Apostolos Meliones
Phone +30 210-4142762
Email meliones@unipi.gr
Title Professor
Office Hours Tuesday 11:00-13:00 - Wednesday 15:00-16:00
Office 201 (150, Androutsou Str, Piraeus, 18532)
Announcement Prof. Meliones' course on "Development of Telecommunication Systems" is instructed by Dr. D. Georgiou during the academic period 2022-2023
Courses Computer Architecture — 2nd semester
Embedded Systems — 8th semester
Distributed Systems — 8th semester
Logic and Logic Programming — 1st semester

 

Brief CV

Dr. Apostolos Meliones received a diploma with honours in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, in 1994, and a Ph.D. degree in distributed systems and telecoms from the National Technical University of Athens, in 1999. Since 1994 to 1999, he held a research position at NTUA. He was the initiator and coordinator of the ESPRIT INNO Technology Transfer Node on High Performance Computing and Networking, and of the successful ESPRIT EROPPA project on the use of metacomputing and distributed supercomputing in the post-production industry. From 2001 until 2005 he was Technical Manager of Network Embedded Systems at Ellemedia Technologies, a Lucent product development partner. In January 2006 he joined inAccess Networks, as an R&D Manager. Mr. Meliones was the project manager of the ESA SATWAYS, Eurostars NetHomEra, HTCI/A2 and several national research activities, coordinator of the application of the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association in the framework of the Hellenic Technology Cluster Initiative and member of the Project Coordination Committee of ICT-FET ATRACO, Eurostars Z-Phone, CELTIC IMPULSE/GENIO, ENIAC END and AAL PeerAssist projects. He is currently the Project Manager of the T1RCI-593 MANTO R&D project developing innovative autonomous outdoor and indoor blind navigation applications using smartphones, and of the KALLIPOS+ open access coursebook 556 on Embedded Systems. Currently he is a Full Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, where he has been teaching since 2005. He has received the Bodosakis Foundation grant and State Scholarships Foundation awards for excellence in academics. He is the author of more than 90 papers in the areas of distributed systems, metacomputing, fault-tolerant supercomputing, total quality management of broadband networks, network embedded systems, telecommunication systems, audiovisual systems, real-time systems, industrial HPCN, satcom applications and pervasive computing. He is the developer of the open source MPC8260 Linux ATM device driver for the PowerQUICC-II family of communication processors which has been widely used worldwide.

Publications

I) INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

  • Theodorou, P., Tsiligkos, K., Meliones, A., Challenges in Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Assistive Technologies – Extending the UTAUT Model for People with Visual Impairments, Journal of Visual Impairement and Blindness, 118(1), March 2024, American Foundation for the Blind, Sage Journals, DOI: 10.1177/0145482X241231990.
  • P. Theodorou, K. Tsiligkos, A. Meliones, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Solutions for Blind and Visually Impaired: Research and Commercial Navigation Applications for Indoor and Outdoor Spaces, Sensors, 2023, Volume 23, Issue 12, 5411, doi: 10.3390/s23125411.
  • N. Stavrou, J. Morelos, D. di Francesco, A. Meliones, P. Progias, D. Duncan, Development, Verification and Certification of a Digital Twin for a Voyage Data Recorder, Data-Centric Engineering, accepted for publication DCE-2023-0005, Cambridge University Press.
  • P. Theodorou, K. Tsiligkos, A. Meliones, C. Filios, A Training Smartphone Application for the Simulation of Outdoor Pedestrian Navigation for People with Blindness: Usabillity, UX Evaluation, Sentiment Analysis, Sensors 2023, 23(1), 367; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23010367.
  • Theodorou, P., Tsiligkos, K., Meliones, A., & Tsigris, A. An extended usability and UX evaluation of a mobile application for the navigation of individuals with blindness and visual impairments indoors: An evaluation approach combined with training sessions. British Journal of Visual Impairment, pp. 1-38, October 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196221131739.
  • Τheodorou, P.; Tsiligkos, K.; Meliones, A.; Filios, C. An Extended Usability and UX Evaluation of a Mobile Application for the Navigation of Individuals with Blindness and Visual Impairments Outdoors—An Evaluation Framework Based on Training. Sensors, 22, 4538, June 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/s22124538.
  • P. Theodorou, A. Meliones, C. Filios, Smart traffic lights for people with visual impairments: A literature overview and a proposed implementation. British Journal of Visual Impairment, pp. 1 –29, June 2022, Sage Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/02646196221099154.
  • P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, Gaining insight for the design, development, deployment and distribution of assistive navigation systems for blind and visually impaired people through a detailed user requirements elicitation. Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer, June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209–022–00885–9.
  • A. Meliones, C. Filios, J. Llorente, Reliable Ultrasonic Obstacle Recognition for Outdoor Blind Navigation. Technologies, 10, 54, April 2022, MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10030054, (Editor’s Choice Paper, Candidate for Technologies 2024 Best Paper Award).
  • A. Meliones and D. Pappas, ‘Data Fusion and Tracking in a Simulated Multiradar Air Command and Control System’, Journal of Sensing and Imaging, 21(44), August 2020, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11220-020-00303-5.
  • A. Tsigris and A. Meliones, ‘Highly Accurate Step Length and Walking Distance Estimation using Smartphones’, IEEE Sensors (under review).
  • A. Tsigris and A. Meliones, ‘Highly Accurate Step Detection Algorithm at Various Walking Speeds using Smartphones’, IEEE Sensors (under review Sensors-34354-2020).
  • A. Meliones and N. Stavrou, ‘AITHALES Autonomous M2M Satellite Tracking Embedded System Harvesting Ambient Energy: Land and Sea Applications’, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (under review).
  • G. Makrides and A. Meliones, ‘Automated Stock Price Motion Prediction Using Technical Analysis Datasets and Machine Learning’ (under review).
  • P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, ‘Towards a Training Framework for Improved Assistive Mobile App Acceptance and Use Rates by Blind and Visually Impaired People’, Education Sciences, MDPI, 2020, 10, 58, March 2020, doi:10.3390/educsci10030058.
  • A. Meliones, E. Touloupis, J. Perello, Embedded Parallelism Enabling Ultralow-Power Zigbee Voice Communications, Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, Hindawi, 14p., Feb 2019, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6595282.
  • A. Meliones and D. Sampson, «Blind MuseumTourer: A System for Self-Guided Tours in Museums and Blind Indoor Navigation», Technologies, 2018, 6(4), MDPI, doi:10.3390/technologies6010004
  • S. Apostolacos, A. Meliones (corr.), S. Badessi, G. Stassinopoulos, “Adaptation of the E-model for satellite internet protocol radio calls in Air Traffic Control”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 50(1), January 2015.
  • A. Meliones, S. Apostolacos, A. Nouvaki, «A Web-based Three-Tier Control and Monitoring Application for Integrated Facility Management of Photovoltaic Systems», Applied Computing and Informatics, Elsevier, 2014, 10(1-2), 14–37.
  • E. Touloupis, A. Meliones (corr.), S. Apostolacos, «Speech Codecs for High Quality Voice-over-ZigBee Applications: Evaluation and Implementation Challenges», IEEE Communications Magazine, 50(4): 122-128, April 2012.
  • H. Hangras, C. Wagner, A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, A. Meliones (corr.), L. Seremeti, Y. Bellik, G. Pruvost, T. Heinroth, W. Minker, «Symbiotic Ecologies in Next Generation Ambient Intelligent Environments», International Journal of Next Generation Computing, March 2012, pp. 52-86.
  • S. Apostolakos, A. Meliones (corr.), G. Lykakis, E. Touloupis, V. Vlagoulis, «Design, Implementation and Validation of an Open Source IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway Multi-Core SoC», International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer, 38(3-4): 288-302, June 2010.
  • S. Spanos, A. Meliones (corr.), G. Stassinopoulos, ‘The Internals of Advanced Interrupt Handling Techniques: Performance Optimization of an Embedded Linux Network Interface’, Computer Communications, Elsevier, 31(14): 3460-3468, September 2008.
  • S. Apostolacos, M. Manoussos, A. Meliones (corr.), D. Kavadas, G. Lykakis, M. Kardaris, K. Simaiakis, ‘Design and Implementation of a Solution for the Provisioning of Converged Remote Tower and Facility Management Services over Satellite IP for Greek Heliports’, IEEE Communications Magazine, 46(8),  August 2008.
  • V. Lawrence, N. Zervos, T. Zahariadis, A. Meliones, ‘Digital Gateways for Multimedia Home Networks’, Telecommunication Systems (TELS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 23(3/4):335-349, July/August 2003.
  • A. Meliones, Α. Karidis, ‘Distributed High-End Audio-Visual Content Creation: An Experience Report’, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 10(3/4):373-386, January 2001.
  • Y. Manolessos, G. Prezerakos, A. Meliones, M. Theologou, ‘A TQM-based Approach to QoS Management’, Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 8(2):191-218, June 2000.
  • A. Meliones, T. Varvarigou, P. Tsagronis, A. Emmen, I. Barosan, I. ‘A Metacomputing Environment for Demanding Applications: Design, Implementation, Experiments and Business Benefit’, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Special Issue on Metacomputing, 15(5/6):787-806, October 1999.
  • G. Efthivoulidis, E. Verentziotis, A. Meliones (corr.), T. Varvarigou, A. Kontizas, G. Deconinck, V. De Florio, V. ‘Fault-Tolerant Communication in Embedded Supercomputing’, IEEE Micro, 18(5):42-52, Sep./Oct. 1998.

II) INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

  • P. Theodorou, K. Tsiligkos, A. Meliones, A. Tsigris; Usability and UX evaluation of an indoor blind navigation Android application, In Proceedings of the 2023 International Mobility Conference (IMC18), Poland, Warsaw, May 22-26, 2023.
  • A. Meliones, G. Lami, A. Stouri, G. Mila, “The Talking Books Web Library of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece”, In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Corfu, June 29-July 1, 2022, pp. 273–276, https://doi.org/10.1145/3529190.3529205.
  • A. Meliones and S. Maidonis, ‘DALÍ: A Digital Assistant for the Elderly and Visually Impaired using Alexa Speech Interaction and TV Display’, In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, June 30-July 3, 2020, Corfu, Greece.
  • P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, ‘User Requirements Analysis for the Development of Assistive Navigation Mobile Apps for Blind and Visually Impaired People’, International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ICCA 2019), Austria, December 26-27, 2019 (Best Presentation Award), published in International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2020, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology.
  • P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, ‘Developing Apps for People with Sensory Disabilities and the Implications for Technology Acceptance Models’, 2019 Cyprus International Conference on Education Research, June 13-15, 2019, published in Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies, Vol. 9, No. 2, 33-40, Oct. 2019.
  • A. Meliones and C. Duta, «SeeSpeech: An Android Application for the Hearing Impaired», In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 7 p., June 5-7, Rhodes, Greece.
  • A. Meliones and J. L. Llorente, «Study and Development of a Sonar Obstacle Recognition Algorithm for Outdoor Blind Navigation», In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 9 p., June 5-7, Rhodes, Greece.
  • A. Meliones and I. Plas, «Developing Video Games with Elementary Adaptive Artificial Intelligence in Unity: An Intelligent Systems Approach», In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys 2017), 7-8 September 2017, London, UK.
  • A. Meliones and D. Sampson, «Indoor Blind Navigator: A Use Case for Self-Guided Tours in Museums», In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2017), June 21-23, Rhodes, Greece.
  • A. Meliones, N. Stavrou, I. Papaefthymiou, AITHALES: Autonomous M2M Satellite Tracking Embedded System Harvesting Ambient Energy, In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, October 24-27, 2016, Florence, Italy.
  • Α. Meliones, C. Filios, BlindHelper: A Pedestrian Navigation System for Blinds and Visually Impaired, In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, June 29-July 1, 2016, Corfu, Greece (Best Innovation Paper Award).
  • A. Meliones, C. Filios, “A Low-End Versatile Networked Microcontroller Embedded System for Field Control Applications”, In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2015), July 2015, Cambridge, UK.
  • A. Meliones, S. Kokkovos, “Privacy-Preserving Intelligent Networked Video Surveillance for Patient Monitoring and Alarm Detection”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, July 2015, Corfu.
  • A. Meliones, E. Touloupis, J. Perello, A. Serrat, Z-Phone: Design and Implementation of Embedded Voice over Zigbee Applications, In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2014), June 23-26, 2014, Madeira, Portugal.
  • K. Tsiligkos and A. Meliones (corr.), On Formulating Optimized Storage and Memory Space Specifications for Network Embedded Systems, In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, August 20-22, 2014, Paris.
  • P. Morakos and A. Meliones (corr.), Design and Implementation of a Cloud SaaS Framework for Multi-Tenant Applications, In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, July 7-9, 2014, Chania, Crete, Greece.
  • Α. Meliones and D. Giannakis, Visual Programming of an Interactive Smart Home Application using LabVIEW, In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2013), July 29-31, 2013, Bochum, Germany.
  • A. Meliones and A. Nouvaki, «A Web-based Service Backend for Control and Monitoring of Solar Parks», In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2012), July 27-29, 2012, Beijing, China.
  • E. Touloupis, A. Meliones (corr.), S. Apostolacos, «Implementation and Evaluation of a Voice Codec for Zigbee», In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’2011), June 28-July 1, 2011, Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece.
  • A. Meliones, I. Liverezas, D. Economou, «Network Adaptation in Intelligent Environments», In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IEʼ10), 19-21 July 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • A. Meliones, “A Comprehensive Development Guide for Network Embedded Systems”, In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2010), 8-9 July 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
  • D. J. Casado Ochoa, A. Meliones (corr.), E. Touloupis, “Quality Study of Speex Audio Codecs and Application to Voice-over-Zigbee”, 1st International Conference for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Computer Engineering, Informatics, related Technologies and Applications (EUREKA!2010), Rion, Patras, Greece, October 14-15, 2010.
  • Y. Bellik, A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, H. Hagras, T. Heinroth, G. Pruvost, A. Meliones, D. Economou, W. Minker and M. Gardner, “Multidimensional Pervasive Adaptation into Ambient Intelligent Environments”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2009), Chengdu, China, December 2009.
  • A. Kameas, H. Hagras, C. Goumopoulos, T. Heinroth, A. Meliones, M. Gardner, D. Economou, G. Pruvost, Y. Bellik and W. Minker, “A Pervasive System Architecture that supports Adaptation using Agents and Ontologies”, In Proceedings of the 10th  International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009), Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan, December 2009.
  • N. Papadopoulos, A. Meliones (corr.), D. Economou, I. Karras, I.Liverezas, “A Connected Home Platform and Development Framework for Smart Home Control Applications”, In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN09), June 24-26, 2009, Cardiff UK.
  • S. Apostolacos, G. Lykakis, A. Meliones (corr.), V. Vlagoulis, E. Touloupis, G. Konstantoulakis, ‘Design, Implementation and Validation of an Open Source IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway SoC’, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with the 7th International Conference on Embedded Systems, January 5-9, 2009, New Delhi, India, pp. 261-266 (Candidate for Best Paper Award).
  • A. Meliones, D. Economou, I. Grammatikakis, A. Kameas, C. Goumopoulos, ‘A Context Aware Connected Home Platform for Pervasive Applications’, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Venice, Italy, Oct. 20-24, 2008.
  • C. Goumopoulos, A. Kameas, H. Hagras, V. Callaghan, M. Gardner, W. Minker, M. Weber, Y. Bellik, A. Meliones, “ATRACO: Adaptive and Trusted Ambient Ecologies”, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2008), IEEE Computer Society, Venice, Italy, Oct. 20-24, 2008.
  • S. Apostolacos, A. Meliones, “SatWays – Satellite Integrated Facility Management and Radio over IP Gateway”, European Space Agency (ESA) Telecom Start-up Projects Initiative – Presentation Days, Oct 16-17, 2008, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL.
  • A. Meliones, A. Kameas, D. Economou, C. Goumopoulos, “Using the Connected Home Platform to support user tasks as orchestrations of smart objects services”, In Proceedings of ACM UbiComp 2008, 2nd International Workshop on Design and Integration Principles for Smart Objects, 21-24 Sept, 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
  • S. Apostolacos, A. Meliones (corr.), M. Manoussos, D. Kavadas, G. Lykakis, K. Simaiakis, M. Kardaris, ‘A Satellite Virtual Tower and Facility Management Application for Heliports’, In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Space Applications (SPACEAPPLI’08), Toulouse, France, April 22-25, 2008.
  • G. Thanos, A. Meliones (corr.), M. Marinidou, E. De la Fuente, G. Konstantoulakis, ‘A 3GPP-SIP Media Gateway for the IP Multimedia Subsystem’, In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2007), Split-Dubrovnic, Croatia, Sept. 27-29, 2007.
  • A. Meliones and S. Spanos, ‘Performance Analysis of Embedded Linux ATM for the MPC8260 and Derivatives’, In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC’06), IEEE Computer Society, Sardinia, Italy, [101-108] June 26-29, 2006.
  • A. Meliones, ‘Engineering of Embedded Linux ATM for the MPC8260 and Derivatives’, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, Vouliagmeni, Athens, July 14-16, 2005, published in WSEAS Transactions on Communications, 4(8):672-679, August 2005.
  • A. Meliones, ‘Engineering of ATM TDM Access Applications for Linux MPC8260 Integrated Access Devices’, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, Vouliagmeni, Athens, July 14-16, 2005, published in WSEAS Transactions on Communications, 4(8):709-716, August 2005.
  • A. Meliones, S. Spanos, N. Zervos, ‘Linux ATM Interface for PowerPC-based Network Embedded Systems’, 8th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, Vouliagmeni, Athens, July 12-15, 2004, published in WSEAS Transactions on Communications, 3(2):615-621, April 2004.
  • A. Karidis, A. Meliones (corr.), G. Stassinopoulos, ‘Efficient Integrated Collaborative Production of High-End Audio-Visual Content’, In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC’99), IEEE Computer Society, Sharm El-Seikh, Red Sea, Egypt, [294-300] July 4-8, 1999.
  • A. Karidis, A. Meliones (corr.) ‘DAVID-E: A Collaborative Working Paradigm for Distributed High-End Audio-Visual Content Creation’, In Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (IEEE ICMCS’99), IEEE Computer Society Florence, Italy, [Vol. 2, 328-332] June 7-11, 1999.
  • A. Meliones, D. Baltas, P. Kammenos, K. Spinnler, A. Kuleschow, G. Vardangalos, P. Lambadaris, ‘A Distributed Vision Network for Industrial Packaging Inspection’, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking Europe (HPCN’99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1593, Springer, Amsterdam, [1303-1307] 12-14 April 1999.
  • A. Meliones, E. Verentziotis, T. Varvarigou, G. Efthivoulidis, A. Kontizas, ‘Synchronous and Asynchronous Fault-Tolerant Communication in Embedded Supercomputing’, In Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’98), CSREA Press, ISBN 1-892512-05-x, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, [Vol. 2, 666-673] July 13-16, 1998.
  • A. Meliones, T. Varvarigou, ‘A Metacomputing Environment for Demanding Applications: Design, Implementation, Experiments and Business Benefit’, In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’98), IEEE Computer Society, Athens, Greece, [564-570] June 29-July 2, 1998.
  • E. Verentziotis, A. Meliones (corr.), T. Varvarigou, G. Efthivoulidis, A. Kontizas, ‘Fault-Tolerant Communication Tools in Embedded Supercomputing’, In Digest of Abstracts of the 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-28), IEEE Computer Society, Munich, Germany, [39-40] June 23-25, 1998.
  • A. Meliones, E. Verentziotis, T. Varvarigou, G. Efthivoulidis, A. Kontizas, ‘A New Framework for Fault-Tolerant Communication in Embedded Supercomputing’, In Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Embedded Fault-Tolerant Systems (EFTS’98), Boston, Massachussets, USA, [100-105] May 22-23, 1998.
  • G. Efthivoulidis, A. Kontizas, A. Meliones (corr.), T. Varvarigou, E. Verentziotis, G. Deconinck, ‘Synchronous and Asynchronous Fault Tolerant Communication in Embedded Supercomputing’, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel CFD Developments and Applications of Parallel Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 11-14, 1998.
  • A. Meliones, I. Barosan, T. Varvarigou, ‘Efficient Distributed Execution of Computationally Intensive Tasks’, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking Europe (HPCN’98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1401, Amsterdam, [262-273] 21-23 April 1998.
  • A. Meliones, A. Karidis, S. Perrakis, V. Siganos, C. Skelton, ‘Distributed Audio-Visual Content Development’, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking Europe (HPCN’98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1401, Amsterdam, [74-85] 21-23 April 1998.
  • A. Meliones, I. Barosan, T. Varvarigou, A. Kontizas, ‘An Embedded Distributed Architecture for Efficient Execution of Computationally Intensive Jobs’, In Proceedings of the 16th IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics, ACTA Press, Anaheim, USA, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, [276-280] February 23-25, 1998.
  • A. Meliones, T. Varvarigou, E. Protonotarios, E. ‘Rendering Post Production Applications in Distributed Environments’, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’97), IEEE Computer Society, Alexandria, Egypt, [302-310] July 1-3, 1997.
  • A. Meliones, Y. Manolessos, A. Dede, ‘Reference Point Modelling Concepts in Service Deployment’ In poster paper proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks (IS&N’97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1238, Springer, Como, Italy, May 27-29, 1997.
  • A. Meliones, T. Varvarigou, E. Protonotarios, ‘Remote Operations on Post Production Applications’, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking Europe (HPCN’97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1225, Springer, Vienna, Austria, [994-996] 28-30 April 1997.

III) ΒOOKS

  • A. Meliones, Embedded Systems: Implementation for Networks and Linux Applications, 730 pages, Kallipos Publications, 2024.
  • V. Apostolopoulos, A. Meliones, Routing Protocols: Problems and Solutions, 288 pages, Tziolas Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-960-418-389-0 (in Greek).
  • S. Apostolacos, A. Meliones, Satellite IP Radio Communications in Air Traffic Control: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems , 310 pages, Self-Published (in Greek), 2014.
  • A. Meliones, I. Liverezas, D. Economou, «Adaptive Networking», in Book titled «Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems», Springer, Sept. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-1298-4, pp. 56-103 (the book consists of eight chapters each covering a detailed look on a specific scientific area within the field of Intelligent Environments).
  • A. Meliones, I. Liverezas, D. Economou, «Adaptive Networking», in Book titled «Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems», Second Edition Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-3192-3452-6. The previous book has been updated with follow-up work emerging from ATRACO. Chapter authors comment on their work on ATRACO with final remarks as viewed in retrospective.
  • A. Meliones, “Logic and Logic Programming – An Analytic Approach Towards Problem Solving”, DaVinci Publications (under publication).
  • A. Meliones, “Advanced Metacomputing Architecture for High Performance Distributed Computing“, 218 pages, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Division of Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, June 1999, National Documentation Centre, https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/11774.
  • A. Meliones and C. Penterides, ‘External Routing Protocols: Problems and Solutions – The BGP Case‘ (under publication).
  • A. Meliones, ‘Network Embedded Systems‘, University Textbook, University of Piraeus, 2008.

IV) BOOK CHAPTERS

  • P. Theodorou and A. Meliones, ‘Human-Machine Requirements Convergence for the Design of Assistive Navigation Software: The Case of Blind or Visually Impaired People’, (Editors: G. Tsihrintzis, M. Virvou, L. Tsoukalas, A. Esposito, L. Jain) Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Technologies (Selected Papers in Honor of Professor Nikolaos G. Bourbakis) , LEARNING AND ANALYTICS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS series, Springer 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87132-1.
  • Α. Meliones and G. Makrides, ‘Automated Stock Price Motion Prediction Using Technical Analysis Datasets and Machine Learning’, (Editors: G. Tsihrintzis, D. Sotiropoulos, L. C. Jain) Machine Learning Paradigms: Advances in Data Analytics, Intelligent Systems Reference Library 149, Springer 2019, ISBN: 978-3319940298.
  • G. Efthivoulidis, E. Verentziotis, A. Meliones (corr.), T. Varvarigou, A. Kontizas, G. Deconinck, ‘Fault Tolerant Communication in Parallel High Performance Computing ‘, (Editors: Lin, C. A., Ecer, A., Periaux, J., Satofuka, N., Fox, P.) Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics – Development and Applications of Parallel Technology, North-Holland, Elsevier Publishing Co., [405-414] ISBN: 0-444-82850-8, 1999.

V) PENDING PATENTS

  • C. Filios, A. Meliones (corr.), ‘Real-time ultra-precise tracking and guidance method for autonomous blind outdoor navigation using a smartphone’. Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation, Filing No.: 245-0004343863, Sep 2021.
  • C. Filios, A. Meliones (corr.), ‘Server-less incandescent/halogen traffic light field sensor for blind crossing of street intersections using a smartphone’. Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation, Filing No.: 245-0004343847, Sep 2021.
  • A. Meliones, N. Nikolakopoulos, A. Tsigris, O. Popivtsak, G. Gkotsopoulos, ‘Accessibility Floor Mapping Method for Blind Indoor Navigation using a smartphone’. Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation, Filing No.: 245-0004345533, Sep. 2021.

VI) SCIENTIFIC PROJECT WEBSITES

  • A. Meliones, European Space Agency (ESA) Telecommunications & Integrated Applications webpage: ‘SATWAYS: Satellite Integrated Facility Management and Radio over IP Gateway’,  European Space Agency, currently available at https://artes.esa.int/projects/satways
  • A. Meliones, Innovative smartphone applications for autonomous blind outdoor and indoor navigation and self-guidance in Museums, MANTO Project Webpage, https://manto.ds.unipi.gr
  • A. Meliones, Talking Books Web Library of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece, currently available at https://ftebooks.gr

VII) OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES

  • A. Meliones, ΜΑΝΤΟ 2.0: State-of-the-art autonomous outdoor and indoor blind navigation, 1st Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, University of Piraeus, October 23, 2023. The startup proposal BlindRouteVision received the Winner Award among 20 startup proposals. Received the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Prize comprising free credits up to $150k towards Azure OpenAI Service, up to $150k in Azure credits, GitHub, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn Premium etc., and unlimited 1:1 meetings with experts from Microsoft.
  • A. Meliones, Τ1RCI-00593 MANTO “Innovative Blind Escort Applications for Autonomous Navigation Outdoor and in Museums”, European Researchers’ Night, National Technical University of Athens, Historical Averof Building, September 30, 2022.
  • A. Meliones, ‘State-of-the-art autonomous navigation in the city for blinds and visually impaired using a smartphone’, Celebration of the International White Cane Day, Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece, October 18, 2021.
  • A. Tsigris and A. Meliones, ‘Aytonomous navigation and guidance in the Tactual Museum for blinds and visually impaired using a smartphone’, Celebration of the International White Cane Day, Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece, October 18, 2021.
  • A. Meliones and P. Theodorou, ‘State-of-the-art autonomous navigation in the city and indoor spaces for blinds and visually impaired using a smartphone’, 1st Scientific Meeting for Accessibility in Public Places for Persons with Disabilities “ACCESSIBILITY EVERYWHERE”, Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus, Athens, December 1, 2021.
  • “Audio Description in Athens: Making Locative Media in the Wild”, MSc seminar with Associate Professor & UH Manoa Faculty Senator Brett Oppegaard, School of Communications / College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Piraeus, May 29, 2018.
  • Responsible and Tutor for Seminar on “Network Access Technologies and Equipment”, Duration: 65 hours, in the framework of the GSRT NETNET Project: “Human Network for Scientific and Technology Knowledge on Wired and Wireless Networks”. Seminar sections included communication processors, development tools, compact hardware architectures, system software and procedures, embedded applications of network embedded systems. inAccess Networks S.A., 12 Sorou Str., Maroussi 15125, 2008.
  • A. Meliones, Demonstration of Intelligent Media Gateways, Exhibition of Innovation Products in the Framework of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, (Organizers: Enterprise Greece, General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Athens Business Club), Training Centre of the National Bank of Greece, Glyfada, August 16-24, 2004.
  • A. Meliones, Communication Networks and Dynamic Service Provisioning, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, June 1, 2004.
  • A. Meliones, Desing, Implementation and Optimization of Distributed Information Systems and Business Benefit, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, February 12, 2004.
  • A. Meliones and D. Dimitrelos, ‘3D/4D Real-Time Angiocardiography’ (in Greek), Monthly Magazine of the Panhellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Vol. 358: 54-59, Jan/Feb 2003.
  • A. Meliones, Business/Residential Intelligent Media Gateways: Value Proposition for Deutsche Telekom, February 27, 2003, T-Data, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • A. Meliones, Demonstration of the InfoStar E Prototype Intelligent Media Gateway, February 2-8, 2002, Next Generation Network Interoperability Lab, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA.
  • A. Meliones, D&I of Modern Network Embedded Systems and Integrated Access Devices using the Linux OS, Scientific Meeting for the Presentation of Bell Labs Advanced Technologies EMEA, December 4, 2001, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras.
  • A. Meliones, D&I of Multimedia and Network Embedded Systems using the Linux OS and the Complementary Specializations of ICT Engineers, Scientific Meeting: University and Industry, Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) Department of Computer Science, Heraklion, Crete, November 30, 2001.
  • Tutor of seminars on “High Performance Computing and Networking: Solutions in Industry”, EU DGIII-Industry Delegate in SouthMed Countries Moroco, Tunisia, Malta, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Palestine, Algeria, Cyprus and Syria, addressing HPCN technology transfer, adapted to the specific needs and prospects of local markets.
  • A. Meliones, The DIVINE Project: A Distributed Vision Network for Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspection (also performed a demo of the PharmaKam system), Palestinian Pharmaceutical Industry Meeting, July 21, 1999, Palestine Polytechnic Institute, Hebron West Bank, Palestine.
  • A. Meliones, Advanced Metacomputing for High Performance Computing Large Area Networks and Applications, July 22, 1999, Palestine Polytechnic Institute, Hebron West Bank, Palestine.
  • A. Meliones, ‘INNO High Performance Computing and Networking Technology Transfer Node’ (in Greek), Monthly Magazine of the Panhellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Vol. 318: 22-26, May 1999.
  • A. Meliones, ‘INNO High Performance Computing and Networking Technology Transfer Node’ (in Greek), Weekly Magazine “Economicotechniko Pratin” Vo. 47, June 1999.
  • G. Vardangalos, A. Meliones (corr.), ‘The Power of Computer Vision’,  Textile Horizons, Textile Institute and World Textile Publications [27-31] June 1999.
  • G. Vardangalos, A. Meliones (corr.), ‘Artificial Vision Systems in Clothing and Carpet Industries’, Textile Horizons, Textile Institute and World Textile Publications [15-17] August 1999.
  • G. Vardangalos, A. Meliones (corr.), ‘Artificial Vision Systems in Weaving’, Textile Horizons, Textile Institute and World Textile Publications [18-19] September 1999.
  • 3DHeartView: Introducing 3-Dimensional Angiographical Modelling, XXth European Congress on Cardiology, Vienna, August 22-26, 1998.
  • A. Meliones and D. Brilakis, INNO Scientific Meeting for Innovation and Competitiveness, June 9, 1998, News Bulletin of the Technical Chamber of Greece, http://www.tee.gr/online/epikaira/1998/1997/m12.htm
  • A. Meliones, INNO Technology Transfer Node for Industrial Quality Control, ITEX Conference organized by EURATEX, the European Commission DGIII/Industry and the ITEX project, April 28-29, 1998, Astir Palace, Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens.
  • A. Meliones, ‘INNO High Performance Computing and Networking Technology Transfer Node’ (in Greek), Monthly Magazine of the Panhellenic Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Vol. 304: 32-35, Feb. 1998.
  • A. Meliones, INNO brings together Greek Industry and Academia, appeared in Primeur: The electronic news and information service for the European HPCN Community, News on HPCN and the European Commission, February 1998, http://www.hoise.com/articles/AM-PR-02-98-1.html
  • A. Meliones, The EU R&D EROPPA Project: High Performance Computing and Networking in the Post Production Industry, EU INNO Technology Node Scientific Meeting: Improving Enterprise Competitiviness – Exploitation of EU HPCN Project Outcomes by the Greek Companies, January 8, 1998, NTUA Administration Building, National Technical University of Athens (also responsible person for the event).
  • A. Meliones, The EROPPA Project: Rendering Post Production Applications in Remote Supercomputing Environments, EITC’97 (European IT Conference & Exhibition), Nov.24-26, Brussels Congress Centre.
  • A. Meliones, The INNO Technology Transfer Node Textile Quality Control Activities, Invited to join the European Commission DGIII/Industry delegation, 78thInternational Textile Conference, HELEXPO, May 23-26, 1997, Thessaloniki.
  • A. Meliones and A. Routzouni, What is an Inspection TTN, appeared in Primeur: The electronic news and information service for the European HPCN Community, News on HPCN and the European Commission, April 1997, http://www.hoise.com/CEC/CEC-NW-04-97.html
  • A. Meliones, Demonstration of the Deployment Reference Point in an OSA Service Creation Environment, BOOST Project Workshop, 3rd International Conference on Intelligence in Broadband Services and Networks (IS&N’95), October 16-20, 1995, Heraklion, Crete.
  • A. Meliones and H. Avramopoulos, The EU INNO Project, News Bulletin of the Technical Chamber of Greece, www.tee.gr/online/epikaira/1997/27-10-97/m14.htm
  • Seminar Tutor for the NTUA Supercomputing Centre services, National Technical University of Athens, 1995. 

PhD Theses

PHD THESES (ONGOING)

  • P. Theodorou: Design, Development and Technology Acceptance Modeling of Accessibility Systems for People with Sensory Impairments with Applications on Autonomous Smartphone-based Navigation Systems for Blind People (Completed).
  • K. Tsiligkos: Embedded Systems and Advanced Architectures for the Future Internet of Things (in progress).
  • N. Stavrou: Next Generation Scalable Large Scale Open Internet of Things Ecosystem (in progress).
  • A. Tsigris: Assistive Environments and Applications for Autonomous Indoor Orientation and Navigation of Blinds and Visually Impaired (in progress).
  • C. Filios: Assistive Enviroments and Effective Challenge Handling in Autonomous Outdoor Orientation and Navigation of Blinds and Visually Impaired (in progress).
  • N. Dimakis: Smartphone-based assistive technologies for civil protection during disaster events (in progress).

R&D Projects

R&D PROJECTS

  • T1RCI-593 MANTO (link)
    The MANTO project aims at the development and validation of two state-of-the-art navigation applications for blinds and visually impaired. The first application (Blind RouteVision) addresses the autonomous safe pedestrian outdoor navigation of blinds and visually impaired. Building upon very precise positioning, it aims to provide an accessibility, independent living, digital escort and safe walking aid for blinds. The application will operate on Android and iOS smartphones exploiting Google Maps to implement a voice guided navigation service. The smartphone application will be supported by an external embedded device integrating a microcontroller, a high precision GPS receiver, a simple keypad to allow the blind to interact easily with the app to select routes and other functions, as well as a servo-motorized sonar sensor for real-time recognition and by-passing of obstacles along the route of the blind person. Additional application features will include a configurator to define a list of destinations than can be selected through the keypad, app synchronization with traffic lights, weather information to help dress appropriately, dialing and answering phone calls, emergency notification of carers about the current position of the blind person, and the exploitation of dynamic telematics information regarding public transportation timetables and bus stops for building composite routes which may include public transportation segments in addition to pedestrian segments.  Furthermore, Blind RouteVision comprises an innovative and challenging application component to provide real-time visual information to the blind person along the route exploiting machine- and deep-learning technology. The proposed application will go beyond the current state-of-the-art in worldwide blind navigation applications demonstrating unparalleled functionality and setting a precedent for its competitors.
    The second application (Blind MuseumTourer) will enable blind and visually impaired persons to experience autonomous self-guided tours in Museums. Based on the outcome of the particular use case, the application will evolve long-term to an indoor blind navigation system for public buildings. The app will execute on Android and iOS smartphones to implement a voice-instructed self-guided navigation service inside Museum exhibition halls and ancillary spaces. The application will comprise an accurate indoor positioning system using a sophisticated dead reckoning mechanism, bluetooth proximity sensors at the exhibits and unobtrusive assistive tactile route indicators marked on the floor of Museum rooms (conforming to international standards for assistive tactile walking). Furthermore, the application will comprise an indoor positioning system for completely free movement inside internal spaces.
  • ESA SATWAYS (link)
    The ESA SATWAYS project resolved the issue of communication loss during landing and take-off of VFR flights. This is done by maintaining radio contact via switching to the heliport local frequency which is relayed to the flight controller over satellite. The system was installed at the heliport of Patmos and HCAA headquarters. Regarding radio communications we managed to implement a TWR (tower) service in a centralized manner for all heliports. The developed system is actually an extension to the VFR procedure for the airspace above heliports. The SATWAYS system has been successfully used and evaluated not only during the control of VFR flights (i.e. helicopters which were the original target), but also for IFR flights, i.e. speedy airplanes rushing through the Greek skies through extremely dense regions of the airspace. Taking into consideration that, to the best of our knowledge, there exist no publications that present a similar system or a similar trial, this outcome is considered truly original.
    During the evaluation phase, the SATWAYS system has been used numerous times for operational activities. The users rated the system with an average of 8.67 on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 is best) regarding voice quality and an average of 1.44-1.61 on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 is best) regarding the effect of delay on their perception, effectiveness, timing, correct phraseology and speech rate. The biggest reward was Report #18, within which the responsible controller wrote:
    “This was a flight with destination the Patmos heliport. The frequency was checked upon departure from the heliport of Mykonos (translation note: another island about 45 miles West of Patmos) and throughout the flight until landing at the heliport of Patmos. At a distance of 15 nautical miles east of the RIPLI region (translation note: controller jargon for an area within the Greek airspace), the pilot reported a 5/5 radio communications quality and so did the flight controller. At 20 nautical miles west of Patmos and at a flight level of 1500 feet, both the pilot and controller reported a 5/5 quality. Beginning the descent to the Patmos heliport, both the transmission and reception were exceptional. On the ground, the communication quality was also exceptional and the flight plan has been closed using radio comms. The pilot has expressed to me his admiration, since traditionally this area had no radio coverage. I consider that the use of satellite communications is a success and covers our requirements for the heliport up to ground level”.
    Selected project dissemination includes:

    • A highlighted publication in the IEEE Communication Magazine, D&I series, August 2008 issue, introduced by a flattering editorial, which has already generated significant feedback, among which from Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Officer of the United States Chief Communications Commission (during the Obama Presidency) and previous Chair of the Computer Science department at Columbia University who is universally acclaimed as the father of the SIP standard for enabling VoIP.
    • A publication/presentation in Space Application Days, Toulouse Space Show, April 22-25, 2008.
    • Presentations in the 2007 EUROCONTROL (the European Organization for Air Traffic Control) Communication Team (COMT) meeting and in the 2009 EUROCONTROL (the European Organization for Air Traffic Control) workshop on the application of VoIP technology in ATC.
    • A highlighted research publication on E-model adaptation for satellite IP radio calls in Air Traffic Control in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. This paper proposes several modifications to the E-model, a transmission planning computational tool, so as to allow for quantification of the quality of radio voice communications used in a variety of mission critical applications. This modified tool has been used for network planning and system design addressing the particular requirements of Air Traffic Control. The presented methodology can result in detailed modelling of the end-to-end voice path including radio communication components, so that system design is driven by QoS requirements and user acceptance is assured prior to any actual deployments. The approach has been applied on a Radio over IP over satellite communication solution (the SATWAYS system) designed and implemented to extend the coverage of radio frequencies within airspaces in cases where the commonly used landline communication infrastructure is either too costly or impossible to install and maintain. The paper provides evidence that the way to an all-IP ATC network is wide open.
    • A press release on the successful installation and operation of the system appeared on the ESA Telecom web news on 05 Nov 2008.
    • An international book edition summarizing the important SATWAYS results is under preparation, with a Greek version already available.
  • FP7 ICT FET ATRACO
    The ATRACO EU FET project (http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/atraco/) presented a revolutionary approach towards the realization of next generation ambient intelligent environments. In this framework, the undersigned, leading a small research team, developed a framework for network adaptation in Intelligent Environments using OSGi and UPnP technology allowing the uniform and transparent access to devices and services present in the networked environment and supporting the realization of activity spheres across a mixture of heterogeneous networks. Our work specifically focuses on the issue of heterogeneity at the network level and defines adaptation as the systemic mechanism to deal with this issue. The proposed network adaptation framework supported an ambient ecology trial hosted in the iSpace in Essex demonstrating a number of futuristic user activity spheres.
    Selected publications involving the undersigned include a chapter contribution on Adaptive Networking in an international book edition on “Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems” (main author), an ATRACO research paper in the International Journal of Next Generation Computing (corresponding author), and 7 publications in praiseworthy international conferences.
  • EUROSTARS Z-PHONE
    The Internet of Things is currently receiving much attention from both the research and business communities. Internet of Things research is exploring ways to connect constrained sensors (or “smart things”). During the past few years, this research has produced a number of low-power radio and network protocols. ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) is a wireless standards-based technology that enables broad-based deployment of complex wireless networks with low-cost, low-power solutions that run for years on inexpensive primary batteries. The maximum data rate of IEEE802.15.4 is 250 kb/s, which is low compared to other wireless technologies but, we have shown it is sufficient to transmit voice using narrowband voice codecs. We have evaluated and implemented a voice codec, on a highly constrained device, to transmit voice in full-duplex mode using ZigBee technology. In particular, we analysed all the factors used to select the most suitable codec from the wide selection of high quality low-bandwidth royalty-free codecs that are available in the open source community. We also elaborated on code implementation details and performance. We also provided highly informative and readily reusable lessons learned for any applications that require high-quality voice transmission over constrained networks and endpoint devices.
    Selected publications include a highlighted publication in the IEEE Communication Magazine, D&I series, April 2012 issue, an overall project journal publication (Journal of Computer Networks and Communications) focusing also on embedded parallelism towards enabling Zigbee voice communications, and several IEEE conference publications. This effort has created interest to researchers of the Institute of Space Technologies at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
  • EUROSTARS NetHomEra – Enabling New Era Networked Home Services and CELTIC GENIO – Next Generation Home
    The NetHomEra project aims to define the home network of the future, developing an advanced self-management of the home network, facing the problem of heterogeneity of the devices and their interactions, and looking to maximize automation and to respond intelligently to events and alarms. The project intends also to resolve other challenges like access to the content from everywhere and personalization of the services. NetHomEra is a sister project of the CELTIC GENIO (Next Generation Home) (http://projects.celtic-initiative.org/genio/), which was created with the purpose to ensure funding for the SMEs participating in the GENIO project. Funding authority: EU Eurostars Programme and member states EUREKA frameworks. Role of the undersigned: Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for SME partner, scientific responsible of the UPRC subcontract, proposal author/coordinator and initial Project Manager (due to significant funding limitations of the national framework the original project coordinator handed the Project Management to a French SME during the finalization of the contract with the Eurostars Office).
  • Talking Books Web Library of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece (link)
    Design and Development of a talking books web library for blinds and visually impaired (ftebooks.gr). It is an electronic service of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece addressing the blind and visually impaired which provides electronic access to the Talking Books Lending Library. The Talking Books Lending Library has more than 6,000 titles available in digital format, of both Greek and Foreign Literature, including university books, technical manuals, books for children, notes etc. 
  • HermAce
    Implementation of visualisation and user interfaces for HermAce maritime IoT device operations: (i) Fleet Management, Remote Monitoring & Troubleshooting User Interface of Customer Shipping Company vessels; (ii) Edge Gateway User Interface for vessel crew to obtain vessel’s equipment condition and troubleshooting actions in communication with HermAce portal; (iii) Engineer’s Desktop application to obtain equipment configuration. Funding authority: FURUNO Hellas.
  • ENIAC END – Models, Solutions, Methods and Tools for Energy-Aware Design
    Funding authority: EU ENIAC JU. Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner.
  • AAL2 PeerAssist – P2P architecture for setting up virtual communities to assist independent living of the Elderly
    Funding authority: EU AAL JU. Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner.
  • Hellenic Technology Cluster Initiative – Phase-1 Programme for Microelectronics Cluster Development
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology – Corallia. Scientific Responsible, principal author and coordinator of the Phase-1 miCluster proposal.
  • Corallia MICRO2-16/Ε-ΙΙ-Α MEMSENSE – Development and deployment of innovative sensors and actuators platform for home and industrial environments Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology – Corallia. Proposal co-author and member of the research team.
  • Celtic IMPULSE – Integrated multimodal platform for ubiquitous multimedia service execution
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Member of the Project Coordination Committee and scientific responsible for project partner.
  • ERMES – Design, Implementation and Validation of an Open Source IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway SoC
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.
  • EU FP6 EPERSPACE – Towards the era of personal services at home and everywhere
    Funding authority: EU FP6 Framework Programme. Member of the research team for the preparation of the final trial.
  • MEDIAGATE – Research and development of compact media gateways
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.
  • APOLLON – System for the provisioning of advanced telephony services.
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.
  • SECURENET – Adaptive transmission of moving images to mobile devices for video surveillance
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.
  • PHDALION – Multimedia search engine for highly unstructured distributed multimedia content
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator.
  • PINCLOUD – Providing Integrated eHealth Services for Personalized Medicine utilizing Cloud Infrastructure
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Member of UPRC (University of Piraeus Research Centre) research team.
  • EU ICT PSP Inspiring Science Education – Large Scale Experimentation Scenarios to Mainstream eLearning in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Primary and Secondary Schools
    Member of UPRC research team. UPRC Scientific Coordinator during 1/1/2015-30/9/2016.
  • EU ICT GO-LAB: Global Online Science Labs Inquiry Learning at School
    Member of CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) research team. CERTH Scientific Coordinator during 1/1/2015-31/10/2016.
  • National Contribution Inspiring Science Education 2014-2016
    Funding authority: Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology. Scientific Coordinator (1/7/2016-15/7/2017).
  • ESA SATFireman. A Satellite Wildfire Management Solution for Greece
    Accepted for funding by ESA (succeeded the outline and full proposal phases). Participants: inAccess Networks, HellasSat, Space Hellas, Aratos, British Columbia Forest Service, Hellenic Fire Service and Municipalities. Not implemented and stopped during contract phase because the Hellenic Fire Service unexpectedly did not sign the ESA contract. Role of the undersigned: Proposal author and Project Manager.
  • ΙΤΕΑ-2 WELLCOM: Deployment and Management of Services and Applications in a Distributed Home Environment
    Member of the Project Coordination Committee, scientific responsible for project partner. GSRT funding was not available for Greek partners.
  • EPSRIT EROPPA – Experiments on Remote Operations for Post Production Applications
    Pilot implementation of a metacomputing and distributed supercomputing environment in the post-production industry. Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.
  • ESPRIT INNO – Technology Transfer on High Performance Computing and Networking
    Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.
  • ESPRIT EFTOS – Embedded Fault Tolerant Supercomputing
    Member of the research team.
  • TETRAMED – Tender III/98/028 – Provision of TTN HPCN Services to South Mediterranean Countries
    Proposal author and Deputy Project Coordinator.
  • ACTS DOLMEN – Service machine development for an open long-term mobile and fixed network environment
    Member of the research team.
  • RACE II BOOST – Broadband Object Oriented Service Technologies
    Member of the research team.

OPEN-SOURCE

  • MPC8260 Linux ATM
    The undersigned has developed the widely used worldwide open source Linux UTOPIA and serial ATM driver for Freescale’s PowerQUICC-II communication processor family (MPC8260 and derivatives). This work is important for the implementation of integrated broadband access devices, access multiplexers and multi-service access platforms. A preliminary version of the driver was disclosed to the Linux community under a SourceForge project, which has received over 16,000 web hits and more than 1500 code discreet downloads up to date. Based on this work which is supported by several publications, Sevis Systems Inc., a developer of mobile backhaul solutions for China Mobile and other worldwide mobile operators, requested a consulting contract to help develop their PowerQUICC-III ATM products.
  • HERMES
    Open Source IP-PBX/VoIP Gateway Multi-Core SoC (LEON3).
  • STEM
    Simple Task Execution Manager is an OSGi UPnP service that generates events and/or performs actions on UPnP devices and services, when a set of conditions on available UPnP services or devices is evaluated true. STEM was disclosed to the open community under a SourceForge project.
  • Youpi UPnP-OSGi bridge
    Youpi is a Java implementation of the UPnP protocol, which allows the remote discovery and control of devices available in an IP network. The UPnP technology is promoted by the UPnP forum which comprises significant electronics and ICT industry players. The UPnP protocol is included in a plethora of common devices such as Internet routers, network disks (NAS servers), Xbox and Playstation gaming consoles etc. Youpi was developed in the framework of the ICT-FET-ATRACO project. The undersigned supervised the implementation of the UPnP-OSGi bridge. Youpi was disclosed to the open community and more than 500 discrete users have downloaded the code up to date.

ANDROID APPLICATIONS

Sample list: Communication app for deaf and hard of hearing people, Haemelin assistive app for oncologic haematology patient follow up, blood status monitoring and alarm detection at home nursing state, Internet forum client, visualisation of relations and activities in social media, couch surfing, order management tracking, container tracking, friendly car accident declaration, radiation monitor for smartphone use, CabMate taxi sharing, smart home in the Cloud, bank loan adjuster, eShop client, client for automated stock price motion prediction using technical analysis datasets and machine learning, Arduino/Raspberry moving camera (video car) app , moving robotic arm app, virtual guide using QR codes, school leadership app, POI list timely limited visit planning touristic app, city public transportation app, video games, tools for remote control/monitoring etc.