Curriculum Vitae Georgios Meditskos, Postdoctoral Research Associate Semantic Web, Knowledge Representation & Reasoning 1. PERSONAL DETAILS Work Address Home Address Birth Date 22 August, 1981 Birth Place Marital Status Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), 57001, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece Petrou Levanti 63, Panorama, 55236, Thessaloniki, Greece Thessaloniki, Greece Married Military Obligations Fulfilled (10/11/2009 10/08/2010) Email gmeditsk@iti.gr, gmeditsk@gmail.com Phone (mobile) 00306948402484, (home) 00302310345162, (work) 00302311257734 2. EDUCATION 2004-2009 PhD in Informatics Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grade: Excellent Thesis: «Semantic Web Service Discovery and Entailment-based OWL Ontology Reasoning» 2005-2007 MSc in Information Systems Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grade: 9.31/10 2000-2004 BSc in Informatics Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Grade: 8.3/10 3. FOREIGN LANGUAGES English - Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE), University of Cambridge - Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE), University of Michigan - 1 -
4. PROGRAMMING SKILLS Very Good Good Java, ASP.NET C#, jquery, Prolog, CLIPS C/C++, JSF, Ruby on Rails, Databases (MySQL, SQL Server) 5. SCHOLARSHIPS 2008 Semantic Web Science Association Paper presentation in 7 th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), October 26-30, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany 2005-2008 Intelligent Management of Semantic Web Services Funded by the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Development PENED 2005-2006 Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship for postgraduate studies in Greece 6. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011 Lecturer in IEK Thermis for a total of 50 hours in the specialty of Informatics Applications Specialist (C Programming Language) Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course Advanced Programming Principles, Dept. of Informatics, AUTh Teaching of the undergraduate course Object-Oriented Programming in Java, Dept. of Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Western Macedonia Scientific Assistant of the undergraduate course Informatics II, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki 2010 Lecturer in IEK Thermis for a total of 28 hours in the specialty of Informatics Applications Specialist (Introduction to Informatics) Teaching Assistant of the undergraduate course Logic and Functional Programming (Prolog), Dept. Informatics, AUTh Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course Basic Programming Principles, Dept. of Informatics, AUTh Scientific Assistant of the undergraduate course Informatics I, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki - 2 -
7. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES My research interests belong to the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in the Semantic Web (OWL, DL and Rule-based reasoning), Semantic Web Service management (description, discovery, composition) and context-aware multi-sensor reasoning and fusion in Pervasive Environments. In specific, I have worked/i am still working on the following topics: OWL ontology reasoning systems based on object-oriented production rule engines (CLIPS, Drools). Combination of production rule engines and DL reasoning systems. Efficient algorithms for Semantic Web Service discovery and composition using production rules engines. Knowledge-driven recognition of human activities Fusion and integration of heterogeneous sensor data PC Member Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering Workshop International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations South East European Doctoral Student Conference International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence International Semantic Web Conference (Poster/Demo Session) International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics International Workshop on Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-society ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval Knowledge and Systems Engineering Web Information System Engineering International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications Reviewer for the following journals: Data and Knowledge Engineering IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Journal of Web Semantics Distributed and Parallel Databases Expert Systems with Applications Information Sciences International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 3 -
8. RESEARCH PROJECTS 2012 - now Dem@Care: Dementia Ambient Care - Multi-Sensing Monitoring for Intelligent Remote Management and Decision Support, EU FP7 Project, contract No. 288199 2013 PERICLES: Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics, funded under FP7 ICT Call 9 and addressing work programme objective ICT-2011.4.3 Digital Preservation PaaSport: The PAAS Marketplace Research Project, EU FP7 Project, contract No. 605193 2011 IRIS: Integrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System, in cooperation with the Civil Engineering Dept. of AUTH (funded by the European Union, FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, CP-IP 213968-2) OPEN-SME: Open-Source Software Reuse Service for SMEs, funded by EU under the FP7 framework - FP7-SME-2008-2 / 243768 Knowledge Management at the department of Human resources management : Stage 1, Representation and formalization of critical procedures, Region of Central Macedonia 2009 A Semantic Web Architecture for Model based Safety Engineering In cooperation with Gnomon Informatics S.A and Ellidiss Technologies, France (European Space Agency, AO/1-5819/08/NL/CB) Transforming OWL ontologies into the CLIPS rule system In cooperation with the Blue Elephant GmbH, Wollgrasweg 49, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany 2006-2008 DR-SWEC: Building agent-based Semantic Web e-commerce application prototypes using the defeasible reasoning formalism Scientific and Technological Cooperation between RTD Organizations in Greece and RTD Organizations in Non-Europe Countries (Australia) 2006-2007 Development of a multilevel multimedia-based laboratory environment for Physics experiments National project, funded by the Greek Ministry of Education 2005-2007 An object-oriented knowledge base system for reasoning about OWL ontologies Ukraine - Greece: Joint Research and Technology Programs, General Secretariat For Research & Technology, 3rd Community Support Framework, Operational Program «Competitiveness» (ΕPΑΝ) Measure 4.3, Action 4.3.6.1a 9. PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL ARTICLES 2015 J. Ye, S. Dasiopoulou, G. Stevenson, G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Dobson, Semantic Web technologies in pervasive Computing: A survey and research roadmap, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2015-4 -
T.G Stavropoulos, G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, Multisensing Monitoring and Knowledge-driven Analysis for Dementia Assessment International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 6(4), 77-92, 2015 G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, I. Kompatsiaris, MetaQ: A knowledge-driven framework for context-aware activity recognition combining SPARQL and OWL 2 activity patterns, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2015 2011 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "CLIPS-OWL: A Framework for Providing Object-Oriented Extensional Ontology Queries in A Production Rule Engine", Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 661-681, 2011 D. Settas, G. Meditskos, I. Stamelos, N. Bassiliades, "SPARSE: A Symptombased Antipattern Retrieval Knowledge-based System Using Semantic Web technologies", Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 7633-7646, 2011 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "A Combinatory Framework of Web 2.0 Mashup Tools, OWL-S and UDDI", Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 6657-6668, 2011 2010 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "DLEJena: A Practical Forward-Chaining OWL 2 RL Reasoner Combining Jena and Pellet", Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Elsevier, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 89-94, March 2010 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "Structural and Role-Oriented Web Service Discovery with Taxonomies in OWL-S", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 278-290, Feb. 2010 2008 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "A Rule-based Object-Oriented OWL Reasoner", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 397-410, Mar. 2008 BOOK CHAPTERS 2011 I. Savvas, N. Bassiliades, K. Kravari, G. Meditskos, An Ontological Business Process Modeling Approach for Public Administration: The Case of Human Resource Management, Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technologies, IGI Global, accepted for publication, 2011 2009 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "Rule-based OWL Reasoning Systems: Implementations, Strengths and Weaknesses", Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, IGI Global, ISBN Number 978-1-60566-402-6, 2009. PAPERS IN CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS 2015 G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, ReDef: Context-aware Recognition of Interleaved Activities using OWL 2 and Defeasible Reasoning, accepted for presentation at SSN-TC-2015, First Joint International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks and Terra Cognita (ISWC2015), 2015-5 -
A. Karakostas, I. Lazarou, G. Meditskos, T. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, "Intelligent User Interfaces to Support Diagnosis and Assessment of People with Dementia", 5th EAI International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health, 2015 T.G. Stavropoulos, G. Meditskos, S. Andreadis, I. Kompatsiaris, Real-time Health Monitoring and Contextualised Alerts Using Wearables, International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning (IMCL), Special Track on Mobile Health Care and Training (MHCT), 2015 A. Karakostas, I. Lazarou, G. Meditskos, T.G. Stavropoulos, I.Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, Sensor-based In-home Monitoring of People with Dementia Using Remote Web Technologies, International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication, Technologies and Learning (IMCL), Special Track on Mobile Health Care and Training (MHCT), 2015 A. Karakostas, I. Lazarou, G. Meditskos, T. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, "Supporting Cognitive Skills of People Suffering from Dementia through a Sensor-based System", IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2015 J.Y. Vion-Dury, N. Lagos, E. Kontopoulos, M. Riga, P. Mitzias, G. Meditskos, S. Waddington, P. Laurenson, I. Kompatsiaris, Designing for inconsistency - The dependency-based PERICLES approach, 19th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS, Poitiers - France, 2015 P. Mitzias, M. Riga, S. Waddington, E. Kontopoulos, G. Meditskos, P. Laurenson, I. Kompatsiaris, An Ontology Design Pattern for Digital Video, accepted for presentation at WOP2015, Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (ISWC 2015), 2015 A. Karakostas, G. Meditskos, T. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, A Sensor-Based Framework to Support Clinicians in Dementia Assessment: The Results of a Pilot Study. In Ambient Intelligence-Software and Applications pp. 213-221, 2015 G. Meditskos, A. Briassouli, V. Buso, J.B. Pineau, P.M. Plans, C.F. Crispim- Junior, F. Bremond, L. Hopper, Remote monitoring of people with dementia: the Dem@Care Experience, 25th Alzheimer Europe Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015 A. Briassouli, K. Avgerinakis, G. Meditskos, T.G. Stavropoulos, A. Karakostas, I. Lazarou, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, Multimodal sensing and fusion for comprehensive monitoring and feedback: the integrated Dem@Care system, Panhellenic Interdisciplinary Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, 2015 2014 G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, "Knowledge-driven Activity Recognition and Segmentation Using Context Connections", International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pp. 260-275, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, 19-23 October 2014 T. G. Stavropoulos, G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, "The DemaWare Service-Oriented AAL Platform for the Dem@Care System", 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Medicine, ECAI2014-6 -
2013 G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, V. Efstathiou, I. Kompatsiaris, Ontology Patterns for Complex Activity Modelling, 7th International Web Rule Symposium, pp. 144-157, Seattle, U.S., 2013 G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, V. Efstathiou, I. Kompatsiaris, SP-ACT: A hybrid framework for complex activity recognition combining OWL and SPARQL rules, IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom) conference Workshops, pp. 25-30, 2013 2012 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, D. Vrakas, I.P. Vlahavas, IRISPortal: a semantic portal for industrial risk cases management, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics, Craiova, Romania, June 13-15, 2012 E. Rigas, G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, SWRL2COOL: Object-Oriented Transformation of SWRL in the CLIPS Production Rule Engine, 7th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 49-56, 2012 2011 D. Settas, G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, I. G. Stamelos, "Detecting Antipatterns Using a Web-based Collaborative Antipattern Ontology Knowledge Base", Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2011, pp. pages 478-488, Springer, London, UK, June 20-24, 2011 2010 Κ. Mokos, G. Meditskos, P. Katsaros, N. Bassiliades and V. Vasiliades, "Ontology-based Model Driven Engineering for Safety Verification", Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 36th EUROMICRO Conference pp. 47-54, 1-3 Sept. 2010 2009 O. Hatzi, G. Meditskos, D. Vrakas, N. Bassiliades, D. Anagnostopoulos, I. Vlahavas, "PORSCE II: Using Planning for Semantic Web Service Composition", International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS2009), in conjunction with the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-09), Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2009 O. Hatzi, G. Meditskos, D. Vrakas, N. Bassiliades, D. Anagnostopoulos and I. Vlahavas, "Semantic Web Service Composition using Planning and Ontology Concept Relevance", IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp. 418-421, Milan, Italy, 2009 I. Katakis, G. Meditskos, G. Tsoumakas, N. Bassiliades, I. Vlahavas, On the Combination of Textual and Semantic Descriptions for Automated Semantic Web Service Classification, 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI), Springer, Thessaloniki, 2009 2008 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "Combining a DL Reasoner and a Rule Engine for improving Entailment-based OWL Reasoning", 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pp. 277-292, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008. O. Hatzi, G. Meditskos, D. Vrakas, N. Bassiliades, D. Anagnostopoulos, I. Vlahavas, A Synergy of Planning and Ontology Concept Ranking for Semantic Web Service Composition", 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 42-51, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008-7 -
G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "HOOPO: A Hybrid Object-Oriented Integration of Production Rules and OWL Ontologies", European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), pp. 729-730, IOS Press, 2008. G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "Rule-based OWL Ontology Reasoning Using Dynamic ABOX Entailments", European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), pp. 731-732, IOS Press, 2008. 2007 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "Object-Oriented Similarity Measures for Semantic Web Service Matchmaking", 5th European Conference on Web Services, pp. 57-66, 2007. E. Symeonidis, G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, N. Bassiliades, "A Web Service Reasoner for the Semantic Web", 2nd Annual SEERC Doctoral Student Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007. G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "A Semantic Web Service Discovery and Composition Prototype Framework Using Production Rules", Workshop on OWL-S: Experiences and Directions, in conjunction with the 4th European Semantic Web Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 2007. 2006 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, "O-DEVICE: An Object-Oriented Knowledge Base System for OWL Ontologies", Proc. 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 256 266, Heraclion, Crete, 2006. G. Meditskos, E. Kontopoulos, N. Bassiliades, Querying and Visualizing the Semantic Web, 1st Annual SEERC Doctoral Student Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2006. 2005 G. Meditskos, N. Bassiliades, Towards an Object-Oriented Reasoning System for OWL, Workshop on OWL Experiences and Directions (OWLED), 11-12 November, Galway, Ireland, 2005 2004 G. Tsoumakas, G. Meditskos, D. Vrakas, N. Bassiliades, I. Vlahavas, Web Services for Adaptive Planning, Proc. ECAI04 Workshop on Planning and Scheduling: Bridging Theory to Practice, D. Borrajo (Ed.), IOS Press, 2004. POSTER PRESENTATIONS 2015 A. Karakostas, T. Stavropoulos, G. Meditskos, TH. Tsompanidis, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, "A Sensor-Based System to Support Diagnosis and Assessment of People with Dementia", Poster presentation at the International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, 2015 G. Meditskos, I. Kompatsiaris, Dem@Care: Multi-Sensing Monitoring for Intelligent Remote Management and Decision Support, ESWC 2015, European Project Networking, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2015 I. Lazarou, A. Karakostas, G. Meditskos, T. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, M. Tsolaki, "Supporting Cognitive Skills of People Suffering from Dementia through a Sensor-based System", Poster presentation at Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Featured Regional Meeting, 2015 G. Meditskos, T. G. Stavropoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, Multi-Sensor Analysis and Decision Making for Supporting People with Dementia, 25th Alzheimer Europe Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015-8 -
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