Diploma, CEID, Univ. of Patras, Greece, 1990 MSc, Purdue University, USA, 1993 PhD, Purdue University, USA, 1995

Evaggelia Pitoura Professor, CEID, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece Lead Researcher,Archimedes Research Unit, ATHENA RC Phone: +30-26510-08811 (Office) Fax: +30-26510-08890 E-mail: pitoura[@]uoi[.]gr

Distributed Management of Data Group

(26/8/2023) Θέματα διπλωματικών εργασιών για το Ακαδημαϊκό Έτος 2023-2024 και διαδικασία ανάθεσης εδώ

Research

My research focuses on data.

PhD Graduates

Georgia Koloniari, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece
Kostas Stefanidis, Associate Professor, Tampere University, Finland
Marina Drosou, Software Engineer, Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection
Konsatntinos Semertzidis, Research Engineer, IBM Research, Ireland

Publications

• M. Drosou and E. Pitoura DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage PVLDB 2013 (best paper award)
• K. Semertzidis, E. Pitoura and P. Tsaparas: How people describe themselves on Twitter. DBSocial 2013: 25-30 (best paper award)
Preferences and Ranking
• K. Stefanidis, G. Koutrika and E. Pitoura. A Survey on Representation, Composition and Application of Preferences in Database Systems. ACM TODS, 2011 local copy
• K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Managing Contextual Preferences. Information Systems, 2011 local copy
• K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura. PerK: Personalized Keyword Search in Relational Databases through Preferences EDBT 2010 local copy
• K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura. Fast Contextual Scoring of Database Tuples EDBT 2008 local copy
• K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Adding Context to Preferences ICDE 2007.
Content Overlays
• G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Formation of Clustered Overlays IEEE TPDS, 23(4), April 2012 local copy additional material
• G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura LCA-based Selection for XML Document Collections WWW 2010 local copy
• G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. A Recall-based Cluster Formation Game in Peer-to-Peers Systems PVLDB 2009 local copy
• G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. Distributed Structural Relaxation of XPath Queries ICDE 2009 local copy
• K. Lillis and E. Pitoura. Cooperative XPATH Caching, SIGMOD 2008 local copy
Diversity
• M. Drosou and E. Pitoura DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage PVLDB 2013 (to appear)
• M. Drosou and E. Pitoura Dynamic Diversification of Continuous Data, EDBT 2012 local copy
• M. Drosou, K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura, Preference-Aware Publish/Subscribe Delivery with Diversity , DEBS 2009
Selected
• V. V. Dimakopoulos and E. Pitoura. On the Performance of Flooding-Based Resource Discovery IEEE TPDS, 17(11) pg 1242-1252, Nov 2006. local copy
• G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. Content-based Routing of Path Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems. EDBT 2004.
• E. Pitoura and G. Samaras. Locating Objects in Mobile Computing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 571-592, July/August 2001
• E. Pitoura and P. Chrysanthis. Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks, in VLDB 1999.
• S. Papastavrou, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura. Mobile Agents for Distributed WWW Access, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE99), March 1999 Best Paper Award .
• E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava. Data Consistency in Intermittently Connected Distributed Systems. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 11(6), pp 896-915, Nov/Dec 1999.
• E. Pitoura, O. Bukhres and A. Elmagarmid. Object-Orientation in Multidatabase Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 27, No 2, pp. 141--195, June 1995.

Publication list

Citations of my work from Google Scholar

Teaching

Academic Year 2024-2025
• Fall 2023:
  • ΜΥΥ701: Βάσεις Δεδομένων
• Spring 2025:
  • ΜΥΕ003: Ανάκτηση Πληροφορίας

Miscellaneous

• Greek ACM-W winter school on fairness in AI

Professional Activities

• PC Co-chair for ICDE 2012
• Demo PC Co-chair for VLDB 2012

Selected Recent (2010 - )

• PC member: SIGMOD 2012, ICDCS2012
• SIGMOD 2010 (group leader)
• WWW 2010 (poster PC co-chair)
• CIKM 2010 (senior PC member)
• EDBT 2010 (demo committee)
• MDM 2010 (seninar co-chair)
• WISE 2011, EDBT 2011, EDBT 2010, VLDB 2010 (PC member)

Past