- Position: Associate Professor
- Tel: +302821037230
- E-mail: vsamoladas(at)tuc.gr
- Personal page: http://www.softnet.tuc.gr/~vsam/
- Office: Λ, 1st Floor, 141Α-32
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
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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 .
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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D. Troullinos, G. Chalkiadakis, V. Samoladas, and M. Papageorgiou, “Max-sum with quadtrees for continuous DCOPs with application to lane-free autonomous driving,” in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '22), pp. 1741–1743, May 2022.
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D. Troullinos, G. Chalkiadakis, V. Samoladas, and M. Papageorgiou, “Max-sum with quadtrees for continuous DCOPs with application to lane-free autonomous driving,” in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), pp. 1741–1743, May 2022.
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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 2022), 2022, pp. 518-526, doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2022/74.
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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.
Supervised Thesis (click to toggle)
Theses supervised by this person that have been associated with the laboratory.
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Δημήτριος Κοντοκώστας, "Σημασιολογικός μετασχηματισμός αιτημάτων για πόρους σε συστήματα Grid", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2004.
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Χρήστος Κουφογιαννάκης, "Techniques for simulating quantum computers", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2004.
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Παναγιώτης Πατεράκης, "Μία αρχιτεκτονική για Collectors με την χρήση γεννήτριας κώδικα", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
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Γιώργος Γιαννακάρας, "Εκτέλεση ερωτήσεων XPath με τη χρήση πολυδιάστατης αναζήτησης", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
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Γιάννης Μαργαρίτης, "Distributed numerical computation in unreliable environment", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
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Αδριανός Νταντής, "TAP", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
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Γεώργιος Δεμεντής, "P2P indexing of enterprise java beans", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2005.
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Παναγιώτης Δρακωτός, "Υποστήριξη transactions σε σύστημα διαχείρισης εξωτερικής μνήμης (CEMIL)", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2006.
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Πέτρος Καραγκουνίδης, "Υλοποίηση peer-to-peer πρωτοκόλλων σε JXTA", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 1974.
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Χρήστος Τσιαμαντάς, "SQL-Parse", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2007.
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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.
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Μιχαήλ Αργυρίου, "P2P multidimensional range queries", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2008.
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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.
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Αικατερίνη Ασήμογλου, "Πληροφοριακό σύστημα συλλογής δεδομένων αρχείου νεοπλασιών", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2010.
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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.
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Βασίλης Κασιμάτης, "Μέθοδοι αυτοοργάνωσης για ισοζυγισμένα P-Grid δίκτυα", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2011.
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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.
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Παύλος Ροντίδης, "Model driven development in sensor networks", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
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Χαράλαμπος Παράβαλος, "Βελτιστοποίηση σχεδιασμού φωτοβολταϊκού συστήματος με χρήση παράλληλης επεξεργασίας", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
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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.
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Χαράλαμπος Μπαμπαλής, "A simulator for monitoring data streams", Διπλωματική Εργασία, Τμήμα Ηλεκτρονικών Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών, Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, Χανιά, Ελλάς, 2013.
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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.
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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
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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
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Dimitrios Bikas, "Web- Mobile application with Grid systems services", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2015
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Alexandros-Dimitrios Keros, "Scaling geometric monitoring over distributed streams", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Entouarnt Epoure, "Geometric streams monitoring on Apache Flink", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020
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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
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Eftychia Seisaki, "Distributed multivariate regression via functional geometric monitoring", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2021
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Michail Chatzinikolaou, "Estimating epidemiological parameters on population networks", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Michail Theologitis, "Algorithms for online federated machine learning", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2023
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Ioannis Lamprinidis, "Distributed machine learning framework on Akka", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2024
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Michail Theologitis, "Communication-Efficient federated deep learning via dynamic averaging", Master Thesis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025
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Nikolaos Angelidis, "Continual learning for NeRF in scenes obtained from drones", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025
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Dimitrios Petrou, "Persistency and interoperability in Synopses Data Engine: integration into Knowledge Lakes", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025
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Nikolaos Bakatselos, "Design of access control in STELAR knowledge Lake management system", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025
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Kyriakos Chalvatzis, "Interactive user environment application on Kubernetes platform", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025
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Visualization of streaming data on JupyterLab
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Federated learning of spatiotemporal epidemic models
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Hybrid argo workflows with kubernetes and slurm
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Mavrikaki Filia, "Federated Bayesian Learning for epidemiological modeling", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2026
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Kotsomytis Evangelos, "A web-based Kubernetes management platform for enhanced practical learning in computer science education", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2026
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Evangelopoulos Georgios, "Investigating and developing efficient Federated Learning for air pollution prediction", Diploma Work, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2026