Short CV:
is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Computer Science Department
of the Universtity of Crete, Greece and a Researcher at the Information Systems
Lab of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation of Research and
Technology - Hellas. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University
of Crete and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degress in Computer Science from the University
of Toronto. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Crete he was
an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University and the University of South
Florida. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.
His research interests include data and knowledge base management, workflow
and business process management systems, e-services, peer-to-peer and grid
based systems, applications of AI in data management, metadata management
and query languages for the Semantic Web.
He is an active participant in the OntoWeb and Planet Networks of Excellence
and in national and european projects on service integration in web-based
information systems.