Management of Data, Information, and Knowledge Group (MaDgIK)
The Management of Data, Information, and Knowledge Group of the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications of the University of Athens has 60+ members, including seven (7) faculty, several R&D staff, and students at all educational stages.
The group focuses on several research areas of the Data-Info-Knowledge continuum, such as Database and Information Systems, Distributed and Peer-to-Peer Systems, Cloud Computing, Sensor-based and Stream Data Management, Query Optimization, Information Search, Personalization and Social Networks, Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Semantic Web and Linked Data, Semantic Sensor Web, Digital Libraries, and Human-Computer Interaction.
It participates in several national and European projects that cover the above areas. Much of the research is done in the context of and inspired by problems in several application areas, such as Medical Informatics, Cultural Heritage, Museum Studies, Biodiversity, Earth Sciences, Marine Science, Environment, History, and others.
The kickoff meeting for the project "META-TOO: A transfer of knowledge and technology for investigating gender-based inappropriate social interactions in the Metaverse" took place on June 11, 2024, at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University…
In the context of the Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments (CAPHE) project, an HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges project, the Department and Museum of Informatics and Telecommunications, led by by Associate Professor Maria Roussou, hosted the second in-situ collaboration of…
In a journey spanning three years of dedicated work, scientific dissemination via article and presentations at conferences, and numerous pilot evaluations, the research project titled “A hyBRID (physical-diGital) multi-user Extended reality platform as a stimulus for industry uptake of interactive…
ACM has elected Yannis Ioannidis as President for a two-year term beginning July 1. Ioannidis is a Professor of Informatics & Telecom at the University of Athens, Greece, and a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. An ACM member since 1983, he has served as ACM Secretary/Treasurer (2018–2020), SIGMOD Chair…
BRIDGES is an H2020 Innovation Action funded by the European Commission for 24 months (10/2020-10/2022) with the aim to support and boost the pan-European interactive technologies industry through the development of a holistic solution for (remote and co-located) group interactions in room-scale…
The Narralive team won 2nd place prize in the final of the 12th ENNOVATION competition (University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition - https://ennovation.gr), research-based innovation track, which was organized by the Athens University of Economics and Business. The same team had won 1st…
Iris SMS is a mobile app for social and solidarity economy organisations designed and developed by the Open Lab at Newcastle University and the Open Lab: Athens. The system allows sending SMS text messages to a list of subscribers through SMS donors. People supporting an organisation, group or…
A team of faculty, senior researchers, and junior researchers / students from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications worked for three years on the EMOTIVE project, under the affiliation of the “ATHENA” Research Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies.
The…
EOSC Enhance - Enhancing the EOSC portal and connecting thematic clouds
EOSC Enhance pursues 4 objectives:
Enhance the service provider interface and incorporate new services and resources into the EOSC catalogue
Accelerate the deployment and uptake of EOSC services and resources
Increase…
NEANIAS - Novel EOSC Services for Emerging Atmosphere, Underwater & Space Challenges - aims to promote Open Science practices and actively contribute to the materialization of the EOSC ecosystem by engaging large scientific and professional communities, extending its offerings and supporting…
On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the founding of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the History Museum of the University of Athens in collaboration with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and the Research Center "Athena", launches the new digital…
Detection of changes using satellite imagery and social networks, as part of the H2020 Copernicus App Lab research project.
Researchers: Prof. M. Koubarakis, G. Argyriou.