SoftNet Laboratory Members

Vasilis Samoladas

Speciality: Computational Geometry, Complexity Theory, Database Complexity, Distributed Information Systems and Parallel Programming.

Short CV: Vasilis Samoladas is an Associate Professor at the School. of Electrical and Computer Engineerong of the Techincal University of Crete. He holds a PhD (2001) and an MSc (2995) inComputer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1992). His research interests lie in computational geometry, in information systems (database systems, distributed systems) and in quantum computation. His PhD thesis concerned the complexity of external memory data structures. His published work has appeared in leading journals (JACM,Algorithmica,VLDB Journal) and conferences (PODS,ESA,ICDE,VLDB,ICDT) and he received a best paper award in PODS'98. He has served in several program committees (SIM,AAMAS,ISWC,VLDB,ESWC,ESW,SDM,CIKM) and was program chair for the 7th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS'08). He has attracted funding from national and EU sources. He is a member of the Software and Networked Systems Lab (Softnet) and he is the scientific coordinator for High-Performance Computing at the Technical U. of Crete.

Education: 

  • Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
  • M.Sc. in Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
  • Dipl. Electrical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1992

Research Areas: His interests lie in computational geometry, complexity theory, multidimensional range searching, database complexity, distributed information systems and parallel programming.

Sector: Computer Science Division

Laboratory: Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory

Courses: Operating systems, Distributed systems, Computational Geometry, Theory of Computation, Algorithms and complexity, Special topics in algorithms

Publications (click to toggle)

Publications of the member that have been associated with the laboratory. For a full list of publications, please refer to the person's personal page

  1. D. Troullinos, G. Chalkiadakis, V. Samoladas, and M. Papageorgiou, “Max-sum with quadtrees for decentralized coordination in continuous domains,” in Proc. 31st Int. Joint Conf. Artif. Intell. (IJCAI-22), 2022, pp. 518-526, doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2022/74.
    Publication year: 2022 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  2. A. Deligiannakis, N. Giatrakos, Y. Kotidis, V. Samoladas, and A. Simitsis, “Extreme-scale interactive cross-platform streaming analytics - the INFORE approach,” in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Search, Exploration, and Analysis in Heterogeneous Datastores (SEA-Data 2021), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021, vol. 2929, pp. 7–13, 2021. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2929/paper2.pdf
    Publication year: 2021 Download: Repository Type: Conference Publication
  3. N. Giatrakos, D. Arnu, T. Bitsakis, A. Deligiannakis, M. Garofalakis, R. Klinkenberg, A. Konidaris, A. Kontaxakis, Y. Kotidis, V. Samoladas, A. Simitsis, G. Stamatakis, F. Temme, M. Torok, E. Yaqub, A. Montagud, M. Ponce De León, H. Arndt, and S. Burkard, “INforE: interactive cross-platform analytics for everyone,” in Proc. 29th ACM Int. Conf. Inf. Knowl. Manage. (CIKM 2020), virtual event, 2020, pp. 3389–3392, doi: 10.1145/3340531.3417435.
    Publication year: 2020 Download: Repository Type: Conference Demonstration
  4. V. Samoladas and M. Garofalakis, "Functional geometric monitoring for distributed streams," in 22nd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2019, pp. 85-96. doi: 10.5441/002/edbt.2019.09
    Publication year: 2019 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  5. N. Giatrakos, A. Deligiannakis, M. Garofalakis, D. Keren and V. Samoladas, "Scalable approximate query tracking over highly distributed data streams with tunable accuracy guarantees," Inf. Syst., vol. 76, pp. 59-87, Jul. 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.is.2018.05.001
    Publication year: 2018 Download: Repository Type: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
  6. M. Garofalakis and V. Samoladas, "Distributed query monitoring through convex analysis: Towards composable safe zones," in 20th International Conference on Database Theory, 2017. doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2017.14
    Publication year: 2017 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  7. K. Stravoskoufos, E. G. M. Petrakis, N. Mainas, S. Batsakis and V. Samoladas, "SOWL QL: querying spatio-temporal ontologies in OWL," J. Data Semant., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 249-269, Dec. 2016. doi: 10.1007/s13740-016-0064-5
    Publication year: 2016 Download: Repository Type: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
  8. S. Christodoulakis, M. Garofalakis, E.G.M. Petrakis, A. Deligiannakis, V. Samoladas, E. Ioannou, O. Papapetrou and S. Sotiriadis, "Data management research at the Technical University of Crete," in SIGMOD Record, pp. 61-66,2013. doi: 10.1145/2590989.2590999
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
  9. M. Zampetakis, V. Samoladas and A. Dollas, "A reconfigurable accelerator for quantum computations," in International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2008, pp. 623-626. doi: 10.1109/FPL.2008.4630024
    Publication year: 2008 Download: Repository Type: Conference Publication
  10. S. Blanas ,V. Samoladas .(2007). Contention-based performance evaluation of multidimensional range search in peer-to-peer networks .Presented at f the 2nd International Conference on Scalable Information Systems.[online].Available: http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/~vsam/infoscale07.pdf
    Publication year: 2007 Download: Repository Type: Conference Poster
  11. S. Juba, V. Samoladas, N. Boretos, I. Manakos and C. G. Karydas, "IMS: a web-based map server for spatial decision support," Neural Parallel Sci. Comput., vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 217-220, Jun. 2007.
    Publication year: 2007 Download: Repository Type: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
  12. G.Hatzisymeon, N. Houssos, D. Andreadis, V. Samoladas .(2005).An architecture for implementing application interoperation with heterogeneous systems.Presented at 5th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference.[online].Available:http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/~vsam/DAIS_2005_paper_TUC_UoA.pdf
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  13. L. Arge, V. Samoladas, K. Yi .(2004).Optimal external memory planar point enclosure.Presented at 12th Annual European Symposium.[online].Available: https://www.cse.ust.hk/~yike/enclosure/esa04.pdf
    Publication year: 2004 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  14. J. Hellerstein, E. Koutsoupias, D. Miranker, C. Papadimitriou and V. Samoladas, "On a model of indexability and its Bounds for range queries," J ACM, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 33-55, Jan. 2002. doi: 10.1145/505241.505244
    Publication year: 2002 Download: Repository Type: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
  15. L. Arge, V. Samoladas, J. S. Vitterz .(1999).On two-dimensional indexability and optimal range search indexing.Presented at Eighteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.[online].Available:http://www.cs.au.dk/~large/Papers/rangepods99.pdf
    Publication year: 1999 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper
  16. V. Samoladas, D. P. Miranker,"A lower bound theorem for indexing schemes and its application to multidimensional range queries," in the seventeenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems,1998, pp.44-51 .
    Publication year: 1998 Download: Repository Type: Conference Full Paper

Supervised Thesis (click to toggle)

Theses supervised by this person that have been associated with the laboratory.

  1. Michail Theologitis, "Algorithms for online federated machine learning", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2023
    Publication year: 2023 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  2. Michail Chatzinikolaou, "Estimating epidemiological parameters on population networks", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
    Publication year: 2022 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  3. Michail Kilikis, "Distributed system for automatic code validation in Moodle", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
    Publication year: 2022 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  4. Panagiotis Patsoglou, "Application (mobile/web app) design and development for recording, dividing and utilizing graphical representation of algorithms and cooking recipes case study", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
    Publication year: 2022 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  5. Vissarion-Bertcholnt Konidaris, "Extreme-Scale online machine learning on stream processing platforms", Master Thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
    Publication year: 2022 Download: Repository Type: Master Thesis
  6. Eftychia Seisaki, "Distributed multivariate regression via functional geometric monitoring", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2021
    Publication year: 2021 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  7. Entouarnt Epoure, "Geometric streams monitoring on Apache Flink", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020
    Publication year: 2020 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  8. Ilias Balampanis, "Distributed training of recurrent neural networks by FGM protocol", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020
    Publication year: 2020 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  9. Sofia Kampioti, "A functional geometric approach to distributed support vector machine (SVM) classification", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020
    Publication year: 2020 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  10. Vissarion-Bertcholnt Konidaris, "Distributed machine learning algorithms via geometric monitoring", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2019
    Publication year: 2019 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  11. Stefanos Stathatos, "Data visualization framework using model driven software development", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2017
    Publication year: 2017 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  12. Alexandros-Dimitrios Keros, "Scaling geometric monitoring over distributed streams", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2016
    Publication year: 2016 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  13. Dimitrios Chorozoglou, "Middleware for data management in REST style web applications with rich client", Diploma Work, School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2016
    Publication year: 2016 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  14. Dionysios Lappas, "Development of a container management tool for Web applications using Docker", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2016
    Publication year: 2016 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  15. Aikaterini Asimoglou, "VectorL: a macroprogramming language for testing wireless sensor network applications", Master Thesis, School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2015
    Publication year: 2015 Download: Repository Type: Master Thesis
  16. Dimitrios Bikas, "Web- Mobile application with Grid systems services", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2015
    Publication year: 2015 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  17. Georgia Vlachou, "NetSim: a model oriented code generation service for simulating wireless sensor networks", Master Thesis, School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2015
    Publication year: 2015 Download: Repository Type: Master Thesis
  18. Μιχαήλ Αργυρίου, "Branch-and-bound nearest neighbor searching over unbalanced trie-structured overlays", Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Master Thesis
  19. Νικόλας Βουρλάκης, "Σχεδίαση και υλοποίηση ενδιάμεσου λογισμικού σε P-Grid δίκτυα ανεκτικά σε λάθη", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  20. Παύλος Ροντίδης, "Model driven development in sensor networks", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  21. Χαράλαμπος Μπαμπαλής, "A simulator for monitoring data streams", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  22. Χαράλαμπος Παράβαλος, "Βελτιστοποίηση σχεδιασμού φωτοβολταϊκού συστήματος με χρήση παράλληλης επεξεργασίας", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
    Publication year: 2013 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  23. Δημήτριος Βολιώτης, "Δηλωτική σύνθεση διεπαφών για γεωγραφικά δεδομένα για το πλαίσιο JSF 2.0", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2012.
    Publication year: 2012 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  24. Βασίλης Κασιμάτης, "Μέθοδοι αυτοοργάνωσης για ισοζυγισμένα P-Grid δίκτυα", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2011.
    Publication year: 2011 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  25. Αικατερίνη Ασήμογλου, "Πληροφοριακό σύστημα συλλογής δεδομένων αρχείου νεοπλασιών", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2010.
    Publication year: 2010 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  26. Γεωργία Βλάχου, "Efficient rerouting algorithms for traffic balancing in the P-Grid P2P protocol", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2010.
    Publication year: 2010 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  27. Κωνσταντίνος Κατάκης, "Design and implementation of a service oriented architecture for WebGIS systems", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2009.
    Publication year: 2009 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  28. Κωνσταντίνος Κουράτορας, "Αλγόριθμος προσομοίωσης κβαντικών κυκλωμάτων με εναλλακτικές μορφές BDDs για την αναπαράσταση των καταστάσεων διανυσμάτων", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2008.
    Publication year: 2008 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  29. Μιχαήλ Αργυρίου, "P2P multidimensional range queries", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2008.
    Publication year: 2008 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  30. Χρήστος Τσιαμαντάς, "SQL-Parse", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2007.
    Publication year: 2007 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  31. Πέτρος Καραγκουνίδης, "Υλοποίηση peer-to-peer πρωτοκόλλων σε JXTA", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 1974.
    Publication year: 2006 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  32. Παναγιώτης Δρακωτός, "Υποστήριξη transactions σε σύστημα διαχείρισης εξωτερικής μνήμης (CEMIL)", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2006.
    Publication year: 2006 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  33. Αδριανός Νταντής, "TAP", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  34. Γεώργιος Δεμεντής, "P2P indexing of enterprise java beans", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  35. Γιάννης Μαργαρίτης, "Distributed numerical computation in unreliable environment", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  36. Γιώργος Γιαννακάρας, "Εκτέλεση ερωτήσεων XPath με τη χρήση πολυδιάστατης αναζήτησης", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  37. Παναγιώτης Πατεράκης, "Μία αρχιτεκτονική για Collectors με την χρήση γεννήτριας κώδικα", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
    Publication year: 2005 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  38. Δημήτριος Κοντοκώστας, "Σημασιολογικός μετασχηματισμός αιτημάτων για πόρους σε συστήματα Grid", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2004.
    Publication year: 2004 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work
  39. Χρήστος Κουφογιαννάκης, "Techniques for simulating quantum computers", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2004.
    Publication year: 2004 Download: Repository Type: Diploma Work