ABOUT
PERSONAL DETAILS
University of Cyprus, Nicosia
ABOUT ME
George Pallis received his BSc (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) degree in Department of Informatics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Currently, he is associate professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus and Associate Director of Laboratory of Internet Computing. Previously, he was lecturer, assistant professor and Marie-Curie fellow at the Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus. His research interests include Cloud computing with focus on Cloud elasticity and monitoring, Edge Computing and Big Data Analytics. He is principal institutional investigator in research projects funded by EC, Research Promotion Foundation in Cyprus, and industry (e.g., Google) and has totally attracted more than 4.5M euro. Dr. Pallis has published over 70 papers in international journals (e.g., IEEE TKDE, IEEE TCC, IEEE TSC, ACM TOIT etc), magazines (e.g., CACM, IEEE Internet Computing) and conferences (e.g., INFOCOM, IPDPS, ICDCS, IEEE BIG DATA etc) and he is contributor of two international DIN (German Institute for Standardization) standards. His papers have been cited more than 4200 times. Dr. Pallis has served as PC-Co-chair of CloudCom 2018 and CCGrid 2019. Dr. Pallis has also served in numerous Program and Organization Committees for international conferences (WWW, ICDCS, etc) and he received the best paper awards in the IEEE Big Data Conference (IEEE BIG DATA 2016) and the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2014). In 2019, Dr. Pallis served as guest editor for the edge computing special issue on the prestigious Proceedings of the IEEE journal. He is Editor in Chief in the IEEE Internet Computing magazine, Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and Associate Editor in the Computing Journal (Springer).
RESUME
- EDUCATION
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2001 2006Thessaloniki
Department of Informatics - PHD
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Data Management on the Web, Advisor: Prof. Athena Vakali -
1997 2001Thessaloniki
Department of Informatics - BSc
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science - ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
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2020 nowNicosia
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
- 2014 2019Nicosia
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Tenure Track -
2010 2014Nicosia
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Tenure track -
2009 2010Nicosia
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
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2007 2009Nicosia
Marie Curie Fellow
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
Experienced Researcher, Laboratory for Internet Computing -
2001 2006Thessaloniki
Research Assistant
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Online Sourced – Web INformation Distributed Systems Lab - HONORS AND AWARDS
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2014 NovAtlanta, USA
Best Student paper award
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), Whashington, DC, USA, December 2016.
H. Efstathiades, D. Antoniades, G. Pallis, M. D. Dikaiakos, Z. Szlávik and R.-J. Sips, "Online Social Network Evolution: Revisiting the Twitter Graph" -
Best paper award
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing. Paris, France, 3-6 November, 2014.
G. Copil, D. Trihinas, H-L. Truong, D. Moldovan, G. Pallis, S. Dustdar, M. D. Dikaiakos. ADVISE -- a Framework for Evaluating Cloud Service Elasticity Behavior.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS LIST[Google Scholar] [DBLP]
JUN
2019
Query-Driven Descriptive Analytics for IoT and Edge Computing
Proceedings of IEEE IC2E Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
Conferences
JAN
2019
A new era of Internet Computing is coming
IEEE Internet Computing, Jan/Feb, Volume 23, Issue 4, 2019
Journal
DEC
2018
Two Hop Privacy Preserving Nearest Friend Searches
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal, Springer, Impact Factor: 2.247, 2018
Journal
JUL
2018
ATMoN: Adapting the “Temporality” in Large-Scale Dynamic Networks
Proceedings of 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria
Conferences
DEC
2018
A Query-Driven Framework for Streaming Analytics in Edge Computing
11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2018), Zurich
Conferences
DEC
2018
ENEDI: Energy Saving in Datacenters
Proccedings of the 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Internet of Things (2018 IEEE GCIoT), Alexandria, Egypt
Conferences
FEB
2018
Low-Cost Adaptive Monitoring Techniques for the Internet of Things
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, accepted.
Journal
MAY
2018
SELECT: A Distributed Publish/Subscribe Notification System for Online Social Networks
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, 21-25 May, 2018
Conferences
MAR
2018
GEI: Healthcare Informatics and Privacy
IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 22, Issue 2, March-April 2018
Journal
SEP
2017
Improving Rule-Based Elasticity Control by Adapting the Sensitivity of the Auto-Scaling Decision Timeframe
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017), Vienna, Austria, 4 - 5 September, 2017
Conferences
MAY
2017
ADMin: Adaptive Monitoring Dissemination for the Internet of Things
Proceedings of the 36th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1 - 4 May, 2017
Conferences
SEP
2017
Weighted Clustering of Attributed Multi-graphs
Computing, 99(9): 813-840 (2017)
Journal Paper
DEC
2016
Online Social Network Evolution: Revisiting the Twitter Graph
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), Dec 5-8, 2016. Washington, DC, USA
Conferences Best Student Paper Award
NOV
2016
Distributed Large-Scale Data Collection in Online Social Networks
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on. Collaboration and Internet Computing. Nov 1-3, 2016. Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Conferences
OCT
2016
Mandola: Monitoring and Detecting Online Hate Speech
ERCIM News 2016(107), Research and Innovation Track, Oct. 2016
Journal Paper
AUG
2016
Users Key Locations in Online Social Networks: Identification and Applications
Social Network Analysis and Mining journal (accepted for publication)
Journal Paper
DEC
2015
Monitoring Elastically Adaptive Multi-Cloud Services
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (accepted for publication)
Journal Paper
DEC
2015
A Cost-Effective Approach to Improving Performance of Big Genomic Data Analyses in Clouds
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (accepted for publication)
Journal Paper
DEC
2015
Enabling Cloud Application Portability
Proceedings of the Cloud Challenge 2015 will be held in conjunction with 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, December 07-10, 2015, Limassol, Cyprus
Conferences
OCT
2015
AdaM: an Adaptive Monitoring Framework for Sampling and Filtering on IoT Devices
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, California, 29 Oct - 1 Nov, 2015
Conferences
NOV
2015
A Socio-Aware Decentralized Topology Construction Protocol
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (HotWeb 2015), Washington, USA, November 12-13, 2015.
Conferences
OCT
2015
The Dynamics of Vehicular Networks in Large-Scale Urban Environments
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, Hangzhou, China, October 27-30, 2015.
Conferences
AUG
2015
Identification of Key Locations based on Online Social Network Activity
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015), Paris, France, August 25-28, 2015.
Conferences
SEP
2015
Clustering Attributed Multi-graphs with Information Ranking
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2015 Valencia, Spain September 1 - 4, 2015.
Conferences
MAY
2015
Analysing Cancer Genomics in the Elastic Cloud
Proceedings of the Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences In conjunction with CCGrid 2015 - 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 4-7, 2015, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Conferences
NOV
2014
ADVISE -- a Framework for Evaluating Cloud Service Elasticity Behavior.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing. Paris, France, 3-6 November, 2014.
Conferences Best Paper Award
AUG
2014
c-Eclipse: An Open-Source Management Framework for Cloud Applications
Proceedings of the EuroPar 2014, Porto, Portugal, August 2014.
Conferences
MAY
2014
JCatascopia: Monitoring Elastically Adaptive Applications in the Cloud
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing. Chicago, IL, USA, May 26-29, 2014.
Conferences
NOV
2013
Identifying Clusters with Attribute Homogeneity and Similar Connectivity in Information Networks
Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Atlanta, USA, November, 2013.
Conferences
JUL
2013
Understanding V2X Communication Dynamics Through Complex Network Science
ERCIM News 2013 (94), Special Theme: Collaborative Mobility - Beyond Communicating Vehicles, Jul. 2013
Journal Paper
AUG
2013
Feel The World: A Mobile Framework for Participatory Sensing
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2013), Springer LNCS, Paphos, Cyprus, August, 2013.
Conferences
NOV
2012
V-Radar: A Vehicular Traffic Query Protocol for Urban Environments
Proceedings of Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012) Workshop, in conjunction with IFIP Wireless Days 2012, IEEE, November 21-23, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
Conferences
NOV
2012
On the Performance Evaluation of VANET Routing Protocols in Large-Scale Urban Environments (POSTER)
Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2012 (IEEE VNC 2012), November 14-16, 2012, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Conferences
NOV
2012
The Role of Twitter in YouTube Videos Diffusion
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012), Springer LNCS, Paphos, Cyprus, November 28th-30th, 2012
Conferences
SEP
2012
Improving Content Delivery by Exploiting the Utility of CDN Servers
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems, Springer LNCS, Vienna, Austria, Sep. 2012
Conferences
MAY
2012
Automated Tagging for the Retrieval of Software Resources in Grid and Cloud Infrastructures
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012), Ottawa, Canada, 2012
Conferences
JUN
2011
Real-Time Graph Visualization Tool for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, June 28 - July 1, 2011, Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece
Conferences
SEP
2010
Caching Dynamic Information in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Proceedings of Euro-Par 2010, Ischia-Naples, Italy, Sep. 2010
Conferences
MAY
2010
On the Evaluation of Caching in Vehicular Information Systems (POSTER)/a>
Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), Kansas City, Missouri, May 23-26, 2010
Conferences
SEP
2009
Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources in Large-scale Network Environments
Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Milano, Italy, September, 2009
Conferences
SEP
2009
On the Structure and Evolution of Vehicular Networks
Proceedings of 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), London, UK, September, 2009
Conferences
JUN
2009
Evaluating the Utility of Content Delivery Networks
Proceedings of the 4th UPGRADE-CN Workshop on Content Management and Delivery in Large-Scale Networks (In conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC09), ACM Press, June 11-13, 2009, Munich, Germany
Conferences
MAY
2009
Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software Resources
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai, China, May 2009
Conferences
NOV
2007
Content Classification for Caching under CDNs
Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE Innovations of Information Technology Conference, Dubai, UAE, November 2007
Conferences
DEC
2006
A similarity-based Approach for Integrated Web Caching and Content Replication in CDNs
Proceedings of 10th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), IEEE Press, New Delhi, India, Dec. 2006
Conferences
SEP
2006
Integrating Caching Techniques on a Content Distribution Network
Proceedings of 10th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2006), Springer-Verlag, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sep. 2006
Conferences
APR
2006
Replication based on Objects Load under a Content Distribution Network
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI) (In conjunction with ICDE'06), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Apr. 2006
Conferences
OCT
2005
A Latency-based Object Placement Approach in Content Distribution Networks
Proceedings of the 3rd Latin American Web Congress (La-Web 2005), IEEE Press, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 2005
Conferences
MAY
2005
Model-based Cluster Analysis for Web Users Sessions
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2005), Saratoga (NY), USA, May 2005
Conferences
APR
2005
FRES-CAR: An Adaptive Cache Replacement Policy
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI’05) in cooperation with the 21st IEEE Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2005, Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 2005
Conferences
OCT
2004
A Probabilistic Validation Algorithm for Web Users’ Clusters
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Hague, Holland, Oct. 2004
Conferences
JUL
2003
Web Data Accessing and the Web Searching Process
Proceedings of the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'03), Tunisia, Jul. 2003
Conferences
FEB
2003
A Study on Workload Characterization for a Web Proxy Server
Proceedings of the 21st IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics (AI 2003), Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2003
Conferences
JUL
2001
A study on Web Caching Architectures and Performance
Proceedings of the 5th Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001), Florida, USA, Jul. 2001
Conferences
JUL
2015
Evaluating Cloud Service Elasticity Behavior
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 2015
Journal Paper
MAY
2015
Enabling Interoperable Cloud Application Management through an Open Source Ecosystem
IEEE Internet Computing, 19(3), May/June 2015
Journal Paper
JAN
2012
Minersoft: Software Retrieval in Grid and Cloud Computing Infrastructures
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT), 2012
Journal Paper
JUN
2011
Editorial for special issue Internet-based Content Delivery
Computer Networks 55(18): 3987-3990 (2011)
Journal Paper
FEB
2010
Searching for Software on the EGEE Infrastructure
J. Grid Comput. 8(2): 281-304 (2010)
Journal Paper
NOV
2010
Cloud Computing: The New Frontier of Internet Computing
IEEE Internet Computing, 13(5):70-73, Sep. 2010
Journal Paper
FEB
2010
CDNsim: A Simulation Tool for Content Distribution Networks
ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 20(2): (2010)
Journal Paper
SEP
2009
Cloud Computing: Distributed Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research
IEEE Internet Computing, 12(5), Sep. 2009
Journal Paper
JAN
2009
CDNs Content Outsoutcing via Generalized Communities
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(1), 2009
Journal Paper
APR
2008
Integrating Caching Techniques in CDNs using a Classification Approach
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (IJBDCN), 4(4):1-12, 2008
Journal Paper
APR
2008
A Clustering-based Approach for Short-term Prefetching on a Web Cache Environment
Computers Electrical and Engineering Journal, Elsevier, 34(4): 309-323, 2008
Journal Paper
JAN
2008
Prefetching in Content Distribution Networks via Web Communities Identification and Outsourcing
Word Wide Web Journal, 11(1): 39-70, 2008
Journal Paper
MAY
2007
Validation and Interpretation of Web Users and Sessions Clusters
Information Processing and Management, Elsevier, 43(5):1348-1367, 2007
Journal Paper
JAN
2006
Insight and Perspectives for Content Delivery Networks
Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 101-106, 2006
Journal Paper
NOV
2003
Content Delivery Networks: Status and Trends
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp.68-74, 2003
Journal Paper
NOV
2014
Managing and Monitoring Elastic Cloud Applications
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Engineering(ICWE 2014), Toulouse, France, 2014
Demonstrations
NOV
2011
Graph Visualization Tool for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 (IEEE VNC 2011), November 14-16, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlads
Demonstrations
NOV
2011
CELAR: Managing and Deploying Elastic Cloud Applications
Proceedings of the 13th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2015), Athens, July 2015
Demonstrations
JAN
2013
Scaling Rich Media Content through Social Networks
Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud, editors M. Pathan, R. Sitaraman, D. Robinson, Wiley 2013
Book Chapters
JAN
2011
Online Social Networks: Status and Trends
Web Data Management Trails, editors L. Jain and A. Vakali, Springer, 2011
Book Chapters
JAN
2008
Information Dissemination in Mobile CDNs
Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms, editors R. Buyya et. al., Springer, 2008
Book Chapters
JAN
2008
Caching techniques on CDN simulated Frameworks
Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms, editors R. Buyya et. al., Springer, 2008
Book Chapters
JAN
2006
Clustering WebInformation Sources
Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies, editors: A. Vakali, G. Pallis, Idea-Group Publishing, USA, 2006
Book Chapters
JAN
2003
Simulation in Web Data Management
Applied System Simulation: Methodologies and Applications, editors: M.S. Obaidat and G.I. Papadimitriou, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, USA, 2003
Book Chapters
JAN
2003
Storage and Access Control Issues for XML documents
Web Information Systems, editors: D. Taniar and W. Rahayu, Idea-Group Publishing, USA, 2003
Book Chapters
JAN
2004
Storage and Access Control Policies for XML Documents
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Vol. I-III, editor: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Idea-Group Publishing, USA, 2004
Book Chapters
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JAN
2006
Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies
Idea Group Publishing, 2006. Book Information from publisher's site, Book information from Amazon's site
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RESEARCH
LABORATORY TEAMLaboratory for Internet Computing
LINC PEOPLE
LINC focuses its research activities on three important areas of Internet Computing, namely Cloud and Grid computing, Web data management and Vehicular computing.