Publications

Books

E. Pitoura and G. Samaras. Data Management for Mobile Computing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

Edited Proceedings

S. Banerjee, P. K. Chrysanthis, and E. Pitoura. Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, May 20, 2001, Santa Barbara, California, held in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2001, ACM Press.

S. Banerjee, P. K. Chrysanthis, and E. Pitoura. Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, August 20, 1999, Seattle, held in conjunction with MobiCom '99.

2013

M. Drosou and E. Pitoura DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage PVLDB 2013 (to appear)

2012

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
M. Drosou and E. Pitoura Dynamic Diversification of Continuous Data, EDBT 2012 local copy
G. Koutrika, E. Pitoura and K. Stefanidis. Preference-based Query Personalization. Book Chapter in B. Catania, L. Jain (eds.), Advanced Query Processing, Springer. April 2012.
E. Pitoura, P. K. Chrysanthis, and G. Samaras, Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing , Book Chapter in J. Cao, S. K. Das (eds.), Mobile Agents in Networking and Distributed Computing, Willey, 2012
G. Koloniari, D. Souravlias and E. Pitoura. On Graph Deltas for Historical Queries. Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Online Social Systems (WOSS) 2012, in conjunction with VLDB 2012 local copy
K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura. Finding the Right Set of Users: Generalized Constraints for Group Recommendations. Proceedings of PersDB Workshop 2012, in conjunction with VLDB 2012 local copy

2011

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
M. Drosou and E. Pitoura. ReDRIVE: result-driven database exploration through recommendations. CIKM 2011: 1547-1552 local copy
G. Koloniari, N. Ntarmos, E. Pitoura and D. Souravlias. One is enough: distributed filtering for duplicate elimination. CIKM 2011: 433-442 local copy
E. Pitoura, K. Stefanidis, P. Vassiliadis. Contextual Database Preferences. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 34(2): 19-26 (2011) local copy

2010

K. Stefanidis, M. Drosou and E. Pitoura. PerK: Personalized Keyword Search in Relational Databases through Preferences EDBT 2010 local copy
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura LCA-based Selection for XML Document Collections WWW 2010 local copy
M. Drosou and E. Pitoura Search result diversification. SIGMOD Record 39(1): 41-47 (2010) local copy
D. Souravlias, M. Drosou, K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura On novelty in publish/subscribe delivery. ICDE Workshops 2010: 20-22
V.V. Dimakopoulos, S. Margariti, M. Ntetsika, E. Pitoura. Data Replication in P2P systems. book chapter in N. Antonopoulos, G. Exarchakos, A. Liotta, M. Li (eds.) Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications IGI Global, ISBN: 978-1-61520-686-5, 2010, pp. 589-615
K. Stamkopoulos, E. Pitoura, P. Vassiliadis, and A. Zarras Accelerating Web Service Workflow Execution via Intelligent Allocation of Services to Servers. J. Database Manag. 21(4): 60-90 (2010) local copy

2009

G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. A Recall-based Cluster Formation Game in Peer-to-Peers Systems PVLDB 2(1): 455-466 (2009) local copy
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. Distributed Structural Relaxation of XPath Queries, ICDE:529-540 2009 local copy
M. Drosou and E. Pitoura. Diversity over Continuous Data. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 32(4): 49-56 (2009) local copy
M. Drosou, K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura, Preference-Aware Publish/Subscribe Delivery with Diversity , DEBS 2009
K. Stefanidis, M. Drosou and E. Pitoura. "You May Also Like" Results in Relational Databases. Proceedings of PersDB 2009 workshop, in conjunction with VLDB 2009. local copy
P. K. Chrysanthis and E. Pitoura. Data Broadcasting, Caching and Replication in Mobile Computing. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 557-561
N. Folinas, P. Vassiliadis, E. Pitoura and E. Papapetrou and A. Zarras, Context-Aware Query Processing in Ad-Hoc Environments of Peers. Database Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications 2009: 18 also, here, in Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), (6)1: pp. 38-62, IGI Global. local copy

2008

K. Lillis and E. Pitoura. Cooperative XPATH Caching, SIGMOD:327-338 local copy

K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura. Fast Contextual Scoring of Database Tuples EDBT:344-355, 2008 local copy

G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. A Clustered Index Approach to Distributed XPath Processing ICDE:1516-1518, 2008 (poster paper)

G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. Recall-Based Cluster Reformulation by Selfish Peers, NetDB:200-205, ICDE Workshop, 2008. local copy

K. Fotiadou and E. Pitoura. BITPEER: Continuous Subspace Skyline Computation with Distributed Bitmap Indexes, DAMAP: local copy

M. Drosou, E. Pitoura and K. Stefanidis. Preferential Publish/Subscribe. PersDB 2008: 9-16

N. Folinas, P. Vassiliadis, E. Pitoura, E. Papapetrou, A. Zarras. Context-Aware Query Processing in Ad-Hoc Environments of Peers. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 38-62, IGI Global. local copy

D. Athanasopoulos, A.V. Zarras, V. Issarny, E. Pitoura, P. Vassiliadis. CoWSAMI: Interface-aware Context Gathering in Ambient Intelligence Environments. Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMCJ), vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 360-389, Elsevier. local copy

2007

K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Adding Context to Preferences ICDE:846-855, 2007 local copy
K. Stamkopoulos, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Efficient Deployment of Web Servide Workflows. 2nd International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2007):323-330, in conjunction with ICDE 2007.
K. Stefanidis and E. Pitoura. Approximate Contextual Preference Scoring in Digital Libraries. In Proc. of the tenth DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries (PersDL 2007), in conjuction with UM 2007 Conference, June 29-30, 2007, Corfu, Greece.
K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. On Relaxing Contextual Preference Queries. MDM:289-293, 2007
E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis, Caching and Replication in Mobile Data Management. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 30(3): 13-20 (2007) local copy
P. Skyvalidas, E. Pitoura and V. V. Dimakopoulos, Replication Routing Indexes for XML, in DBISP2P workshop 2007. local copy
K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura, P. Vassiliadis. A Context-Aware Preference Database System. Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 439-460, 2007. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, ISSN 1742-7371. local copy

2006

E. Leontiadis, V.V. Dimakopoulos and E. Pitoura. Creating and Maintaining Replicas in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems, EURO-PAR:1010-1025, 2006 local copy
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
K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Modeling and Storing Context-Aware Preferences. ADBIS:124-140, 2006
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura. Workload-Aware Clustering of XML Peers. ISYC 2006.
E. Pitoura, C. Turker and G. Samaras, "Seamless Consistency", Book Chapter in P. Bellavista and A. Corradi (eds) the Handbook of Mobile Middleware, CRC Press, April 2006

2005

G. Koloniari, Y. Petrakis, E. Pitoura and T. Tsotsos. Workload-Aware Overlay Construction Using Histograms. CIKM: 40-47, 2007. local copy
F. Papadopoulos, A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and E. Pitoura. Timely Provisioning of Mobile Services in Critical Pervasive Environments. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'05):864-881, 2005. local copy
Z.Plitsis, I. Fudos, E. Pitoura, A. Zarras. On Accessing GSM-enabled Mobile Sensors. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP'05), 2005. local copy
A. Karakasidis, P. Vassiliadis and E. Pitoura, ETL Queues for Active Data Warehousing. 2nd International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS):28-39, Co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS, 2005 local copy
A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and E. Pitoura, Query Management over Ad-Hoc Communities of Web Services. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2005, (ICPS'05) 11-14 July 2005, Santorini, Greece local copy
C. Skouteli, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, Concept-Based Discovery of Mobile Services. 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, (MDM 2005):257-261, 2005 local copy
K. Stefanidis, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis On Supporting Context-Aware Preferences in Relational Database Systems. In Proceedings of the MDM 2005 Workshop on "Managing Context Information in Mobile and Pervasive Environments" (MCMP05), Ayia Napa. Cyprus, May 9 2005 local copy
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, Peer-to-Peer Management of XML Data: Issues and Research Challenges. Sigmod Record34(2): 6-17 (2005). local copy
E. Papapetrou, E. Pitoura, and K. Lillis, Speeding-up Cache Lookups in Wireless Ad-Hoc Routing using Bloom Filters, The 16th Annual International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2005), Sept 11-13, 2005, Berlin, Germany, 2005 local copy

2004

E. Leontiadis, V. V. Dimakopoulos and E. Pitoura, Cache Updates in a Peer-to-Peer Network of Mobile Agents. 4th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2004):10-17, 2004 local copy
Y. Petrakis and E. Pitoura, On Constructing Small Worlds in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems. In the EDBT International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Databases:415-424, 2004 local copy
Y. Petrakis, G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, On Using Histograms as Routing Indexes in Peer-to-Peer System. 2nd International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P):16-30, In conjunction with VLDB2004 local copy
O. Shigiltchoff, P. K. Chrysanthis, E. Pitoura, Energy Efficient Access in Multiversion Broadcast Environment. Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2004, page 168 (short paper)
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, Content-Based Routing of Path Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems, EDBT:29-47, 2004 local copy
C. Skouteli, C. Panayiotou, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, Communities: Concept-Based Querying for Mobile Services. Global Computing 2004, LNCS Springer 2005, pp 59-76 local copy
K. Karenos, G. Samaras, P. K. Chrysanthis, E. Pitoura, Mobile agent-based services for view materialization. Mobile Computing and Communications Review 8(3): 32-43 2004 local copy
C. Spyrou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura and P. Evripidou, Mobile Agents for Wireless Computing: The Convergence of Wireless Computation Models with Mobile Agent Technologies. ACM/Baltzer MONET, Volume 9, No 5, Oct 2004. local copy
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, Filters for XML-based Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing The Computer Journal , Volume 47, No 4, July 1004, pp 461-474 local copy
O. Schigiltchoff, P. K. Chrysanthis and E. Pitoura. Adaptive Multiversion Broadcast Organization, Information Systems, Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 509-528, Sept 2004 local copy

2003

G. Koloniari, Y. Petrakis and E. Pitoura, Content-Based Overlay Networks of XML Peers Based on Multi-Level Bloom Filters, VLDB International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and P2P Computing (DBISP2P), :232-247, 2003 local copy
G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, Bloom-Based Filters for Hierarchical Data, 5th Workshop on Distributed Data Structures and Algorithms (WDAS), July 2003 Proceeding in Informatics 19, Carleton Scientific. local copy
V. V. Dimakopoulos and E. Pitoura, A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Multi-Agent Systems. CIA:62-77, 2003 ppt Extended version, University of Ioannina, TR2003-09. local copy
V. V. Dimakopoulos and E. Pitoura, Performance Analysis of Distributed Search in Open Agent Systems, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 2003 local copy
E. Pitoura, P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Ramamritham. Characterizing the Temporal and Semantic Coherency of Broadcast-based Data Dissemination. Proc. of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT),:407-421, 2003. local copy
G. Kastidou, E. Pitoura, and G. Samaras, A Scalable Hash-Based Mobile Agent Location Mechanism. ICDCS Workshops 2003, May 19 - 22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA , IEEE Computer, pp 472-4793 local copy
G. Samaras, K. Karenos, P. K. Chrysanthis, E. Pitoura, ViSMA: Extendible, Mobile-Agent Based Services for the Materialization and Maintenance of Personalized and Shareable Web Views. DEXA Workshops 2003: 974-979
O. Shigiltchoff, P. K. Chrysanthis, E. Pitoura, Broadcast Data Organizations and Client Side Cache. ICDCS Workshops 2003
E. Pitoura, S. Abiteboul, D. Pfoser, G. Samaras, M, Vazirgiannis, DBGlobe: A Service-Oriented P2P System for Global Computing, Sigmod Record, 32(3): 77-82, 2003. local copy

2002

D. Pfoser, E. Pitoura, and N. Tryfona Metadata Modeling in a Global Computing Environment, Proc. of the 10th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, (GIS):68-73, 2002. local copy
O. Shigiltchoff, P. Chrysanthis and E. Pitoura, Multi-version Data Broadcast Organizations. In Proceedings of the 6th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS):135-148, 2002 local copy
A. Karakasidis and E. Pitoura, DBGlobe: A Data-Centric Approach to Global Computing International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC), In conjuction with ICDCS, 2002
Y. Villate, A. Illarramendi, and E. Pitoura, "Agent-Based and Mobile External Storage for Users of Mobile Devices", Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile devices (UbiAgents), held in conjunction with the 2002 Conf. on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AMAS), Bologna, July 2002 (online proceedings) local copy
G. Samaras, C. Spyrou, E. Pitoura, M. Dikaiakos, "Tracker: A Universal Location Management System for Mobile Agents." European Wireless 2002 Conference. Next Generation Wireless Networks: Technologies, Protocols, Services and Applications, Florence, Italy, February 25-28, 2002.
G. Samaras, C. Spyrou and Evaggelia Pitoura, View Generator (VG): A Mobile Agent Based System for the Creation and Maintenance of Web Views. In Proceedings of 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, (ISCC):761-767, 2002
I. Fudos, L. Palios, E. Pitoura. Geometric-Similarity Retrieval in Large Image Bases. ICDE:441-450, 2002 local copy
E. Pitoura and P. Chrysanthis Multiversion Data Broadcast, IEEE Transactions on Computers 51(10):1224-1230, October, 2002 local copy
Y. Villate, A. Illarramendi, and E. Pitoura, Keep Your Data Safe and Available while Roaming. ACM/Baltzer MONET, 7(4), pp 315-328, August 2002 local copy

2001

V.V Dimakopoulos, T. Kinalis, S. Mastrogiannakis, and E. Pitoura, The SMart Autonomous Storage (SMAS) System, In the 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PARCIM2001), pp 303-306, August 26-28, 2001, Victoria, B.C., Canada.
C. Spyrou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, The Dynamic View System (DVS): Mobile Agents to Support Web Views, (demo). In the 17h International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE01), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2-6, 2001. local copy
E. Bertino, E. Ferrarri, and E. Pitoura. An Access Control Mechansim for Large Scale Data Dissemination Systems. In RIDE-DM:43-50 ICDE Workshop, 2001. local copy
P. Evripidou, C. Panayiotou, G. Samaras, and E. Pitoura, The PaCMAn Metacomputer: Parallel Computing with Java Mobile Agents, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Special Issue on Java in High Performance Computing. 18 (2), pp 265-280, October 2001 local copy
S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches to Web Database Access. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. 10(4), pp 401--422, 2001
A. Tsalgatidou and E. Pitoura, Business Models and Transactions in Mobile Electronic Commerce: Requirements and Properties. Computer Networks, 37(2), pp 221--236, Special Issue on Electronic Business Systems, October 2001. local copy
E. Pitoura and G. Samaras, Locating Objects in Mobile Computing. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 13(4), pp 571-592, 2001. local copy
E. Pitoura and I. Fudos, Distributed Location Databases for Tracking Highly Mobile Objects, The Computer Journal, 44(2), pp 75-91, 2001

2000

A. Tsalgatidou, J. Veijalainen, and E. Pitoura. Challenges in Mobile Electronic Commerce. In the 3rd International Conference on Innovation through E-Commerce, November 14th-16th, 2000, Manchester UK. local copy
Y. Villate, A. Illarramendi, and E. Pitoura, Data Lockers: Mobile-Agent Based Middleware for the Security and Availability of Roaming Users Data In CoopIS:275-286, 2000. local copy
S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches to Web Database Access, In CoopIS:102-113, 200. local copy
V. V. Dimakopoulos, A. Kinalis, E. Pitoura, and I. Tsoulos, On Deploying and Executing Data-Intensive Code on SMart Autonomous Storage (SMaS) Disks, In ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems :323-330, 2000. local copy
S. Madria, B. Bhargava, E. Pitoura and V. Kumar Data Organization Issues for Location Dependent Queries in Mobile Computing, In ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems:142-156, 2000.
G. Samaras, P. Evripidou and E. Pitoura, A Mobile-Agent Based Infrastructure for eWork and Ebussiness Application In the Proceedigns of the E-business and E-work Conference, Madrid, Spain, 18-20 October 2000. local copy
Y. Villate, E. Pitoura, A. Illarramendi and A. K. Elmagarmid, Extending the Data Services of Mobile Computers by External Data Lockers. In DEXA2000 International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems. local copy
S. Papastavrou, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, Mobile Agents for World Wide Web Distributed Database Access IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 12(5), pp 802-820, 2000 local copy

1999

E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis, Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks, in Proceedings of VLDB 1999. pp. 114-125, Sept 1999. local copy
E. Pitoura and P. K. Chrysanthis, Scalable Processing of Read-Only Transactions in Broadcast Push Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing System (ICDCS) pp. 432-441, 1999. long-version local copy
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 . local copy
E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Data Consistency in Intermittently Connected Distributed Systems. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering , 11(6), pp 896-915, Nov/Dec 1999. local copy
D. Barelos, E. Pitoura, and G. Samaras, Mobile Agent Procedures: Metacomputing in Java, in Proceedings of the ICDCS Workshop on Middleware, 1999. local copy
P. Evripidou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, and C. Panayiotou, PaCMAn Mobility for High Performance Computing. In Java for High-Performance Computing Workshop in conjunction with the 1999 ACM Int. Conf. on Supercomputing June 1999.
C. Panayiotou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, and P. Evripidou, Parallel Computing Using Java Mobile Agents in 25th Euromicro Conference :2430-2437, 1999 local copy
C. Spyrou, G. Samaras, E. Pitoura, and P. Evripidou, Wireless Computational Models: Mobile Agents to the Rescue, in DEXA Workshop: 127-133, 1999. local copy

1998

E. Pitoura, Scalable Invalidation-Based Processing of Queries in Broadcast Push-Based Delivery, Proceedings of the Mobile Data Access Workshop, in coopeation with the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'98). In Advances in Database Technologies, Vol. 1, pp. 230--240, LNCS Vol. 1552, Spinger Verlag 1999. An extended version (including proofs of theorems) appears as: University of Ioannina, Computer Science Department, Techical Report No: 98-21
E. Pitoura and I. Fudos, An Efficient Hierarchical Scheme for Locating Highly Mobile Users, Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM98), November 1998, pp 218-225. An extended version appears as University of Ioannina, Computer Science Department, Techical Report No: 98-02 local copy
E. Pitoura, Supporting Read-Only Transactions in Wireless Broadcasting Proceedings of the DEXA98 International Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems, August 1998, IEEE Computer Society, pp 428-433. local copy
E. Pitoura, Transaction-Based Coordination of Software Agents Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), August 1998, Springer Verlag, LNCS 1460, pp 460-469. local copy

1997

E. Pitoura, A. Zhang and B. Bhargava, On Relaxing Serializability by Constraining Transaction Readsets Information Systems, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp 387--400, 1997. local copy
E. Pitoura, Providing Database Interoperability through Object-Oriented Language Constructs Journal of Systems Integration, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 99--126, August 1997. local copy

1996

I. Fudos, E. Pitoura and W. Szpankowski, On Pattern Occurrences in a Random Text, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 307-312, March 1996. local copy
E. Pitoura, A Replication Schema to Support Weak Connectivity in Mobile Information Systems Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) , September 1996. An extended version appears as: University of Ioannina, Computer Science Department, Tech Report No: 96-08. slides. local copy

1995

E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Maintaining Consistency of Data in Mobile Distributed Environments Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) pp. 404--413, May 1995. slides , local copy
E. Pitoura, O. Bukhres and A. Elmagarmid, Object-Orientation in Multidatabase Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 27, No 2, pp. 141--195, June 1995. local copy
E. Pitoura, Extending an Object-Oriented Programming Language to Support the Integration of Multidatabase Systems Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-28), pp. 707-716, January 1995.
E. Pitoura, A. Zhang and B. Bhargava, A View-based Approach to Relaxing Global Serializability in a Multidatabase System Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC95), August 1995.
E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Revising Transaction Concepts for Mobile Computing 1st IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (MCSA94), pp. 164--168, December 1994. An one-page abstract appears also in TCOS Bulletin, Spring 1995. local copy
A. Elmagarmid and E. Pitoura, Using Object-Oriented Technology for Database Integration, IEEE Computer, pp. 67--68, October 1995. local copy
B. Bhargava, M. Anammalai, and E. Pitoura, Digital Library Services in Mobile Computing Sigmod Record , Vol. 24, No 4, pp. 34--39, Invited Paper, Special Issue on Mobile Computing, December 1995. local copy
E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, A Framework for Providing Consistent and Recoverable Agent-Based Access to Heterogeneous Mobile Databases, Sigmod Record , Vol. 24, No 3, pp. 44--49, September 1995. local copy

1994

E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Building Information Systems for Mobile Environments 3rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM94), pp. 371--378, November 1994. local copy
B. Bhargava, S. Goel, S. Li and E. Pitoura, Communication Issues for Digital Libraries in Wide Area Networks, IEEE Workshop on Digital Libraries: Current Issues, New Jersey, May 1994.

Book Chapters

E. Pitoura and G. Samaras, Mobile Computing, In the Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing, J. Urban and P. Dasgupta, eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (To be published).
E. Pitoura, G. Samaras, and G. Kastidou, "Locating Mobile Objects", In Handbook of Mobile Computing, Imad Mahgoub and Mohammad Ilyas, eds, CRC Press, 2004
O. Bukhres, E. Pitoura and A. Zaslavsky, ``Mobile Computing'', In: Vol.3 Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems , J.Blazewicz, W.Kubiak, T. Morzy, M.Rusinkiewicz eds, ISBN:3540438939, Springer Verlag, 2003
E. Pitoura, O. Bukhres and A. Elmagarmid, Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems: An Overview, in Object-Oriented Multidatabases: A Solution for Advanced Applications , Omran Bukhres and Ahmed Elmagarmid eds, Prentice Hall, 1996.
B. Bhargava, M. Anammalai, S. Goel, S. Li, E. Pitoura, A. Zhang and Z. Zhang, DL-Raid: An Environment for Supporting Digital Library Services, in Issues in Digital Libraries , Nabil Adams, Bharat Bhargava, and Yelena Yesha, eds, LNCS 916, pp. 281--300, Springer Verlag, 1995.

Papers in Regional Conferences

G. Koloniari and E. Pitoura, Routing Path Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2nd Hellenic Database Symposium, (HDMS 2003), Athens, September 2003
E. Pitoura and I. Fudos, A Hierarchical Scheme for Locating Mobile Users, in 6th Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Athens, Greece, December 1997.
S. Papastavrou, P. K. Chrysanthis, G. Samaras and E. Pitoura, A Survey on the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Connectivity, in the 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnology Conference (MELECON), 2000

Technical Reports (not included above)

X. Liu, E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Adapting Distributed Database Systems for High Availability, Technical Report CSD 95-013, Computer Science Department, Purdue University, 1995.
E. Pitoura and B. Bhargava, Dealing with Mobility: Issues and Research Challenges, Technical Report CSD 93-070, Computer Science Department, Purdue University, 1993.

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