Invited Talks

  1. INP Grenoble
  2. Helmholtz Zentrum München
  3. INRIA Grenoble
  4. University of Copenhagen
  5. University of Rennes
  6. University of Waterloo
  7. Technical University of Munich
  8. University of Ottawa
  9. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Keck Center, Washington D.C.
  10. University of Paris Dauphine
  11. University of Lyon 1
  12. Keynote in International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2016)
  13. Keynote in International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD 2016)
  14. Keynote in International Conference on Complex Information Systems (COMPLEXIS 2016)
  15. University of Fribourg
  16. Keynote in Salon Swiss IT Business & BI Swiss Forum Genève
  17. Keynote in CLUSIS conference
  18. Keynote in ANR Cloud-based Organizational Design conference
  19. University of Lausanne
  20. University of Lugano
  21. Data Center for Astrophysics, ISDC
  22. INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France
  23. University of Geneva
  24. Dagstuhl Seminar on "Information Management in the Cloud"
  25. National Technical University of Athens
  26. Aalborg University
  27. University of Cyprus
  28. University of Zurich
  29. National University of Singapore, Mixed Reality Lab
  30. Cyprus University of Technology
  31. Sapienza University of Rome
  32. EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis
  33. INRIA Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM)
  34. University of Geneva
  35. University of Athens
  36. University of Toronto
  37. Harokopio University
  38. Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
  39. ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)

Editorial activities

Reviewer for research papers

I have reviewed numerous research papers for many conferences and journals in the last 10 years. The most important are:

Journals:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  2. Information Sciences
  3. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  4. Data and Knowledge Engineering
  5. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
  6. The Computer Journal
  7. The VLDB Journal Special Issue on Data Management for Mobile Services
  8. The IEEE Network
  9. IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering
  10. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
  11. Distributed and Parallel Databases
  12. Acta Informatica
  13. IEEE Internet Computing
  14. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
  15. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
  16. American Journal of Applied Sciences
  17. The Journal of Computer Science
  18. Journal of Super Computing
  19. Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  20. Journal of Big Data Research
  21. VLDB Journal
  22. Elsevier, Sustainable Cities and Society
  23. Elsevier, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  24. MDPI, Data

Conferences:

  1. International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
  2. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD)
  3. ACM International Conference on Principles of Database Systems (PODS)
  4. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
  5. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
  6. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  7. Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS)
  8. International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and P2P Computing (DBISP2P)
  9. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL)
  10. The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML)
  11. On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM):
    • Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS)
    • International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE)
  12. Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI)
  13. ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE)
  14. ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS)
  15. International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML)
  16. International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB)
  17. East-European Conference on Advances in Database and Information Systems (ADBIS)
  18. Symposium of Cloud Computing (SOCC)
  19. International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
  20. Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS)
  21. International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, (CLOSER)
  22. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS)

Reviewer for project proposals

I have been a reviewer for :

  1. EU COST proposals submitted in 2015
  2. The Dutch Technology Foundation STW, which funds technology oriented academic research in the Netherlands, for proposals submitted in 2016
  3. EU COST proposals submitted in 2016 (Open Call OC-2016-1)
  4. EU COST proposals submitted in 2016 (Open Call OC-2016-2)
  5. EU COST proposals (to be) submitted in 2017
  6. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant proposals for the Computer Science Evaluation Group, 2017

Program committee member

I have been or I am currently a member of the program committee for the:

  1. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (IEEE ICDE), Demo track, 2023.
  2. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), Demo 2023.
  3. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2023.
  4. International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data (IARIA AllData), 2023.
  5. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2024.
  6. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2023.
  7. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2022.
  8. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Demonstration track, (IEEE ICDE) 2022.
  9. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2022.
  10. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), Demo 2022.
  11. International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2022.
  12. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (IEEE ICDE) 2022.
  13. International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) 2022.
  14. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2022.
  15. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2022.
  16. IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Conference (IEEE AIKE), 2022.
  17. 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), 2022.
  18. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM), Short Paper, 2022.
  19. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM), Demo 2022.
  20. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM), 2022.
  21. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2022.
  22. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2021.
  23. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (ACM SIGMOD) 2021.
  24. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2021.
  25. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Demonstration track, (IEEE ICDE) 2021.
  26. International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) 2021.
  27. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2021.
  28. IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Conference (IEEE AIKE 2021), 2021.
  29. Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability (SFDI 2021) at VLDB, 2021.
  30. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2021.
  31. International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2021.
  32. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM), Demo 2021.
  33. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2021.
  34. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, (IEEE ICMLA) 2021.
  35. IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST), 2021.
  36. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2020.
  37. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE), 2020.
  38. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2020.
  39. International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2020.
  40. International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) 2020.
  41. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2020.
  42. IEEE International Conference on Graph Computing (IEEE GC) 2020.
  43. IEEE International Conference on Conversational Computing 2020.
  44. International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), 2020.
  45. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE), 2020.
  46. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2020.
  47. Fourth Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability (SFDI), in conjunction with VLDB 2020.
  48. International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS) 2020.
  49. International Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics (LSGAD), in conjunction with VLDB 2020.
  50. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2020.
  51. International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) 2020.
  52. Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches and Systems in Science and Engineering (FSASSE) 2020.
  53. IEEE Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Conference (IEEE AIKE 2020), 2020.
  54. IEEE International Symposium on Future Cyber Security Technologies (FCST), 2019
  55. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2019
  56. Special Session on Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches and Systems in Science and Engineering (FSASSE 2019) As part of The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019)
  57. The 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019), Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust.
  58. International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2019
  59. IEEE International conference on Conversational Data & Knowledge Engineering (CDKE), 2019
  60. Graph Computing 2019
  61. "Software and web Engineering" track of International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, (ICICS), 2019
  62. "Security, privacy, and digital forensics" track of the International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS), 2019
  63. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD) Demo 2019
  64. International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2019
  65. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2019
  66. Workshop of Very Large Internet of Things @ VLDB 2019
  67. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2019
  68. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2019
  69. ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2018)
  70. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration 2018
  71. "Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics" track of the International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2018
  72. "Software Engineering Practices and Applications" track of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2018
  73. PC for 1st Workshop on Context in Analytics (CiA) to be held as part of the IEEE International Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE '18) on April 16-20, 2018, Paris France
  74. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB) Demonstrations 2018
  75. International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) in VLDB 2018
  76. IARIA International Workshop on Large-scale Graph Analysis, Management and Applications (GraphSM) 2018
  77. IARIA International Symposium on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2018
  78. International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD) 2018
  79. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2018
  80. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2017
  81. International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT) in VLDB 2017
  82. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI) 2017
  83. International C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E) 2017
  84. International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) 2017
  85. International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, (ICICS) 2017
  86. International Symposium on Computational & Business Intelligence (ISCBI) 2017
  87. IARIA International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management (IMMM) 2017
  88. IARIA International Symposium on Designing, Validating, and Using Datasets (DATASETS) 2017
  89. IARIA International Workshop on Large-scale Graph Analysis, Management and Applications (GraphSM) 2017
  90. IARIA International Symposium on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA) 2017
  91. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2017
  92. IARIA International Conference Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (Cloud Computing) 2017
  93. International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD) 2017
  94. EAI International Conference on ICT Infrastructures and Services for Smart Cities (IISSC) 2016
  95. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2016
  96. International Conference on Computational Techniques in Information and Communication Technology (ICCTICT) 2016
  97. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Demonstrations 2016
  98. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) Posters 2016
  99. International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD) 2016
  100. International Conference on Complex Information Systems (COMPLEXIS) 2016
  101. International C* Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E) 2016
  102. International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) 2016
  103. IARIA Datasets 2016.
  104. IARIA Cloud Computing 2016
  105. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2016
  106. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) 2016
  107. Second international workshop on Enterprise Security, held in conjuction with the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom) 2015
  108. First International Workshop on Elasticity Engineering for Big Data Analytics (eBigDaC), held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2015
  109. International Conference on Data Mining, Internet Computing, and Big Data (BigData), 2015
  110. IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC) 2015
  111. International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) 2015
  112. IARIA Cloud Computing 2015
  113. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD) 2015.
  114. Intern. Workshop on Elasticity Measures for Software-Defined Environments, (col. with ICDCS) 2014
  115. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD) 2014
  116. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2014
  117. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) 2014
  118. International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) 2013
  119. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2013
  120. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) 2013
  121. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2013
  122. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) 2012
  123. Fourth IT Service Management in Distributed Computing Workshop (ITSM) 2012
  124. International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) 2012
  125. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) 2012
  126. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2012
  127. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) 2011
  128. The Mediterranean Conference of Information Systems (MCIS) 2011
  129. ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD) 2011
  130. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2011
  131. Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR) 2010, in conjunction with the ACM International Conference of Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD) 2010

Conference organization

I have been or I am currently in the organizing committee of:

  1. Chair of the 1st Workshop on SLA Data Services collocated with the 17th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2013) http://thinkcloud.unige.ch/SLAds/index.html.
  2. Chair of the 1st Workshop on Emerging Software as a Service and Analytics - ESaaSA 2015 collocated with he 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2015) http://closer.scitevents.org/ESaaSA.aspx?y=2015
  3. Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Multi-Engine Data AnaLytics (MEDAL 2016) collocated with the 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2016). http://medalworkshop2016.github.io
  4. Workshop co-chair in TransAI 2020 www.TransAI.org
  5. Organizing committee Member and Invited Speaker at our upcoming meeting "3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Cloud Computing", July 20-21, 2020 at Montreal, Canada. https://www.scientificfederation.com/cloud-science-2020/
  6. 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Cloud Computing, which will be held during July 20-21, 2020 at Montreal, Canada. www.scientificfederation.com/cloud-science-2020/
  7. Organizing Committee Member for the "World Congress on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Research" October 26-27, 2020 at Zurich, Switzerland with the theme of 'Future Technologies and Knowledge Discoveries in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics'. Artificial intelligence summit
  8. Workshop co-chair in TransAI 2021 www.TransAI.org
  9. Local Arrangement Chair for the 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2021), July 19 - 22, 2021, Athens, Greece. http://www.icccn.org
  10. Workshop organizer: Together with: Amin Kamali and Calisto Zuzarte we organized the workshop Emerging applications of machine learning in modern data management in IBM CASCONxEVOKE, 2021.
  11. Workshop chair for EDBT 2023, Ioannina, Greece. http://edbticdt2023.cs.uoi.gr/?contents=call_for_WP.html

Editing of Special Issues

  1. Guest Editor in Big Data and Cognitive Computing for the Special Issue Big Data Analytics and Cloud Data Management. www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/cloud_data
  2. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Special Issue on Big Data in for Complex Systems.
  3. Journal of Scientific Programming, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Special Issue on Big Data for Bioinformatics.
  4. Open Journal on Big Data, RonPub UG, Special Issue in preparation.
  5. Journal on Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE, Special Issue in preparation.

Member of Editorial Board

  1. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research (IJAER), Research India Publications http://www.ripublication.com/ijaer.htm
  2. Open Journal on Big Data (OJBD), RonPub UG http://www.ronpub.com/ojbd
  3. Open Journal of Databases (OJDB), RonPub UG http://www.ronpub.com/OJDB
  4. Board member of the newly established Journal of Future Robot Life (JFRL), IOS Press (https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-future-robot-life)
  5. Associate Editor, member of the Editorial Board of DAPD, Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/10619). Members of the editorial board serve for a 6-years term, where one-third of the board is replaced every two years. So, your term will end on Summer 2023.
  6. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for "AI Applications for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment" to be published by IGI Global (https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5413) (scheduled for release in 2022).
  7. Member of prestigious and honorary Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) for the "Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning" (https://www.igi-global.com/book/encyclopedia-data-science-machine-learning/276507#editor- biographies), since December 2021.

Lead Guest Editor of Special Issues for Journals

  1. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier - Special Issue of "Emerging Services for Internet of Things (IoT)" - Vol. 89: 1-2 (2017)
  2. Journal on Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE - Special Issue in preparation.
  3. Journal of Scientific Programming, Hindawi Publishing Corporation - Special Issue on Big Data for Bioinformatics (announcement expected).
  4. Lead Guest Editor in Big Data and Cognitive Computing for the Special Issue Big Data Analytics and Cloud Data Management. www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/cloud_data
  5. Lead Guest Editor in the open access journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417), to establish a Special Issue on "Big Data Analytics and Management in Internet of Things". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/data_IoT
  6. Lead Guest Editor for the research topic "Highly-Efficient Storage and Intelligent Management for Big Data" Frontiers in Big data Highly-Efficient Storage and Intelligent Management for Big Data
  7. Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue "The edge-cloud continuum: From IoT to Serverless computing" for the journal Journal of Autonomous Intelligence (eISSN: 2630-5046;http://jai.front-sci.com/index.php/jai) - in preparation.

Panel organization/chairing/participation

  1. Organization and chairing of the panel European Project Space titled ’Building Europe of 2020 with novel technological endeavours for smart and complex systems, Big Data and Future Internet’ as part of conferences SMARTGREENS, WEBIST, CLOSER, VEHITS, which took place on the 24/04/2016
  2. Participation after personal invitation in the opening panel of conferences WEBIST, CLOSER and IOTBD, which tool place on the 23/04/2016
  3. Participation after personal invitation by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the 2nd meeting for the exploration of IoT in order to assist the Government Accountability office. Topics explored in the meeting include level and type of use of IoT, challenges in IoT deployment, and key issues around security and privacy

Book editor

European Space project on Smart Systems, Big Data, Future Internet" "Towards serving the grand societal challenges", INSTICC - ongoing