We focus in the
following research areas:
- Web-based Information
Systems
- Peer to peer systems
- Data Integration
- Semistructured data
processing, and especially XML processing
- Query optimization
- Digital libraries
Feel free to explore
our site and learn more about us.
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 Our paper Cost Based plan selection for XPath, coauthored by Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambidis and Vasilis Vassalos, was accepted in the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, to be held in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, from June 29th to July 2, 2009.
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Our paper "Double Index Nested-loop Reactive Join for Result Rate Optimization," coauthored by Mihaela Bornea, Antonis Deligiannakis, Yannis Kotidis and Vasilis Vassalos, was awarded the Best Student Paper award from the IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), to be held in Shanghai, China, from March 29th to April 4th, 2009
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(January 2009) The Web Information Management (WIM) group announces the availability of 2-3 funded PhD candidate positions. Areas of research of current active interest to the group include:
. XML processing
. Processing and integration of uncertain data in distributed environments . Data processing in P2P and sensor networks . Theoretical issues of data exchange, data integration and query rewriting For more information or to apply please send an e-mail to vassalos AT-SPAM aueb DOT-SPAM gr
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Our paper "Another Outlier Bites the Dust: Computing Meaningful Aggregates in Sensor Networks" coauthored by Antonis Deligiannakis, Yannis Kotidis, Vasilis Vassalos and colleagues from the University of Athens, was accepted at the IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), to be held in Shanghai, China, from March 29th to April 4th, 2009. (acceptance rate 93/554 papers, or 16.5%)
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Our paper "Double Index Nested-loop Reactive Join for Result Rate Optimization" coauthored by Mihaela Bornea, Antonis Deligiannakis, Yannis Kotidis and Vasilis Vassalos, was accepted at the IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), to be held in Shanghai, China, from March 29th to April 4th, 2009. (acceptance rate 93/554 papers, or 16.5%)
· (June 2008) The Web Information Management (WIM) group announces the availability of 1-2 funded PhD candidate positions. Areas of research of current active interest to the group include:
• XML processing in distributed environments
• Publish/subscribe systems and triggers in the Internet
• Data processing in P2P and sensor networks
• Theoretical issues of data exchange, data integration and query rewriting
For more information or to apply please send an e-mail to vassalos AT-SPAM aueb DOT-SPAM gr
· (June 2008) Topics for MSc diploma theses and undergraduate research projects (πτυχιακές). If interested please send an e-mail to vassalos AT-SPAM aueb DOT-SPAM gr
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Our paper entitled "Modeling real P2P networks: The effect of altruism " coauthored by Dimitris Vassilakis and Vasilis Vassalos, was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Peer to Peer Computing, Galway, Ireland, August 2007 (acceptance rate ~19%)
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Our paper entitled "XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath performance" coauthored by Charalambos Georgiadis and Vasilis Vassalos, was accepted at the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, June 2007 (acceptance rate 69/480 papers, or ~14%)
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Our 2007 Topics for MSc diploma theses and undergraduate research projects (πτυχιακές) for 2007
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The Web Information Management Research Group of the Department of Informatics, AUEB, is seeking PhD researchers in the area of Ιnformation Integration, Semistructured Data Management, Mobile Peer to Peer Systems, Probabilistic Databases or Database Theory. Funding opportunities exist, funding will be arranged with successful applicants. For more information contact Assistant Professor V. Vassalos (vassalosANTISPAM@aueb.gr without the ANTISPAM, or call 210 8203 124).
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Our paper entitled "MiniCount: Effficient Rewriting of COUNT-Queries Using Views," coauthored by Vaclav Lin, Vasilis Vassalos and Prodromos Malakasiotis, was accepted as a full paper (long presentation) at the ICDE 2006 conference (acceptance rate: 59/456 papers, or 13%)
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Our paper entitled "Improving the efficiency of XPath execution on relational systems", coauthored by Charalambos Georgiadis and Vasilis Vassalos, was accepted at the EDBT 2006 conference (acceptance rate: <16%)
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Congratulations to our team member, Ntinos Katsaros, winner of
Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications, 2005, for his M.Sc.
thesis "Data integration in a peer-to-peer network of mobile
peers". (For more information about the thesis and the relevant
DAIMON project follow this
link).
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