Vasilis Samoladas

Teaching

Undergraduate

• (CS-301) Operating systems
• (CS-414) Distributed systems
• (CS-302) Algorithms and complexity

Graduate

• (CS-602) Distributed systems
  
• (CS-616) Special topics in algorithms
  

Students

• Stergios Charalampakis (M.Sc.)
  
• Christos Smaragdakis (M.Sc)
• Anni Xiruhaki (PhD)
• George Xatzisimeon (PhD)
• Spyros Mplanas (M.Sc)
• Penny Marinaki (M.Sc)

• Christos Tsiamantas
• Costas Katakis
• Mihalis Argyriou
• Giorgos Tsatsanifos

Research interests

• My PhD dissertation (Postscript) (PDF) was about Indexing Large Databases for Advanced Data Models.
• Computational geometry and in particular external-memory algorithms.
• Quantum algorithms, simulation of quantum machines.
  
• Computational Grids, distributed computation (like SETI@home).
• Peer-to-peer systems (and algorithms!).
• Algorithms for databases and information systems (workflow engines, query engines, ...).

Publications

1. Daniel P. Miranker, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Vasilis Samoladas: Query Evaluation as Constraint Search; An Overview of Early Results. CDB 1997: 53-63.
2. Daniel P. Miranker, Vasilis Samoladas: Alamo: An Architecture for Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources. KRDB 1997: 14.1-14.8
3. Vasilis Samoladas, Daniel P. Miranker: A Lower Bound Theorem for Indexing Schemes and Its Application to Multidimensional Range Queries. PODS 1998: 44-51
4. Lars Arge, Vasilis Samoladas, Jeffrey Scott Vitter: On Two-Dimensional Indexability and Optimal Range Search Indexing. PODS 1999: 346-357
5. Joseph M. Hellerstein, Elias Koutsoupias, Daniel P. Miranker, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Vasilis Samoladas: On a model of indexability and its bounds for range queries. J. ACM 49(1): 35-55 (2002)
6. Lars Arge, Vasilis Samoladas, Ke Yi: Optimal External Memory Planar Point Enclosure. ESA 2004: 40-52
7. Vasilis Samoladas: Semi-Naive Query Planning For Grid Data Integration. SIM 2004, Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid, Valencia, Spain, 2004.
8. George Hatzisymeon, Nikos Houssos, Dimitris Andreadis, Vasilis Samoladas: An Architecture for Implementing Application Interoperation with Heterogeneous Systems. In Proc. DAIS 2005 (LNCS 3543): 194-205.
9. Salah Juba, Vasilis Samoladas, Nikos Boretos, Ioannis Manakos and Christos Karydas, IMS: a Web-based Map Server for Spatial Decision Support, Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, 15(2), 2007, 207--220.
10. Lars Arge, Vasilis Samoladas and Kevin Yi, Optimal External-Memory Planar Point Enclosure. Algorithmica (to appear).
11. Spyros Blanas and Vasilis Samoladas, Contention-Based Performance Evaluation of Multidimensional Range Search in Peer-to-peer Networks, in Proc. InfoScale 2007 and Future Generation Computer Systems (to appear).