Christophides Vassilis

Member of the Information Systems and Software Technology Group

Position:

• Researcher at ICS-FORTH Crete, Greece

Addresses:

• Institute of Computer Science,
  Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
  Science and Technology Park of Crete
  Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385
  GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  
  christop@csi.forth.gr
  30 (81) 39 16 28
  +30 (81) 39 16 01

Course: Database Systems Applications

Course: Wide Area Information Integration Systems

Course: Electronic Documents Management Systems

Education:

• 1996: PhD "Structured Documents and Object Bases", in CEDRIC-CNAM Paris, France
• 1992: D.E.A. ``Information Systems'', in MASI-PARIS VI Paris, France
• 1989: Pedagogical Studies for teaching in technical secondary education, National Technical Pedagogical School ``SELETE'' Athens, Greece
• 1988: Diploma of Electrical Engineer, specialized in Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens NTUA, Greece
• 1982: Hight School graduation, Second Public Lyceum of Athens, Greece

Current Interest:

• Object Database Management Systems
• Electronic Documents Management Systems
• Wide-Area Information Integration Systems

Participation in the C-Web Project (Short Presentation pdf , ppt )

• D5: Community Webs (C-Webs): Technological Assessment and System Architecture (ps pdf)
• The ICS-FORTH Validating RDF Parser (VRP)
• ICS-VRP: a Tool for Parsing and Validating RDF Metadata & Schemas
• The RQL Query Language (ps)
• Managing RDF Metadata for Community Webs (ps)
• Community Web Portals References

Participation in the Aquarelle Project (Short Presentation pdf , ppt )

• Managing Digital Folders in Aquarelle ( ps , html )
• The Aquarelle Folder Server V2.0 ( zipped doc )
• The Aquarelle Folder Metadata: The Folder Profile DTD ( zipped word )
• The Aquarelle Folder Server
• The Aquarelle Resource Discovery System ( rtf pdf )
• A Semantic Network Approach to Semi-Structured Documents Repositories ( ps pdf )
• Querying Heterogeneous Cultural Data Sources ( ps pdf )
• Querying Heterogeneous Semi-Structured Data
• Intelligent Mediation of Cultural Information Sources
• On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration ( ps , pdf )
• Declarative Specification of Z39.50 Wrappers using Description Logics ( ps , pdf , html )

Participation in the Thetis Project (Short Presentation pdf , ppt )

• Open Scientific Data Repositories Architecture NSF Invitational Workshop DICPM 1998 ( html )
• Towards a Next Generation of Open Scientific Data Repositories and Services CWI Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, June 1999 ( rtf pdf )
• Onthology-driven Integration of Scientific Repositories NGITS'99 Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, 1999 ( word pdf )