Katsaros. "New metrics for characterizing the significance of nodes in wireless networks via path-based neighborhood analysis", In Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), IEEE Press, pp. 143-147, Corfu Island, Greece, September 10-12, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  6. Alexis Papadimitriou, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Query Sensitive Storage for Wireless Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), IEEE Press, pp. 25-29, Corfu Island, Greece, September 10-12, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  7. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Leandros Tassiulas, Yannis Manolopoulos. "High Performance, Low Overhead Cooperative Caching for Wireless Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Kos Island, Greece, June 15-19, 2009.
    [pdf | slides]
  8. Maria Kontaki, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "The d-Hop k-Data Coverage Query Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, (In conjunction with the Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB)), ACM Press, pp. 14-20, Auckland, New Zealand, August 24th, 2008.
    [pdf | slides]
  9. Leonidas Akritidis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Panayiotis Bozanis. "Effective Ranking Fusion Methods for Personalized Metasearch Engines", In Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), IEEE Press, pp. 39-43, Samos Island, Greece, August 28-30, 2008.
    [pdf | slides]
  10. Fotis Tsakiridis, Panayiotis Bozanis, Dimitrios Katsaros. "Interpolating the Air for Optimizing Wireless Data Broadcast", In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC) (In conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM)), ACM Press, pp. 112-119, Chania, Crete Island, Greece, October 22nd, 2007.
    [pdf | slides]
  11. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cooperative Caching in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of the 3rd ICST/ACM International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia), ACM Press, pp. 377-382, Nafpaktos, Greece, August 27-29, 2007.
    [pdf | slides]
  12. Dimitrios Katsaros, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Age-decaying h-index for Social Networks of Citations", Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW) (In conjunction with 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems), pp. 27-43, Poznan, Poland, April 25, 2007.
    [pdf] | slides]
    This article is cited in Wikipedia, here
  13. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Node Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks by Considering Structural Characteristics of the Network Graph", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG), IEEE Press, pp. 122-127, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007.
    [pdf | slides]
  14. Dimitrios Katsaros, Nikos Dimokas, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Generalized Indexing for Energy-Efficient Access to Partially Ordered Broadcast Data in Wireless Networks", In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), IEEE Press, pp. 89-96, Delhi, India, December 11-14, 2006.
    [pdf | slides]
  15. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Generalized h-index for Revealing Latent Facts in Social Networks of Citations", In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Link Analysis: Dynamics and Static of Large Networks (LinkKDD) (In conjunction with ACM KDD), ACM Press, pp. 45-52, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 20, 2006.
    [pdf | slides]
  16. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "The Geodesic Broadcast Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC) (In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM'06), IEEE Press, pp. 571-575, Niagara-Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA, June 26, 2006.
    [pdf | slides]
  17. George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali, Dimitrios Katsaros, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Replication based on Objects Load under a Content Distribution Network", In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI) (In conjunction with ICDE'06), IEEE Press, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 3rd, 2006.
    [pdf | slides]
  18. George Pallis, Athena Vakali, Konstantinos Stamos, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "A Latency-based Object Placement Approach in Content Distribution Networks", In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Latin American Web Congress (LA-Web), IEEE Press, pp. 140-147, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2005.
    [pdf | slides]
  19. Ioannis Karydis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Content-Based Music Information Retrieval in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), pp. 137-144, London, UK, Sep. 11 - 15, 2005.
    [pdf | slides]
  20. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Caching in Web Memory Hierarchies", In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), ACM Press, pp. 1109-1113, Nicosia, Cyprus, Mar. 2004.
    [pdf | slides]
  21. Dimitrios Katsaros, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Murak Karakaya, Gokhan Yavas, Ozgur Ulusoy, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Clustering Mobile Trajectories for Resource Allocation in Mobile Environments", In Proceedings of the Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA), Also, appears as chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciece (LNCS), vol. 2810, Springer-Verlag, pp. 319-329, Berlin, Germany, Aug. 2003.
    [pdf]
  22. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros. "Updating Web Views Distributed Over Wide Area Networks," In Proceedings of the Balkan Conference on Informatics (BCI), pp. 267-279, Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov. 2003.
    [pdf | slides]
  23. Alexandros Nanopoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Effective Prediction of Web User Accesses: A Data Mining Approach," In Proceedings of the WebKDD Workshop (WebKDD), San Francisco, CA, USA, Aug. 2001.
    [pdf | slides]

Chapters (refereed) in books

  1. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Panayiotis Bozanis, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Predictive Location Tracking in Cellular and in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", chapter in Mobile Intelligence, (Laurence T. Yang, Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Jianhua Ma, Ling Tan, Bala Srinivasan, eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc, chapter 8, pp. 163-190, 2010.
    [pdf | link to book from publisher's site]
  2. Nikos Dimokas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cooperative Caching in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", chapter in Cooperative Wireless Communications, (Yan Zhang, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Mohsen Guizani, eds.), CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group), chapter 16, pp. 371-390, 2009.
    [pdf | link to book from publisher's site]
  3. Dimitrios Katsaros. "Information-Theoretic Methods for Prediction in the Wireless and Wired Web", chapter in Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies, (A. Vakali and G. Pallis, eds.), IDEA Group Publishing, pp. 160-178, 2006.
    [pdf]
    It also appears in a collection of selected articles on telecommunications and networking in the book, Selected Readings on Telecommunications and Networking, (J. Gutierrez, ed.), IDEA Group Publishing, chapter XVI, August 2008.
    [pdf]
  4. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "A Suffix Tree Based Prediction Scheme for Pervasive Computing Environments", chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciece (LNCS), vol. 3746, Springer-Verlag, pp. 267-277, 2005.
    [pdf | slides]
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Broadcast Data Placement over Multiple Wireless Channels", chapter in Wireless Information Highways, (D. Katsaros, A. Nanopoulos, Y. Manolopoulos, eds.), IDEA Group Publishing, pp. 155-175, 2004.
    [pdf]
  6. Dimitrios Katsaros. "Efficiently Maintaining Structural Associations of Semistructured Data", chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciece (LNCS), vol. 2563, Springer-Verlag, pp. 118-132, 2003.
    [pdf]
  7. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cache Management for Web-Powered Databases", chapter in Web-Powered Databases, (D. Taniar, W. Rahayou, eds.), IDEA Group Publishing, pp. 201-242, 2002.
    [pdf]
  8. Alexandros Nanopoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Exploiting Web Log Mining for Web Cache Enhancement", chapter in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), vol. 2356, Springer-Verlag, pp. 68-87, 2002.
    [pdf | ppt]

Talks

  1. Dimitrios Katsaros, "Cloud Computing: Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research", Keynote Talk at 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Collaboration and Cloud Computing, Larissa, Greece, June 28-30, 2010.
    [ppt]
  2. Dimitrios Katsaros, "The Power-Community Index: Effectively Controlling the Communication among Nodes in Sensornets", Talk at PSA-HNN port operator, Antwerp, Belgium, June 30th, 2009.
    [ppt]
  3. Dimitrios Katsaros, "On the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks", Talk at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, February 25th, 2009.
    [ppt]
  4. Dimitrios Katsaros, "Analyzing the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks", Talk at Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Hellas, November 26th, 2008.
    [ppt]
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros, "Searching the Physical World: Distributed Protocols for Caching and Data Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks", Invited Talk at Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, June 17th, 2008.
    [ppt]
  6. Dimitrios Katsaros, "CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized Communities", Invited Talk at Institute of Computer Science (ICS-FORTH), Greece, March 20th, 2008.
    [ppt]
  7. Dimitrios Katsaros, "Caching in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", Invited Talk at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, March 17th, 2008.
    [ppt]
  8. Dimitrios Katsaros, "Social Network Analysis for Network Optimization", Invited Talk at Koblenz-Landau University, Germany, February 18th, 2008.
    [ppt]

Technical Reports

  1. Leonidas Akritidis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Panayiotis Bozanis. "Identifying Influential Bloggers: Time Does Matter", Technical Report, May, 2009.
    [pdf]
  2. Dimitrios Katsaros, Leonidas Akritidis, Panayiotis Bozanis. "Spam: It's Not Just for Inboxes and Search Engines! Making Hirsch h-index Robust to Scientospam", Technical Report, January, 2008.
    [pdf]
  3. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Generalized h-index for Disclosing Latent Facts in Citation Networks", Technical Report, July, 2006.
    [pdf]
    This article is also cited in Wikipedia, here
    Some of the article's ideas have been implemented here
  4. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros. "Unfolding the Full Potential of h-Index for Bibliographic Ranking", Technical Report, April, 2006.
    [pdf]
    Superseded by the above article.
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "The CRF Replacement Policy for Web Caches", Technical Report, March, 2003.
    [pdf]

Lemmas (refereed) in encyclopedias

  1. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Discovery and Existence of Communities in the World Wide Web", In Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, (Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha, eds.), IDEA Group Publishing, 2007.
    [pdf]
  2. Antonis Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "A Survey of Link Analysis Ranking", In Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, (Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha, eds.), IDEA Group Publishing, 2007.
    [pdf]
  3. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Cache Management for Web-Powered Databases", In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, (Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, ed.), IDEA Group Publishing, pp. 201-206, 2005.
    [pdf]
  4. Dimitrios Katsaros, Gokhan Yavas, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Murat Karakaya, Ozgur Ulusoy, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks", In Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, (John Wang, ed.), IDEA Group Reference, pp. 955-959, 2005.
    [pdf]
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Tree and Graph Mining", In Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, (John Wang, ed.), IDEA Group Reference, pp. 1140-1145, 2005.
    [pdf]

National (refereed) conferences

  1. Dimitrios Katsaros, Vassilios Matsoukas, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Evaluating Greek Departments of Computer Science & Engineering using Bibliometric Indices", In Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), Local Proceedings, pp. 83-92, Samos Island, Greece, August 28-30, 2008.
    [pdf | slides]
    An abbreviated greek translation of the above article appeared in the Greek Computer Society Newsletter, vol. 114, Jul.-Sep. 2008.
    [pdf]
  2. Leonidas Akritidis, George Voutsakelis, Dimitrios Katsaros, Panayiotis Bozanis. "QuadSearch: A novel metasearch engine", In Proceedings of the 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), pp. 453-466, Patras, Greece, May 18-20, 2007.
    [pdf | slides]
  3. Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos Papadopoulos. "The Communications Skin: Challenges and Dangers for Ubiquitous Data Management", In Proceedings of the Conference for the e-Democracy, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2006.
    [pdf]
  4. Dimitrios Katsaros, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos. "Technologies and Data Management Issues for Location-Aware Computing", In Proceedings of the Conference for the e-Democracy, pp. 203-211, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2003.
    [pdf]
  5. Dimitrios Katsaros. "Efficient Maintenance of Semistructured Schema", In Proceedings of the Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI'01), pp. 194-202, Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 2001.
    [pdf | slides]

PhD thesis

A completed project: Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Professional activities

Reviewer for: Member of the Editorial Board of: Program Committee member for:

Software Developed / Guidance Provided

Α/Α Description Developer(s) Link
1 Desktop Ranking Engine
A Desktop searching and ranking engine
Developed in the context of the course "Information Retrieval" (Spring 2008)		 Leandros Maglaras Desktop Ranking
2 MetaSearch Engine Leonidas Akritidis
George Voutsakelis		 MetaSearch Engine
3 Search Engine Rankings Comparison
Study of the time-varying rankings of major search engines
Developed in the context of the course "Information Retrieval" (Spring 2006)		 Leonidas Akritidis
George Voutsakelis		 Search Engine Analyzer
4 CDN simulator
CDNsim simulates in great detail the TCP/IP protocol as well as the main characteristics of the CDN (Content Distribution Network) infrastructure model
Developed as a research effort		 Yannis Manolopoulos, Athena Vakali, Dimitrios Katsaros, George Palllis, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos Stamos CDNsim
5 Graph Generator
Generator of major graph families, i.e., Random Graph model, Preferential Attachement model, Copy model, Small World model, Community-based model
Developed in the context of the course "Information Retrieval" (Spring 2006)		 Dimitris Sarafis FWGen

Courses teaching/taught

Α/Α Period Course Title Institute
4 Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Spring 2006		 Information Retrieval Department of Computer & Communication Engineering,
University of Thessaly (Volos)
3 Spring 2009
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Spring 2006		 Programming with JAVA Department of Computer & Communication Engineering,
University of Thessaly (Volos)
2 Fall 2009
Fall 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
Fall 2005		 Mobile and Pervasive Computing Department of Computer & Communication Engineering,
University of Thessaly (Volos)
1 Fall 2009
Fall 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
Fall 2005		 Programming with C++ Department of Computer & Communication Engineering,
University of Thessaly (Volos)
dkatsar AT inf DOT uth DOT gr
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