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Last Updated: 09/12/2009

Giorgos Flouris
Publications

In this page you may view my publications. They are arranged by type; within each publication type they appear chronologically, with the most recent one being first in the list. You may also find links to the journal, conference or other event to which they appeared, as well as to the homepages of my coauthors (when available).

Click below for a direct link to the various categories:
Journal Publications
Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Publications
Book Chapters
Edited Books, Journal Issues and Proceedings
Invited Talks and Publications
Technical Reports
Theses

Journal Publications

Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Manakanatas, Haridimos Kondylakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Ontology Change: Classification and Survey. Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), 23(2), pages 117-152, 2008.
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Yannis Tzitzikas, Vassilis Christophides, Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Kotzinos, Hannu Markkanen, Dimitris Plexousakis, Nicolas Spyratos. Emergent Knowledge Artifacts for Supporting Trialogical E-Learning. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies (IJWLTT), 2(3), pages 16-38, 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris. On Belief Change in Ontology Evolution. AI Communications Journal (AI-Com), 19(4), pages 395-397, PhD Thesis Summary, 2006.
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Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Publications

Haridimos Kondylakis, Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. Ontology and Schema Evolution in Data Integration: Review and Assessment. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE-09), 2009.
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Marcio Ribeiro, Renata Wassermann, Grigoris Antoniou, Giorgos Flouris, Jeff Pan. Belief Contraction in Web-Ontology Languages. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-09), Short Paper, 2009.
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Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Panagiotis Pediaditis, Yannis Theoharis, Vassilis Christophides. Coloring RDF Triples to Capture Provenance. In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-09), 2009.
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Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos, Vassilis Christophides. On Detecting High-Level Changes in RDF/S KBs. In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-09), 2009.
Received a Best Student Paper Award.
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Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Panagiotis Pediaditis, Yannis Theoharis, Vassilis Christophides. Capturing Provenance of RDF Triples through Colors. In Proceedings of the 8th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS-09), 2009.
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Panagiotis Pediaditis, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Vassilis Christophides. On Explicit Provenance Management in RDF/S Graphs. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP-09), Short Paper, 2009.
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George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris Antoniou, Vassilis Christophides. A Formal Approach for RDF/S Ontology Evolution. In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-08), pages 405-409, 2008.
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George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris Antoniou, Vassilis Christophides. On RDF/S Ontology Evolution. In the post-proceedings of the Joint ODBIS & SWDB Workshop on Semantic Web, Ontologies, Databases (SWDB-ODBIS-07), pages 21-42, 2008.
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George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris Antoniou, Vassilis Christophides. Ontology Evolution: A Framework and its Application to RDF. In Proceedings of the Joint ODBIS & SWDB Workshop on Semantic Web, Ontologies, Databases (SWDB-ODBIS-07), 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris, Carlo Meghini. Terminology and Wish List for a Formal Theory of Preservation. In Proceedings of PV-2007: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation and Value Adding to Scientific and Technical Data (PV-07), 2007.
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Yannis Tzitzikas, Giorgos Flouris. Mind the (Intelligibility) Gap. In Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL-07), pages 87-99, 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris, Carlo Meghini. Some Preliminary Ideas Towards a Theory of Digital Preservation. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries Foundations (DLF1-07), 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris. On the Evolution of Ontological Signatures. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology Evolution (OnE-07), 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. A Classification of Ontology Change.  In the Poster Session of the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP-06), 2006.
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Yannis Tzitzikas, Vassilis Christophides, Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Kotzinos, Hannu Markkanen, Dimitris Plexousakis, Nicolas Spyratos. Emergent Knowledge Artifacts for Supporting Trialogical E-Learning. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for Communities of Practice (TELCoPs-06), 2006.
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Yannis Tzitzikas, Vassilis Christophides, Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Kotzinos, Hannu Markkanen, Dimitris Plexousakis, Nicolas Spyratos. Trialogical E-Learning and Emergent Knowledge Artifacts. In the Poster Session of the 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL-06), 2006.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. On Generalizing the AGM Postulates. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS-06), pages 132-143, 2006.
Received a Best Paper Award, sponsored by IOS Press.
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Giorgos Flouris, Zhisheng Huang, Jeff Pan, Dimitris Plexousakis, Holger Wache. Inconsistencies, Negations and Changes in Ontologies. In Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), pages 1295-1300, 2006. A shorter version (extended abstract) of this paper appeared in Proceedings of the 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC-07), 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. Bridging Ontology Evolution and Belief Change. Short Paper. In Proceedings of the 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN-06), published in Grigoris Antoniou, George Potamias, Costas Spyropoulos, Dimitris Plexousakis (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3955 / 2006, Springer-Verlag, pages 486-489, 2006.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. On Applying the AGM Theory to DLs and OWL. In Proceedings of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-05), published in Yolanda Gil, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, Mark A. Musen (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3729 / 2005, Springer-Verlag, pages 216-231, 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Ontology Evolution Using Belief Change and the AGM Theory. In the Poster Session of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-05), A0-sized poster, 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris. Applying Belief Change to Ontology Evolution. In Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Doctoral Symposium (ISWDS-05), Research Thesis Summary, pages 9-12, 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Updating Description Logics Using the AGM Theory. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-05), pages 69-76, 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Updating DLs Using the AGM Theory: A Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the Poster Session of the 2005 Description Logic Workshop (DL-05), 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Generalizing the AGM Postulates: Preliminary Results and Applications. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR-04), pages 171-179, 2004.
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Giorgos Flouris. Belief Change in Arbitrary Logics. In Proceedings of the 3rd Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS-04), PhD Presentations Session, pages 217-219, 2004.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. On a Unifying Framework for Comparing Knowledge Representation Schemes. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB-03), 2003.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. On the Use of Matrices for Belief Revision. In Yannis Manolopoulos, Skevos Evripidou, Antonis Kakas (eds) Vol. 2563 / 2003, Advances in Informatics: 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, Post-proceedings of the 8th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics (revised selected papers), Springer-Verlag, pages 100-117, 2003.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. Belief Revision in Propositional Knowledge Bases. In Proceedings of the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI-01), pages 412-421, 2001.
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Book Chapters

Dimitris Kotzinos, Giorgos Flouris, Yannis Tzitzikas, Dimitris Andreou, Vassilis Christophides. Supporting Evolution of Knowledge Artifacts in Web Based Learning Environments. In Nikos Karacapilidis (editor), Solutions and Innovations in Web-Based Technologies for Augmented Learning: Improved Platforms, Tools, and Applications. Chapter IX, pages 142-167, 2009.
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Edited Books, Journal Issues and Proceedings

Giorgos Flouris, Mathieu d’Aquin, Grigoris Antoniou, Jeff Pan, Dimitris Plexousakis (editors). Recent Advances in Ontology Dynamics. Journal of Logic and Computation (JLC), Special Issue, 19(5), 2009.
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Dimitris Plexousakis, Jeff Pan, Giorgos Flouris, Mathieu d’Aquin, Grigoris Antoniou (editors). Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-08). 2008.
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Giorgos Flouris, Mathieu d’Aquin (editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD-07). 2007.
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Invited Talks and Publications

Giorgos Flouris. High-Level Change Detection in the Semantic Web. Invited talk for the 10th anniversary of the W3C Greece Office, 2009.
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Giorgos Flouris, George Konstantinidis. Formalizing the Evolution Process. In BOEMIE 2008 Workshop on Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE-08), Invited Talk, 2008.
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Giorgos Flouris, Carlo Meghini. Steps Towards a Theory of Information Preservation. In International Workshop on Database Preservation (PresDB-07), Invited Talk, 2007.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Evolving Ontology Evolution. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM-06), Invited Talk, pages 14-29, 2006.
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Technical Reports

Vicky Papavassiliou, Giorgos Flouris, Irini Fundulaki, Dimitris Kotzinos, Vassilis Christophides. Formalizing High-Level Change Detection for RDF/S KBs. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-398, August 2009.
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Fabio Nanni, Giorgos Flouris. Issues Related to a Soft Transition of Existing Archives to a Preservation Environment. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-395, October 2008.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. Handling Ontology Change: Survey and Proposal for a Future Research Direction. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-362, September 2005.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. AGM Postulates in Arbitrary Logics: Initial Results and Applications. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-336, April 2004.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou. Describing Knowledge Representation Schemes: a Formal Account. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-320, April 2003.
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Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis. Belief Revision Using Table Transformation. Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-290, July 2001.
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Theses

Giorgos Flouris. On Belief Change and Ontology Evolution. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, February 2006.
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Giorgos Flouris. Belief Revision in Knowledge Bases. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete; also available as Technical Report FORTH-ICS, TR-292, October 2001 (in Greek).
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