Service

Recent Professional Activities

Conference Committee Participation

Program Committee Member, The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo'11), Singapore.
Program Committee Member, COMSWARE 2011, Verona, Italy.
Program Committee Member, PDP 2011 - The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Program Committee Member, 9th Hellenic Data Management Symposium 2010, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2010.
Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2009.
Program Committee Member, BADS 2009: Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, in conjunction with the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 9th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing 2009,Taipei, Taiwan.
Program Committee Member, 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware - HiPerGrid, Bucharest, Romania, May 28, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 2nd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware - HiPerGrid, Bucharest, Romania, November 21-22, 2008.
Program Committee Member, Panhellenic Conference on Informatics 2008.
Program Committee Member, 3rd Workshop on the Use of P2P, GRID and Agents for the Development of Content Networks (UPGRADE-CN'08), in conjunction with HPDC 2008.
Topic Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Support Tools and Environments, 14th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2008).
Program Commitee Member, 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2008).
Program Commitee Member, HiPerGRID - High Performance Grid Middleware Workshop (in conjunction with PACT 2007).
Program Commitee Member, International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'07).
Program Committee Member, CoreGRID Symposium (in conjunction with Euro-Par 2007).
Vice-Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Support Tools and Environments, 13th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2007).
Program Vice Chair, IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07) (Special track on Internet Computing and Web Applications).
Program Commitee Member, 2006 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM06).
Program Commitee Member, International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'06).
Program Vice Chair for Wireless and Mobile Computing, Second International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-06).
Program Committee Member, 11th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments HIPS 2006, held in conjunction with IPDPS 2006, Rhodes, Greece.
Program Committee Member, The 2005 Int.Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-05), Sorrento, September 2005, Italy.
Program Committee Vice Chair, 2005 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-05), Track on Middleware and P2P Computing , Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, December 2005, P.R. China.
Program Committee Member, PDP06 Conference (14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing) , Montbéliard-Sochaux, February 2005, France.
International Technical Program Committee Member, 2005 High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPC&S'05) Conference (in conjunction with the 19th European Simulation Multiconference, ESM 2005).
Vice-Chair and Program Committee Member, Track on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Euro-Par 2005.
Program Committee Member, European Grid Conference 2005.
Local Organizing Committee Chair, 6th European Wireless Conference ( EW2005), April 2005.
Program Committee Member, 6th European Wireless Conference ( EW2005), April 2005.
Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005).
Program Committee Member, International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), August 16-28, 2004, Aizu, Japan.
Organizer, ANWIRE Winter School on Middleware, January 2004.
Program Committee Chair, Second European Across Grids Conference (AxGrids 2004).
Co-chair, Internet Data Management Track, 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004).
Technical Papers Committee Member, Supercomputing 2003.
Program Committee Member, 1st ANWIRE International Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile and Always Best Connected" (in conjunction with 5th IEE EPMCC 2003 Conference).
Program Committee Member and International Advisory Board Member, 1st Across Grids Conference, February 2003.
Program Committee Member, International Conference on the World-Wide Web 2003.
Session Chair, Euro-Par 2001.
Program Committee Member, Euro-Par 2001.
Vice-Chair, Core Topic: "Support Tools and Environments," Euro-Par 2001.
Workshop Chair, Workshop on Mobile Services, 8th Panhellenic Conference of Informatics, November 2001.
Program Committee Member, 8th Panhellenic Conference of Informatics, November 2001.
Session Chair, PADDA 2001: International Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures, April 19, 2001.
Program Committee Member, PADDA 2001: International Workshop on Performance-oriented Application Development for Distributed Architectures.
Workshops' General Chair & Chair, Workshop on New Business Development, Re-engineering Cyprus for the Digital Age: New Businesses and New Jobs (December 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus).
Organizing Committee Member, Re-engineering Cyprus for the Digital Age: New Businesses and New Jobs (December 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus).
Technical Program Committee Member, Melecon '2000: 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference.
Web-site Chair, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '99).
Program Committee Member, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '99).
Session Chair, Euromednet '98 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 1998.

Conference, Workshop and Seminar Organization

European Wireless 2005.
2nd European Across Grids Conference and 2nd IST Concertation Meeting on Grid Research, Nicosia, January 28-30, 2004.
CrossGrid Annual Conference 2004.
ANWIRE Winter School on Middleware, Nicosia, January 20-23, 2004.
Grid Day , Nicosia, March 26, 2003 and APART Workshop , Larnaca, March 27-28, 2003.
Mobile Services Workshop, 8th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus, Nov. 8, 2001.
Research Funding under the 5th Framework Program , University of Cyprus, Nov. 6th, 1998.
Information Society: Views and Perspectives , University of Cyprus, Winter Semester, 1996.

Memberships to Professional Societies and Scientific Groups

Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
Chartered Electrical Engineer, Technical Chamber of Greece.
Member, IEEE Computer Society.
Member, Euro-Par Advisory Board.

University Service

Chairman of the Computer Science Department, Univ. of Cyprus (elected, 11/2010).
Vice Chairman of Computer Science, Univ. of Cyprus (elected 5/2008-11/2010).
Member of the Senate's Committee on Post-Graduate Studies, Univ. of Cyprus (appointed, 3/2007-3/2009).
Member of the Senate's Committee on Student Problems, Univ. of Cyprus (appointed, 2007).
Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Cyprus (9/2005-6/2008).
Member of the Senate's Ad-Hoc Committee on e-Learning, Univ. of Cyprus (2004).
Board Member, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Cyprus (2003-2004).

National Service

Advisory Board Member, Cyprus State Library, Cyprus (as of 2009).
Board Member, Intensive-Care Forum, Nicosia, Cyprus (2006-2009).
National Delegate of Cyprus to the IST Committee (ISTC, 2000-2002).

Professional Consultancies

Reviewer and Evaluator, IST Program, European Commission.
Steering Committee Member, EU-Medin project, DG Research, European Commission.