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      Feel the world: A mobile framework for participatory sensing 

      Phokas, T.; Efstathiades, Hariton; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2013)
      Nowadays, smartphones have almost replaced basic feature phones all over the world. Today's smartphones come equipped with an increasing set of embedded sensors, computational and communication resources. All these gave ...
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      Fine-grained parallelism in dynamic Web content generation: The parse and dispatch approach 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Evripidou, Paraskevas; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2003)
      Dynamic Web content is gaining in popularity over traditional static HTML as the means of providing Web users with personalized and dynamic information. To enable dynamic content, various technologies have been developed ...
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      HTTPStream platform – low latency data for the web 

      Tziakouris, M.; Evripidou, Paraskevas (2008)
      Timely delivery of information and live updates are of paramount importance in our connected society. Despite its tremendous penetration and wide acceptance, the Web failed to move to the next level and provide the means ...
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      The impact of remote sensing on the everyday lives of mobile users in urban areas 

      Kamilaris, Andreas; Pitsillides, Andreas (IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
      Increasing urbanism creates serious ambient problems that downgrade the quality of life of citizens. Environmental awareness may help people to take more informed decisions in their everyday lives, ensuring their health ...
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      Information markets for product attributes: A game theoretic, dual pricing mechanism 

      Markopoulos, Panos M.; Aron, Ravi; Ungar, Lyle H. (2010)
      We model the availability of information about product attributes in Internet-based markets, focusing on a phenomenon that we term as information deficit (availability of less than perfect information about product attributes) ...
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      Information retrieval techniques for peer-to-peer networks 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Kalogeraki, Vana; Gunopulos, Dimitrios (2004)
      An important challenge in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is to efficiently search the contents of other peers. The authors survey existing search techniques for information retrieval in P2P networks, including recent techniques ...
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      Insight and perspectives for Content Delivery Networks 

      Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I. (2006)
      Content delivery over the Web has become an important element of improving web performance. Content delivery Networks (CDN) has been proposed to maximize bandwidth, improve accessibility, and maintain correctness through ...
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      Integrating caching techniques on a content distribution network 

      Stamos, Kostas; Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I. (2006)
      Web caching and replication tune capacity with performance and they have become essential components of the Web. In practice, caching and replication techniques have been applied in proxy servers and Content Distribution ...
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      Intelligent authoring tools for enhancing mass customization of e-services: The smarTag framework 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      Mass customization should be more than just configuring a specific component (hardware or software), but should be seen as the co-design of an entire system, including services, experiences and human satisfaction at the ...
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      Intermediary infrastructures for the World Wide Web 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2004)
      Intermediaries are software entities, deployed on hosts of the wireline and wireless network, that mediate the interaction between clients and servers of the World Wide Web. In this paper we present a survey of intermediaries, ...
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      An investigation of web crawler behavior: Characterization and metrics 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Stassopoulou, Athena; Papageorgiou, Loizos (2005)
      In this paper, we present a characterization study of search-engine crawlers. For the purposes of our work, we use Web-server access logs from five academic sites in three different countries. Based on these logs, we analyze ...
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      IPMicra: An IP-address based location aware distributed web crawler 

      Papapetrou, Odysseas; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      Distributed crawling is able to overcome Important limitations of the traditional single-sourced web crawling systems. However, the optimal benefit of distributed crawling is usually limited to the sites hosting the crawlers, ...
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      A Java-DSP interface for analysis of the MP3 algorithm 

      Huang, C. -W; Thiagarajan, J. J.; Spanias, Andreas S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      Java-DSP is a freely accessible web-based software, primarily used in signal processing education and research. In this paper, we present Java-DSP modules that have been developed for the study and analysis of the MPEG-1 ...
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      Key issues for the design and development of mobile commerce services and applications 

      Andreou, Andreas S.; Leonidou, Constantinos; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S.; Schizas, Christos N.; Mavromoustakos, Stephanos M. (2005)
      This paper suggests a new approach for developing m-commerce services and applications based on a scheme that divides m-applications into directory- and transaction-oriented classes, identifies mobile user requirements, ...
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      Lessons learned from online social networking of physical things 

      Kamilaris, Andreas; Papadiomidous, D.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2011)
      Social networking is a core part of the global online experience. The Web 2.0 has been transformed into a social Web, extending the social capabilities of users. A big challenge for the Web is to become ubiquitous, blended ...
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      A methodology for model-driven web application composition 

      Kateros, D. A.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Tselikas, N. D.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2008)
      Web application composition can greatly benefit from the utilization of existing frameworks and reusable components, in order to reduce development effort. Frameworks implementing the Model-View-Controller architectural ...
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      Mobile agents for wireless computing: The convergence of wireless computational models with mobile-agent technologies 

      Spyrou, Christiana; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Evripidou, Paraskevas (2004)
      Wireless mobile computing breaks the stationary barrier and allows users to compute and access information from anywhere and at anytime. However, this new freedom of movement does not come without new challenges. The mobile ...
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      Mobile agents for World Wide Web distributed database access 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2000)
      The popularity of the Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based approaches for ...
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      Mobile agents for WWW distributed database access 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (1999)
      The popularity of Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based methodologies for ...
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      Model-based cluster analysis for Web users sessions 

      Pallis, George C.; Angelis, Lefteris; Vakali, Athena I. (2005)
      One of the main issues in Web usage mining is the discovery of patterns in the navigational behavior of Web users. Standard approaches, such as clustering of users' sessions and discovering association rules or frequent ...