Browsing by Author "Samaras, George S."

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      Data-driven user profiling to support web adaptation through cognitive styles and navigation behavior 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      This paper aims to analyze human navigation behavior and identify similarities of cognitive styles using measures obtained from psychometric tests. Specific navigation metrics are utilized to find identifiable groups of ...
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      DBGlobe: A service-oriented P2P system for global computing 

      Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Abiteboul, S.; Pfoser, D.; Samaras, George S.; Vazirgiannis, M. (2003)
      The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a super-database. Our goal is to develop a data management system ...
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      A decade of dynamic web content: A structured survey on past and present practices and future trends 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Evripidou, Paraskevas; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2006)
      The shift from static to dynamic Web content has been dramatic. Dynamic Web content is facilitated by specialized cooperating component systems better known as content middlewares. Unlike static content, the generation and ...
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      DermaTrack: A skin cancer tracking intelligent application 

      Mouzouras, N.; Pogiatzis, A.; Kleanthous, Styliani; Samaras, George S. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2017)
      Although, one in five humans living in high risk areas will develop skin cancer during a lifetime, there is currently no mechanism to help humans track the development of skin moles. DermaTrack, the application described ...
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      Detecting personality traces in users’ social activity 

      Kleanthous, Styliani; Herodotou, C.; Samaras, George S.; Germanakos, Panagiotis (2016)
      The effect that social media have in our lives nowadays is apparent. Many studies focused on how the differences we hold as people due to our personality, reflect our activities online. In this work we aim to exploit reports ...
    • Book Chapter  

      Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing 

      Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (John Wiley and Sons, 2012)
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      Distributed location aware web crawling 

      Papapetrou, Odysseas; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      Distributed crawling has shown that it can overcome important limitations of the today's crawling paradigm. However, the optimal benefits of this approach are usually limited to the sites hosting the crawler. In this work, ...
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      Do human cognitive differences in information processing affect preference and performance of CAPTCHA? 

      Belk, Marios; Fidas, Christos A.; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2015)
      A Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a widely used security defense mechanism that is utilized by service providers to determine whether the entity interacting with their ...
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      Dynamic business processes and virtual communities in wireless ehealth environments 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S.; Christodoulou, Eleni (IGI Global, 2010)
      Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) related applications tend to be a trend for most successful businesses, organizations and domains nowadays, as is the Healthcare sector. Healthcare specialists often work in ...
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      A dynamic user centric framework for enhancing eservices effectiveness aiming at mass customization 

      Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 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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      Dynamically generated web content: Research and technology practices 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Evripidou, Paraskevas; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (IGI Global, 2006)
      This chapter takes a tutorial approach to present the Web-related technologies and content middleware that attempt to accelerate the generation and optimize the delivery of dynamic content. It covers the historical aspects ...
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      E-commerce engineering: A short vs long software process for the development of e-commerce applications 

      Andreou, Andreas S.; Mavromoustakos, Stephanos M.; Leonidou, Constantinos; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S.; Schizas, Christos N. (Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politecnico de Setubal, 2003)
      The immediacy in developing e-commerce applications, the quality of the services offered by these systems band the need for continuous evolution are primary issues that must be fully analysed and understood prior and during ...
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      An e-healthcare mobile application: A stakeholders' analysis experience of reading 

      Panteli, N.; Pitsillides, B.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 2009)
      This chapter presents a longitudinal study on the implementation of an e-health mobile application, DITIS, which supports network collaboration for home healthcare. By adopting the stakeholders' analysis, the study explores ...
    • Book Chapter  

      An e-healthcare mobile application: A stakeholders' analysis experience of reading 

      Panteli, N.; Pitsillides, B.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Samaras, George S. (IGI Global, 2007)
      This chapter presents a longitudinal study on the implementation of an e-health mobile application, DITIS, which supports network collaboration for home healthcare. By adopting the stakeholders' analysis, the study explores ...
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      Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing 

      Roussos, G.; Samaras, George S.; Spinellis, D. (2004)
      Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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      Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing 

      Roussos, G.; Samaras, George S. (2005)
      Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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      The effects of personality type in user-centered appraisal systems 

      Lekkas, Zacharias; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      The basic objective of this paper is to make an extensive reference of a combination of concepts and techniques coming from different research areas, Psychology and Web personalization technologies, both of which focus ...
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      Embracing cognitive aspects in web personalization environments - The adaptiveweb architecture 

      Germanakos, Panagiotis; Tsianos, Nikos; Lekkas, Zacharias; Mourlas, Constantinos; Belk, Marios; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      This paper presents a Web adaptation and personalization architecture that uses cognitive aspects as its core filtering element. The innovation of the proposed architecture focuses upon the creation of a comprehensive user ...
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      Embracing cognitive factors and Fuzzy Logic in adaptive interactive systems 

      Papatheocharous, Efi; Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Samaras, George S. (2013)
      The increased demand of services on the Web to satisfy the diverse characteristics of users have resulted in a plethora of applications that aim to provide personalized services based on the heterogeneous needs and preferences ...
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      Emotional web-based design: the concepts of emotional experience and emotional expression 

      Lekkas, Zacharias; Tsianos, Nikos; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Mourlas, Constantinos; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      For many years people have been trying to measure differences between individuals. Over the course of time, a combination of developments in statistical know-how and the evolution of thought within psychology enabled the ...