Dimitris Kotzinos
Dr. Dimitris Kotzinos is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, TEI of Serres and affiliated to the Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH.
Research Interests
His research interests inlude:
- Information Systems Engineering for the World Wide Web (WWW)
- Web based Geographic Information Systems
- Intelligent Transportation systems
- Web data provenance
- Social web information systems
- Event identification
- Knowledge extraction from the social web
- Metadata for social information systems
- Description, Development and Composition of e-services
- Semantic Services
- Geoinformation management and publication services
- E-Learning
- E-learning resources semantic descriptions
- Services for supporting learning communities
- Analytical tools for learning systems
- Semantic Web Languages
Awards and Fellowships
- September 1995 – August 1996 Fellowship: Fellow of C.I.T.R. (CENTER FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH), during the master thesis program
Participation in Recent Research Projects
- 2006-2011 Developing Knowledge Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab)
- 2006 - 2009 CASPAR, Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval
- 2003-2005 Web-Based E-Learning System for the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
- 2000-2002 OMNI, Development of an advanced traveler's information system for the municipality of Chania
- 2000-2001 PANDORA, Development of an online system for demographic data of Greece
- 2001-2002 ATHENSTRAFFIC, web based real time traffic information for the Athens region
- 1999-2001 HECTOR, online real time emergency health information systems
- 1998-2000 THETIS, A Data Management and data Visualization System for Supporting Coastal Zone Management for the Mediterranean Sea
- 1997-1999 TEMISIA, An On-line web based information system for the industrial areas of Europe
- 1994-1996 Enhancement and Calibration of Dynamic Traffic Assignment and Simulation Models for Ohio ATMS/ATIS Applications
- 1994-1996 Development of a Prototype Two-Way Communication GPS Positioning System for IVHS Real - Time Traffic Data Collection
- 1992-93 AQUABANK, A national data bank for the Greek fisheries
- 1988-91 ATHINA: Development of information systems for accessing statistical data
Short CV
Dimitris Kotzinos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying of the TEI of Serres and an affiliated researcher at the Information Systems and Software Technology Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH-ICS). He holds a Ph.D. on the topic of ”Application of digital map technologies on developing internet based Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS)” from the Department of Production and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece (2001) and a M.Sc. in Transportation, from the Civil Engineering Department, Ohio-State University, Columbus, USA (1996). His B.S. is in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece. (1994).
His main research interests include development of methodologies, algorithms and tools for web based information systems, portals and web services and the understanding of the meaning (semantics) of interoperable data and services on the web. Especially applications of the above in the fields of: E-learning, Geographic Information Science, real-time Advanced Traveler Information Systems (A.T.I.S.) and Semantic Web Information Systems.
He has published over 40 papers in various journals, books, conferences and workshops and serves as a program committee member and reviewer for various conferences and journals. His work has currently over 170 references and an h-index of 8.
