Home Page: Isambo Karali

		KARALI Isambo
	Address:	Department of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, 157 84 Athens, Greece
	E-mail address:	izambodi.uoa.gr
	Phone:	+(30) 210 727 5232
	Fax:	+(30) 210 727 5214

Education

1995 PhD in Informatics (Department of Informatics, University of Athens)

1988 Msc in Computer Science (University College, University of London)

1986 Diploma in Mathematics (Department of Mathematics, University of Athens)

Professional Appointments

Nov. 2007 - today: Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens

Sept. 1999 - Nov. 2007: Lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens

Jan. 1989 - Sept. 1999: Research associate at the Department of Informatics of the University of Athens in the context of European Union research projects

May 1996 - June 1998: Postdoctoral researcher collaborating with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR"Democritos" In the context of a GSRT PENED project

Research Interests

Logic Programming
Artificial Intelligence
Object-oriented Programming and Object-oriented Knowledge Representation
Intelligent Agents/ Multi-agent Systems
Web Information Extraction/Representation
Modularity
Abstract Data Types
Deductive Databases

Teaching Activities

Current:

Object Oriented Programming (undergraduate) ( course web page -in Greek-)
Knowledge Engineering (postgraduate - Graduate Studies in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science) ( course web page -in Greek-)
Logic Programming (undergraduate - with P. Stamatopoulos) ( course web page -in Greek-)

Past:

Knowledge Engineering (postgraduate) ( course web page -in Greek-)
Introduction to Informatics for the School of Social Theology (undergraduate) / Introduction to Informatics for the School of Theology (undergraduate)
Applied Informatics for the School of Social Theology (undergraduate) / Applied Informatics for the School of Theology (undergraduate)
Object-oriented Software Development (undergraduate)
Logic Programming and Expert Systems (undergraduate)
Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate)
Systems Analysis (undergraduate)
Expert Systems (postgraduate)
Artificial Intelligence (postgraduate)
Databases (postgraduate)

In addition, she has given course lectures in other institutions (the Medical Informatics MSc ERASMUS programme, National Technical University of Athens).

Master's/Diploma Theses Supervision

Area of interest: the use of logic programming and/or artificial intelligence techniques to locate, represent and extract information and knowledge from the Web. Topics of theses in this area:

web page classification
logic programming to represent knowledge on the Web
semantic search
focused crawling

Completed Theses in the Area (after 2003)

Loukia Karanikola, "Web Page Classification: the AutoCat System Approach", Master's Thesis (2007)
Leonidas Kallipolitis - Vassilios Karpis, "Semantic Search on the World Wide Web: the Case of the World News", Diploma Thesis (2005)
Aristotelis Katsaris, "Rule-based Web Page Classification: the ExpertCat System Approach", Master's Thesis (2004)
Argyro Karakaksi, "XML and Logic Programming: TAX Algebra Modeling and Implementation", Master's Thesis (2004)
Akrivi Vlachou, "XML and Logic Programming: TAX Algebra Modeling", Master's Thesis (2003)

In addition, she supervised (or took part in the supervision of) various undergraduate diploma theses, postgraduate master's theses and a PhD thesis. The areas of these theses are: logic programming, knowledge bases, databases, expert systems, Web information extraction and representation.

Research Projects

Semantic Web and Logic Programming: the Case of Focused Crawling, University of Athens

Multi-agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information Over the (inter)Net ( MISSION ), IST Project, IST-1999-10655 (Jan. 2000 - March 2003)
Cluster Of Systems of Metadata for Official Statistics ( COSMOS ), IST Project, IST-2000-26050 (Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2003)
Integrating Heterogeneous Information Sources over the Web via Logic-based Agents, British Council - University of Athens Joint Research Programmes (Jul. 1999 - Dec. 2001)
Access to Distributed Databases for Statistical Information Analysis ( ADDSIA ), ESPRIT Project, EP 22950 (Jan. 1997 - March 2000)
Logic Programming Systems and Logic Programming Development Environments, GSRT PENED Project 952 (May 1996 - June 1998)
Parallel Constraint Handling for User Technologies (PARACHUTE), ESPRIT Project, EP 9134 (May 1994 Sept. 1996)
Application and Assessment of Parallelism using Logic (APPLAUSE), ESPRIT Project, EP 6708 (May 1992 - Jul. 1995)
European Declarative System (EDS), ESPRIT Project, EP 2025 (Jan. 1989 - June 1992)

Other Professional Activities

Responsible for the Web Site of the Department, participating in the:

design of the architecture of the system, tailored to the Department's needs to allow distributed administration by the responsible of each piece of information
database design
pages' development and support

Member of the Greek Computer Society, the Greek Mathematical Society, the Greek Statistical Institute, the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE-CS.

Reviewer in the DKE Journal, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures Journal, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) (2001, 2004), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003), 6th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT'97), 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2000), the 1997 ACM SIGGROUP Conference, the 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN '06) and the PCI'2001 (Greek Conference).

Organizing committee member of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory and the 2nd Workshop on Constraint Databases (CDB'97).

PhD Thesis:

I. Karali: "Semantics and Support of Modular Logic Programming and its Application to Abstract Data Types" (in Greek)

MSc Dissertation:

I. Karali. "Functional Language Implementation of Quadtrees: An Application of Functional Programming on Graphics"

Publications

A. Tsounis, C. Anagnostopoulos, S. Hadjiefthymiades, I. Karali. "Ontological Engineering in Pervasive Computing Environments", Chapter in Book Web Semantics and Ontology (David Taniar, Johanna Wenny Rahayu Eds.). Idea Group, Inc, 2006 (ISBN: 1-59140-905-5 hardcover, 1-59140-906-3 paperback).

I. Karali, "Logic Programming to Address Issues of the Semantic Web", 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07), Silicon Valley, USA, November 2-5, 2007.
A. Katsaris, I. Karali, "Rules revisited: Web Page Classification", Computational Intelligence (CI 2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007.
L. Kallipolitis, V. Karpis, I. Karali, "World News Finder: How we Cope without the Semantic Web", Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2007), Innsbruck, 2007.
S. McClean, B. Scotney, H. Rutjes, J. Hartkamp, I. Karali, M. Hatzopoulos, J. Lamb, D. Ma, "MISSION: An Agent-Based System for Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Information Sources", 16th International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM 2004), (short paper), pp. 337--340, Santorini, 2004.
McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopolos, "Agents for Querying distributed statistical databases over the Internet", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), 11(1), 2002.
McClean S, Karali I, Scotney B, Greer K, Kapos G-D, Pairceir R, Hong J, Bell D, and M Hatzopoulos, "Agent-based query processing of heterogeneous distributed statistical data via an ontology server", Proceedings of the EKAW02 Workshop, Ontologies for Multi-Agent Systems, pp105-120, 2002.
F. Afrati, I. Karali and T. Mitakos, "On Inheritance in Object Oriented Datalog", Proceedings of Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology -part of the Third Biannual World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology-, pp. 280 - 287, July 1998, Berlin.
F. Afrati, I. Karali and T. Mitakos, "Datalog, Units and Information Hiding", Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference in Languages and Models with Objects (LMO 97) - in cooperation with ECOOP'97-, pp. 147--159, October 1997, Brest.
I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "A Refinement of Import/Export Declarations in Modular Logic Programming and its Semantics", Proceedings of the 6th Internation and Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software Development (TAPSOFT'95), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (915), pp. 486--500, May 1995, Aarhus.
I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "A Practical Module System for Logic Programming and its Semantics", Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (TAI'94), pp. 708--711, November 1994, New Orleans. (short paper/poster session)
I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "Abstract Data Type Support in Prolog and its Relation to Parallelism", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 1994 (SAC'94), pp. 415--419, March 1994, Phoenix.
C. Halatsis, P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali, C. Mourlas, D. Gouscos, D. Margaritis, C. Fouskakis, A. Kolokouris, P. Xinos, M. Reeve, A. Veron, K. Schuerman and L.-L. Li, "MaTourA: Multi-agent Tourist Advisor", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in the Field of Tourism (ENTER'94), January 1994, Innsbruck, Austria, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, pp. 140-147.
I. Karali, E. Pelecanos and C. Halatsis, "A Versatile Module System for Prolog Mapped to Flat Prolog", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 1993 (SAC'93), pp. 578--585, February 1993, Indianapolis.
P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "A Tour Advisory System Using a Logic Programming Approach", ACM Applied Computing Review journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 18--25, 1993.
P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "PETINA --- Tour Generation Using the ElipSys Inference System", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 1992 (SAC'92), Vol. 1, pp. 320--327, March 1992, Kansas City.
C. Halatsis, M. Katzouraki, M. Hatzopoulos, P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali, C. Mourlas, M. Gergatsoulis, E. Pelecanos. "PETINA: PErsonalized Tourist INformation Advisor". Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, pp . 590-605, Athens, 1991.
C. Halatsis, I. Karali and E. Pelecanos, "Modules and Abstract Data Types as Extensions of the ElipSys Language", Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, pp. 87--99, Athens, 1991.

Other Publications

S. McClean, J. Hong, B. Scotney, M. Hatzopoulos and I. Karali, "Using Intelligent Software Agents to Query Heterogeneous Distributed Statistical Databases", Proceedings of NTTS, 769-774, 2001.
J.M. Lamb, A. Hewer, I. Karali, M. Kurki-Suonio, F. Murtagh, B. Scotney, C. Smart and K. Pagrach , "The ADDSIA Project: Issues and Achievements", (EU EUROSTAT Report) invited in the 3rd International Seminar on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, Sorrento, 1998.
M. Hatzopoulos, I. Karali and E.Viglas, "Attacking Diversity in NSIs' Storage Infrastructure: the ADDSIA Approach", Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, pp.229-234, Sorrento, 1998.
I. Karali and C. Halatsis, "Modular Logic Programming and Abstract Data Types", Proceedings of the First Panhellenic Symposium in Logic, pp. 229--236, Nicosia, 1997.
P. Stamatopoulos and I. Karali, "Logic as Vehicle for Real Life Applications", Proceedings of the First Panhellenic Symposium in Logic, pp. 205--210, Nicosia, 1997.
C. Halatsis, P. Stamatopoulos, I. Karali, T. Bitsikas, G. Fessakis, A. Schizas, S. Sfakianakis, C. Fouskakis, T. Koukoumpetsos, D. Papageorgiou. "Crew Scheduling Based on Constraint Programming: The PARACHUTE Experience", Proceedings of the Third Hellenic- European Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (HERMIS'96), pp. 424--431, Athens, 1996.