• Article  

      Alpha-radiometry of seawater by liquid scintillation counting 

      Antoniou, Stella; Costa, Constantinos; Pashalidis, Ioannis (2006)
      Liquid scintillation counting of the alpha-radionuclides after pre-concentration by cation-exchange represents a simple and robust method for the determination of total alpha-radioactivity in seawater. The total efficiency ...
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      Continuous decaying of telco big data with data postdiction 

      Costa, Constantinos; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Charalampous, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios; Mokbel, Mohamed F. (2019)
      In this paper, we present two novel decaying operators for Telco Big Data (TBD), coined TBD-DP and CTBD-DP that are founded on the notion of Data Postdiction. Unlike data prediction, which aims to make a statement about ...
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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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      Decaying Telco Big Data with Data Postdiction 

      Costa, Constantinos; Charalampous, Andreas; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios; Mokbel, Mohamed F. (2018)
      In this paper, we present a novel decaying operator for Telco Big Data (TBD), coined TBD-DP (Data Postdiction). Unlike data prediction, which aims to make a statement about the future value of some tuple, our formulated ...
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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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      Distributed in-memory processing of All K Nearest Neighbor queries 

      Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Costa, Constantinos; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Lee, W. -C; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      A wide spectrum of Internet-scale mobile applications, ranging from social networking, gaming and entertainment to emergency response and crisis management, all require efficient and scalable All k Nearest Neighbor (AkNN) ...
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      Efficient exploration of telco big data with compression and decaying 

      Costa, Constantinos; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Mokbel, M. F. (IEEE Computer Society, 2017)
      In the realm of smart cities, telecommunication companies (telcos) are expected to play a protagonistic role as these can capture a variety of natural phenomena on an ongoing basis, e.g., traffic in a city, mobility patterns ...
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      FMS: Managing Crowdsourced Indoor Signals with the Fingerprint Management Studio 

      Angelidou, Marileni; Costa, Constantinos; Nikitin, Artyom; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios (2018)
      In this demonstration paper, we present an integrated indoor signal management studio, coined Fingerprint Management Studio (FMS), which provides a spatio-temporal platform to: (i) manage the collection of location-dependent ...
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      Rayzit: An Anonymous and Dynamic Crowd Messaging Architecture 

      Costa, Constantinos; Anastasiou, Chrysovalantis; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      The smartphone revolution has introduced a new era of social networks where users communicate over anonymous messaging platforms to exchange opinions, ideas and even carry out commerce. These platforms enable individuals ...
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      SmartTrace: Finding similar trajectories in smartphone networks without disclosing the traces 

      Costa, Constantinos; Laoudias, Christos; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Gunopulos, Dimitrios (2011)
      In this demonstration paper, we present a powerful distributed framework for finding similar trajectories in a smartphone network, without disclosing the traces of participating users. Our framework, exploits opportunistic ...
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      SPATE: Compacting and exploring telco big data 

      Costa, Constantinos; Chatzimilioudis, Georgios; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Mokbel, M. F. (IEEE Computer Society, 2017)
      In this demonstration paper, we present SPATE, an innovative telco big data exploration framework whose objectives are two-fold: (i) minimizing the storage space needed to incrementally retain data over time
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      TBD-DP: Telco Big Data Visual Analytics with Data Postdiction 

      Costa, Constantinos; Charalampous, Andreas; Konstantinidis, Andreas; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios; Mokbel, Mohamed F. (2018)
      In this demonstration paper, we present the TBD-DP operator, which relies on existing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to abstract Telco Big Data (TBD) into compact models that can be stored and queried when necessary. Our ...
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      Telco Big Data Research and Open Problems 

      Costa, Constantinos; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios (2019)
      A telecommunication company (telco) is traditionally only perceived as the entity that provides telecommunication services, such as telephony and data communication access to users. However, the radio and backbone ...
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      Telco Big Data: Current State Future Directions 

      Costa, Constantinos; Zeinalipour-Yazti, Demetrios (2018)
      A Telecommunication company (Telco) is traditionally only perceived as the entity that provides telecommunication services, such as telephony and data communication access to users. However, the radio and backbone ...