Housti Ekaterini

Thesis
C.E. Houstis, “The Adaptive Routing Problem for Large Store-and-Forward Computer-Communications Networks”, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN 47907, May 1977.

Book chapters

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis and J. Rice, “Partitioning and Allocation of PDE Computation to Distributed Systems”, in Modules Interfaces and Systems, Edited by B. Enguist, August 1983.

C. Houstis, T.S. Papatheodorou, V. Verykios, A. Floratos, A. Elmagarmid, “BIND: A Biomedical Interoperable Database System”, Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer and Verlag, Edited by D. Karayannis, September 1994.

Agent based systems to support multidisciplinary problem solving environments for computational science, E.N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, N. Ramakrishnan, T. Drashansky, S. Weerawarana, A. Joshi, and C.E. Houstis, to appear in Advances in Computers, (M. Zelkowitz, ed.), 1998. Also available as Purdue University Technical Report CSD-TR-97-031.

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, E. Vavalis, M. Pitikakis, G. Vasilakis, "Information Systems for Sustainable Development", book chapter in Advanced Middleware for e-Science Applied to Environmental Integrated Systems, Ideal Group Publishing, 2005.

Μετάφραση του βιβλίου Πιθανότητες, συγγραφείς Τσιτσικλής Ιωάννης, Δημήτρης Μπερτσεκάς εκδόσεις Τζιόλα 2009

Publications in peer review journals

C. Houstis, W.J. Kelly, Jr. and B.J. Leon, “Distributed Control for a Variable Length Message Store-and-Forward System”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-26, No. 4, pp. 465--470, April (1978).
C. Houstis and J.N. Daigle, “Analysis of a Task Oriented Multi-priority Queueing System”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-20, No. 11, pp. 1669--1667, November (1981).

C. Houstis and M. Wescott, “Modeling and performance of a Communications Switching Processor”, Performance Evaluation International Journal, North Holland Publishing Company, pp. 11--19, 6, (1986).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis and J.R. Rice, “Partitioning PDE computation: Methods and Performance Evaluation”, invited paper, Journal of Parallel Computing, No. 4, (1987).

Milutinovic, J.J. Grmkovic and C.E. Houstis, “A Simulation Study of the Distributed Task Allocation Procedures”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, January (1988).

C. Houstis, “Module Allocation of Real-Time Applications to Distributed Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 699--709, July (1990).

C. Houstis and M. Aboelaze, “A Comparative Performance Analysis of Mapping Applications to Parallel Multiprocessor Systems: A Case Study”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 17--21, September (1991).

C. Houstis, S. Weerawarana, E. Houstis, , J.R. Rice, A. Joshi, “ PYTHIA: A Knowledge Based System to Select Scientific Algorithms “, ACM Trans. Math. Software, 23, (1997), 447-468.

C. Houstis, S. Kapidakis, E. Markatos, E. Gelenbe, “Execution of Compute Intensive Applications into Parallel Machines”, Information Sciences, invited paper, Special Issue: Load Balancing in Distributed Systems, Vol. 97, Numbers 1 and 2, pp83-124, 1997.

C. Houstis, C. Nikolaou, M. Marazakis, N. Patrikalakis, J. Sairamesh, A. Thomasic, “THETIS: Design of a Data Repositories Collection and Data Visualization System for Coastal Zone management of the Mediterranean Sea”, invited publication, D-Lib magazine , The Magazine for Digital Library Research , November 1997, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november97/thetis/11thetis.html

C. Houstis, Apostolos Zaras, “Load Balancing for Grid Based Problems in Computational Science and Engineering”, accepted for publication in the International Journal of High Speed Computing, to appear

C. Houstis, C. Nikolaou, S. Lalis, S. Kapidakis, V. Christophides, A. Tomasic, E. Simon, “Towards a next generation of open scientific data repositories and services”, Invited paper, special issue on Digital Libraries, CWI Quarterly (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) Amsterdam Netherlands, Vol 12, No 2, 1999

C. Houstis, H. Tsalapata, S. Lalis, “THETIS: An open architecture for Environmental Information Management” invited paper. To be published in a special issue of the Journal Systems Analysis Modeling and Simulation, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers under the editorship of Isabelle Herlin in co-operation with the Program Committee, March 1999

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, M. Pitikakis, G. Vasilakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas,"A grid service-based infrastructure for accessing scientific collections: The case of the ARION system", The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 17, No 3, Fall 2003, pp.269-280.

A Service Infrastructure for e-Science: The Case of the ARION System, with C. Houstis, S. Lalis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, M. Pitikakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas, X. Gikas, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2512(2002) 175-187.

Building Ontologies of Environmental Applications for a Digital Library of Scientific Collections with C. Stefanakos, T. Gerostahis, G. Athanasoulis, C. Houstis, In Environmental Communication in the Information Society, (Enviro Info 2002), Vol 1, (2002) 436-439.

A Knowledge Management Architecture for 3D Shapes and Applications, with M. Pitikakis, C. Houstis, G. Vasilakis, Proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI05), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, (2005).

An Advanced Middleware for e-Science Applied to Environmental Integrated Systems with C. Houstis, S. Lalis, M. Pitikakis and G. Vasilakis, Information Systems for Sustainable Development, (L. Hilty, E. Seifert and R. Treibert, eds.), Idea Group Publ., (2005) 76-93.

Articles in conferences

C. Houstis and B.J. Leon, “An Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Large Computer-Communications Networks”, National Telecommunications Conference Record, Los Angeles, CA, Vol. 2, pp. 28:5--1, to 28:5--6, December (1977).

C. Houstis and B.J. Leon, “Priority Queueing for the AUTODIN Store-and-Forward Network”, Conference Proceedings on Decision and Control, Vol. 1, pp. 826--830 December (1977).

C. Houstis and J.N. Daigle, “A Preemptive Priority Queueing Analysis and Application to a Terminal Controller in a Communications Environment”, National Telecommunications Conference Proceedings, pp. 13.3.1--13.3.6 November (1979).

C. Houstis, “Performance Evaluation of a Data Base System”, presented in the 12th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory in Virginia Beach, Virginia}, May 19--20 (1980).

C. Houstis, “A Performance Simulation Study of Task Oriented Multi-priority Communication Processor Models”, Conference Proceeding Record, SOUTHEASTCON '82, Sandestin, Destin, Florida, pp. 307--310 April (1982).

C. Houstis and M. Wescott, “Performance Evaluation of a Communications Switching Processor”, Presented in the Poster Session of the International Conference on Computer Communications held in London}, September (1982).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis and J.R. Rice, “Partitioning and Allocation of PDE Computations to Distributed Systems”, Proceedings of the IFIP TC.2 Working Conference on PDE Software: Modules Interfaces and Systems, Soderkoping Sweden, August (1983).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis and J.R. Rice, “Performance Evaluation Models for Distributed Computing”, presented to the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, November (1985).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis and J.R. Rice, “Partitioning PDE computation: Methods and Performance Evaluation”, International Conference on Vector and Parallel Computing, Loen Norway, June 5 (1986).

C. Houstis, “Distributed Processing Performance Evaluation”, Third International Conference on Data Communication Systems and Their Performance, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22--25 (1987).

C. Houstis and M. Aboelaze, “Mapping Applications to Multiple Bus and Banyan Interconnected Distributed Systems”, International Conference on Supercomputing, Athens, Greece, June 8--12 (1987).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis, J.R. Rice and M. Samartzis, “Benchmarking of Bus Multiprocessor Hardware on Large Scale Scientific Computing”, International Association for Mathematics and Computers and Simulation, (IMACS), Lehigh University, Bethlesa, Pennsylvania,June 22--25 (1987).

C. Houstis, “Allocation of Real-Time Applications to Distributed Systems”, 1987 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 17--21 (1987).

C.Houstis, “The Algorithm Mapper: A System for Modeling and Evaluating Parallel Application/Architecture Pairs”, Workshop on Expert Systems for Scientific Computing, West Lafayette, Indiana, December (1988).

C. Houstis, N. Chrisochoides, E.N. Houstis, S.K. Kortesis and J.R. Rice, “Automatic Load Balanced Partitioning Strategies for PDE Computations”, International Conference on Supercomputing, Crete, Greece, June (1989).

C. Houstis and M. Aboelaze, “Delay Analysis of the Ncube Network”, Presented by the First Great Lake Computer Science Conference, October 18--20 (1989).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis, M. Katzouraki, T.S. Papatheodorou, J.R. Rice and P. Varodoglou, “ATHENA: A Software System for //ELLPACK”, The Second International Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing, W. Lafayette, IN, April (1990).

Chrisochoides, C.E. Houstis, E.N. Houstis, P.N. Papachiou and S.K. Kortesis, “Domain Decomposer: A Software Tool for Mapping PDE Computations to Parallel Architectures”, Fourth International Symposium on Domain Decomposition, Moscow, May (1990).

Marinescu, J.R. Rice, B. Waltburger, C.E. Houstis, T. Kunt and H. Waldeschmidt, “Distributed Supercomputing”, Future Trends 90, Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems Proceedings, September 30 -- October 2, Cairo, Egypt (1990).

C. Houstis and N. Katsanou, “A Framework for a Relational Approach in a Multi-Agent Environment”, International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems, University of Keele, Staffordshire, England, October 3--5 (1990).

Aboelaze and C.E. Houstis, “A Comparative Delay Analysis for the NCUBE Network and the Mesh Method”, Fifth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cappadocia, Turkey, October 30 -- November 2 (1990).

Chrisochoides, E.N. Houstis and C.E. Houstis, “Geometry Based Mapping Strategies for PDE Computations”, International Conference on Supercomputing Proceedings, Cologne, Germany, June 17--21 (1991).

Aboelaze, N.P. Chrisochoides, E.N. Houstis and C.E. Houstis, “The Parallelization of Level 2 and 3 BLAS Operations on Distributed Memory Machines”, Second International Conference of the Austrian Center for Parallel Computation, September 30 -- October 2, Salzburg, Austria (1991).

Houstis, E.N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, P. Varodoglou and T.S. Papatheodorou, “ATHENA: A Knowledge Base System for //ELLPACK”, International Conference on Symbolic-Numeric Data Analysis and Learning. (Edited by E. Diday and Y. Lechevalliev), Nova Science Publisher, pp. 459--467, (1991).

C. Houstis, E.N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, P. Varodoglou, S. Weerawarana, “PYTHIA: An Expert System for PDE Based Problem Solving Environments”, Proceedings of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), an Intelligent Scientific Computation}, Boston, October 23--25, (1992).

C. Houstis, T.S. Papatheodorou, V. Verykios, A. Floratos, A. Elmagarmid, “BIND: A Biomedical Interoperable Database System”, DEXA'94, the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, September 7-9, Athens, Greece. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, by Springer and Verlag, September 1994.

C. Houstis, “Load Balancing for Grid Based Problems in Computational Science and Engineering”, Lydia Workshop, Heraklion Crete, November 25--26, 1994.

C. Nikolaou, T. Saridakis, E. Markatos, C. Houstis, A. Zarras “Array Tracer: A Parallel Performance and Analysis Tool”, Lydia workshop, Dortmund, Germany, April 1995.

C. Nikolaou, C. Houstis, J. Sairamesh, N. Patrikalakis,”Impact of Scientific Advanced Networks for the Transfer of Knowledge and Technology in the field of Coastal Zones”, Euromediterranean Workshop on Coastal Zone Management, invited presentation, Alexandria Egypt, November 1996.

C. Nikolaou, D. Papadakis, M. Marazakis, C. Houstis, P. Constanta, “An infrastructure to support Information Economies”, white paper presentation, First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Piza, Italy, September 1997.

C. Houstis, C. Nikolaou, S. Lalis, S. Kapidakis, V. Chrisophides, ‘Open Scientific Data Repositories Architecture’, invited position paper, Invitational Workshop on Distributed Information, Computation and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering Environments proceedings, (edited by N. Patrikalakis), NSF sponsord, Washigton DC, May 15-16, 1998

V. Christophides, C. Houstis S. Lalis, H. Tsalapata, “ Ontology based Integration of Scientific Repositories” accepted for publication The Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS'99) Havat Habaron Hotel Zichron-Yaakov, Israel July 5-8, 1999, to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer and Verlag

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, H. Tsalapata, “THETIS: An Environmental Information System for the support of Coastal Zone management”, invited paper, PETRA Workshop, IT Applied to Natural Resources Management, Petra-Jordan, May 29- June 1, 1999

C. Houstis, H. Tsalapata, S. Lalis, “THETIS: An open architecture for Environmental Information Management” invited paper, 5th ERCIM Environmental Modeling group workshop, Information Systems for Environmental Modeling, Palais de Congrais, Versailles, France, June 3-4, 1999. To be published in a special issue of the journal Systems Analysis Modeling Simulation, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers under the editorship of Isabelle Herlin in co-operation with the Program Committee.

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, "ARION: A Scalable Architecture for a Digital Library of Scientific Collections" ,8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, November 2001

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, V.Christophides, D. Plexousakis, M. Vavalis, M. Pitikakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas, X. Gikas, "A Service infrastructure for e-Science: the case of the ARION system", presented to the E-Services and the Semantic Web workshop (ESSW2002).

C. Stefanakos, T. Gerostathis, G. Athanasoulis, C. Houstis, E. Vavalis, "Building Ontologies of Enviromental Applications for a Digital Library of Scientific Collections", an extended abstract for the 16th International Symposium Environmental Informatics 2002 (Enviro Info 2002).

C. Houstis, S. Lalis, V.Christophides, D. Plexousakis, E. Vavalis, M. Pitikakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas,"A Data, Computation and Knowledge Grid: the case of the ARION system", 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2003), 23-26 April 2003, Angers, France.

C. Houstis, M. Pitikakis, G. Vasilakis and M. Vavalis, "Semantic Web Technologies for Searching, Retrieving and Adding Value to Large Scale Scientific Data", PV-2004 Symposium, Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to the Scientific and Technical Data, European Space Agency, ESRIN Centre, Frascati, Italy, 5 - 7 October 2004.

B. Falcidieno, M. Spagnuolo, P. Alliez, E. Quak, E. Vavalis and C. Houstis, "Towards the Semantics of Digital Shapes: The AIM@SHAPE Approach", European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, EWIMT 2004, London, UK, November 25-26, 2004.

S. Lalis, C. Houstis, M. Pitikakis, G. Vasilakis, M. Vavalis, “Providing support for integrated scientific computing: Metacomputing meets the Semantic Web and Grid”, Cluster Computing and Grid 2005 (CCGRID05) 9-12 May 2005

A Data, Computation and Knowledge Grid: the case of the ARION system ", with C. Houstis, S. Lalis, V. Christophides, D. Plexousakis, M. Pitikakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2003), (2003).

Towards Semantics of Digital Shapes: the AIM@SHAPE approach, with B. Falcidieno, M. Spagnuolo, P. Alliez, E. Quak, C. Houstis, Proceedings of the 1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS 2004), (2004).

Semantic Web Technologies for Searching, Retrieving and Adding Value to Large Scale Scientific Data, with M. Pitikakis, C. Houstis, G. Vasilakis, Proceedings of the Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to the Scientific and Technical Data Workshop, ESA WPP-232, (2004) 151-158.

Providing Support for Integrated Scientific Computing: Metacomputing meets the Semantic Web and the Grid, with S. Lalis. C. Houstis, M. Pitikakis, G. Vasilakis, Proceeding of the Cluster Computing and GRID (CCGrid 2005), (2005).

A Semantic Based Search Engine for 3D Shapes : Design and Early Prototype Implementation, with G. Vasilakis, M. Pitikakis and C. Houstis, Proceedings of 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT05), (2005).

FOCUS K3D: Promoting the Use of Knowledge Intensive 3D, with B. Falcidieno, M. Pitikakis, M. Spanguolo and C. Houstis, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia – Project Papers (VSMM 2008) (2008) , 329-333.

Εργασίες σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά χωρίς κρίση

C. Houstis, “A Data Management and Visualisation System for Coastal Zone Management of the Mediterranean”, special issue on Environmental Modelling, ERCIM NEWS Number 34, July 1998

The THETIS system, appeared in the September issue of Scientific Computing World Institute of Physics Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE UK, written by Ian Horsewell, journalist, after an interview via the Internet, September 1998
C. Houstis, S. Lalis, "ARION:An Advanced Lightweight Software System Architecture for accessing Scientific Collections", article in Cultivate Interactive, issue 4, May 2001

Education

Θέση στο Ίδρυμα :Τακτική καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μηχανικών Η/Υ Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Δικτύων, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας

Διπλωματούχος Ηλεκτρολόγος Μηχανικός του Electrical Engineering Dept. του Πανεπιστημίου του Purdue, ΗΠΑ, BSEE, 1972. Master of Science, ηλεκτρολόγου μηχανικού, από το Electrical Engineering Dept. του Πανεπιστημίου του Purdue, MSEE, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, από το Electrical Engineering Dept. του Πανεπιστημίου του Purdue, Ph.D., 1977.

Professional experience

Δεκέμβρης 2002 σήμερα
Καθηγήτρια τμήματος υπολογιστών τηλεπικοινωνιών & Δικτύων του Πανεπιστήμιου Θεσσαλίας

Μάρτιος-2006 σήμερα
Ερευνήτρια Ινστιτούτου Imronics KΕΤΕΑΘ

Ιανουάριος-2000
Καθηγήτρια τμήματος Η/Υ του Πανεπιστήμιου Κρήτης

Ιανουάριος 2000–2002
Ερευνήτρια Ινστιτούτου Πληροφορικής & Τηλεματικής ΕΚΕΤΑ

Σεπτέμβριος 1987-1999Αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια του Τμήματος Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών, του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης.

Ιούλιος-1998 Επί κεφαλής του εργαστηρίου κατανεμημένων Συστημάτων του ΙΤΕ

Σεπτέμβριος 1992-1999
Ερευνήτρια του Ινστιτούτου Πληροφορικής του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας και Ερευνας.

Αύγουστος 1990 - Σεπτέμβριος 1991
Associate Professor (sabbatical), Computer Science Department, Purdue University.

Αύγουστος 1984 - Αύγουστος 1987
Associate Professor (visiting), Purdue University, Electrical Engineering Department.

Ιούνιος 1983 - Αύγουστος 1984
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of South Carolina, Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department.

Αύγουστος 1979-Μάιος 1983
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Σεπτέμβριος 1978-Αύγουστος 1979
Research Associate, NCR Corporation, Advanced Systems Development Dept.

Ιανουάριος 1979-Μάιος 1979
Teaching (part-time), University of South Carolina, Electrical Engineering Department.

Ιούνιος 1979 - Αύγουστος 1979
Research Associate, University of South Carolina, Electrical Engineering Department.

Ιούνιος 1977 - Μάιος 1978
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, Electrical Engineering Department.

Σεπτέμβριος 1973 - Μάιος 1977
Research Assistant, Purdue University, Electrical Engineering Department.

Ιανουάριος 1973 - Μάιος 1977
Teaching Assistant, Purdue University, Electrical Engineering Department.

Απρίλιος 1984
Εκλέχτηκε σαν αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια του Τμήματος Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών,
του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης.

Work experience in industry environment

Συμπλήρωσε τα παρακάτω μαθήματα στην εταιρεία NCR (National Cashier Register) στην πόλη Columbia των ΗΠΑ.

“Firmware Virtual Executive”, Operating Software Module used for I/O Processing.
“RAP80 Assembly Language”, used with the Inter 8080 Microprocessor.
“Computer Architecture”, book used “Advances in Computer Architecture”, G.J. Meyers.
“Microcomputer Interactive Terminal System”, Operating System for the MCS (Microcomputer System).

Projects experience

Στις ερευνητικές προτάσεις 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 16 έγραψα την ολοκληρωμένη πρόταση. Στις προτάσεις 17, 18, 19 καθώς και στις προτάσεις που εκκρεμούν συνέβαλλα στην εγγραφή τους και στις υπόλοιπες ερευνητικές προτάσεις εργάστηκα στην εκτέλεση τους.

Principal Investigator: C. E. Houstis,
Research and Productive Scholarship Grants, University of South Carolina, “Comparison of Input/output models and queueing models”, December 1979, $4,019.

Principal Investigator: C. E. Houstis,
Engineering Foundation, Research Initiation Grant, “Software Partitioning in a Distributed Environment”, June 1981, $14,000.

Principal Investigator: C. E. Houstis,
National Science Foundation, Travel Award Grant, to attend the International Conference on Computer Communications, London, U. Kingdom, August 1982, $804.00.

Principal Investigator: C. E. Houstis,
National Science Foundation, “Performance Prediction of Applications / Distributed Systems Pairs”, July 1985, $76,360.

ESPRIT project SPAN, member of the consortium. Worked on “Parallel Computer Systems for Integrated Numeric and Symbolic Processing”, November 1986, $2,500,000.

Principle Investigators: Casavant, T., Delp, E. J., Fortes, J. A., Houstis, C., Houstis, E., Jamieson, L., Koserasu, S., Mehrotra, Rice, J. R., “A Hypercube Multiprocessor”, $65,000 funded by National Science Foundation, June 1987.

ESPRIT project BANK 92, member of the consortium. Working on “Bank Related Network Applications”, April 1988, $200,000.

ESPRIT project GENESIS, member of the consortium. Worked on “Mapping of Scientific Libraries into Parallel Machines”, December 1988, $1,500,000.

Principle Investigators: C.E. Houstis, D.C. Marinescu, “Performance TechnologyTradeoffs for Very Large Shared Memory Computer Systems”, NATO Research Collaborative grant, $6,080, December 1989.

Principle Investigators: C.E. Houstis, D.C. Marinescu, “Distributed Supercomputing”, NATO Research Collaborative grant, $7,050, (renewal), December 1990.

AIM project BEAM, member of the consortium. Working on a “Biomedical Interoperable Database System”, November 1992, $3,500,000.

ESPRIT project PPPE, member of the consortium. Working on “Portable Parallel Processing Environments”, December 1992, $3,000,000.

RACE Project TOPIC, subcontractor from INTRACOM, member of the consortium. Working on a “Toolset for protocol and Advanced Service Verification in IBC Environments”, May 1992. Renewed January 1994, 9,000,000 Drx.

AIM Project BEAMEX, member of the consortium, one year extension of project BEAM, January 1994, $500,000.

ESPRIT Basic Research Project, LYDIA, member of the consortium, “Load Balancing on High Performance Systems”, May 1994. $4,000,000.

TELEMATICS on Research Project THETIS: “A data management and data visualization system for supporting Coastal Zone management of the Mediterranean Sea”, Project Manager, member of the consortium, July 1997, 2,600,000 ECUs

NATO grant, principle investigators, Nicholas Patrikalakis, Xrhstos Nikolaou, Catherine Houstis, “Networked Scientific Repositories”, December 1997 , $7,000

E.Π.E.A.E.K., ‘Ομόσπονδο Σύστημα Πανεπιστημιακού Εκπαιδευτικού Υλικού’, χρηματοδότηση από Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Ιανουάριος 1998, 316,000,000 Δρχ.

E.Π.E.A.E.K. ‘Πρόγραμμα Εκπαίδευσης εξ Αποστάσεως του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης’, χρηματοδότηση από Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Ιανουάριος 1998, 60,000,000 Δρχ.

ESPRIT, DECAIR: Development of an Earth Observation Data Converter with Application to Air Quality Forecast, funded January 1999, 116,000 ΕCUs (ICS-FORTH funded participation), member of the consortium (C. Houstis)
ΕΠΕΤ ΙΙ, Electronic System for the implementation of services in Tourism, funded April 1999 (ICS-FORTH funded participation 150,000,000 Drx.), member of the consortium (C. Houstis)

ARION - An Advanced Lightweight Architecture for Accessing Scientific Collections IST-2000-25289 January 2000, ICS-FORTH, coordinator (C. Houstis), 2,774,702 Euro

TEASE - Telematics Architecture Study for Environment and Security IST-2000-29397, July 2001, ICS-FORTH consortium member (C. Houstis) 490,129 Euro

Aim@shape- Advanced and innovative models and tools for the development of Semantic-based systems for Handling, Aquiring, and Processing Knowledge Embedded in multi-dimensional objects. Network of Excellence January 2004-2008 7,500,000 Euros, ITI/CERTH contribution 408,000, member of the consortium (C. Houstis)

Portal: Βιωσιμης αναπτυξης ΥΠΑΝ (Υπουργειου Αναπτηξης) ITI/CERTH 130,000Euros Ιούλιος 2003-Απρίλιος 2004

FOCUS K3D : Foster the comprehension, adoption and use of knowledge intensive technologies for coding and sharing 3D media content in consolidate and emerging application communities Mάρτιος 2008 – 20010 ΕU 150,000 member of the consortium.

Congress organization

Συνέδριο: 1984 Ιnternational Symposium on Performance of Computer-Communication Systems, Zurich, March 21-23, 1984. Sponsored by IFIP-WG7.3, IFIP-TC6: International Federation of Information Processing, ITC, International Teletraffic Congress, IBM, Zurich Research Laboratory.
Δραστηριότητα: Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής του συνεδρίου, και προεδρίας της συνεδρίασης, Chairing of a session on “Allocation and Scheduling of Resources in Computer Networks”.

Συνέδριο: International Conference on Supercomputing.
Δραστηριότητα: Προήδρευση σε συνεδριάσεις πολλών συνεδρίων (ετήσιo παγκόσμιο συνέδριο).

Συνέδριο: Computer Graphics International 1998 (CGI 98) Conference, June 98
Δραστηριότητα : Μέλος της οργανωτικής επιτροπής του συνεδρίου

Συνέδριο: Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Σεπτέβρης 1998
Δραστηριότητα: Οργάνωση συζήτησης σχετική με μεταδεδομένα επιστημονικών βάσεων δεδομένων

Συνέδριο: The second International Conference on Semantic Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2007) Genova IT
Δραστηριότητα: Workshop Committee
SAMT 2009 (Workshop Committee member)

Memberships in scientific societies

Εταιρεία: ΙΕΕΕ (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος, 1977 μέχρι σήμερα.

Εταιρεία: European Special Interest Group on Distributed Systems.
Working group: Configurable Distributed System, Management of Distributed Systems.
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος.

Reviewer

1978 - σήμερα ΙΕΕΕ Transactions on Communications
1980 – 1982 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1983 - σήμερα IEEE Transactions on Computers
1989 - σήμερα IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
1991 - σήμερα IEEE Transactions on Distributed Computing

Συμβολή σε Επιστημονικά Περιοδικά
International Scientific committee member of the “MEDITERRANEAN MAGAZINE” Science, Training & Technology, published by the Italian National Research Council, office for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with Mediterranean Countries, since March 1997

Διδακτικό έργο:
Εχω διδάξει σε δύο Πανεπιστήμια των ΗΠΑ, στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Νότιας Καρολίνας στο Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών, και στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Purdue στο Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και στο Τμήμα Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών. Από το 1987, μέχρι σήμερα διδάσκω στο Τμήμα Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης.

Διδακτικό έργο στις ΗΠΑ:

Προπτυχιακά μαθήματα

ENGR (U.S.C.) (undergraduate) title: Introduction to Probability Theory

ENGR (U.S.C.) (senior, graduate) title: Introduction to Computer Communications
ENGR (U.S.C.) (undergraduate) title: Introduction to Logic Design
ENGR (U.S.C.) (undergraduate) title: Theory of Automatic Control
ENGR (U.S.C.) (senior, graduate) title: Computer Organization
EE (Purdue) (undergraduate) title: Probabilistic methods of signal and systems analysis
EE (Purdue) (undergraduate) title: Introduction to digital logic design
EE (Purdue) (undergraduate) title: Linear Circuit Analysis II
EE (Purdue) (undergraduate) title: Linear Circuit Analysis I
CS (Purdue) (undergraduate) title: Computer Architecture

Μεταπτυχιακά μαθήματα

ENGR (U.S.C.) (senior, graduate) title: Introduction to Computer Communications
ENGR (U.S.C.) (graduate) title: Computer Systems Performance Evaluation
ENGR (U.S.C.) (graduate) title: Computer Communications
ENGR (U.S.C.) (senior, graduate) title: Computer Organization
EE (Purdue) (graduate) title: Random variables and signals

Διδακτικό έργο στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης, Τμήμα Επιστήμης Υπολογιστών.

Προπτυχιακά μαθήματα

ΗΥ-435 Δίκτυα Υπολογιστών. Μάθημα Επιλογής.
ΗΥ-345 Λειτουργικά Συστήματα. Μάθημα κορμού.
ΗΥ-217 Πιθανότητες Ι. Μάθημα επιλογής.
ΗΥ-317 Απόδοση Συστημάτων Υπολογιστών. Μάθημα επιλογής.

Μεταπτυχιακά μαθήματα

ΗΥ-535 Μοντελοποίηση Υπολογιστικών Συστημάτων μέσω του δικτύου του Πέτρι (Petri-nets).

ΗΥ-535 Δίκτυα Υπολογιστών (απαιτήσεις: ΗΥ-435 και μία μεταπτυχιακή εργασία).
ΗΥ-535 Ολοκληρωμένης Εξυπηρέτησης Ψηφιακά Δίκτυα (ISDNs).
ΗΥ-543 Παράλληλοι Υπολογιστές και Παράλληλος Προγραμματισμός.
ΗΥ-687 Παράλληλοι Υπολογισμοί: Ανάλυση και Απόδοση.

Διδακτικό έργο στο Θεσσαλίας, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Ηλεκτρονικών Υπολογιστών

Προπτυχιακά μαθήματα

ΗΥ-205 Πιθανότητες, Υποχρεωτικό.
ΗΥ-307 Μοντελοποίηση και Απόδοση Συστημάτων Υπολογιστών, Υποχρεωτικό.

Μεταπτυχιακά μαθήματα
ΗΥ- 490 Διαδικτυακά Συστήματα.

Αλλες διδακτικές δραστηριότητες

Δίδαξα Δίκτυα Υπολογιστών, σεμινάριο 3 εβδομάδων, στα πλαίσια προγράμματος επιμόρφωσης καθηγητών μέσης εκπαίδευσης, οργανωμένο από το Ινστιτούτο Εφαρμοσμένων Μαθηματικών, Ιδρυμα Τεχνολογίας και Ερευνας, Φθινόπωρο 1991.

Μεταπτυχιακές Εργασίες που επέβλεψα

Robert Heath, “A Real Time Executive for the Motorola 6800”, Electrical and Computer Engineering, master thesis (second reader), Spring 1980.

Danny Fung, “Performance Evaluation of a Computer System”, Computer Science Dept., master thesis (second reader), Fall 1980.

Grace Lo, “Office Information Systems”, Computer Science Dept., master thesis (second reader), Fall 1980.

Yea-Sem Lim, “Performance of a Central Server Model”, Computer Science Dept., master thesis (second reader), Fall 1981.

Mokhtar Aboelaze, “Module Allocation in Multiprocessor System Using Petri Nets”, master thesis (first reader), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Summer 1983.

Αλαμάνος Ερωτόκριτος, “Ενα σύστημα για την αποδοτική εκτέλεση σύγχρονων παραλλήλων
αλγορίθμων σε τοπικό δίκτυο υπολογιστών”, μεταπτυχιακό δίπλωμα εξειδίκευσης, Νοέμβρης 1992.
Απόστολος Ζάρρας, Array Tracer: Ανάλυση και Οπτικοποίηση της Επίδοσης Παραλλήλων Εφαρμογών, μεταπτυχιακό δίπλωμα εξειδίκευσης, επίβλεψη σε συνεργασία με τον Χρήστο Νικολάου, Δεκέβρης 1996.

Κυριάκος Κριτικός, Ένα σύστημα υλοποίησης ροών εργασίας για το σύσστημα ΑΡΙΟΝ.
Δεκέβρης 2002.
Αντώνης Σμαρδάς Σύστημα εκτέλεσης και διαχείρησης ροών εργασίας στο ΑΡΙΟΝ
Ιανουάριος 2003

Εργασίες υπό επίβλεψη

Διπλωματικές εργασίες
Μίλτος Μαρκέτης, Μελέτη Απόδοσης αρχιτεκτονικής μεταδεδομένωνΠρακτική Ασκηση

Γρηγόρης Καρβουναράκης. Θέμα: Διερεύνηση και υλοποίηση εργαλείων αυτόματης αρχειοθέτησης στο σύστημα DIENST, Χρονικό διάστημα 6 μήνες, επόπτης στο ΙΤΕ, Σαράντος Καπιδάκης

Ιάκωβος Μαυροειδής. Θέμα: Αναπαράσταση φυσικών διαδικασιών μέσω της γλώσσας VRML, Χρονικό διάστειμμα 6 μήνες, επόπτης στο ΙΤΕ, Σαράντος Καπιδάκης

Παναγιώτης Αλεξακος,Θέμα: Χρήση προγραμματισμού σε JAVA για την αναπαράσταση αντικειμένων σε προχωρημένες σελίδες του WWW. Χρονικό διάστημα 6 μήνες, επόπτης στο ΙΤΕ, Σαράντος Καπιδάκη

Γιώργος Σαπουντζής. Θέμα: Διερεύνηση των client/ servers πρωτοκόλων Z39.50 για μηχανισμούς πιστωποίησης. Χρονικό διάστημα 6 μήνες, επόπτης στο ΙΤΕ, Σαράντος Καπιδάκης.

Διοικητικό Εργο, συμμετοχή σε επιτροπές

Επιτροπή: Seminar presentations by Academic and Industrial speakers (U.S.C.)
Δραστηριότητες: Οργανώτρια
Επιτροπή: Student petitions (U.S.C.)
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος
Επιτροπή: Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (U.S.C.)
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος
Επιτροπή: PhD. exam committee (U.S.C.)
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος
Επιτροπή: Computer Engineering area committee (Purdue University)
Δραστηριότητες:Μέλος
Επιτροπή: Προπτυχιακών σπουδών (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης)
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος
Επιτροπή: Αξιολόγησης του Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης
Δραστηριότητες: Μέλος
Επιτροπή: Διεθνών Σχέσεων Πανεπιστημίου Κρήτης
Δραστηριότητες: Αναπληρωματικό Μέλος
Επιτροπή:Μετεγγραφών Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας

Παρουσίαση Ερευνητικού Εργου σε σεμινάρια (κατόπιν πρόσκλησης)

“The Routing problem of Large Computer Communications Networks”.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 1977. University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1977. University of Illinois at Urbana, Spring 1977. University of Notre Dame, Spring 1977. IBM Thomas Watson Center, Fall 1977. Bell Laboratories, Spring 1977. Pennsylvania State University, Spring 1978. Michigan State University, Spring 1978. University of South Carolina, Spring 1979.

“Analysis of a Task Oriented Multipriority Queueing System”.
Clemson University, Fall 1980. Bell Laboratories, Spring 1981 University of South Carolina, Business School, Spring 82.

“Allocation of Real Time Applications to Distributed Systems”.
University of Iraklion Crete, Greece, Computer Science Workshop, July 1984.
Purdue University, Spring 1984.

“The Mapping Problem: An Allocation of Applications to Distributed Systems”.
Parallel Processing Seminar, Electrical Engineering Department, Purdue University, February 1987.

“A Heuristic Algorithm for the Mapping Problem”.
National Research Institute, invited by the Greek Ministry of education, Athens, Greece, Fall 1988. Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece, Spring 1989.

“Mapping Computations on Parallel Machines”.
Bellcore Corporation, Murray Hill, Fall 1989.

“Geometry Based Mapping Strategies for Parallel Systems”.
Electrical Engineering Department, University of Thessaloniki, Spring 1992.

“Impact of Networked Scientific Repositories for the Mediterranean Coastal Zones”, invited talk by the Italian National Research Council, office for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with Mediterranean Countries, Capri IT, April 1996