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National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia
Athens 15784 Greece

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Phone: +30 210 727 5237


Welcome note

My name is Charalampos (Babis for short) Nikolaou. I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications (DI&T) of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). My supervisor is Manolis Koubarakis and the rest of my PhD committee members consists of Vassilis Christophides and Philippe Rigaux. The subject of my PhD thesis is "Temporal and spatial knowledge representation on RDF databases".

I've received my B.Sc in Computer Science from DI&T, NKUA in 2007 and my M.Sc. in Computer Systems Technology from the same department in 2010. Since 2008, I am a member of the Management of Data and Information Knowledge Group (MaDgiK).


Education
Job Experience
Publications

[ Journals | Conferences | Workshops | Demos | Surveys | Vision / Challenge | Contests | Theses/Other | DBLP ]

Publications in journals and magazines

2014

  • K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, K. Bereta, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail, M. Koubarakis, and C. Kontoes: "Wildfire monitoring using satellite images, ontologies and linked geospatial data". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, ISSN 1570-8268, 2014 (in press). [online]
  • Kostis Kyzirakos, Stefan Manegold, Charalampos Nikolaou, and Manolis Koubarakis: "Building Virtual Earth Observatories Using Scientific Database and Semantic Web Technologies", ERCIM News 2014(96), January 2014.
    Special Theme: Linked Open Data.
    Guest editors: Irini Fundulaki (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH) and Sören Auer (University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS).
    [pdf || epub || bib]

Conference papers

2014

  • Charalampos Nikolaou and Manolis Koubarakis: "Fast consistency checking of very large real-world RCC-8 constraint networks using graph partitioning". In proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014), Québec, Canada, July 27–31, 2014.
    [pdf || Please, read this note (txt)]
  • C. Nikolaou, K. Kyzirakos, K. Bereta, K. Dogani, S. Giannakopoulou, P. Smeros, G. Garbis, M. Koubarakis, D. E. Molina, O. C. Dumitru, G. Schwarz, M. Datcu: "Improving knowledge discovery from synthetic aperture radar images using the linked open data cloud and Sextant". In Informal Proceedings of the Image Information Mining Conference: The Sentinels Era (ESA-EUSC-JRC 2014), Bucharest, Romania, 5-7 March, 2014. [pdf || bib || presentation (.pdf) || presentation (.pptx)]

2013

  • Charalampos Nikolaou and Manolis Koubarakis: "Incomplete Information in RDF". In the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2013), Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013. [pdf || bib || presentation ]
  • M. Koubarakis, C. Kontoes, S. Manegold, M. Karpathiotakis, K. Kyzirakos, K. Bereta, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, D. Michail, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, M. Ivanova, Y. Zhang, H. Pirk, M. Kersten, K. Dogani, S. Giannakopoulou, P. Smeros: "Real-Time Wildfire Monitoring Using Scientific Database and Linked Data Technologies". In the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2013), Genoa, Italy, March 18-22, 2013. [pdf || bib]

2012

  • M. Koubarakis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, S. Vassos, G. Garbis, M. Sioutis, K. Bereta, C. Kontoes, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail, S. Manegold, M. Kersten, M. Ivanova, H.Pirk, Y. Zhang, M. Datcu, G. Schwarz, O. C. Dumitru, D. E. Molina, K. Molch, U. D. Giammatteo, M. Sagona, S. Perelli, T. Reitz, E. Klien and R. Gregor: "Building Remote Sensing Applications Using Scientific Database and Semantic Web Technologies". In Informal Proceedings of the Image Information Mining Conference: Knowledge Discovery from Earth Observation Data (ESA-EUSC-JRC 2012), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 24-26 October 2012. [pdf || bib]
  • M. Koubarakis, M. Sioutis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, S.Vassos, G. Garbis, K. Bereta, M. Datcu, G. Schwarz, O.C. Dumitru, D.E. Molina and K. Molch: "Building Virtual Earth Observatories Using Ontologies, Linked Geospatial Data and Knowledge Discovery Algorithms". In Informal Proceedings of the Image Information Mining Conference: Knowledge Discovery from Earth Observation Data (ESA-EUSC-JRC 2012), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 24-26 October 2012. [pdf || bib]
  • M. Koubarakis, M. Sioutis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, S. Vassos, G. Garbis, K. Bereta, O. C. Dumitru, D. E. Molina, K. Molch, G. Schwarz, and M. Datcu: "Building Virtual Earth Observatories using Ontologies, Linked Geospatial Data and Knowledge Discovery Algorithms". In the 11th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2012), Roma, Italy, 11-12 September 2012. [pdf || bib]
  • M. Koubarakis, M. Karpathiotakis, K. Kyzirakos, C. Nikolaou, S. Vassos, G. Garbis, M. Sioutis, K. Bereta, S. Manegold, M. Kersten, M. Ivanova, H. Pirk, Y. Zhang, C. Kontoes, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, D. Mihail, M. Datcu, G. Schwarz, O. Dumitru, D. Molina, K. Molch, U. Giammatteo, M. Sagona, S. Perelli, E. Klien, T. Reitz, and R. Gregor: "Building Virtual Earth Observatories using Ontologies and Linked Geospatial Data". In the 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2012), Vienna, Austria, 10-12 September 2012. [pdf || bib]
  • C. Kontoes, I. Keramitsoglou, I. Papoutsis, D. Michail, T. Herekakis, P. Xofis, M. Koubarakis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, M. Sioutis, G. Garbis, S. Vassos, S. Manegold, M. Kersten, H. Pirk, M. Ivanova: "Operational Wildfire Monitoring and Disaster Management Support Using State-of-the-art EO and Information Technologies". In 2nd International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA 2012), Shangai, China, June 8-11, 2012. [pdf || bib]
  • C. Kontoes, I. Papoutsis, D. Michail, T. Herekakis, M. Koubarakis, K. Kyzirakos, M.Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, M. Sioutis, G. Garbis, S. Vassos, I. Keramitsoglou, M. Kersten, S. Manegold, and H. Pirk: "Wildfire monitoring via the integration of remote sensing with innovative information technologies". In EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April 2012. Short paper. [pdf]

Workshop papers

2014

2012

2011

  • M. Koubarakis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, M. Sioutis, S. Vassos, D. Michail, T. Herekakis, C. Kontoes, and I. Papoutsis: "Challenges for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in Linked Geospatial Data". In IJCAI 2011 Workshop on Benchmarks and Applications of Spatial Reasoning, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf || bib]
2010

  • M. Platakis, C. Nikolaou, A. Katifori, M. Koubarakis, Y. Ioannidis: "Browsing News Archives From The Perspective Of History: The Papyrus Browser Historiographical Issues View". Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2010), Desenzano del Garda, Italy, April 2010. [pdf || bib || slides (by M. Platakis)]

Demo papers

2013

  • Konstantina Bereta, Charalampos Nikolaou, Manos Karpathiotakis, Kostis Kyzirakos, and Manolis Koubarakis: "SexTant: Visualizing Time-Evolving Linked Geospatial Data." In the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013), Sydney, Australia, October 21-25, 2013. [pdf || bib || online demo || poster ]
  • Kostis Kyzirakos, Manos Karpathiotakis, Konstantina Bereta, George Garmpis, Charalampos Nikolaou, Panayiotis Smeros, Stella Giannakopoulou, Kallirroi Dogani, and Manolis Koubarakis: "The Spatiotemporal RDF Store Strabon". In the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2013), Munich, Germany, August 21-23, 2013.
    [ pdf || bib]
  • Charalampos Nikolaou, Kallirroi Dogani, Kostis Kyzirakos, and Manolis Koubarakis: "Sextant: Browsing and Mapping the Ocean of Linked Geospatial Data." In the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), Montpellier, France, May 26-30, 2013. [pdf || bib || poster || online demo] Best demo award.
    See also some nice photos from that event (with Kallirroi Dogani): 1 and 2

2012

  • K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, K. Bereta, M. Sioutis, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail, M. Koubarakis, and C. Kontoes: "Real Time Fire Monitoring Using Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies". In the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012. Demo paper. [pdf || bib || poster]
  • M. Koubarakis, K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, C. Nikolaou, S. Vassos, G. Garbis, M. Sioutis, K. Bereta, D. Michail, C. Kontoes, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, S. Manegold, M. Kersten, M. Ivanova, H. Pirk, Y. Zhang, M. Datcu, G. Schwarz, O. C. Dumitru, D. E. Molina, K. Molch, U. D. Giammatteo, M. Sagona, S. Perelli, T. Reitz, E. Klien, and R. Gregor: "TELEIOS: A Database-Powered Virtual Earth Observatory". In International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012. [pdf || bib]

2011

  • A. Katifori, C. Nikolaou, M. Platakis, Y. Ioannidis, A. Tympas, M. Koubarakis, N. Sarris, V. Tountopoulos, E. Tzoannos, S. Bykau, N. Kiyavitskaya, C. Tsinaraki, Y. Velegrakis: "The Papyrus Digital Library: Discovering History in the News". In Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011), Berlin, Germany, September 2011. [pdf || bib]

Surveys

2012

  • Manolis Koubarakis, Manos Karpathiotakis, Kostis Kyzirakos, Charalampos Nikolaou, and Michael Sioutis: "Data Models and Query Languages for Linked Geospatial Data". In 8th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2012), Vienna, Austria, September 2012. [pdf || bib]

Vision / Challenge papers

2013

  • Charalampos Nikolaou and Manolis Koubarakis: "Querying Incomplete Geospatial Information in RDF". In the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2013), Munich, Germany, August 21-23, 2013.
    [pdf || bib || presentation (.pdf) || presentation (.pptx)]

Contests

2012

  • K. Kyzirakos, M. Karpathiotakis, G. Garbis, C. Nikolaou, K. Bereta, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, D. Michail, M. Koubarakis and C. Kontoes: "Wildfire Monitoring Using Satellite Images, Ontologies and Linked Geospatial Data". In the 10th Semantic Web Challenge (co-located with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference), Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012. [pdf || bib || presentation (by G. Garbis) || poster || online demo]
    Won the third place!

Theses, Technical Reports, and other papers

2010

  • Charalampos Nikolaou. Keyword search in RDF databases. Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dissertation. 2010. [pdf || bib]
    Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Manolis Koubarakis

2007

  • Charalampos Nikolaou. An implementation of LibraRing architecture using the FreePastry system. Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dissertation. 2007 (in greek). [pdf || online view ]
    Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Manolis Koubarakis

Scholarships
Teaching
   Teaching assistant in the following courses at the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications:
Curriculum Vitae
   My CV is available both in English and Greek.

Open Source Software

gp-rcc8

The gp-rcc8 project implements a reasoner for the RCC-8 calculus. Reasoner gp-rcc8 employs graph partitioning to reduce the initial size of the network and exploits the degree of parallelism offered by current computer architectures by checking consistency of these smaller subnetworks in a parallel fashion.

Pay a visit to gp-rcc8's homepage.


Sextant

Sextant's logo Sextant is a web-based system for the visualization and exploration of time-evolving linked geospatial data and the creation, sharing, and collaborative editing of `temporally-enriched' thematic maps which are produced by combining different sources of such data and other geospatial information available in standard OGC file formats (e.g., KML).

Pay a visit to Sextant's homepage.


BibTooL

The BibTooL project comprises a set of shell scripts for simple processing of bibtex files. The term `simple processing' can be understood as the level of processing needed to reach a clean/consistent/organized state of a bibtex "database". The challenging part of this project is that it fullfils its goal having as a basis the power and flexibility that a shell provides. The ultimate goal of this project is to be portable to various platforms, such as Linux, Unix, SunOS, Mac OS X, Windows, etc. This is not the case right now, but it shall be while the project evolves.

Pay a visit to BibTooL's homepage.


Strabon

Strabon is a fully implemented semantic geospatial database system that can be used to store linked geospatial data expressed in RDF and query them using an extension of SPARQL, stSPARQL, and GeoSPARQL. Strabon supports spatial selections, spatial joins, a rich set of spatial functions similar to those offered by geospatial relational database systems, support for multiple Coordinate Reference Systems and widely used serializations for geometric objects such as WKT and GML. Strabon is built on top of the well-known RDF store Sesame and extends Sesame's components to be able to manage thematic and spatial data that are stored in PostGIS or MonetDB.

Pay a visit to Strabon's homepage.

  SPECIAL NOTICE
I have been partially involved in the development of Strabon. The main developers are Manos Karpathiotakis and
Kostis Kyzirakos.

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