ICCS - National Technical University of Athens
The National Technical University of Athens, together with the Ministry of Education of Greece has established in 1989 the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) as a non-profit private law body associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of ICCS. ICCS was established in order to promote research and development activity in all diverse aspects of computer and telecommunications systems and their applications. The active research personnel of ICCS comprises of 80 faculty members, 25 senior researchers and more than 150 researchers.
The Information Management Unit (IMU) is a multi-disciplinary unit within ICCS/ICCS engaged in research and development activities in Information Technology Management. The mission of IMU is to enable the development of knowledge-driven organisations and its main focus it to design, develop and validate innovative models, methods and tools that leverage the creation, sharing and use of information and knowledge at the individual, team and organisational levels. IMU staff includes three faculty members, seven post-doctoral senior researchers and twelve researchers. Since its establishment IMU has actively contributed in twenty two research and development projects. The technological research activities of IMU focus on: data and knowledge engineering, service-oriented computing, collective intelligence and social computing. In terms of application domains, our research focuses on: knowledge management, e-government and e-business service management, e-health, software engineering and on the management of virtual organizations.
Role in the project
ICCS/ICCS will be a research and development partner in the project and will be strongly involved in aspects related to system personalization and adaptation. ICCS will take part in the development of value added services that take advantage of machine learning and collective intelligence techniques in order to enhance the interaction between users and peacox services. This will be achieved by building user models and exploiting them for providing content and service recommendations to the users as well as for adapting services and interfaces in accordance to the user context.
Key Personnel
Prof. Gregoris Mentzas is Director of the Information Management Unit and Professor of Information Management at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of ICCS. From 2006 to 2009 he served in the Board of Directors of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of ICCS. His area of expertise is information technology management and his research concerns the integration of knowledge management, semantic web and e-service technologies, collaboration and workflow management, corporate knowledge management in e-government and e-business settings. He has over 160 internationally refereed papers and received ANBAR citations of excellence for research. Professor Mentzas has received numerous contracts, grants and awards from funding bodies and was/is principal investigator in more than 30 research projects in the areas of business and IT strategy; knowledge management; re-organisation and performance improvement; and coordination and workflow systems. Prof. Mentzas will be the project manager within ICCS.
Dr. Dimitris Apostolou is Senior Researcher at ICCS and Assistant Professor in the Informatics Department of the University of Piraeus. He holds a PhD on knowledge management and decision support from ICCS, an MSc in IT from University College London, UK, an MSc in Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, and a Diploma Degree in Engineering from ICCS. His research interests include knowledge management, decision support systems and collective intelligence. He has coordinated 2 Specific Targeted Research Projects and has participated as team leader in more than 15 research projects. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences. Dimitris will be, together with Yiannis, responsible for the development of the impact profiles and corresponding personalisation and recommender services within WP 4 and 5.
Dr. Yiannis Verginadis is Senior Researcher at ICCS and adjunct Lecturer in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of Thessaly. He holds Diploma and Doctoral degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. His PhD degree was on inter-organizational workflow management systems and his research interests include management information systems, software engineering, workflow management, electronic government and electronic commerce.
