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      Multimedia content adaptation: Operation selection in the MPEG-21 framework 

      Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Angelides, Marios C.; Schizas, Christos N. (2005)
      Whilst many content adaptation operations exist and a number of different approaches are currently being proposed, selecting the right content adaptation operation is largely an ad hoc process. In this paper we discuss ...
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      A cost-effective approach to improving performance of big genomic data analyses in clouds 

      Smowton, C.; Balla, A.; Antoniades, Demetris; Miller, C.; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Xing, Wei (2017)
      With the rapidly growing demand for DNA analysis, the need for storing and processing large-scale genome data has presented significant challenges. This paper describes how the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) can be deployed ...
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      Analysing cancer genomics in the elastic cloud 

      Smowton, C.; Miller, C.; Xing, Wei; Balla, A.; Antoniades, Demetris; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      With the rapidly growing demand for DNA analysis, the need for storing and processing large-scale genome data has presented significant challenges. This paper describes how the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) can be deployed ...
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      Mobile computing: Technology challenges, constraints, and standards 

      Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Angelides, Marios C.; Schizas, Christos N. (IGI Global, 2006)
      Mobile communications and computing has changed forever the way people communicate and interact and it has made "any information, any device, any network, anytime, anywhere" an everyday reality which we all take for granted. ...
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      Communities: Concept-based querying for mobile services 

      Skouteli, C.; Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2005)
      In this paper, we consider semantic service discovery in a global computing environment. We propose creating a dynamic overlay network by grouping together semantically related services. Each such group is termed a community. ...
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      Concept-based discovery of mobile services 

      Skouteli, C.; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2005)
      In this paper, we consider semantic service discovery in a global computing environment. We propose creating a dynamic overlay network by grouping together semantically related services. Each such group of services is ...
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      Computer graphics and virtual environments : from realism to real-time 

      Slater, Mel; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (Addison-Wesley, 2000)
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      Advances in virtual reality software and technology 

      Singh, Gurminder; Lau, Rynson W. H.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (John Wiley & Sons, 2007)
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      Gamma Deployment: Designing the Communication Infrastructure in Vehicular Networks Assuring Guarantees on the V2I Inter-Contact Time 

      Silva, C. M.; Guidoni, D. L.; Souza, F. S. H.; Pitangui, C. G.; Sarubbi, J. F. M.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)
      Gamma Deployment is a metric for evaluating the distribution of roadside units in vehicular networks in terms of two parameters: a) the inter-contact time between vehicles and the infrastructure, and, b) the share of ...
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      Using the inter-contact time for planning the communication infrastructure in vehicular networks 

      Silva, C. M.; Guidoni, D. L.; Souza, F. S.; Pitangui, C. G.; Sarubbi, J. A. F. M.; Aquino, A. L. L.; Meira, W.; Nogueira, J. M. S.; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) demand sophisticated vehicular networks integrating entities from the transportation sector. The ability to plan and manage such networks represents a key challenge for moving ITS ...
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      Enhancing the creativity process by adding context awareness in creativity support tools 

      Sielis, George A.; Tzanavari, Aimilia; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2009)
      The existence of creativity support tools establishes creativity as part of the Computer Science research. Therefore, the development of computational methods for the enhancement of creativity is undoubtedly a challenge. ...
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      Prefetching in content distribution networks via Web communities identification and outsourcing 

      Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Pallis, George C.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Stamos, Kostas; Vakali, Athena I.; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2008)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) improve scalability and reliability, by replicating content to the "edge" of the Internet. Apart from the pure networking issues of the CDNs relevant to the establishment of the ...
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      Constraint propagation in propositional planning 

      Sideris, A.; Dimopoulos, Yannis (2010)
      Planning as Satisfiability is a most successful approach to optimal propositional planning. It draws its strength from the efficiency of state-of-the-art propositional satisfiability solvers, combined with the utilization ...
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      Propositional planning as optimization 

      Sideris, A.; Dimopoulos, Yannis (2012)
      Planning as Satisfiability is a most successful approach to optimal propositional planning. Although optimality is highly desirable, for large problems it comes at a high, often prohibitive, computational cost. This paper ...
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      Design of a multi-interface creativity support tool for the enhancement of the creativity process 

      Sielis, George A.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos; Granić, A. (2011)
      This work examines the influence of the different working environments during the execution of a creativity process. The selection factor used for the decision is each user's learning style. For the examination of how this ...
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      A context aware recommender system for creativity support tools 

      Sielis, George A.; Mettouris, Christos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos; Tzanavari, Aimilia; Dols, R. M. G.; Siebers, Q. (2011)
      The development of methods that can enhance the creativity process is becoming a continuous necessity. Through the years several researchers modelled and defined creativity focusing to the psychological aspect of the topic. ...
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      Heuristic guided optimization for propositional planning 

      Sideris, A.; Dimopoulos, Yannis (AAAI press, 2014)
      Planning as Satisfiability is an important approach to Propositional Planning. A serious drawback of the method is its limited scalability, as the instances that arise from large planning problems are often too hard for ...
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      ArchReco: Software architecture design tool enhanced by context aware recommendations for design patterns 

      Sielis, George A.; Tzanavari, Aimilia; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
      This work presents ArchReco, a tool that supports Context Aware Recommendations for Design Patterns while a designer performs a Software Architecture Design. The prototype tool presented in this work takes into consideration ...
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      Context-aware recommendations using topic maps technology for the enhancement of the creativity process 

      Sielis, George A.; Mettouris, Christos; Tzanavari, Aimilia; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (IGI Global, 2011)
      Learning can be observed in the creativity process. When this process is supported by a Creativity Support Tool (CST), considering the context in which ideas are developed, as well as the context around the user himself ...