John Kopanakis - e-Business Intelligence Lab

Professor, Hellenic Mediterranean University

Director of the Economic Analysis, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Institute (6/5/2020 – today)

Vice President, TEI of Crete (1/5/2014 – 31/8/2017)

Director of e-Business Intelligence Lab (1/9/2006 – 14/3/2019)

Research Interests: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Innovation

e-mail
kopanakis@e-BILab.gr
Home Page
http://52.28.27.47/en/kopanakis/
Address
TEI of Crete
Tel.
+30 2810 379415
Fax
28420 89797

Education

Ph.D. 9/1999 – 6/2003	Ph.D. at the University of Manchester Institute of Technology (UMIST url) at the Department of Computation (url1 url2). Research field: R&D of innovative visualization techniques for data mining outcomes. Thesis: Visual Data Mining Models for Enhancing the Knowledge Extraction from Data Mining Outcomes.
M.Sc. 9/1998 – 9/1999	M.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering at the Department of Computation (url1 url2) at UMIST (url). Dissertation: development and application of Data Mining Techniques using Neural Networks in financial data. Title: Solving Data Mining Classification Problemswith Neural Networks.
Degree 9/1994 – 6/1998	Degree from the Computer Science Department (url) at the University of Crete (url). The degree thesis was the implementation of a Robust Method Detecting Planar Regions in Digital Images received from a Robot’s Cameras.

Research

Prj[17]	«EMYNOS-nExt generation eMergencY commuNicationOnS» (HORIZON 2020). The project EMYNOS aims to design and implement a new generation platform capable of serving emergency calls using multimedia such as voice, text and video, making it a powerful tool for the coordination of communication between citizens, call centers and rescue people. Budget: 501.250,00 € url
Prj[16]	«Promoting organic farming through Internet partnerships cooperation – BIODRASIS». The project BIODRASIS is a joint effort for the establishment, strengthening and expansion of the capabilities for organic farming partnerships and networking, ensuring effective and timely resources’ management. Budget: 325.787,00 € url
Prj[15]	“DATa science for SIMulating the era of electric vehicles” (FP7 ICT/FET Project DATASIM), DATSIM aims at providing an entirely new and highly detailed spatial-temporal microsimulation methodology for human mobility, grounded on massive amounts of Big data of various types and from various sources, e.g. GPS, mobile phones and social networking sites, with the goal to forecast the nation-wide consequences of a massive switch to electric vehicles, given the intertwined nature of mobility and power distribution networks. Univ. of Piraeus. Budget: 3Μ €. url
Prj[14]	“Hybrid Internet, Telecommunication and Broadcasting Platform for User-Generated Media Ecosystems”, (VELLEREFONTIS). VELLEREFONTIS aims at studying, designing, implementing and experimenting on a hybrid P2P/IMS/iDVB-T platform, demonstrating how user-generated applications/services – highly heterogeneous in terms of user functions and distributed in the network – can be enrolled in the frame designated by interactive broadcasting, thus making optimum resource exploitation and become widely available to users at guaranteed QoS. Archimedes ΙΙΙ – Supporting Research Labs at Technological Educational Institutes. ΤΕΙ of Crete, Budget: 82.000 €. url
Prj[13]	“Development Of Techniques Of Electric Field Strength Measurements For The Evaluation Of Electromagnetic Field Exposure And Reliability Of The Operation Of The Modern Wireless Communications” (ΑΝΤΕΝΑ), Archimedes ΙΙΙ – Supporting Research Labs at Technological Educational Institutes. ΤΕΙ of Crete, Budget: 82.000 €. url
Prj[12]	“Support of the e-lasithi.gr e–MallCenter”, (e–lasithi.gr) Lasithi Chamber. ΤΕΙ of Crete, Budget: 4.920 €. url
Prj[11]	“MODAP – Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy”. EU FET-OPEN 2009-2012 The Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme.Univ. of Piraeus. Budget: 60.830 €. url
Prj[10]	«Geographic Privacy-aware Knowledge Discovery and Delivery (GeoPKDD)», Sixth Framework Programme Information Society Technologies, Future Emerging Technologies (FP6-IST-014915, STREP Project). Univ. of Piraeus. Budget: € 3,500,000. url
Prj[9]	“Ontology Driven Metadata Construction and Management for Intelligent Search in Text and Image Collections”, “Information Society” Operational Programme of the Greek Ministry of Development, General Secretariat for Research and Technology, co-funded by the European Union, Univ. of Athens. Budget: €596,610. url
Prj[8]	“Management of Spatio-Temporal and Semantic Data for the Documentation of Historical Information”, (DIAXORON), General Secretariat for Research and Technology, co-funded by the European Union, Univ. of Athens. Budget: €601,922. url
Prj[7]	“GISInformationSystemfortheMunicipalofIerapetra”, Center of Technological Research – Crete. Budget: €166.362. url
Prj[6]	“Developmentofane–MallCenter”LEADER+ (2000-2006), Center of Technological Research – Crete. Budget: €100.000. url
Prj[5]	“Informational and Organizational Network for the Promotion of the Agro-tourism in the district of Lasithi-Crete”, LEADER+ (2000-2006), Center of Technological Research – Crete. Budget: €80,000. url
Prj[4]	“Collection and Digitization of Documentation for the specific characteristics of the district of Lasithi-Crete regarding Civilization, Tourism, Environment and Economy”, “Information Society” Operational Programme, Center of Technological Research – Crete. Budget: €70,000.
Prj[3]	“ServicesofTouristandArcheologicalInterestviaaPlatformofDigitalTelevision” (PASIPHAE) CreteCorporateProgram, Center of Technological Research – Crete. Budget: €600,000.
Prj[2]	“Secure Transmition of Interactive Services via Incorporated Systems of Digital Television. Archimedes II. Budget: €70,000.
Prj[1]	“Influence of the Tourist Development in Economy” Archimedes I. Budget: €80,000.
	A-ZMarketing.gr portalofdept. ofCommerce & Marketingfor the exchange of information and know-how among business and academic community of Greece. url

Publications

Publications

References: scholar , arnetminer , microsoft

Journals, Book Chapters, Editor

J[24]	V. Hadjioannou, C. X. Mavromoustakis, G. Mastorakis, J. M. Batalla, I. Kopanakis, E. Perakakis, S. Panagiotakis, “Security in Smart Grids and Smart Spaces for Smooth IoT Deployment in 5G” in the book “Internet of Things (IoT) in 5G Mobile Technologies”, Springer International Publishing, May, 2016, pp. 371-397. url
J[23]	I. Kopanakis, E. Perakakis, G. Mastorakis, “Tourism Relationship Marketing by Exploiting Emerging Technological Advances”, Informatika, Scientific review of the Dennis Gabor College, vol. 43, no.1, 2015, pp. 09-15. url
J[22]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis, I. Kopanakis, C. X. Mavromoustakis, “Mobile Customer Relationship Management: innovative Perspectives and Future trends in Tourism”, in the Book on “Innovative management perspectives on confronting contemporary challenges”, Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Eds.: D. Vrontis, E. Tsoukatos, A. Maizza, April, 2015. url url2
J[21]	C. X. Mavromoustakis, G. Mastorakis, A. Bourdena, E. Pallis, D. Stratakis, E. Perakakis, I. Kopanakis, S. Papadakis, Z. D. Zaharis, C. Skeberis, T. D. Xenos, “A Social-oriented Mobile Cloud Scheme for Optimal Energy Conservation”, in the Book on “Resource Management of Mobile Cloud Computing Networks and Environments”, IGI-GLOBAL, March, 2015. url url2
J[20]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, C. X. Mavromoustakis, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis, “A Cloud Computing Model for Efficient Marketing Planning in Tourism”, in the book “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014”, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2014. url url2
J[19]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis, “E-CRM in tourism exploiting emerging information and communication technologies”, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, Special Issue on: Improving Marketing Effectiveness: Advances in Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Leisure Marketing. url
J[18]	N. Trihas, G. Mastorakis, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis: “Efficient e-Marketing in Tourism through a Novel Customer Relationship Management Model”, in the GSTF International Journal on Business Review (GBR) Vol 3 No 1. DOI: 10.5176/2010-4804_3.1.297 url
J[17]	N. Trihas, E. Perakakis, M. Venitourakis, G. Mastorakis and I. Kopanakis, “Social Media as a Marketing Tool for Tourism Destinations: The Case of Greek Municipalities”, in the Journal of Marketing Vistas, Special Issue on: E-Marketing and Digital Marketing Developments, July-December 2013, Volume 3 No 2, ISSN 2249-9067. url
J[16]	N. Trihas, E. Perakakis, M. Venitourakis, G. Mastorakis, I. Kopanakis, “Destination Marketing Using Multiple Social Media: The Case of ‘Visit Ierapetra”, Tourism Today: The Journal of the College of Tourism and Hotel Management, no. 13, Autumn, 2013, pp. 114-126. url
J[15]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis, “Adopting Network Multimedia Systems in Interactive Digital Television: A Strategic Method towards Enhancing Tourism Relationship Marketing”, Editors: L. Cantoni & Z. Xiang, ISBN: 978-3-642-36308-5, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 472-482. url
J[14]	C. Panagiotakis, N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, E. Ramasso and Y. Theodoridis, “Segmentation and Sampling of Moving Object Trajectories based on Representativeness” at the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 07 Feb. 2011, IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, ISSN: 1041-4347, url
J[13]	N. Pelekis, G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko, I. Kopanakis, G. Marketos, Y. Theodoridis, “Visually exploring movement data via similarity-based analysis” at the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10844-011-0159-2. url
J[12]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, E. Kotsifakos, E. Frentzos, Y. Theodoridis “Clustering Uncertain Trajectories”, in the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal, Springer-Verlag, 1/7/2010, SN:0219-1377, DOI: 10.1007/s10115-010-0316-x, Volume 28, Issue 1 (2011), Page 117-147. url
J[11]	H. Karanikas, G. Koundourakis, I. Kopanakis, T. Mavroudakis and N. Pelekis “Discovering market trends in the biotechnology industry”, in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011. url
J[10]	D. K. Iakovidis, N. Pelekis, H. Karanikas, E. Kotsifakos, I. Kopanakis, and Y. Theodoridis. “A Pattern Similarity Scheme for Medical Image Retrieval”. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine Journal, Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages: 442-450, July 2009, (Impact factor: 1,44). url
J[9]	N. Pelekis, D. K. Iakovidis, E. Kotsifakos, I. Kopanakis: “Fuzzy Clustering of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Data”, in the International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining special issue on “KDD for Decision Making and Optimization”, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 45-65, 2008. url1 url2
J[8]	G. Andrienko, N. Andrienko, I. Kopanakis, A. Ligtenberg: “Visual Analytics Methods for Movement Data”, book chapter 13 pages:375-409 in “Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy – Geographic Knowledge Discovery”, F.Giannoni and D. Pedreschi (eds), Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-75176-2 (2008), url
J[7]	N. Pelekis, B. Theodoulidis, I. Kopanakis and Y. Theodoridis. “Fuzzy Miner: Extracting Fuzzy Rules from Numerical Patterns“. International Journal of Data Warehousing & Mining, Volume 1 Issue 1, Pages: 57-81, Jan-March 2005 url.Also appears as chapter 4.30 in Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, J. Wang (ed), IGI Global, 2008. url1 url2
J[6]	N. Pelekis, B. Theodoulidis, I. Kopanakis and Y. Theodoridis, “Literature Review of Spatio-Temporal Database Models”, The Knowledge Engineering Review journal, Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages: 235-274, Jun 2005. url
J[5]	I. Kopanakis, S. Karagiannis, N. Pelekis and H. Karanikas: “3D Class-Preserving Projection Technique for the representation of N-Dimensional Classified Data and Association Rules”, 5^th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW ’05), Special Track on “Knowledge and Information Visualisation”, Graz, Austria, June 29-July 1, 2005, published in the Journal of Universal Computer Science. url
J[4]	S. Karagiannis and I. Kopanakis: “Applied Research in Knowledge Management for Tourism Services”, Studies and Reports, International Center for Research and Studies in Tourism (CIRET) Vol. 9, Nov. 2005. url
J[3]	I. Kopanakis and B. Theodoulidis: “Visual Data Mining Modelling Techniques for The Visualization of Mining Outcomes“, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Special Issue on Visual Data Mining, Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages: 543-589, 2003. url1 url2
J[2]	“Proceedings of the Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference on New Technologies & Marketing”, V. Zacharopoulos, C. Frangakis and I. Kopanakis (eds), Ierapetra, Crete, Greece, 24-25 May, 2007, ISBN: 978-960-88785-3-2. url
J[1]	“Proceedings of the Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference on New Technologies & Marketing”, V. Zacharopoulos, C. Frangakis and I. Kopanakis (eds), Ierapetra, Crete, Greece, 19-20 May 2005, ISBN 960-88785-0-0. url

Conferences

P[33]	I. Kopanakis, K. Vassakis, and G. Mastorakis. “SMEs in data-driven era- The role of Big Data to firm performance”, Accepted to be presented to the 9th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB 2016), Warsaw-Poland, 14-16 September 2016.url
P[32]	I. Kopanakis, K. Vassakis, and G. Mastorakis. “Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performance”, 11th Annual International Conference Management of Innovative Business, Education & Support systems (MIBES 2016), Heraklion, Crete, 22-24 June, 2016. url
P[31]	I. Kopanakis, K. Vassakis, and G. Mastorakis. “Big Data in Data-Driven Innovation: Applications, prospects and limitations in Marketing”, 4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI 2016), Heraklion, Greece, 22-24 June, 2016, pp. 701-702. url
P[30]	D. Kopanaki, V. Theodossopoulos, N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, and Y. Theodoridis. “Who Cares about Others’ Privacy: Personalized Anonymization of Moving Object Trajectories” EDBT: 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, (EDBT 2016) Bordeaux, France, March 15-18, 2016 ISSN: 2367-2005 pp.425-436 url
P[29]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis, “Efficient Customer Relationship Management and Novel e-Marketing Strategies in Tourism and Hospitality”, 2nd Annual International Conference on Tourism and Hospitallity Research 2013 (THoR 2013), Singapore, 22-23 July, 2013. url
P[28]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis, I. Kopanakis and M. Antonaki, “A Technology Convergence Model Adopted in Tourism Relationship Marketing”, 7^th International Conference on Management, Marketing and Finances, (MMF’13), Cambridge, USA, 30 January – 01 February, 2013, pp. 46-50. url
P[27]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, E. Perakakis and I. Kopanakis, “Adopting Network Multimedia Systems in Interactive Digital Television: A Strategic Method towards Enhancing Tourism Relationship Marketing”, in the book “Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2013 (Proceedings of the International Conference in Innsbruck, Austria)”, Editors: L. Cantoni & Z. Xiang, ISBN: 978-3-642-36308-5, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 23-25 January, 2013, pp. 472-482. url
P[26]	G. Mastorakis, N. Trihas, I. Karditsis, I. Kopanakis, “Tourism relationship marketing empowered by the convergence of IP multimedia subsystem and interactive digital television”, in Proc. International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues (ICCMI 2012), Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-15 June, 2012, pp. 365-370. url
P[25]	N. Pelekis, E. Stefanakis, I. Kopanakis, C. Zotali, M. Vodas and Y. Theodoridis, “Chorochronos.org: A GeoPortal for Movement Data and Processes”, In the Proceedings of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT’11), Belfast, Maine, USA, September 12-16^th 2011. url
P[24]	G. Mastorakis, I. Kopanakis, A. Bourdena, M. Antonaki and I. Karditsis: “IP Multimedia Subsystem and Interactive Broadcasting Convergence: A Novel approach adopted in Interactive Marketing”, 4^th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EuroMed 2011), “Business Research Challenges in a Turbulent Era”, Elounda, Crete, Greece, 19th – 22nd October 2011, . url
P[23]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, C. Panagiotakis and Y. Theodoridis “Unsupervised Trajectory Sampling”, In the Proceedings of the ECML PKDD 2010 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD’10), September 20-24, Barcelona, Spain, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6323/2010, 17-33, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15939-8_2 url
P[22]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, E. Kotsifakos, E. Frentzos and Y. Theodoridis “Clustering Trajectories of Moving Objects in an Uncertain World“, In the Proceedings of the 9th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS’10), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 2010. url
P[21]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, E. Kotsifakos, E. Frentzos and Y. Theodoridis: “Clustering Trajectories of Moving Objects in an Uncertain World”, in the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM09), Miami, FL,USA, 6-9 December 2009. Best application paper award. url
P[20]	C. Panagiotakis, N. Pelekis, and I. Kopanakis: “Trajectory Voting and Classification based on Spatiotemporal Similarity in Moving Object Databases“, in the Proc. The 8^th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2009) Lyon France, 31 August – 2 September 2009. url1 url2
P[19]	H. Karanikas, G. Koundourakis, I. Kopanakis and T. Mavroudakis: “A Temporal Text Mining Application in Competitive Intelligence”, in the Proc. “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery” Stream in 23^nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2009), Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009. url1 url2
P[18]	D.K. Iakovidis, N. Pelekis, E. Kotsifakos and I. Kopanakis: “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Clustering with Applications in Computer Vision” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, eds. J. Blanc-Talon, W. Philips, D. Popescu, (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), Pages: 764-774, LNCS, 2008. (ISI impact factor 0.515). url
P[17]	Nikolaos V. Pappas and I. Kopanakis, “The Role of Information Technology in Tourist Offices – Centre versus Periphery, Lessons from Greece”, in the Proc. The 4th Tourism Industry and Education Symposium, 5-7 March 2009, Jyväskylä, Finland. url
P[16]	I. Kopanakis, “Visual Data Mining Techniques for Geo-Spatial Data”, 20^th National Conference of the Greek Association of Operational Research, Anargireio & Korgialenio School, Pages: 1025-1037, Spetses 19-20/6/2008 url
P[15]	H. Karanikas, E. E. Kotsifakos, N. Pelekis, D. K. Iakovidis, I. Kopanakis, T. Mavroudakis and Y. Theodoridis, “Intelligent Search Assistant: The MetaOn Approach”, International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU 08), 16-18 July 2008 Ierapetra, Crete, Greece url
P[14]	N. Pelekis, D. K. Iakovidis, E. Kotsifakos, H. Karanikas, and I. Kopanakis: “Intuitionistic Fuzzy Clustering to Information Retrieval from Cultural Databases”, in the Proc. “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery” Stream in 22^nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII – 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-11, 2007. url
P[13]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, G. Marketos, I. Ntoutsi, G. Andrienko, Y. Theodoridis: “Similarity Search in Trajectory Databases”. in the Proc. IEEE Computer Society, 14^th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2007), Pages:129-140, Alicante, Spain, 28-30 June 2007. url
P[12]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, I. Ntoutsi, G. Marketos and Y. Theodoridis: “Mining Trajectory Databases via a Suite of Distance Operators”, in the Proc. IEEE ICDE workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (STDM07), Pages:575-584, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. url
P[11]	D. Iakovidis, E. Kotsifakos, N. Pelekis, H. Karanikas, I. Kopanakis, and Y. Theodoridis: “Pattern-Based Retrieval of Cultural Heritage Images”, in Proc. of the 11^th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics (PCI’07), Patras, Greece, 2007, pp.443-452, ISBN: 9789608978409. url
P[10]	D. Iakovidis, N. Pelekis, H. Karanikas, E. Kotsifakos, I. Kopanakis, and Y. Theodoridis: “A Pattern Similarity Scheme for Medical Image Retrieval” in Proc. Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Volume 13, Issue 4, July 2009 Page(s):442-450 (ITAB06), Ioannina, Greece, 26-28 October 2006. url1 url2 url3
P[9]	H. Karanikas, N. Pelekis, D. Iakovidis, I. Kopanakis, T. Mavroudakis and Y. Theodoridis. “MetaOn – Ontology Driven Metadata Construction and Management for Intelligent Search in Text and Image Collections”, In the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications International DEXA Workshop on Flexible Database and Information System Technology (FlexDBIST-06), IEEE CSP, Crakow, Poland, September 4-8 ISBN:0-7695-2641-1 url1 url2 url3
P[8]	H. Karanikas, N. Pelekis, D. Iakovidis, I. Kopanakis, T. Mavroudakis and Y. Theodoridis: “Multimedia Annotation System for Intelligent Search” in Proc. International Conference on Telecommunications & Multimedia (TEMU 06), ISBN 960-88785-2-7, Heraklion-Crete, Greece, July 2006. url
P[7]	I. Kopanakis, N. Pelekis, H. Karanikas and T. Mavroudkis: “Visual Techniques for the Interpretation of Data Mining Outcomes”, Proc. 10^th Panhellenic Conf. on Informatics (PCI’2005), Springer LNCS 3746, pp. 25-35, Volos, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. url1 url2
P[6]	I. Kopanakis, S. Karagiannis, N. Pelekis and H. Karanikas: “Bar Chart Form Visual Data Mining model for the representation of Association Rules”, Proc. of Annual Conf. on Telecommunications & Multimedia (TEMU’05) Heraklion – Crete, Greece, June 2005. url
P[5]	S. Karagiannis and I. Kopanakis: “Knowledge Management for Tourism Research Processes of Tourism Labor” Proc. Int. Conf. on Engineering Education (WSEAS 2005) ISBN:960-8457-28-9, Pages:163-168, Athens, Greece, July 8-10, 2005. url
P[4]	S. Karagiannis and I. Kopanakis: “Ethic Aspects of Marketing“, Proc. Conf. on New Technologies and Marketing (NTM’05) Ierapetra – Crete, Greece, May 2005, ISBN: 960-88785-0-0, Pages: 83-89. url
P[3]	H. Karanikas, N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis and T. Mavroudakis: “Discovering Market Trends via Text Mining”, Proc. Conf. on New Technologies and Marketing (NTM’05) Ierapetra – Crete, Greece, May 2005 ISBN: 960-88785-0-0, Pages: 133-140. url
P[2]	N. Pelekis, B. Theodoulidis and I. Kopanakis, “Fuzzy Miner: A Fuzzy System for Solving Pattern Classification Problems”, Proc. 1st Int’l EDBT Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa’04) Heraklion – Crete, Greece, March 2004. url
P[1]	I. Kopanakis and B. Theodoulidis: “Visual Data Mining and Modelling Techniques”, ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD 2001), Proc. Workshop on Visual Data Mining, San Francisco, USA, 2001, Pages: 114-128. url

Thesis

“Visual Data Mining Models for Enhancing the Knowledge Extraction from Data Mining Outcomes”, PhD Thesis, UMIST, 2003.
“Solving Data Mining Classification Problems with Neural Networks”, M.Sc. Thesis, UMIST, 1999

Teaching Experience

Technological Educational Institute of Crete

Dec 2016 – Present: Professor
Jan 2012 – Dec 2016: Associate Professor
Jun 2006 – Jan 2012: Assistant Professor
Sept 2004 – Jun 2006: Research Associate

May 2014 – Present: Vice President, Technological Educational Institute of Crete
Sep 2006 – Aug 2013: Head, Dept. Commerce and Marketing

Full teaching of courses:

Databases,
Information Systems
Analytics,
Web Programming,
e-Commerce,
e-Commerce Applications,
e-marketing

at the Dept. of Commerce & Marketing and Dept. of Informatics Engineering.

R&D

NESSOS Information Technologies S.A. 2007	Consultancy and data mining R&D: “Great Web Encyclopedia of the Greek Culture – Foundation of the Hellenic World”, NESSOS Information Technologies S.A.
AUEB 2/2002-5/2003	Research associate at the Applied Logistics Laboratory (url) of Athens University of Economics and Business (url). My research work was focused on the development of a web-based logistic information system which has been incorporated in a variety of enterprises, such as the National State Logistic Institution.
NeuroSoft S.A. 10/1999-7/2001	Collaboration with NeuroSoft S.A. (url) of Sanyo Hellas Holding group as a Data Mining Software Engineer and Information Systems Analyst. Projects involved:1) Research and Development of Data Mining Techniques for Neurosoft’s Data Mining Software product Envisioner. url1 url2Project Leader on behalf of partner Neurosoft in EU medical research projects:2) VAKHUM IST-1999-10954 (Virtual Animation of the Kinematics of the Human for Industrial, Educational and Research Purposes) url and SACROHN N. QLK2-CT-2000-00928 (Improvement of prevention diagnosis and treatment of Sarcoidosis and Crohn’s disease) url
CRIM10/1998–12/2003	Member of the Centre for Research in Information Management Lab (CRIM url) of the Dept. of Computation (url) at UMIST (url).
Ι.C.S.9/1995-6/1998	Undergraduate research assistant at the Foundation for Research in Technology – Hellas (FORTH url). I was a member of the Computer Vision and Robotics Group (url) at the Institute of Computer Science at FORTH (url), a group that emphasises research and development in the areas of Computer Vision and Autonomous Mobile Robots with intelligent behaviour. I undertook several Research Assignments that had to do with Robot Navigation and Digital Image Processing.

Participations

Organizational Committee

OC[7]	Member of Organizational Committee of“e-Marketing Conference for Business” (e-mc 2013), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 8-9 November 2013. url url
OC[6]	Publicity co-Chair for the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2011) September 5-9, Athens, Greece, 2011. (url)
OC[5]	Guest Editor to the Special Issue “Information Systems and Marketing” of the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising (IJIMA). Special issue will appear in v6 n4 2011 (url)
OC[4]	Organizational and scientific Committee of “Information Systems and Marketing” Track στο 4^th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS2009), Athens, Greece, 25-27 September 2009. url
OC[3]	Organizational and scientific Committee of the “New Technologies andMarketing”conference (NTM07) 24-25 May 2007, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece. url
OC[2]	Organizational and scientific Committee of the «Telecommunications & Multimedia» conference (TEMU05), 23-24 June 2005 Heraklion, Crete, Greece. url
OC[1]	Organizational and scientific Committee of the “NewTechnologiesandMarketing”conference (NTM05), 19-22 May 2005 Ierapetra, Crete, Greece. url

Program Committee

PC[18]	Scientific Committee of the “11th Annual Management of Innovative Business, Education & Support systems” (MIBES 16) International Conference, 22-24 June 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. url
PC[17]	Scientific Committee of the “9th European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM 15) 22–24 July 2015 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. url
PC[16]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Lisbon, Portugal, 15 – 17 July, 2014. url
PC[15]	Scientific Committee of the 2^nd International Conference on “Contemporary Marketing Issues” (ICCMI), Athens, Greece, June 18-20, 2014. url
PC[14]	Scientific Committee of “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Prague, Czech Republic, 22-24 July, 2013. url
PC[13]	Scientific Committee of the 2^nd ACM Workshop on “High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems” (HP-MOSys) Barcelona, Spain, November 3-8, 2013. url
PC[12]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Lisbon, Portugal, 21-23 July, 2012. url
PC[11]	Scientific Committee of the «International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia», (TEMU12) 30-1 July 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. url
PC[10]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Rome, Italy, 24- 26 July 2011. url
PC[9]	Scientific Committee of the «International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia», (TEMU10) 14-16 Ιουλίου 2010 Χανιά, Κρήτη, Ελλάδα. url
PC[8]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS2010), Freiburg, Germany, 28 – 30 July 2010. url
PC[7]	Scientific Committee of the “9^th Special Conference of the Hellenic Operational Research Society” (HELORS10), 27 – 29 May 2010, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. url
PC[6]	Scientific Committee of the “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery” Stream στο 23^nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2009), Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009, url1 url2
PC[5]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” (ECDM) του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Algarve, Portugal, 17-23 June, 2009. url
PC[4]	Scientific Committee of National Conference «Management & Marketing in the tourism business: Modern and innovative approaches”, Heraklion, 29-30 May 2008.
PC[3]	Scientific Committee of the “European Conference on Data Mining” του International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Netherlands, 22-27 July, 2008. url
PC[2]	Scientific Committee of the «International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia», (TEMU08) 16-18 Ιουλίου 2008 Ιεράπετρα, Κρήτη, Ελλάδα. url
PC[1]	Scientific Committee of the «International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia» (TEMU06) 5-7 Ιουλίου 2006 Ηράκλειο, Κρήτη, Ελλάδα. url

Reviewer

R[15]	Reviewer of “Eurostars Project Applications” submitted during the 9th Eurostars Cut-Off, September 2012. url
R[14]	Reviewer of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2011) September 5-9, Athens, Greece, 2011. url
R[13]	Peer review group member of European Project Monitoring and Operation Services For Motorways Of The Sea (Mos4Mos), Co-financed by the European Union and Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). url
R[12]	Reviewer of proposals for Action “New Products and Services” Grant Research Promotion Foundation programs of Cyprus url
R[11]	Reviewer of the 7^th International Conference “New Horizons in Industry, Business and Education” (NHIBE 2011) 25-26 August 2011 Chios Island, Greece. url
R[10]	Reviewer of the Journal “Knowledge-Based Systems”, ELSEVIER (Print ISSN: 0950-7051), Impact factor: 1,406. url
R[9]	Reviewer of the Journal“International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making”, World Scientific Publishing (Print ISSN: 0219-6220). url
R[8]	Reviewer of the Journal “Knowledge based systems” εκδόσεις Elsevier (ISSN: 0950-7051), Impact factor: 1,308. url
R[7]	Reviewer of Books for “Computer Science Editorial” of Springer.
R[6]	Reviewer of the Journal “Information Sciences” εκδόσεις Elsevier (ISSN: 0020-0255) Impact factor: 3,095. url
R[5]	Reviewer of the “The 18^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management” (CIKM2009) Hong Kong, China, November 2-6, 2009. url
R[4]	Reviewer of the Journal “The IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks” (ISSN: 1045-9227), εκδόσεις IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Impact factor: 1,941. url
R[3]	Reviewer of the “The 19^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management”, (CIKM10) 26-30 October, 2010, Toronto, Canada. (url)
R[2]	Reviewer of the “The 18^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management”, (CIKM09) 2-6 November, 2009, Hong Kong, China (url).
R[1]	Reviewer of the “The 18^th European Conference on Information Systems”, (ECIS10), 2010 url

Participations

RD[5]	One of the founding members of the e-Marketing Conference for Business. urlurl
RD[4]	One of the founding members of the Chorochronos Archive (www.chorochronos.org). The Chorochronos Archive is a collection of moving object databases (MOD), and related algorithms that are used by the mobility data management and mining community for the empirical analysis and evaluation of mobility-centric query processing and mining algorithms. url
RD[3]	N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, C. Panagiotakis, and Y. Theodoridis “Unsupervised Trajectory Sampling”, Newsletter organized by the FP7/ICT project MODAP “Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy”, Vol. 2 Issue 2 – December, 2010. url1, url2
RD[2]	Participating as a senior researchers at the “1^st Summer School on Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy” (url), co-organized by the FP7/ICT project MODAP “Mobility, Data Mining, and Privacy” (url) and the COST Action IC0903 MOVE “Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects”. url
RD[1]	One of the establishing members of the A-ZMarketing.grportalofDept. ofCommerce & Marketingfor the exchange of information and know-how among business and academic community of Greece. url

Achievements

[2016]	The International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT http://www.edbt.org is one of the most prestigious international conferences in the scientific area of data management. Our latest publication at EDBT 2016: D. Kopanaki, V. Theodossopoulos, N. Pelekis, I. Kopanakis, and Y. Theodoridis. “Who Cares about Others’ Privacy: Personalized Anonymization of Moving Object Trajectories” EDBT: 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, (EDBT 2016) Bordeaux, France, March 15-18, 2016 ISSN: 2367-2005 pp.425-436.
[2009]	“Best Application Paper Award” at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM09), Miami, FL,USA, 6-9 December 2009 (url)for the paper “Clustering Trajectories of Moving Objects in an Uncertain World”
[2004]	The paper “Visual data mining modeling techniques for the visualization of mining outcomes” at the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing was the fourth most downloaded article from January to August 2004 from the publisher’s (ELSEVIER) web site.
[2004]	Thesamearticleisthe 12^thintheScienceDirectTOP25 HottestArticles. url
[2003]	Ph.D. Thesis: Completion of the thesis in 3.5 years.
[1999]	Postgraduate: awardoftheM.Sc. withgpa69/100 (top 5% in the graduates list).
[1998]	Undergraduate: After the national examinations I was qualified for acceptance in the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete gaining the ninth position in the entry list. Each academic year I was among the first five students in the yearly success list. I took my degree in June 98 with the grade point average of 8.19/10.0, gaining the third position. I successfully fulfilled my studies in 3.5 years one semester earlier than expected.

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