Browsing by Author "Andreou, Panayiotis G."

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      AD-APT: Blurring the boundary between mobile advertising and user satisfaction 

      Pamboris, Andreas; Antoniou, George; Makris, Constantinos; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S. (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016)
      The choice between two dominant monetization strategies for mobile apps, i.e. capitalising on revenue generated from either users or advertisers, is not a straightforward one. While users are initially attracted more to ...
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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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      ETC: Energy-driven tree construction in wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Pamboris, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      Continuous queries in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are founded on the premise of Query Routing Tree structures (denoted as T), which provide sensors with a path to the querying node. Predominant data acquisition systems ...
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      Evaluation metrics for ehealth services and applications within smart houses context 

      Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      eHealth services is a continuously growing sector, driving the need for advances in both the network characteristics and infrastructure, as well as in the available mobile devices used. The same need requires the development ...
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      FireWatch: G.I.S.-assisted wireless sensor networks for forest fires 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Constantinou, George; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      Traditional satellite and camera-based systems, are currently the predominant methods for detecting forest fires. Our study has identified that these systems lack immediacy as detected fires must gain some momentum before ...
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      FSort: External sorting on flash-based sensor devices 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Spanos, O.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Samaras, George S.; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2009)
      In long-term deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks, it is often more efficient to store sensor readings locally at each device and transmit those readings to the user only when requested (i.e., in response to a user ...
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      ICT systems and services for Ageing Well: Identification and assessment of an important set (package) of ICT services for active ageing and independent living 

      Christophorou, C.; Georgiadis, Dimosthenis; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Kleanthous, Styliani; Cereghetti, D. M.; Meijers, J.; Christodoulou, Eleni; Samaras, George S. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      Currently, the main care model for supporting elderly people living alone at home is based on informal and formal caregivers assistance. Considering the demographic changes of older population, which increases rapidly, ...
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      In-network data acquisition and replication in mobile sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      This paper assumes a set of n mobile sensors that move in the Euclidean plane as a swarm. Our objectives are to explore a given geographic region by detecting and aggregating spatiooral events of interest and to store these ...
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      An individual differences approach in adaptive waving of user checkout process in retail eCommerce 

      Belk, Marios; Germanakos, Panagiotis; Asimakopoulos, Stavros; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Mourlas, Constantinos; Spanoudis, George; Samaras, George S. (2014)
      Developing a usable checkout process is pivotal for e-business success. However, recent research has shown that users frequently abandon their shopping carts and lacking a clear direction through the process. In this ...
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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 ...
    • Doctoral Thesis  Open Access

      KSPOT : a network-aware framework for energy-efficient data acquisition in wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G. (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2011-06)
      Τα Ασύρματα Δίκτυα Αισθητήρων (ΑΔΑ) αποτελούνται από μικροσκοπικές συσκευές με περιορισμένους πόρους και παρέχουν στους χρήστες την ευκαιρία να παρακολουθούν το περιβάλλον με πολύ ψηλή ευκρίνεια. Για τη συλλογή των δεδομένων ...
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      KSpot: Effectively monitoring the k most important events in a wireless sensor network 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Vassiliadou, M.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      This demo presents a graphical user interface and ranking system, coined KSpot, for effectively monitoring the K highest-ranked answers to a query Q in a Wireless Sensor Network. KSpot deploys state-of-the-art distributed ...
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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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      The micropulse framework for adaptive waking windows in sensor networks 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2007)
      In this paper we present MicroPulse, a novel framework for adapting the waking window of a sensing device S based on the data workload incurred by a query Q. Assuming a typical tree-based aggregation scenario, the waking ...
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      MINT views: Materialized In-Network Top-k views in sensor networks 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2007)
      In this paper we introduce MINT (Materialized In-Network Top-k) Views, a novel framework for optimizing the execution of continuous monitoring queries in sensor networks. A typical materialized view V maintains the complete ...
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      Multi-objective query optimization in smartphone social networks 

      Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      The bulk of social network applications for smart phones (e.g., Twitter, Face book, Foursquare, etc.) currently rely on centralized or cloud-like architectures in order to carry out their data sharing and searching tasks. ...
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      A network-aware framework for energy-efficient data acquisition in wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Samaras, George S.; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2014)
      Wireless sensor networks enable users to monitor the physical world at an extremely high fidelity. In order to collect the data generated by these tiny-scale devices, the data management community has proposed the utilization ...
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      Optimized query routing trees for wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Pamboris, Andreas; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      In order to process continuous queries over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), sensors are typically organized in a Query Routing Tree (denoted as T) that provides each sensor with a path over which query results can be ...
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      Perimeter-based data replication in mobile sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Andreou, Maria I.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2009)
      This paper assumes a set of n mobile sensors that move in the Euclidean plane as a swarm. Our objectives are to explore a given geographic region by detecting spatio-temporal events of interest and to store these events ...