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    • Article  

      Neurogenic vestibular evoked potentials using a tone pip auditory stimulus 

      Papathanasiou, Eleftherios Stelios; Zamba-Papanicolaou, Eleni; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Kleopa, Kleopas A.; Kyriakides, Theodoros; Papacostas, Savvas S.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Iliopoulos, Ioannis Komotini; Piperidou, Charitomeni N. (2004)
      Objectives: To obtain neurogenic vestibular evoked potentials (NVESTEPs) with surface scalp recording using a tone pip auditory stimulus. Methods: Fourteen neurologically normal volunteers (Age range 26-45 years, 10 females ...
    • Article  

      Mobile agents for World Wide Web distributed database access 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2000)
      The popularity of the Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based approaches for ...
    • Article  

      Mobile agents for WWW distributed database access 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (1999)
      The popularity of Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based methodologies for ...
    • Book Chapter  

      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 ...
    • Article  

      UCYMICRA: Distributed indexing of the web using migrating crawlers 

      Papapetrou, Odysseas; Papastavrou, Stavros; Samaras, George S. (2003)
      Due to the tremendous increase rate and the high change frequency of Web documents, maintaining an up-to-date index for searching purposes (search engines) is becoming a challenge. The traditional crawling methods are no ...
    • Article  

      Categorized sliding window in streaming data management systems 

      Papas, Marios; Larriba-Pey, J. -L; Trancoso, Pedro (2008)
      For many applications, data is collected at very large rates from various sources. Applications that produce results from this data have a requirement for very efficient processing in order to achieve timely decisions. An ...
    • Article  

      Performance vs. freshness in web database applications 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2014)
      In this work, we present a novel approach for the efficient materialization of dynamic web pages in e-commerce applications such as an online retail store with millions of items, hundreds of HTTP requests per second and ...
    • Article  

      Exploring content dependencies to better balance performance and freshness in web database applications 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      In this paper, we present a novel approach for materializing dynamic web pages by exploiting content dependencies and user access patterns. We introduce two new semantic-based data freshness metrics and show that our ...
    • Conference Object  

      Survey on the Java-based approaches for web database connectivity 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (IEEE, 2000)
      The undeniable popularity of the web makes the efficient accessing of distributed databases from web clients an important topic. Various methods for web database integration have been proposed but recently there is an ...
    • Article  

      An evaluation of the Java-based approaches to web database access 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2001)
      Given the undeniable popularity of the Web, providing efficient and secure access to remote databases using a Web browser is crucial for the emerging cooperative information systems and applications. In this paper, we ...
    • Conference Object  

      IPMicra: An IP-address based location aware distributed web crawler 

      Papapetrou, Odysseas; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      Distributed crawling is able to overcome Important limitations of the traditional single-sourced web crawling systems. However, the optimal benefit of distributed crawling is usually limited to the sites hosting the crawlers, ...
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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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      Non-invasive trisomy 21 diagnosis using fuzzy cognitive maps 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Schizas, Christos N. (Springer Verlag, 2016)
      A fuzzy Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS) has been developed, exploiting the possibilities of a specific algorithm which transforms a crisp dataset into fuzzy. The purpose of the developed fuzzy DDSS is the diagnosis ...
    • Article  

      Exploitation of medical crisp database for fuzzy diagnostic decision support systems 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Schizas, Christos N. (2015)
      There are several types of Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) but all move towards a common direction: provide assistance to the doctors/clinicians to make the right diagnosis for a specific patient, minimizing as ...
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      A Fuzzy Cognitive Map system to explore certain scenarios on the Cyprus banking system 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos; Schizas, Christos N. (INSTICC Press, 2014)
      The model of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) allows a user to investigate how the influencing parameters of a cause-effect system behave under the implementation of desired scenario. Human knowledge and experience is used to ...
    • Article  

      A generic tool for building fuzzy cognitive map systems 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Mateou, Nicos H.; Andreou, Andreas S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2010)
      A generic system for simulating complex dynamical systems along the paradigm of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) has been created and tested. The proposed system enables a user to design appropriate FCM structures, by specifying ...
    • Article  

      A fuzzy cognitive map model for estimating the repercussions of Greek PSI on Cypriot Bank branches in Greece 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Schizas, Christos N. (2013)
      Recently, Greece experienced a financial crisis unprecedented in its modern history. In May of 2010 Greece signed a bailout memorandum with Troika (a tripartite committee constituted by the European Central Bank, the ...
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      A fuzzy cognitive map model of the repercussions of greek PSI on cypriot economy 

      Papaioannou, Maria; Neocleous, Costas K.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos; Schizas, Christos N. (2013)
      This paper introduces an alternative methodology for developing fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) for modeling socio-politico-economic systems. The methodology is novel with respect to the proper identification, definition and ...
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      TrafficModeler: A graphical tool for programming microscopic traffic simulators through high-level abstractions 

      Papaleontiou, L. G.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2009)
      In this paper, we present TrafficModeler, an open-source, graphical tool for the rapid high-level modeling and generation of vehicular traffic. TrafficModeler supports a variety of traffic definition models representing a ...
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      Aspect oriented programming for a component-based real life application: A case study 

      Papapetrou, Odysseas; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2004)
      Aspect Oriented Programming, a relatively new programming paradigm, earned the scientific community's attention. The paradigm is already evaluated for traditional OOP and component-based software development with remarkable ...