Publications
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2026
- Identifying Essential Job Skills in the Job MarketA.-F. Ntogramatzis, A. NtoulasInt. Conf. on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT 2026), Springer, pp. 34–46
- Wellness Recommendations Using Genetic AlgorithmsA. Ntountoulakis, A. NtoulasInt. Conf. on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT 2026), Springer, pp. 173–186
2022
- Rapid Detection of Local Communities in Graph StreamsP. Liakos, K. Papakonstantinopoulou, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 34(5), pp. 2375–2386, 2022 PDF
- Uncovering Local Hierarchical Overlapping Communities at ScaleP. Liakos, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE Transactions on Big Data 8(2), pp. 432–445, 2022 PDF
2021
- DeepReduce: A Sparse-tensor Communication Framework for Federated Deep LearningH. Xu, K. Kostopoulou, A. Dutta, X. Li, A. Ntoulas, P. KalnisAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), pp. 21150–21163 Link
2020
- Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 24th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2020, ProceedingsH. W. Lauw, R. C.-W. Wong, A. Ntoulas, E.-P. Lim, S.-K. Ng, S. J. Pan (eds.)Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2020
2019
- DiCeS: Detecting Communities in Network Streams Over the CloudP. Liakos, K. Papakonstantinopoulou, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2019), Milan, Italy PDF
2017
- CoEuS: Community Detection via Seed-set Expansion on Graph StreamsP. Liakos, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2017), Boston, MA PDF
- Rhea: Adaptively Sampling Authoritative Content from Social Activity StreamsP. Liakos, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2017), Boston, MA PDF
2016
- Scalable Link Community Detection: A Local Dispersion-aware ApproachP. Liakos, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2016), Washington, DC PDF
- Focused Crawling for the Hidden WebP. Liakos, A. Ntoulas, A. Labrinidis, A. DelisWorld Wide Web Journal 19(4), pp. 605–631, 2016 PDF
2013
- Efficient Online Novelty Detection in News StreamsM. Karkali, F. Rousseau, A. Ntoulas, M. VazirgiannisInt. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013), Nanjing, China PDF
- SocWeb: Efficient Monitoring of Social Network ActivitiesF. Psallidas, A. Ntoulas, A. DelisInt. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013), Nanjing, China PDF
2012
- PocketWeb: Instant Web Browsing for Mobile DevicesD. Lymberopoulos, O. Riva, K. Strauss, A. Mittal, A. NtoulasInt. Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2012), London, UK PDF
- Topic-Sensitive Hidden-Web CrawlingP. Liakos, A. NtoulasInt. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus PDF
- Organizing User Search HistoriesH. Hwang, H. W. Lauw, L. Getoor, A. NtoulasIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 24(5), pp. 912–925, 2012 PDF
2011
- Selecting a Comprehensive Set of ReviewsP. Tsaparas, A. Ntoulas, E. TerziACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011), San Diego, CA PDF
- Indexing Strategies for Graceful Degradation of Search QualityS. Ding, S. Gollapudi, S. Ieong, K. Kenthapadi, A. NtoulasACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing, China PDF
- Efficient Query Rewrite for Structured Web QueriesS. Gollapudi, S. Ieong, A. Ntoulas, S. PaparizosACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK PDF
- Rank-Aware Crawling of Hidden-Web SitesG. Valkanas, A. Ntoulas, D. GunopulosInternational Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2011, with SIGMOD), Athens, Greece PDF
2010
- Exploiting Social Context for Review Quality PredictionY. Lu, P. Tsaparas, A. Ntoulas, L. PolanyiInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, NC PDF
- Homophily in the Digital World: A LiveJournal Case StudyH. W. Lauw, J. C. Shafer, R. Agrawal, A. NtoulasIEEE Internet Computing 14(2), pp. 15–23, 2010 PDF
- Estimating the Quality of Postings in the Real-time WebH. W. Lauw, A. Ntoulas, K. KenthapadiWSDM Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), New York, NY PDF
2009
- Releasing Search Queries and Clicks Privately Best Paper Award runner-upA. Korolova, K. Kenthapadi, N. Mishra, A. NtoulasInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), Madrid, Spain PDF
- Answering Web Queries Using Structured Data SourcesS. Paparizos, A. Ntoulas, J. C. Shafer, R. AgrawalACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2009), Providence, RI PDF
- Search Personalization through Query and Page Topical AnalysisS. Stamou, A. NtoulasUser Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 19(1), pp. 5–33, 2009 PDF
2008
- Web SearchA. Ntoulas, M. VazirgiannisSpecial volume of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN), 2008 PDF
2007
- Pruning Policies for Two-Tiered Inverted Index with Correctness GuaranteeA. Ntoulas, J. ChoACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), Amsterdam, Netherlands PDF
- Answering Bounded Continuous Search Queries in the World Wide WebD. Kukulenz, A. NtoulasInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), Banff, Canada PDF
- Modeling and Managing Content Changes in Text DatabasesP. G. Ipeirotis, A. Ntoulas, J. Cho, L. GravanoACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) 32(3), 2007 PDF
- The Infocious Web Search Engine: Improving Web Searching through Linguistic AnalysisA. Ntoulas, G. Chao, J. ChoJournal of Digital Information Management 5(5), pp. 277–291, 2007 PDF
- Microsoft Silicon Valley Web Spam Challenge EntryS. Chien, D. Fetterly, M. Manasse, M. Najork, A. NtoulasInt. Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007), Banff, Canada
- TODE: An Ontology-Based Model for the Dynamic Population of Web DirectoriesS. Stamou, A. Ntoulas, D. ChristodoulakisIn Data Mining with Ontologies: Implementations, Findings and Frameworks, Idea Group, 2007 PDF
2006
- Crawling and Searching the Hidden WebA. NtoulasPh.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006 PDF
- Detecting Spam Web Pages through Content AnalysisA. Ntoulas, M. Najork, M. Manasse, D. FetterlyInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, UK PDF
- Classifying Web Data in Directory StructuresS. Stamou, A. Ntoulas, V. Krikos, P. Kokosis, D. ChristodoulakisAsia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2006), Harbin, China, LNCS 3841, pp. 238–249 PDF
2005
- Modeling and Managing Content Changes in Text Databases Best Paper AwardP. G. Ipeirotis, A. Ntoulas, J. Cho, L. GravanoIEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), Tokyo, Japan PDF
- Downloading Textual Hidden Web Content through Keyword QueriesA. Ntoulas, P. Zerfos, J. ChoACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2005), Denver, CO PDF
- The Infocious Web Search Engine: Improving Web Searching through Linguistic AnalysisA. Ntoulas, G. Chao, J. ChoInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2005), Chiba, Japan PDF
- A Study on the Evolution of the WebA. Ntoulas, J. Cho, H. K. Cho, H. Cho, Y. J. ChoUS–Korea Conference on Science, Technology & Entrepreneurship (UKC 2005), Irvine, CA PDF
- Web Directory Construction Using Lexical ChainsS. Stamou, V. Krikos, P. Kokosis, A. Ntoulas, D. ChristodoulakisInt. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2005), Alicante, Spain PDF
- DirectoryRank: Ordering Pages in Web DirectoriesV. Krikos, S. Stamou, P. Kokosis, A. Ntoulas, D. ChristodoulakisACM Int. Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2005), Bremen, Germany PDF
2004
- What's New on the Web? The Evolution of the Web from a Search Engine PerspectiveA. Ntoulas, J. Cho, C. OlstonInternational World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), New York, NY PDF
2002
- Effective Change Detection Using SamplingJ. Cho, A. NtoulasInternational Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2002), Hong Kong, China PDF
- Expanding EuroWordNet with Domain-Specific Terminology Using Common Lexical Resources: Vocabulary Completeness and Coverage IssuesS. Stamou, A. Ntoulas, M. Kyriakopoulou, D. ChristodoulakisGlobal WordNet Conference (GWC 2002), Mysore, India PDF
- EUROTERM: Extending the EuroWordNet with Domain-Specific Terminology Using an Expand Model ApproachS. Stamou, A. Ntoulas, J. Hoppenbrouwers, M. Saiz-Noeda, D. ChristodoulakisGlobal WordNet Conference (GWC 2002), Mysore, India PDF
2001
- Understanding Search Engines: Requirements for Explaining Search ResultsA. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, M. Tzagarakis, D. ChristodoulakisPanhellenic Conference on Human–Computer Interaction (PCHCI 2001), Patras, Greece PDF
- Viewing Web Search Engines as Corpus Query SystemsA. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, M. Tzagarakis, I. Tsakou, D. ChristodoulakisConference on Computational Lexicography and Corpus Research (COMPLEX 2001), Birmingham, UK PDF
- Athena: A User-Friendly Computer Tool for the Construction and Management of Language ExercisesA. Ntoulas, N. Arvanitakis, A. IordanidouNational Conference on School Knowledge and Teaching in Primary Education, Ioannina, Greece, 2001 PDF
- Using a WWW Search Engine to Evaluate Normalization Performance for a Highly Inflectional LanguageA. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, M. TzagarakisACL/EACL Student Research Workshop, Toulouse, France, 2001 PDF
2000
- Use of a Morphosyntactic Lexicon for the Implementation of the Greek WordNetA. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, I. Tsakou, C. Tsalidis, M. Tzagarakis, A. VagelatosInternational Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2000), Patras, Greece PDF
- A Modular Architecture for the Storage and Management of Heterogeneous Lexical InformationD. Assimakopoulos, I. Koutsoubos, M. Miatidis, I. Tsakou, A. Ntoulas, S. Stamou, D. ChristodoulakisComputational Lexicography Workshop (COMLEX 2000), Patras, Greece PDF
Patents
- Dynamic game difficulty modification via swipe input parameter changeUS Patent 11,498,006
- Automated game modification based on playing styleUS Patent 11,148,057
- Optimizing content item delivery for installations of a mobile applicationUS Patent 11,151,603
- Content item similarity detectionUS Patent 11,102,534
- Adjusting object adaptive modification or game level difficulty and physical gestures through level definition filesUS Patent 11,083,969
- Server-to-server integration of tracking eventsUS Patent 10,764,382
- Automated tuning of computer-implemented gamesUS Patent 10,729,979
- Adjusting object adaptive modification or game level difficulty and physical gestures through level definition filesUS Patent 10,561,944
- Automated game modification based on playing styleUS Patent 10,556,182
- Dynamic virtual environment customization based on user behavior clusteringUS Patent 10,315,116
- Automated tuning of computer-implemented gamesUS Patent 10,105,603
- Relaxation for structured queriesUS Patent 9,158,813
- Assessing the quality of user reviewsUS Patent 8,990,124
- Answering web queries using structured data sourcesUS Patent 8,832,133
- Synopsis of a search log that respects user privacyUS Patent 8,601,024
- Indexing for limited search server availabilityUS Patent 8,458,130
- Grammar compressionUS Patent 8,447,736
- Grammar compressionUS Patent 8,027,957
- Using content analysis to detect spam web pagesUS Patent 7,962,510
- Method and apparatus for retrieving and indexing hidden web pagesUS Patent 7,685,112