2012 - Publications

Computer Science Department

Bratanis, K. (2012). Towards engineering multi-layer monitoring and adaptation of service-based applications. SEERC Technical Reports. Thessaloniki, Greece: South East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Bratanis, K. (2012). Towards engineering multi-layer monitoring and adaptation of service-based applications. Tech. Rep. CS-12-04. Sheffield, UK: Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield.

Bratanis, K., Bibikas, D., & Paraskakis, I. (2012). Enabling Cross-Language Intelligent Information Processing in Multilingual Social Networks. SEERC Technical Reports. Thessaloniki, Greece: South East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Bratanis, K., Dranidis, D., Koktsidis, P., Lazouras, L., & Nikolaidou, E. (2012). Proceedings of the 7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2012). South-East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Bratanis, K., Dranidis, D., & Simons, A. J. H. (2012). The Challenge of Engineering Multi-Layer Monitoring & Adaptation in Service- Based Applications. In K. Bratanis, D. Dranidis, P. Koktsidis, L. Lazouras, & E. Nikolaidou (Eds.), Proceedings Of the 7th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference (pp. 497–503). Thessaloniki, Greece: South-East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Dautov, R. (2012). An ontology-driven approach to self-management in cloud application platforms (Poster). In 9th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web. Cercedilla, Spain.

Dautov, R., Paraskakis, I., & Kourtesis, D. (2012). An ontology-driven approach to self-management in cloud application platforms. In Proceedings of the 7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2012) (pp. 539–550). Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dimopoulos, K. (2012). Continuous feedback for integration of software engineering knowledge and skills trough students workshops. In Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of Engineering Education Educating the Engineers of Tomorrow. Sheffield, UK: The University of Sheffield.

Dimopoulos, K. (2012). Providing knowledge and skill integration to students, through in class workshops and continuous assessment. In Proceedings of the Learning and Teaching Conference 2012 (LTC2012). Sheffield, UK: The University of Sheffield.

Downs, C., Lazuras, L., & Ketikidis, P. H. (2012). Entrepreneurship against Unemployment: The Lived Experiences of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Four Countries. In 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Santarem, Portugal.

Dranidis, D., Bratanis, K., & Ipate, F. (2012). JSXM: A Tool for Automated Test Generation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2012). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

Eleftherakis, G., Hinchey, M., & Holcombe, M. (Eds.). (2012). Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2012). LNCS, 7504. Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer.

Eleftherakis, G., Paunovski, O., Rousis, K., & Cowling, A. J. (2012). Emergent Distributed Bio-Organization: A Framework for Achieving Emergent Properties in Unstructured Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2012). Calabria, Italy: Springer.

Eleftherakis, G., Rousis, K., & Ketikidis, P. H. (2012). Innovation Resilience by Engineering Emergence. Presented at 8th HSSS National and International Conference. Thessaloniki, Greece: HSSS.

Gonidis, F., Paraskakis, I., & Kourtesis, D. (2012). Addressing the challenge of application portability in cloud platforms. In Proceedings of the 7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2012) (pp. 565–576). Thessaloniki, Greece (forthcoming).

Gonidis, F., Paraskakis, I., & Kourtesis, D. (2012). Addressing the Challenge of Application Portability in Cloud Platforms. In Proceedings of the 7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2012) (pp. 565–576). Thessaloniki, Greece.

Hatziapostolou, T., Chartomatzis, T., & Dranidis, D. (2012). Facilitating Classroom Questioning and Participation through Mobile Technologies. In Proceedings of the 2nd Inter. Conference on the Future of Education. Florence, Italy.

Kefalas, P., Ketikidis, P. H., & Ververidis, Y. (2012). An Entrepreneurial Educational Model for Knowledge Based Regional Development through Innovative Learning Practices. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development. Sofia, Bulgaria.

Kefalas, P., Stamatopoulou, I., & Basakos, D. (2012). Formal Modelling of Agents acting under Artificial Emotions. In Proceedings of the The 5th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI'12), 16-20 September, Novi Sad, Serbia. (pp. 40–45). ACM:NY.

Ketikidis, P. H., Bulata, C., & Lazuras, L. (2012). Environmental Practices in the Romanian Banking Sector: An Exploratory Study. IJENM, 5(3), 239–253.

Ketikidis, P. H., Zygiaris, S., & Zaharis, N. (2012). Regional Innovation and Competitiveness: Analysis of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Region. In Heather Fulford (Ed.), Case Studies in Innovation for Researchers, Teachers and Students. Reading, UK: Academic Publications International Limited.

Ketikidis, P. H., Dimitrovski, T., Lazuras, L., & Bath, P. (2012). Acceptance of Health Information Technology in Health Professionals: An Application of the Revised Technology Acceptance Model. HIJ, 18, 124–134.

Ketikidis, P. H., Sotiriadou, A., Hatziapostolou, T., Kefalas, P., & Solomon, A. (2012). Fusing Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship into Postgraduate Education. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Santarem, Portugal.

Ketikidis, P. H., Zygiaris, S., & Zaharis, N. (2012). Regional Innovation and Competitiveness: Analysis of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Region. In Heather Fulford (Ed.), Case Studies in Innovation for Researchers, Teachers and Students. Reading, UK: Academic Publications International Limited.

Ketikidis, P. H., Ververidis, Y., & Kefalas, P. (2012). An Entrepreneurial Model for Internationalisation of Higher Education: the Case of CITY College, an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield. In Proceedings of the Conference on Entrepreneurial Universities. Munster, Germany.

Kourtesis, D., Bratanis, K., Bibikas, D., & Paraskakis, I. (2012). Software Co-development in the Era of Cloud Application Platforms and Ecosystems: the Case of CAST. In Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services – 13th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (pp. 196–204). IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 380. Springer Boston.

Kourtesis, D., Bratanis, K., & Paraskakis, I. (2012). Continuous governance and quality control in a next-generation enterprise cloud application platform. IT Briefcase, (11 July 2012).

Kourtesis, D., Paraskakis, I., & Simons, A. J. H. (2012). Ontology-based framework for policy-driven governance in cloud application platforms. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012). Graz, Austria.

Kourtesis, D., Paraskakis, I., & Simons, A. J. H. (2012). Policy-driven governance in cloud application platforms: an ontology-based approach. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE 2012). Graz, Austria (forthcoming).

Lazuras, L., Downs, C., & Ketikidis, P. H. (2012). Entrepreneurship Against Unemployment: The Lived Experiences Of Immigrant Entrepreneurs In Four Countries. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Santarem, Portugal.

Lazuras, L., Ketikidis, P. H., & Eleftherakis, G. (2012). Facilitating Healthcare Reform through Evidence-Based Research: The Role of Technology Acceptance among Healthcare Professionals and End-Users. Presented at 1st International Conference on Medical Education Informatics. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Marconi, A., Bucchiarone, A., Bratanis, K., Brogi, A., Moreno, J. C., Dranidis, D., et al. (2012). Research Challenges on Multi-layer and Mixed-initiative Monitoring and Adaptation for Service-based Systems. In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, Workshop on European Software Services and Systems Research – Results and Challenges. IEEE.

Petreska, I., Kefalas, P., Gheorghe, M., & Stamatopoulou, I. (2012). Extending X-machines to Support Representation of Spatial 2-D Agents. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART'12) (pp. 54–61).

Pireva, K., Kefalas, P., & Cowling, T. (2012). Cloud Computing and E-learning: a Review. SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH CENTRE.

Rousis, K. (2012). Disciplined Exploitation of Emergent Properties. Thessaloniki, Greece: South-East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Rousis, K., Eleftherakis, G., & Cowling, A. J. (2012). An Engineering Perspective on Emergence. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual SEERC Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2012). Thessaloniki, Greece: South-East European Research Centre (SEERC).

Rousis, K., Eleftherakis, G., Paunovski, O., & Cowling, A. J. (2012). Formal Modelling of a Bio-Inspired Paradigm Capable of Exhibiting Emergence. In Proceedings of the 5th Balkan Conference of Informatics. Novi Sad, Serbia: ACM.

Sakellariou, I., Stamatopoulou, I., & Kefalas, P. (2012). Using Membranes to Model a Multi-Agent System towards Underground Metro Station Crowd Behaviour Simulation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities, at ECAI'12, Montpellier, France, August 28 (pp. 5–10).

Siqeca, J., Berisha, S., Krenare, P., & Hatziapostolou, T. (2012). Enhancing Personalisation and Social Interaction in Learning Management Systems. In Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Prishtina, Kosovo.

Solomon, A., Ketikidis, P. H., & Choudhary, A. (2012). A Knowledge Based Approach for Handling Supply Chain Risk Management. In Proceedings of the 5th Balkan Conference of Informatics. Novi Sad, Serbia.

Solomon, A., Ketikidis, P. H., Choudhary, A., & Tiwari, M. K. (2012). A Knowledge Based Decision Support System for Supply Chain Risk Management. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Decision Sciences Institute Conference. Istanbul, Turkey.

Stamatopoulou, I., Sakellariou, I., & Kefalas, P. (2012). Formal Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Crowd Behaviour in Emergency Evacuation Plans. Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 7-9, 2012, Athens, Greece. 1133–1138.

Szamosi, L., Kehaghias, S., & Hatziapostolou, T. (2012). Developing a Taxonomy of Innovation and Regional Development: The 5-Es. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 4(1), 1–7.

Szamosi, L. T., Kehaghias, S., & Hatziapostolou, T. (2012). Developing a Taxonomy of Innovation and Regional Development: The 5-Es. IJIRD, 4(1), 1–7.

Vejzagic-Ramhorst, A., Ketikidis, P. H., & Huggins, R. (2012). Social capital, clusters, and interpretive fuzziness: a survey of the key literature (with specific reference to economic development in South East Europe). IJIRD, 4(1), 60–78.