About me

Currently i am a Ph.D candidate at the Computer Science Department of the Athens University of Economics and Business under the supervision of the Assistant Professor Vana Kalogeraki. (CV)

Education:

Research Interests:

 
  • Distributed Systems
  • Participatory Sensing Systems
  • Stream Processing Systems
  • Location-Based Systems
  • Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • Middleware
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Privacy
  • Moblile Technologies
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Sensor Networks
  • Information Retrieval

Publications & Awards

Publications:

You can find a complete list of publications at: DBLP, Google Scholar

    2016
    • Context-Aware Point of Interest Recommendation using Tensor Factorization
      Stathis Maroulis, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), Washington, DC, USA, December 2016

    • State Detection Using Adaptive Human Sensor Sampling
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016), Austin, TX, USA, October 2016

    • Location Privacy for Crowdsourcing Applications
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016), Heidelberg, Germany, September 2016

    • CrowdAlert: A mobile app for Event Reporting and User Alerting in Real-time
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016), Heidelberg, Germany, September 2016

    • Intelligent Urban Data Monitoring for Smart Cities
      Nikolaos Panagiotou, Nikolas Zygouras, Ioannis Katakis, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nikos Zacheilas, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Stephen Lynch, Brendan O'Brien , European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery(ECML-PKDD),Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2016

    • INSIGHT: Dynamic Traffic Management Using Heterogeneous Urban Data
      Nikolaos Panagiotou, Nikolas Zygouras, Ioannis Katakis, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nikos Zacheilas, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Stephen Lynch, Brendan O'Brien, Dermot Kinane, Jakub Marecek, Jia Yuan Yu, Rudi Verago, Elizabeth Daly, Nico Piatkowski, Thomas Liebig, Christian Bockermann, Katharina Morik, Francois Schnitzler, Matthias Weidlich, Avigdor Gal, Shie Mannor, Hendrik Stange, Werner Halft, Gennady Andrienko ,European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery(ECML-PKDD),Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2016

    • An Active Learning Framework Incorporating User Input For Mining Urban Data
      Nikolaos Zygouras, Nikolaos Panagiotou, Nikos Zacheilas, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos , UrbComp 2016, San Francisco, California, USA, August 2016

    • A fast and efficient entity resolution approach for preserving privacy in mobile data
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki , 2016 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, San Francisco, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2016

    • ICU: A tool for Intent Filtering on Android devices
      E. Bakopoulou, P. Thanopoulos, I. Boutsis, V. Kalogeraki , 9th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2016), Corfu Island, Greece, June-July 2016

    • Using Human Social Sensors for Robust Event Location Detection
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki , 2016 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2016), Washington, DC, May 2016

    • Reliable Crowdsourced Event Detection in Smart Cities
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Week, 1st International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering, Vienna, Austria, April 2016

    2015
    • Efficient techniques for time-constrained information dissemination using location-based social networks
      Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki , Information Systems journal, 22 December 2015 (available online), in press

    • Towards Detection of Faulty Traffic Sensors in Real-Time
      Nikolaos Zygouras, Nikolaos Panagiotou, Nikos Zacheilas, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Ioannis Katakis, Dimitrios Gunopulos , Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Urban Data co-located with 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015), Lille, France, July 11th, 2015

    • Personalized Event Recommendations using Social Networks
      Ioannis Boutsis, Stavroula Karanikolaou, Vana Kalogeraki , Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015

    • Travel Time Estimation in Real-Time using Buses as Speed Probes
      Dimitrios Tomaras, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 7th International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing(IQ2S), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2015

    2014
    • On task assignment for real-time reliable crowdsourcing
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Madrid, Spain, 2014

    • Using Location-based Social Networks for Time-Constrained Information Dissemination
      Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Brisbane, Australia, 2014
      IBM Best Student Paper Award (Runner Up)

    • Towards Real-Time Emergency Response using Crowdsourcing
      Ioannis Boutsis, Dimitrios Tomaras, Vana Kalogeraki, Distributed Sensor Systems for Assistive Environments (Di-Sensa) - PETRA 2014 Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, 2014

    • Poster: Understanding Event Attendance through Analysis of Human Crowd Behavior in Social Networks
      Stavroula Karanikolaou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 8th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event Based Systems (DEBS), Mumbai, India, May 2014

    • Efficient Dissemination of Emergency Information using a Social Network
      Iouliana Litou, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Mining Urban Data (MUD) - EDBT/ICDT 2014 Workshop, Athens, Greece, 2014 [pdf]

    • Heterogeneous Stream Processing and Crowdsourcing for Urban Traffic Management
      Alexander Artikis, Matthias Weidlich, Francois Schnitzler, Ioannis Boutsis, Thomas Liebig, Nico Piatkowski, Christian Bockermann, Katharina Morik, Vana Kalogeraki, Jakub Marecek, Avigdor Gal, Shie Mannor, Dermot Kinane, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Athens, Greece, 2014

    2013
    • An architecture for detecting events in real-time using massive heterogeneous data sources
      George Valkanas, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Big Data, Streams and Heterogeneous Source Mining: Algorithms, Systems, Programming Models and Applications (BigMine), Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2013

    • Efficient Event Detection by Exploiting Crowds
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems(DEBS), Arlington, Texas, USA, 2013

    • Resource Management using Pattern-based Prediction to Address Bursty Data Streams
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 16th IEEE Computer Society symposium on object/component/service-oriented realtime distributed computing (ISORC), Paderborn, Germany, 2013 [pdf]

    • Mobile Stream Sampling under Time Constraints
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management(MDM), Milan, Italy, 2013

    • Crowdsourcing under Real-Time Constraints
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 27th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Boston, Massachusetts, 2013

    • Privacy Preservation for Paricipatory Sensing Data
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 11th IEEE International Pervasive Computing and Communication conference (PerCom), San Diego, California, 2013

    2012
    • RADAR: Adaptive Rate Allocation in Distributed Stream Processing Systems under Bursty Workloads
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 31st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Irvine, California, 2012 [pdf]

    • Dynamic QoS-aware event sampling for community-based participatory sensing systems
      Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), Berlin, Germany, 2012 [pdf]

    • Misco: A System for Data Analysis Applications on Networks of Smartphones using MapReduce
      Theofilos Kakantousis, Ioannis Boutsis, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Giorgos Gasparis, Adam Dou, 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Bengaluru, India, 2012 [pdf]

    2009
    • Combined Content based and Semantic Image Retrieval
      Ioannis Boutsis, Theodore Kalamboukis, CLEF working notes 2009, CLEF Abstracts page 55, Corfu, Greece, 2009.

    Awards:

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    Applications:

    Developed CrowdAlert App as part of the INSIGHT Project. CrowdAlert uses realtime data from road sensors, bus sensors and human crowd to illustrate real-time road info and provides feedback to the Dublin City Council, a local authority that manages the traffic in Dublin. Available in Google Play

    Teaching Assistant:

    Undergraduate Courses

    • Distributed Systems, Ass. Prof. G. Xylomenos - Fall 2014
    • Distributed Systems, Ass. Prof. V. Kalogeraki - Fall 2011, 2012, 2013, Spring 2016
    • Compilers, Angelos Charalambidis - Spring 2015
    • Compilers, Ass. Prof. V. Kalogeraki - Spring 2012, 2013, 2014

    Postgraduate Courses

    • Distributed Systems, Ass. Prof. G. Xylomenos - Fall 2014
    • Distributed Systems, Ass. Prof. V. Kalogeraki - Fall 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015

    Theses:

    • MSc Dissertation Thesis: Adaptive Rate Allocation in Distributed Stream Processing Systems under Bursty Workloads [pdf],[presentation].
      Supervisor: Vana Kalogeraki.

    • BSc Dissertation Thesis: Combined Content based and Text Image Retrieval [pdf]. Available here: iScore
      Supervisor: Theodore Kalamboukis.

    Contact Me

    Distributed and Real-Time Systems Lab,
    Patission 76, Antoniadou Building, 4th floor
    ΤΚ 10434
    Phone 210-8203154
    mpoutsis at aueb dot gr