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      The airplace indoor positioning platform for Android smartphones 

      Laoudias, Christos; Constantinou, George; Constantinides, Marios; Nicolaou, Silouanos; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Panayiotou, Christos G. (2012)
      In this demonstration paper, we present an indoor positioning system developed for Android smartphones, coined Airplace. To infer the unknown user location we rely on ubiquitous WLANs and exploit Received Signal Strength ...
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      CLODA: A crowdsourced linked open data architecture 

      Larkou, G.; Metochi, J.; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2013)
      In this paper we present our Crowdsourced Linked Open Data Architecture (CLODA), a first attempt to combine crowdsourcing, localization and location-based services to generate, collect, validate and relate real-world, ...
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      Continuous all k-nearest-neighbor querying in smartphone networks 

      Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Lee, W. -C; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2012)
      Consider a centralized query operator that identifies to every smart phone user its k geographically nearest neighbors at all times, a query we coin Continuous All k-Nearest Neighbor (CAkNN). Such an operator could be ...
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      Crowdsourced trace similarity with smartphones 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Laoudias, Christos; Costa, Constantinos; Vlachos, Michail; Andreou, Maria I.; Gunopulos, Dimitrios (2013)
      Smartphones are nowadays equipped with a number of sensors, such as WiFi, GPS, accelerometers, etc. This capability allows smartphone users to easily engage in crowdsourced computing services, which contribute to the ...
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      Crowdsourcing emergency data in non-operational cellular networks 

      Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Costa, Constantinos; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Lee, W. -C (2017)
      In overloaded or partially broken (i.e., non-operational) cellular networks, it is imperative to enable communication within the crowd to allow the management of emergency and crisis situations. To this end, a variety of ...
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      Demo: A programming cloud of smartphones 

      Konstantinidis, Andreas; Costa, Constantinos; Larkou, G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2012)
      In this demonstration we present SmartLab 1, an exciting experimental testbed of approximately 40+ real Android Smartphones, plus emulated devices, deployed at the Department of Computer Science building at the University ...
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      Demo: Indoor geolocation on multi-sensor smartphones 

      Li, C. -L; Laoudias, Christos; Larkou, G.; Tsai, Y. -K; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Panayiotou, Christos G. (2013)
      In this demo, we present an efficient hybrid indoor positioning solution that uses multi-sensory location-oriented observations, including WiFi, accelerometer, gyroscope and digital compass data, that are widely available ...
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      Demonstration abstract: Sensor mockup experiments with SmartLab 

      Larkou, G.; Mintzis, M.; Taranto, S.; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (IEEE Computer Society, 2014)
      In this demonstration paper we present SmartLab1, an architecture for managing a cluster of both Android Real Devices (ARDs) and Android Virtual Devices (AVDs) via an intuitive web-based interface. Our architecture consists ...
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      Enhancing virtual reality systems with smart wearable devices 

      Alshaal, S. E.; Michael, S.; Pamporis, A.; Herodotou, H.; Samaras, George S.; Andreou, Panayiotis G. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      The proliferation of wearable and smartphone devices with embedded sensors has enabled researchers and engineers to study and understand user behavior at an extremely high fidelity, particularly for use in industries such ...
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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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      Intelligent search in social communities of smartphone users 

      Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S.; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2013)
      Social communities of smartphone users have recently gained significant interest due to their wide social penetration. The applications in this domain, however, currently rely on centralized or cloud-like architectures for ...
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      Managing big data experiments on smartphones 

      Larkou, G.; Mintzis, M.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2016)
      The explosive number of smartphones with ever growing sensing and computing capabilities have brought a paradigm shift to many traditional domains of the computing field. Re-programming smartphones and instrumenting them ...
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      Privacy-preserving indoor localization on smartphones 

      Konstantinidis, Andreas; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Mpeis, P.; Pelekis, N.; Theodoridis, Y. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Predominant smartphone OS localization subsystems currently rely on server-side localization processes, allowing the service provider to know the location of a user at all times. In this paper, we propose an innovative ...
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      Road Anomaly Detection and Classification Using Smartphones and Artificial Neural Networks 

      Kyriakou, Charalambos; Christodoulou, Symeon E.; Dimitriou, Loukas; Transportation, Research Board (2016)
      The study presented herein explores the use of data, collected by sensors from smartphones and from automobiles’ on-board diagnostic (OBD-II) devices while vehicles are in movement, for the detection of roadway anomalies. ...
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      Scalable Mockup Experiments on Smartphones Using Smart Lab 

      Larkou, G.; Mintzis, M.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      In this paper we present a comprehensive architecture to carry out experimental repeatability studies on clusters of smartphones. Our architecture is founded on Smart Lab1, our in-house architecture for managing real and ...
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      SmartP2P: A multi-objective framework for finding social content in P2P smartphone networks 

      Konstantinidis, Andreas; Aplitsiotis, C.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (2012)
      In this demonstration paper, we present a novel framework for searching objects (e.g., images, videos, etc.) captured by the users in a mobile social community. Our framework, is founded on an in-situ data storage model, ...